OMX Organic Metabolomics Test – Diagnostic Solutions – Latin America

Using a systems biology approach, OMX evaluates biomarkers that go beyond traditional lists of metabolites. This test allows clinicians to see a patient's broader health picture by deciphering and connecting perturbations of metabolic pathways and key analytes, enabling truly personalized therapeutic support.

What is metabolomics testing?

Metabolomics, also called comprehensive metabolic profiling, evaluates metabolite patterns related to core biological systems, providing insight into biochemical dysfunctions that may be of concern.

Organic acids and other small molecules are intermediate compounds that can define the efficient flow of pathways and substrates, such as amino acids, to reveal the level of inputs, which together establish the functional status of key areas of health.

Metabolites are affected by many factors and can change in response to diet, nutrient status, toxin exposure, exercise, physiological demands, genetics, gut microbiome alterations, or disease stage.

Metabolic analysis can help clinicians evaluate the function of key pathways to better target support.

Why choose OMX organic metabolomics?

Identify metabolomic deviations

OMX™ metabolomics testing goes beyond traditional organic acid testing. OMX characterizes metabolic phenotypes by presenting analytes in pathway categories to more easily identify metabolic deviations that may underlie (and even precede ) to the disease.

OMX also offers additional key markers and ratios as a standard part of the profile, including cortisol, kynurenine, microalbumin, equol, and more.

OMX™ tests group urine and plasma analytes into six functionally related categories:

1. Metabolic processing
2. Amino acid and protein metabolism
3. Nutrition
4. Stress and mood
5. Microbial metabolites
6. Toxic impacts

The OMX report cover page provides an overview of the deterioration of each functional category that professionals can use to easily review results with patients. This page includes helpful graphics, including a handy chart «Health goal» which can help patients immediately begin to recognize their current metabolic signature.

Most of the multi-page report details each analyte detected, along with the enzymes that affect a patient's metabolic pathways. Personalized treatment recommendations are also provided on the last page of the report. Ask the OMX sample report for more details.

Which patients can benefit from OMX metabolomics testing?

Understanding an individual's metabolome, combined with their medical history and lifestyle, allows doctors to paint a bigger picture and provide support from the bottom up. Ideally, practitioners will use OMX to establish a baseline metabolic signature for healthy patients. The baseline could be used for future comparisons if symptoms, illnesses or diseases occur.

OMX provides information on the following areas of health:

• Metabolic and macronutrient processing.
• Nutritional and vitamin status.
• Amino acid level and flow.
• detox
• Mood problems
• Visceral concerns
• The general well-being

How can OMX help translate metabolomics research into clinical care?

Metabolomics research has typically compared diseased or diseased populations to healthy controls and identified the analytes, pathways, or categories that were most affected. Research has focused on several conditions, including diabetes, autism, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, fatty liver disease, heart disease, toxic substance exposure, and more.

Emerging research is beginning to characterize core metabolic signatures and increase understanding of biochemical relationships within different conditions or diseases. The OMX metabolomics test allows clinicians to identify markers or pathways that research has identified as most associated with specific diseases or core deficiencies.

Methodology

MS/MS: Newer tests result in significant increases in sensitivity and specificity, and greater reproducibility.