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A formula for a customized amino acid blend, based on your patient's specific test results, is provided with every plasma amino acid test result. These customized amino acid formulations provide appropriate amounts of essential and conditionally essential amino acids, delivered in a balanced ratio to offset the risk of imbalance sometimes seen with the use of single amino acid supplements. This blend can be made by many compounding pharmacies.
Yes, it looks like they give you a sort of recommended amino acid intake depending on your results. That's what I saw at the end of the sample report I think. Here was another interesting thing I pulled up from their site. This link talks a bit about possible reasons behind high or low levels and how to confront those issues: (http://www.metametrix.com/files/test-menu/interpretive-guides/Amino-Acids-IG.pdf) I was looking into Doctor's Data for a urine amino acid test and there's runs close to or a bit over $300, which is a bit hard on the wallet. Hopefully I will find something reliable for much less than that. Honestly all I am looking for is a urine analysis of glutamate and aspartate, but I guess that these tests are like cable TV, I get a bunch of junk channels when all I want is ESPN (jk, I would actually want more channels than that). Plus maybe there will some other indicator in my results that I didn't know about. I will let you know as soon as I find something. There seems to be a lot of posts about this subject on this forum
Ya good stuff in that chart. The interventions are kind of telling because I know I benefit from some of those vitamins already. Maybe it explains why I'm benefitting.
You probably know about this already, but I guess the balance of these aminos is important because they combine to create sulfate and other downstream stuff also.
Jarod