Laboratory Testing

Dr. Berusch offers routine conventional laboratory testing in addition to specialized laboratory testing.

Conventional Laboratory Testing

Conventional laboratory testing  often consists of routine screening labs that help reveal your general health status. These can sometimes be called “annual labs”.

  • Cholesterol Testing: blood fats, cholesterol levels, and their subtype ranges, usually referred to as “good” and “bad” cholesterol, that can indicate how well the body utilizes fat, risk of atherosclerosis, and overall cardiovascular health

  • Thyroid Panel: thyroid health and thyroid hormone production, thyroid autoimmune disease

  • Routine vitamins and minerals, such as Vitamin B12, Vitamin B9, and Vitamin D status. Revealing data into energy, nerve, and immune system health

  • Complete Blood Count (CBC): This test looks at red and white blood cells that can reveal anemia, illness, infection, cancer, red blood cell abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies (limited), autoimmune disease (limited)

  • Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP): This test looks at fluid balance, electrolytes, liver function, glucose, kidney function, gallbladder function, minerals, and proteins

  • Diabetes screening: detailed lab test that reviews key hormones in the body’s use of sugar (glucose)

There are additional conventional laboratory exams, depending on your health concerns.

Why might I need specialty lab testing?

When your health concerns or symptoms haven’t been answered yet through conventional testing or you have a long-standing or recurrent illness, Dr. Berusch often suggests specialty lab testing to get a deeper picture.

Specialty lab testing helps Dr. Berusch get to the root cause of what may be causing your health concerns. Instead of treating symptoms and experiencing discomfort, Dr. Berusch evaluates your whole body.

Specialized Lab Testing

Types of Specialty Lab Testing

Symptoms that may warrant specialized testing:

  • Obesity

  • Chronic pain

  • Family history of chronic disease(s); diabetes, high cholesterol, stroke, and cancer

  • Chronic illness

  • Chronic or recurrent nasal congestion and seasonal allergies

  • Fertility and menstrual issues

  • Memory issues

  • Mood irregularities

  • Digestive distress

  • Muscle pain or weakness

  • Fatigue

  • Skin rashes

  • Headaches

  • Chronic unresolved symptoms or inexplainable symptoms

  • Reactivity to foods

  • When you have tried a few things and nothing seems to be working or revealing the underlying cause

Understand The Results of Your Laboratory Testing

Conventional Laboratory Ranges

  • Conventional reference ranges in labs are important in medical decision making and diagnosis, but the ranges can be broad, and many symptoms and discomfort can still occur even within normal ranges

Optimal Laboratory Ranges

  • Naturopathic Medicine has a lot to offer to individuals when it comes to the prevention of disease and the reversal of chronic disease

  • Wellness is not the absence of disease, but the presence of health, wellness, happiness, and vitality; feeling good in our bodies and mind more often than not. We can do this through optimal physiology (body function)

  • You don’t have to settle for normal lab values, together we can support you to feel your best self

Special Offer: At-Home Laboratory Testing

Want to take control of your health for yourself while still being able to access expert advice?

These functional medicine kits are tests that are ordered online and can be taken within the comfort and privacy of your home. Each kit is quickly and discreetly delivered to your door. These tests are specifically curated to determine energy levels, food sensitivity, gut bacteria, and hormone levels that could be impacting and distressing your body.

You do not need to be a patient or client of the practice to order the test kits. If you are a patient, please contact Dr. Berusch before purchasing.

  • Select the test(s) you’d like to take

  • Self-pay for the test

  • Complete test at home

  • Book a 30-minute review with Dr. Berusch to analyze the results.*

    * 30-minute integrative test review is required to discuss the results of your test, if you do not book this, Dr. Berusch cannot review the results.


At-Home Laboratory Review

Integrative Test Review $140

Find out if laboratory testing is right for you, click to schedule your free consultation with Dr. Berusch