Diagnostic Testing

”assess, Don’t Guess”: DATA to guide your path

Sweat Sodium composition testing

Athletes easily forget to prioritize their hydration and electrolyte strategies. This results in race day gut bombs, sloshy stomachs, and the dreaded performance decline. Whether to use supplemental electrolytes (and how much) is not a black and white answer. Let’s learn your unique physiology to fine-tune your hydration strategies and arm you with the knowledge for how to account for sweat rate variances, environmental factors, aging, and women’s hormonal flux. We are an approved partner of the Precision Fuel & Hydration company and use their medical grade equipment to conduct this testing. This non-exercise test takes about 20-25 minutes and tells us how “salty” one liter of your sweat is. We include a hydration consultation as a part of this service so you are more clear as to your specific strategies for training and competition.

BOOK YOUR SWEAT TEST in Boulder, CO, here. To learn about scheduling an onsite testing workshop for your team or club (anywhere nationwide). email Dina.

METABOLIC EFFICIENCY TESTING

Gain insight into your physiology and learn how your current daily nutrition plan and exercise programming are working for you. Additionally, you'll get your resting metabolic rate (RMR) measurement and your personalized fueling recommendations for carbohydrates per hour based on your exercise intensities and competition goals. You'll learn how your body is burning its fat and carbohydrate fuel sources in line with your athletic goals and be provided specific recommendations to manipulate your daily nutrition and/or training programming to achieve better metabolic fuel use. Rest assured, this is in Dina’s wheelhouse given her extensive background in Metabolic Efficiency Training^TM, instruction of certifying professionals, research, and testing of athletes. The test includes the RMR measurement along with the submaximal exercise testing, a consultation to review results, and a personalized plan to go forward in your nutrition journey. This testing has been a game changer for numerous athletes of all abilities.

Nutrigenetic TESTING

Dina offers nutrigenetic testing through 3x4 Genetics, a service that features 134 research-based and validated genetic markers that enable us to better personalize your dietary pattern and lifestyle based on your gene variants (SNPs) and their impact on various metabolic pathways in the body, in conjunction with health issues you are aiming to treat or improve. By combining a 1-on-1 consultation and thorough review of your test results, we develop an action plan to target the root causes of health issues. Additionally, we blend in proactive strategies for food selection and preparation to better work with your unique genetic blueprint. This service embodies personalized nutrition!

BLOOD TESTING ANALYSIS

Blood testing can reveal incredible insights into your physiology, disease risk and management, and responses to your current nutrition and training patterns. Additionally, results can indicate your athletic training tolerance and recoverability, which are fundamental to manipulation of training and nutrition programming. Inquire about using Dina's most trusted sport science partner to ensure expert analysis and arranging of specific blood work through your local medical resources.

HORMONE ASSESSMENT

Comprehensive testing of your current adrenal and sex hormones, and their metabolites, allows us to better determine the next course of action if you have been dealing with unexplained fatigue, unwanted weight gain, andropause, PMS, or peri/postmenopause symptoms that are negatively affecting you quality of life. Using the clinically validated DUTCH testing method, this thorough assessment of hormone metabolites can reveal estrogen dominance, suboptimal testosterone levels, HPA-axis dysfunction, and efficacy of hormone therapy.

GUT MICRoBIOME

The gut microbiome affects weight regulation, immunity, hormone balance, sleep, digestion, metabolic health, micronutrient status, brain function and so much more of our daily living. Athletes are even more susceptible to gut dysbiosis due to training stressors, fueling choices, and environmental impacts on gut permeability. The GI-MAP quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology allows for accurate stool testing to detect pathogens, overgrowth, and microbial diversity. A consultation and treatment plan is included with this service.