Articles
Plain explanations of what these assessments measure, written for the person having them and for the clinician reading the report.
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Patient Activation Measure: Why Maintenance Needs Objective Re-Testing
Activation predicts outcomes where shared decision-making alone did not. How the DPP, Look AHEAD and national program data shape a re-measurement protocol for the maintenance phase.
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Intestinal Permeability Test: Endpoints for a Stalled Gut Protocol
Serum zonulin fails validation, enrollment explains glutamine’s effect size, retail doses often come from other endpoints, and the plateau patient needs measured metabolic terrain.
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How Long Does It Take to Heal Leaky Gut? Set the Retest Date
A gut recovery that stalls needs a measured wall and a retest date, not more waiting. What the sugar test shows, which materials run short, and which numbers Measura can add.
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Postcholecystectomy Diarrhea: A Measurement-First Workup
Bile acid diarrhea is common after cholecystectomy, overgrowth is not, and gallbladder disease travels with fatty liver and metabolic syndrome. A measurement-first sequence.
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Bile Acid Malabsorption After Gallbladder Surgery: What to Measure
Years of loose stools after gallbladder surgery are often bile acid malabsorption, not overgrowth. What gets checked, what gets skipped, and which numbers to ask for.
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SIBO Recurrence Rate: Screening the Host After the Kill
Recurrence after a clearing course reaches 43.7% at nine months, driven by acid suppression, appendectomy and age. Why clearance is not response, and which host measures belong in follow-up.
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CIRS Diagnosis: What the Mold Evidence Supports in Screening
The CIRS framework offers a falsifiable panel that no independent group has confirmed. What mold evidence holds at each tier, why urine panels are uninterpretable, and where function testing fits.
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How to Test for Mold Toxicity: What a Panel Can Prove
A urine mycotoxin panel prints a number with no healthy reference range under it. What mold exposure is proven to do, and which measurements can move a stalled recovery.