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NeuroResearch Clinics relies exclusively
on DBS Labs for urinary serotonin and
dopamine neurotransmitter testing in
natural treatment of disease. DBS Labs
is directed by Tom Uncini, MD hospital
based pathologist who is dual board
certified in laboratory medicine. Dr.
Uncini is the medical director of two
hospital labs, University of Minnesota
Medical Center Mesabi in Hibbing, MN and
Cook Hospital in Cook, MN. Dr. Uncini is
also on the faculty of the University of
Minnesota Medical School. The urinary
neurotransmitter testing produced by DBS
Labs is of hospital caliber. Between Dr. Uncini and his lab manager there are over 50 years of hospital based laboratory experience.
The
experience and credentials of the people
running DBS Labs stand in stark contrast
to the other labs out there attempting
to do urinary neurotransmitter testing.
Other laboratories have no hospital
based board certified laboratory
medicine pathologist running the lab, no
license to practice medicine, no
hospital privilege affiliation, no
clinic, no patients, and have never
treated one patient in clinic. Yet some are holding
out that they have the expertise to tell
doctors how to treat their patients when
the urinary neurotransmitter testing
results are reported back to the doctor.
This may explain why the testing results
of these labs do not correlate when the same
sample is run on split sample testing by
DBS Labs and the non-MD lab. These
non-MD labs are the labs
that are recommending and inducing
licensed medical doctors to get "baseline
urinary neurotransmitter testing" prior to treatment even
though there is no correlation between
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Written by:
Marty L.
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President
Clinical
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NeuroResearch
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Cape Coral, Florida USA Research Office |
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The University of Minnesota
Medical School neurotransmitter testing paper.
FROM PEER REVIEWED
LITERATURE
The data
presented in this study indicate that consumption of
specific dietary precursors of serotonin or dopamine
only increase the urinary excretion of these
neurotransmitters approximately 50% of the time.
Probably the most surprising finding of this study
is that 20 to 40% of these same individuals respond
to the precursors with an unexpected reduction in
excretion of the neurotransmitters, particularly
dopamine. These observations indicate that the
simplistic expectation that increased ingestion of
neurotransmitter precursors will increase excretion
of the mature neurotransmitters in the urine is
frequently not observed. In fact, Tyrosine was
observed to suppress dopamine excretion.
Both
stimulatory and inhibitory effects of dietary 5
HydroxyTryptophan and Tyrosine on urinary excretion
of serotonin and dopamine in a large human
population
George J. Trachte,
Thomas Uncini and Marty Hinz, Department of
Physiology and Pharmacology, University of MN
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PERSPECTIVE
FLAWED RESULTS FROM A LABORATORY
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The
results obtained from the lab are so
critical in obtaining optimal results in
the treatment of
neurotransmitter disease that we start
this section with a discussion of
attributes that make up a good lab.
While this discussion may seem basic
read on and note all the considerations
put forth.
We
start with a discussion of the
differences and effectiveness of various
urinary neurotransmitter laboratory
testing approaches that have come into
existence since the year 2000. Make no
mistake there is no such thing as a
"standard approach" in this evolving
area of medicine known as
neurotransmitter testing. In treatment
of neurotransmitter disease,
laboratories and their approaches differ
greatly. There are several
companies holding out that they are
doing urinary neurotransmitter testing
with administration of nutrients. For
many simply hearing "urinary
neurotransmitter testing with
administration of nutrients" leads to
the conclusion that the approaches are
all the same. The fact is when the
different approaches are examined
closely the results are as different as
night and day. Even the reported urinary
neurotransmitter testing values from one
lab to the next on the sample lab sample
do not correlate. So which
approach is the best? The NeuroResearch
Clinics approach is achieving 100%
relief of symptoms in the natural
treatment of depression, anxiety,
Attention Deficit (ADD ADHD) and a
number of other diseases. These results
have raised the bar and set the standard.
Medical doctors are taught to place a
high degree of trust in the hospital and
clinic lab. NeuroResearch Clinics has
found that there are non-hospital,
non-clinic labs out there that may not
deserve this trust this same trust.
Early on NeuroResearch Clinics
contracted with labs that were not of
hospital caliber for serotonin and
dopamine urinary neurotransmitter testing and found it not to be of the
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clinics. As a
physician who had been hospital
and clinic based for over 35 years I thought all
medical labs were the same, they are
not. Laboratories supervised by medical
doctors with hospital affiliation and
labs supervised by people with no
medical license or no hospital affiliation are
like night and day. In contracting early
on with labs not run by medical doctors,
after several thousand labs were
obtained it was realized that urinary
neurotransmitter testing
results were not calibrated to hospital
standards. In turn this caused
NeuroResearch to discard (throw out) thousands of
serotonin and dopamine urinary
neurotransmitter testing results obtained from sources with no hospital
privilege affiliation or medical license. This type of
serotonin and dopamine urinary
neurotransmitter testing is still
available to this day. We get regular
reports from physicians using the
baseline urinary
neurotransmitter testing approach in
natural treatment of
depression, anxiety, attention deficit
ADD ADHD, etc., claiming that virtually none
of their patients achieve relief of
symptoms. This raises the question, "Why
are these doctors continuing to use the
baseline urinary
neurotransmitter testing approach in
natural treatment if it does not give
complete relief of symptoms in most
patients?"
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