The GI-MAP (Gastrointestinal Microbial Assay Plus) uses quantitative PCR to detect and measure the DNA of more than eighty microbial targets in your gut, including beneficial commensals, opportunistic and dysbiotic bacteria, parasites, fungi, and clinically relevant pathogens such as H. pylori with its virulence factors. The added zonulin marker quantifies intestinal permeability, the gateway condition often called leaky gut. PCR methodology is sensitive enough to detect low-grade infections that older culture-based stool tests routinely miss.
Your gut hosts trillions of microorganisms, and the balance between them runs more of your overall health than most people realise. GI-MAP shows us exactly what is living in there, the helpful, the opportunistic, and the unwelcome, in measured quantities. The zonulin marker tells us whether your gut wall is doing its job as a barrier or letting through things that should stay inside.
Stool results drive most of our gut-protocol decisions: which microbes to clear with targeted antimicrobial or herbal protocols, which beneficial strains to feed and grow, whether to repair the gut wall before working on anything else, and how strictly we need to approach an elimination phase. For people whose symptoms point to digestion, immunity, mood, or skin, this test is very often the unlock.
We typically run this test when you recognise yourself in
Single stool collection at home, sealed kit
Avoid antibiotics, antifungals and probiotics for two weeks before
Two to three weeks
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.
Tests are selected during your Discovery
Start there
A focused one-on-one with Alessandra, a personalised written protocol, and the tests that will actually sharpen it.