NUTRITIONAL
BALANCING AND WHY I RECOMMEND IT
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© June 2017, L.D. Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All
information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment,
prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
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
In
our experience, nutritional balancing is much safer than either most
conventional medical therapies or most holistic, natural, chiropractic or
naturopathic modalities and therapies.
The reasons for this are:
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.
j) Nutritional
balancing respects the body more.
This may sound unusual, but I will explain. Remedy methods, which includes most
healing methods, force the body to adapt or cope with a new stressor –
namely the remedy. This can cause
side effects, toxicity or rebound effects.
In contrast,
nutritional balancing mainly uses foods and nutrients to bring the body to
balance and raise its adaptive energy or vitality level. As this is done, healing occurs by itself. This is
much safer than healing with remedies.
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.
DEVELOPMENT
Nutritional balancing is one of the few
medical sciences I have found that reliably and easily causes development. This is an amazing benefit. Development is a very precise process
that causes many glial cells of the brain to atrophy and be
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 are personality integration, and achieving oneÕs total potential. On a more esoteric level, it involves
opening the seven major Energy Centers of the
physical body and development of the Merkaba.
This
was not as true of Dr. EckÕs nutritional programs. However, we have added a stricter diet, a few new
nutritional supplements and the use of near infrared sauna therapy, coffee
enemas and the Pushing Down Exercise.
The ability to develop 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, mental exercises, structural work and much more. I wish these methods were not all
needed, but with modern health problems, they are needed
in many 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.
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 lot of 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 pushing down mental
exercise.
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 ideally should not 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.
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 rather amazing graphic display of test results that enables one
to see dozens of mineral patterns. This is a very unusual and excellent benefit of
nutritional balancing.
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 found 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 our method, 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.
This 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 support the idea of doing 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.
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