the GUT program

A Comprehensive Stool Test provides an in-depth picture of your digestive and gut health. It analyses:

• Digestion and enzyme function

• Malabsorption and nutrient deficiencies

• Bacterial imbalance (dysbiosis)

• Candida and yeast overgrowth

• Parasites or harmful pathogens

• Gut inflammation

• Compromised gut barrier (“leaky gut”)

• Low immune protection (sIgA)

• Microbiome metabolic activity

This information helps identify underlying causes of symptoms such as bloating, irregular bowel movements and nutrient deficiencies, to name a few. By understanding how well your gut is breaking down food and maintaining microbial balance, stool testing guides precise, personalised treatment to restore optimal digestive function and overall wellbeing.

The Gut Barrier or Intestinal Permeability Panel assesses the integrity of the gut lining, often referred to as “leaky gut.” When the tight junctions between intestinal cells become compromised, larger food particles, toxins and microbes can enter the bloodstream, triggering inflammation and immune activation.

Markers such as zonulin help measure this permeability, providing insight into how well the intestinal barrier is functioning. Identifying and addressing increased permeability is key to reducing inflammation, improving digestion, and restoring healthy communication between the gut and immune system.

This test is often included in the Comprehensive Microbiome Mapping Tests recommended.

Testing helps identify foods that may be quietly driving inflammation or irritation in the gut. These immune-based reactions are often delayed, making it hard to connect symptoms like bloating, fatigue or irregular digestion to specific foods without testing.

• IgG responses show how your immune system reacts over time to certain foods. Elevated IgG levels suggest a delayed, chronic sensitivity that can contribute to ongoing inflammation and digestive upset.

• IgA responses reflect irritation or inflammation of the gut lining itself. High IgA reactions indicate that certain foods are actively stressing or damaging the intestinal barrier (potentially causing Leaky Gut Syndrome).

Together, IgG and IgA testing provide a deeper view of how food affects both your immune system and gut health, allowing for a more targeted, personalised healing plan.

Testing for Coeliac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity helps identify whether gluten is contributing to gut inflammation, nutrient malabsorption or digestive symptoms such as bloating, pain and irregular bowel movements.

In Coeliac Disease, gluten triggers an immune response that damages the intestinal lining, while non-coeliac gluten sensitivity can still cause irritation and discomfort without full autoimmune involvement.

Understanding your body’s response to gluten allows for more precise dietary changes to reduce inflammation, support gut healing, and improve overall digestive health.

The SIBO Breath Test is used to detect Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), a condition where bacteria that normally reside in the large intestine begin to overgrow in the small intestine. This overgrowth can interfere with digestion and nutrient absorption, leading to symptoms such as bloating, gas, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, or constipation.

By measuring hydrogen and methane gases produced after drinking a specific sugar solution, the test helps identify which type of bacterial imbalance is present. Understanding this allows for targeted treatment to restore balance, reduce symptoms, and support long-term gut health.

Testing for vitamin and mineral deficiencies helps determine how well your gut is absorbing and utilising nutrients. Deficiencies in key nutrients such as B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin D, magnesium and zinc can impair digestive enzyme production, weaken the gut lining, and slow repair of intestinal tissue.

Identifying and correcting these deficiencies supports optimal digestion, gut barrier integrity, and the body’s ability to heal and maintain a healthy microbiome.

The Organic Acids Test (OAT) provides a detailed look at how well your body and gut are functioning on a metabolic level.

It measures byproducts of digestion, nutrient use, and microbial activity to identify imbalances such as yeast or bacterial overgrowth, nutrient deficiencies, detoxification issues, and oxidative stress. This insight helps pinpoint underlying factors contributing to symptoms like fatigue, bloating, brain fog, or digestive discomfort, allowing for a more targeted and effective gut healing plan.