Why read your metabolism, not just your blood
A blood test tells you what is circulating. The Organic Acids Test tells you what your cells are actually doing with it. Organic acids are the by-products your metabolism leaves behind as it makes energy, recycles neurotransmitters, processes B-vitamins and deals with gut microbes — and they spill into urine in measurable amounts. Reading roughly 70 of them at once is a validated way to detect metabolic disturbances that a standard panel never surfaces (Van Noolen et al., 2020). That is where the explanation for unexplained fatigue, mood shifts or brain fog so often turns out to be hiding.
What the Organic Acids Test reveals
One first-morning urine sample, read by metabolomic analysis, maps the by-products of your metabolism — how you make energy, recycle neurotransmitters, handle B-vitamins and host your gut microbes. Organic-acid profiling reliably identifies and quantifies these compounds to surface metabolic disturbances (Van Noolen et al., 2020).
~70 metabolites · one urine 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
First-morning urine · single sample at home
Where this test looks
The Organic Acids Test is not a single reading — it reads four connected layers of your metabolism at once, which is why it so often explains symptoms that seem to have nothing to do with one another.
How the Organic Acids Test helps
Because metabolism sits beneath energy, mood, gut and ageing all at once, this single test reaches well past any one symptom. 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.
If DNA shows your potential and stool shows your microbial neighbourhood, OAT shows your engine running. Are your cells making enough energy ? Is your brain getting the building blocks for serotonin and dopamine ? Is something fermenting in your gut that should not be there ? Are you depleting nutrients faster than you are replacing them ? OAT answers those questions in a single urine sample.
First-morning urine, single collection at home
Avoid vitamin C, B-vitamins and fish oil 24 to 48h before ; avoid apples, grapes, raisins and pears the day 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.