FUNCTIONAL TESTING:

Question!

What tests are ordered?
What do they capture?
What do they show?

In Nutritional Therapy, we look at health through a north-to-south approach; meaning we consider how digestion, absorption, and elimination work together to support the entire body. When those foundations are compromised, it can influence hormones, energy, immune function, mood, and overall resilience.

Functional testing like KBMO and Metabolomix+ can serve as helpful tools in that process. These tests don’t provide diagnoses, but they offer insight into patterns and imbalances that may help guide nutritional and lifestyle support more intentionally.

Ever wonder if a food you eat all the time could be working against you?

The KBMO Food Inflammation Test (FIT) gives us another piece of the puzzle by looking at your body's immune response to up to 176 different foods, colorings, and additives.

It can also include markers that give us insight into the health of your intestinal barrier or how well your gut is doing its job of keeping the good things in and the unwanted things out.

Instead of blindly cutting out entire food groups or guessing which foods may not be serving you well, we can use your results alongside your symptoms, health history, and food journal to create a much more personalized nutrition plan.

Think of it as a roadmap that helps us decide what may be worth removing temporarily, what you can continue enjoying, and where your gut may need a little extra support.

KBMO Food Inflammation Testing

What if we could look beyond what you're eating and get a better idea of how your body is actually using those nutrients?

This comprehensive nutritional test gives us a window into your unique body chemistry by looking at biomarkers connected to things like energy production, B vitamins and other nutrient needs, amino acids, oxidative stress, detoxification pathways, digestive function, and more.

In other words, two people can eat similarly, take the same multivitamin, and still have very different nutritional needs; and this testing helps us see those differences.

Your results give us another layer of information to pair with your symptoms, diet, lifestyle, and goals so we can make your nutritional therapy plan far more personalized. Rather than simply asking, “What supplements should I take?” we can start asking, “What does my body appear to need support with?” And even better, most of the testing can be collected conveniently at home.

Metabolomix+

test results: examples

KBMO FIT TEST

What am I looking at?

Your results turn a long list of foods into an easy-to-read, color-coded picture of how your body responded during testing.
Green represents little to no measured reactivity, while yellow, orange, and red indicate increasing levels of reactivity.

The first page pulls out the foods with the strongest responses and groups them by severity, while the second page gives you the bigger picture; showing your results across food categories like dairy, eggs, grains, fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, spices, and more.

Rather than looking at this report as a list of foods you're suddenly “not allowed” to eat, we'll use it as a guide. Together, we'll look at which foods stand out, how often you're currently eating them, whether they make sense alongside your symptoms and health history, and where temporary dietary changes may be helpful.

What am I looking at?

Think of these pages as a snapshot of where your body may be asking for a little extra nutritional support.

Instead of simply measuring how much of a vitamin or mineral is present, Metabolomix+ looks at biomarkers involved in the processes your body performs every day; like making energy, managing oxidative stress, processing nutrients, supporting methylation, and maintaining healthy fatty-acid balance.

The first page gives us the big-picture view, using*green, yellow, and red scores to highlight areas with minimal, moderate, or greater need for support. From there, we can dig deeper into the individual markers contributing to those scores. The next page translates those findings into potential nutrient needs, showing areas where nutrients such as B vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, or digestive support may deserve a closer look. Rather than guessing which nutrients you need, or simply adding another handful of supplements, we can use these results alongside your diet, symptoms, lifestyle, and health history to make your nutritional therapy plan more targeted, intentional, and uniquely yours.