Metabolic Analysis Profile: A New Kind of Testing

“Your lab tests came back normal. I can’t find anything wrong with you.”

Have you been hearing this lately?

Metabolic Analysis Profile maybe able to offer you what the usual tests can’t.

There’s probably nothing more frustrating than to have practitioners and lab tests tell you there’s nothing wrong-especially when you know there is. You may be tired all the time, have chronic gastrointestinal problems, suffer from fibromyalgia, or other symptoms that can sap your energy and make life miserable.

A New Test Could Be the Answer

Genova’s Metabolic Analysis Profile measures levels of 39 metabolites whose levels in a urine samples can give your healthcare provider insight into what could be causing your symptoms. This test analyzes compounds that may appear in urine due to incomplete metabolic processes, in reaction to specific toxic exposure, or because your body simply can’t use the nutrients you consume.

Metabolic Analysis result can point to signs of toxic exposure, weaknesses in the detoxification process, and nutritional deficiencies that result from incomplete processing of foods, vitamins, and minerals. It can identify situations in which the body is actually poisoning itself by failing to excrete toxins the body itself produces.

Treatment indicated by levels of organic acids and other metabolites will be designed to supplement deficiencies and/or support ineffective metabolic processes. Vitamins, nutritional elements, enzymes, and amino acids are often prescribed as part of the intervention.

In Good Company

There are millions of people in developed countries worldwide who don’t eat the right kinds of food or who are exposed, many times without knowing it, to toxic elements and chemicals in their environment. Abnormal overgrowth of bacteria and yeast in the digestive system can interfere with the body’s use of vitamins and nutrients, sometimes causing problems that don’t even seem to be connected to the gastrointestinal tract at all.

Incomplete detoxification can be responsible for a reduction in the body’s defense against oxidative stress. Increasingly, the free radical damage that results has been linked to cardiovascular disease risk, tissue weakness, inflammation, problems with the immune system, and myalgia. This damage occurs on the cellular level and is overlooked by much conventional testing.

For people in this “no man’s land” of healthcare, this can mean normal results on lab tests and failure to diagnose on the practitioner’s part. Without accurate diagnosis, these patients may spend their healthcare dollars in vain as their bodies slowly starve and poison themselves.

Why Haven’t I Heard of Organic Acids Testing Before?

If you’re a parent, your child was probably tested at birth for an inborn condition known as PKU or phenylkentonuria. Caught in time, dietary restrictions can keep this amino acid processing disorder from causing illness and/or death. Hospital laboratories detect this condition by identifying an organic acid, phenyl acetic acid, in the baby’s urine.

Although the PKU test is well-established and although it seems reasonable that other waste compounds could have diagnostic value, for a long time testing organic acids was limited to detecting rare inborn errors of metabolism. It’s only very recently that biochemists began looking for more subtle signs of metabolic conditions by analyzing the composition of the body’s waste in urine.

Another reason “organic acids” isn’t a household word is the complexity of the test. It takes a high level of knowledge and ability to run the test properly, something which kept it in the province of hospital and university labs until recently. But now Genova is able to make the Metabolic Analysis Profile available to practitioners and give them results they can use.

Because the Metabolic Analysis Profile can evaluate your individual biochemistry, your healthcare provider can use results to design targeted nutritional interventions. Test results can also guide your practitioner in determining custom dosage based on your specific metabolic needs.

And then ?

After you are tested with the Metabolic Analysis Profile, it can take several weeks of following a treatment plan before you’ll begin to feel results. After four to six weeks, your healthcare provider may order a follow-up test to see if the levels of the compounds that indicated your treatment plan have changed.

Ask Yourself:

1) Have you experienced fatigue with no apparent cause recently?

2) Do you have symptoms of discomfort or pain, and none of the tests you’ve taken or
Practitioners you’ve seen seem to be able to find out the cause?

3) Have you been around pesticides lately or near mining, smelting, or manufacturing operations
where toxic chemicals and elements may be used?

4) Did you develop immune problems, inflammation, or neurological disturbances after a course
of antibiotics (whether or not you thought of it as a cause at the time)?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, ask Dr. Holec if a Metabolic Analysis Profile might be helpful for you.

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