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January 2, 2017 - Brandy Makes the Front Cover of a Magazine! Businesses that grow and thrive make an active effort in continued education

Brandy Makes the Front Cover of a Magazine!

Businesses that grow and thrive make an active effort in continued education
 
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January 2, 2017 Puzzle Piece
 

Doctors and CA's,

Brimhall Seminars is very proud to share with you that Brandy Brimhall was recently featured on the December cover of The Chiropractic Assistant magazine, along with her article 'A CA's Path to Professional Development'.  As she has for the past several years, Brandy will be teaching a workshop at our annual Homecoming seminar on January 25-29, 2017.  There, she will be sharing important need-to-know coding, billing, and risk management related information to you and your team.  If you haven't already registered for this event, now is the time to do so and bring your staff! 
 

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Brandy's featured article highlights the importance of the CA role and the many different vehicles available for CA's to professional progress, thus, becoming more valuable to your practice and adding to their professional resume.  This past September marked Brandy's 17 years in chiropractic and she continues to regularly utilize those success tools and professional development strategies that are shared in the article.  See below for just a small clip of that article and take a look at your issue of The Chiropractic Assistant for the rest!  

Clip from December, 2016 Issue of The Chiropractic Assistant:

"No different than an insurance agent, real estate agent, and multitudes of other professions, it is critical that CAs be diligent and proactive in their efforts to improve their craft and stay up-to-date with industry standards and guidelines. 

As a CA, you are valuable.  To continue to maintain, and even increase, your value, regular professional development is an essential element that must not be overlooked. 

CAs contribute to the success of a practice in many ways, often times even beyond those duties that are defined in the individual job description.  They are also key contributors to establishing the personality of the practice and the development of patient relationships – the welcoming atmosphere, willingness and desire to serve, general professionalism, and more.  All of these things, including the day-to-day tasks, should continue to be evaluated, practiced, and developed."

Here is another exerpt from the article:

What you’ll gain by continued professional development as a Chiropractic Assistant:

There are many benefits to you when continuing professional development.  First, actively seeking and participating in educational opportunities demonstrates that you are a proactive individual.  Employers of all types look for this characteristic in their workforce members.  Being proactive builds trust and reliability.  Opportunities for advancement are more often made available for these proactive employees.

You become a stronger leader.  In chiropractic, as with any profession, employers look to strong leaders to spearhead projects, manage departments, and do future planning with.  Yet again, being a strong leader will allow other areas of your role to advance. 

You build your self-confidence and your value.  The more you learn, the more comfortable you become in your role and the more confident you feel in contributing to the business.  This valuable characteristic is immensely helpful to you as a CAs well as every other field.

What your practice and employer will gain by your continued professional development as a Chiropractic Assistant:

Businesses that grow and thrive make an active effort in continued education.  They work hard to ensure that their business practices are up to date with current guidelines, and they pride themselves when implementing new ideas and functioning efficiently.  These businesses also feel great comfort in knowing that their risk of investigations, audits, and penalties is evaluated and maintained at a minimum level.  This allows freedom to these businesses to provide updated equipment, improved work space, raises, bonuses, and other benefits that employees love to have available. 

Businesses that encourage and invest, as appropriate, into the professional development of their workforce tend to have lower turnover. 

 
Join us on January 27-29, 2017 at the Brimhall Homecoming for a seminar that is loaded with information and tools to take back to your practice and patients!  
November 2, 2015 Puzzle Piece - The AngioScan helps prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy. Not to see is not to know! new banner guest




The AngioScan helps prevent Cardiovascular Disease and Peripheral Neuropathy.  Not to see is not to know! 
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Homecoming 2016…

November 02, 2015 Puzzle Piece

img1Are you doing everything you can to prevent the sleeping giant of cardiovascular disease that may be affecting you and your patients? The old adage of what you don’t know can’t hurt you does not apply here. Once I started using the AngioScan I was able to see that most of my patients were at risk. The beauty of this technology was that the findings were easy for the patient to see the results and the solution was easy to implement. This is an area the patients are aware of and most of them have a certain amount of fear about strokes and heart disease. They really appreciate your comprehensiveness in being able to screen them. What is being measured with the AngioScan is arterial stiffness, vascular age, stress index, pulse rate, pulse wave type, and oxygen saturation.

Contour pulse wave analysis is one of the major ways that was used in the 1800’s to evaluate cardiovascular health until the implementation of the stethoscope combined with the blood pressure cuff. What was sacrificed was ease for accuracy. The pulse wave analysis technology has made a resurgence and is much easier to use today. What we are looking at is something called pulsed wave velocity. When your heart contracts during systole it produces a pulse wave that travels to the periphery and is called the forward wave. When the pulse wave returns it is called the reflective wave. If the reflective wave returns too fast when the heart is in early systole, the heart is working against resistance during this phase and spending more time contracting and less time resting. When the heart is contracting it is unable to get its own blood supply. This sets the patient up for serious cardiovascular issues. The cause of the fast returning wave is vascular stiffness. This would show up on the AngioScan as an A pulse wave type. They may have normal vascular age which is the health of the medium and small vessels but the arterial stiffness reading could be worse than their age representing the big vessels and means that the Aorta is becoming stiffer.

One of the major studies today is the Café study and it is telling us that you don’t want to treat the brachial pressure but the central aortic pressure also known as the CASP. When patients were given the common blood pressure medication Beta Blockers they would lower brachial blood pressure but not central aortic blood pressure where it really counts.
  
Once you find the problems, the solutions are easy. Put the patient on Optimal Opti-Nitric, Optimal Fruit & Veggie Plus, Longevi-D and get them on the Bemer for extra support.  You can also improve the health of their arteries with very specific exercise. The specific exercise is called Kaatsu and we will be elaborating on this in future puzzle pieces and it will be available at Homecoming 2016 for you to experience. This exercise will increase endothelial Nitric Oxide, as does Opti-Nitric.  This combination is truly ANTI-AGING.

What we have shared with you is a cutting edge evaluation and some simple solutions that can reverse the findings on the AngioScan. To read more about pulse wave velocity you can read the American Heart Association recommendations and standardizing vascular research on arterial stiffness. You can also watch the video on www.hrvhq.com.  Once on the website, click on the AngioScan picture on the Home page and watch the video. Below we can show you some examples of the screens. My own personal goal is to have a higher percentage of the B and C type wave and less percentage of A. Below is a good description of the different wave types.

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This is how the Pulse Curve Type screen shows up on the AngioScan.  This is hard to find in older adults.  By following the protocols mentioned above, we can improve the pulse curve type to a healthier state.
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This person is 54 years old but their small and medium sized vessels are more like a 67 year old.

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To make sure you understand we will have the AngioScan available at Homecoming 2016 to test anyone who would like to know the state of their vascular health.  For those who want to do a comparison after taking the Optimal Opti-Nitric, Optimal Fruit & Veggie Plus, Longevi-D and get on the Bemer as well, we can do a post study.  We will be going through this information in a more comprehensive way at the webinar on November 3, 2015 at 6pm Pacific and at Homecoming.
 
See you at the upcoming webinars and at Homecoming 2016!

Yours In Health, Wealth and Happiness,
 

Mike Kessler, DC - Homecoming Presenter
John W Brimhall, BA, BS, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK, Formulator and Patent holder.

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October 9, 2017 Puzzle Piece - Genetic SNP’s, Toxic Burdens, Strange New Symptoms, Opti-Enviro Detox and Opti-methyl B By Wendy Meyer, DC
 
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Genetic SNP’s, Toxic Burdens, Strange New Symptoms, Opti-Enviro Detox and Opti-methyl B
By Wendy Meyer, DC

October 9, 2017 Puzzle Piece
 
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      Wendy Meyer, DC

Our office is located in the middle of Nebraska.  Seven years ago, we had a mild winter and the agronomist told the farmers to use twice the amount of chemicals.  One of our patients said that his neighbor used five times the normal amount.  Strange symptoms, new conditions and dis-eases have been increasing since that time.

As summer turns into fall, people in our area start have liver, kidney, and lung symptoms.  This year has been the most difficult.  Instead of just symptoms of toxicity, people started to develop other strange symptomatic expressions.  Patients started to lose their hair in patches.  One gentleman lost one entire side of his hair, and others have curly-Q shape hair loss, with most just having generalized hair loss.  Thanks to Dr. Marc Harris for his insights.  He stated due to the increased toxic burden and chemical poisoning it allowed a fungal infection, killing the hair follicle.  Opti-Enviro and Metal Detox helps to reduce the chemicals from the body, which allows treating the fungus more effective.

 
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The other thing that I had never seen before in my office is cellulitis until recent years.  The first case was shingles, which resolved and then came back on other parts of the body as cellulitis.   We now have been treating it almost daily in our patients.  It is in all ages, the youngest patient was a 2 year old that started as a mosquito bite.  Another patient had a swollen, hot knee that she couldn’t remember doing anything to, but did go “tubing” down the river.   Any cut, bite, or scrape was suspect, and treated immediately. 

All of my patients receive the Brimhall Six Step’s protocol to great success.  We have found recently all required higher doses of the Opti-Methyl-B to boost the immune system and allow for a quick recovery.  
  
There are many problems with being Vitamin B deficient.  Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid are needed to make a red blood cell.  If you have a genetic SNP for these, you don’t make red blood cells properly.  There are about 60 or more hemoglobin dependent enzymes in the body.  Some of these include the enzymes that convert your thyroid hormone to be active, boosting the immune system, detoxification pathways, and vaso-dilation of the arteries to get oxygen to the micro-system. 

Because of the increase in chemicals and pesticides, everyone’s vitamin B’s have been depleted.  This causes malfunction of the immune system with decreased function on one hand and Auto Immune upregulated conditions on the other.  Extreme fatigue is becoming an increasing problem in our area.  Young adults have been requiring 3 naps a day before they begin treatment.

If I treat with regular vitamin B complex, the conditions do not clear and may get worse.  Genetic testing can be expensive and hard.  I feel by using
Opti-Methyl-B, I am solving the B complex deficiencies and genetic SNP problems at the same time.  The results are demonstrating its effectiveness.

If you use non-methylated B’s, you will cause more malfunction, if there are genetic problems, which are very common. Some of the symptoms of a folic acid genetic SNP include trigger finger and calluses.  Regular B6 will cause morning sickness, kidney stones, digestive issues, and aneurysms.  This is a very small list of a huge problem.

One thing I have noticed, is if my patients are not taking enough of the Opti-methyl B, they can get a “healing crisis” as toxins are only partially processed.   I find all of the OHS Products to be effective due to their natural ingredients and pre-digestion.  It seems the Opti-Products, such as the B’s, Detox formulas, Brain, Adrenal, Opti Nitric, Mito etc. set a new standard never before achieved in my practice.
 
Wendy Meyer, DC


 
Yours in Health and Wellness,

John W Brimhall, DC, BA, BS, FIAMA, DIBAK
October 10 2016 Puzzle Piece - HC 2017 Speaker: Dr Smaldone, on Adjusting and Kinesiotaping [+28 min webinar.] By Dave Smaldone, DC, ATC
HC 2017 Speaker:  Dr Smaldone, on Adjusting and Kinesiotaping
[+28 min webinar.]
By Dave Smaldone, DC, ATC

 
 
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October 10, 2016 Puzzle Piece

This is the second time Dr Smaldone has joined us as a Homecoming speaker.  He is amazing!  You will learn his wisdom from first being an Athletic Trainer and then becoming a Chiropractor.
 
You will see he is quick and to the point.  Enjoy the 28 minute webinar and the brief case study below.
 
John W Brimhall, BA, BS, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK

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Advanced Kinesiotaping Case Study:
 
Patient: Joan
Joan was as a new patient last week.
She had been through PT for 6 months with limited improvement.
She came into our office during a severe flare up at her wits end.
 
Our original exam showed ROM during forward flexion was around 40 degrees of the shoulder; lateral Abduction was around 45 degrees; 0 extension. Pain scale ratings were 8/10. 
 
During the first visit, the treatment consisted of warming her with stim and heat. We used our mobilization techniques to free up her scapula, shoulder joint, and adjusted her ribs under her scapula and her cervical spine. Joan was kinesiotaped using our trace taping method for the shoulder.
 
Results: Joan was seen today for a follow-up visit with 100% normal ROM in flexion, abduction, and extension after 1 treatment with a 1 out of 10 pain.
 
We are so excited to teach you these tricks of the trade we have learned over our 18 years of taping people!  Adjusting, taping and OHS nutrition are our go to treatment for RESULTS.
 
Dave Smaldone, DC, ATC



 

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Homecoming 2017 Speakers and Topics

Join Dr. Brimhall and his team for Homecoming on January 27th-29th, 2017 to explore the world of IMPROVING FUNCTION BY FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION/TREATMENT utilizing THE NEW AND IMPROVED Six Steps to WellnessTM Protocol in your office!

Current Certified Brimhall Doctors and Assistants get in for Half Price!

Early Bird Special - $100.00 Off for Doctor Registration


Doctors and CA's that need to recertify, get in at regular price which includes Recertification

STRUCTURE
Step 1:  Establish Structural Integrity
 
ELECTRICAL POLLUTION
Step 2: Balance Electromagnetics

NUTRITION
Step 3: Balance Nutrition

ALLERGIES AND SENSITIVITIES
Step 4: Re-program the body for any Allergy or Sensitivity

EMOTIONS AND STRESS
Step 5: Evaluate Emotional Patterns & Remove Limiting Belief Systems

TOXICITY
Step 6: Remove Heavy Metals and Other Toxins from the Body


This seminar brings to you some of the best and most knowledgeable presenters in their field, including:
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John Brimhall DC, FIAMA, DIBAK

Referred to as the “Father of Wellness Care in Chiropractic”, who has been practicing for 45 years. He will cover: The Six Steps to Wellness, with new insights from the Book MEDICAL MEDIUM!  He will include increasing intuition, Brain Balance, the Brain as a Computer, Natural Methylation, Detoxification, Advanced Laser(s), Cellular Regeneration, the use of Homeopathic Homochords, Bemer Wave technology, Mitochondrial Resuscitation, Inflammation, Adrenals, and new insights into Thyroid & Autoimmune Conditions from the Medical Medium and visiting clinics in foreign countries this last year.

Brett Brimhall DC

Has created an incredible successful practice for over 15 years using the Six Steps to Wellness. He has a very integrated practice, of which he will elaborate on. He will cover: Integrating Practice Procedures to allow easy flow for Wellness Care, including the Brimhall Advantage SBN Program of blood, urine challenge and hair analysis, weight loss and body contouring, brain balance, neurology, laser(s) in action, detox, foot baths, sauna, Craniosacral, PEMF, Peripheral Neuropathy in action, Power Plate… + Workshops on ALL SIX STEPS…

Brandy Brimhall CPC, CMCO, CCCPC, CPCO, CPMA

Has worked in Chiropractic profession since 1999. She has used her incredible knowledge and understanding of the operation of chiropractic practices to educate and assist with topics such as documentation, recordkeeping, coding, collections, compliance and much more. The two required hours for AZ in Record Keeping and documentation are approved. Course discussion: Will Review current documentation guidelines for Medicare, other payor’s and make sure you are documenting to support your ICD-10 code selection. Risk management systems will also be reviewed, including Fraud, Waste and Abuse training which is now required for participation in payor programs. Increased screening systems for payors as well as increase of investigations pose a risk to providers. Learn common and fundamental risk management systems and steps that should be implemented immediately into your practice.
 
Jesse Liebman DC (Brimhall Certified)
 
Founded Liebman Wellness Center in 1992 – bringing the Six Steps To Wellness care to the Marlton / Cherry Hill / Mt. Laurel, NJ area. Dr. Liebman will cover his treatment of complicated pain syndromes such as herniated discs, PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY, fibromyalgia, chronic headaches, BODY CONTOURING and nutritional intervention.
 
Dr. Liebman has been voted "Best Chiropractor" by the Courier Post Newspaper every single year since 2004 (over ten years and running now). South Jersey Magazine has voted him in the "Top Physicians in South Jersey" from 2010-2014.  He currently is a guest lecturer and speaker at national Chiropractic Conferences around the country on the topics of Health, Wellness, Pain Intervention, and Natural Healing. 
 
Dennis Pick, DC, DBCS, FBCII

Dr. Dennis Pick is a chiropractor in private practice in California since 1973. Dr. Pick has been inspired to find the true cause of man’s health problems at its source. This passion led him to research multiple disciplines in the healing arts to find the common denominator that has its thread intertwined within the basic fabric of man’s ailments. Dr. Pick came to the conclusion that disease is not an affliction of the body, but a disturbance in the vital force. As long as the vital force is in control, the body can heal and repair itself. After an in-depth study of many healthcare systems, his conclusion was that balancing the craniosacral system removed central disturbances that interfered with this vital force.  He feels Bio Craniopathy (formally known as Bio Cranial) is the means to remove this central disturbance and restore health from its source.  He will explain the evaluation and treatment at Homecoming 2017.

Douglas Grant B.S., ACSM

Is a renowned clinical and sports nutritionist and athletic trainer. Grant has been the team nutritionist for teams like the Phoenix Suns, Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. Grant has authored books on nutrition and fitness. Over 10,000 Doctors, fitness enthusiasts and patients have participated in his informative seminars and research lectures. He will cover: the latest cutting edge research on patient recovery through the use of patented pre-digested whole food nutrient formulas. He will cover digestion, probiotics, leaky gut, inflammation, building muscle, increasing performance and losing fat, mitochondria and natural energy boosting, organic methylated nutrition, in office tests, private labeling, CoQ10, Vit D and K2.
 
Linda Huxtable

Linda has been practicing holistic medicine for over thirty years, having owned and operated a large innovative integrated clinic which provided healthcare services and product to hundreds of patients prior to moving to Florida.
Education:
•    Yale University
•    Clayton School of Natural Healing
•    The Rolf Institute
•    Great Lakes College of Complementary Medicine (GLCCM)
•    American Academy of Neural Therapy (Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt)
•    German ND Andreas Marx (biological medicine)
•    Dr. Gunter Enderlein (isopathic and homeopathic principles)
•    Upledger Institute (Osteopathic Techniques), Dr. Jean Pierre Barral
•    Visceral (organ) Manipulation
 

Linda brings her extensive training and experience with holistic healing to an integrated system that includes nutrition, homeopathy, herbs, bodywork, and energy medicine. The synergistic effect of these therapies is enhanced by her sincere and compassionate consideration of the whole person. The client’s body, mind, and spirit are all addressed in developing individualized treatment plans.
 
Linda takes time to develop a loving, caring relationship with each client. One of her primary goals is to assist the client in defining, confronting, and alleviating health problems that may exist. Clients are given the support to assume responsibility for their own health, and guidance from Linda to help make choices which will result in optimum vitality and well-being.

Marck Pollack, DC

For over 20 years professionals across the country have turned to Dr. Pollack for his simple and highly effective marketing strategies that seamlessly attract unlimited numbers of new patients to their practices.

While developing four super successful practices from coast to coast, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Newport Beach, he realized that the difference between an average and thriving practice was always Powerful Marketing Strategies and highly effective procedures.

Using himself as the guinea pig, he tested countless marketing strategies, read everything he could read, attended seminars with the best in the world and received coaching from the best of the best in marketing, promotion, and public speaking! Overtime he was able to perfect some of the most highly effective speaking strategies that yielded as much as 70-100 plus percent of his attendees running to accept his offers.

These strategies allowed him to conduct highly lucrative talks at companies such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, PIMCO, Allergan and Hershey to name a few. Not only did he get lots of new patients, but was asked back over and over, which built him some of the largest and most successful practices on the planet!

Dave Smaldone BS, DC

Started his career in ATHLETIC TRAINING and SPORTS MEDICINE.  Dr Smaldone then graduated from Palmer Chiropractic continuing his interest and skill in Sports Medicine. He currently works on a number of projects with the head of the United States Chiropractic Neurology Board, John Donofrio DABCN, DC. 

Dr Smaldone has evolved into one of the top Athletic Chiropractors in NY State, treating pro athletes of football, tennis, running, weight lifters, and tri-athletes. Dr Smaldone’s approach with each of his patients is deeply rooted in his sports medicine/athletic training background.  He implements stretches, does myofascial release, ice/heats, cold laser, and adjusts each patient as needed. In many cases, chiropractors only treat the bones and most physical therapists only work on the muscles.  Dr. Smalldone has learned how and will teach us to treat the bone, muscle, and joint.  He will also teach us how, when, and where to tape. 

Mark Harris, ND (Brimhall Certified)

Dr. Harris is a quiet genius.  He has an incredible practice in in Montana where he treats patients from all over the country and increases function with continual research and practice.  He has done extensive research and patient testing to increase energy through increased Mitochondrial Resuscitation.  He will explain his tests and demonstrate the increase in mitochondria, regardless the age or gender of the patient.  He has found Opti-Mito-Force to top all previous formulas!!!

James Maskell, BS

James Maskell is the creator of Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference. He lectures internationally, and has been featured on TEDMED, Huffpost Live, TEDx and more, and is a contributor to Huffington Post, KevinMD, thedoctorblog and MindBodyGreen. He serves on the faculty of George Washington University’s Metabolic Medicine Institute.

Gary Millet, MBA, BA, BA, CPA

Co Founder and Managing Partner of  Axcess Global, LLC, Axcess Global Sciences, LLC and Real Ketones, LLC, DBA Kegenix.  In addition to being co-­‐founder of Kegenix, Mr. Millet headed up the development and  commercialized the Kegenix product, utilizing the unique patented technology of Dr. Dominick D’Agostino, licensed world-­‐wide from the University of South Florida.  Mr Millet is responsible for springboarding the popularity in ketone supplementation movement and is one of the key authorities on Keto Eating, Ketone Supplementation, Keto Protocols and Keto Coaching.  Mr. Millet is also involved in strategic marketing, and the inventor of the Quad BHB Salts pending patent.
 


CEU's Available
As an added benefit, 20 CEU hours are available for DC's in most states approved by Logan University Programs.
 
AZ, AL, CA, FL, KS, MA, MI, MO, NM, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, PA, SD, TN, TX, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MS MT, NE, OR, RI, SC, UT, VA, VT, WA and WY

 Dates:
January 26 From 6:00pm - 8:00pm - TREATMENT NIGHT
January 27 - 8:00am - 6:00pm
January 28 - 8:00am - 6:00pm
January 29 - 8:00am - 12:30pm

Location:

DoubleTree by Hilton
2100 S. Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ
(480) 804-5222


Quick and Easy Reservations for Attendees

A block of rooms have been reserved for January 25, 2017 - January 30, 2017. The special room rate will be available until January 6th or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first.

RESERVE YOUR ROOM ONLINE...
 

**Special Group Room Rates ENDS December 22nd, 2016!
Which is $155 per night + tax.

Current Brimhall Doctors And Assistants get in for Half Price!

Early Bird Special - $100.00 Off for Doctor Registration

Doctors and CA's that need to recertify, get in at regular price which includes Recertification

Yours in Health and Wellness

John W Brimhall, BA, BS, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK

December 7, 2015 Puzzle Piece - Salivary Hormone Testing for PCOS, Andro/Menopause, Anxiety, Insomnia, and Neurodegenerative Conditions
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December 7, 2015 Puzzle Piece

Salivary Hormone Testing for PCOS, Andro/Menopause, Anxiety, Insomnia, and Neurodegenerative Conditions

Scientific Updates and the Application of Hormone Testing; When, What, and How  
for evaluation of Men and Women in Hormonal Transition by Jay Mead, MD
Abstract:
Excellent patient results in Hormone optimization and Neuroendocrine Balance can be built from the blueprint of accurate, reliable and valid testing.  Optimizing health and treating our patients successfully is every Practitioner’s primary goal. Complex cases need good labs to tease out the elements of malfunction and dysfunction in each person’s whole picture. These assessment tools position achieve healing and wellness. 
 
In order to accomplish this include we utilize physical examination, thorough clinical history and valid, applicable laboratory testing. Many of our patients are of the complex variety and the functional road maps which good testing provides serve an invaluable role. But which labs to order, how do we interpret them and when do they need to be ordered?
 
Measuring active saliva hormone levels is different than measuring general total serum levels. Each serves a purpose but understanding how they differ is critical.  This presentation will elucidate the science behind the existing Hormone and Neuroendocrine testing methodologies, as well as outlining the monitoring practices and treatment protocols to successfully treat patients.
 
Rule of thumb; all testing utilized should bring relief to the complexity of the case and provide clarity and direction for best treatment practices.   If your menopausal patients suffer from symptoms of menopause, Neurodegenerative disease, PCOS, Depression, Anxiety, Insomnia or numerous other debilitating conditions during this transition; a functional approach which begins with accurate Hormone and Neuroendocrine assessment may be key.
Learning Objectives for our Webinar, December 15, 2015 at 6pm PST where Dr Brimhall will host Dr Mead to answer questions on the procedure of Salivary testing and the answer to many questions.

  • Learn the scientific foundation for hormone and neuroendocrine assessment and testing.
  • Obtain the historical perspective on HRT, evolution of testing and advances in the current state of the art laboratory practices   
  • Consider when to use saliva, serum or urinary analysis for these purposes.
  • Understand test results with treatment overview for successful outcomes.
  • Gain an understanding of test results so that interpretation leads to more precise and successful treatment
References:
  1. Percutaneous Administration of Progesterone:  Blood Levels and Endometrial Protection.  Stanczyk FZ et alMenopause (2005), 12 (2): 232-237.
  2. Salivary but not serum Level or Urinary Levels of Progesterone are Elevated after Topical Application of Progesterone to Pre and Postmenopausal Women. O’Leary P, et al. Clin Endo (2005)53: 615-620
  3. Validation of Salivary testosterone as a screening test for male hypogonadism. Morley, J et al. The Aging Male. September 2006; 9(3): 165-169.
  4. Saliva as a Medium for Investigating Intra and inter individual differences in sex hormone levels in Premenopausal Women. Gann, Perter H. et.al. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Jan 2001 Vol. 10, 59-64.
Salivary Sex Hormone Measurement in a National population-based study of older adults.  Gavrilova N, J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2009 Nov; 64 Suppl 1 194-20

Click Here to Download the Saliva Hormone Sample Report - Female
Click Here to Download the Saliva Hormone Sample Report - Male


Jay Mead, MD
John W Brimhall, BA, BS, DC, FIAMA, DIBAK, Formulator and Patent holder.