|
|
|
Pacific Ocean North
West Nicaragua photo by
Marty L. Hinz, MD |
|
|
 |
|
Contact us or find a caregiver using this
approach. |
| |
Insomnia
Treatment
The NeuroResearch
Clinics Approach |
|
Written by:
Marty L.
Hinz, MD |
|
President
Clinical
Research |
|
NeuroResearch
Clinics,
Inc. |
|
Cape Coral, Florida USA Research Office |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Insomnia
Treatment
The
NeuroResearch approach is to treat
the cause
not the
symptoms. In
many cases
once a
proper
medical work
up has been
performed a
direct cause
of insomnia
is not
found,
such as
hyperthyroidism,
drug
induced,
etc. It is
at this
point that
the
NeuroResearch
insomnia
treatment approach
excels.
Sleep is
controlled
by
melatonin.
Melatonin is
synthesized
from
serotonin in
the brain.
This
synthesis of
melatonin
from
serotonin is
dependent
upon and
regulated by
norepinephrine.
Addressing
only the
serotonin or
only the
norepinephrine
will not
lead to
optimal
results.
Only by
addressing
and
optimizing
both the
serotonin
and dopamine-norepinephrine
system will
optimal
relief of
insomnia be
seen. Use of
prescription
drugs such
as sleeping
pills,
antihistamines,
or reuptake
inhibitors
(depression
drugs) do
nothing to
increase the
number of
neurotransmitter
molecules in
the brain
and
certainly do
nothing to
restore
neurotransmitters
of the brain
to the
balanced
levels
needed to
correct the
underlying
problem.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Insomnia
Treatment
The
Medical
Approach
of
NeuroResearch
Clinics
Patients
with
insomnia
do
not
live
in a
vacuum
most
have
3 or
more
neurotransmitter
diseases
active
at
the
same
time
(see
"The
Diseases"
hyperlink
at
the
top
left
of
this
page).
Under
the
NeuroResearch
Clinics
protocol
patients
with
insomnia
are
started
on
5-HTP,
tyrosine,
and
cysteine
formula
at
which
point
some
patients
obtain
relief
of
symptoms
in
the
first
week.
If
relief
of
symptoms
is
not
obtained
the
dosing
is
adjusted
weekly
for
two
weeks
at
which
point
if
no
relief
of
symptoms
are
obtain
urinary
neurotransmitter testing should obtained
and
the
dosing
adjusted
based
on
the
test
results until
both
the
urinary
serotonin
and
dopamine
are
in
the
phase
3
therapeutic
range.
Once the urinary
serotonin and
dopamine is in the
phase 3 therapeutic
range approximately
80% of patients with
insomnia will
experience relief of
symptoms. For the
remaining 20% it
will take another 2
to 6 weeks for
maximum improvement
of sleep to be
experienced. In some
patients it may take
as long as three
months to properly
correct the
neurotransmitters in
the brain and
achieve relief of
insomnia symptoms,
for most it will not
take this long.
It has been
estimated that over
50% of people over
40 years old do not
dream or have no
memory of dreaming
during sleep.
Dreaming during
sleep is thought to
be an important part
of good sleep.
Virtually all
patients treated
with the
NeuroResearch
Clinics approach
report the return of
dreaming or the
return of memory of
dreams during sleep.
Sleeping
pills current used
in medicine work with the
neurotransmitter
GABA (which is
controlled and
regulated by
serotonin
and
dopamine) or
work with
antihistamines. The
older
sleeping barbituric
acid
sleeping
pills are
rarely
prescribing
any more. No
matter what the
cause of insomnia
these pills
do nothing to
correct the problem.
For the
patient
currently
taking
sleeping
pills for
insomnia the
NeuroResearch
Clinics approach is
highly effective in
getting the patient off
these pills. These
pills are
better at
addicting
and/or
habituating
the patient
to the pills
than
treating the
cause of
insomnia. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The NeuroResearch Clinics Approach
to Treating Insomnia |
|
It
is
no secret NeuroResearch Clinics uses
the nutrients 5-HTP, tyrosine, levodopa,
and
cysteine to treat medical patients
in order to get the results
documented by our doctors, Proper
use these simple
ingredients in medical treatment is not simple.
From time to time a patient will
say, "Why do I want to take that, I
can go to a health food store and
buy it?" People off the street
buying in a health food store is like going to an art
store and buying a bunch of oil
paints then going home and expecting
to paint like a mater artist even
though there was no previous
painting experience. Having been in
medicine since 1972 I can firmly
state that use of 5-HTP, tyrosine,
levodopa, and cysteine, in medical
clinics, with urinary
neurotransmitter testing is some of
the most sophisticated medical
treatment in medicine.
These nutrients have tremendous
potential due to their chemical
properties. The potential is only
fully realized in the hands of the
trained professional. Treatment is
not just giving a nutrient pill, it is the whole medical approach
doctors are trained in to manage the
disease properly and make sure that
that the whole treatment plan is on
track to get symptoms under control. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
