a new era in preventive lab diagnostics

Preventive, regenerative and anti-aging medicine means new and important trend-setting instruments for the medical profession. Against this backdrop, BioLabs™ provides a complex range of laboratory tests, the latest in contemporary preventive laboratory medicine. The clinical expertise and the comments made on the various findings by our team of experts, in addition to the actual analysis of the findings and diagnosis, set new accents in preventive laboratory diagnostics.

Prevention medicine
The word “prevention” is derived from the Latin ‘praevenire', i.e. to forestall, in the sense of forestalling the outbreak of a disease by countering it on time. Preventive medicine addresses identification and elimination - at the earliest possible stage - of risk that, if untreated, culminates in disease. Preventive medicine is a discipline that is still in its early days, but one for which there is an urgent necessity.

It is simple and can be implemented without a great deal of input: many diseases evolve from the genetic constitution of a family (for example in a family that features the occurrence of cardiac infarction before the 60 th year of age) or there are early signs of disease (fatigue, decline in performance) that give grounds for early investigation. With the help of simple calculators, the particular individual risk for each of the so-called ‘common diseases' (cardiac infarction, stroke, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia and depression) can be determined and calculated. Only then, are the defined, scientifically grounded parameters examined - from blood, urine or saliva - that are indicative of the specific risk.

Our online forum developed together with BioAging® is available free of charge to our users. Here you will find all established risk calculators that within a few minutes will help you to pinpoint the particular risk of your patient. Once the questions have been answered, you will receive the results immediately. In conjunction with other physical examinations, the overall picture of the respective risk evolves and hence the necessity for its prevention.

You are thus in a position to claim the highest degree of diagnostic safety for your patient and justify the need for the measures you will be taking. Preventive, regenerative and anti-aging medicine embodies new and important trend-setting instruments for the medical profession. True to their significance, we offer a complex range of laboratory tests in the sense of modern, preventive laboratory medicine.

Laboratory medicine
The entire spectrum of laboratory testing has been rationally broken down and is founded on acknowledged evidence. As you see from the requirement sheet, all diagnostic methods have been clearly allocated to the various tentative diagnoses. Should you decide in favor of a smaller program, simply request a single analyte or analysis rather than any group criteria (using the separate requirement sheet).

In addition to the analyses relating to the diagnosis and the findings, you will also receive sound clinical expertise and comments on the findings, enhanced by explicit instructions and notes from our team of practicing clinicians, endocrinologists and laboratory clinicians.

The analysis results are not only numerically set out and include diagrams, but are also clear and readable to an optimum, reflecting the latest in scientific insights based on sound evidence and expertise. Wherever necessary, our experts incorporate clinical and empirical recommendations for you.

The aim is to provide you with as scientifically founded and as practically applicable instructions as possible for further measures, either for follow-up diagnostics or for therapy and preventive measures for your patient.

Reach of spectrum
Preventive medical tests in the laboratory harbor huge advantages when biochemical marker analytes make it possible to identify risks at an early stage and clearly prior to any manifestation of organic findings, thus obviously enhancing the therapeutic benefit.

Hormone analysis: diagnosing hormone problems in men and women
To identify hormonal deficits in women and men, measurements are taken of the concentrations of the most important hormones, minified due to the advances of age. Not only do we offer the most modern measurement mode for all hormones with absolute precision in readings, but we also provide an explicit clinical evaluation of the issues you raise.

Preventive diagnostics for common diseases
For the most frequently occurring common conditions (as for example cardio-cerebro-vascular disease, diabetes type II, adipositas, osteoporosis, dementia, mamma carcinoma, prostatic cancer, colon cancer, bronchial cancer and COPD), a set of different analytes has been compiled that identify and differentiate the respective risk on a scientifically validated basis. Also incorporated are the already established calculators (risk calculator from the patient's biographic data), so that based on this input of information, the respective risk of disease over the coming ten years can be calculated (i.e. relative risk and/or likelihood in % of developing the respective disease over the coming ten years).

Laboratory analysis of chronic diseases
Among the chronic diseases that frequently restrict the quality of life and vitality are the following:

- Chronic stress
- Burnout syndrome
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
- Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS)
- Fibrositis
- Immunodeficiency diseases
and numerous rarer neurological-psychiatric conditions.

For the afore-mentioned diseases, we provide a modern diagnostic kit founded on recognized guidelines and recommendations. This include methods such as:

- Analysis of all relevant hormones
- General lab and organ-related preventive diagnostics
- In-depth metabolic analysis
- Analysis of all hormones (including saliva hormones)
- Osteological and biochemical bone status
- Stress diagnostics and stress endocrinology
- Oxidative and nitro stress, mitochondrial diagnosis
- Full-scale immunodiagnostics
- Neurotransmitter analysis
- Heavy metal and toxicological environmental immunology etc.

Saliva determinations
With this determination method, free and biologically active hormones are determined in the saliva, particularly if more frequent measurements are needed to define the dynamics. The advantage here lies in the simplicity of taking the specimen; either at home or at work, during sports activities etc. and at any time of day or night with barely any effort required from your patient, securing a high degree of precision and reproducibility of the values. For the recovery and transport, special saliva tubing is required. This method is particularly apt for the dynamic measurements of cortisol and DHEA (for daily stress profile testing), melatonin (for the night profile to detect melatonin deficiency) and estradiol and progesterone (for cyclic monitoring).

With the help of this diagnostic test range, you not only establish a sound and precise diagnosis, but also are in a position to initiate the most efficient mode of treatment.

Neurotransmitter diagnostics
The recent past has witnesses a rise in the number of neuropsychiatric cases. Depression and anxiety/ panic attacks are the most frequent form of disease in the industrial countries (‘global burden of disease'). Disorders in attention, concentration, sleeping, daytime weariness and fatigue, premenstrual dysphoric syndrome, migraine through to depression and anxiety/panic attacks are all characterized by changes in the concentrations of neurotransmitters. Measurement of the major excitatory neurotransmitters (glutamate, noradrenaline, dopamine, histamine) and inhibitory transmitters (GABA, serotonin) in the 2. morning urine can uncover any imbalance and deficiency. All values are evaluated in terms of the clinical symptoms and appropriate courses of substitution therapy proposed.

Transport of samples and online contact
BioLabs™ is an international laboratory that will analyze your specimens. We provide a road service for the immediate vicinity of Ulm and Stuttgart that will collect your samples regularly or even daily as arranged, taking them to our laboratory. Should you be located outside the network, samples have to be sent by post or courier service. Given our direct online service, test results are directly visible to you on your PC following determination. Obviously, once the requested parameter analysis has been completed, you will receive the specific findings, as well as clinical recommendations for a targeted mode of procedure.

With our software, each user can install an individually configured program surface. This makes it easier to select the analytes and minimizes the time consumed in generating an order placement, which is transmitted synchronously to us. Without any further ado, you print out the label using the barcode printer supplied and stick it onto the samples. Of course, we let you have the sampling kits beforehand, so that you always have enough sample tubes to hand.

Continued education
All our users can benefit from our courses for continued education in every aspect of prevention. They are held at the modern training premises at our laboratory. Here you gain direct insights into our mode of working and are free to discuss specific issues with our experts.

We also set up an online database featuring established knowledge in the sphere of prevention. This relates just as much to diagnostics as to validated measures relating to the so-called common diseases. There are original papers and studies on a wide range of topics for downloading.

For more information please visit the website of BioLabs