We understand the essential role of advanced diagnostic testing within Functional Medicine
Kare Health & Wellness partners with various specialty laboratories to offer the latest and most innovative testing options. By using advanced diagnostic testing, we can better investigate, identify, and address the root cause of your health concerns.
Our partnerships and testing options are part of our continued commitment to provide the highest quality of alternative care for our patients. By incorporating more advanced testing options that uncover importation functional health information, we continue to be one of the nation’s leaders in Functional Medicine and Integrative care.
The lab work we perform is very different than the lab work your traditional doctor will order. Our advanced diagnostic tests will tell you much more about your body and measure aspects of your body that express the health of your organs and body systems in a much more comprehensive way.
Results are easier to read and understand because they include explanations of what each measure is and what it indicates. By using advanced diagnostic testing, we turn hope into results! This is the future of lab testing and based on proven science.
Is Advanced Diagnostic Testing Right For You?
Our bodies are complex, so different root causes may show up as symptoms that seem typical or irregular for that particular ailment. This is especially the case if one source of disease or dysfunction is interacting with another. The best way for our practitioners to discover deficiencies is to use advanced diagnostic tests.
Functional Medicine testing goes beyond what traditional medicine is able to offer
Thyroid Testing
Thyroid dysfunction has a wide array of symptoms and can be difficult to diagnose. Symptoms may present as weight gain or loss, dry skin, hair loss, depression, or fatigue. A lack of proper diagnosis can occur within conventional medicine because usually only TSH and T4 tests are performed. Our advanced thyroid panel includes testing for TSH, T4, free T4, total T3, free T3, reverse T3, and thyroid antibodies. This advanced panel provides a comprehensive view of your thyroid to understand your complete thyroid health and check for possible autoimmune thyroid problems.
Hormone Testing
Hormones play a crucial role in our health, for both men and women, but most of the time, they go unnoticed if they are properly balanced. However, if levels of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone become unbalanced, symptoms can be severe. This may result in acne, hair loss, weight gain, low sex drive, infertility, anxiety, depression, other mood disorders, or changes in the menstrual cycle. Our providers use saliva and advanced blood tests to assess the relationship of these hormones to determine whether or not they are at healthy levels or if treatment is needed.
Gastrointestinal Testing
Gut health is essential to the health of the whole body. Understanding how your gut interprets and absorbs nutrients can be key in addressing the root cause of your symptoms. If your gut microbiome is imbalanced, it can lead to a whole slew of symptoms. Comprehensive stool analysis and advanced blood tests can assess your gut function, especially issues like inflammation and malabsorption. Therefore, advanced gut testing can be extremely helpful for those who have IBS, cardiovascular disease, weight problems, autoimmune disease, or diabetes.
Access Medical Laboratories strives to use the most precise methods of analysis to achieve both superior quality and maximum sensitivity of their test systems. By using the latest state-of-the-art instrumentation and methodological updates, Access ensures accuracy, dependability, and prompt reporting of patient results. Although each test has its own performance measures and appropriate uses, Access Medical Laboratories tests are designed to be as precise, accurate, specific, and sensitive as possible. These basic concepts are the cornerstones that provide reliability of patient test results and instill confidence in the services they provide to our patients. By continually measuring and reviewing processes, variability is reduced.
Vibrant America is a leading science and technology company delivering life-transforming laboratory services. Vibrant’s vision is to enable symptom-based diagnostics and prognostics for Autoimmune disease and other chronic diseases using an integrated micro-array platform that would enable multiplex testing at an affordable cost.
Founded by technologists-scientists, our science-driven approach has resulted in numerous products and services in a range of diseases, including allergy, autoimmune like Celiac, connective tissue, rheumatoid arthritis and infectious diseases.
The Genova Diagnostics team promises to be the best provider of comprehensive and innovative clinical laboratory services for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of complex chronic disease.
Chronic diseases are often complex and Genova’s system-based testing helps physicians develop targeted treatments for their patients. Easy-to-read color graphic reports synthesize test results into actionable information and facilitate physician-patient communication.
Their internationally renowned lab is committed to the highest standards and has a team of medical experts who provide consultation to healthcare professionals, as well as a robust array of educational resources, ensuring that physicians order the right tests for their patients.
Quest Diagnostics is driven to discover and deliver diagnostic insights and innovations that help to improve human health. They offer a wide range of products and services that benefit patients and healthcare providers.
Their services range from routine blood tests — such as total cholesterol, Pap testing and white blood cell count — to complex, gene-based and molecular testing.
They perform medical tests that aid in the diagnosis or detection of diseases, measure the progress or recovery from a disease or confirm that an individual is free from disease. They have specialized expertise in cancer, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases, and neurology.
Doctor's Data, Inc. has provided innovative specialty testing to healthcare practitioners around the world from their advanced, CLIA-licensed clinical laboratory since 1972.
A specialist and pioneer in essential and toxic elemental testing, the laboratory provides a wide array of functional testing to aid in decision making and better patient outcomes. DDI helps assess and treat heavy metal burden, nutritional deficiencies, gastrointestinal function, cardiovascular risk, liver and metabolic abnormalities, and more.
The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc. is a world leader in providing diagnostics for metabolic, mitochondrial, and environmental factors in chronic illnesses. They offer a variety of state-of-the-art metabolic tests such as the Organic Acids Test (OAT), GPL-TOX (Toxic Non-Metal Chemical Profile), IgG Food Allergy Test, and their newest test, the MycoTOX Profile, which assesses mold exposure. Their ultimate goal is to help provide the most personalized medicine possible and improve your quality of life.
Exact Sciences Laboratories is dedicated to delivering the most accurate results and providing world-class service.
Cologuard® is an FDA-approved, noninvasive multi-target stool DNA test for colorectal cancer screening.
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