Your clients already talk to you about their pets. The dog with loose stool that never quite resolves, the cat that won't stop scratching, the rescue who paces every time the car keys come out. These conversations usually happen at the end of a visit, because clients trust the way you think about health and want that same approach for the animals they live with. Until now, there hasn't been much to point them toward.
That changes with Innovative Pet Lab (IPL), the first pet laboratory partner on GetHealthy. IPL offers at-home functional testing for dogs, cats, and horses, built on the same root-cause thinking that shapes your work with people.
Who is Innovative Pet Lab?
Innovative Pet Lab is a pet testing company founded by clinical laboratory veterans with more than 100 years of combined experience at companies including Genova, DSL, and Boston Heart. The team set out to bring the depth of human functional diagnostics into animal wellness, guided by a simple belief: our pets deserve the same kind of insight we've come to expect for ourselves.
For integrative and functional practitioners, that makes IPL a natural fit. Your clients already value looking beneath the surface. Now they can bring that mindset to the animals they consider family.
Why does gut health matter for pets?
Gut health influences a pet's digestion, immune response, skin, and energy, much as it does in people. Pet parents are paying closer attention to food, supplements, stress, and healthy aging, yet when a dog or cat has loose stool, constipation, itching, vomiting, low energy, or food reactions, the reason is hard to read from symptoms alone.
IPL uses at-home stool testing to offer objective insight into what's happening in the gut, including intestinal inflammation, immune function, gut permeability, digestion, and detoxification. That gives pet parents and their care teams something more concrete to work with than guesswork.
What does the Comprehensive Gut Check for Dogs measure?
The Comprehensive Gut Check for Dogs measures six functional biomarkers from a single at-home stool sample, making it IPL's most in-depth gut assessment and the natural starting point for a dog's digestive health.
Calprotectin: intestinal inflammation
Secretory IgA: gut immune function
Zonulin: intestinal permeability
Anti-gliadin IgA: immune response to gliadin
Pancreatic Elastase: digestive and pancreatic function
Beta-glucuronidase: intestinal detoxification and microbial activity
You'll recognize most of these markers from human stool panels, which makes the results easy to talk through with clients. Taken together, they can help reveal imbalances that symptoms alone may not show.
Results arrive digitally with plain-language explanations and personalized food, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations, so pet parents get clear next steps instead of a page of numbers.
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Can stress affect a pet's health?
Yes. Stress in pets shows up in more than behavior, and it can ripple into digestion and overall wellbeing, just as it does in people.
IPL's Stress Test measures fecal cortisol, which offers a view of a pet's longer-term stress levels rather than a single moment. It can be especially helpful when a dog or cat is showing behavioral changes, restlessness, digestive upset, excessive barking or whining, or destructive habits.
The test is completed at home with a stool sample, and pet parents receive practical recommendations to support their pet's wellbeing.
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Why screen for parasites if a pet seems healthy?
Parasites can be present even when a pet looks and acts perfectly healthy, which is why routine screening belongs in proactive pet care.
IPL's Parasite Test screens at home for common parasites, including Giardia, hookworm, tapeworm, roundworm, Coccidia, and whipworm. Results are objective and easy to share directly with the pet's veterinarian when treatment or follow-up is needed.
For households with children, multiple pets, or animals that spend a lot of time outdoors, knowing a pet's parasite status is useful information for the whole family. Explore the IPL Parasite Test on GetHealthy.
How does pet testing fit into your practice?
Pet testing extends conversations you're already having about gut health, nutrition, stress, prevention, and healthy aging. Functional and integrative medicine taught clients to ask better questions about their own health: what's happening beneath the surface, what can be spotted earlier, and what can change today. IPL brings that same thinking to the animals they live with.
Your role stays simple. You make advanced pet testing easy to access from your Store, IPL delivers the results and recommendations, and the pet's veterinarian remains the go-to for diagnosis and treatment. For clients, it's one more reason your Store is the place they come back to.
Because better health shouldn't stop at the humans in the family.
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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Content is intended for licensed healthcare practitioners and is not a substitute for individual clinical judgment.
FAQ
Which animals can Innovative Pet Lab test? Innovative Pet Lab offers at-home testing for dogs, cats, and horses. The Comprehensive Gut Check is designed for dogs, while the Stress Test and Parasite Test are available for dogs and cats.
How is a sample collected? Every IPL test uses a simple at-home stool collection, so there's no clinic visit needed to get started.
What do pet parents receive with their results? Pet parents receive digital results with easy-to-understand insights and personalized food, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations.
Do IPL tests replace a veterinarian? No. IPL tests offer wellness insight and are designed to be shared with the pet's veterinarian, who handles diagnosis and treatment.
How do I offer IPL tests to my clients? You can add Innovative Pet Lab tests to your GetHealthy Store, where clients can order them alongside the products you already recommend.
