The gastrointestinal track is full of micro-organisms. Some are healthy, others invasive. With an easy-to-collect stool sample, this leaky gut health test checks for over 100 of them: pathogens, parasites, fungi/yeast, worms, healthy gut bacteria and antibiotic genes.
An imbalanced microbiome may result in bloating, gas, indigestion, allergies, and may affect mental and physical health.
Our Home Gut Health Test is easy, fast, reliable, and requires just a few steps:
Order Online.
Receive The Kit And Collect Sample At Home.
Ship It Back For FREE To Our World-Class CLIA Labs (US only).
Receive Secure, Confidential, & Easy-To-Understand Report Within Days For Your Comprehensive Home Gut Health Test.
The Gut Health Test is a gastro-intestinal test to detect micro-organisms that impact our gut health.
These microbes might hinder normal intestinal health, or contribute to dysbiosis with symptoms of bloating, indigestion, constipation, inflammation, or compromised immune system.
It maps the micro-biome using an innovative real-time PCR technique using a single stool sample.
This test measures the following:
Inflammation marker: Calprotectin (marker for IBD).
Pathogens: toxins from 17 bacterial, parasitic, and viral pathogens including Campylobacter, E. coli, Salmonella, Giardia, Adenovirus, Norovirus.
H. Pylori: 8 different virulence factors.
Normal bacteria for everyday health: 12 bacteria that help support the gut health including those from probiotics, Lactobacillus, and E. coli.
Opportunistic bacteria: 19 different forms that cause dysbiosis, overgrowth or are potential triggers of auto-immune diseases.
Fungi/Yeast: 5 strains including Candida.
Viruses: Herpes virus (CMV) and Epstein Barr virus.
Parasites: 12 different protozoa and worms.
Intestinal health markers: Elastase-1, Steatocrit, beta-Glucuronidase, Occult blood FIT, SIgA.
Antibiotic resistance genes: including for H. pylori to help assess impact of certain antibiotic.
Anyone with the following symptoms should check:
Chronic, serious gastrointestinal problems
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Inflammatory bowel syndrome (IBS)
Suspected H. pylori and other bacterial, viral or fungal infections
Gut dysbiosis and intestinal permeability
Auto-immune diseases
Small intestinal bacterial growth (SIBO)
Simply order the test kit, collect the sample at home, ship it for free to our world class CLIA-certified labs, and find out your results within days. The kit will provide easy-to-use sample collection supplies and you will receive a physician reviewed report that you can share with your doctor. We make it simple: how to test for leaky gut health at home is fairly easy with such a stool sample.
Learn more about Leaky Gut from Harvard Health here.
The National Institute of Health suggests eating plenty of fruits and vegetables to keep gut health in check.
A: Except New York and New Jersey our tests are available in all 46 states. State regulations in NY, NJ do not allow us to ship the test kits to their residents.
A: The kit contains stool collection supplies, instructions on how to collect the samples, and a form requesting basic information including date and time of collection. The directions are straight forward and easy to follow.
A: You will receive the kit within 3-5 business days with a prepaid return envelope. After you ship the sample and it is received by our lab, you get the results within 10-12 business days (due to large number of markers, this test requires longer than our usual turn-around time of 5-7 days).
A: The report with your test results will be easy to understand and will have all the necessary details. It will mark whether you are negative or positive for any of the bacteria, viruses or fungi and what are their levels. It will specify what are the expected low and high ranges. The report will also include several pages explaining the markers in an easy-to-read language. The detailed report and instructions make it easy how to test for leaky gut from home.
A: You can use HSA (or FSA/MSA/HRA) accounts to pay for the tests since these are prescription tests (for further confirmation, please check the IRS publication#969). However, please ensure you are not going outside your specified max and min deductible limits. We do not have the capability to process the insurance claim. Since insurance plans vary for individuals we can not guarantee your HSA payment will always be processed by your plan. We suggest talking to your insurance provider if you have any questions.
A: Measuring leaky gut is an emerging field. The test quantifies bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites using qPCR. This is a leap forward from older methodologies that report only positive or negative. Results are reported as colony forming units per gram of stool (CFU/g). One CFU is roughly equivalent to one microorganism (or one cell). Results are expressed in standard scientific notation. A reported result of 3.5e7 is equivalent to 3.5 x 10^7CFU/g, which equals 35,000,000 CFU/g, or 35 million CFU per gram of stool.
Reference ranges for the test are developed using known positive, diseased samples to construct cut off values that distinguish disease-causing amounts of pathogenic and opportunistic microbes. Reference ranges for the pathogens were correlated with an FDA cleared assay for GI pathogens. This GI-MAP test is capable of detecting as low as 0.1 cell per gram of stool.
To minimize any variations in your results, we have partnered with CLIA-certified labs that are regulated by the states, as well as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Many tests from these labs are FDA approved to ensure they meet the proper regulatory requirements. Additionally, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) requires inter-laboratory tests to ensure the ranges established by each lab do not drift or are not out of acceptable ranges. This is done by regularly testing reference samples between different labs. Finally, the labs test thousands of samples for different age groups and health conditions, and have well established reference data to compare your results against this large pool.
A: Unfortunately, no. As a lab test provider we can only test and report out data from your sample. We are not authorized to provide any medical recommendations. But we strongly encourage you to discuss the results with your doctor for next steps.
A gut health test is the first step to understand your intestinal health. This at home leaky gut test kit can help understand your energy levels and potential impact on health.
Long term presence of pathogens, bacteria, viruses, and fungi/yeast can manifest into serious health issues. Abdomen pain, constipation, bloating, flatulence are commonly observed due to unhealthy abdomen. The test is an easy first step in understanding how your body is handling these toxins and what life style changes might be required to maintain health.
If you are struggling to maintain weight, are in constant pain, have unexpected health issues, the gut health test kit is a great way to check the root cause.
Checking your gut markers is first step in learning what you might be consuming that’s resulting in leaky gut.
Better health results in better quality of life, and a test from RxHomeTest.com not only offers insight into various health related symptoms, but it can also serve as a motivation to treat each of these symptoms and have a better quality of life!
No lab visits or doctor appointments
Comprehensive tool DNA test
World class CLIA-certified labs
Physician reviewed results
Fast, secure, and confidential reports
Free shipping
Qualifies for payment using HSA/FSA
Still wondering how do you test for leaky gut at home?
Each at home test kit from RxHomeTest.com includes a prescription and detailed review of the results by one of our physicians at no extra cost. And all the shipping is free.
RxHomeTest.com processes your sample at the same CLIA-certified labs that doctors use. So rest assured your tests are being processed in a world class lab.
RxHomeTest.com offers convenient, confidential, and reliable results at one of the lowest prices. And we also offer a wide range of health tests.
You can order at home test kit online, without requiring a doctor’s visit or prescription, thus saving time and money. You do not need to take any time off for lab visits which makes the the test very affordable.
Our leaky gut test is more convenient than a blood test or serum cortisol test as you don’t need to draw any blood using needles.
