Samantha is paralegal starting a new career in a new city, she’s having a hard time concentrating and doing her best work even if this is her dream job! When she get’s home from work she is exhausted, completely fatigued, she just wants to sit in front of the TV but she has to take her daughter to soccer practice and her son to piano lessons. It just doesn’t end! To learn more, contact our Downtown San Diego CA chiropractic clinic today.

Her husband of 15 years wants to help and be supportive, but she keeps pushing him away. Their relationship is on the rocks because the last 5 years she’s been feeling low and anxious. Samantha doesn’t know how to share her thoughts and feelings and it looks like she’s just not interested in her husband anymore!

• Everything feels like it’s cycling out of control.
• How did Samantha get here?
• Why can’t she find happiness?

Finally...Samantha goes to her doctor. She thinks that getting a physical and full work up will show the doctor why she is feeling the way she is feeling, but sadly this is not what happens. Her labs look completely normal, her thyroid, her sex hormones everything within normal limits.
Samantha feels confused and uncertain, is she making up her symptoms?

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Why does lab work look normal but you still feel low and anxious?

Most people when they feel low, anxious and fatigued will go to their doctor and will have regular lab work completed. These labs focus on basic body systems like thyroid health, cardiac health and hormones, but they do not consider the nervous system and the health of the brain.

Neurotransmitter and adrenal stress hormone testing is a way to look at a patient from a brain healthy perspective. Oftentimes other labs will look completely normal but the doctor has missed the boat. They haven’t assessed the correct markers in order to make a diagnosis.

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Most Doctors Are Not Aware of this type of Testing

Doctors do not receive the training needed to assess neurotransmitters and adrenal hormones in their regular schooling so they just don’t know that it’s possible to reliably test these markers and use it as an effective guide to treatment.

Neurotransmitters can be easily tested through urine and saliva. These measurements will give you a look at your brain health and why you feel symptoms like low mood, anxiety and fatigue.

It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The type of testing needed to make an accurate assessment of your symptoms is just not being performed in the average doctor’s office.

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What are Neurotransmitters and How Do We Assess Them?

Neurotransmitters are often referred to as the body’s chemical messengers. They are the molecules used by the nervous system to transmit messages between neurons, or from neurons to muscles.

There are over 60 neurotransmitters released from the brain. These chemicals help us to cope with stress, give us energy when needed, allow us to focus and concentrate and give us joy in daily activities! There are 8 neurotransmitters that do the heavy lifting in our bodies they are:

• Acetylcholine
• Dopamine
• Epinephrine
• Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid ( GABA)
• Glutamate
• Histamine
• Norepinephrine
• Serotonin

Each of these neurotransmitters need to be in balance in order to achieve great sleep, energy and focus and concentration on a daily basis. These chemicals can easily be assessed in urine and saliva and can give us essential information on why a patient is experiencing any range of mood related symptoms.

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Here Are 3 Case Studies That Show How This Test Can Help Patients

Kim is a 30 year old that presented to my office with scattered thoughts, severe anxiety and anger issues. She’s married and works and goes to school at night. Nothing is going well for her. She feels out of control and gets caught up in a loop of negative thoughts. Her relationships and daily activities are being affected by how she feels.
She had an elevated cortisol and decreased levels of Serotonin and GABA. These chemicals were not in balance and were not giving her the ability to cope with stress and daily life. The results were used to guide a supplement protocol that was easy to take. She felt less anxious and angry within a week of taking the supplements.

Eve presented to me in desperation. She was engaged and life was going great and then she had a breakup that rocked her world. She was not sleeping, anxious and had brain fog! She was also trying to finish grad school at the time and needed some real help to get through it. Her labs showed high norepinephrine and low PEA. This was easily corrected, and she was able to feel somewhat better in her body and was able to continue with school and graduate.

I recently had a 55 year old male, Sam, that felt so overwhelmed in his legal career that he just was unmotivated. He couldn’t keep up with his work and his relationships were suffering as well. He wanted to spend time with his children and wife but he was always exhausted and felt low. Again neurotransmitter test results showed an imbalance in his nervous system. We were able to correct the imbalance with supplements and he was able to regain focus and energy and joy for life.

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How Do I Get This Breakthrough Test?

Fortunately, neurotransmitter and adrenal stress hormone testing can be performed easily with a urine and saliva sample. The benefits of this type of testing is enormous and the information that it yields can be life changing!

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Change your life In Downtown San Diego CA!

You deserve to live a life without anxiety, depression and brain fog. You deserve to have joy in everything you do!

Book a consultation with me and get your neurotransmitter test now! I’m so excited to help you on your journey to great health.

Warmly,
Dr. Shaffana