NUTRITIONAL BALANCING AND WHY I USE  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 is always first on our 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 We Use Are Safe.  These include selected herbs, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, digestive aids and few others.  We do not use hormones of any kind, drugs of any kind, homeopathics, and we are careful about possible problems with many 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)  We Do Not Force The Elimination Of Toxic Metals.  This may seem odd, but many chelation products, including oral, intravenous and even rectal suppositories, can force elimination using drugs 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 bodyÕs pace, which will not satisfy some clients, unfortunately.

 

d)  We Do Not Force Nutrients Into The body.  Unlike intravenous feeding of vitamins, ozone, herbs and more, nutritional balancing is slower and gentler.  However, 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)  We Do Not Give Megadoses Of Any Substances.  Many systems of healing use larger doses of nutrients, herbs and other products.  Ours are lower, which is safer and more like the dosages in foods.  We do not rely upon food-based vitamins, however, as the dosages can be too low for our purposes.  This, too, upsets some clients, but we have found it necessary to do this for convenience and results.  There are exceptions to this, also, but they are few.

 

f)  In Most Cases, We Are Able to 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.  We also use six or so methods of eliminating toxins at the same time in every case.

 

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 degenerative diseases such as cancer.  This can be done early, while the pathologies are often still hidden from standard diagnostic tests.

              Prevention Of Unrelated 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 diagnostic as well as treatment modalities.  We do not use these words to describe it because of medical usurpation of these words.  However, it means we 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 oneÕs 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 oneÕs 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.  We 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 EckÕs 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 Òpersonality integrationÓ, Òachieving oneÕs total potentialÓ, Òself-actualizationÓ or Òself-realizationÓ.  Other people may refer to it as developing the charkas 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, Dr. Wilson has added several features to the program, 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 more effective in the extreme when followed carefully.  We 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 we seek 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 charkas 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 Òmissing linkÓ 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 tissue analysis is already used for environmental monitoring of all species on the planet.  It is about to become an amazing human health research tool as well.  Its acceptance has been hindered by many factors, among which is resistance by the medical community.

              In addition, the test is not always easy to perform correctly.  Although the hair must, of course, be clean, it must not be washed at the laboratory, except perhaps extremely lightly.  Otherwise, the water soluble elements such as sodium and potassium are removed.  This skews the entire reading of the test.

              Another reason for its slow acceptance is the difficulty interpreting the test.  Dr. Paul Eck was the sole scientist who figured this out in the 1970s.  His protŽgŽ, Dr. Wilson, and all the practitioners he trains, are holding the light, so to speak, until more can learn this somewhat complex science.  Finally, acceptance is slow because this is about nutrition, an area in which medical researchers and doctors alike often feel very uncomfortable.  So its time will come soon.  Meanwhile, those who wish to benefit may do so less expensively and from those who really understand it.

              Hair analysis alone 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.

 

LIMITATIONS OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING SCIENCE

 

              Having mentioned the benefits of nutritional balancing science, it is helpful to explain that it is not for everyone, and it is not appropriate or perhaps very helpful for all health conditions.  Here is a list of conditions that require different therapy altogether.  It is followed by a list of conditions that require modifying the recommendations from the laboratory significantly.

 

Cautions About Nutritional Balancing:

 

              Disciplining Oneself.  This therapy is not for those who want someone to do the work for them.  It is very hands-on, as it is called.  It is highly participatory and requires developing dietary discipline, excellent sleep and rest habits and more.  One must take the supplements faithfully and follow other directions.  This is not for the undisciplined person.

 

              Healing Reactions.  It is also not for those with a weak stomach. That is, healing reactions occur on these healing programs.  They occur because deep healing always produces reactions in the mind and body that may be unpleasant, painful, annoying and even life-threatening on very rare occasions.  It is best to say this, however, so no one is misled that this will be a quick fix.

 

              The Time Factor.  This program also takes time, although symptomatic improvement may occur within days.  These programs are not for those who want instant results.  Though they may seem to occur, the best results happen when one sticks with the program for several years at least and if possible, for a lifetime.  That is how toxic the bodies are and how much correction is required in many instances to restore the body and mind to optimal functioning on this polluted and congested planetary body.

 

              Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou GerhigÕs disease), Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis.  The nutritional balancing program is not designed especially well for these conditions and other similar diseases.  We do not know why, but these are difficult for many programs, perhaps because of very deep imbalances.  We have seen multiple sclerosis respond to intravenous chelation of metals such as mercury, however.

 

              Full-Blown Cancer.  Other contraindications include cancer, when full-blown and metastasized.  This is a practical matter.  Nutritional balancing is slow and sure, but cancer patients may not have much time to spare while they rebuild.  There are many natural cancer therapies that produce a rapid disintegration of tumors that should be employed first.  Once the cancer is at least controlled, if not gone altogether, then nutritional balancing can commence.  This is important for practitioners to recall to avoid legal trouble.

 

              Other.  Needless to say, nutritional balancing is not appropriate for surgical conditions such as broken bones, a ruptured appendix and others, although speeding up and assisting wound healing is one of the major benefits of nutritional balancing for any surgical patient.

 

              Modify The Program For The Following: Diabetes. These clients need at the minimum extra zinc and chromium, and they need a much stricter diet to have the best results.  They are often told that they may eat some fruit juice and even sweets if it is not too much.  This is not helpful in the least and a strict avoidance of simple carbohydrates is best in the long run. 

              They also need plenty of rest and sleep, more than others.  Diabetes is a very chronic condition brought about usually by years of abuse of the body with sugars, starches and lack of rest.  It needs special attention or results will not be as good with this program. 

              Other programs such as raw food and perhaps vegetarian diets can get faster results in many cases.  However, the clients will run into other problems years later as their bodies become extremely expanded or yin in Chinese terminology due to this approach.  We have noticed this in those who have followed these diets for some years.  However, in the short run this approach works well in most cases of Type II diabetes.  Type I diabetes requires even a stricter diet and more restrictions on lifestyle until the condition can be brought under better control.

              Old Age And Extreme Infirmity.  These individuals, especially the elderly and those in serious condition, should be given fewer supplements in general, perhaps only once or twice daily and no more.  Smaller programs are better for them, as they cannot handle the nutritional supplements as easily as young people.  The reasons for this are

That they are so ill or old they cannot absorb nutrients orally, or it would take more than can be given orally.  They do better on intravenous fluids and perhaps other approaches.

              Cancer.  These patients all require coffee enemas and the light sauna is a necessity, used several times daily.  We like the concentrated pancreatic enzymes that are a natural chemotherapy, to be used for a while to destroy the cancer in the body.  Later this is not needed, although some for prevention is not a bad idea. 

              Acute and Severe Infections.  Acute infectious conditions, if severe, may need a more intensive approach to kill the organisms before one can properly respond to nutritional balancing.  This would apply to any severe acute infection, including some cases of Lyme disease, arthritis, parasitic diseases and many others. 

              These may require antibiotics, other drugs, intravenous vitamin C, colloidal silver, bee propolis, herbal remedies or other approaches that just target the bacteria, viruses, parasites or other organisms that sometimes cause disease.  Even advanced yeast conditions may require targeted therapy for the parasite or bug until it is brought under better control.               Once the parasites have come under better control, then the patient is able to absorb nutrients orally and begin a nutritional balancing program to further their health.

              Conditions Primarily of An Addictive Nature.   These are also difficult to treat with nutritional balancing.  Here we recommend a complete change of life, with a move, breaking out of a dangerous relationship, addiction or co-dependency counseling and other drastic measures, including medication, to allow the person some peace in life and to break the addictive pattern.

              Once this is achieved, then the person can focus on healing with a nutritional balancing approach, but not until then.  For this reason, many cases such as strong addictions to alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling and others are difficult to improve until the addiction is handled properly.  Nutritional balancing, in these cases, we consider only supportive or secondary to other primary interventions to rid the person of the situation or addictive behavior.

              Young Children (under age 4).  Twice daily for supplements is plenty for them.  Diet is extremely important and often makes even more difference for them, although supplements can be most helpful as well.  Another modification for children, who do extremely well on the program, is that the supplement dosages must be adjusted for their age.  The computer may do this, but it must be checked carefully.

              Also, some children require more supplements than their weight or age would suggest.  This is a curious phenomenon that has been observed in practice.  It seems to cause no problems and should not be avoided for fear of overdoing children with supplements.  Diet, once again, is often paramount.

              Fish oil, which can be added to any program (a few capsules a week is always safe), is very helpful for everyone, but especially young children who may need extra DHA in particular for the development of the nervous system.

 

THE BEST RESULTS OCCUR WITH THESE CONDITIONS

 

             Nutritional balancing is often most helpful who are mildly to moderately ill of body and mind or emotions.  It is less helpful for the extremely ill, very old, and those with extremely complex problems.  However, complexity of itself is not a reason not to apply this therapy.

              We do well with chronic fatigue, hypertension, epilepsy, and children's problems of all kinds, even genetic developmental delays.  Another excellent response occurs with rehabilitation patients of all kinds such as post-surgery, accident victims and cardiovascular rehabilitation, to name a few.

              Other conditions that often respond extremely well are fractures and sprains that will not heal and osteoarthritis in most early cases.  More advanced cases and rheumatoid arthritis require more cleansing measures and a stricter diet.  Infections of many kinds, intestinal problems, especially those related to diet and many heart and artery conditions also do very well in many instances.  Each person is different, so these are only general impressions and a partial list by a clinician who has done this for almost 30 years.

 

 

 

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