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A simple at-home stool test, just collect a single sample and send it to the lab using a simple freepost return.

Your practitioner will receive the results within 14 working days, including an in-depth report to show how your gut health is impacting your overall wellbeing. 

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• Analysed by accredited lab partners 
• Reviewed by a qualified practitioner
• Bespoke report, recommendations and plans 
• Food and supplement guideliness
• Access to community 
• Convenient home test kit 

 

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Your gut is an ecosystem. It contains trillions of bacteria (your ‘gut microbiome’), which play a role in your bodily functions. When your gut microbiome is out of balance, we call it dysbiosis, and it can contribute to everything from bloating to autoimmune conditions.

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Useful for those with mild to occasional IBS symptoms, our Essential Gut Health test uses a combination of 16s rRNA sequencing, qPCR testing and culturing to give comprehensive and extensive insight into gut health, via a non-invasive stool sample.

As our most accessible gut test, it analyses the most essential markers, such as candida and secretory IgA, needed for a basic but accurate overview of your gut health.

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Dear

Congratulations on getting to this stage.

I have reviewed your test results, and summarised the key findings below. 

I have also included a video for you above, please watch this to understand more about your results.

Key findings

Keep in mind that the microbiome is a new and complex area of science. Please do not see ‘out-of-range’ markers as a diagnosis, instead see them as areas to focus on a particular aspect of health.

Your in-range markers include:

1. A good stool pH - helps prevent pathogenic (unfriendly) bacteria from colonising the colon

2. Good microbiome diversity - one of the most important metrics of gut health

3. Good levels of butyrate-producing bacteria - which helps maintain a healthy gut wall

4. Normal levels of potentially pathogenic (unfriendly) bacteria

5. Normal levels of candida

6. No parasitic infections

7. Normal pancreatic elastase (indicating normal production of digestive enzymes)

8. Normal calprotectin (indicating no inflammation)

9. Normal zonulin (indicating no leaky gut)

10. Negative for H Pylori (a bacteria that colonises the stomach)

Your out-of-range markers include:

1. An acidic stool pH - this may indicate carbohydrate maldigestion

2. An alkaline stool pH - potentially related to low levels of Bifidobacteria and butyrate-producing (friendly) bacteria

3. Low microbiome diversity

4. A high dysbiosis index - indicating a high level of imbalance in the microbiome

5. Low levels of Bifidobacteria and key butyrate-producing (friendly) bacteria

6. Elevated levels of potentially pathogenic (unfriendly) bacteria

7. Elevated levels of hydrogen sulphide-producing bacteria - often resulting in high levels of flatulence

8. High levels of histamine-producing bacteria - often associated with diarrhoea and abdominal pain

9. High levels of methanobrevibacter - often associated with constipation

10. High levels of candida 

11. Positive for the parasite Blastocystis hominis. There are several subtypes of this organism, not all of which need addressing.

12. Positive for the parasite Dientamoeba fragilis.

13. High secretory IgA - indicating immune activity

14. Low secretory IgA - indicating compromised immunity in the gut

15. Low pancreatic elastase - indicating low production of digestive enzymes from the pancreas

16. Elevated calprotectin - indicating inflammation

17. Elevated zonulin - indicating leaky gut

18. Positive for H Pylori - a bacteria that colonises the stomach

19. High levels of nitrogen - which may indicate protein malabsorption

20. High levels of fat - which may indicate fat malabsorption 

21. High levels of sugar - which may indicate carbohydrate malabsorption 

22. High levels of water in the stool - which may indicate fast transit through the digestive system (this may present as diarrhoea, but doesn’t always)

23. Low levels of water in the stool - which may indicate slow transit through the digestive system (this may present as constipation, but doesn’t always)

To learn more about your markers, visit your ‘In range’ and ‘Out of range’ tabs in your results.

We recommend informing your GP about the low pancreatic elastase. However this can often be the results of a bacterial imbalance in the small intestine.

We recommend informing your GP about the elevated Calprotectin marker

What's next? 

Your test results are the first step in getting answers to your symptoms. Next, I want to empower you to find better health.  

Please take the time to review the health plan I have created for you.

Go to My Health plan for the food, supplement and lifestyle advice I have tailored to you and your needs.

In health,

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