At Place Eight Wellness we follow a functional medicine approach to your health concerns. This means we understand there is often a root cause to illness and clinical testing can help us to identify what those are.
Rather than simply treating the symptoms of any health concern, we examine the role of diet, environmental toxins, infections and other lifestyle choices as potential triggers for illness.
Conventional medicine doesn’t always look at the same factors and can follow a fairly rigid, one size fits all approach to testing. ‘Clinically’ normal reference ranges can be very broad and many people, who feel unwell, are told their results are ‘normal’, leaving them feeling more frustrated than reassured about their concerns.
A naturopathic practitioner uses a much narrower reference range, looking for results which reflect optimal health . We don’t follow the idea that wellness is simply the absence of disease.
We work closely with some of the UK's most respected laboratories who provide a range of functional diagnostics tools to support our treatments and therapies. These tests allow us to investigate underlying imbalances that may be creating or contributing to a disease process and systemic imbalance.
Who can benefit from testing?
There are many reasons we may recommend testing to clients but they can be particularly insightful for those who suffer from constant fatigue, digestive problems, (including IBS diagnosis), history of food allergies or intolerances and those who suspect thyroid problems (even though a GP may have had this tested with ‘normal’ or ‘borderline’ results).