Why look at your gut, really
Most stool tests stop at one question — “is there a pathogen?”. GI-MAP plus Zonulin goes further: it reads the terrain. Permeability, inflammation, immune tone and how well you actually digest — the molecules that explain your symptoms, not just the bugs that don’t. That extra layer is usually where the answer is hiding.
What GI-MAP reveals
A single stool sample, read by quantitative PCR, maps what is actually living in your gut — in measured amounts — and whether your gut wall is holding the line.
80+ microbial targets · one stool sample
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
Stool sample · collected at home
Where this test looks
GI-MAP is not a single number — it reads four connected layers of gut health at once, which is why it so often becomes the unlock for symptoms that seem unrelated.
How GI-MAP helps
Because the gut sits upstream of so much, this one test reaches well beyond digestion. 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.
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.
Single stool collection at home, sealed kit
Avoid antibiotics, antifungals and probiotics for two weeks before
Two to 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.