Advanced Laboratory Testing
DON’T GUESS - TEST!
Advanced Laboratory & Diagnostic Testing
In Functional Medicine, true optimization requires looking deeper than conventional lab work. Standard blood tests often identify only overt disease - not the subtle dysfunctions that develop long before symptoms appear.
Advanced laboratory testing allows us to see the full picture: how your hormones, nutrients, gut microbiome, detox pathways, inflammation markers, and metabolism are working together. This deeper insight helps us understand why you feel the way you do and what your body needs to restore balance and vitality.
Don’t guess - test!
By using comprehensive, data-driven testing, we can uncover what’s working well beneath the surface, as well as where there may be hidden imbalances. This precision-based approach guides your personalized treatment plan - so your time, energy, and investments are directed exactly where they’ll make the greatest impact on your health.
Nutritional Health
The NutrEval® Comprehensive Nutritional Test provides an in-depth assessment of how your body is functioning at a cellular level. This advanced analysis offers insights into vitamin and mineral status, essential fatty acids, amino acid and protein metabolism, antioxidant capacity, gut and mitochondrial health, detoxification pathways, and toxic element exposure. By revealing where nutrient deficiencies exist, NutrEval® helps create a precise, personalized nutrition and supplementation plan.
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Hormone Health
A one-size-fits-all approach to hormone testing simply doesn’t work. To obtain meaningful, actionable results, testing must be personalized - taking into account factors such as age, symptoms, menstrual or menopausal status, medication use, and timing within the hormone cycle.
In addition to a standard blood draw, Dr. Nielsen offers salivary hormone testing and DUTCH® dried urine hormone testing.
Cardiometabolic Health
Optimizing heart and metabolic health requires more than a standard cholesterol test. Advanced cardiometabolic testing provides a deeper, more precise look at your risk. We go beyond a basic lipid panel with lipid fractionation, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers, and real-time glucose monitoring.
For an even clearer picture, we assess arterial health directly through Coronary Artery Calcium scoring and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (CIMT) imaging—tools that reveal early changes long before symptoms or traditional labs detect disease.
Gut Health
Your gut plays a central role in digestion, immunity, metabolism, and even hormone balance. Functional laboratory testing provides a deeper understanding of how well your gastrointestinal system is working and where imbalances may exist. We utilize advanced tools such as comprehensive stool testing (GI Effects® and GI-MAP®) to evaluate digestion, microbiome balance, inflammation, and pathogens. Food sensitivity testing helps identify potential immune reactions, and SIBO breath testing can uncover bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine that often underlies chronic gas, bloating, and IBS-like symptoms.
GALLERI® MULTI-CANCER EARLY DETECTION TEST
The Galleri® Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test uses cutting-edge technology to detect more than 50 types of cancer through a single blood draw.
Galleri® can identify early signals of cancer often before symptoms appear or traditional screening tests detect disease.