TBI and Abnormal Amino Acids

Researchers in Galveston Texas, including Dr. Randall Urban and Dr Brent Masel, both of whom developed the breakthrough idea of TBI as a chronic disease, were involved in the study. By studying the blood work of chronic TBI patients it was found that even many years after injury these patients exhibited abnormal metabolic responses and altered relationships between circulating amino acids and hormones. This is a chronic disease state whose effects are just being discovered. The condition, known as hypo aminoacidemia, causes a large reduction in the amount of circulating amino acids in the body.