Website under reconstruction! We are Evolving !! Now Accepting New Patients
Digestive Function Tests
Digestion is the Foundational Cornerstone for Optimal Health
Proper Digestion is the Cornerstone for optimal health. A healthy functioning digestive system allows for proper digestion of food in a timely manner. This process encompasses the spectrum of enzymatic breakdown to the assimilation of vital micronutrients so that they are bio-available to support all biological, cellular and organ absorption functions while simultaneously removing and clearing residual waste products from the system. Each day our bodies turn over up to 6 Billion cells through its constant process of auto-renewal and we want to ensure that the proper nutritional absorption and assimilation parameters are in place to assure proper turn over.
We offer several diagnostic tests to determine the overall digestive functions, enzymatic performances, pathogenic overgrowth factors, gastro-intestinal inflammation and levels of healthy gut bacteria (flora), and intestinal permeability.
Assessing Digestive Function
Gastrointestinal and digestive complaints and their subsequent their aftermath are among the most common reasons patients seek care.
There can be a wide array of symptoms associated with gastrointestinal disorders ranging from:
diarrhea,
constipation or alternating with diarrhrea,
gas & bloating,
indigestion,
malabsorption and undigested particulate in the stools,
irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD),
disruption of the human microbiome
leaky gut syndromes and bacterial deviations in the normal bacterial commensal or flora.
Our digestive functions change as we develop from infants to children and continue to change throughout our lifetime.
Food introduction schedules are important to build a healthy foundation, to build our immune systems and to feed out minds and physical bodies, and to stimulate our metabolic processes.
As we age, we naturally begin to lose our digestive enzymes and our systems get strained.
It is important to support our digestion through all our phases of life from in-utero development through to our elderly days.
Comprehensive Stool Analysis & Parasitology
Poor digestion and malabsorption of essential nutrients can contribute to a large array of chronic problems ranging from
- degenerative diseases,
- compromised immune status,
- nutritional deficiencies and
- pathogenic overgrowths of opportunistic microbes.
There are a multitude of reasons for why maldigestion and malabsorption can occur.
These causal factors need to be diagnosed and addressed in order to prevent nutritional deficiencies that create alterations in metabolic pathways and begin to shift the expressions of our DNA, creating abberations and epigenetic changes and expression of genetic susceptibilities.
Reasons for maldigestion or malaborption can be caused from the overuse of antibiotics, low stomach acids, low pancreatic enzymes, stress, celiac disease, intestinal bacterial dysbiosis and the overgrowth of opportunistic pathogens such as H. pylori, yeast, bacteria or parasites can begin to flourish in an imbalanced milieu or dysbiotic terrain.
This in turn can lead to further health issues such as the development of leaky gut syndrome, food allergies, systemic illnesses, autoimmune diseases, and toxic burden overload.