Functional Labs

designed to analyze your metabolism, gut health, mitochondrial function, and nutrient status. This test highlights disturbances in bodily functions related to energy production, detoxification pathways, or neurotransmitter balance. The OAT will give you insight into your metabolic pathways to enhance their results outcome.

This test combines the DUTCH Sex Hormones, Adrenal, and some OATs Panels.

Collect just four or five dried urine samples over a 24-hour period. Dried samples are stable for several weeks.

Measures- Urinary Progesterone (2), Androgen (8), and Estrogen Metabolites (9); Cortisol (4), Cortisone (4), and Cortisol Metabolites (3); Creatinine (4), DHEA-S, Vanilmandelate, Homovanillate, Kynurenate, Methylmalonate, Xanthurenate, Pyroglutamate, Quinolinate, Indican, b-Hydroxyisovalerate, 8-OHdG, and Melatonin (6-OHMS).

DUTCH vs. Serum Testing – While the most universally accepted testing method (due to the availability of FDA-cleared analyzers that are reliable and inexpensive), serum testing is lacking in some areas. Adrenal hormones cannot be effectively tested in serum because free cortisol cannot be tested throughout the day. There is also a lack of extensive metabolite testing (especially for cortisol and estrogens).

Analyzes a small sample of scalp hair, about a tablespoon, cut close to the root. It uses a process called ICP-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), one of the most precise analytical instruments in modern science.

The hair that grows from your scalp is nourished by the bloodstream. As it forms, it incorporates the minerals and toxic metals circulating and stored in your body's tissues. Once those minerals are locked into the hair shaft, they stay there. This makes hair a unique biological record of what your body has been doing over months.

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