April 24, 2026

Health Assessment and Improvement with Functional Nutrition with Reed Davis

Health Assessment and Improvement with Functional Nutrition with Reed Davis
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Reed Davis has developed a wellness paradigm where he defines key laboratory tests to measure health status. He then has a program to move the person towards optimal wellness. He has a training program through which the students can become health coaches. The laboratory tests he uses include:
  • Stress and hormone profile
    • This saliva test assesses cortisol levels and provides information on immune system
  • Metabolic wellness profile
    • This is a dried urine test which addresses digestion, detoxification (via liver) and oxidative stress. This looks at cell and tissue damage that builds up with metabolic dysfunction
  • Gut intestinal permeability which includes diamine oxide the enzyme that breaks down histamine (dried blood spot)
  • GI map stool test
  • Mediator Release test for food sensitivity
  • Metabolic typing questionnaire
BIO
Reed Davis, Double-Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Doctor of Nutritional Therapy (DNT), is a globally recognized expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine.
As the visionary founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN), Reed pioneered the FDN Certification Course, which has empowered over 5,000 practitioners across 50 countries to take charge of their clients' health.
Reed noticed that most patients had already seen multiple doctors and therapists and still had many of their original complaints. Reed decided then he would be the last practitioner anyone needed to see and became an expert in functional lab assessments. FDN is the result of more research and experience than most practitioners get in a lifetime.
While working with top leaders in alternative medicine, he ran thousands of labs on thousands of people and learned to identify “healing opportunities.” Using all-natural, drug-free protocols, Reed made observations about who got better and who didn’t, codifying which “general principles of health building” would outperform “specific treatments” being provided by standard and even alternative medicine. And through this work, he then developed the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Certification
Reed Davis is one of the authors of four books including “The Needs Gap”: A Simple Guide to Manage Autoimmune Disease and Chronic Pain. This book fills the gap between standard medicine approaches and alternative strategies for resolving chronic conditions as well as some great recipes.