Organic Acids Profile - Urine

The Organic Acids Profile from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory uses an easy-to-collect, first morning void specimen to evaluate organic acids in urine. Test results highlight areas of dysfunction that can be impacted by epigenetic, nutritional, environmental, lifestyle, and other key factors.

Ordering the Organic Acid Profile from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory

The Organic Acids Profile from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory uses an easy-to-collect, first-morning void specimen to evaluate organic acids in urine. Test results highlight areas of dysfunction that can be impacted by epigenetic, nutritional, environmental, lifestyle, and other key factors.

Urine organic acids testing can help practitioners identify dysfunction in key metabolic pathways. Dysfunctional metabolic pathways can negatively impact mood, energy production, and overall health while also providing insight into nutrient insufficiency, diet composition, toxic exposures, and microbial metabolism.

The personalized information generated in the Organic Acids Profile test report can establish a patient's baseline status and help practitioners customize protocols.

The Organic Acids Profile is Categorized by the Following Key Functional Areas of Patient Health:

1. Metabolic Processing

2. Amino Acid & Protein Metabolism

3. Nutrition

4. Stress & Mood

5. Microbial Metabolites

6. Toxic Impacts

What Are the Benefits of Organic Acids Testing?

Organic acid testing provides insight into how well patients function metabolically. Practitioners can use insights from the Organic Acid Profile to personalize protocols to help patients improve dysfunctional pathways that may be contributing to current or future disease states.

Benefits of Organic Acid Testing Include:

• Organic acids are efficiently excreted through the kidneys as end products of metabolism.
• Evaluating organic acids in urine is a preferred and easy-to-collect testing option.
• Organic acids are produced endogenously during normal cellular metabolism and require dietary-derived vitamins, minerals, and other compounds as processing cofactors. Organic acid testing provides practitioners with essential clues for targeted supplementation.
• Catabolic products of essential amino acids in urine may help to identify the flow of dysfunctional metabolic pathways.
  

Amino acid breakdown products can help gain insight into:

• Nutrient cofactor needs
• Methylation
• Catecholamine turnover
• Glutathione status
• Level of Inflammation
  

The Organic Acid Profile evaluates imbalances in the Krebs Cycle intermediate organic acids. Understanding imbalances in the Krebs Cycle can help identify the location of impaired flow and possible impacts of the pathways.

The Organic Acid Profile helps Identify impacts on stress and mood disorders by providing information on neurotransmitter turnover and cortisol levels.

Gut bacteria produce organic acids during their metabolic processing. Identification of these unique compounds can indicate potential gut-microbiome imbalances.

Which Patients Can Benefit from Diagnostic Solutions Organic Acid Profile?

The Organic Acids Profile helps practitioners quickly identify dysfunctions associated with various conditions. The test report has been designed to help practitioners establish a patient baseline and to identify possible core issues in those with health conditions.

Metabolomics research has evaluated the following conditions associated with Organic Acid Testing:

• Dysmetabolism, pre-diabetes, and diabetes
• Weight changes and obesity
• Fatigue
• Athletic performance
• Poor immune function
• Depression and anxiety
• GI microbial activity
• Renal and liver dysfunction

Important Notes:

Specimen Type: Urine (First Morning Void)

This test cannot be ordered for patients under 12 years of age.