Gut Health · GI-MAP Testing
They looked at the walls. Nobody read what is living inside.
The scope was clear, the labels were “IBS,” and you still react to foods, bloat, and run tired. A colonoscopy checks the plumbing for damage. It never reads the ecosystem — the bacteria, the yeast, the hidden inflammation, and whether you are actually digesting your food. That is what the GI-MAP is for, and it is a picture almost nobody has offered you.
Finding 01 · what the GI-MAP actually reads
A DNA-level look at your gut
The GI-MAP is an at-home stool test that uses DNA (qPCR) technology to identify what is actually in your gut — by name and by amount. That matters, because a lot of what shapes how you feel is not damage to the gut wall. It is the makeup of the ecosystem living inside it, and how well that gut is doing its day job of breaking down food.
It is the difference between checking whether the house is structurally sound and finding out who has been living in it, and whether the plumbing works.
Finding 02 · why standard testing missed it
A clear scope answers a different question
A colonoscopy is built to catch structural disease, and ruling that out matters. But it looks at the wall, not the contents. Routine stool tests, when they are ordered at all, usually hunt for a single obvious infection. Neither reads the balance of your bacteria, an overgrowth of yeast, quiet inflammation, or whether your enzymes are showing up for work. So the report says “normal,” and the thing driving your symptoms was never in view.
Finding 03 · what a fuller look reads
More than “good bugs and bad bugs”
When it is appropriate for your situation, a GI-MAP is read as a whole picture, not a single flagged organism:
- The microbial balance — helpful bacteria, opportunistic overgrowths, yeast, and parasites, by name and amount
- Digestion markers — like elastase, a read on whether your pancreas is releasing the enzymes you need to break food down
- Inflammation — calprotectin, a marker of gut inflammation that can be quietly elevated behind everyday symptoms
- Barrier and immune markers — clues about a leaky gut lining and your gut’s own immune activity
A single organism in isolation is easy to over- or under-react to. Read together, next to your symptoms and history, the GI-MAP becomes a map you can act on — not a wall of results left for you to decode. Start on the gut health overview if your picture is broader.
Patient intake · what people describe
Does this sound like you?
- Foods that used to be fine now causing reactions
- Bloating, gas, or irregular stools that no one has explained
- Fatigue or brain fog that seems tied to their gut
- Skin flares, or an immune system that feels off
- A stack of “normal” results and still no answer
None of these point to one thing on their own. Together, they are a reason to actually read the gut — not to keep managing a label.
The procedure
The results are the start — the plan is the point
The Clarity Visit
A full, unhurried hour with Karla, CRNP — a nurse practitioner, not a call center. Bring the results and history you already have; she reads them, takes your whole story, and gives you a plain-language written plan within 48 hours.
Read the whole ecosystem
Where appropriate, we run or review a GI-MAP and read it next to your symptoms and history — balance, digestion, and inflammation together, not one organism at a time.
A plan that rebuilds, not just removes
Targeted support where appropriate, plus the food, digestion, and daily habits that let a healthier gut hold — sequenced so you are never doing everything at once.
Your $397 Clarity Visit
Everything you get — and what you keep either way.
A first visit at a functional-medicine clinic typically runs $350–$1,500 — and not a dollar of it counts toward anything. Yours is $397, and every dollar credits forward.
- ✓A full, unhurried NP-led hour — your labs read for the pattern standard ranges miss, plus a written plan within 48 hours you can actually follow.
- ✓Your $397 credited 100% toward your full plan if you choose to go deeper within 7 days.
- ✓15% off any supplements Karla includes in your plan, through our practitioner dispensary.
Karla’s practice earns a portion of what you spend at the dispensary. There is no obligation to order through us — you can buy your supplements anywhere you like, and your care is exactly the same either way.
Plus 2 keep-forever bonuses — a $144 value, free
The 30-Day Reset
Simple, day-by-day steps to start calming the crashes, cravings, and 3 a.m. wake-ups — so you can feel like yourself again.
Yours to keep forever“Questions Your Doctor Should Have Asked”
The checklist that keeps you from ever sitting through another 7-minute “you’re normal” visit feeling small.
Yours to keep foreverthe bonuses are yours to keep — even if it turns out we’re not a fit.
Your guide
“A test result is not a plan. My job is to turn the map into a next step you can actually take.”
You’ve sat through the rushed visits and the “everything looks normal” — we understand how much that wears a person down, and it is not how we work. Karla M. Graf is a board-certified nurse practitioner (CRNP) and Functional Medicine Academy Certified Practitioner (FMACP), with full prescriptive authority, who gives you a full, unhurried hour and reads the whole gut picture. She sees adults across Pennsylvania by telehealth, from our base in Beaver — and she’ll tell you honestly whether this is a fit.
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Addenda · GI-MAP testing & the Clarity Visit
How is a GI-MAP different from my colonoscopy?
A colonoscopy looks at the structure of the gut wall to rule out disease. The GI-MAP reads the contents — your microbes, digestion, and inflammation markers. They answer completely different questions, and a clear scope does not tell you what a GI-MAP would.
Do I need a GI-MAP to work with you?
Not necessarily. It is one tool, used when it fits your picture. The Clarity Visit starts with what you already have; whether a GI-MAP adds value is a decision we make together based on your story and symptoms.
I got a report once but no plan. How is this different?
That is the exact gap we exist to close. A GI-MAP is only useful read in context and turned into sequenced steps. This content is educational and is not medical advice or a diagnosis, and we do not promise specific outcomes.
Is this available outside Pennsylvania?
Clinical services are limited to adults physically located in Pennsylvania at the time of care.
One next step
Bring the clear scope and the gut it never explained.
A clear scope answered a different question. The ecosystem driving your symptoms was never read — and it can be. The sooner it’s mapped, the sooner you have a plan.
Book My Clarity Visit →Karla takes only a handful of new patients a month — right now, 7 openings.
$397 · credited 100% toward your care plan · for adults physically located in Pennsylvania