In helping a patient restore their health using muscle testing a question we get a lot in the office is, ‘Why not just do x-rays, blood tests, or some other technologically advanced clinical exam? Aren’t they more reliable?’
In some cases yes, in other cases no. As a rule, muscle testing does not substitute clinical exams, rather the two are used in conjunction. I do look at a lot of blood work and X-rays in my office as other tools to help. Yet, clinical exams are designed to detect frank pathology or disease where I am trying to identify an issue before it becomes a disease. Muscle testing can also detect frank pathology, but its uniqueness lies in the fact that it can pick up problems before they've arrived as full-blown disease.
For example, many suffer from chronic headache or back pain, and travel from doctor to doctor, undergoing test after test, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with them because the tests don't show anything. When people ask me what I specialize in they are asking me wondering if it is headaches or digestive issues or infertility etc. but I feel like I specialize in people who have been to doctor to doctor and no one can tell them what is wrong but the patient knows there is something off, they don’t feel well and their body is not healthy. Using muscle testing the true causes of problems like headaches or back pain are addressed in an earlier stage and bigger problems are prevented.
So here’s another question: ‘Besides headaches and low back pain, are there specific examples of when muscle testing is preferable to Western medicine?’
There are countless examples. Sandy is an example. She came to Healing Arts office at 41 years old complaining of trouble sleeping, fatigue that was not helped with a good night sleep when she did sleep well, brain fog with trouble focusing and a constant bloat no matter what she ate. She was in a high stress job and would work 60 hours a week for the last 4 years and was gaining weight the last 2 years even though she ate and exercised the same.
Upon muscle testing Sandy, her nervous system and adrenals went weak. They needed nutritional support. Sandy was a perfect picture of adrenal fatigue syndrome. It’s an extremely common condition especially in our NYC patients that goes largely unrecognized by the medical community. The adrenal glands produce adrenaline during times of stress. When a person is stressed for long periods of time like Sandy was, his/her adrenal glands get depleted, and begin to under function. For an MD doctor, adrenal fatigue syndrome is only significant when it arrives at full-blown Addison’s disease. For a muscle tester practitioner, adrenal fatigue syndrome has relative stages.
In the early stages of adrenal fatigue syndrome, a person may just feel tired, hard to wake up in the morning or hit that 2-4pm slump in the afternoon. The second stage is when it turns into being tired all the time. If nothing is done about it, the third stage is what I like to call, ‘wired but tired’, where you are so tired and yet when it’s time to sleep the body can’t calm down enough to relax and so restless nights start to happen and can turn into insomnia. Fourth stage is when it starts to affect other parts of the body. A person can all of a sudden have low back or knee pain, or they may have tired feet and ankles halfway through the day. They can also experience depression, low immune system, hair loss, weight gain, dark circles around eyes, digestive problems or lightheadedness due to the adrenals being burnt out. While the root causes of all of these symptoms are depleted adrenal glands, a traditional medical doctor would never recognize this because they are not looking for it. As long as there is no diagnosis of Addison's disease, there's no problem with the adrenal glands. Compounding the problem, the patient will usually get treatment to the areas causing pain, the knee, the low back, or the digestive symptoms, and all the while, the underlying cause is burned out adrenal glands that haven’t been addressed yet and is bound to cause even greater problems later on unless addressed.
A muscle testing doctor would see adrenal fatigue syndrome in the early stages maybe even before the patient started noticing any fatigue because the examination process is thorough. Caught early on, a patient will be on the road to recovery before more serious stages set in.
How do the adrenal glands burn out in the first place? It is lifestyle. Not giving the body enough rest, on the go lifestyle, is what burns the adrenals out. Also a lifestyle of emotional stress can burn out the adrenals. When you live in a stressful state the adrenal glands produce adrenaline but they can’t for too long so when you are under stress for too long a period of time the adrenals will burn out. So besides giving the adrenals the right nutrition, stress management is key, otherwise the adrenals will heal much slower if they have to keep responding to stress. With Sandy her job was high stress, she was going to have to continue working those 60 hour weeks but if we could do better time management so she could add in meditation with breath work for 20 minutes twice a day that would calm her mind and nervous system down to give the adrenal glands a break and the ability to sleep better at night. She already had exercise in her routine and she did eat well for the most part. I had to tweak her diet and get her to stop drinking caffeine and coffee. Both things we test for in the office separately because the body does respond differently to them. Sometimes people can have coffee but are sensitive to the caffeine. Other times it is the coffee that is just too acidic but the caffeine is okay.
It’s important to get that specific when building nutritional programs because many people we see have eaten themselves into their current state of ill-health, to one degree or another. The deficiencies or imbalances may not lead to a breakdown in the adrenal glands but somewhere else in the body, lowering the body’s resistance, lowering immunity, and a loss of the body’s ability to cope with environmental toxins. Wherever the breakdown is in the body, know that with muscle testing, we can identify what organs go weak and which organs are strong and then from there identify what toxins need to be detoxed from the body and which foods to avoid as a personal cleanse while we rebuild the body using organic food supplements from a farm called Standard Process. This is how we help people get well and stay well!
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