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Functional testing

Comprehensive Blood Panel

Forty biomarkers, read through a functional lens

  • Thyroid, metabolic, iron, vitamins, inflammation & lipids in one draw
  • Read in functional optimal ranges, not just broad "normal" lab cut-offs
  • apoB and fasting insulin (HOMA-IR), risk most panels never measure
  • Connects fatigue, brain fog and stalled metabolism to real numbers
  • Swiss-accredited venous draw in Valais, built into your protocol

Standard blood draw · fasting morning, at our partner lab

Analysed by Swiss accredited medical laboratory
How this test can help

Select the area and specific problem to see exactly how we approach it through this test.

Energy & fatigue

Ferritin below the optimal floor, sub-optimal thyroid conversion, or low B12 and vitamin D are common, measurable causes of fatigue, and iron repletion eases fatigue even before anaemia appears (Houston et al., 2018).

From data to action

Precise markers mean precise actions. Once the test shows what is actually driving the pattern, the plan can target that, instead of guessing.

ReadFerritin and B12Stores run low long before anaemia would show.
ReadFull thyroid panelFree T3 and antibodies, not a TSH alone.
RepleteThe measured gapsDose to the shortfall, then re-check.
TrackRe-testConfirm the markers move, not just the mood.

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Where we focus

This is not a single score, it reads five connected systems from one blood draw.

1 fasting blood draw · 30+ markers
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Thyroid & metabolism

TSH, fT3, fT4, reverse T3 and TPO show not just thyroid output but whether you convert hormone into its active form, the difference between "normal TSH" and feeling well.

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Metabolic & cardiovascular risk

Fasting insulin, glucose, HbA1c and HOMA-IR read insulin resistance early, while apoB and full lipids count the particles that actually drive arterial risk.

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Inflammation & methylation

hs-CRP quantifies the low-grade inflammation behind cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and homocysteine flags a B-vitamin-dependent risk marker for heart disease and stroke.

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Iron, vitamins & minerals

Ferritin, iron, vitamin D, B12, folate and magnesium, the correctable deficits most likely to explain fatigue, low mood, poor recovery and stalled performance.

Read together, these five systems show how your metabolism, thyroid, iron and inflammation are pulling on each other.

Thyroid function and conversion, TSH, fT3, fT4, reverse T3 and TPO antibodies, not TSH alone
Iron status read against fatigue and restless-legs thresholds, ferritin and iron
Insulin resistance and metabolic trajectory, fasting glucose, insulin, HbA1c and HOMA-IR
Cardiovascular particle risk beyond cholesterol, full lipids plus apoB
Hidden inflammation and methylation load, hs-CRP and homocysteine
Correctable deficiencies driving energy and recovery, vitamin D, B12, folate and magnesium
Often paired with

Most people run one test. Where a second genuinely adds an answer the first cannot give, this is the pair we reach for.

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Testing at home
01Your kit arrives
02Collect your sample
03Ship it back, prepaid
04Results, then your protocol

Standard blood draw · fasting morning, at our partner lab

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The people behind your results

A lab number on its own changes nothing. What matters is who reads it, and your results pass through two layers of expertise before they ever shape your protocol.

Alessandra Ginsburg

Alessandra Ginsburg

IFM-certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner

Alessandra interprets every marker against your full clinical picture, your symptoms, history, lifestyle and goals, not against a generic reference range. She is the one who turns raw lab data into the specific, personalised actions in your protocol, and who decides when a finding warrants medical evaluation and a referral to a physician.

Nordic Laboratories

Nordic Laboratories

Specialist functional-medicine laboratory · since 1997 · 100+ countries

Your sample is processed by Nordic Laboratories, a specialist functional-medicine lab operating since 1997 across more than 100 countries. Their scientific team runs the validated PCR and metabolomic assays under strict quality control, so the data Alessandra works from is accurate, reproducible and clinically meaningful.

Common questions
Same tube of blood, different interpretation. We read each marker against a tighter optimal range and as a system, looking for early shifts long before they cross a clinical threshold.
The evidence

Every claim on this page is anchored in published, peer-reviewed science. The studies behind it:

References ground the science of each marker, they describe the biology and published outcomes, not a guarantee of individual results.

Functional testing at FunctionAlps is used to guide nutritional optimisation within ASCA and EMR scope. It is not a medical diagnostic tool. When findings warrant medical evaluation, we coordinate with a referring physician.

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A focused one-on-one with Alessandra, a personalised written protocol, and the tests that will actually sharpen it.

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