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Consult Dr MaesBetter detection and better treatment of depression, fatigue, stress-related symptoms and irritable bowel. If you suffer from fatigue, anergy, insomnia, muscle pain, negative thoughts about the future, nervousness, stress, chest pain, panic, intestinal problems including diarrhea, constipation or bloating, then you should attend our clinic. Mission. We are an exclusive and leading clinic for the assessment and treatment of depression, fatigue, stress-related disorders, and irritable bowel syndrome. We offer a better detection of those disorders with state-of-the-art clinical and biological assessment programs. We have developed new methodologies to assess the causes and trigger factors that play a role in the development of those conditions. Based on these newly developed biological assessments (blood, urine and stool tests) we are at the cutting edge of novel treatment programs for these conditions. We attract patients from Thailand, the rest of Asia, Arabic countries, Australia and other continents as well. Strategies. If you suffer from fatigue, anergy, insomnia, muscle pain, sadness, negative thoughts about the future, nervousness, stress, insomnia, gastrointestinal problems including diarrhea, constipation or bloating, then you should attend our clinic. We offer diagnostic programs to assess these conditions by means of clinical and biological assessments and we provide treatment plans which consider short-term as well as long-term treatment modalities. We are at the cutting edge of new diagnostic assessments, which consider specialized interviews, rating scales, self-rating scales, etc. Based on these data we offer you a conventional diagnosis. Moreover, based on a systemic more functional approach considering the effects of diet, life style, exercise, personal and familial history, the patients’ environment, etc., we are able to offer you a more comprehensive diagnosis. We have developed a biological assessment program (BAP) which considers the biological disorders (pathophysiology) that cause the disease and the precipitating factors that trigger the disease. Our researchers have provided evidence that the biological disorders underpinning these disorders comprise inflammation, free radicals and deficiencies in antioxidants. It is also well known that psycholological stress, infections, immune disorders, etc may trigger the above disorders. We perform blood, urine, and stool analysis to examine the biological dysfunctions. Based on the above, we have developed state-of-the-art treatment programs. Toward this purpose we employ “evidence-based” (proven by medical research) treatments, including conventional medications and novel techniques. Our treatments are personalized that is tailored on the patient. In general, our treatments aim to normalize the biological causes (pathophysiology), eradicate the trigger factors (where possible) and attenuate the symptoms (symptomatic treatment). We offer different assessment and treatment programs for lowered mood (depression), fatigue, chronic fatigue, muscle pain (fibromyalgia), stress, chest pain and hyperventilation (panic or anxiety disorders), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The programs are:
The specific programs 1. Balanced mood. This program aims to bring your mood in a better balance, remove sadness, negative thoughts about the future and yourself, and to treat the insomnia and irritability you may suffer from. In medical terms the condition we treat in this program is called “depression”. Depression is a medical disorder caused by changes in your body. These changes can de detected by using blood and urine tests and they can be found in inflammatory circuits and in biochemical structures in the brain (serotonin). There are many signs suggesting that you may be depressed. For example if you suffer from decreased appetite, weight loss and feel sad it may be that you suffer from depression. If you feel irritable, nervous and cannot sleep well, you may be depressed. Other characteristics are that you cannot enjoy anymore what’s happening, your hobbies and work and interests drop off, you cannot concentrate well and your memory is slow, your energy levels are very low, and you are less able to tolerate pain. Depression is a very common disorder: up to 15% of all people suffer from depression, Caucasians as well as Asians. Most important is that depression is treatable. Treatment depends on the type of depression and the biological disorders. In order to start an adequate treatment, a diagnosis is needed. We can offer you a state-of-the art diagnosis based on clinical and advanced biological measurements. Doing so, we are able to tell you whether you suffer from depression and from which type of depression you suffer. Our blood tests allow us to tell you the direct biological causes for your depression. Is it a deficiency in serotonin, chronic inflammation, too much oxidative stress? There is no uniform treatment for depression: all our treatments are individualized and tailored to the patient. So, we can treat with antidepressant drugs or St John’s wort, other supplements that increase serotonin, with supplements that attenuate the inflammation, etc. In this program we diagnose and treat different types of depression:
2. Energizer. This program aims to increase your energy. When you feel tired, if your energy has decreased, when you muscles are tired or painful after a mild exercise, when you concentration and memory have decreased you probably suffer a condition called “chronic fatigue”. Chronic fatigue is a medical disorder caused by biological changes in your body. These alterations can be detected using our blood tests and comprise the following: a deficiency in the energy engines of our body (mitochondria); inflammation; oxidative stress and gut inflammation. We also treat another type of fatigue, i.e. that occurs secondary to other medical illness, such as infections with viruses (EBV, CMV, HHV6) and bacteria (Chlamydia, Borrellia, Mycoplasma), (auto)immune disorders, like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, etc. The causes however of this type of fatigue are the same as explained above. There are many signs suggesting that you may suffer from chronic fatigue. Obligatory to this diagnosis is the presence of fatigue for a long period of time. Other symptoms that occur very common are: muscle tension, aches, muscle aches, joint pains, insomnia, malaise (as you have the flu), irritability, irritable bowel syndrome (bloating), concentration and memory disorder, headache. Chronic fatigue is a very common disorder: up to 10% of all people either Caucasians or Asian people suffer from chronic fatigue. Most important is that fatigue is treatable in an earlier stage of the illness. Treatment of fatigue depends on the type of biological disorders in your body. That is why our blood tests are so important: they tell us what treatment strategy should be followed. We treat:
3. Relaxed and Alert. This program aims to achieve relaxation. It will decrease your stress and bodily complaints secondary to stress, like hyperventilation, chest pain, heart palpitation, sweating. When you feel anxious and irritable and suffer from insomnia or have chest pain (panic) attacks, this program will help you. In this program we treat anxiety disorders. These are medical disorders caused by changes in stress hormones (catecholamines), biochemical substances in the brain (serotonin) and oxidative stress and inflammation. These dysfunctions can de detected using our specific blood tests. Stress, insomnia and anxiety are very common in the population. People with high stress levels are more prone to develop anxiety disorders. For example, panic disorder or chest pain occur often in managers who are subject to high stress. Hyperventilation is another symptom indicating increased stress. An important trauma, such as being victim of a car accident, a fire, an assault, induces (post-traumatic) anxiety in many individula. Based on specialized blood tests we will make a personalized treatment program than can treat your stress symptoms. In most cases we obtain a quick response to treatment and can cure these conditions in some weeks. This program will diagnose and treat the different types of stress and anxiety disorders:
4. Listen to your gut. This program aims to treat irritable bowel syndrome, an impaired transit (diarrhea or constipation) and bloating, intestinal cramps, etc. These symptoms are quite common (more that 30% of the population). While “common wisdom” ascribes these abdominal symptoms to stress, those symptoms are more likely to be caused by biological factors, like lactose (milk sugar) intolerance, fructose (fruit sugar) intolerance, irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, gut dysbiosis, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, gluten intolerance and coeliackie, type III food allergies, type I food allergies, etc. To complicate matters, there a strong overlap between all above diagnoses. For example, food intolerances can cause gut dysbiosis and leaky gut, which may all (alone or together) induce irritable bowel syndrome. This program also treats gut dysbiosis and leaky gut that are secondary to inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn’s disease and colitis ulcerosa. These conditions can generate many symptoms such as cramps, diarrhea and bloating which often are invalidating. Even more, these conditions can cause an inflammation in the blood and even profound inflammation or autoimmune disorders. For example, a small intestine bacterial overgrowth and gut inflammation may induce leaky gut which in turn may cause frank inflammation in the blood and even neurological disorders. Although these conditions are very frequent they remain unrecognized in many cases. For example, the incidence of lactose intolerance is a high as 60-98%, whereas the incidence of fructose intolerance is 15-30%. Although leaky gut can result in a dangerous situation most treating physicians do not examine leaky gut. An adequate biological assessment is of pivotal importance to make the diagnosis of these conditions. We perform tests such as breath tests to determine lactose and fructose intolerance, and small intestine bacterial overgrowth, blood tests to diagnose leaky gut, celiac disease, food intolerances, and stool tests to test for yeast (Candida), gut dysbiosis and gut inflammation. The treatment is again personalized and tailored on the individual patient and consists of diets – lactose and/or fructose free diet, gluten free diet, a leaky gut diet, and exclusion diets – treatments with probiotics and/or antibiotics, treatments with antioxidants. We treat:
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