Why metabolites, not just levels
A blood hormone level is a single snapshot of how much you make. DUTCH reads the next, decisive layer: how your body routes and disposes of each hormone afterwards. Two people with identical oestrogen can be on entirely different paths once you see which detox route they favour and how completely they methylate it. The validated four-spot dried-urine method recovers the same metabolites a 24-hour collection would, without the jug (Newman & Curran, 2021) — and that disposal detail is usually where the answer is hiding.
What DUTCH Complete reveals
A single day of dried-urine strips, collected at home, reads not only how much of each hormone you produce but the exact routes your body uses to dispose of them — the metabolic detail single-point blood or saliva cannot show.
35+ hormones & metabolites · one day of dried urine
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
Dried urine strips · collected at home over a single day
Where this test looks
DUTCH is not a list of hormone levels — it reads four connected layers of your endocrine system, which is why it so often explains symptoms that single-hormone tests leave unanswered.
How DUTCH helps
Because it reads production, rhythm and disposal at once, this one test reaches across hormonal, metabolic and sleep complaints. Here is where its findings most often reshape 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.
Hormones do not just exist as numbers on a lab report. They get produced, used, and then broken down through specific pathways, and the way you break them down can affect your health as much as how much you make. DUTCH gives us the full picture: production, daily rhythm, and disposal route. It also tracks cortisol across four points in the day, which is how we see whether stress is genuinely dysregulating your system or whether your stress response is intact and recovering well.
Four to five dried urine strips, one day
Avoid biotin and certain herbs for several days before
Roughly three weeks
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.