09/24/2025
❓FAQ: What’s the Difference Between Nutrition Response Testing & Functional Medicine?
Both Nutrition Response Testing (NRT) and Functional Medicine look beyond symptoms to uncover the root causes of health concerns—but they approach it in different ways.
🔹 Functional Medicine
Relies heavily on detailed lab work and medical testing.
Uses those results to make recommendations for diet, lifestyle, or sometimes prescriptions.
This process can take time and often requires frequent lab retesting.
🔹 Nutrition Response Testing
A non-invasive technique that evaluates how your body is functioning in real time.
Identifies stressors such as nutritional deficiencies, immune challenges, toxins, or food sensitivities.
Provides immediate, personalized feedback and a targeted supplement program to support healing.
✨ At Svast Nutrition, you get the best of both worlds.
Kajal Patel, MSACN, CNC, is trained to read labs on a functional level, but she also specializes in Nutrition Response Testing, which offers quicker, individualized insights that don’t rely solely on waiting for lab results.
💡 The takeaway: Functional medicine can be useful, but Nutrition Response Testing allows us to identify and correct imbalances more efficiently—so your body can start healing right away.
