November 1. 2008 07:51

I prefer an E-book,if you have one.

Wattana Klintrakoon

November 27. 2008 07:01

This books sounds quite interesting, but it is priced for the professional market, and not the individual end consumer. I would have loved to read and understand more, but at $200 it is just too expensive. It can not be the objective of the Institute to develop an elitist model for information dissemination and communication.
Yours very disappointed

Bernard Smith

December 4. 2008 13:41

Thank you both for your comments.

Wattana: along with the book we provide a searchable cd-rom of the complete text so our readers have quick digital access to the information in the book. We think this is a very effective tool when searching for information, and are excited to be able to provide that to those who purchase a copy.

Bernard: The price point we set for this book is what we feel is appropriate considering the scope and substance of the text. Many years of effort went into creating this exhaustive text on Integrative and Functional medicine testing, which satisfies the highest scientific and research standards, and fills a critical gap in current mainstream medical knowledge. Unfortunately, that effort is not without cost.

While we recognize that this information is of tremendous value to our industry and the world at large, we have to be realistic about sustaining the company that made this book possible. Without an ‘elitist’ model of information dissemination, much of the knowledge we take for granted today would not have had the support needed for its discovery, let alone its widespread dissemination.

That said, we have uploaded the entire text to Google Books for anyone to peruse, search, and reference:

books.google.com/books

Enjoy!

Dr. Alexander Bralley

December 17. 2008 16:34

Hi, Does the Laboratory evaluations book go further into helping assess an organics profile test. I would like to get something that gives me a little more in depth picture or disease processes that may be starting when interpreting the organics profile test. Thanks Dr. Voltz

David Voltz

December 18. 2008 22:23

Dr. Voltz,
In fact, the reason the book was written was to give clinicians more in-depth knowledge that helps them to quickkly and confidently interpret an Organix (or other) laboratory profile. Chapter 6 covers the compounds reported on the Organix report. Each analyte is discussed and the reader is led to understand how to pick up patterns of abnormalities that reinforce conclusions about how to focus interventions and strengthen prognosis.

Here's one example:
IDENTIFYING THE PATIENT WITH AMMONIA CHALLENGE WHO IS LIKELY TO RESPOND TO A COURSE OF AGGRESSIVE ARGININE SUPPLEMENTATION, AND WHO MAY NEED AGGRESSIVE PROBIOTIC TREATMENT FOR MID-GUT BACTERIAL DYSBIOSIS

Chapter 6 in the book will help you understand that when you find concurrent elevations of citrate, aconitate and isocitrate (indicating potential renal ammonia challenge) that is corroborated with elevated orotate (indicating hepatic urea cycle challenge) your patient is likely to have inadequate arginine status for urea cycle responses to transient ammonemia episodes. If you also find multiple elevated markers of transitional gut bacterial metabolism, then the patient is a candidate for an aggressive course of pre-, pro- or anti-biotic treatment because the bacterial overgrowth is likely to be a major source of post prandial ammonia loading.

The illustrations show all the detail that you need for undersanding the relevant renal and hepatic biochemistry as well as the intestinal bacterial action on dietary polyphenols that generates several markers of small bowel bacterial overgrowth. So, you can feel like an expert on these complex topics when you talk with your patients.

This is just one of a great many clinical scenarios that you will find explained in the book.

Let us know whether the book succeeds to help you understand laboratory evalulations for integrative and functional medicine.

Richard Lord