Advanced Lab Testing

Discover why functional lab testing and analysis can be essential for an effective, customized treatment plan.

Functional Lab Testing

For proper and complete diagnosis and analysis of your health situation, it may be important to use advanced lab tests. Functional medicine tests are very different from conventional lab tests that a medical specialist might order in a hospital. Functional lab tests help evaluate the current state of specific body systems and give us in-depth insight, rather than just diagnosing a disease.

Why is functional lab testing important?

It is not always easy to determine the cause of your symptoms using just an anamnesis conversation and physical checks. Many patients suffering from chronic stress, adrenal fatigue, or hormonal imbalances experience symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, muscle pain, mood swings, and low libido. Identifying the specific imbalances or deficiencies responsible for these symptoms makes developing a customized treatment plan much easier. That means you can feel better, bring your body into balance, and prevent disease much faster.

Through laboratory testing, we can establish a baseline for health indicators that are important to you and then implement targeted treatments to improve the functioning of important body systems.

We take the time to interpret the results with you, so that we can create a treatment plan focused on what your body needs.

It can be so important to take the guesswork out of making a diagnosis by looking at specific biological indicators that allow us to create a customized care plan.

Our clients notice that specific laboratory testing provides them with insight and motivation to address their health problems in a targeted manner. This allows them to achieve increased vitality more quickly.

Through stool testing, DNA testing, and blood and saliva testing, we gain insight into the complaints, body systems, and possible causes of health problems. The results form the basis for an effective personalized treatment plan.

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Blood testing

There are hundreds of blood parameters that provide information about specific parts of our health. It gives a snapshot of how the body is functioning at the moment. Most routine check-ups (certainly via the GP) only include the standard values: general blood count, blood sugar, cholesterol, kidney and liver function and electrolytes. It is a start, but it does not tell us the whole story.

We can investigate many more useful values so that we can signal and address a red flag with regard to our health much earlier. You often only realize complaints when body systems have not been functioning properly for a long time. Previously observable subtle signals such as fatigue, aches and pains, intestinal and sleep problems, are dismissed as unimportant. The disturbances slowly become more serious to the point that the complaints can no longer be concealed. Then there is a great risk of ending up in the downward spiral of symptom suppressing drugs. We want to prevent this.

Valeo Life has compiled the most important biomarkers with which we get a reliable insight into organ functions and deficiencies.

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GUT MICROBIOME TESTING

“All diseases begin in the gut.” It is a quote attributed to Hippocrates, 300 years before Christ. He was not far off (disease can begin in the mouth as well). Every time we eat or drink something, we expose ourselves to the outside world; to nutrients but also to microbes, pesticides, heavy metals, chemicals, hormones, etc. Our gut has a hard time these days.

With every bite we are feeding or fighting disease. When your gut is healthy, there is a good chance that you are healthy!

The millions of microbes that inhabit our gut are collectively called our (gut) microbiome. Our microbiome has been in the spotlight in recent years. And for good reason: a balanced microbiome is essential for our health. We have about 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells! That says a lot.

Valeo Life uses advanced microbiological and genetic research that carefully maps the health of the gut and the entire intestinal flora.

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HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

Hair, like any other body tissue, contains minerals that are stored as the hair grows. Although hair appears to be dead tissue, the minerals remain as the hair grows. A hair sample that is cut close to the scalp provides information about the mineral balance of the past 3 months, depending on the growth rate of the hair.

A hair mineral analysis is a screening of 20 minerals and toxic metals in the hair. It is a determination that is non-invasive, relatively inexpensive and very accurate. By using this “mineral blueprint” of the body’s internal physiological processes, a very clear insight can be obtained into metabolic processes, energy levels in the cells, sugar and carbohydrate intolerance, the degree of stress, the immune system and the activity of the adrenal glands. The analysis is therefore used to simplify the advice for the right intervention with nutritional supplements and/or dietary adjustments.

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Advanced Lab Testing

Functional Lab Testing

Why is functional lab testing important?

Blood testing

GUT MICROBIOME TESTING

HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

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