About - DHA Laboratory

ABOUT US

A family founded lab that specializes in what other labs skip

DHA Laboratory is a High Complexity CLIA-licensed clinical laboratory in Mount Prospect, Illinois. For 23 years we have run specialty biochemistry for mental health: the markers standard panels ignore and most labs are not equipped to handle properly.

SETTING THE STANDARD

What we do

Any laboratory can list copper on a menu. There are eleven different copper tests and ten different zinc tests, and they do not measure the same thing. Which tube, which method, which handling protocol: these decide whether a result is clinically usable or noise.

The Kryptopyrrole Quantitative Urine is a world renowned DHA Lab Developed Test, run inside our own laboratory, and we have run it longer than anyone. Everything else, 5,838 tests in total, comes through more than 60 partner laboratories we have selected and hold to a single collection and handling standard.

That standard is the business. Knowing which laboratory runs a given assay properly, which tube it needs, how it has to be handled, and what the result means against a functional range rather than a population range. A practice ordering through us gets one requisition, one portal, one support team, and results it can actually interpret.

We are not trying to be everything to everyone.

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect

Carl C. Pfeiffer MD PhD
OUR MODEL

Built on the Walsh and Pfeiffer model

Our functional reference ranges did not come from a textbook. They came from research into mental health populations that includes the world's largest database of patients on the autism spectrum, developed through the work of Dr. William J. Walsh and the Pfeiffer treatment model.

That research identified a small set of imbalances that surfaced again and again regardless of diagnosis. Pyrrole disorder, methylation imbalance, copper overload, zinc deficiency, and B6 depletion showed up across depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism, OCD, and schizophrenia. Not as the cause of every case, but often enough to be worth measuring every time.

We built our ranges around those findings and have been running them since.

Clinical leadership

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

Clinical leadership

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

Clinical leadership

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

  • Susan DeLaney ND

    Clinical Consultant

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