10 tests

Ten Important Lab Tests for Treating Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder


Australian nutritionist Blake Graham has compiled an outstanding list of the ten lab tests that will most likely uncover the medical disorder(s)that create the constellation of symptoms called bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

1) Blood histamine
2) Red blood cell fatty acids
3) Serum copper
4) Urine kryptopyrroles
5) Intestinal permeability ('leaky gut')
6) 24-hour urine DMSA provoked toxic elements
7) Hair analysis via Doctors Data (Laboratory)
8) Fecal microbial analysis (in-depth gut flora analysis)
9) 3-day stool parasitology + giardia/cryptosporidium stool antigens
10) Organic acid test

For full information on why these tests are of particular importance, visit Blake Graham's outstanding web site at:

http://www.nutritional-healing.com.au/.

Empty Stomach

It got lost the other day in the shuffle, but an anonymous poster asked a good question:

Why do I take my supplements on an empty stomach, and why do I take my folate apart from the other supplements?

The absorbtion of Zinc on an empty stomach is greater than when taken with food:

"The efficiency of absorption (fractional absorption) of a zinc salt on an empty stomach ranges from 40% to 90%. The fractional absorption of zinc with food appears to be lower. "

The same is true of Folate. Folate is absorbed almost a 100% better without food.

"Folic acid taken on an empty stomach is twice as available as food folate"

I take them, therefore, on an empty stomach to increase efficacy. This is signifigant, and a factor of which I routinely make the PTC aware, but which I suspect they fail to take into account in my prescriptions. A patient taking 1 gram of folate on an empty stomach is like one who takes 2 grams with food.

This decision to take supplments al fresco was reached by me following my own research. It was not recommended by the PTC.