Mood & Mind Neurotransmitter Test
Discover How to Improve Your Mood, Focus & Energy
- Test Type: Urine
- 30-Minute Health Coaching Call Included
For ongoing mood issues like anxiety or depression, trouble sleeping, or even learning challenges, an imbalance in neurotransmitter levels could be the root cause. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that relay information from one nerve to another. When they are out of balance, the body may be over- or understimulated, which can trigger a range of neurological or psychological issues. The Mood & Mind Neurotransmitter Test will measure levels of calming and energizing neurotransmitters and their metabolites, identify the nature of any imbalance, and make sure you have the right solutions to bring your body back to equilibrium.
What’s Measured
- Inhibitory Biomarkers: Serotonin, 5-HIAA, GABA, Glycine Inhibitory (calming) neurotransmitters block or prevent the chemical message from being passed along any farther.
- Serotonin: Helps regulate mood, sleep patterns, sexuality, anxiety, appetite, and pain. Diseases associated with serotonin imbalance include seasonal affective disorder, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain.
- 5-HIAA: A metabolite of serotonin. GABA: The most common inhibitory neurotransmitter of your nervous system, particularly in your brain.
- It regulates brain activity to prevent problems in the areas of anxiety, irritability, concentration, sleep, seizures, and depression.
- Glycine: The most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in your spinal cord. Glycine is involved in controlling hearing processing, pain transmission, and metabolism.
- Excitatory Biomarkers: Glutamate, histamine, PEA, dopamine, DOPAC, HVA, norepinephrine, epinephrine, norepinephrine:epinephrine ratio, VMA
- Excitatory (energizing) neurotransmitters "excite" the neuron and cause it to "fire off the message," meaning the message continues to be passed along to the next cell.
- Glutamate: Functions as the major excitatory neurotransmitter and metabolic fuel throughout the body.
- Clinically, high glutamate is suspected in anxiety, autism spectrum disorder, depression, and sleep issues, and clinically low glutamate is implicated in depression, chronic fatigue, lack of concentration, low energy levels, and sleep disturbances.
- Histamine is a neurotransmitter and immunomodulator. It regulates body functions including wakefulness, feeding behavior, and motivation. PEA: Serves as a biomarker for ADHD.
- Dopamine: Serves as the reward and pleasure center in the brain, and messenger of the sympathetic nervous system in the periphery.
- DOPAC and HVA: Metabolites of dopamine. Norepinephrine (noradrenaline) and epinephrine (adrenaline): Regulate the "fight or flight" response to fear and stress.
- These neurotransmitters stimulate your body's response by increasing your heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood flow to your muscles, as well as heighten attention and focus to allow you to act or react to different stressors.
- Ratio: Norepi/Epi. Having too much or too little of either can have noticeable effects on your health.
- An elevated ratio of Norepi/Epi may be consistent with poor conversion of norepinephrine to epinephrine. VMA: A metabolite of norepinephrine and epinephrine.
Who Is It For
- Adults who want an objective look at their calming and energizing neurotransmitter levels and their metabolites.
- Anyone who wants to see how stress, diet and lifestyle may be reflected in brain chemistry.
- People focused on mood, sleep, focus and energy as part of a functional medicine plan.
- Clients working with an EquiLife health coach or Integrative Health Practitioner who want a baseline and a point to retest from.
- Customers in the United States (except New York and Washington), Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
How To Use
- Purchase & Register: After you check out with your at-home lab, it will arrive promptly at your door. Follow the easy instructions included for registering your test before you send in your sample(s).
- Collect & Return: Each at-home lab comes with detailed instructions for collecting your test sample(s) and returning them to one of our CLIA-certified lab testing facilities.
- Results & Review: Once your samples have been processed, you will receive an invitation through EquiLife's health portal to schedule your one-on-one health coaching call to review your results in depth.
What’s In The Box
- Mood & Mind Neurotransmitter Test collection kit with step-by-step instructions
- Urine collection cup or strips
- Registration instructions (QR code) for the EquiLife health portal
- Return packaging for the CLIA-certified laboratory
- A 30-minute one-on-one health coaching call, scheduled after your results arrive
What To Expect
- How will I receive my results and my coaching call to review those results? Once you receive your at-home lab test, please follow the instructions provided to register your test. Once your sample(s) are sent to one of our CLIA-certified labs, it will take approximately 3 weeks for your results to be returned, during which time you will receive information on how to schedule your one-on-one health coaching call.
- Do at-home lab tests expire? All at-home lab tests expire 6 months from their purchase date. To ensure you will receive your results, please be sure to send all samples for completed lab tests prior to the 6-month expiration date. Unfortunately, there can be no returns or replacement lab tests sent after the 6-month time frame. Please remember to register your labs prior to sending your sample to the laboratory.
- What if I have additional questions? We have compiled thorough FAQs for our at-home lab tests, which you can browse here: https://faq.equi.life/en-US/articles/lab-kit-faq-14490 For additional questions, you can contact us at support@equi.life.
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Why people take this test:
Insight Into Neurotransmitter Balance
- Stress Response
- Mood
- Focus & Attention
- Energy
- Sleep
- Hormone Balance
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What Does This Test Measure
- Inhibitory
- Excitatory
- Inflammatory Markers
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At-Home Lab Benefits
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How Does It Work?
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Each at-home lab comes with detailed instructions for registering your test, collecting your test sample(s) and returning them to one of our CLIA certified lab testing facilities.
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To ensure you feel confident about your lab findings, EquiLife provides a complimentary, one-on-one call with a certified Health Coach who will review your results with you in-depth and answer questions. Health Coaches will provide recommendations to help you achieve your goals.
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Every EquiLife Lab Includes:
In-Depth Insight Into Your Health
EquiLife labs are designed to provide detailed and thorough information so that you can understand your health at the deepest level, allowing you to finally get to the root cause of your biggest health concerns.
A 30-Minute 1:1 Session With One Of Our World-Class Health Coaches
To ensure you feel confident about your lab findings, EquiLife provides a complimentary, one-on-one call with a certified Health Coach who will review your results with you in-depth and answer any questions you have.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Mood & Mind Neurotransmitter Test measure?
It measures 27 markers from a urine sample in three groups: inhibitory (calming) markers such as serotonin, 5-HIAA, GABA and glycine; excitatory (energizing) markers such as glutamate, histamine, PEA, dopamine, DOPAC, HVA, norepinephrine, epinephrine and VMA, with the norepinephrine to epinephrine ratio; and inflammatory markers.
How do I collect my sample?
At home, with the urine collection materials in your kit. Follow the included instructions, then return your sample to our CLIA-certified laboratory in the packaging provided.
How long do results take?
Approximately three weeks after the laboratory receives your sample. Your results are delivered through EquiLife's health portal with an invitation to schedule your 30-minute one-on-one health coaching call.
Is this a diagnostic test?
No. EquiLife labs are functional wellness tests processed at CLIA-certified laboratories. They give you and your health coach information about your current status and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Please share your results with your healthcare provider for any medical questions.
Can I use my HSA or FSA?
The Mood & Mind Neurotransmitter Test is HSA and FSA eligible. Eligibility is determined by your plan administrator, so please check your plan's requirements.
Where can this test be shipped?
Within the United States except New York and Washington, and to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Select your shipping destination at checkout.
