GI Spotlight: Comprehensive Gut Health Analysis
Optimize Your Digestive Health with GI Spotlight in Weymouth Discover how our specialized lab testing in Weymouth can assess your gut health, detect imbalances, and provide personalized solutions for optimal well-being.
GI Spotlight: A Targeted Approach to Gut Health
At Living Balance Wellness, we specialize in GI spotlight testing to evaluate your digestive system's overall function. Our lab testing in Weymouth identifies microbiome imbalances, food sensitivities, and gut-related issues that may be impacting your health. By analyzing key biomarkers, we create tailored wellness plans to restore digestive harmony and improve overall vitality.
Contact Living Balance Wellness today to take control of your gut health with comprehensive testing and/or a "microbiome reset" program.
Identify Digestive Imbalances
Our GI spotlight testing detects bacteria, fungi, and parasites that can cause digestive distress, helping you restore balance effectively.
Improve Nutrient Absorption
A healthy gut enhances nutrient absorption, ensuring your body receives the vitamins and minerals necessary for optimal function.
Address Food Sensitivities
Our advanced lab testing in Weymouth pinpoints food intolerances that may contribute to bloating, inflammation, and discomfort.
Support Immune Health
Your gut is home to 70% of your immune system. Identifying and addressing imbalances strengthens immunity and overall resilience.
Comprehensive GI Spotlight Services
Microbiome Analysis w/ the
GI Spotlight Test
The GI Spotlight test offers an in-depth evaluation of your gut microbiome, highlighting both beneficial and harmful microbes that influence digestion, metabolism, immune function, and inflammation. Unlike standard stool tests, this advanced analysis identifies keystone species critical to gut and immune health, screens for fungal overgrowth and histamine-producing bacteria, and evaluates key digestive markers.
This test examines microbial diversity, short-chain fatty acid producers, opportunistic strains, and immune system markers to uncover hidden causes of symptoms like bloating, food sensitivities, fatigue, and poor digestion.Key Insights Include:
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Identification of beneficial bacteria like Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Roseburia, Bifidobacterium, and Lactobacillus, which support anti-inflammatory balance and gut barrier function
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Detection of opportunistic microbes (e.g., Klebsiella, Morganella, Candida) linked to inflammation, food intolerance, or SIBO
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Assessment of digestive function via Pancreatic Elastase-1 and fecal fat (Steatocrit)
- Measurement of gut permeability with Zonulin and Anti-gliadin antibodies, which can signal leaky gut
- Evaluation of immune markers such as SIgA for gut mucosal defense and inflammation
Benefits of the GI Spotlight Test
- Detects bacterial and fungal overgrowths—such as Klebsiella, Candida, and Morganella—that contribute to GI inflammation, histamine intolerance, and systemic symptoms.
- Assesses critical butyrate-producing species like Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and Roseburia, which support anti-inflammatory pathways, colon health, and energy metabolism.
Measures markers like Pancreatic Elastase-1 and Steatocrit to identify maldigestion, fat malabsorption, or pancreatic weakness.
Analyzes SIgA and anti-gliadin IgA to reveal hidden food sensitivities, immune activation, or suppressed gut immunity.
Elevated Zonulin and antigliadin antibodies point to impaired barrier function—key contributors to autoimmunity and chronic inflammation.
GI Spotlight / Microbes Assessed
Histamine & Inflammatory Triggers
- Klebsiella – Gas, bloating, histamine release
- Morganella – Produces histamine; linked to GI inflammation
- Proteus – May cause diarrhea and immune reactivity
- Citrobacter – Often tied to gut inflammation
- Pseudomonas – Can release toxins and trigger cramps or loose stools
- Fusobacterium – Inflammation and autoimmune links
- Candida albicans – Yeast overgrowth linked to fatigue, GI distress
- Enterococcus faecalis/faecium – Associated with SIBO and antibiotic resistance
- Staphylococcus aureus – May produce toxins, causing loose stools
- Streptococcus spp. – Linked to inflammation and digestive dysfunction
- H. pylori – May damage the stomach lining, increase inflammation, or affect histamine levels
Gut Inflammation & Immune Response Analysis
Identify inflammation markers and immune responses linked to gut dysfunction. Chronic gut inflammation can lead to digestive disorders, autoimmune conditions, and general discomfort. The GI Spotlight test screens for harmful or overgrown microbes that contribute to inflammation, digestive symptoms, and immune imbalances.
Detect harmful bacteria, yeast, and fungal overgrowth
Assess digestive function and gut inflammation
Evaluate microbial balance and diversity
Screen for leaky gut and food sensitivity markers
targeted, root-cause protocols for gut healing
Living Balance Wellness provides personalized and integrative health solutions across Weymouth, Boston, Needham, Wellesley, Newton, Hingham, Norwell, Hanover, Rockland, Cohasset, Scituate, Dedham, Norwood, Canton, Lexington, Concord, Weston, Dover, Brookline, and Jamaica Plain.