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The NeuroResearch Clinics Approach

 

Written by: Marty L. Hinz, MD
President Clinical Research
NeuroResearch Clinics, Inc.
Cape Coral, Florida USA Research Office
 

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  The problem with sleep medicine is that it treats the symptoms and not the problem. 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 "no Sleep Medicine" 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 a sleep medicine 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.

 

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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.

  Sleep medicine currently prescribed works with the neurotransmitter GABA (which is controlled and regulated by serotonin and dopamine) or work with antihistamines. The older barbituric acid sleep medicine is rarely prescribing any more. No matter what the cause of insomnia sleep medicine like this does nothing to correct the problem. For the patient currently taking sleeping medicine for insomnia the NeuroResearch Clinics approach is highly effective in getting the patient off these pills. Prescription sleep medicine is better at addicting and/or becoming habit forming than treating the cause of insomnia.

 
 
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The NeuroResearch Clinics no sleep medicine approach

 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.

 
 
 
 
 
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