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It's called OAT -- organic acids test. It's an excellent quantitative measure of how much candida is in one's system. It's a test that analyzes organic acids in the urine. It provides a huge amount of concrete, scientific data and is useful for determining how effective any treatment against candida is.
Here's some of the things it covers:
It is not cheap. It runs $320. The right doctor can order it and insurance will pay for a lot or most of it. My son had it twice when he was being screened by neurologists for metabolic disorders and Blue Cross paid for all of it.
Here's some of the things it covers:
- Vitamin and mineral insufficiencies
- Amino acid insufficiencies like carnitine and NAC
- Oxidative damage and anti-oxidant sufficiency markers
- Indicators to assess detoxification sufficiency
- The best functional markers of B-complex deficiency
- Neurotransmitter metabolites to assess CNS function
- Mitochondrial energy production assessment via citric acid cycle components
- Methylation sufficiency status
- Lipoic acid and CoQ10 sufficiency markers
- Specific dysbiosis markers for bacterial and yeast overgrowth
It is not cheap. It runs $320. The right doctor can order it and insurance will pay for a lot or most of it. My son had it twice when he was being screened by neurologists for metabolic disorders and Blue Cross paid for all of it.
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