NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
AND HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS
Fourth Edition, 2010
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
I. THE BASICS OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
1. Introduction and the
New Healing Paradigm 1
2. The Healing Lifestyle 13
3. Diet for Fast and Slow
Oxidizers 27
4. Nutrient
Supplementation 41
5. Detoxification 53
6. Mental and Spiritual
Development 65
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II. THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR
NUTRITIONAL BALANCING SCIENCE
7. A Very Brief History of Nutritional Balancing Science 69
8. The Scientific Basis for Nutritional Balancing 77
9. Other Basic Principles of Nutritional Balancing Science 89
10. More Advanced
Nutritional Balancing Principles 97
11. Stress, the Stress
Response and the Autonomic Nervous System 107
12. The Oxidation Types
and Theoretical Considerations 119
13. Specifics of Balanced,
Flexible, Fast, Slow, Sub-oxidation and Mixed Oxidation 135
III. INTRODUCTION TO THE MINERALS
14. The Macrominerals –
Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Phosphorus and Sulfur 145
15. The Twins – Zinc
and Copper 165
16. The Amigos or Friends –
Iron, Manganese, Chromium and Selenium 185
17. Other Trace Minerals –
Iodine, Lithium, Boron and Molybdenum 195
18. Toxic Metals –
Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Aluminum, Cadmium, Arsenic & Radioactive Metals 203
IV. HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS
19. Hair Mineral Analysis
Overview 215
20. Hair Analysis
Interpretation Principles 227
21. The Components of Hair
Analysis Readings 235
22. Macromineral Levels,
Ratios and Patterns on a Hair Mineral Analysis 243
23. Interpreting the Trace
Minerals and Toxic Metals, and Core Issues 275
24. Hair Analysis
Retesting 285
V. PHYSICAL HEALTH CONDITIONS AND
NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
25. Adaptive Energy or
Vitality 297
26. Digestive and Eating
Disorders 305
27. General Endocrine and
Adrenal Glandular Assessment 319
28. Thyroid Glandular
Assessment and Disorders 327
29. Diabetes,
Hypoglycemia, and Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X 335
30. Cardiovascular,
Respiratory, Allergies and Anemias 345
31. Reproductive and
Kidney Disorders, the Immune Response, Seizures and Headaches 357
32. Dental, Arthritis,
Osteoporosis, Athletics, Trauma and Neuromuscular Diseases 369
33. Sensory Organs, Skin,
Hair and Nail conditions, Pain and Inflammation 377
34. Nutritional Balancing
Through the Life Cycle 383
35. Cancer 393
VI. MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL
ASPECTS OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING SCIENCE
36. Introduction to Mental
Health And Nutritional Balancing 399
37. Level One Disorders –Dementias,
Learning Disorders, Dyslexia, Autism, ADD, ADHD, Developmental Delays and
Suicide 411
38. Level Two Disorders –
Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Disorders of Affect, Violence, Drug Use,
Addiction, Alcoholism and Grief 419
39. Level Three –
Tuning Disorders - Narcissism, Psychism, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder,
Multiple Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality, Psychopathology and
Schizophrenias 433
40. Breakthrough and
Combination Disorders – Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder, Phobias,
Hypoglycemic Attacks, Nervous Breakdowns and Combination Disorders - Brain Fog,
Malaise, Young WomenÕs Syndrome, Iron Disorder, Cadmium Toxicity, Insomnia,
Narcolepsy, and Brain Enhancement 441
41. Sexual Aspects of
Nutritional Balancing 453
42. Personality and
Individual Minerals 463
43. Personality and the
Oxidation Types, the Major Ratios and other Patterns, Including
Personality Types as Revealed
on Hair Mineral Analyses 475
VII. BASIC THERAPEUTICS AND OTHER PRACTICE ASPECTS
44. Therapy Concepts,
Computer-Generated Reports, Enemas, Saunas and Meditation 495
45. Retracing 519
46. Building a Nutritional
Balancing Practice 533
47. Legal Aspects of
Nutritional Balancing Science 549
48. Healing the Health
Care system 569
49. Conclusions, Learning
Nutritional Balancing and Further Resources 577
APPENDICES
I. Glossary of Nutritional
Balancing Terminology 587
II. The Mineral Reference
Guide 594
The
Trace Minerals 604
The
Toxic Metals 620
III. Important Movement
Patterns on a Hair Mineral Analysis 630
IV. Determination of
Oxidation Type by means of Hair Analysis, J
Ortho Med., 1;2, 1986 631
V. Effects of Washing on
Hair Mineral Levels, J Ortho Med.,
1:2, 1986 637
VI. Other Healing
Techniques 644
- Uses for a single
reddish infrared Ôheat lampÕ.
- Baths: partial, hydrogen
peroxide, Epsom salts, salt and soda, hot, genital.
- Liver-gallbladder flush.
- Other detoxification
methods: salt water gargle and flush, castor oil packs, hot tubs.
- The Coca pulse test for
food reactions.
- Applied kinesiology or
muscle testing.
VII. Book Review: The
China Study 651
VIII. Suggested Reading
and References 653
About the Author 684
Index 685
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CHAPTER 1.
INTRODUCTION - THE
NEW HEALING PARADIGM
Joseph,
age 22, is a college student who was exhausted, had
trouble sleeping, muscle tension, and often felt depressed, anxious and irritable.
Other important symptoms included anger, brain fog, heart palpitations,
mood swings, candida infection and a tendency for obsessive and compulsive
behavior.
JosephÕs first hair analysis revealed
an unusually serious combination of mineral patterns. He was Òburned outÓ with a four lows pattern. In
addition, he had low potassium, indicating he was pushing himself to Òfit in
with the crowdÓ or perhaps was prone to excessive worrying. His calcium/magnesium ratio was elevated, indicating he
overate on starches and sugars.
The test also revealed elevated levels of mercury and
aluminum. These may easily contribute to many mental and
emotional symptoms such as anxiety and memory loss.
After
three months on a nutritional balancing program, Joseph reported feeling
generally better, with an improved energy level. The goal of the program is always to increase a personÕs
vitality. His first retest hair
analysis showed he was no longer in a four lows pattern, nor was he pushing
himself as hard. In addition, he
was beginning to eliminate more mercury, aluminum, lead and nickel. In addition to the basic program, he
uses a near infrared light sauna almost every day. He also started to meditate to help him remain calm and
centered.
Six
months later, Joseph reports feeling even better, Òmaking steady progressÓ. He said he passed through a Òspiritual
crisisÓ where he saw how angry and resentful he could be toward his other
family members. He said the worst
is over and he is a much happier young man.
THE BIG PICTURE
I
like to see the big picture whenever I study and learn anything. In regards to the science of
nutritional balancing and healing in general, I have realized that:
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The principles involved in healing
most health conditions, even of longstanding, chronic and ÒdreadedÓ ones, are
quite simple. Implementation may take some years
and quite a bit of effort, but the basic concepts, which are presented in this
book, are quite straight forward.
The medical and even the holistic professions often complicate the
picture with myriads of tests, remedies and procedures. Many have some value, but I find most
are not needed if one balances the body correctly and continuously over and
over, allowing it to slowly rebuild and restore its vitality level and its
enzyme systems.
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Nutritional balancing requires
that one strictly follow certain rules and principles for the deepest healing
to occur quickly and safely.
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It also requires more
self-discipline than some people have, although once a person adopts the diet
and lifestyle, it is not a difficult routine.
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The disease process basically
involves: 1)
slowing of the oxidation rate, 2) reduced oxygenation and hydration of the
tissues, 3) clogging of the system with toxins of all kinds, and 4) ÔrustingÕ,
or the buildup of oxides in the body.
Oxides cause oxidant damage.
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Healing consists of reversing the
above process – removing the oxides, infections and other toxins,
restoring the bodyÕs oxidation reactions, restoring oxygenation and hydration,
and balancing the oxidation rate. The latter
is often slow and difficult because it requires restoring the activity of
millions of enzymes throughout the body.
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Dr. Paul Eck discovered basic ways
to do whole system healing, which is
the only way to heal the body at the deepest levels. This was his genius.
Healing
just the digestive part of the body, or the cardiovascular part generally
misses the mark. This is the
problem with conventional post-modern medical care and much of holistic care as
well.
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I have added a few other
procedures such as near infrared sauna therapy and coffee enemas that enhance
the process tremendously. In fact, they are needed
in most cases because the bodies are even more deranged and exhausted today
than when Dr. Eck was alive.
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In human beings, one must also
heal the mind, emotions and even a personÕs spiritual outlook for the deepest
healing and for mental and spiritual development to occur properly. This is also time-consuming, but
quite simple if one will follow the instructions presented in Chapters 2 and 6
of this book. The problem in this
area is that our unconscious traumas keep us from thinking clearly in many
cases. For this reason, following
the program ÔblindlyÕ, as it were, is helpful for many people. This will slowly undo the traumas and
allow more clear thinking to take place.
Otherwise, the conscious mind tends to think it knows what is best, not
realizing how conditioned and traumatized it really is. The depth of programming that starts at
birth or before, is much deeper than most people recognize.
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The healing process at the deepest
levels involves a fascinating process called retracing. Chapter 45 discusses this in depth. In my experience, any healing system
that does not cause a lot of retracing is not at the same level and will not
provide the same type of deep changes.
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A new type of life on earth. Most people run themselves down
over time. The principles in this
book provide a way that a person literally becomes more developed and healthier
as time moves on. This is a
reversal of the basic path that most peopleÕs lives take today. This opens up many possibilities
concerning life extension and anti-aging.
WHAT IS NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
SCIENCE?
Nutritional balancing is mainly the research of Dr. Paul C. Eck. He was a physician and an avid
researcher who lived in Chicago, Illinois and Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Eck began researching nutrition and
health at a very young age.
However, his main discoveries were the result of experimenting with a
newer assessment tool, the hair mineral analysis or hair biopsy. Where others saw it mainly as a way to
detect toxic metals, Dr. Eck applied all of his knowledge of the stress theory
of disease, metabolic typing, mineral bioavailability and much more. He slowly evolved a new science of
healing based upon simple, yet elegant principles and techniques that he found
effective to balance the ratios and patterns on a hair mineral test.
Nutritional balancing is a total healing system, which
means it makes use of all of Western medical science, plus many principles of
Eastern healing sciences as well.
It also makes use of modern physics principles, and modern engineering
principles such as general systems theory. To approach it more easily, let us compare the new and the
old paradigms of healing.
THE NEW PARADIGM OF
HEALING
1. WHOLE SYSTEM THINKING
The current medical paradigm often
views our bodies as a collection of somewhat unrelated parts. Medical specialties are mainly
organized around body parts such as lungs or kidneys. This focus is needed for specialized surgery. However, in most other areas of health
it misses the many subtle connections that occur in any complex system. This causes unintended consequences, especially
with drugs, that increase costs and reduce effectiveness and safety.
The new paradigm always views the body as one complex, self-regulating, whole system. Principles of general systems theory
play a prominent role in nutritional balancing, though they were originally
developed outside of medicine completely.
Switching to a whole systems approach is the most difficult aspect of
the new paradigm to understand and put into practice for medically trained and
even holistically trained physicians and nutritionists.
2. A STRONG FOCUS ON THE NEWER CAUSES OF DISEASE
The present medical system is a holdover from the 20th
century. It works best for
surgical cases and some infections.
However, the old allopathic or diagnose-and-treat system of care either
ignores or often worsens the major health challenges of this century. These include:
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A mineral-deficient and, at times,
extremely toxic food supply. According to the US Department of Agriculture, most food
today contains one-fourth to one-tenth the levels of many nutrients as the same
food item grown 100 years ago.
This is due to the use of hybrid crops, superphosphate fertilizers,
pesticides and other modern farming practices.
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Diets of refined and often
chemical-laden foods. Most Westernized people eat mainly
refined foods. These include
bleached white flour, white sugar, canned and prepared items.
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Unhealthful lifestyles and eating
habits. Many Westerners live very unhealthful
lifestyles. They stay up late, do
not rest enough, do not balance activity and rest, and often have horrendous
eating habits as well.
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Levels of toxic metals and toxic
chemicals in the air and water that are up to 1000 times higher than ever
before in recorded history. This is not
discussed often on television, but has been well-documented by Dr. Henry
Schroeder, MD and others.
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Dozens of serious viral and other
infections that respond poorly to medical drugs.
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Levels of ionizing radiation never
before seen in recorded history. This
silent problem is extremely detrimental for our health. A major source in some areas is radon
gas from the earth. However, the
entire planet today is polluted due to atom-bomb tests, nuclear accidents,
mining of uranium and other metals, medical and dental x-rays and scans, and
the low-level, subtle emissions from nuclear power plants around the world.
Nutritional
balancing science is one of the only methods I am aware of that helps with
radiation poisoning by 1) restoring vital mineral levels to reduce the
absorption of radioactive ones, 2) reducing metals in the body such as uranium,
and 3) killing off mutated cells, especially if one uses a near infrared sauna
daily for several years continuously.
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Electromagnetic pollution. The use of cell phones, computers
and other electrical devices may cause some health conditions. Reducing air travel and using care to
sit as far away as possible from computers, cell phones and portable phones can
help minimize this problem.
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An extremely yin population. In Chinese medical terminology, this
means cool, feminine and expanded.
The opposite is yang, which is hard, masculine, hot and contracted. This imbalance is very important today,
though it is subtle and not part of the current medical paradigm. The causes for the situation include
all of the items listed above.
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Bioterrorism, which I believe is
real, even if it receives little publicity.
The current drug medical system also creates much more
disease for two reasons:
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Polypharmacy. This is the indiscriminate prescribing
of thousands of prescription and over-the-counter drugs that weaken the body
and mind. The trend is driven by
relentless and often completely phony drug advertising in all the major
media. In 2007, 3.8 billion drug
prescriptions were written in America at a cost of $286.5 billion. This is an increase of 72% just in the
past decade.
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Vaccinations. Current multiple vaccine protocols are
nothing short of insane.
Statistics are manipulated to hide the fact that autism, ADD, delayed
development and many other problems are directly related to the increase in
vaccines over the past 40 years or so.
3. WELLNESS-BASED RATHER THAN
DISEASE-BASED
The current allopathic model believes that
health is the absence of diagnosable disease. To assess health, tests are run to find diseases. If none are found, a person is generally
pronounced healthy. However, this
model has some serious flaws because people who are supposedly healthy often
suddenly develop cancer, heart disease, strokes and other maladies.
The wellness model of health care states that health is
not the absence of a diagnosed illness.
Instead, it is an entirely different state of being, with its own
qualities and even its own symptoms.
For example, a very healthy person might react quite vigorously to
someone spraying toxic pesticides next door. Those who are somewhat ill and have much lower vitality
often do not have the ability to react as vigorously to such a toxic
event.
Wellness may be considered a state of high resistance to
all disease. This is observed,
for example, in wild animals in their natural habits, provided they have enough
to eat and are free from too many predators. Dr. Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) was a French surgeon and one of the foremost
medical doctors of all time. He
won a Nobel Prize for demonstrating that a chicken heart could be kept alive
indefinitely by simply removing the waste products from the culture medium,
while providing the heart with proper nourishment. In his book, Man, The Unknown, Dr. Carrel
carefully explained the difference between the old and new health care
paradigms. He called the
difference natural health versus artificial health.
Natural health is identical to wellness. In contrast, artificial health, he said, is the condition of most ÒhealthyÓ
human beings. People may look
well. However, they require the
constant assistance of medical exams, tests, procedures, remedies and surgeries
because they are prone to hundreds of medical problems. Their ÒhealthÓ, in other words, is
false in a way because it depends on the services of an army of doctors. No one, he said, really likes this kind
of health. However, it is the only
kind most people know and it is all that conventional medicine offers.
Nutritional balancing science easily moves most people
from a state of artificial health or outright disease toward a state of high
resistance to most all diseases.
It does this by focusing heavily on the basic factors of health - diet,
the proper drinking water, rest and sleep, other lifestyle factors, nutritional
supplements and other simple elements that build health.
4. A THOROUGHLY PREVENTIVE AND
PREDICTIVE FOCUS
The present medical system is not primarily
interested in prevention or wellness and will never be so. The focus is instead on diagnosis. A diagnosis depends on finding a disease entity. If a disease is not developed enough
that it shows up on medical tests, little is done for the patient. In addition, most medical prevention is
secondary, meaning early detection of
disease entities. Primary prevention is the complete
avoidance of disease entities.
With the cost and severity of degenerative diseases such as heart
disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes and others, early detection is just not a
good enough solution, though it is better than nothing.
The new paradigm emphasizes primary prevention and starts with a different premise. Instead of focusing on diagnoses, one
looks for telltale signs of stress. This is much more like preventive
maintenance of a bridge, an automobile or an aircraft. To locate the stress at the deepest
levels, one must read it in the cellular structure of the body. This is similar to taking samples from
the inside of an aircraft engine or inspecting its structure with a microscope,
as is done commonly with aircraft, in order to detect subtle problems before
they become major ones.
The old paradigm mainly uses blood tests and x-rays for
detection of disease. However,
subtle stress is not usually apparent in the blood because the blood is
buffered. This means that chemical
imbalances are moderated and altered in the blood. Dr. Paul Eck used to say that blood is maintained at the
expense of the tissues.
This means that blood is kept in balance, while the tissues suffer. By the time imbalances are found in the
blood, often it is late in the development of a disease process. A properly interpreted hair analysis
can identify the beginnings of disease often many years in advance of other
methods. The imbalances can then
be corrected, completely preventing the development of the disease. Until this model of health care is
adopted, I fear that our health costs are going to continue to increase
greatly.
5. FIRST DO NO HARM
Even
the Journal of the American Medical
Association published findings recently confirming that post-modern medical
care is not only unsafe. It is the
third or fourth leading cause of death in America. Other research indicates the situation is even worse. A 93-page review of many studies of the
safety of medical care by Gary Null, PhD, Martin Feldman, MD, Debora
Rasio, MD, Dorothy Smith, PhD and Carolyn Dean, MD, ND indicates that traditional medicine is the
first or second leading cause of disability and death in America. The title of this review is Death
By Medicine, published in 2009 by the Life
Extension Foundation.
This
does not in any way diminish the wonderful responses that can occur with
drugs. However, it is important to
know that drug medical care is quite dangerous. Nutritional balancing is about the safest method of healing
I have seen. Reasons for this are:
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Focusing on diet, a healthful
lifestyle and balancing the body is an extremely safe approach.
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The products used are very safe.
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The ability to predict and prevent
major illnesses adds greatly to safety.
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Balancing the mind and emotions
adds another layer of safety.
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Removing toxic metals to much
lower levels than are possible with chelation adds safety.
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Toxic metal removal in the bodyÕs
own order and timing is much safer than the use of drugs or even natural metal
chelating agents.
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Removing hundreds of toxic
chemicals adds more safety.
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Nutrients are never forced into
the body intravenously and rarely used in megadoses.
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Monitoring with regular hair
analysis retests add another layer of safety.
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Trends or tendencies for 50 or so
conditions can be detected and monitored easily, inexpensively and without the
need for any invasive procedures.
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Nutritional balancing does not
require the use of less safe methods including most drugs, most surgeries, most
herbs, ionic footbaths, alkaline water, drinking salt water, chelators of all
kinds, and most hormone replacement therapy.
6. AN ABILITY TO CORRECT MANY
LATENT OR SUB-CLINICAL HEALTH CONDITIONS AT DEEP LEVELS
Illness develops slowly and insidiously. Often, symptoms only occur in the last
stages of diabetes, cancer or heart disease, for example. This is because the body compensates
and adapts as it becomes ill. Most
symptoms only occur when the body can no longer continue to adapt to its
nutritional imbalances, fatigue, and growing toxicity, for example.
The old allopathic paradigm of medical care cannot correct
latent or sub-clinical stages of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis,
headaches and most other conditions.
Instead, they must usually wait until the patient has symptoms, which is
often very late. Nutritional
balancing will correct most latent and sub-clinical health conditions,
including even emotional imbalances.
This is a wonderful benefit, and one that can save billions of dollars
as well.
7. LOW COST
Drug-based medical care is insanely
expensive. Reasons for this
include:
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A sick population, in large part
because the medical system does not really heal people at deep levels.
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Toxicity of the drugs, radiation
therapy and surgery cause more sickness and disability.
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Dangerous methods cause very high
legal costs including malpractice and the use of Òdefensive medicineÓ. This is not medical care at all, but rather the use of tests
and procedures just to satisfy lawyers.
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A cartel, or small group of
organizations, runs the system. Cartels and
other monopolies always lead to higher costs and worse outcomes.
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Lack of true primary prevention
and prediction of illness causes millions of unnecessary cancers, heart attacks
and much more.
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Government involvement, partly as
a result of the failures of the medical system, adds billions to the cost in
lobbying fees for government officials at all levels of government. It also breeds corruption, waste and fraud, especially in
socialized medical programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
The new paradigm uses less costly methods of assessment,
much less costly natural products instead of most drugs, removes causes at deep
levels, focuses on primary prevention and is generally much safer. This all adds up to much lower costs.
8. AN INTEGRATION OF MIND AND
BODY, RATHER THAN SEPARATING THEM
The old paradigm separates disease entities of the mind
from those of the body. A
different set of professionals specialize in each of them.
The new paradigm recognizes that all nutritional
imbalances affect the body and the brain as well. All toxic metals are neurotoxic as well as physically
toxic. All infections can affect
the brain as well as the body. In
addition, the brain is a biochemical organ. Therefore, a reduced level of adaptive energy, high or low
blood sugar, and most other stressors affect the brain as much or more than
they affect the body.
This new way of thinking about mental illness results in
exciting new ways to correct devastating ailments such as autism, ADD, ADHD,
anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and others, often permanently, without
drugs and at a very low cost.
Chapters 36 to 43 discuss this very large and exciting area of research.
9. BALANCE AND VITALITY-ORIENTED
RATHER THAN FOCUSED ON SYMPTOM REMOVAL
Balancing the body and increasing its vitality are not spoken of much within the
current
medical
paradigm, and are rarely taught in medical schools. Many holistic practitioners ignore these concepts as
well. In addition, the current
medical system lacks the tools to measure vitality and balance at deep levels,
and they do not have the means to correct them, either.
Dr. Eck spoke often of increasing a personÕs adaptive energy or vitality. Indeed, he considered nutrition to be the science of human energy. He meant by this that nutrition is
perhaps the most basic and powerful way to increase enzyme activity or enzyme
strength in the body. This, in
turn, often furthers healing more than any other single factor. Other sciences use the word vital force to describe the life force
that does all of the healing.
One of the most ancient and excellent ways to measure
vitality is to assess the balance of the
body chemistry. While the
concept becomes complex, it is somewhat like the tune or adjustment of a
combustion engine. For example, if
an auto engine is out of tune, the engine does not produce much horsepower or
force. This will happen even if
all the parts are in working order.
Assessing the balance of the minerals in the cells is the
basis for nutritional balancing science.
To my knowledge, it cannot be done nearly as well, if at all, in the
blood or urine. These are too
subject to fluctuations due to the last meal one had, or how much water one
just drank. The hair mineral
biopsy, in contrast, gives practitioners a much more definitive view. It works excellently to guide the
rebalancing of the body chemistry.
When this is done, a personÕs vitality improves dramatically, and with
this, healing begins in earnest.
The concept of balance
is so critical, in fact, that it is the basis for many religions and
philosophies. The Taoists chose
the symbol of yin and yang to represent balance. The Hebrews chose two equilateral triangles to symbolize
balance. Early Christians adopted
the symbol of the two crossed sticks, which also represents balance.
Clarifying balance. Balance is not a
little bit of this and a little bit of that. Stated differently, it is not moderation in all things.
Balance in the new paradigm means moderation in all that is adaptive or
helpful for life, and total avoidance of that which is not beneficial or
adaptive. Thus, balance is first about wisdom and knowledge. Then, and only then, is it about
moderation, timing and other qualities.
For example, the US Food and Drug Administration tells us
that some toxic chemicals in our food products are okay as long as there are
not too many. This is not really ÒbalancedÓ. It is often just a compromise
arrangement with the food refining industry that wishes to save money on their
products by using toxic ingredients.
They may not kill us outright, but it is not a healthful approach to
food regulation. All toxic
chemicals in the food supply harm the body and degrade the food.
Another important example is that many parents and
teachers tell young people that a little drinking, a little junk food and a
little lying are fine as long as these are ÒbalancedÓ by fairly responsible
behavior. The new paradigm is not
supportive of this idea. Alcohol
is toxic, as are refined sugars, for example. There is no reason to include them in oneÕs diet at
all. Lying ruins many
relationships and has no place in the life of a person of high integrity,
except perhaps to mislead an attacker, for example, in order to save a life.
10. A FOCUS ON MENTAL ENHANCEMENT
OR DEVELOPMENT, NOT ON JUST
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALING
In the current medical paradigm, care
ends when a personÕs disease entity or symptoms
go away,
or when nothing more can be done for the patient. The new paradigm allows for healing and care to proceed
further. For example:
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Dr.
Eck found that his work would improve aspects of a personÕs awareness and
personality.
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Criminals
who followed his method for an illness would, in some cases, return to being
law-abiding citizens, even though that was not the goal of the program.
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ChildrenÕs
grades would improve from Cs to As on his program, even though the child was
only following the program for the correction of perhaps allergies or an
infection.
This has to do with personality
integration or perhaps Abraham MaslowÕs concept of self-actualization. It
also has to do with development, a
topic discussed in more detail in Chapters 10, 13 and 40. Nutritional balancing science, especially
with the use of a near infrared sauna and coffee enemas on a daily basis,
promotes the opening of the vital energy centers of the body, also called the
chakras in Sanskrit and Eastern literature. In fact, the process occurs quite naturally using these
methods. This is a great hidden
benefit, as the process of opening these centers also promotes health and long
life. The chakras are small,
funnel-shaped vortices of energy that help maintain life and health in the
body. Nutritional balancing can help
them to grow into large, beautiful centers of high frequency energy that
greatly enhance human functioning in many ways. This is the fullest development of a human being and
something that is rare on this planet.
Another way that nutritional balancing can assist people
is to help them release certain burdens or obligations that involve impaired
health. In some circles, these are
called karmic burdens because they have to do with old agreements that must be fulfilled. I have observed that as healing occurs
at deep levels, some clients appear to be freed from such conditions or
burdens.
Development happens
automatically today. I have observed with many people that
the development of which I speak is not difficult and, in fact, occurs
automatically. All that is needed
is to use the methods described in this text. These include a simple diet of mainly cooked and selected
vegetables eaten in simple combinations, loads of rest and sleep, and either
spring water or steam distilled water to drink. Nutritional supplements are needed for a number of years,
with most people, but not forever, by any means. The use of a near infrared light sauna daily for at least a
few years, daily coffee enemas, if possible, and practicing the Roy Masters
meditation daily for a number of years are also most helpful. This is a simple regimen, in terms of
both cost and convenience.
THE PARADIGM SHIFT
|
The New Paradigm of Healing |
Conventional Medicine & Much Of Holistic Medical Care As Well |
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Whole
systems behaviors and characteristics are most important. |
The
focus is most often on individual body organs and systems, rather than the
whole human system. |
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Designed
specifically for the illnesses and challenges of the twenty-first century. |
The
diagnose-and-cure model is designed for 18th and 19th century problems of
mainly acute infections and the need for surgery. |
|
Wellness-based. The focus is on the qualities and
symptoms of health, rather than upon diagnosing and removing disease
entities. |
Disease-oriented. Health is often assumed to be the
absence of a diagnosable disease entity. |
|
Primary
prevention and prediction are most important. This is a principle of Òpreventive maintenanceÓ used with
all complex machinery such as ships, aircraft or automobiles. |
Lip
service is given to prevention, but it is never the focus. Also, some of the methods used are
dangerous, such as vaccination and water fluoridation. |
|
Able to
correct latent or sub-clinical conditions at deep levels, often long before
they manifest. This is true
primary prevention. |
Does
not correct most sub-clinical and latent conditions. This causes nasty surprises and adds
greatly to the cost of medical care. |
|
Very
low cost due to an intense focus on primary prevention, use of safe remedies,
very low legal costs and low-cost assessment methods. |
Costs
growing fast because the population is becoming sicker, the remedies are
often toxic, high legal costs, high hospital costs and lack of a focus on
primary prevention. |
|
The
body and mind are always considered together as parts of the whole human
system. |
The
body and mind are almost always treated separately by a different set of
doctors. This leads to
fragmentation of care and much worse outcomes. |
|
Increasing
vitality or adaptive energy is a key to healing. Balancing the body is one way this is done, as in ancient
healing systems. |
Vitality
and adaptive energy are not mentioned and are not assessed. Balancing the body chemistry is only
done on a limited basis such as balancing blood sugar. |
|
Full human
development or self-actualization is the highest priority after saving oneÕs
life. |
The
system is mainly disease-oriented.
Care usually ends when symptoms improve. |
THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES
Nutritional
balancing science combines many therapeutic principles borrowed from both
ancient and modern scientific, physiological and philosophical approaches from
around the world. They are all
discussed in Chapters 7-14. A few
of the most critical ones are:
á
Improving vitality. As vitality improves, the body
can better heal ALL types of imbalances.
á
Balancing the body. This ancient principle greatly
improves the bodyÕs vitality by reducing stress on the body in very subtle
ways.
á
Seeking to work with the teleology
or healing intent of the body. This has to do with avoiding toxins, stimulants and other
methods of healing that in any way interfere with the bodyÕs own wisdom. It can be a rather subtle therapeutic
principle.
á
Replacing less preferred minerals
with more preferred minerals in millions of enzyme binding sites. This is a very precise, gentle
and, at times, slower process to restore enzyme strength and vitality in the
body. It is quite different from Ôchelating
outÕ toxic metals, for example, or just feeding a person certain foods and
nutrient formulas.
á
Combination therapy. All nutritional balancing programs
involve a combination of therapies
such as a diet, a healthy lifestyle, nutritional supplements and more.
á
A holistic approach. Nutritional balancing always
addresses all levels of a personÕs being, such as the physical, biochemical,
emotional and spiritual. This is
not the case with post-modern medical care, which is often quite fragmented.
á
Non-toxic therapy. No drugs or bio-identical
hormones are used, unless needed temporarily to maintain life in an emergency.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MODALITIES
OF NUTRITIONAL BALANCING
The
next five chapters discuss the
major therapeutic modalities used in nutritional balancing. They include:
á
Lifestyle. Correction of basic living habits
is the single most important recommendation in nutritional balancing for most
people. This includes improving
oneÕs eating and sleeping habits.
Others have to do with exercise and activity. Still others concern avoiding toxic exposures, emotional
control, and oneÕs attitudes, beliefs, thinking habits and behavior.
á
Diet. A diet suitable for oneÕs oxidation type is a primary healing
modality and lifestyle aspect. The
diet is fairly strict. Some people
object to this, but increasingly people realize how serious the problems are in
their diets, and just how powerful a healthful diet can be.
Most food
today, for instance, is simply not worth eating at all, even on rare
occasions. Most is hybridized,
genetically altered, processed, stripped of its few remaining nutrients and
laced with hundreds of questionable flavor enhancers, preservatives and other
additives. Deep healing requires a
much better overall diet in most cases.
á
Nutrient supplementation. A number of simple, targeted
nutritional supplements are another important component of nutritional
balancing programs. Supplements
are recommended in a very precise and specific way based on hair analysis
readings and rarely based on symptoms or signs such as high blood
pressure. However, when used
symptomatically, supplements are always recommended in a way that balances the
oxidation rate and the major mineral ratios. This is a most important difference between this science and
most other nutritional approaches.
It makes nutritional balancing safer and more effective, as well.
á
Detoxification. I have added other detoxification procedures to nutritional
balancing science since Dr. EckÕs death in 1996. In 2002, I became aware of the benefits of the daily use of
a near infrared light sauna. I believe
Dr. Eck would be thrilled with it.
Infrared saunas are very safe, powerful, cost effective and quite
comfortable when used properly.
With daily use, they quickly begin to reduce the load of metals,
chemicals and infections that everyone carries today. Several years of daily sauna use is needed in most adults to
remove the bulk of their toxic metals and toxic chemicals. Sauna therapy also relaxes the
autonomic nervous system, assists cardiovascular health, improves circulation,
oxygenation and hydration, and helps to restore the skin and support the
kidneys and liver.
á
Colon therapy or coffee enemas. Dr. Eck was aware of the value of
colon cleansing, though it was not a formal part of his work. Numerous clients have reported that
coffee enemas Òsaved my lifeÓ. In most adults, coffee enemas for a few
years are extremely helpful to speed progress.
I am aware
of the objections to these procedures, particularly coffee enemas, but I have
not seen these in my practice of almost 30 years when people do them as
recommended.
á
Meditation using the Roy Masters
exercise. Dr.
Eck knew about Mr. Roy Masters and his excellent work. His meditation is simple,
non-denominational, grounding, and helps to calm the mind. It also helps to center and focus oneÕs
energy, and gently assists healing at deep levels. In addition, it is very safe because it is a whole system type of meditation
exercise, unlike many others offered today, and can be done as much as one
wishes. Just any meditation wonÕt
do. In fact, 99% of those that are
offered today are much less helpful.
Chapter 44 discusses this exercise in detail.
HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED
Seven
sections discuss the important areas of nutritional balancing science,
including:
I. Introduction and
the basic modalities in nutritional balancing science.
II. The theory of
nutritional balancing science. A large set of ancient and modern medical and scientific
principles are the basis for this science.
III. An introduction
to the minerals. This covers the sources, functions,
detection and assessment of the major minerals in the body.
IV. An introduction
to hair mineral analysis and its interpretation by the method of Dr. Paul Eck. Dr. Eck used hair analysis to develop and continuously
refine nutritional balancing science.
Understanding how to read a hair mineral analysis using his method is
essential for success with it. I
have added to his knowledge in a few minor areas. To keep his work pure, I have indicated whenever an idea or
a mineral pattern was not, to my knowledge, a part of his original work.
V. Physical health
conditions and their assessment and correction with nutritional balancing
science.
VI. Mental and
emotional health conditions and their correction with nutritional balancing
science.
VII. Therapeutics,
retracing, business, legal and other aspects of nutritional balancing science. This text is not a therapy manual,
as that would require a much larger book.
However, this section introduces important therapy concepts in
nutritional balancing science.
Appendices include a glossary of important
terms, a Mineral Reference Guide, two journal articles about nutritional
balancing science, information about other healing techniques, over 500 references
and suggested reading. This book also has a large
index.
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