flong said: ↑
I had Great Plains and am pretty happy with it.
It seems like a lot of naturopaths use Genova though, I'm not sure why exactly. I've been following Dr. Daniel Kalish and he uses Genova because one of his mentors helped design it. Maybe someone can elaborate?
I also used Great Plains--lots of good info. Doctors will use whichever company promotes to them to the most...thus Genova. But Great Plains was great for me.
I have had both Great Plains OAT and Genova Diagnostics NutrEval. There is overlap between the two, and I have found the results of both to correlate well.
The NutrEval has been the most actionable test for me, as it includes antioxidants, trace minerals, lipids, toxins, digestive biomarkers, Krebs cycle, methylayion nutrients, neurotransmitter biomarkers, and amino acids, a lot of which are not on the OAT. The OAT has a few organic acids that are not on the NutrEval.
I believe I have the metabolic trap Phair found and the PDH blovkade Fluge and Mella found as well as huge oxidative stress with all antioxidants depleted. The OAT would not identify these problems. I got it paired with their mycotoxin test, which was interesting, but didn't give me any more actionable info than i had with the NutrEval.
Whst they both lack is a full set of mineral testing, which would be useful.