Our Tests Gut Health Assessment Stool Test: Yeast Culture Description/Background Information While the human microbiota is made up mostly of bacterial species, everybody carries some fungal species too — a much smaller component of the microbiota, separately referred...

Our Tests Gut Health Assessment Description/Background Information Celiac disease (CD), or gluten-sensitive enteropathy, is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic inflammation of the small-intestinal mucosa in response to ingested gluten (the storage protein...

Our Tests Gut Health AssessmentDescription/Background Information Fecal occult blood is defined as the blood contained in feces that is hidden or not visibly apparent. It can be a late symptom of inflammatory mucosal damage to the intestine from multiple potential...

Our Tests Gut Health Assessment Description/Background Information Zonulin – the “GateKeeper” of Intestinal Permeability The intestinal wall—the single-cell-thick layer of epithelial cells lining the inside of the gut—is the largest barrier between the human body and...

Our Tests Gut Health Assessment Stool Tests: Pancreatic Elastase Description/Background Information A healthy pancreas is vitally important for digestion of our food and absorption of nutrients. After a meal, hormonal and neural signals stimulate the production of...

Our Tests Gut Health AssessmentStool Tests: CalprotectinDescription/Background Information Calprotectin is a small calcium- and zinc-binding protein that derives mainly from neutrophils, constituting 60% of the cytosolic protein.1 Active inflammation in the gut that...

Our Tests Intestinal DysbiosisFirmicutes/ Bacteroidetes Ratio Description/Background Information A healthy gut microbiota is vital to our wellbeing—it helps to establish and maintain our immune system, fend off opportunistic pathogens, extract nutrients and energy...

Our Tests Gut Health Assessment The Gastrointestinal (GI) Pathogen Test is a new multiplex molecular diagnostic assay to simultaneously detect and identify 22 bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens that are responsible for the vast majority of infectious...