Know Your Body Score
Based on 20+ years of clinical experience and patterns seen in hundreds of chronic cases
Discover What's Really Driving Your Symptoms
This free 2-minute assessment identifies which root cause patterns are most likely behind your chronic symptoms — so you know exactly where to focus your healing.
- 1 Answer 6 questions about your symptoms and experience
- 2 Get your personalized root cause pattern result
- 3 Receive clear, tailored next steps toward lasting relief
Check all digestive symptoms you experience regularly:
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Check all immune & inflammatory symptoms you experience:
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Check all energy & hormonal symptoms you experience:
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Check all mind-body symptoms you experience:
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How disruptive are your symptoms right now?
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How long have you been dealing with these symptoms?
This helps us understand the depth of the pattern
Inflammatory Gut Pattern
What is the Inflammatory Gut Pattern?
Your gut is far more than a digestion machine — it's the command centre for your immune system, a production facility for many of your neurotransmitters, and a critical regulator of whole-body inflammation. When something disrupts the gut lining or the microbiome living inside it, the effects don't stay local. They spread.
The Inflammatory Gut Pattern is what we see when the gut wall becomes irritated or "leaky" — allowing particles that should stay inside the digestive tract to cross into the bloodstream. The immune system responds to these particles as threats, triggering an inflammatory cascade that can show up almost anywhere in the body: joints, skin, brain, hormones, and energy systems.
(food, stress, toxin)
becomes irritated
bloodstream
activates
inflammation
The tricky part: this process is largely silent. Standard blood tests don't detect it. You can have significant gut-driven inflammation and be told everything looks "normal" — because conventional medicine isn't looking for the right things.
Why This Matters
Immune & Inflammatory Disruption Pattern
What is the Immune & Inflammatory Disruption Pattern?
Your immune system is one of the most sophisticated systems in the body — but it has a fundamental design flaw: it can't always distinguish between a genuine threat and a false alarm. When it's exposed to the wrong triggers over time, it can shift into a chronically activated state. Not fighting a specific infection, but running at a low-level simmer that never fully switches off.
This is what drives the Immune & Inflammatory Disruption Pattern. The immune system isn't broken — it's reacting. Often to foods that have slipped past the body's first-line defences. The result is systemic inflammation that standard tests frequently miss.
trigger
over-responds
signals released
organs affected
across systems
Because the trigger is never removed, the immune response never truly resolves. This explains why symptoms persist even when you're otherwise healthy — and why they often improve dramatically when the specific triggers are finally identified and removed.
Why This Matters
Energy & Hormone Disruption Pattern
What is the Energy & Hormone Disruption Pattern?
Hormones don't operate in isolation. They're part of a finely tuned communication network — and inflammation is one of their most disruptive enemies. When the body is exposed to persistent inflammatory triggers (foods, stress, environmental factors), it diverts resources toward the inflammatory response and away from optimal hormonal and metabolic function.
The Energy & Hormone Disruption Pattern is what happens when chronic, low-grade inflammation interferes with the body's ability to regulate energy, metabolism, thyroid function, adrenal output, and reproductive hormones. This is why hormone panels can look "within range" while you still feel exhausted, gain weight without explanation, or struggle with symptoms your doctor can't figure out.
trigger
hormones rise
slows
symptoms appear
The key insight: treating hormones as the problem often produces incomplete results. Addressing the inflammation that's disrupting the hormone system is where lasting change happens — and it's something standard endocrinology rarely investigates.
Why This Matters
Nervous System & Mind-Body Pattern
What is the Nervous System & Mind-Body Pattern?
The relationship between inflammation and the brain is one of the most significant — and most underappreciated — in modern medicine. Inflammatory signals don't stay in the body; they cross into the brain, where they directly affect neurotransmitter production, nerve signalling, and the regulation of the autonomic nervous system.
The Nervous System & Mind-Body Pattern describes what happens when the body's stress and inflammatory responses become chronically dysregulated. This isn't a psychological issue — it has measurable biological underpinnings. Stress impacts the brain, which signals the body. The body signals back to the brain. This creates a cycle that is hard to interrupt without understanding what's driving it.
or trigger
chemistry
rises
disrupted
cognition affected
The gut-brain axis plays a central role here too: 90% of your serotonin is made in the gut, and when gut health is compromised, the downstream effects on mood and cognition are profound. This is why mind-body symptoms rarely respond fully to medications alone — the root is often inflammatory, not psychological.
Why This Matters
Multiple Overlapping Root Cause Patterns
⚡ Why Do Multiple Patterns Appear Together?
This is one of the most important things to understand about chronic health — and one of the least explained. The four root cause patterns we assess are not separate, independent conditions. They're deeply interconnected systems, and inflammation is the thread that runs through all of them.
Here's what typically happens: an initial trigger — often an unidentified food sensitivity, a period of chronic stress, or a gut disruption — starts a cascade. The gut becomes inflamed, which activates the immune system. The immune response disrupts hormonal signalling. The hormonal disruption affects the nervous system. The nervous system stays stuck in an alert state, which generates more inflammation. And the cycle continues.
This is why people with multiple overlapping patterns often feel like nothing has ever fully worked — because they've been addressing one piece of the picture at a time, while the other pieces continue to drive the cycle. The good news is that the shared underlying driver — inflammation and its triggers — responds well to a structured, whole-system approach.
📋 Your Active Pattern Breakdown
Below is a breakdown of each pattern active in your results — what it is, how it's causing inflammation, and why your specific symptoms appear within it. Click any pattern to expand.
🗺️ What a Combined Healing Approach Looks Like
When multiple patterns are present, the most effective strategies are those that address the shared root cause — rather than chasing each symptom category separately. The inflammation driving your gut symptoms is the same inflammation disrupting your hormones and affecting your mood. Removing the triggers that feed the inflammatory cycle tends to create improvements across all active patterns simultaneously.
This means the path forward isn't more complex than a single-pattern case — it's actually more efficient. When you address the source, multiple downstream problems begin to resolve together.