You can enter your 23andme data and then what you can also do is — while they are running their analysis on that — enter blood work, enter results
of organic acid tests and results of stool.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: What major areas
of the organic acid test are you seeing out of balance in your patients right now?
Not exact matches
The food
test kits developed and produced by ifp include: Rapid lateral - flow
test kits for the on - site detection
of food allergens (distributed by Romer Labs under the trademark AgraStrip); real - time PCR kits for the detection
of pathogens, GMO, plant / animal species etc. (distributed by QIAGEN under the trademark mericon); microbiological vitamin
test kits in microtiter plates (distributed by R - Biopharm under the trademark VitaFast); enzymatic kits in microtiter plates for the quantitative determination
of sugars,
organic acids and other metabolites (trademark EnzymeFast).
Laboratory
testing has shown that our eggs contain almost twice as much
of the Omega 3 fatty
acids as
organic «Omega 3» eggs that derive their Omega 3 fatty
acids from flax seeds.
But also on a
organic acid test, we'll see the uhm — D - arabinose, which is a metabolite
of Candida but that also kinda means it's gone systemic.
Uh — I've seen hundreds
of times on the
organic acids test and there's actually some literature on this, that if you're taking your precursors for glutathione, like you're N - acetylcysteine or your vitamin C even in oral form, that you can actually boost up glutathione.
A functional assessment
of glutathione production and cysteine adequacy to meet the need for GSH synthesis can be provided by a urinary
organic acids test evaluating α - hydroxybutyrate and sulfate.
The
organic acid test is a urine
test that will look at a biomarker
of B6 called pyrodixic.
If a client is demonstrating many
of the symptoms listed above that are associated with low GABA than the
organic acid test would be warranted.
Since a similar marker
of DNA oxidative damage repair, 8 - OHDG, is measured in the urine on
organic acids tests offered by certain labs, could
organic acids testing be used to assess AD risk in our patients?
Simple urinary
tests can provide an assessment
of organic acids in the body.
Evan Brand: Yeah, that was something I was gonna talk with you about, too, which maybe this is a tangent, maybe not, is when I looked at her
organic acids test specifically with the — with all the pain meds in the system, all
of the detox measures there on the
organics that they were all flagged really high --
It is also the only
organic acids test available that measures HPHPA, one
of the primary toxic metabolites
of Clostridia.
Additionally, the DUTCH
test provides urinary
organic acids and neurotransmitters, which I again find to be helpful when I'm evaluating a patient in terms
of the broader function
of their body, including gut health, dysbiosis, and fungal overgrowth.
We run a stool
test on everyone,
organic acids testing on everyone, or nearly everyone as much as possible, because there's a lot
of different markers that conventional doctors are never going to
test.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: But when we have people that are showing either low amino
acids on their blood work or on their
organic acid test, we'll give them additional capsule versions
of free form aminos, so they bought — so they can absorb a lot
of those things to help make their neurotransmitters and their — their lean tissue as well.
Besides MTHFR
testing, other areas
of evaluation include metal toxicity, thyroid, vitamin D, adrenals, environmental / food sensitivity panels,
organic acids, and viral antibodies.
Instead
of tests that measure nutrient concentrations, the OATs measures abnormal concentrations
of organic acids in urine.
The Metabolic Analysis Profile is a nutritional
test using a urinary assessment
of 46 key
organic acids grouped according to their primary roles in the following four central areas
of metabolism.
So a lot
of people that we see — we'll run
organic acid testing and we'll look at these various
organic acids like sulfate or pyroglutamate, hippurate, glucarate,.
So dopamine is essential and a lot
of people may have neurotransmitter issues that need to be fretted out doing an in - depth
organic acid test.
In January
of 2018, we will be adding six
organic acid tests (OATs) to the DUTCH Complete ™ and DUTCH Plus ™
tests — at no extra charge!
Once I have the results
of this I then plan to orchestrate a recovery program in conjunction with a Functional Medicine practitioner here in London — although I'm thinking
of having the basic
tests done here before heading to the US for the SPECT scan i.e.
organic acids, comprehensive digestive stool analysis, heavy metals etc etc..
Through advanced functional medicine
testing, including stool and urine
organic acids, I learned about the underlying causes
of my IBS — including Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and candida overgrowth.
Anyone can do a stupid acquisition, and give the appearance
of growth, but real
organic growth is hard to find; it is the
acid test of determining what is a good management and what isn't.