TAILORED BLOOD TESTS

– Know exactly what your body needs and why.

Just 4 simple steps

The process

1

Consultation

We start with a personalised consultation to understand your health, lifestyle, and what you’re looking to gain from testing.

2

Book Test

Based on your needs, we recommend and book the most suitable blood test for you.

3

Sample and send off

Your sample is taken safely and professionally, then sent to the lab for analysis.

4

Results and PDF

You’ll receive a clear, easy-to-understand PDF of your results, along with guidance, support, and suitable treatment options to help you move forward with your health and wellbeing.

Diagnostic blood tests

Our tailored blood tests

Select the test category to see the blood tests on offer, and the biomarkers that they test for.

Health Screens

Acute Med 1

Essential clinical chemistry biomarkers to quickly identify illness in patients.

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Bone Health

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Kidney Health

Acute Med 2

An extended selection of clinical chemistry biomarkers to quickly identify general illness in patients.

Includes Panels Covered in Acute Med 1 plus:

✔️ Urinalysis

✔️ Muscle & Joint Health

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Iron Status

Lifestyle Screen

Essential clinical chemistry tests combined with nutritional markers to establish the general wellbeing of a patient.

Includes Panels Covered in Acute Med 1 plus:

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Iron Status

Lipids HbA1c

Quickly screen for basic diabetic and cardiovascular risk in patients.

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

Basic Screen

Find the baseline health of your patients.

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

Standard Screen

Establish the general health of your patients with a broad screen including vitamin D and ferritin.

Includes Panels Covered in Basic Screen plus:

✔️ Urinalysis

✔️ Bone Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Diabetes Health

Standard Screen Plus

Establish the general health of your patients with an extended screen including vitamin D and thyroid function.

Includes Panels Covered in Standard Screen plus:

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Tumour Markers

Extended Panel:
1. Standard Screen Plus + Folic Acid and Vitamin B12
2. Standard Screen Plus + Hormonal Health

Advanced GP2

Establish the general health of your patients with a broad screen including vitamin D and ferritin.

Includes Panels Covered in Standard Screen Plus, plus:

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Kidney Health

✔️ Muscle & Joint Health

✔️ Metabolic Syndrome

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

Advanced GP3

Establish the general health of your patients with a broad screen including vitamin D and ferritin.

Includes Panels Covered in Advanced GP2, plus:

✔️ Muscle & Joint Health

✔️ Female Hormonal Health

✔️ Bone Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Pancreatic Health

✔️ Male Hormonal Health

✔️ Allergy Evaluation

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Digestive Health

Tired All The Time

Address common causes of fatigue in your patients including nutritional deficiencies and thyroid function.

Includes Panels Covered in Standard Screen plus:

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Kidney Health

✔️ Bone Health

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

Long Covid

Use this cutting edge panel to establish likelihood of having long-covid.

Includes Panels Covered in Standard Screen Plus, plus:

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Kidney Health

✔️ Blood Count

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Pancreatic Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Muscle & Joint Health

Anaemia Profile

This panel assesses the current state of a patient’s anaemia and evaluates key factors that could be contributing to the condition.

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Iron Status

Sports Performance

A profile to optimise athletic performance through specific monitoring of nutrition, hormone and stress levels, providing insight to prevent injury and overtraining.

Includes Panels Covered in Standard Screen plus:

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Stress Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Male Hormonal Health

✔️ Female Hormonal Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Urinalysis

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Kidney Health

✔️ Muscle & Joint Health

✔️ Bone Health

Fertility Panel

Rule out common differential diagnoses associated with difficulty conceiving.

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Hormonal Health

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Stress

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Infection & Inflammation

✔️ Kidney Health

Extended Panel:
1. Fertility Panel + AMH

2. Fertility Panel + Standard Urine or Swab based CT/NG

Nutritional Health

Our new nutritional panel, designed and curated by our in-house expert nutritionist, includes key markers of current
nutritional status alongside other indicators that may be causative or symptomatic of poor nutritional outcomes.

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Liver Health

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Digestive Health

✔️ Pancreatic Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Thyroid Health

Biochemistry

Bone Health

  • Alkaline Phosphatase
  • Calcium (Adjusted)
  • Phosphate
  • Vitamin D
  • Parathyroid Hormone

Diabetes Status

  • Glucose
  • HbA1c
  • Insulin
  • C-peptide

Heart Health

  • Total Cholesterol
  • LDL Cholesterol
  • HDL Cholesterol
  • Total Cholesterol / HDL
  • Cholesterol Ratio
  • Triglycerides
  • Apolipoprotein A-I
  • Apolipoprotein B
  • Apolipoprotein B / A-I Ratio
  • Apolipoprotein CII
  • Apolipoprotein CIII
  • Apolipoprotein E
  • Small LDL Cholesterol
  • Lipoprotein (a)
  • High Sensitivity C-Reactive
  • Protein

Iron Status

  • Iron
  • Ferritin
  • Total Iron Binding Capacity
  • Transferrin
  • Transferrin Saturation

Kidney Health

  • Creatinine
  • Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate
  • Calcium (Adjusted)
  • Chloride
  • Magnesium
  • Phosphate
  • Potassium*
  • Sodium
  • Urea

Extended Panel:
Kidney Health + Cystatin C and Uric Acid

Liver Health

  • Alanine Aminotransferase
  • Alkaline Phosphatase
  • Aspartate Aminotransferase
  • Gamma- glutamyltransferase
  • Total Bilirubin
  • Albumin
  • Ferritin

Lipid Profile

  • Total Cholesterol
  • LDL Cholesterol
  • HDL Cholesterol
  • Total Cholesterol/HDL Cholesterol Ratio
  • Triglycerides

Metabolic Syndrome

  • Leptin
  • Adiponectin
  • Resistin
  • High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein

Metabolic Syndrome Extended

Our new nutritional panel, designed and curated by our in-house expert nutritionist, includes key markers of current nutritional status alongside other indicators that may be causative or symptomatic of poor nutritional outcomes.

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Metabolic Syndrome

Prostate Profile

  • Total Prostate Specific Antigen
  • Free Prostate Specific Antigen
  • Interleukin-8
  • Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1
  • Epidermal Growth Factor
  • Prostate Cancer Risk Score

Pancreatic Health

  • Pancreatic Amylase
  • Lipase

Urinalysis

  • Bilirubin
  • Glucose
  • Ketones
  • Nitrite
  • pH
  • Protein
  • Red Blood Cells
  • Urobilinogen
  • White Blood Cells

Endocrinology

Endocrinology

Includes:

✔️ Thyroid Health

✔️ Hormonal Health

Endocrinology Plus

Includes Panels Covered in Endocrinology, plus:

✔️ Diabetes Health

✔️ Stress

✔️ Female Reproductive Health

Hormonal Health

  • Oestradiol
  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone
  • Luteinising Hormone
  • Progesterone
  • Prolactin
  • Testosterone
  • Sex Hormone Binding
  • Globulin
  • Free Androgen Index

Stress

  • Cortisol
  • DHEA-S

Testosterone Monitoring

  • Testosterone
  • Sex Hormone Binding Globulin
  • Free Androgen Index
  • Free Testosterone
  • Albumin

Thyroid

  • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
  • Free Tri-iodothyronine
  • Free Thyroxine
  • Anti-Thyroglobulin Antibody
  • Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody

Lifestyle & Nutrition

Digestive health

Extended Panel:
1. Digestive Health + Calprotectin, QFIT – Faecal Occult

2. Blood, Liver Health, Full Blood Count and Helicobacter pylori Antigen Stool

Nutritional & Digestive health

✔️ Full Blood Count

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Heart Health

✔️ Digestive Health

✔️ Iron Status

✔️ Diabetes Health

Vitamins & Minerals

Our new nutritional panel, designed and curated by our in-house expert nutritionist, includes key markers of current nutritional status alongside other indicators that may be causative or symptomatic of poor nutritional outcomes.

✔️ Nutritional Health

✔️ Iron Status

Haematology

Anaemia Profile

  • Haemoglobin
  • Haematocrit
  • Mean Cell Haemoglobin
  • Mean Cell Haemoglobin
  • Concentration (MCHC)
  • Mean Cell Volume
  • Red Blood Cell Count
  • Basophil Count
  • Eosinophil Count
  • Lymphocyte Count
  • Monocyte Count
  • Neutrophil Count
  • White Blood Cell Count
  • Platelet Count
  • Iron
  • Ferritin
  • Total Iron Binding Capacity
  • Transferrin
  • Transferrin Saturation
  • Folic Acid
  • Vitamin B12
  • High Sensitivity
  • C-Reactive Protein

Coagulation Screen

  • Inter Norm Ratio
  • Partial Thromboplastin Time
  • Fibrinogen
  • Prothrombin Time

Full Blood Count

  • Haemoglobin
  • Haematocrit
  • Mean Cell Haemoglobin
  • Mean Cell Haemoglobin
  • Concentration (MCHC)
  • Mean Cell Volume
  • Red Blood Cell Count
  • Basophil Count
  • Lymphocyte Count
  • Eosinophil Count
  • Monocyte Count
  • Neutrophil Count
  • White Blood Cell

Inflammation

  • CRP
  • ESR
  • FBC
  • Ferritin

Immunology & Rheumatology

Muscle & Joint Health

  • Creatine Kinase
  • Uric Acid
  • Rheumatoid Factor
  • Lactate Dehydrogenase

Rheumatology

  • Anti-CCP
  • Rheumatoid Factor
  • Uric Acid
  • Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

Inflammation

  • CRP
  • ESR
  • FBC
  • Ferritin

Microbiology

Candida Culture

Swab culture test for identification of candida species.
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing dependant on growth.
Please specify site of swab when placing your order.

Culture & Sensitivities

Swab culture test for identification of pathogens.
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing performed to aid with
administration of appropriate antibiotics for treatment;
dependent on growth. Please specify site of swab when
placing your order.

Urine Microscopy & Culture

Identifies a broad range of bacterial, viral, and parasitic gastrointestinal pathogens using PCR. This replaces traditional culture methods. Includes:

  • Adenovirus
  • Astrovirus
  • Campylobacter spp
  • Clostridium Difficile Toxin A/B
  • Cryptosporidium spp
  • Cyclospora cayetanensis
  • Entamoeba histolytica
  • Enteroaggregative E. coli
  • Enteroinvasive E. coli/Shigella
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli
  • Enterotoxigenic E. coli LT/ST
  • Giardia lamblia
  • Norovirus GI/GII
  • Plesiomonas shigelloides
  • Rotavirus A
  • Salmonella spp
  • Sapovirus (GI GII GIV GV)
  • Shiga-like toxin producing E.coli 0157:H7
  • Shiga-like toxin producing E.coli Stx-1/Stx-2
  • Vibrio cholerae
  • Vibrio parahaemolyticus
  • Vibrio vulnificus
  • Yersinia enterocolitica

Lifestyle and Nutrition Medicine

Genetic Lactose Intolerance

C13910T and G22018A SNPs of the MCM6 gene associated with lactose intolerance.

Nutrition & Lifestyle DNA

Genotype significant variants that can provide you with the knowledge to make nutritional, exercise and lifestyle choices that are better suited to your body, helping you prevent lifestyle diseases and keeping you performing to your athletic potential.

Microbiome Testing

In depth shotgun sequencing and subsequent analysis of the gut microbiome, identifying over 30 biomarkers that play major roles in the health of the human gut microbiome.

Diagnostic Work Up

Genetic Coeliac Disease

Genotyping for HLA-DQ2.2, HLADQ2.5, and HLA-DQ8, markers positive in up to 99.7% of all CD patients.

Genetic Haemochromotosis

Genotyping (by RT-PCR) of 3 SNPs within the HFE gene, commonly associated with increased risk of developing haemochromatosis: C282Y, H63D and S65C.

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

Screens and detects genetic variants in 5 genes which may increase risk of FH.

Genetic Full Cardiac Risk

This NGS deep sequencing screen offers a cost-effective way to identify over 100 different genetic variants that cause Inherited Cardiac Conditions.

Specialist Oncology

Genetic Breast & Ovarian Cancer Risk

Screens and detects genetic variants in 8 genes which may increase risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Core Cancer Genetic Risk Test

Comprehensively screens and detects genetic variants in 29 genes which may increase risk of common cancers (eg. breast, bowel, prostate) and ovarian cancer.

Genetic Bowel Cancer

Screens and detects genetic variants in 11 genes which may increase risk of bowel cancer/Lynch Syndrome.

Genetic Prostate Cancer

Screens and detects genetic variants in 14 genes which may increase risk of prostate cancer.

Genetic Full Cancer Risk

Comprehensively screens and detects genetic variants in 94 genes which may increase risk of both common and rare cancers.

TAILORED BLOOD TESTS

Understanding more about what is happening inside your body can be a helpful step when looking to support your overall health and wellbeing.

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At The Body Lab we offer private blood testing services designed to provide insight into vitamin levels, hormone profiles and general health markers. Private blood tests can offer useful information for individuals wanting a clearer picture of their nutritional status, hormone balance and overall wellbeing.

Many people choose private blood testing when they feel constantly tired, run down or are experiencing low energy levels, hormonal changes or ongoing fatigue. Others choose blood testing simply to better understand their health alongside their lifestyle, fitness or wellbeing goals.

Your results can help guide personalised recommendations, which may include lifestyle advice, micronutrient support or further professional guidance where appropriate.

Our private blood testing services are available to clients in Plymouth, Saltash, Exeter, Torquay, Newton Abbot, Callington and surrounding areas across Devon and Cornwall.

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