Microbiome Testing

Fidalgo Island Health Center is excited to announce that we have partnered with Tend Health to offer you state of the art Microbiome testing. Tend offers the latest in science based microbiome testing to give you insight about your gut health. Tend will share evidence about how your personal health and wellness can influence your personal microbiome community and offer evidence for how one can drive towards a balanced gut microbiome.

Your microbiome is a significant contributor to your overall health. The bacteria in your gut take the food you eat and transform it into key nutrients like Thiamine, folate, biotin, riboflavin, and pantothenic acid. Likewise, it has been estimated that up to half of the daily Vitamin K requirement is provided by gut bacteria.

Your microbiome also is a fundamental component of your immune system. The gut microbiota that resides in the gastrointestinal tract provides essential health benefits to you, particularly by regulating immune homeostasis. Moreover, it has recently become obvious that alterations of these gut microbial communities can cause immune dysregulation, leading to autoimmune disorders. Your microbiota promote and calibrate all aspects of the immune system, including the regulation of inflammation.

Your gut also affects your brain. The gut-brain connection has been shown to to be a major factor in autism, anxiety, depression, psychosis, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative conditions. The microbiome affects your gut, which affects your brain. The brain affects your gut, which affects your microbiome. Disruptions to the gut microbiome, say by infection or a change in diet, can trigger reactions in the body that may affect psychological, behavioral, and neurological health.

Because your microbiome has such far reaching effects on your health, I feel it’s crucial to have your microbiome tested to understand exactly how it’s affecting you. Everyone’s microbiome is different, so there is not a “one size fits all” solution to optimizing your gut health. Tend offers you a personalized insight into the state of your microbiome health and how you can improve it. According to Tend Chief Medical Officer Thomas Lendvay M.D., “One of our strongest and most competitive differentiators for this service is that we are specifically not here to sell supplements because we believe that the best value a client can get from these reports is the education and enlightenment about their microbiome and what changes occur with health and lifestyle changes. For us, opening our eyes to what’s inside is the value. And many data-supplement companies are really trying to make a quick buck on their unproven supplements. That’s not us.”

We are offering Tend Microbiome Testing for $299.00 which includes the test kit and a comprehensive report on your personal microbiome and offer evidence for how you can drive towards a balanced gut microbiome. . Call our office at 360-588-9108, or ask any of our staff on you next visit if you’re ready to take the next step in optimizing your health.

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