NeuroScience
373 280th St.
Osceola, WI 54020
Phone: (888) 342-7272; (715) 294-2144
Fax: (715) 294-3921
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.neuroscienceinc.com
Making an Integrative Approach to Medicine Possible
Dr. Gottfried Kellermann recognized the importance of an integrated approach to patient care. With a PhD in human genetics and biochemistry, he could see the value in current tests on the market to evaluate individual biomarkers, but also recognized the importance of gaining a more comprehensive picture. He believed that improvements in medical care would come when the interconnectedness of the neurological, immune and endocrine systems was recognized and applied to a care plan designed to treat the body as a whole.
To make his integrated approach to medicine possible, Dr. Kellermann and his wife, Mieke, spent years developing laboratory tests that would evaluate each system within the body. The comprehensive approach they were exploring had enormous potential to change the way doctors approach patient treatment. To make this kind of testing available to the practitioners across the U.S., the Kellermanns opened Pharmasan Labs in Osceola, WI. Today, this CLIA-certified lab offers a wide variety of laboratory tests to evaluate each major system in the body. Health care providers use data from the neurotransmitter, hormone and immune testing categories to manage care for patients with a wide variety of symptoms and conditions.
The creation of Pharmasan Labs was only the beginning. The Kellermanns realized that although their laboratory testing helped to identify specific imbalances within the body, practitioners had a limited selection of products available on the market to treat such imbalances.
The Launch of NeuroScience
In 2000, Dr. Kellermann launched NeuroScience™ with a line of uniquely formulated products designed to address imbalances revealed by laboratory testing. Although a separate company, NeuroScience works hand-in-hand with Pharmasan Labs to provide personalized product suggestions to address patient-specific imbalances. These products are designed to optimize neurotransmitter levels, helping to balance a patient’s nervous, endocrine and immune systems.
Integrative Role of Neurotransmitters
Nervous system imbalances affect communication between the body and brain
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that facilitate communication between neurons. This has an effect on every cell, tissue and organ system within the body. When neurotransmitter levels are out of balance, this communication is altered and a wide variety of clinical symptoms can result. Effects can be both physical and emotional, and affect a patient’s mental performance, mood, energy level and physiological responses. The nervous system plays such an integral role in the body that neurological imbalances underlie many of the most common symptoms and conditions seen today.
The NEI Supersystem
As medical research has revealed the extent to which human systems rely on neurotransmitters to communicate, the need for understanding how neurotransmitters impact other systems has grown. In partnership with Pharmasan Labs, NeuroScience provides practitioners with the ability to combine lab test results into an integrated neuro-endo-immune (NEI) patient data view. This integration of nervous-, endocrine-, and immune-system biomarkers forms what NeuroScience refers to as the NEI Supersystem™. The Supersystem approach to patient care enables a level of personalized treatment that can address recurring, complex conditions more effectively.
The NEI Supersystem:
• Views nervous, endocrine and immune system interactions as integrated functions
• Provides practitioners with a way to test a patient for imbalances within, and between, the three systems
• Emphasizes the nervous system’s importance to overall health and focuses attention on the role neuro-signaling processes play in regulating and maintaining health throughout the body
Assess & Address Patient Care Cycle
NeuroScience works with practitioners who believe in a patient-centered approach to care. To support practitioners in personalizing treatment programs to meet the needs of individual patients, NeuroScience developed the Assess & Address™ model. This model combines Pharmasan Labs tests with NeuroScience products to create personalized, highly effective treatment programs.
In addition to providing practitioners with Pharmasan Labs results, NeuroScience helps practitioners interpret patient data and provides product recommendations for a number of its core offerings. When a practitioner receives Pharmasan Labs results for neurotransmitter, adrenal or other select tests, they also receive the following from NeuroScience:
• Explanation of NEI interrelated functions and imbalances
• Customized multiphasic product recommendations
• Product dosages and duration
While practitioners may suggest modified care programs to their patients, NeuroScience recommendations are based on 12 years of analytical expertise. Since 2000, Dr. Kellermann and the dedicated staff at NeuroScience have worked with health care practitioners to assess NEI imbalances and plan treatment programs after reviewing more than 600,000 test results. This extensive database and years of experience allows NeuroScience to interpret lab test results and provide individualized patient care recommendations. At NeuroScience, the interpretation of the test results is just as important as the numbers themselves.
What NeuroScience Offers a Practice
Practitioners who benefit from working with NeuroScience:
• Consult patients with complex, chronic conditions
• Integrate nutrition and diet with patient care
• Use test results to form care decisions
• Individualize recommendations based on neurotransmitter test results and patient history
• Improve care through integrated data view
