Functional Lab Testing

Get to the root. Reclaim your vitality.

At Luminate Wellness, we believe healing starts with understanding what’s happening beneath the surface. That’s why we offer access to at-home functional lab testing—a powerful tool that helps uncover hidden imbalances in your gut, hormones, metabolism, adrenals, and more.

As a certified Integrative Health Practitioner, I use these labs to help you connect the dots between your symptoms and your body’s internal systems. From there, we’ll create a personalized, wellness-based protocol to restore balance and get you feeling like yourself again—energized, clear, and radiant. Lab's from Equilife.

Food Sensitivity

Discover Your Sensitivities to 190 Common Foods

Even with a healthy diet, it's possible for your body to exhibit what's called an IgG reaction to certain foods. Unlike typical food allergies, looking at IgG reactions can single out the foods that are causing hidden immune reactions 24-72 hours after you eat. If you suspect that certain health concerns may be related to food, this at-home lab will test sensitivity levels (mild, moderate or severe) to 190 common foods. By taking this test, you will be provided with comprehensive insight on which foods to avoid in order to keep your body functioning at its best.

Stress, Mood & Metabolism

Uncover Hormonal Imbalances With Mood, Metabolism & Libido

If you're dealing with low mood or libido, slow metabolism or just feel you've lost your mojo it's absolutely vital to look at your hormones. The Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism test gives you the full picture to identify any imbalances directly affecting overall metabolic function. As we age, it's even more important to keep hormones in check in order to manage stress effectively, maintain a healthy weight and have the energy you need. If you've struggled to lose weight and keep it off, this test takes all key hormones into account: thyroid function, adrenal output, blood sugar and vitamin D status.

Thyroid TSH

Uncover Hidden Causes of Weight Gain, Low Mood & Hair Loss

The thyroid is a small butterfly-shaped gland located near the throat. Although the organ itself is small, it has a significant impact on overall health. The thyroid produces countless hormones that affect nearly every tissue in the body. When functioning properly, it helps regulate everything from metabolism to sexual function. The Thyroid TSH Test looks at thyrotropin (thyroid stimulating hormone), a hormone that stimulates the thyroid into producing more of the important hormones needed to live a healthy life. If your levels of TSH are elevated or subdued, it may indicate that your thyroid is not functioning optimally.

Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins

Comprehensive View of Your Gut, Energy, Mood & Vitamin Levels

Do you have digestive upset, bloating, gas, acid reflux, mood irregularities and weak immunity? The simple at-home Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test will assess how well your digestive system is functioning, along with your energy and mood metabolites using a urine sample. Plus, you'll be able to find out whether you're truly getting all the vitamins you need from your current nutrition giving you a clear picture of your digestive and metabolic health and how to support any imbalances and feel your best again.

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Cortisol test

Cortisol is a steroid hormone produced in your adrenal glands. It can affect your body in a number of ways, including how your body responds to stress. When balanced, your cortisol levels will fluctuate throughout the day, starting higher in the morning, and getting lower in the evening. If your cortisol levels are too low in the morning or too high in the evening, it can have a negative impact on everything from your energy levels to your immune health. Looking at your cortisol levels at just one point during the day will not provide the full picture, which is why we've created a simple but comprehensive test that looks at your levels throughout the day.

Thyroid Panel

Your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland that sits just below your larynx and produces the vital hormones triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). Every cell in the body depends on these thyroid hormones for metabolism regulation. If these hormones drop too low, the pituitary gland will produce additional Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) to stimulate hormone production. If you have concerns about your energy level, metabolism or overall wellbeing, it is critical to evaluate the balance of these intricately connected hormones with this comprehensive thyroid panel test.

Women's Wellness

As we age, it's common for hormone levels to fluctuate. While estrogen is thought of as the primary female hormone, it also has a very important relationship with progesterone. If you have been experiencing health concerns such as irregular mood, low libido or changes in your menstrual cycle, it's important to take a deeper look at your estrogen and progesterone levels and their ratios to each other. Additionally, measuring your cortisol will give you an in depth look at how stress may be impacting your hormone levels and your overall health.

Women's Fertility

Your monthly menstrual cycle is likely not something you look forward to. Nonetheless, when it arrives off schedule it can be a cause for concern, especially if you are experiencing other challenges including trying to become pregnant. Whether you want to assess your reproductive health or want to gain insight on irregular cycles, this convenient at-home test provides a comprehensive look at a broad range of hormones, so you can gain valuable insight about how to address potential imbalances at a root cause level.

DHEA

Hormones are created by a dozen different organs and regulate thousands of bodily functions. Weight gain, stress, hair growth, and even emotional balance and mood are all controlled by the levels of hormones traveling through the body. When functioning properly, these chemical signals work like a well-tuned symphony, with each hormone playing its part. Too much or too little of a single hormone can throw off the whole orchestra. DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is called the anti-aging hormone. Produced in the adrenal glands, DHEA supports healthy aging when functioning properly, but when things are unbalanced it can have a negative impact. The DHEA Test is a simple, easy method of taking an in-depth look at your individual hormonal balance on a regular basis.

Toxic Heavy Metals

Do you ever feel like you aren't quite as sharp as you once were? Your brain feels foggy, you experience frequent headaches, low mood or seem to forget things more easily, and you're not sure why? Even if you know you've been exposed, you might not have considered that heavy metals may be to blame for your unexplained challenges. Many people may write off these health issues as part of aging, but high or prolonged exposure to heavy metals like mercury and cadmium, or an imbalance of toxic elements can cause a range of health challenges. By confirming your levels of exposure with a simple at-home lab test, you can finally get the answers you've been searching for.