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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Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth: A Measurement-First Workup
Intestinal methanogen overgrowth rests on breath methane criteria with real error bars. Protocol, performance, test order, and the metabolic measures that belong in the same workup.
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Methane Breath Test: What the Gas Shows and What It Cannot
A methane breath test reads microbial activity, not a species list. What a result means, where the test misleads, and the metabolic numbers worth measuring in the same person.
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Food Addiction Screening: What the Questionnaire Cannot Measure
Food addiction screening rests on a self-report instrument with an unsettled construct. What it captures, what it misses, and the metabolic and autonomic measures that anchor follow-up.
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Cholecystectomy Complications: The Cohort Nobody Re-Screens
Post-cholecystectomy bile acid diarrhea is testable and rarely tested. Screening triggers, the limits of ejection fraction, the metabolic terrain these patients arrive with, and what to measure.
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Pesticide Exposure Testing: What to Measure When You Cannot
No validated test links dietary herbicide exposure to gut effects. What the mechanism supports, which patients to measure, and how laboratory, body composition and small-fiber findings change management.
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Glyphosate in Food: What Can Actually Be Measured in You
No test links glyphosate in food to your gut community, because that study has never been run. What the animal evidence shows, and which parts of your terrain can be measured now.
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Opioid-Induced Constipation: Screening in Long-Term Therapy
Four in ten patients meeting Rome IV criteria never report constipation on opioids. Risk by agent and dose, what the note should reflect, and where cognitive and metabolic testing fit.
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Narcotic Bowel Syndrome: What Testing Can and Cannot Show
A slowed bowel on long-term pain medication is common and rarely reported. Which gut tests are done elsewhere, and what attention, metabolic and autonomic testing can and cannot show.