NUTRITIONAL BALANCING AND WHY I RECOMMEND IT
by Lawrence Wilson, MD
© January 2010, The Center For Development
I
have studied many nutritional approaches to healing. While all have some merit, I continue to use and recommend
nutritional balancing science for the following reasons:
SAFETY
This
should always be the first on the list of qualities for evaluating a healing
modality. Nutritional balancing is
much safer than most drug medical care, or many holistic and nutritional
methods because:
a) The Products Used Are Safe. These include selected vitamins,
minerals, amino acids, digestive aids and few others. I do NOT recommend bio-identical hormones of any kind, chelation
therapy of any type, drugs of any kind except in rare cases, and we are extremely
careful about possible problems with most herbs. For example, I find that all Chinese and Ayurvedic or East
Indian herbal products, no matter how good the quality, contain too many toxic
metals. The same is true of many
American and European herbs, no matter what is the brand or source.
b) Balancing The Body Is Safer Than Using Remedies. Nutritional
balancing is far safer than most symptomatic approaches, for example, in my
experience. Balance is a key to
our health, and balancing the oxidation rate and the major mineral ratios,
along with balancing yin and yang forces in the body, seems to prevent many
problems that arise with all kinds of healing methods, both medical and
holistic or natural ones.
c) Toxic Metals Are Not
Forced Out Of The Body With Chelators. This may seem odd to say. However, most chelation products, including oral,
intravenous and even rectal suppositories, force the metals out of storage sites in an order that is
not the bodyÕs natural sequence or order.
This occasionally causes difficulties with these therapies.
Nutritional
balancing works at the bodyÕs pace, which may not satisfy some clients, but is
much safer in our experience.
Nutritional balancing also avoids the use of all chelators for other
reasons. The main one is that they
all, even the natural ones, remove some vital or essential minerals along with
the toxic ones. This can be
disastrous in a few cases, so we avoid it and we donÕt need them at all.
d) Nutrients Are Not Forced
Into The body using intravenous or intramuscular nutrient therapy. Oral feeding of
vitamins, minerals and other substances may be slower at times, but it is
gentler and usually works excellently without the need for IV or IM therapy.
e) Megadoses Of Any
Substances Are Not Used. Many systems of healing use larger doses of nutrients, herbs
and other products. Lower doses
tend to be much safer.
f) Nutritional Balancing, In Most Cases, Can Reduce Toxic Levels Far Below
That Possible With Other Healing Methods, Including Most Intravenous And Oral
Chelation. This occurs because
balancing the body chemistry powerfully assists the body to remove toxic metals
and chemicals in over 15 different ways without needing chelating drugs or even
natural chelating methods used widely by others such as cilantro and chlorella
extracts, zeolite, herbs, clay baths and other methods. Reducing the levels of toxic metals
very low is extremely helpful for health and safer, as well.
g) Monitoring With Repeated Hair Tissue Mineral Analyses Adds A Great Measure
Of Safety. It can alert the
practitioner to 1) a change in the oxidation rate, 2) a toxic elimination in
progress, 3) a change in the stress level that needs attention, 4) anticipating
toxic eliminations and other changes in order to prepare the client, and 5)
comparison testing helps assure compliance and understanding by the client of
the process that is involved.
Trends
or tendencies for 50 or so conditions can also be monitored easily,
inexpensively and usually without the need for other costly and perhaps
invasive tests or procedures.
Without such a tool, monitoring is far more difficult and the
possibility of harm is greater.
PREVENTION AND PREDICTION
I
prefer nutritional balancing because it is highly predictive and
preventive. Every healing method should include prevention and the ability to
predict future problems.
Nutritional Balancing is excellent for both of these, especially
prevention. With it, one can
identify trends or mineral imbalances associated with 50 or even more physical and
mental health conditions. One can
then correct many before they even cause symptoms.
For
example, these include identifying toxic metals, toxic chemicals in some cases,
infections with bacteria, viruses and parasites, and tendencies for
degenerative diseases such as cancer.
This can be done early, while the pathologies are often still hidden
from standard diagnostic tests.
Prevention of most serious health
conditions. Many screening
tests and other methods can detect a few serious conditions such as diabetes,
heart disease or cancer.
Nutritional balancing helps to detect and correct early cases of most
all disease in the human body.
Correction of many latent or sub-clinical
conditions. This is the
ability of a nutritional balancing program to actually heal health conditions
that have not yet caused obvious measurable signs or symptoms. This is a type of prevention that is
subtle, and most wonderful.
A TRULY HOLISTIC METHOD
While many healers claim their method is holistic, few, in fact,
are truly so. This is because a
holistic system must incorporate lifestyle, nutrition, the body/mind connection
and advanced spiritual development.
These are all components of nutritional balancing science as I suggest
it be practiced.
By comparison, medical
therapies and almost all holistic, alternative, complimentary and naturopathic
therapy, is not as holistic, in fact, no matter how it is promoted. Nor is the use of advanced healing
machines, for example.
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALING
Another
reason I am continually impressed with nutritional balancing is its application
in cases of mental and emotional health conditions. This is an enormous area of concern today, and most other
therapies deal with it poorly, if at all.
It includes, but is not limited to developmental difficulties in
children, depression, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic
attacks and much more.
Drug
and many holistic approaches to mental illness and developmental delays are too
often quite symptomatic and do not address the removal of toxic metals and
toxic chemicals, for example.
Suppressing the problems with drugs can be disastrous. Nutritional balancing directly addresses
causes of mental illness. These
include, but are not limited to an unbalanced oxidation rate, nutritional
deficiencies, blood sugar imbalances and excessive toxic metals and chemicals
present in the nervous system and brain.
Another
benefit of nutritional balancing is that correcting the nutritional imbalances
will often assist the client develop his personality, improve school and work
performance and much more. In
other words, opening up the mind to help with this method affects every area of
life, literally. The brain and
nervous system function better, enhancing every other approach for healing and
for enhancing oneÕs life.
BRIDGING EASTERN AND WESTERN, AND ANCIENT AND MODERN HEALING WISDOM
While
this may seem unusual to mention as a benefit, there is much wisdom in the
ancient therapies of the orient such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese healing
with acupuncture, acupressure, jin shin jyutsu, shiatsu, tai chi chuan, yoga
and others. However, integrating
them with Western medical sciences and Òupdating themÓ to deal with modern
mankindÕs particular issues today is difficult in most cases.
Nutritional
balancing is actually a blend of Western scientific methods with Eastern
wisdom, such as balancing the body and assessing yin and yang. Other Eastern concepts that are vital
in nutritional balancing include metabolic typing, the concept of vital force
or energetic balancing, the concept of retracing or healing crises, the concept
of holism or totality, and more.
In
this way, nutritional balancing using hair mineral analysis is a bridge between
the most modern biochemical theories of health and disease such as the stress
theory and modern physiology, with ancient wisdom applied to the human and
animal body, mind and spirit. It
is a blend that works well, and that is the most important aspect of it.
A POWERFUL WAY TO DEEPLY REMOVE FROM THE BODY ALL TOXIC METALS AND
MANY CHEMICALS, INCLUDING EVEN RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES
Seventeen
or so methods are used at the same time in all cases to enhance the process of
removing all toxic material from the body. Other therapies to remove toxins, such as intravenous
chelation, may act faster, but not as deeply as nutritional balancing, and it
cannot remove nearly as many toxic metals and toxic chemicals. It is also not as safe.
THE ABILITY TO CORRECT VERY CHRONIC IMBALANCES
All
healing methods have their strong points and those it is not equipped to
handle. A particular strong point
of nutritional balancing science is to identify and correct a difficult
condition the four-lows pattern.
Doctors
with a lot of experience know that there is a group of patients for whom
progress in healing is most difficult.
They do not respond as do the others. Dr. Paul Eck, in his wise way, realized this and developed
not only a way to identify these people using hair analysis. He also developed a simple protocol to
counteract the pattern that works most of the time.
The
main symptoms are often fatigue and allergies, in many cases. The person often has a negative view
about life, and yet is a hard-working, hard-driving individual in most
cases. With nutritional balancing
science, one can recognize the pattern instantly and take corrective action
that saves many lives.
MENTAL/SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Nutritional balancing is one of the few
medical sciences I have found that reliably and easily causes what I call
mental or spiritual development of a human being. This is an amazing benefit that extends life and
enhances healing greatly. It is a
very precise process in which many glial cells of the brain eventually die off
and are replaced by neurons that enhance the brain capacity or thinking
capacity of the person. This
process can be observed by certain indicators on a hair mineral analysis such
as an elevated phosphorus reading.
Other words for this
process might include Òpersonality integrationÓ, Òachieving oneÕs total
potentialÓ, Òself-actualizationÓ or Òself-realizationÓ. Other people may refer to it as
developing the chakras or the aura.
Development is nothing less than the total unfolding of the human being
at all levels of development.
While
this was not Dr. EckÕs original intent when he evolved nutritional balancing
science, it is nevertheless the case.
I have added a stricter diet based somewhat on macrobiotic principles,
stricter drinking water requirements, and the use of near infrared sauna
therapy, coffee enemas and the Roy Masters meditation. Also, eating certain foods seem to have
an important effect such as eating on a daily basis organic blue corn tortillas
or chips, sardines, kelp, and Hawaiian Jade Sea Salt.
These factors combine with
Dr. EckÕs original nutritional program to enhance mental development. The ability to develop the mind, and
not just heal the body, may be considered the crowning achievement of
nutritional balancing science that is not offered by most other healing methods
today.
Nutritional
balancing can allow modern and sickly mankind to Òcatch upÓ, so to speak, with
the ancient and aboriginal people whose bodies were in far better shape due to
better food, less ionizing radiation and much less chemical and electromagnetic
contamination. Then modern people
can enjoy the benefits of this, not only on a physical level, but also on other
subtle levels as well.
AN AMAZING RESEARCH TOOL
Over
the past 30 years of working with hair mineral analysis and nutritional
balancing science, I have come to realize that this method offers an amazing
amount of insight and practical understanding of every conceivable human health
condition. It also offers insights
into personality, mental health, and even spiritual aspects of human
development. We are learning more
on a weekly basis. I try to share
all of it on this website by either writing new articles or modifying and
updating older articles on this website.
OTHER PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES
1. Reasonable cost. This applies to both the hair test
and the cost of the program such as the diet, supplements, lifestyle changes
and other procedures. Although
cost should never be a primary consideration in healing, it is an important
practical reason to prefer this method of healing over some others.
2.
Sampling, handling, and transporting the hair biopsy samples is easy, safe, and
non-invasive. In fact, I believe that one
reason for the lack of acceptance of hair mineral testing is that sampling is so
simple, as are preserving and transporting the samples. Doctors cannot quite believe the
possibility of such as simple method, as they are far more used to all the
difficulties with blood, urine, saliva and other standard medical sampling
methods.
This
is a sad reason hair mineral analysis, a true cellular biopsy, has not caught
on faster in America or around the world.
3.
Assessment with the hair mineral biopsy is mathematically precise, objective
and easily repeatable. This may not seem
important, but is a primary benefit of this approach. Many holistic methods, in particular, are quite vague,
subjective or imprecise. Many are
also hard to learn, requiring years of education such as acupuncture diagnosis
and classical homeopathy.
Nutritional
balancing assessment leaves little room for doubts, as it measures minerals to
extreme degrees of accuracy in parts per million or even parts per
billion. One can then calculate
the levels, ratios and patterns with great precision. Even many blood, urine, hormone and other standard medical
assays are far less accurate, in spite of what is sometimes said about hair
mineral testing.
4.
A graphic display of test results. This is somewhat less
important. However, Dr. Paul EckÕs
sincere desire to share his wisdom caused him to design a graph of the results
of the test that is easy for anyone to see and interpret, which is
helpful. It makes learning,
appreciating and sharing the results of the analysis with clients easier and
more enjoyable.
5.
A stand-alone system. By this I mean that
nutritional balancing is fairly self-sufficient. It does not require a lot of confirmatory medical or
nutritional tests or procedures such as x-rays, blood tests, urine tests,
physical exams or others. This is
an excellent practical advantage to save time and money that I hard to believe
when I began doing nutritional balancing.
However, it is true.
In
contrast, too many medical and holistic physicians and others insist upon many different
types of testing to confirm and rule out various conditions or diseases. Some years ago, I visited a well-known
holistic physician. Before I even
got to see the doctor, I was told to obtain over $1000.00 of tests.
Oddly,
this is a reason I believe hair analysis and nutritional balancing are not more
accepted. The idea that a single,
inexpensive test can guide the correction of health is just rather
foreign. When a doctor criticizes
this approach, I answer by saying that the difference is the hair analysis is
being used to assess the stress response, not to confirm or rule out various
diseases. As correction of the
stress response proceeds, symptoms go away on their own. So it is a completely different system
of healing than the diagnose-and-treat model used by medical doctors and by most
naturopaths and other holistic practitioners as well.
This
may seem a bit complex, but it is at the heart of the difference between
nutritional balancing and the more conventional diagnose-and-treat approach to
health care.
Another
curious way that nutritional balancing is sufficient unto itself is it does not
require a physical examination most of the time. Once again, this was upsetting to me, at first, having been
trained medically. While I
strongly urge doctors to always do a careful history and physical examination,
if possible, I find myself telling most clients that a personal visit for a
physical exam is not needed, especially if it means a lot of travel and
expense.
Once
again, the reason is that most physical examinations do not reveal the deepest
information about the clientÕs present stress response. Therefore, while the information
gleaned may be vital, such as oneÕs blood pressure, for example, most of it is
not deep enough to begin correction, and the hair analysis will provide what is
needed.
6. The ease of monitoring progress in most
cases with retests. Monitoring
progress is essential for any healing program because symptom relief can be
very deceptive. One may feel
better, but really oneÕs health is getting worse. Also, one may feel worse in some ways, but in fact healing
is taking place at deep levels and the symptom changes are not a good
indicator.
I know of no other system
of healing that offers so much monitoring information that is so accurate in
most cases, an obtained so easily and quickly.
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