Gut Biome Testing

Research overwhelmingly indicates that gut health impacts overall health. 

The intricate balance of good and bad micro-organisms in our digestive systems can be disturbed by many things:

• Modern Lifestyles
• Commonly used Antibiotics
• Environmental Stressors

All can create dysbiosis (a gut biome or micro-organisms in our gut that are out of balance). When the gut is out of balance its gastrointestinal lining can become inflamed, its tight junctions can gap. This can lead to a leaky gut. Once a gut becomes leaky its ability to absorb good nutrients while filtering out inflammatory foreign materials fails, impacting overall health. During the time that good micro-organisms or probiotics are in short supply, so is the supply of postbiotics they produce. Postbiotics are needed to carry out many of our vital physiological functions.

Identifying dysbiosis and balancing the gut microbiome is essential for: digestion, nutrition, immunity, metabolism, weight management, skin, brain, mood and the neuroendocrine system. Testing for alterations in the gut biome is a foundational step of our intake assessment. Healing the gut involves individualized plans that may include peptides, prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, nutritional guidance and IV supplementation of depleted nutrients.