Why your standard blood test isn't telling you enough
A routine GP panel asks one question of each marker: is it inside the broad reference range? That range is built to flag disease, not to define where you function at your best — and it lumps the bottom 2.5% of an often unwell population in with everyone else. This panel reads the same blood differently: against tighter optimal windows, and as a connected system where thyroid, iron, insulin and inflammation explain each other. It also measures the markers that predict risk earliest — apoB, fasting insulin, hs-CRP — which most panels leave out entirely.
What the panel reveals
A single fasting venous draw, read against functional optimal ranges and interpreted as one connected system — so the numbers explain each other rather than sitting in isolation.
30+ markers · one fasting blood draw
Every result is reviewed twice over
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
IFM-certified Functional Nutrition PractitionerAlessandra 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
Specialist functional-medicine laboratory · since 1997 · 100+ countriesYour 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.
Simple by design
Standard blood draw · fasting morning, at our partner lab
Where this panel looks
This is not a single score — it reads five connected systems from one draw, which is why it so often explains symptoms that seemed unrelated and that no single marker could account for.
How the blood panel helps
Because it reads five systems at once and against optimal ranges, this one draw reaches well beyond a "check-up". Here is where its findings most often change the plan.
More than a test
A lab result you can’t act on is just paper. Every functional test at FunctionAlps comes wrapped in the analysis, the human explanation and the plan that turn it into change.
The test
A clinically validated functional lab test, with the collection kit sent to your door.
Specialist analysis
Your sample is processed by the laboratory and returned as a full functional report.
A results call with our nutritionist
Alessandra walks you through every finding in plain language — what it means, and what it doesn’t.
Your recommendations, in the report
Written, personalised recommendations tied directly to your results — yours to keep.
A personalised plan
Foods to favour and avoid, the app to track it, tips to try, and protocols sequenced to you.
Targeted supplements
Practitioner-grade supplements matched precisely to what your results reveal.
Pre / pro / postbiotics — if needed
When the findings call for it, targeted biotics to rebalance and rebuild your flora.
Standard blood tests are designed to flag disease. We use blood differently : to find the early shifts, the borderline-low ferritins and the high-normal insulins that quietly drive your fatigue, your sleep problems, your weight resistance long before they become a diagnosis. The same tube of blood, read more carefully.
Standard venous blood draw at our partner lab in Valais
Twelve-hour overnight fast ; avoid biotin for three days before
Three to seven working days
Your results live in the FunctionAlps app
Findings do not sit in a PDF you never open again. They flow into your app, where your protocol, your daily tracking and your wearable data line up against what the test actually found.
- ✦Your protocol, built directly from the results
- ✦Track symptoms, food and energy against the markers that matter
- ✦Wearable and app data fine-tune the plan as you go
- ✦Re-test when it counts and watch the trend, not a single snapshot
Grounded in the research
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.