functional nutrition & testing for women and children
Get clearer answers for the health concerns that keep coming back.
Functional nutrition and appropriate functional testing.
Support to help women and children make sense of fatigue, digestive issues, hormonal changes, eczema, allergies, food reactions, and other persistent concerns.
Understand what may be contributing, and know what to explore next.
Looking Beyand Symptoms. Connecting the Dots. Supporting Better Health.
Your symptoms are clues, not the whole story.
A more personalized approach to understanding your health.
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You've tried making changes
You’ve tried making changes, but you’re still looking for answers.
When dealing with ongoing health concerns, it can be frustrating when lifestyle adjustments don’t bring the clarity or lasting relief you or your child need.
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The bigger picture
There are often several factors contributing to how we feel.
Symptoms like fatigue, digestive issues, or skin flare-ups usually stem from multiple overlapping factors. Identifying these underlying drivers helps target what truly needs addressing.
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A closer look
Not every health concern can be understood through symptoms alone.
Looking deeper through targeted functional testing helps go beyond surface-level observations, revealing valuable insights that guide a far more personalized, effective approach to care.
Clear Answers for Your Unique Health Journey
Combining advanced testing with your unique health history to create meaningful, lasting change.
Depending on your individual concerns, selected tests can offer valuable insights into key areas such as digestive health, hormone patterns, metabolism, and environmental exposures. When we combine this testing data with your complete health history, symptoms, nutrition, and daily lifestyle, we build a far clearer, more comprehensive picture of your overall well-being.
Identifying these specific nutritional and lifestyle factors allows us to focus on practical, targeted changes tailored directly to your needs—delivering a real difference in how you feel and function day to day. It isn’t about relying on a single test result to explain everything; it’s about connecting all the dots to guide a truly individualized health journey.
We Start With You, Not the Test.
How I Use Functional Testing
I don’t believe in running every available test or creating a supplement protocol based on a single result alone.
Instead, I begin by getting to know you. We explore your health history, current concerns, nutrition, digestion, lifestyle, and the patterns that may be influencing your health. From there, we determine whether additional testing could provide useful information to help guide our next steps.
When testing is appropriate, we consider the findings alongside everything else we’ve learned, recognizing that some results are more clinically meaningful than others.
Together, we use that information to prioritize practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies that fit your individual needs.
And because health is rarely influenced by just one factor, we continue to assess your progress and make adjustments along the way.
The goal isn’t simply to collect more information. It’s to use meaningful information to help you move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and support.
How I Use Functional Testing
We Start With You, Not the Test.
I don’t believe in running every available test or creating a supplement protocol based on a single result alone.
Instead, I begin by getting to know you.
Getting to Know You
We explore your health history, symptoms, nutrition, digestion, and daily lifestyle patterns.
Evaluating Testing Needs
We decide together if targeted testing will actually provide useful information for your goals.
Connecting the Dots
We review test results alongside your overall health story—never relying on a single test result alone.
Personalized Planning
We turn your test insights and health history into practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies that fit your life.
Assessing & Adjusting
We monitor your progress over time and adjust your plan as your health and needs evolve.
Moving Forward with Clarity
We focus on meaningful answers so you can feel confident and supported in taking charge of your health.
Testing is considered when it may provide useful information, and results are incorporated within the context of your overall health.
My role is to help you understand what the information may, and may not, tell us, so we can focus on practical strategies that make sense for you.
How I Use Functional Testing
Exploring Different Areas of Your Health
I offer access to several functional testing options, depending on your individual health concerns and goals.
Comprehensive Gut & Stool Testing
Sample: Stool sample collected at home
Comprehensive stool testing examines selected markers related to the digestive system.
Depending on the laboratory panel, testing may assess:
- Gut bacteria and other microorganisms
- Microbiome composition and diversity
- Selected digestive function markers
- Markers associated with intestinal inflammation
- Certain pathogens or parasites
- Gut metabolites
How it fits into your care: Stool testing may provide information that helps guide discussions about digestive health, dietary habits, and targeted nutritional and supplement support.
While microbiome findings don’t always establish the cause of symptoms, certain findings may offer valuable insights that, when considered alongside a person’s health history and symptoms, can help guide more personalized nutrition, supplement and lifestyle strategies to support digestive health and overall well-being.
Available for women and children
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)
Sample: Small hair sample
HTMA measures the concentrations of selected minerals and elements present in hair.
It may provide information about mineral exposure patterns over time, although results can be affected by external contamination, hair treatments, and other factors.
Hair mineral levels don’t necessarily reflect your body’s nutritional status or identify mineral deficiencies. But it can give us insights into how the body may be able to utilize certain nutrients and how that can affect optimal function.
How it fits into your care: Results may be considered alongside your dietary intake, health history, symptoms, and other appropriate assessments when reviewing your nutritional needs.
Available for women, children and animals
Organic Acids Test (OAT)
Sample: Urine sample
Organic acids testing measures compounds produced through various metabolic processes in the body.
These compounds can be influenced by factors such as diet, metabolism, medications, and microorganisms.
Certain findings may offer additional insights into aspects of metabolism and nutrition that are worth exploring further.
How it fits into your care: When considered alongside your health history, symptoms, dietary habits, and lifestyle, relevant findings may help inform more personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies. While OAT doesn’t independently identify the root cause of symptoms or confirm conditions such as yeast overgrowth or nutrient deficiencies, it can contribute to a broader discussion about your individual health needs.
Available for women and children
DUTCH Hormone Testing
Sample: Dried urine collected at specified times.
DUTCH testing provides a detailed look at selected hormone levels, metabolites, and patterns, including those related to estrogen, progesterone, androgens, and cortisol, depending on the panel.
These measurements can offer additional information about how certain hormones are produced and metabolized. Hormone patterns are influenced by factors such as age, menstrual cycle, medications, stress, and overall health, making individual context especially important when interpreting results.
How it fits into your care: When hormonal concerns are part of your health picture, DUTCH testing may offer additional insights to explore alongside your symptoms, menstrual cycle history, nutrition, and lifestyle. Where findings are clinically meaningful, they can contribute to a more informed discussion about individualized nutrition and lifestyle strategies that support your overall health and well-being.
DUTCH testing is one piece of the broader picture and doesn’t replace medically indicated hormone assessments or diagnosis.
Available for women and cycling teens.
Environmental Toxin & Exposure Screening
Sample: Urine sample
Environmental toxin and exposure screening measures selected substances and their metabolites that may provide insights into certain environmental exposures.
Depending on the panel, testing may include markers related to:
- Certain heavy metals
- Environmental chemicals
- Mycotoxins
- Other selected exposure-related compounds
These tests can provide additional information about substances detected in the body and, depending on the marker, may help identify exposures worth exploring further.
How it fits into your care: When environmental exposures are a concern, relevant findings can offer another piece of information to consider alongside your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, and potential exposure sources. This can help guide more focused conversations about reducing avoidable exposures and developing personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies that support overall health.
While detecting a substance doesn’t necessarily mean it’s causing symptoms or indicate a toxic level of exposure, understanding what has been measured and its clinical significance can help inform appropriate next steps, including further medical evaluation when warranted.
Available for women and children
IgG Food Antibody Testing
Sample: Small blood sample, collected through a finger prick
IgG food antibody testing measures the immune system’s IgG antibody response to specific foods, providing information about immune recognition and exposure to those foods.
While these results can help us understand which foods the immune system has encountered, elevated IgG levels don’t necessarily indicate that a food is causing symptoms. In fact, IgG antibodies are often associated with normal food exposure and tolerance.
How it fits into your care: When food reactions are difficult to pinpoint, I take a comprehensive approach that considers your symptoms, food history, dietary patterns, digestion, and nutritional needs. Understanding what IgG results do—and don’t—represent helps us put the information into context, while using symptom patterns and appropriate clinical assessments to guide decisions about possible food triggers and nutritional support.
Available for women and children 2+
Why My Approach Is Different
It's Not Just About the Test Results
You can have pages of laboratory results and still feel unsure about what to do next.
And that’s where personalized guidance matters.
My approach isn’t about recommending a long list of supplements based on a single test or putting everyone on the same restrictive diet.
It’s about understanding your unique health story, recognizing what the evidence supports, and helping you make realistic changes that fit your life.
Testing provides information. Personalized care helps put that information into context.
I bring together your health history, symptoms, nutrition, lifestyle, and relevant testing findings to create an individualized approach that supports your overall well-being.
Because the goal isn’t simply to collect more information.
It’s to help you understand your health and feel confident about your next steps.
Is Functional Testing Right for You?
Functional testing may be worth discussing if you’re looking for a more individualized approach to your nutrition and health concerns, or haven’t yet been able to find answers for why you have certain symptoms.
Whether you’re a woman navigating fatigue, hormonal changes, or digestive challenges, or a parent seeking nutritional support for your child’s ongoing health concerns, we can explore what information would be most useful for your situation.
You don’t need to know which test you need before booking a consultation.
Ready to take a more personalized approach to your health?
Book a consultation or discovery call to discuss your concerns, explore your options, and learn how individualized nutrition, lifestyle support, and appropriate functional testing may fit into your care.
Functional testing is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate laboratory investigations.
Some tests described above have limited clinical validation for the uses promoted in wellness settings. Testing is optional, and recommendations are individualized according to clinical relevance and available evidence. Medical concerns, including suspected allergies, asthma, significant digestive symptoms, and hormonal disorders, should be assessed by an appropriate healthcare professional.