NUTRITIONAL
BALANCING AND WHY I RECOMMEND IT
by Lawrence Wilson,
MD
© May
2013, 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 Symptomatic 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. For more on this, read The Balance concept on this site.
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. For much more on this subject, read Chelation Therapy on this
site.
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. There may be times when IV vitamins are helpful, but we
donÕt seem to need them with nutritional balancing.
e) Megadoses Of Vitamins Or Other Substances Are Not Used. Many systems of healing use larger
doses of nutrients, herbs and other products. Lower doses tend to be much safer.
An exception is that when a four lows pattern is present on a hair mineral
analysis, higher doses of calcium, magnesium, zinc and taurine
seem to be absolutely needed to reverse this condition.
f) Nutritional
Balancing, In Most Cases, Can Reduce Toxic Levels Far Below That Possible With
Other Healing Methods, Including 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. When performed and interpreted
correctly, this test 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. In addition, it
can help 4) anticipate 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. To
learn more about mineral testing, read Introduction To
Hair Mineral Analysis and other articles on the subject on this site.
h) No toxic herbs or
other drugs are needed. Medical drugs are not used in nutritional balancing science, as a
general rule, although there are some exceptions. For example, anti-hypertensive medication
may be needed for a while until body chemistry has been restored and
strengthened. For more on the
problems with medical drugs and OTC drugs, read Drug
Problems on this site.
Most people do not realize that many herbs are
also slightly toxic, especially the Chinese and Ayurvedic
herbs today, and they can lead to more liver toxicity. Most herbs are also very yin in Chinese
medical terms. Very few herbs are
needed with nutritional balancing science. For a list of safer herbs, see Herbs
on this website.
i) No bio-identical or other hormone therapies are used or needed. The only exceptions are if a gland has
been removed surgically or otherwise destroyed, then hormone replacement may be
needed.
I
find that hormone replacement therapy, in general, is not that safe at all, no
matter what doctors may claim. For
more on this, read Hormone Replacement Therapy.
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, structural correction, colon cleansing, 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 METHODS, AND ANCIENT AND THE MOST 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 traditional Chinese healing with
acupuncture, acupressure, 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 SUB-OXIDATION OR THE FOUR LOWS PATTERN
All
healing methods have their strong points and those it is not equipped to
handle. A particular strong point
of nutritional balancing science as I offer it is its ability 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 realized this and developed not only a way to
identify these people using hair analysis. He also developed a 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 a type of mental
or spiritual development. 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. In addition, the
thymus gland regenerates, and eventually also the PeyerÕs
patches can regenerate.
Other words for this process might include
Òpersonality integrationÓ, Òachieving oneÕs total potentialÓ and Òself-actualizationÓ. 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 developed 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 organic blue corn tortillas or chips,
sardines, kelp, and lamb to hurry along this process.
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 toxic metal, toxic chemical
and electromagnetic contamination.
ONGOING RESEARCH
The
programs that I offer are continually updated and improved. This is important because our world is
polluted and getting worse each day.
Only through continual research can the new challenges of the
twenty-first century be addressed in the best way possible.
A CHANNEL THERAPY
This
is an esoteric concept, but quite important. Our bodies have a set of energy channels that are different
from acupuncture meridians. They
run vertically from head to feet.
Opening these channels and keeping them open allows much more subtle
energy or chi to flow through the body, encouraging and allowing deep healing. Nutritional balancing is one of the few
methods specifically aimed at opening the bodyÕs energy channels.
INCLUSIVE OR
COMPREHENSIVE
Most
systems of healing, including Western allopathic medicine,
limit the modalities used or permitted.
This is not the case with nutritional balancing, which uses diet,
lifestyle, supplements and herbs, hydrotherapy, meditation, structural work and
much more. I wish these methods
were not all needed, but with modern health problems, they are needed in some
cases.
As
important as being inclusive, nutritional balancing is extremely careful and
discerning about which modalities to use, when to use them, and how to use them
in an integrated fashion to produce health. Too often, doctors mix and match healing modalities in such
a way that they negate some of their benefits. With nutritional balancing, an effort is made to make sure
that only therapies that blend well are used together, and used properly.
THE SCIENCE IS PLEOMORPHIC
Pleomorphic (meaning many forms) refers to the idea that
cells and organisms can change forms depending upon the terrain or environment
in which they find themselves.
This principle is used extensively in nutritional balancing as a way to
fight infections, reduce the amount of parasites in the body, and in other
areas as well. It is a fascinating
concept and one that works very well, when approached correctly.
VALUING
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN
While
this is more esoteric, a section of this website is devoted to learning about
loving relationships because they carry a certain healing power. This is not included in most healing
work, but it is an additional method of healing that can make the difference in
some cases.
RESPECTING THE
POLARITY OF THE BODY
A
critical component of all nutritional balancing programs is to move energy
downward from the head to the feet.
Methods used to do this include the diet, the supplement program, the
lifestyle, coffee enemas and most of all, the Roy Masters mental exercise with
my modification of it.
The
concept of a polarized body with the head more positive and the feet more
negative is quite powerful for healing, and this is emphasized in nutritional
balancing science.
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, many medical and holistic physicians and others require 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 saw the doctor, I was told to obtain over $1000.00 of blood
and other 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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nutritional balancing program, click on the following link:
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