Your Gut Biome Revealed - Fitness Incentive

“Gut health is an essential aspect of every person’s overall well-being. Everything you eat and drink enters the gut, allowing your stomach and intestines to digest and extract crucial calories, vitamins, and nutrients. However, only some people’s gut health is optimal, allowing them to digest food easily.”

Mary Tufano

GI Map Testing

Exploring the Fascinating World of Your Gut Microbiome

The GI-MAP can tell a lot about gut health, and from gut health, we can learn a lot about overall wellness.

Poor gut health can cause the common digestive problems you’d expect, like bloating, heartburn, constipation, and diarrhea, but it can also cause systemic symptoms, including headaches, joint pain, and fatigue. If left unchecked for too long, it can lead to chronic nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalances, mood issues, and a dysfunctional immune system.

The GI-MAP Test is one of our most commonly ordered tests because it gives us so much great insight into what is actually going on inside of you. You may benefit from Gut Health Analysis if you experience:
Abdominal Pain
Acid Reflux
Allergies
Autoimmune diseases
Brain fog
Celiac Disease
Crohn’s Disease
IBS/IBD
Food poisoning
Ulcerative Colitis
Digestive complaints, diarrhea, or constipation
Gastritis
Skin problems such as acne, rosacea, eczema, and psoriasis
Mood disorders, depression, and anxiety
Diabetes and weight loss issues

Gut health is an essential aspect of every person’s overall well-being. Everything you eat and drink enters the gut, allowing your stomach and intestines to digest and extract crucial calories, vitamins, and nutrients. However, only some people’s gut health is optimal, allowing them to digest food easily.

What is the GI-MAP comprehensive stool analysis test?

This cutting-edge tool can evaluate your gut’s health without invasive procedures. It’s as simple as sending a stool sample to a lab.

The GI MAP stool test report includes the following categories:
Bacterial Pathogens
Parasitic Pathogens
Viral Pathogens
H. Pylori
Normal Bacterial Flora
Opportunistic Bacteria
Potential Autoimmune Triggers
Fungi/Yeast
Viruses
Parasites (broken down into protozoa and worms)
Intestinal Health (broken down into Digestion, G.I. Markers, Immune Response, and Inflammation)

Your gut is a microbiome containing trillions of microorganisms crucial to your overall health and wellness. The GI-MAP test evaluates your stool for microorganisms in your gut, including good and bad bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Issues within the microbiome can create imbalances within several organ systems. The GI-Map test identifies these imbalances, providing information about:

Your overall immune function.
Stress response related to the gut.
The presence of pathogens like H. pylori and E. coli.
How you absorb nutrients.
How effectively you digest food.
The presence of gut inflammation.
What is the connection between the gut and the brain?
We are born with an intricate map of perfectly balanced bacteria, yeast, and parasites that control our immune system, brain, and gut function. Over time, different factors influence this, which then alters the relationship between our immune system and the environment around us. This means the pesticides and pollutants we ingest, the products we use on our skin, and, of course, the food we eat.

The Center of It All

We know that this system of microbes plays a huge role in mental health. The vagus nerve connects the enteric nervous system (the gut) and the central nervous system (the brain). The vagus nerve is arguably the most important nerve in the body. The two systems are in constant communication via neurotransmitters. One of the main communicators is serotonin, a neurochemical that regulates mood and well-being in the brain and acts as a digestive pathway and immune system regulator in the gut. Like anything in the body, this communication can be altered based on its environment. Multiple diseases associated with the gut are affected by the brain-gut connection. Many chronic and autoimmune diseases can be prevented by improving gut health because of this crucial communication system between the brain and the gut.

Chronic infections can fly under the radar for months and even years before being detected when the immune system is operating on all cylinders. It is not until the immune system “crashes” that we notice more severe symptoms. Many people suffer from:

Epstein Barr Virus
Hashimoto’s
Lyme disease
Anxiety
Depression…and more. These clients can lessen symptoms after they work on healing the gut. Understanding this connection can help build a happier and healthier mind and body.

If you are interested in learning more about the G.I. Map Stool test, contact Mary Tufano at 631.629.9942.