Chiropractic Diagnostic Urine & Saliva Test Examples

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dr. Steve Minors and today we are going to discuss urine/saliva diagnostic testing and take a look at some neurotransmitters or neurochemistry as it applies to a patient that I have treated in the past. This particular patient came in and there were certain behavioral issues that they felt needed to be addressed and what we decided to do was refer the patient out for neurotransmitter testing and in December, 2005 we got the tests back and it showed certain neurotransmitters that were abnormally either high or low such as Epinephrine, on this patient being painfully low, telling us that his adrenal function is poor and the adrenals again are the stress glands and so having low levels of Epinephrine tells us that the adrenals just aren't doing very well. Also we have a Glutamine level that is just astronomical. It was almost 1,400 and the normal is 400. Glutamine is a precursor to the neurotransmitter, Glutamate. It is a precursor for transmitters but we really look at the Glutamine/Glutamate relationship especially knowing the lack of impulse control that this boy exhibited. We tried to address that with pharmaceutical supplementation to get the Glutamine under control and approximately nine months later in September, 2006 the patient had similar testing done and we see that the Glutamine is down to approximately 834, again it's still high, still very high but it has dropped over 500 points which is really great for this young boy. In additional Glutamate has decreased and has gone into normal ranges. In December, 2005 it was approximately 87, the high end of normal for Glutamate being 35, and in September, 2006 his level was almost 20 so again showing how diagnostic tests of urine and saliva can effectively help us determine what is going on, what needs to be addressed and then to go about using pharmaceutical grade supplementation to help us effect those levels. The boy is doing a whole lot better now as well. So as a result of doing these tests and realizing the neurotransmitters that were not within normal ranges and then applying the appropriate pharmaceutical grade supplementation the boy is doing much better now and the impulse control has improved."