NUTRITIONAL BALANCING AND WHY I RECOMMEND IT

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

© Nov. 2007, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.

I have studied many nutritional approaches to healing. While a lot have some merit, I mainly continue to use and recommend nutritional balancing science for these 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 methods of drug medical care or even most holistic and nutritional correction because:

a) The Products Used Are Safe. These include selected vitamins, minerals, amino acids, digestive aids and few others. We do not use hormones of any kind, drugs of any kind, most homeopathics, and we are careful about possible problems with most herbs.

b) Balancing The Body Is The Safest Way To Heal It. We balance many aspects of physiology including the tissue minerals, the digestion, the mineral ratios and more.

c) Toxic Metals Are Not Forced Out Of The Body. This may seem odd to say. However, most chelation products, including oral, intravenous and even rectal suppositories, can and do force the metals out of storage sites everywhere in the body, including in vital organs and tissues.

The drugs, especially, do this, such as penecillamine, DMPS, EDTA and others. While in most cases these drugs are not harmful, they can have unwanted effects. Nutritional balancing works at the body’s pace, which will not satisfy some clients, unfortunately.

d) Nutrients Are Not Forced Into The body. Unlike intravenous feeding of vitamins and other substances, nutritional balancing is slower and gentler.

There are times when intravenous regimens are excellent, such as for multiple sclerosis and other degenerative conditions. However, most of the time they are not needed and can cause unwanted effects.

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 a little safer and more like the dosages in foods.

Nutritional balancing does not go to the other extreme, however, of insisting upon food-based vitamins. The reasons are explained elsewhere. However, the dosages of these are often too low, adding expense and inconvenience and not gaining much in the process.

f) Nutritional Balancing,In Most Cases,Can Reduce Toxic Levels Far Below That Possible With Other Healing Methods, Including Most Intravenous 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 chlorell a extracts.

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 without the need for any invasive procedure or activity, as are usually required in most cases. Without such a tool, monitoring is far more difficult and the possibility of harm much higher.

PREVENTION AND PREDICTION

Every healing method should include prevention and the ability to predict future problems. Nutritional Balancing is excellent at 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 Unrelated And Latent 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. This, once again, takes us back to the concept of balancing the body.

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 spirituality. These are all components of this style of nutritional balancing science.

This is indeed rare today, as it has been ever in history of mankind. Herbal medicine, for example, is not nearly as holistic, nor are all the machines, chiropractic or other sciences. We embrace life holistically so healing must be holistic to fulfill all the requirements of the human being today.

A SELF-CONTAINED METHOD

Nutritional balancing is also a self-contained method. This means that it incorporates assessment as well as corrective modalities. One can assess, balance and then monitor progress, all with the same tool. This is important at certain levels of human functioning. It helps one to know that the same tool to describe a condition can recognize its correction. This is a subtle subject that will be expanded upon later.

MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALING

The area of mental illness is enormous and growing at the fastest rate of any type of illness. It includes, but is not limited to developmental difficulties in children, depression, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks and much more. This area is not addressed by many methods, and those that do address it often do so by suppressing the symptoms, at times with disastrous consequences for the client and others.

For example, in most cases of recent school shootings, the shooter was taking anti-depressant medication. 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 one’s life.

BRIDGING EASTERN AND WESTERN 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, many find that these therapies, excellent though they are, are not enough to handle the extreme toxicity, nutritional depletion and other problems of present-day mankind.

Hair mineral analysis, while a Western scientific method, makes use of the many of the principles and practices of the ancient healers with great benefit for the healer and the client. These include the idea of balance (yin and yang), 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 Western biochemistry and physiology and ancient wisdom applied to the human and animal body, mind and spirit.

A POWERFUL WAY TO ELIMINATE FROM THE BODY ALL THE METALS AND CHEMICALS, INCLUDING EVEN RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES

Seven or so methods are used at the same time in all cases to enhance the process of removing all toxic material from the body. This includes unusual toxins such as those from the intestines, physiological minerals that have become biologically unavailable and several others. Other therapies, such as intravenous chelation, may act faster, but not as deeply as nutritional balancing, providing the client remains on the program for a few years.

THE ABILITY TO CORRECT SOME DEEP 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 that may be called extreme sub-oxidation. We know this pattern as four-low-electrolytes.

This is a pattern of metabolism about which little is known. However, those with experience in healing 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 the way to identify these people using hair analysis. He also developed a very simple protocol to counteract the pattern that works most of the time. This pattern can be researched most easily in the article by the same name, Four Low Electrolytes, on this site.

The main symptom is extreme fatigue in many cases, a negative view about life, and other symptoms superimposed such as allergies, muscle cramps and many more. Sub-oxidizers or those with the Four-Low- Electrolyte pattern are difficult to handle for any practitioner. However, with hair analysis we can recognize the pattern instantly and take corrective action that saves many lives.

Unfortunately, more and more children are exhibiting this pattern today. This is entirely new. Previously, it was only seen in busy, tired adults. This is the direction our world is moving, with killer patterns showing up in younger and younger populations. This is a wonderful benefit of hair analysis that we will learn more about in the future, no doubt, as it is spreading quickly in the American population, in particular.

PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES

1. The Cost Is Reasonable. Although cost should never be a primary consideration in healing, this is an important practical reason to prefer this method of healing over many others that are in the marketplace. Sauna therapy, for instance, costs pennies per day once one has set up a unit in one’s home and we can help anyone to build or purchase one for under $600.00.

2. Precise Mathematical Measurement To Assess Body Type, Body Chemistry And Much More. This may not seem important but is a primary benefit of this approach. Many holistic methods, in particular, are vague, hard to learn such as acupuncture diagnosis, and imprecise.

This method leaves no 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 to guide the correction of bodily imbalances. Even many blood, urine, hormone and other assays are far less accurate, in spite of what is said on the public airwaves and in medical journals that are often paid for by drug advertising.

3. A Clear, Graphic Display Of Test Results. This fact is due to Dr. Paul Eck’s sincere desire to share his wisdom widely, a fact not true of most other doctors and laboratories today. The graph page from Analytical Research Laboratories is by far the easiest to comprehend of all the hair testing labs and of most all blood labs as well. This makes learning, appreciating and sharing the results of the analysis with clients all the more enjoyable and possible.

4. Testing Is Non-Invasive, Simple And Hair Makes The Best Possible Biopsy Material. This Permits The Ability To Care For Clients At A Distance. Hair is such an excellent biopsy material that the medical profession is afraid of it, since special training, special equipment and special people like nurses and doctors are not required for sampling it or packaging it for transport.

This may sound unusual, but it is true. Some do not appreciate a testing material that is so universally available for sampling that anyone, even a child, can learn to take samples and mail it off for analysis. This is another sad reason hair tissue analysis, a true cellular biopsy, has not caught on faster in America or around the world.

An unintended benefit of the above is that hair analysis can be done long distance with the patient hundreds or thousands of miles away just as easily as if one were present in person. This cannot be said of other tests that require the patient to be present such as CAT scans, MRI scans and other X-rays. Blood must be handled far more cautiously as must all other body fluids as well to preserve their value.

5. Results Are Objectively Verifiable and Repeatable. Hair mineral analysis is so straightforward and repeatable that Analytical Research Laboratories, for example, offers free repeat analyses of any mineral that is far out of range. This cannot be said of most other testing procedures or, for that matter, for other hair testing labs.

6. Healing Is Not Dependent Upon The Skill or Other Qualities Of The Practitioner. The reasons for this are those given above. It is a great benefit, however, that the entire healing program can be done at a distance, without the practitioner even meeting the patient. This saves much time, money and makes this approach available to millions who cannot or would not be able to travel long distances to meet a practitioner. It is just another practical advantage of this system of correction of body, mind and the indomitable spirit of mankind.

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

Other words for this might be “personality integration”, “achieving one’s total potential”, “self-actualization” or “self-realization”. 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 beingness. Many techniques have historically been used to accelerate the spiritual development of human beings.

While this was not the original intent of nutritional balancing science, several features were added to the program since Dr. Eck’s death, such as near infrared sauna therapy and meditation. These combine with the nutritional program to complete the therapy at other levels so that it can be truly called a development method like yoga, Ayurveda and other ancient systems. The difference is this one is geared for the Western man and woman so that it is far more effective when followed carefully. I see the results daily. This is truly the crowning achievement of nutritional balancing science.

The way this works is interesting and important for practitioners and clients to understand. As one seeks balance in the body chemistry and maintain this balance with the diet, supplements and lifestyle suggestions that are in the program, certain energies begin to flow in the chakras of the person. While this is a very simplified explanation of what occurs, it is sufficient for this article. For much more information about spiritual development, click on the article entitled Spiritual Development.

Nutritional balancing science may be said to be a powerful support system that can help one preserve the physical vehicle and prepare it for more subtle types of work on this planet.

It is a kind of “missing link” that can allow modern man to catch up, so to speak, with the ancients, whose bodies were, in point of fact, less developed, but whose physical bodies were in far better shape. This fact, for example, enabled ancient humans to excel in many areas that today seem amazing, such as wound healing and longevity.

AN AMAZING RESEARCH TOOL

Minerals are the basis for all life. This is not in dispute. However, nutritional balancing science offers us a way to see this in action and to understand it at levels not dreamed of by most medical scientists.

Hair analysis is also an excellent monitoring and research tool already in use almost 100 years in some branches of science. It is the basic biopsy that is a fascinating tool to research multitudes of health conditions, drug use, environmental contamination and more. It has almost unlimited amounts of information to offer the practitioner and researchers.

Its widespread acceptance has been hindered by many factors, unfortunately, among which are:

· Resistance to anything new by the medical community.

· Nutrition is an area in which medical researchers and doctors alike often feel very uncomfortable.

· The test must be performed correctly. Among the requirements are not to wash the hair at the lab. Otherwise, the water soluble elements such as sodium and potassium are removed. This skews the entire reading of the test.

· The lab must also offer the right ideal values with the test, and not use reference ranges, instead. These are often based on the readings of average people whom the lab works with on a daily basis who are not very healthy.

· Finally, the test must be interpreted correctly. Dr. Paul Eck was the sole scientist who figured this out in the 1970s. I am writing and teaching this work to anyone who will listen to spread the word.

· Humanity is slow to take up a science that asks so much of people, from changing the diet and lifestyle to spending time in a sauna. However, that will change, I am confident as people see the need.

LIMITATIONS OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING SCIENCE

Having mentioned the benefits of nutritional balancing science, it is important to explain that it is not for everyone or for all health conditions. For more information about this, read the article on this website entitled Cautions with Nutritional Balancing.

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