Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Unlocking the Mysteries of Gut Health_ Advanced Testing Insights | Gut Health Q&A

20 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) discusses advanced gut testing in a YouTube Q&A, recommending comprehensive stool analyses — specifically Doctor's Data and Genova's GI Effects — to assess pancreatic function, digestion, gut inflammation, and bacterial findings (PCR or culture). He notes Doctor's Data offers a GI360 microbiome product and cautions that microbiome analysis is complex and requires specialized training to interpret.

Questions this video answers

Doctor's Data (comprehensive stool analysis) and Genova (GI Effects).

GI360.

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As far as your GI tract, there's a lot of things offered out there. I tend to use a comprehensive stool analysis from either doctor's data or a GI effects from Genova. They're pretty comprehensive. They look at pancreatic function, how you're digesting your food. They look for gut inflammation as well as they give you a weak bacteria in your gut, whether it's through a PCR with a Genova or with the doctor's data. They give actually cultures. Doctor's data also offers a GI360, which is really cool. Microbiome analysis a little complicated by itself. I mean, that requires a special field of training just to figure out how to interpret that test. But.