Longevity and Functional Medicine Lab Testing in Atlanta, GA
What is Longevity Lab Testing?
While conventional medicine primarily uses lab tests to confirm the presence of disease, personalized medicine integrates additional in-depth testing to effectively assess the risk of disease. At Wellspring MD, Dr. Jason Bailey offers access to specialized functional and longevity medicine labs to help patients get to the root cause of their symptoms. These tests allow us to recommend customized health interventions that restore total health and lower your long-term risk.
Longevity medicine helps patients improve their healthspan, which is the period of time during which they are free from chronic disease and cognitive, mental, or physical decline. To do this, longevity medicine provides patients with a deeper understanding of their health risks through genetic screening, early, frequent cancer screening, body composition testing, VO2 max testing, resting metabolic rate testing, cardiovascular testing, metabolic testing, continuous glucose monitoring, and more. These tests help determine your risk factors for four primary chronic diseases: metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Advanced, in-depth testing that goes above and beyond the testing protocols offered by traditional medicine enables us to provide you with data-informed lifestyle modifications, medications, fitness routines, and supplement and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy recommendations. Only through advanced testing can we assess your risk levels and make changes that will actually help you stay healthy long term. Longevity medicine lab testing helps patients take control of their future, maintaining their strength, vitality, and function as they age.
Longevity Medicine Lab Testing in Atlanta, GA
Longevity medicine is data-driven, precise, and proactive. We depend on comprehensive, advanced labs to identify your risk factors and provide you with personalized treatment. We provide access to the following types of longevity testing:
- Healthspan assessment: This comprehensive panel tests for over 90 biomarkers of overall health, aging, cardiovascular health, inflammation, immune function, endocrine function, and metabolic health to help us tailor your health optimization strategy.
- Advanced cardiovascular health testing: By testing for genetic cardiovascular risk factors and running methylation tests, we comprehensively assess your cardiovascular health to help you reduce your risk and prioritize your long-term fitness.
- Body composition testing: Regular body composition testing helps us assess your muscle mass, bone density, and visceral fat distribution. These metrics are more relevant to overall health than absolute weight or BMI and provide us with an in-depth picture of your risk of cardiovascular disease or metabolic syndrome.
- VO2 Max testing and resting metabolic rate testing: By assessing aerobic fitness and resting metabolic rate year after year, we help you prioritize the fitness measurements that really matter for long-term vitality and health. Based on these tests, we can personalize your diet, nutrition, hormones, and fitness strategies.
- Continuous glucose monitoring: Continuous glucose monitoring is effective for anyone who is trying to lose weight, reduce insulin resistance, or reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disease. By paying attention to your unique continuous blood glucose profile, our team can recommend tailored medications, supplements, diet changes, and exercise routines.
- Genetic testing: To accurately determine your risk of neurodegenerative disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome, we run advanced genetic panels.
- Cancer screening: We screen earlier, more thoroughly, and more often for cancer in order to lower your risk and catch any abnormalities early.
- Neurological and cognitive testing: Depending on your age, symptoms, and genetic risk factors, we offer a range of neurological and cognitive testing panels and assessments to track cognitive function. We screen for neurodegenerative diseases early in order to recommend the medications, supplements, and lifestyle modifications that effectively increase healthspan.
What is Functional Medicine Lab Testing?
We offer functional medicine to help you get to the root cause of your symptoms. We do this through advanced, personalized lab testing. Functional medicine testing targets all of the body’s systems to find imbalances that are causing chronic symptoms or even chronic disease. By testing for hormonal health, gut health, nutrition, allergies, and exposure to toxins, functional medicine lab testing identifies the inputs, stressors, and deficiencies that may be affecting you. This allows us to treat your unique symptoms, even if they do not match the general profile of a disease.
Most standard labs do not offer the extensive testing required for functional medicine. We provide you with access to a functional medicine lab that provides all the tests required to get to the root cause of your health conditions. If you’ve been wondering why you feel unwell, what is causing chronic symptoms, whether your hormones are balanced, or whether certain exposures or lifestyle factors are affecting your health, Dr. Jason Bailey will order the precise tests that you need to find answers. Rather than try supplements, diets, medication, or lifestyle changes in the hope that something will work, get informed about what is going on in your body in order to move forward with restoring your health.
Functional Medicine Lab Testing in Atlanta, GA
Functional medicine lab testing involves investigating five main areas of health: hormones, gut health, nutrition, exposure to toxins, and allergies. Together, these categories help us form a complete picture of your health.
Hormone Health
If your hormones are imbalanced, you might be experiencing chronic symptoms, including weight changes, menstrual changes, menopausal symptoms, libido changes, insomnia or disrupted sleep, anxiety, depression, or mood swings. To identify the cause of your symptoms and prescribe the right bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, we test your adrenal, thyroid, and sex hormones. Through blood, saliva, and urine tests, we can get an accurate picture of how hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol are affecting you and customize prescriptions or lifestyle changes.
Gut Health
Gut health symptoms can be uncomfortable and inconvenient, and may be the result of conditions such as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), small intestinal fungal overgrowth (SIFO), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), dysbiosis, leaky gut, celiac, or autoimmune conditions. These conditions may affect your body’s ability to absorb nutrients properly, making weight management and healthy eating difficult. Gut health and the gut microbiome also play a role in a variety of other health conditions, including mental health conditions, autoimmune diseases, skin conditions, and more. Using urine, stool, and breath tests, we can form a comprehensive picture of your health that includes testing for inflammation, immune function, infections, and gut microbiome health. Through in-depth testing, we can correctly identify the cause of your discomfort and begin restoring gut health.
Nutrition
To optimize your nutrition and improve your long-term health outlook, it’s crucial to investigate nutritional health. To do this, we can assess your levels of antioxidants, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other essential nutrients and micronutrients. The functional lab we work with also offers methylation testing, which is an in-depth evaluation of your unique biochemical pathways. If your goal is to prevent chronic diseases or optimize your strength, weight, and overall wellness, functional nutrition testing helps us understand your health profile and tailor our treatment recommendations.
Toxins
Sudden or long-term exposure to toxins such as mold, heavy metals, plastics, herbicides, pesticides, and petroleum by-products may be at the root of systemic imbalances in your body. These materials can cause chronic inflammation and may impact your health exponentially as you age. If you are experiencing unexplained chronic symptoms, including fatigue, brain fog, digestive issues, headaches, neurological issues, skin symptoms, or suspect that you have been exposed to toxins, we will order in-depth toxin testing through a specialized lab in order to identify exposures and begin customizing a treatment plan.
Allergens
Allergies or food sensitivities can be hard to identify on your own, but they may contribute to chronic symptoms, including depression, migraines, IBS, autoimmune diseases, Crohn’s disease, eczema, weight gain, or arthritis. If you are struggling to maintain an elimination diet or identify allergens on your own, functional medicine testing for allergens and sensitivities can provide you with answers and give you back control of your health. We can test for both sensitivities and allergies, and we tailor our tests to the type of symptoms you report. These in-depth tests include reports listing reactive and non-reactive foods. Once we have this information, we can work with you to optimize your nutrition and create a personalized wellness plan.
Our Longevity and Functional Lab Testing Process
At our clinic, we make longevity and functional lab testing accessible, convenient, and personal. We partner with advanced functional, longevity, and cardiac labs, as well as a phlebotomist and body composition testing provider, to make a wide range of testing easily available to our patients. Many functional and longevity medicine lab tests can be sent directly to your home. They come with simple, easy-to-follow instructions for completing and mailing the tests back. If you need a blood sample, you can book an appointment with our phlebotomist for an in-office or at-home lab draw. Once your lab results are in, you can meet with Dr. Jason Bailey in the office or virtually to review your results in detail. Our concierge membership plan does not limit your testing options to specific lab panels; Dr. Jason Bailey takes the time to review your symptoms and medical history and recommends the tests he feels will be most effective for your care. We believe that advanced, personalized healthcare depends on precise testing, so we make the testing process simple and accessible.
Join Wellspring MD for Longevity and Functional Medicine Lab Testing in Atlanta, GA
To create a comprehensive picture of your unique health profile, we identify which functional and longevity lab tests will be the most effective. Rather than prescribe supplements, medications, or lifestyle changes based on general recommendations, we first order advanced, in-depth tests to identify which interventions will actually address the symptoms and imbalances you are experiencing. We use longevity medicine testing to accurately determine your health risks and develop a customized health plan intended to help you stay healthier for longer. By providing access to functional and longevity medicine labs and taking the time to thoroughly review your results with you, Dr. Jason Bailey helps patients in Atlanta proactively understand and transform their health.
FAQs
What tests do functional medicine doctors order?
Functional medicine doctors order a variety of in-depth lab panels that investigate the root cause of chronic symptoms. Dr. Jason Bailey can order lab tests that assess hormone health, gut health, and nutritional health, and test for allergens, food sensitivities, and exposure to toxins.
Is there a test for longevity?
There is no one test that comprehensively assesses risk factors and longevity potential. However, once we discuss your health conditions, symptoms, and any exposures or risk factors that may contribute to chronic disease, Dr. Jason Bailey will recommend lab panels tailored to your specific health profile.
How can I get tested for the APOE4 gene?
We partner with labs that will test for the APOE4 gene. While the APOE4 gene does not guarantee that you will develop Alzheimer’s, it is a significant risk factor. If testing confirms that you have the APOE4 gene, we will create an individualized medical strategy that can help reduce your long-term risk.
How can I get tested for Alzheimer’s?
We partner with labs that will test for Alzheimer’s by testing for p-Tau217, a biomarker used to diagnose Alzheimer’s. This test is recommended for patients experiencing early symptoms of Alzheimer’s in order to help us confirm a diagnosis and begin managing symptoms through primary care and integrated functional and longevity medicine strategies.
What is functional medicine lab testing?
Functional medicine lab testing involves a variety of lab panels that comprehensively assess overall health and identify systemic imbalances that may be causing symptoms or contributing to chronic disease. Using blood, stool, saliva, and urine testing, we investigate your health to get to the root cause of your symptoms.
What is longevity medicine lab testing?
Longevity medicine lab testing refers to a range of labs that test for biomarkers of aging and chronic diseases such as cancer, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disease. By assessing cardiovascular health, cognitive function, body composition, and aerobic fitness, and screening early and often for signs of cancer or neurodegenerative disease, we can help you proactively assess and improve your long-term health.
How much does functional medicine lab testing cost?
The cost of functional medicine lab testing varies based on the tests that you need. Dr. Jason Bailey partners with an advanced functional medicine lab and will personally tailor your testing to reduce unnecessary costs. We take patients on an annual membership basis, and membership includes access to virtual and in-person care, appointments to review your results, and in-office blood draws with our phlebotomist. Book a discovery call with Dr. Jason Bailey to learn more.
How much does longevity medicine lab testing cost?
The cost of longevity lab tests differs between labs, clinics, and test providers. Dr. Jason Bailey only recommends labs that are truly useful for your healthcare and suitable for your budget. Book a discovery call with us to learn more about the cost of longevity medicine lab testing.
Are functional medicine labs covered by insurance?
Some functional medicine labs may be covered by insurance, but it depends on the test and your insurance provider.
Are longevity medicine labs covered by insurance?
Some standard testing may be covered by your insurance, but you may have to pay out-of-pocket for longevity panels.
Can I use my HSA/FSA for functional medicine and longevity medicine labs?
Depending on your health plan, you may be able to use your HSA/FSA to cover the cost of functional and longevity medicine labs. You can also use your HSA/FSA to cover the cost of our annual membership fee, and we are happy to provide an annual invoice that will quality for most HSA/FSA plans.
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