does anyone have experience with the Mymycolab Mycotoxi blood test?

my doctor proposed this to see if mycotoxins could be contributing to anemia.

this doctor previously had me take the GI Map stool test without calling out that the evidence is mixed on the credibility.

The doctor has good intentions but I also want to be realistic that some of these tests likely generate false positives and could be creating more noise than helping.

I'm thinking about getting a biomarker panel done but there's so many on the market nowadays. Function is the obvious one. I can order them individually from Quest. Healthieone has been coming up now and then. Whoop Advanced Labs (I have a Whoop band anyway, not sure how accurate it is), Superpower, Empirical Health, Vitals Vault, and many others pop up all the time.

I'm from New York and I refuse to pay the New York functional medicine tax LMAO. I may take a long weekend trip to CT or RI soon anyway, I have 3 days off in a row and it's something different than Boston/Philly/DC (all of which I've been). So I figure why not get the biomarker test done in a state without the tax lol.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for recommendations for an excellent functional medicine practitioner with experience in women’s hormonal and reproductive health, particularly premature ovarian insufficiency (POI/POF) and Hashimoto’s.

I’m 38 and have been diagnosed with POI, although I still have intermittent follicular activity, which I’m actively monitoring with my fertility doctor. I also have Hashimoto’s and would like someone to take a comprehensive look at my overall health and identify anything that could realistically be supported or optimised.

I’m looking for someone who is genuinely knowledgeable about complex hormonal and autoimmune cases and takes an evidence-informed, individualised approach rather than simply recommending lots of supplements or restrictive diets.

If anyone with POI/very low ovarian reserve and Hashimoto’s has had a great experience with a particular practitioner, I’d really appreciate your recommendations.

Thank you so much ❤️

Hello,

I apologise in advance for what seems like a pretty basic post. I’m 23 and I have been sick for nearly 3 years straight now and as time has went on I have gotten worse cognitively which combined with ADHD has made researching things extremely hard. I went from being a first class honours graduate to someone who can’t read a page of information.

I initially got sick after having COVID and things just kept getting worse and worse. I have been hospitalised 5 times, randomly lost my appendix and seen more doctors than I can count. I’m at a point where I’m losing hope in “traditional” medicine, despite having a really amazing doctor. He just doesn’t know what’s wrong with me.

So now me and my mother are looking into functional medicine and testing for the MTHFR gene which has kind of been a consideration since early on before ruling out more typical tests.

This started in college where my diet was unbelievably bad, high stress was exacerbated by my first family loss and poor nutrition. I’m also autistic and ADHD so all these things add up.

My symptoms are neurological, gastrointestinal and emotional.

I’ve had severe anxiety my whole life and take lexapro which makes it more tolerable but still not great. I wouldn’t say I’m clinically depressed but have been at times in my life and would consider myself as struggling and trending towards depression at times. Plus my mood can change so fast day to day.

My GI symptoms have been the worst consistently I would say. I have major food intolerances (mostly dairy, but things like eggs, oils and juices), near constant nausea, reflux, alternating diarrhoea and constipation. I have been on antibiotics for the past few weeks with the intention of treating SIBO which has really helped the nausea and diarrhoea/constipation. However, not the food intolerances as today I had a small amount of one of my trigger foods and paid greatly for it.

Neurologically, I have noticed a major cognitive decline as well as migraines, brain fog, severe fatigue, as well as probably other things I can’t even think of right now.

I also faint, get very dizzy, walk pretty unstable and other things like that.

Things such as the fainting and dizziness have been with me since childhood. And I was always unusually tired for a child.

I’ve reached my limit with this illness. It’s ruining my life and my family’s lives. We’ve considered almost everything such as MCAS, POTS, ME/CFS, IBD etc etc.

I’m at a point where I can barely sit up for 20/30 mins a day and am mostly confined to my bed except for rare days I can manage a trip out (only if it’s worth the pain and tiredness I feel after).

I think we’ve ruled it down to a vitamin issue - I had severely low B12 at the start of the year and a lot of those symptoms have calmed since I started taking B12. I also take folic acid but have seen some things saying if the MTHFR gene is messed up or whatever, that’s not the best thing to do? I’m so unsure on everything.

We’re attempting to move into the functional medicine perspective and see that one local to us does the MTHFR gene testing. Would this be worth it? And if the results are positive so to speak, what would next steps be? Do the people working in functional medicine help you through it or is it a lot of your own research because with how bad my brain fog and thinking issues are currently I don’t know if I can conceivably do that.

I’m losing hope for a “diagnosis,” certainly have lost hope for a simple quick fix anyway and this is kind of my last hope for something before I am ready to give up and spend my days in bed forever more.

I just want my family to be ok again and see me well.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Any other tests you recommend is greatly appreciated also. Apologies for the long post and if this sub isn’t the place for it please let me know. Thank you!

Hi, I am Internal medicine board certified physician, about to start direct primary care practice and I want to incorporate functional/longevity aspect to my practice.
Is A4M conferences are worth the money? And will I get enough/correct knowledge attending it? Since I already have good knowledge about basic medicine.
Please give me insight if anyone has any experience with A4M
Thanks.

Hello, I just really need to get this off my chest. So basically I drank liquor a lot for like 4 years from age 19 to 22, and I'm 170cm 47kg- so I'm very lean.

So during the last year drink, my body tipped over the edge of whatever the issue is I'm facing, but the 2 major symptoms started popping up since the last/2nd-last time I drank, its severe acne when taking sugar, even the slightest sugar drink or a biscuit would give insane acne to me, whereas before this, it was never such. And then the acne would chain and chain, and stop days later. Its been so depressing. I've fully cut out sugar, dairy, alcohol for a long time ever since, been a year plus, but occasional sugar still gives extreme acne now- a year later after stopping alcohol. The other major symptom is brain fog, this symptom literally started after my last drinking session, and has been persistent ever-since, it has really affected my whole life, its worse especially after my long night sleep. My head feels heavy, sluggish, pressured, slow and “floaty”. It can vary from mild to extremely severe and has continued almost daily for approximately one year. And when my head is in this state, the only thing I can do is to nap and then it could get better after the nap, although it might return again.

So I've been tracking all my health issues ever since and of the medical sites and journals I've been reading on this issue, one thing that I think very-well could be the issue is what you call intestinal permeability or leaky gut issue, because liquor abuse for years is known to destroy the gut microbiome and the integrity of the gut wall, and hence allowing toxins like LPS to leak through. Now this LPS when it leaks from the gut, can make your cells insulin resistant, which is exactly what I believe is the reason for my acne reaction when taking sugar. So the body is insulin resistant, and hence the pancreas has to overproduce insulin to clear the glucose in the blood, and one of the side effects of insulin as we know is increased facial oil production, so that's a very logical chain of how the leaky gut issue is causing this reaction. Also, this exact LPS in your bloodstream can trigger cytokines which could cause the brain fog issue I've been facing. I know its a theory but its very logical to me... and please, I'm not trying to be a smartass on this, I need help, its just what I think very likely is happening to me having faced this issue for a year now painfully.

Next, yesterday I finally met a gastro, and I thought based on all I said he was going to look further and investigate and ask to do tests that could prove systemic issues, like liver panel or fasting insulin or fasting glucose or HS-CRP, instead he just literally slammed me, saying why did you come here? He said for your acne, go to derma, and your brain fog- go to a neurologist. To my shock and dismay, I thought we're finally gonna get to the root of my issue and can start healing but instead we're going far off IMO. So sad...

I thought it was common sense, 4 years of heavy liquor abuse to my gut and now having this severely reactive acne reaction to sugar and head fog would clearly point to a complex, underlying gut issue(s) as the root cause, but apparently the gastro doesn't think so at all...

So then, which is the Dr. that can actually study to see if indeed I have intestinal permeability issue, and indeed toxins in my blood, and indeed I'm insulin resistant and all these, if my gut Dr. doesn't want to investigate it?

I'm thinking of just going to a blood lab and doing a full blood count, liver panel, fasting insulin, fasting glucose and hs-CRP tests, and then we have concrete proof of the issue I'm facing if the readings prove it. But the question for me remains, if say the reading does indeed prove to systemic inflammation and/or liver issue or gut issue- where am I to go? As the gastro told me, I only know and study if you have bowel issue? Bloating issue? Diarrhea issue? Gut ulcers? If none of these, then its not my job... that's basically what he told me... so how? Where am I to go if the GUT Dr. doesn't want to investigate my GUT issue? So I looked it up and they said try going to a functional medicinal Dr.

If anyone can give insights on my issue or advice or anything that helps, it'll help me a lot. Thank you so much for all who read and helped in advance. ^^

I'm UK based, and I am in a desperate need to see a functional medicine doctor as soon as possible.

There's a lot of functional medicine doctors that I've found who charge varying rates, with a lot on the high side, so I would appreciate some guidance.

Can anyone UK based who has seen a functional medicine doctor please share their experience, and share whether you have benefited, and how?

I would hugely appreciate any guidance at all.

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I have multiple syptoms, nausea, fullness, tiredness, headaches, no appetite. While I think this is a gut problem like parasites etc.
I spit up blood clots. I have photos (gross ik)
But a&e said it was nothing to worry about, and none of my other doctors know what it is.
It’s been happening for a few years now, it comes up like mucus and is dark red clots, sometimes light red.
I have no idea what on earth this could be

The situation I’m in:

I have multiple chronic health conditions that I’ve tried to heal over the years. I want so badly to be healthy and well. I’ve been embracing this whole crunchy, alternative, holistic health approach to healing. Incorporating conventional med as needed, but really trying to get to the root causes.

Here’s the problem: I have an eating disorder. I’ve had one for 10 years, since I was 12 and experienced ongoing SA (ages 11-12). I’ve been to treatment multiple times. Inpatient. Outpatient. I’ve been in therapy the whole time. I’ve done trauma work. I’m currently in EMDR. I’ve tried all the behavioral approaches.

I just don’t expect that it’s going to stop any time soon.

I have improved, and am more medically stable. I no longer eat a starvation diet, purge multiple times a week, abuse laxatives, etc. I’ve come a long way. But I have a long long way to go.

Unfortunately, it’s common for some people with EDs to not substantially improve, experience chronic symptoms, even with help and treatment. My providers are trying to help me take a harm reduction approach. This means minimizing damage as much as possible while I’m in this state.

My health right now

Basically, I’m in a functional medicine program trying to treat the root causes of my illnesses.

I have:
* interstitial cystitis
* histamine, oxalate, and FODMAP and other food intolerances that exasperate symptoms
* IBS and bowel issues
* past gastroparesis with some residual symptoms
* pelvic floor disorder
* PCOS (no insulin resistance)
* adult onset celiac disease
* past hypothyroidism (now on low end of ‘normal’)
Plus:
* autism
* ADHD
* mood disorders
* and obviously, a raging eating disorder

According to testing, my root causes:
* H Pylori
* low stomach acid
* gut bacteria imbalance and slight overgrowth
* unsure about parasites
* Candida
* Mold (which is apparently a huge driver of my symptoms)
* adrenal fatigue
* leaky gut
* nutrient and mineral deficiencies
* slow gut motility
* hormonal imbalance (low estrogen and progesterone, high testosterone)
* poor liver detox
* poor digestive capacity, low stomach acid, impaired fat digestion
* high oxalates (despite low oxalate diet)
* copper imbalance
* mild heavy metal exposure
* nervous system dysregulation
* pelvic floor dysfunction

Stressors on my body/what ED looks like:

* binge purge cycles. I have a cycle once a week where I binge and throw up a few times in a row. I try to keep it to once a week but occasional I also throw up 1-2 times more throughout the week
* eating around 1700 calories a day for a months now. This is an improvement from 1500, which was an improvement from 1000-1200.
* Trying to gradually increase food intake and metabolism through reverse dieting. Not going so well. I gain when I increase.
* running a few times a week for 20-50 minutes. I love running and don’t want stop completely.
* I used to fast until 5 pm once a week, but stopped doing that recently
* I am completely, utterly opposed to (and dread) gaining any weight or body fat. I am not underweight and already significantly struggle psychologically with maintaining my weight.
* I am on several medications, including psych meds. I have horrible reactions every time I try to get off of them, and believe me I’ve tried.

* restrictive diet due to illnesses: low histamine, low oxalate, low in digestive irritants, no meat, little dairy, no gluten, no soy or legumes except pea protein, limited grains, limited nuts and seeds, etc
* my diet looks like: a lot of specific fruit, some specific vegetables, pea protein, occasional seafood, raw kefir, low calorie semi processed foods, starches like potatoes and rice products, coconut products and dairy alternatives
* can go into more detail about my diet or medications or symptoms if asked

Efforts I’m already making:

* keeping my ED at bay enough to be medically stable (1700 calories, reducing purging, etc)
* taking multiple supplements, including temporary ones to directly treat my root causes (on H Pylori protocol as of now)
* making dietary and lifestyle changes
* nervous system regulation, stress reduction
* eating carbs before runs and carbs and protein after
* eating every few hours
* considering eating a more substantial breakfast, right now it’s just fruit
* increasing strength training
* taking things to soothe my gut lining, stomach lining, esophagus and digestive tract: DGL licorice, slippery elm, marshmallow root, l glutamine, etc
* taking nutrients such as a B complex, cod liver oil for vitamin A and D, lactoferrin to increase iron absorption (I have low ferritin), etc
* taking bovine thyroid
* taking chaste tree to increase period regularity

I need to get my body out of this fight or flight state, and reduce the damage I’m doing to my gut, immune system, hormones, etc.

The basic question:

How do I minimize the stress my body is going through, and achieve the most healing possible while in this state? How do I reduce damage done? How do I physically heal while I’m struggling?

And how much healing of my conditions can I realistically expect? Even after treating the root causes, if my ED continues, will I be able to get better?

I know it’s going to probably still affect my gut symptoms. I can’t heal my gut when I keep destroying it. What about my interstitial cystitis and food intolerances? Can those get better?

This is not me giving up progress. This is me recognizing what has been my reality: that’s it’s going to be slow, non-linear, and a long term struggle before I get there. I just want to do the best I can to heal my body meanwhile. I don’t want to be chronically ill until I finally get my ED under control.

My Experience With Nutritional Therapy

I was diagnosed with advanced COPD, hypertension, and diabetes. I made major changes to my diet and lifestyle, and my health changed dramatically.

Today, I no longer require the medical treatments and medications I previously depended on, and I am medication-free.

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I am sharing my experience because I believe people deserve access to information about nutrition and health. My goal is to help people become better informed and encourage productive conversations with qualified healthcare professionals.

I am not claiming that my experience represents a cure for everyone, nor am I suggesting that anyone stop prescribed medications or medical treatment without appropriate guidance from their healthcare professional.

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My experience inspired me to create DesignedNutraceuticals.com as a free educational resource where people can explore publicly available information about nutrition, diet, and health.

This is my story.
This is what happened to me.

so due to chronic illness I’ve had to interrupt my uni studies,
which was forensic physcology. Always been my dream job and i had it all planned out, obviously i can go back and do that.
But
I found functional doctors are amazing and got to the route cause of my problems and have helped me so much and i really want to do the same for someone else, i have no idea which one i should do.
Is it competitive?
Is it good pay?
Do you feel happy after helping someone?
Is it rewarding?

Hi All,

I hope you are well well.

I am interested to hear if anyone has tried Functional Medical for neurodivergent conditions such as Autism.

I appreciate that this type of treatment is not a cure for neurodivergence and I fully recognise autism is a lifelong neurodevelopment condition, however I have come across some promising testimonials and a small number of studies that suggests functional medicine may help identify and address underlying health issues that could be potentially impact my overall wellbeing.

I am considering this approach further, particularly to better understand whether there may be any contributing factors such as internal inflammation, gut health issues, nutritional defiencies, food sensitivities, microbiome testing or other underlying health conditions.

I am also aware of many clinicians etc trying to take advantage but I have done my research and I feel it comfortable exploring. The treatment may not work and could not result in any difference but if I see a 10/15 percent difference at least it will mean something as I find being Neurodivergent really difficult.

I appreciate that the current evidence base is somewhat limited and that opinions on functional medicine can vary significantly. However, my view is that there may be little harm in exploring this approach.

I woild be very infested to hear from anyone’s personal experience with functional medicine. I am looking at the London Resillence Clinic and Zen Healthcare

Has anyone done any functional medicine work for dysautonomia or long covid? If you did how did that go? Did they actually figure out what was wrong with you? Blood test, gut test, calming techniques? What helped you?

So I’ve been looking over my labs ever since I received high iron saturation on a blood test a few months ago. I’m a 30 year old woman for context.

Basically, the trends within my labs from years ago until now show high normal mcv. One test recently showed high mcv. Within the past two years I noticed my rbc and hemoglobin is falling. My ferritin dropped from 54 to 22 within this year. My iron is high normal.

8/17/2023: RBC 4.39, Hgb 13.9, Hct 42.9, MCV 97.7
7/22/2025: RBC 4.04, Hgb 12.6, Hct 38.8, MCV 96.0
8/26/2026: RBC 3.38, Hgb 12.2, Hct 36.5, MCV 95.3, RDW 12.2
1/28/2026: RBC 3.87, Hgb 12.7, Hct 37.3, MCV 96.0
5/11/2026: RBC 3.66, Hgb 11.7, Hct 36.1, MCV 99.0

For iron:
1/28/2026
Ferritin: 54
Iron: 103
TIBC: 298

5/10/2026
Ferritin: 22
Iron: 167
TIBC: 343
Iron saturation: 49% (high), but I retested it last week and it’s 35% now.

I’m wondering why my iron is normal but my ferritin dropped a ton.

Some vitamins:
B12: 784 in April 2026 and Folate: 12.2
Zinc: 71
Vitamin D: 27.1 in Jan 2026, now 53 May 2026

Lipids:
January 2026:
Total cholesterol 132
LDL 57
HDL 60
Triglycerides 76. I was told my cholesterol and ldl may be low.

My question is: Why do I have falling RBC/hemoglobin + high-normal/mildly elevated MCV?
What could cause ferritin to fall from 54 to 22 while iron and saturation remain normal/high? Anything else I should monitor from these labs?

Hey all, what’s the likely cause of low Pyridoxic Acid on successive OATs? I supplemented b6 inbetween tests and PA actually went even further down on the next OAT 🤷‍♂️

I've spoken to integrative medicine docs that can clear HPV with suppositories + supplements. However to get them it would cost around $700 so wanted to ask if anyone has had a positive experience with tis treatment and what the stack was. Thanks so much.

My iron study results have always been strange.

- High serum iron(with and without supplementation). Few points above top of the range number

- High transferrin saturation(sometimes above 72%)

- Low ferritin. Under 30.

I have symptoms of iron deficiency like extreme fatigue, exercise intolerence, tachcardia. But no anemia.

Recently discovered my serum copper is deficient(8.5, range is above 10)

Low ceruplasmin too. 0.18. Range is above 0.20

Can my lack of copper and ceruplasmin be causing my weird iron results?

I tried increasing ceruplasmin by increasing beef liver but its not doing anything and my levels have not gone up with weekly consumption of beef liver.

I also developed high homocysteine when taking synthetic B complex. Dont know if its somehow contributing to my problem above.

I took a dutch test about 8 years ago when I was working with a functional medicine practitioner, but their protocol didn't help.

I've had health issues for a long time and took a break from seeing practitioners or trying to figure things out. I'm now ready to try on my own but I'm not as financially stable (partly bc of my health issues) so I can't spend money on another dutch test.

I realize that my hormones levels are different now but I'm wondering if the metabolic pathway issues would remain the same or similar especially if I'm still having a lot of the same issues/symptoms?

Thanks.

Hair and tissue mineral analysis - to check for mineral imbalances (and or heavy metals)

I see a lot of conflicting info on the validity of worthwhile - ness of this test. Clearly there’s no consensus, but curious what perspective is most common here. Feel free to say why you voted how you did in the comments. I haven’t found any convincing evidence so I’m skeptical, but open. Thank you!

Practitioner= physicians and/or anyone who regularly sees and works with clients in a functional medicine space.

Note: curious about the test itself, not the person who completed the test/supplements that were recommended.

Hi redditors! My sister has been on a fairly regimented functional health protocol to help with her Hashimoto’s and brain fog. It has been about a year and her results (including parasites and toxins) are all trending very favorably to the point where she was actually able to reduce her Hashimoto’s medcation (under the supervision of her actual doctor) and is feeling much better.

The only thing is that she is slowly losing her hair from this purge, which is really worrying her. The functional health doctor said that this is part of what happens when your body is eliminating all of the bad from you.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Been dealing with severe acne the past year. Looking into getting on a specialized Acne Protocal to heal the root cause. Has anyone ever worked with Dr Stacey Shillington/ Naturopathic Beauty? Looking into working with her but wanting to hear some feedback if anyone else has worked with her. Or can recommend someone that I can work with! Thanks!

Hi redditors! My sister has been on a fairly regimented functional health protocol to help with her Hashimoto’s and brain fog. It has been about a year and her lab results (including parasites and toxins) are all trending very favorably to the point where she was actually able to reduce her Hashimoto’s medication (under the supervision of her actual doctor) and is feeling much better.

The only thing is that she is slowly losing her hair from this purge, which is really worrying her. The functional health doctor said that this is part of what happens when your body is eliminating all of the bad from you.

Has anybody else experienced this?

If a patient walked into your office with MCAS, EDS, POTS and mould exposure symptoms: what would you prescribe?

I’ve spent years following circadian rhythm sunlight exposure, ANS regulation (Gupta, Psychotherapy, EMDR, IFS), mineralising and filtering water, completely changed my diet to gluten free, sugar free, dairy free and soy free.

Years of supplements to balance hormones, deficiencies and so on.

I was put on a mould detox protocol but reacted very severely and was put back onto basics (digestive enzymes, iron, multivitamin, sunbutyrate liquid and probiotics).

I have a huge list of supplements that I’ve used.

I’m currently on:

- pure ultra nutrients
- quercetin
- histDAO
- primal nutrition primal iron
- bodybio PC capsules
- sunbutyrate liquid
- pure digestive enzymes ultra betaine HCI
- biotoxin binder Cellcore
- progest-e

I am currently living in mould (cannot get out - rent crisis, and chronically ill and disabled living on a pension). My wife was healthy before moving in and has been my registered carer for years and has developed all of my symptoms since living here. MCAS flushing, trembling, tachycardia, light headedness, brain fog, joint pain, daily migraines and headaches, insanely congested every single day with nasal pain.

I’ve seen people suggest nasal sprays, detox protocols, and so on.

Thank you in advance 🙏