Organic Acids Test (OAT)
$375 AUD
Feeling tired, foggy or off despite “normal” blood work? The Organic Acids Test uncovers hidden nutrient, gut, and metabolic imbalances that could explain your symptoms.
The Organic Acids Test: A Deeper Look at Fatigue, Brain Fog & Gut Health
The Organic Acids Test is a functional health assessment that evaluates more than 60 organic acid markers from a single urine specimen. These markers are by-products of critical metabolic pathways, and they reflect real-time information about how your body is working behind the scenes.
As opposed to regular blood tests, which look at fixed levels of nutrients or hormone status, the Organic Acids Test looks at dynamic processes like how your cells are using nutrients, what they lack, and whether key systems like detox or energy production are in stress.
It’s particularly useful for people experiencing persistent symptoms that don’t show up clearly in standard lab work. Think of it as a behind-the-scenes look at how your body’s systems are actually functioning.
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What's included
Organic Acids Snapshot
This Organic Acids Test looks at about 60 chemical by-products in your urine. Each one comes from a different part of how your body makes energy, handles nutrients, processes neurotransmitters, and interacts with the microbes in your gut. By looking at the overall pattern, we get a snapshot of how some of these systems are running. A few things to know before reading the results:
This urine test meaures:
Gut & Microbial Balance
This area looks at chemicals produced by the trillions of microbes living in your gut, giving a rough read on which microbial groups are more or less active than usual. It won't tell you exactly which species are present, but it can flag patterns worth a closer look with your clinician.
This urine test measures:
Energy Production
Your cells turn food into energy through a series of chemical steps inside the mitochondria, and this area measures the by-products of those steps to see how smoothly the process is running. Isolated findings here are common and often shift with diet or recent activity — the pattern across markers matters more than any single result.
This urine test measures:
Neurotransmitter Activity
After your body uses brain chemicals like dopamine, serotonin, and adrenaline, it breaks them down into smaller by-products that pass out in urine, which this area measures as an indirect read on messenger activity. These markers are influenced by diet, sleep, stress, caffeine and medications, so a single reading is rarely diagnostic on its own.
This urine test measures:
Oxidative Stress & Detoxification
This area looks at how well your body is handling everyday cellular wear-and-tear and clearing the substances your liver needs to process — medications, hormones, alcohol, and the by-products of your own metabolism. Temporary elevations are common after intense exercise, illness, or high alcohol intake, and are usually not concerning in isolation.
This urine test measures:
Nutrient & Vitamin Status
This area combines two different views of your nutrient status: "functional" markers that rise when your body is working harder to use a vitamin, and direct measurements of vitamins passing through in urine. Together they give a rough indication of which nutrients may be in higher demand, though a blood test is still the gold standard for confirming any specific deficiency.
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Environmental Exposure Markers
These markers look for traces of industrial solvents — particularly xylene, found in paints, glues, printing inks, and cigarette smoke — that leave distinctive chemical fingerprints when your body processes them. A raised reading here usually points first to smoking status, then to work, hobbies, or recent contact with solvent-containing products.
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Test instructions
You’ll receive your urine test kit in the mail, along with logistics for your sample collection.
Results for this test typically available in 2-3 weeks and will be published in your online dashboard.
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