Targeted nutritional care to understand and address underlying drivers of health
What is Nutritional Therapy & Functional Testing?
Nutritional Therapy is about far more than what you eat. It looks at how your body digests, absorbs, and uses nutrients at a cellular level, and whether those processes are working as they should.
Modern life means that even people eating “well” may not be accessing the nutrients they need for optimal health. Factors such as digestive function, gut integrity, inflammation, insulin sensitivity, stress, hormonal changes, medication and genetic variation can all influence how nutrients are broken down, absorbed, and utilised.
This approach allows nutritional recommendations to be both precise and personalised, supporting true health optimisation rather than trial-and-error interventions.
When symptoms persist, progress plateaus, or a deeper level of understanding is needed, Nutritional Therapy at nuvō8 can be supported by advanced functional testing.
Advanced functional testing allows us to look far beyond routine blood tests, exploring how systems within the body are functioning in real time. This may include detailed assessment of nutrient status, metabolic health, hormonal balance and metabolism, gastrointestinal health (including gut function and the microbiome), adrenal and stress physiology, and genetic testing (DNA testing) that may influence how your body processes nutrients, responds to lifestyle inputs, and contributes to individual patterns of disease susceptibility.
This level of insight helps explain why symptoms may be persisting despite “normal” results, and allows care to move from educated assumptions to precision-led recommendations. Advanced testing can also be used proactively, offering women who feel well the opportunity to optimise health, resilience, and long-term wellbeing in a highly informed way.
Functional testing looks far beyond what is typically available through conventional healthcare, providing a depth of understanding that supports truly personalised care.
We work with established, internationally recognised laboratories to provide access to a full suite of advanced functional testing.
