Functional Testing

This advanced hormone testing was developed to improve on available hormone testing options. DUTCH offers the most extensive profile of sex and adrenal hormones along with their metabolites. Additionally, the daily (diurnal) pattern of free cortisol is included, along with melatonin (6-OHMS), 8-OHdG, and six organic acids.

This test offers the most comprehensive summary of hormone levels available and is easily collected in the home for shipment.

Food sensitivity is not a disease but may play a role in causing disease or worsening certain symptoms. Symptoms associated with food sensitivities develop slowly over time and can create inflammation. The RMA FST™ IgG Food Sensitivity Test can help identify potential food sensitivities and take the guesswork out of your diet.

There is a growing body of evidence to support the clinical benefits of eliminating IgG reactive foods from the diet.

In an IgG reaction, the IgG antibodies bind to food antigens creating antibody-antigen complexes. These complexes are normally removed by immune system cells called macrophages. However, if complexes are present in large numbers and the reactive food is still being consumed, the macrophages can’t remove them quickly enough. The food antigen-antibody complexes accumulate and can be deposited in body tissues. Once in tissues, these complexes can trigger inflammation, which may be responsible for a wide variety of symptoms.

The Organix® Comprehensive Profile is a nutritional test providing insights into organic acids and a view into the body’s cellular metabolic processes. Identifying metabolic blocks that can be treated nutritionally allows individual tailoring of interventions that maximize patient responses and lead to improved patient outcomes.

Organic acids are metabolic intermediates that are produced in pathways of central energy production, detoxification, neurotransmitter breakdown, or intestinal microbial activity. Marked accumulation of specific organic acids detected in urine often signals a metabolic inhibition or block. The metabolic block may be due to a nutrient deficiency, an inherited enzyme deficit, toxic build-up or drug effect. Several of the biomarkers are markers of intestinal bacterial or yeast overgrowth.

The Organix® Comprehensive nutritional test profile provides vital patient information from a single urine specimen. This organic acids nutritional test is valuable for determining:

• Functional vitamin and mineral status

• Amino acid insufficiencies like carnitine and NAC

• Oxidative damage and antioxidant need

• Phase I & Phase II detoxification capacity

• Functional B-complex vitamin need

• Neurotransmitter metabolites

• Mitochondrial energy production

• Methylation sufficiency

• Lipoic acid and CoQ10 status

• Markers for bacterial and yeast overgrowth

Heavy metals can disrupt a myriad of different organs and systems and this test is the gold standard for identifying levels of mercury, aluminum, lead, and cadmium

Urine Elements are traditionally used to evaluate exposure to potentially toxic elements and wasting of nutrient elements. Additionally, the comparison of urine element concentrations before and after administration of a chelator can be used to estimate net retention of potentially toxic elements. Subsequent urine element analyses, also following the administration of a chelator, are useful for monitoring the efficacy of metal detoxification therapy. Results are expressed per 24 hours or creatinine corrected to account for urine dilution effects.

The test can be used to look for root cause information regarding:

• Toxic Element Exposure

• Alopecia

• Bone Density

• Cardiovascular Disease

• Depression

• Dermatitis or Poor Wound Healing

• Detoxification Therapy

• Fatigue

• Gastrointestinal Symptoms

• Hypertension

• Immune Function

• Impaired Glucose Tolerance

• Inflammation

• Kidney Function

• Nutritional Deficiencies

• Parkinson’s-like Symptoms