What is the Gut Zoomer and how does it work?

The Gut Zoomer is an advanced stool-based test that analyzes over 300 markers across the gut microbiome, digestive health, inflammation, immune response, and more. Unlike standard gut tests, it evaluates not only bacteria, but also fungi, viruses, parasites, and gut metabolites. Using technologies like multiplex PCR, ELISA, and LC-MS, the Gut Zoomer maps imbalances that may drive symptoms such as bloating, fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and food sensitivities. The result is a detailed, actionable report linking gut dysfunction to systemic issues to guide precise, targeted interventions.

Who should consider taking the Gut Zoomer test?

The Gut Zoomer is ideal for individuals with chronic, unexplained symptoms that may be connected to gut health, including digestive issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, skin flare-ups, or cognitive concerns. It’s especially valuable for recurring infections, persistent bloating, IBS, IBD, or food intolerances. It also serves proactive health seekers and those in functional or integrative care who want to understand the gut’s impact on overall wellness and longevity.

What makes Gut Zoomer different from other microbiome or stool tests?

Gut Zoomer stands out for depth and clinical utility: it analyzes 200+ microorganisms, includes a gut antibody panel, and evaluates markers for gut hyperpermeability (leaky gut), SCFA production, immune activity, bile acid metabolism, and more. It also includes 12 antibiotic resistance genes to inform management. Reports are organized by clinical domains (digestion, detox, immunity, inflammation) and provide personalized insights and practitioner-ready recommendations.

How can Gut Zoomer help identify the root cause of chronic health issues?

Many chronic conditions—from fatigue and autoimmune disorders to mood and hormone imbalances—can originate in the gut. Gut Zoomer uncovers microbial and metabolic imbalances often missed by conventional testing. Examples include pathogen overgrowth (e.g., Candida glabrata), inflammation markers (e.g., S100A12, MMP-9), or elevated beta-glucuronidase that can increase recirculation of toxins and hormones. By connecting symptoms to specific imbalances, it helps practitioners create root-cause protocols that target dysfunction at the source.

Gut Zoomer Test | Advanced At-Home Gut Health & Microbiome Test

Q: How do I order the Gut Zoomer test and what should I expect?

The Gut Zoomer test is available through licensed healthcare providers. After ordering, you’ll receive an at-home collection kit with instructions and prepaid return shipping. Once you submit your sample, results are typically available within about 7 days. The report breaks down microbial imbalances, gut function markers, and immune activity with clear, color-coded interpretations. Providers receive personalized treatment suggestions based on your unique gut profile.

Doctor Order Required

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HSA/FSA Eligible

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Gut Zoomer delivers a comprehensive view of how your gut and gut–brain axis are working, integrating microbiome balance, pathogens, inflammation, digestion, permeability, detox metabolites, and neurotransmitter patterns. By turning complex gut and neurochemical data into a clear, structured report, it helps you and your provider connect gut-driven contributors to symptoms and design targeted, sustainable strategies for better digestion, steadier mood and energy, and long-term resilience.

You may benefit from this test if you have:

Bloating or gas

Constipation or diarrhea

Food sensitivities

Unexplained abdominal pain

Acne, eczema, or rashes

Brain fog or poor focus

Anxiety, low mood, or irritability

Trouble falling or staying asleep

Stubborn weight changes

IBS, IBD, or SIBO history

Long-term gut-impacting medications

Doctor Order Required

At Home Test

HSA/FSA Eligible

Gut Zoomer

Get Started

CAP Accredited

Clinically Validated

No Insurance accepted

What We Measure

Gut Commensals (100+ )

Gut Pathogens (76)

Inflammation Markers (7)

Gut Antibody Markers (6)

Malabsorption Markers (7)

Gut Metabolites (11)

Gut Diversity Indices (4)

Gut Phyla (7)

Digestion & Immune Balance Markers (5)

Antibiotic Resistance Genes (12)

Excitatory Neurotransmitters (12)

Inhibitory Neurotransmitters (5)

Neuroactive Metabolites & Precursors (11)

Neurotransmitter Ratios (4)

Gut Commensals (100+ )

Gut Pathogens (76)

Inflammation Markers (7)

Gut Antibody Markers (6)

Malabsorption Markers (7)

Gut Metabolites (11)

Gut Diversity Indices (4)

Gut Phyla (7)

Digestion & Immune Balance Markers (5)

Antibiotic Resistance Genes (12)

Excitatory Neurotransmitters (12)

Inhibitory Neurotransmitters (5)

Neuroactive Metabolites & Precursors (11)

Neurotransmitter Ratios (4)

Sample Info

Stool

Urine

NY State Available

Turnaround Time：14 Days

Resources

Sample Report

Stool Collection Instructions

Urine Collection Instructions

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You may benefit from this test if you have:

Bloating or gas

Constipation or diarrhea

Food sensitivities

Unexplained abdominal pain

Acne, eczema, or rashes

Brain fog or poor focus

Anxiety, low mood, or irritability

Trouble falling or staying asleep

Stubborn weight changes

IBS, IBD, or SIBO history

Long-term gut-impacting medications

Precision Testing for Personalized Solutions

All of our laboratory tests are performed in a CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited facility in California

Why choose the Gut Zoomer

Gut Commensals

Gut Pathogens

Gut Barrier

Gut Digestion

Gut Inflammation

Gut Brain

Gut Hormones

Bile Acids

Short Chain Fatty Acids

Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Gut Commensals

Is my gut microbiome balanced?

Gut microbiome imbalance and low diversity is associated with intestinal gas, autoimmune, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, metabolic, cardiovascular health and inflammation.

Precision Testing
Measure diversity, richness and resilience of my gut microbiome. Test for 180+ commensal bacteria.

Personalized Solutions
Strain-specific probiotics, Prebiotic-rich foods, and postbiotics to restore microbial diversity, balance, and resilience.

Gut Pathogens

Are hidden pathogens disrupting my gut balance?

Pathogens due to infections can cause inflammation and disrupt diversity of microbiome.

Precision Testing
Measure bacteria, virus, parasite and fungus to reveal infections that trigger inflammation, malabsorption, or immune activation Test for 75+ Gut pathogens

Personalized Solutions
Targeted antimicrobial foods, herbal extracts, and protective probiotics to clear pathogens and rebuild safely.

Gut Barrier

Do I have a leaky-gut and why does it matter?

The intestine lining is a single cell layer. Any damage to this layer can cause unwanted food particles and toxins into the bloodstream— associating "leaky gut" to fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, and immune activation.

Precision Testing
Measure zonulin, secretory IgA, and anti-LPS antibodies to show if the intestinal lining is intact.

Personalized Solutions
Repair the gut lining with mucilage-rich foods, barrier-support nutrients, and postbiotics.

Gut Digestion

Am I fully digesting fats, protein and fiber?

Enzymes in your intestine digest protein and bile acids help with fat digestion and absorption while gut bacteria assist in fiber digestion.

Precision Testing
Measure pancreatic elastase, fecal fats, and undigested fiber to uncover absorption issues.

Personalized Solutions
Enhance enzyme activity and bile flow with bitter foods, digestive support, and tiber-based prebiotics.

Gut Inflammation

Is low-grade inflammation active in my gut?

70% of your immune system resides in your gut. Your microbiome trains and regulates these cells, influencing pathogen defence to inflammation control.

Precision Testing
Measure calprotectin, secretory IgA and zonulin to detect inflammation long before bloating or pain appears. It can assist in diagnosing Inflammatory bowel disease

Personalized Solutions
Calm immune activation with anti-inflammatory foods, herbs, biologics, and postbiotics.

Gut Brain

Does gut health affect my sleep and mood?

90% serotonin, 50% GABA is produced in your gut. They modulate mood and sleep.

Precision Testing
Measure serotonin, GABA, tryptophan and other mood and sleep modulating neurotransmitters.

Personalized Solutions
Boost neurotransmitter precursors and gut-brain probiotics for calming mood and enhancing sleep quality.

Gut Hormones

How is my Estrogen Metabolized?

For perimenopause, menopause and post menopause women, estrogen clearance is important, and your gut microbiome plays a key role in this mechanism.

Precision Testing
Beta glucuronidase measurement provides insight on how much estrogen is excreted vs recirculated.

Personalized Solutions
Support phase Il detox and microbiome modulation to balance estrogen clearance.

Bile Acids

Are bile acids being properly recycled and used?

Bile acid produced in gall bladder ensures proper fat digestion, cholesterol balance, and microbiome-driven detox.

Precision Testing
Measure conjugated and deconjugated bile acids to show if fat digestion and detox pathways are working.

Personalized Solutions
Enhance bile flow and microbial deconjugation with bitter foods and spore-based support.

Short Chain Fatty Acids

Is my gut microbiome producing enough short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)?

Complex carbohydrates like whole grains, starchy vegetables are broken down to short chain fatty acids by gut microbiome that help with barrier integrity and anti-inflammatory response.

Precision Testing
Measure short chain fatty acids like acetate, butyrate and propionate.

Personalized Solutions
Feed SCFA-producing bacteria with prebiotic fibers and postbiotic butyrate, acetate or propionate.

Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Do my microbes carry any resistance traits?

Some microbes possess resistance genes that affect how they respond to antimicrobial therapies. Understanding these patterns supports safer, more precise and effective interventions.

Precision Testing
Screens for resistance markers across macrolides, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, β-lactams, vancomycin, and other key antibiotic classes.

Personalized Solutions
Lab result-informed strategies supportive probiotics, and microbiome-rebuilding nutrients to enhance recovery.

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Vibrant Advantage

The Gut Zoomer delivers a clinically advanced, gut–brain–focused evaluation of microbial balance, digestion, inflammation, barrier integrity, detox pathways, and neurochemical activity, providing integrated insights that help pinpoint root contributors to symptoms and support precise, effective care.

Gut–Brain Integration

Provides a unified view of microbiome patterns, gut chemistry, neurotransmitters, and stress signals, helping explain why digestion, mood, focus, and energy often shift together.

High-Resolution Microbes

Offers broad commensal profiling and expanded pathogen detection to clarify whether symptoms stem from imbalance, low diversity, or infections that routine testing may miss.

Barrier & Immune Insight

Combines permeability markers, mucosal immunity, and inflammatory proteins to show how your gut lining is functioning and whether immune stress is contributing to food reactions or fatigue.

Neurotransmitter Patterns

Measures excitatory and calming neurotransmitters, key metabolites, and daily catecholamine rhythms—turning vague symptoms like brain fog, low motivation, or tension into clearer biochemical patterns.

Detox & Metabolic Signals

Maps SCFAs, bile acids, and β-glucuronidase to identify how gut activity is affecting hormone metabolism, detox capacity, and metabolic tone—areas that influence weight, cravings, and overall vitality.

Clear, Systems-Level Reporting

Organizes findings into meaningful clinical domains that connect the gut, brain, metabolism, and immune system—making it easier for your provider to create a personalized, stepwise care plan.

Gut–Brain Integration

Provides a unified view of microbiome patterns, gut chemistry, neurotransmitters, and stress signals, helping explain why digestion, mood, focus, and energy often shift together.

High-Resolution Microbes

Offers broad commensal profiling and expanded pathogen detection to clarify whether symptoms stem from imbalance, low diversity, or infections that routine testing may miss.

Barrier & Immune Insight

Combines permeability markers, mucosal immunity, and inflammatory proteins to show how your gut lining is functioning and whether immune stress is contributing to food reactions or fatigue.

Neurotransmitter Patterns

Detox & Metabolic Signals

Clear, Systems-Level Reporting

Organizes findings into meaningful clinical domains that connect the gut, brain, metabolism, and immune system—making it easier for your provider to create a personalized, stepwise care plan.

Gut Zoomer Markers

Additional Resources

What's included

Complete Markers List

Patient Brochure

Key Clinical Messages

Sample Report

Complete Markers List

Patient Brochure

Key Clinical Messages

Sample Report

Step 1

Order

Ask your provider to order your lab test

Step 2

Collect

Use easy to follow instructions included in your test kit

Step 3

Return

Use the included return label to send back your samples

Step 4

Receive

Your provider will receive your results in 2-3 weeks

Synergistic Testing with Gut Zoomer

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An environmental health panel that assesses heavy metals, mold toxins, industrial chemicals, and PFAS together with detox capacity.

Toxin Zoomer

Toxin Zoomer

A hormone test that measures hormone levels and their metabolism, detoxification efficiency, endocrine-disrupting exposures, and functional outcomes like oxidative stress and bone turnover.

Hormone Zoomer

Why it Matters

Toxin Zoomer shows which environmental toxicants, PFAS chemicals, heavy metals, and mycotoxins are accumulating and how detox-related genetics influence load and sensitivity while Gut Zoomer clarifies whether the gut barrier, microbiome, immune tone, and neurotransmitter patterns are primed to absorb, recirculate, or clear those toxicants. Together, they turn diffuse symptoms into a focused plan: reduce exposures, support clearance, restore barrier integrity, rebalance microbiota, and calm neuroinflammatory load.

Gut barrier integrity, microbial balance, SCFA production, bile acids, β-glucuronidase, detox efficiency, inflammation, and neurotransmitter patterns shape how hormones are produced, metabolized, recycled, and cleared. Pairing Gut Zoomer with Hormone Zoomer links “terrain” to “signaling,” clarifying whether estrogen detox, cortisol rhythm (via integrated CAR), androgen metabolism, or endocrine-disruptor effects are being amplified or stabilized by gut and gut–brain dynamics.

Key Insights

This pairing connects toxic exposure and genetic susceptibility with digestion, inflammation, permeability, microbial balance, SCFA output, bile acid turnover, β-glucuronidase, and gut–brain chemistry. It is especially useful for patients with complex, multi-system symptoms involving fatigue, mood changes, neurological reactivity, detox strain, or chronic inflammatory patterns.

This combination connects hormone metabolism, cortisol rhythm, neuroendocrine stress patterns, and gut-derived contributors such as permeability, inflammation, detox load, and microbial metabolites. It also ties findings to lived outcomes, energy, sleep, mood, cravings, weight balance, cycle patterns, and stress resilience so retest trends align with how the patient actually feels.

What’s Measured

Evaluates environmental toxicants, PFAS chemicals, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and detox-related immune and genetic markers, alongside gut microbes, pathogens, bile acids, SCFAs, gut antibodies, and inflammation markers (e.g., calprotectin, MMP-9, beta-defensin 2) that reflect gut barrier stress, immune reactivity, and downstream systemic effects.

Includes estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, cortisol, and CAR timing, melatonin, and their metabolites, plus endocrine disruptor markers alongside gut microbes, pathogens, fermentation patterns, bile acids, SCFAs, gut antibodies, and inflammation markers that influence hormone detox, recirculation, and signaling.

FAQs for Gut Zoomer

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About the Test

What does the Gut Zoomer measure?

It evaluates the gut microbiome, digestion, inflammation, intestinal permeability, immune reactivity, microbial metabolites, and detox-related pathways alongside neurotransmitters and daily stress signals. The panel organizes commensals, pathogens, SCFAs, bile acids, β-glucuronidase, zonulin, sIgA, LPS antibodies, excitatory and calming neurotransmitters, and diurnal catecholamines to give a full view of gut–brain dynamics.

What samples are required and how is it collected?

Collection is at home. You’ll provide a stool sample for microbiome, digestion, pathogens, immune markers, and metabolites, plus timed urine samples for neurotransmitters and catecholamine rhythm. The kit includes clear instructions, labeled tubes, and a prepaid mailer to return the samples the same day collection is finished.

How are results used and who benefits most?

The report links gut microbes, digestion, barrier integrity, inflammation, detox patterns, neurotransmitters, and stress rhythms into a single interpretive framework. This helps clarify the root contributors behind symptoms like bloating, fatigue, brain fog, food reactions, anxiety, irritability, cravings, and sleep issues and guides targeted, stepwise plans that evolve as symptoms improve.

Health Insights

What kinds of patterns can this test highlight?

It brings together microbial balance, pathogen burden, permeability status, mucosal immunity, metabolic output, and gut-derived detox capacity with neurochemical drivers of energy, mood, focus, and stress resilience. Seeing these systems together can distinguish overlapping contributors—like whether symptoms stem from microbial imbalance, poor digestion, barrier stress, inflammation, neurotransmitter shifts, or a mix of several.

How do these findings relate to everyday symptoms?

Results translate complex gut–brain biology into practical context. For example, low butyrate may relate to sluggish digestion or inflammation; high β-glucuronidase may influence hormone recirculation or estrogen symptoms; elevated zonulin or LPS antibodies can connect to food reactions and fatigue; neurotransmitter shifts may align with brain fog, anxiety, sleep variability, or low motivation. Together, these patterns create a clearer story for what you’re feeling and why.

Ordering

How do I order the Gut Zoomer test and what should I expect?

Your licensed healthcare provider initiates the order. You’ll receive an at-home kit with step-by-step instructions for the stool and urine collections. After completing the samples, package them in the materials provided and use the prepaid mailer to return everything the same day. Once processed, a visual report is sent to your provider, who will review the findings with you and answer questions about what the patterns may mean.

Regulatory Statement

Limitations

Please note the information provided by Vibrant Wellness is intended solely for research and informational purposes to help inform lifestyle choices aimed at potential risk mitigation. The information is not intended to be used by the patient for any diagnostic purpose and is not a substitute for medical advice by a healthcare practitioner. Please consult a licensed healthcare practitioner for any questions regarding diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or health assessment.

The test is not available in NY State.

Regulatory Disclaimer

Please note the information provided by Vibrant Wellness is intended solely for research and informational purposes to help inform lifestyle choices aimed at potential risk mitigation. The tests were developed, and their performance characteristics were determined by Vibrant America and Vibrant Genomics. They have not been cleared or approved by US Food and Drug Administration. The laboratory is certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) as qualified to perform high complexity testing. The laboratory is also in compliance with College of American Pathologists (CAP) regulations and New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) regulations.

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You may benefit from this test if you have:

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What We Measure

Sample Info

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You may benefit from this test if you have:

Precision Testing for Personalized Solutions

Why choose the Gut Zoomer

Is my gut microbiome balanced?

Are hidden pathogens disrupting my gut balance?

Do I have a leaky-gut and why does it matter?

Am I fully digesting fats, protein and fiber?

Is low-grade inflammation active in my gut?

Does gut health affect my sleep and mood?

How is my Estrogen Metabolized?

Are bile acids being properly recycled and used?

Is my gut microbiome producing enough short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)?

Do my microbes carry any resistance traits?

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Gut Zoomer Markers

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