The health of your gastrointestinal system can influence far more than digestion.

The gut is where the food you eat meets your body. How well you digest, absorb, and respond to that food can influence whether it becomes the nourishment your body needs—or contributes to symptoms and imbalance.

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Your gastrointestinal tract is also closely connected with immune function, inflammation, metabolism, nutrient status, and communication between the gut and the brain. Changes in the intestinal microbiome or digestive function may therefore have effects that extend well beyond bloating, constipation, diarrhea, or reflux.

This is one reason digestive health is often an important part of our investigation—even when a patient’s primary complaint doesn’t appear to be gastrointestinal.

Advanced stool testing can help us evaluate areas such as:

  • The balance and diversity of the intestinal microbiome
  • Beneficial and potentially problematic organisms
  • Digestive and absorptive function
  • Intestinal inflammation
  • Immune activity within the gastrointestinal tract
  • Markers associated with intestinal barrier function
  • Certain bacterial, parasitic, and other gastrointestinal pathogens

The goal is not simply to identify what’s living in the gut. It is to better understand how well the gastrointestinal system is functioning and whether it may be influencing health elsewhere in the body.

Testing available through:

  • GI-MAP
  • Genova GI Effects