GI-MAP Stool Testing

This test is the new gold standard in healthcare and is transforming results across the world.

GI-MAP stands for GI Microbial Assay Plus, as indicated in the image above. This test is superior to other stool tests on the market for a lot of reasons.

First and foremost, it uses quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology to amplify and quantify gene sequences found in the stool from various sources, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Other tests use culture methods that oftentimes miss up to 50% of the species present that simply don’t grow on a culture. That, and many other tests only offer positive or negative results — the GI-MAP provides actual quantifiable organism levels.

Secondly, you only need to submit one small sample to get a very detailed report back. Other tests require multiple sequential samples be sent in and only produce a fraction of the results.

Learn more about the GI-MAP here.

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Mycotoxin Urine Testing

Vibrant Wellness is the most accurate, comprehensive, validated, AND accredited urine test on the market for 29 mycotoxins from the common molds we are exposed to on a regular basis. Mycotoxins can come from water-damaged building materials (the most common route of exposure), improper food processing and storage, and physical contact with molds.

An overwhelming majority of buildings in the US, to include not only homes but workplaces, schools, etc., contain mold growth and detectable mycotoxin levels. These have vast impacts on the body’s ability to process toxins, metabolize food from meals, and maintain adequate hormone balance — among many other downstream effects. The symptoms of mold illness can be vast and nonspecific, so getting answers as soon as possible can help prevent developing worse conditions down the line.

If you have confirmed or suspected mold exposure and suffer from chronic health conditions with no answers, this is a great place to start and pairs well with either or both the GI-MAP and comprehensive bloodwork panels to correlate findings.

Learn more about mycotoxin testing here.

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Comprehensive Blood Panels

Bloodwork is the form of testing that most people are most familiar and comfortable with. What’s great about this from a nutritional lens, is that we’re looking at results in a tighter, more “optimal” range, to watch out for the early signs of dysfunction.

A lot of bloodwork done in a conventional medical setting is done to diagnose disease. For our purposes in nutritional therapy, we’re not using it as a diagnostic tool, but rather a deep dive into organ health, hydration status, digestive capacity, parasitic infections, and so much more.

We look at bloodwork results in a totally different way than your doctor does, and with good reason. We’re not meant to diagnose conditions. We’re meant to get the body functional and optimal to lower the risk for diseases later in life.

This testing complements the GI-MAP well to paint a more full picture of the state of the gut and any potential infections, as well as your ability to digest and absorb nutrients to support your eradication journey.

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Functional Clinical Assessment (FCA)

This is a hands-on, in-person specialty service designed for existing clients to get personalized supplement testing to identify nutrient deficiencies, problem areas, or how to get someone over a health plateau.

In nutritional therapy, we typically don’t start with this kind of session because there are ALWAYS basic, diet-related changes we can make first to address your health concerns, prior to targeted supplement support. That, and oftentimes other forms of objective testing are preferred.

However, sometimes diet isn’t enough to get you past a particularly difficult health challenge, and using a tool like the FCA can help.

You can read more about this service here.

MRT Food Sensitivity Test

This test is the gold standard part two, except instead of using a stool sample, it uses a one-time blood sample to detect food sensitivities.

MRT stands for Mediator Release Test, again, which is indicated in the image above. This test measures and quantifies end-result mediators in the blood sample. Meditators are things like cytokines or histamine — things that our immune system release in response to being presented with an antigen it finds inflammatory or foreign.

So how the test works: the blood sample you send into the lab is divided into 170 different vials, with a few controls as reference. The antigens of 170 different foods and chemicals are presented to the vials, one per vial. The test can then quantify — yes, with actual numbers — your level of reactivity to each of those substances.

Other tests on the market only look for antibody-related immune responses, and for many transient food sensitivities, antibodies aren’t released, so those get missed. That, and the fact that the MRT has over 90% sensitivity, specificity, and reliability metrics, makes other tests markedly inferior to this one.

Learn more about the MRT here.

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Muscle Testing

Muscle testing is a form of biofeedback where we can access the body and mind on a subconscious level through the energy we emit to get answers on anything from the client’s bodily response — physical needs, like that in a nutritional therapy or detox protocol, or things like mental-emotional needs, supplement needs, etc.

Very similar to the FCA (also listed on this page), it’s a hands-on service for individualized results pertaining to the client’s specific body at this moment in time, but differs in that it’s also able to be done at a distance using a proxy.

This might sound woo-woo, but there’s a ton of research on this technique and it’s used with amazing results by thousands of practitioners across the world. We take sensory input and get a nervous system output. We are electric beings (think: the heart beats due to electric charge, cells open and close due to ion channels, etc.) and that energy creates fields that can be tapped into for answers.

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