Disease Management Program

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• Disease Management Program

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WHAT SPECIALTIES BENEFIT FROM THE MRT LEAP?

• Gastroenterology
• Family Practice
• Internal Medicine
• Allergist
• Dermatology

• Pain Management
• Neurology
• Psychiatry
• Urgent Care
• More

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What if you can help your patients with
Migraines, GERD, IBS or Chronic Fatigue more

• Without giving them drugs,
• Without just treating symptoms
• Without injections
• Without surgeries

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No - the LEAP program doesnt cure 100 of
patients with these problems, but what if it
helps just 70 or 60 or even 50 of them?
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What Symptoms are helped most by LEAP?

• Frequent Migraines (More than One per week)
• GERD - (more than 3 nights a week)
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (4 or more bowel
  movements a day)
• Chronic Fatigue (daily)

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What Other Symptoms are helped by LEAP?

• Chronic Ulcerative Colitis
• Fibromyalgia Syndrome
• Obesity
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Eczema

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What Causes IBS Symptoms?

• Page 1051of the hard copy of the 2000 Merck
  manual
• Recently, food intolerance was found to be
  responsible for symptoms of some patients with
  the Irritable Bowel Syndrome, confirmed by
  double-blind food challenge.
• An increase in rectal prostaglandin levels was
  noted when a reaction occurred.
• Preliminary information suggests the same
  phenomenon may take place in patients with
  chronic Ulcerative Colitis.

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What Are Mediators?

• Foods and Food Additives Trigger Non IgE
  Mediated Immune Reaction Causing Mediator
  Release by Associated Leukocytes. This in Turn
  Leads to Inflammation, Smooth Muscle
  Contraction, Diarrhea, Pain, Cramping, and
  Visceral Hypersensitivity
• Histamine
• Serotonin
• Prostaglandins
• Leukotreines
• Cytokines
• Dopamine
• Adrenaline
• CD3, CD4
• Many More

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The Biggest Problem Concerning Dietary Triggers?

• Identifying Reactive Items

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How MRT Works
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Mediator Release Test (MRT)

• Comprehensive Endpoint Test Not limited by a
  single mechanism
• Highest Accuracy 94.5 Sensitivity
• Patented
• Tests for Reactions to Foods AND Additives
• Forms the Basis For Dietary Plan

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Dig Dis 200119(3)244-50Update in the
therapeutic management of irritable bowel
syndrome.Villanueva A, Domingez-Munoz JE,
Mearin F.Department of Gastroenterology,
University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela,
C/Choupana, s/n E-15706-Santiago de Compostela,
Spain

• Conclusions
• It is not likely that one single treatment will
  help every IBS patient and many of them will need
  a more complex approach with multidisciplinary
  therapy
• Diet
• Psychotherapy
• Medications

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What The LEAP Program Is

• A Disease Management Program For Diarrheic
  Predominant or Cyclic IBS that achieves 70 80
  Treatment Success
• A Disease Management Program For IBS that Adds
  Revenue Per Patient to a Physicians Practice
• The Only Disease Management Program Available on
  a Turn-Key Basis That Provides A Strategic Method
  of Solving The Dietary and Stress Induced
  Symptoms of IBS

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How The LEAP Program Works For The IBS Patient

• Provides a Simple Step-By-Step Dietary Management
  Plan Resource Guide (LEAP Report) For
  Overcoming Diet Related Symptoms
• Stress Reduction CD Developed By Board Certified
  Gastroenterologist and Clinical Psychologist To
  Control Anxiety/Stress Induced Symptoms

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Reported Average Degree Of Symptom Reduction
after only 30 Days on LEAP Program
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How The LEAP Program Helps The Practice

• Improved Patient Care Gives Patient Low Risk
  Treatment Option
• Clinical Benefit Symptom Reduction for 70 - 80
  of Patients With Diarrheic Predominant or Cyclic
  IBS
• Practice Builder (generate referrals, bring back
  old patients)
• Referral rate from patients is ASTOUNDING!

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LEAP Builds Practice Revenue

• Practice Has a choice on billing
• You can bill the patient and their insurance and
  you pay Signet Labs
• or
• You can collect the co-pay from the patient, send
  it in with the blood and Signet bills the patient
  and insurance.

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If you are a physician and you want to see the
Clinical Double Blind stuff - just contact us and
well email a Powerpoint presentation designed
for physicians to your office or see it on our
website
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• or
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