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Supplementation

Supplementation can be an effective way to support your body in maintaining health or healing from injury or illness. Several factors combine to determine whether a particular dietary supplement or combination of supplements will work for you. In general, four interdependent factors affect the success of a program of nutritional therapy:

  1. The appropriateness of the nutrients applied to a health condition,
  2. The quality of the supplements with regard to purity, potency, and synergy,
  3. The ability of the digestive system to take them up, and
  4. The ability of the body to assimilate these substances at the cellular level of metabolism.
You can put these four aspects of nutrition to work for you with a customized supplement protocol from Healing Ways Holistic Health.

The quality of supplements varies widely. It is quite common to find dietary supplements laced with sugar, preservatives, coloring, and other additives we believe to be causative factors in some of the degenerative health conditions we encounter our practice. Multivitamin and mineral supplements commonly contain substances that interfere with one another when it comes to the body actually making use of them. Some products are synthesized and mass produced by industrial processes that leave traces of toxic substances in the product, while others are derived from natural food sources, but sometimes without much regard for the quality of those sources. We trust select providers of the highest quality nutritionals for the supplements we rely on to support health and promote healing.

The manufacturers of the nutritional and homeopathic remedies we recommend have invested heavily in developing product lines that include complex formulations designed to address a wide range of health issues. Many of these supplements are exclusively available through practitioners because they are designed to be used as components in therapeutic protocols, often for a limited time. The development of these dietary supplements has been based on extensive research into the effectiveness and interaction of various nutrients and/or homeopathic agents in addressing specific energetic and nutritional imbalances. Synergy refers to the mutual enhancement of therapeutic agents. When they are more beneficial together than individually, this effect is synergy, the energetic opposite of interference. Using these preparations as the basis for your nutritional protocol enables you to maximize results in less time, an advantage that can save you time, money, and suffering.

Assimilability is a key factor in the effectiveness of a customized supplement protocol. The highest quality nutrition won't do you any good if you can't metabolize it. Two primary considerations in our assessment of your health are the vitality of the digestive tract and the energetic conditions within the systems that the nutrition is intended to correct. Take calcium for example. As an inorganic mineral, calcium may easily pass through the digestive tract unnoticed by a body whose internal processes are suffering from calcium deficiency. This is the case when, to maintain the pH balance in the bloodstream that is critical to life, the body mines the skeleton for calcium, leading to bone loss, even though plenty of this mineral is present in ones diet. Calcium absorption may be supported with bioenergetic therapy, and several of our post-menopausal clients attribute their gains in bone density to regular sessions of ONDAMED® therapy in concert with a healthy diet and weight bearing exercise. Adequate calcium assimilation can only take place when magnesium, vitamin D and boron are also present, so it is essential to take a balanced formula for calcium supplementation to be effective.

Over-fed and undernourished?

Successful uptake of supplements is dependent on conditions within the digestive tract. Many people suffer the effects of consuming processed foods that lack enzymes and nutrients needed for optimal uptake. Not only does the standard American diet impoverish the body of essential enzymes and trace minerals, it can also cause damage within the intestinal tract that prevents proper digestion and nutrient uptake. This puts a double whammy on your system: inadequate supplies of nutrients compounded with reduced ability of the intestines to take up those that are available. No wonder so many of us are over-fed and undernourished. We always make sure that the nutrients we recommend are combined with all the other nutritional factors (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, probiotics) needed for a healthy digestive tract so that nutrient uptake can be successful.

Once healthy conditions within the digestive tract optimize nutrient intake and uptake, the next phase of effective nutritional intervention is to make sure that her clients is able to assimilate required nutrients. The cellular level of metabolism is where the rubber meets the road. Having facilitated healing in the delivery system (intake and uptake of nutrients), your next task is to facilitate cellular absorption and use of these nutrients.

A comprehensive program to optimize nutrition

Conditions at the cellular level vary from person to person. Factors that limit your ability to benefit from the nutrients present in your bloodstream might include parasitism, a condition where microorganisms intercept vital nutrients. Or a burden of toxins or fatty plaques, which the body has been unable to eliminate due to lymphatic stagnation and congestion or biochemical imbalances, might interfere with the exchange of nutrients and wastes either at the intracellular level or within the extra-cellular matrix, where processes that support cellular metabolism take place. Mental, emotional or physical stress can also cause problems affecting the chain of metabolic events that leads to optimal nutrition, as can impaired processes of elimination. Gentle, effective colon irrigation at Healing Ways can help to clear your system of toxic overloads and restore healthy conditions. We can help you find the right combination of therapeutic approaches aimed at eliminating these interference factors to optimize nutrition and support you in attaining vibrant health.

These four phases of nutrition are the interdependent factors that affect the success of supplementation. Without all four functioning optimally, benefits will be limited. Sometimes it's easy to see and correct what has gone wrong when testing suggests that a client suffers from deficiencies. Sometimes it takes more investigation to understand why someone who consumes a healthy diet still suffers from digestive or assimilative disorders. However these scenarios play out, a key factor in your success in achieving lasting benefits is the appropriateness and reliable purity, potency, and synergy of the supplement you take.

 

Homeopathy

Properly appreciated for their supportive effects in stimulating the immune system to deal with challenges more aggressively and effectively, homeopathic therapies are gaining new recognition and respect today among health care providers and consumers.

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Homeopathy is the brainchild of Samuel Hahnemann, an 18th century German physician. Originally a branch of medical science, homeopathic medicine is one of the sources from which modern pharmacology developed. Its own growth and development were shaped in the light of The Age of Reason, a time in European history that celebrated progress on the basis of empirical, scientific achievement. Although the foundation of homeopathy rests squarely on the scientific method that gave birth to the technological marvels of the modern era, medical authorities of the late 19th and 20th centuries viewed this discipline as a contradiction of pharmaceutical science.

How and why the division between these two branches of western medicine came about is a long tale involving theoretical, political and economic conflict—a longer tale than can be recounted here. But our era is heir to this old misunderstanding, and we feel that it is important for health care consumers to understand homeopathy in the light of current scientific perceptions.

In recent years, scientists have been increasingly able to appreciate Hahnemann's amazing grasp of fundamental physical principals in his creation of the theory and practice of homeopathy. Although Hahnemann was a strict empiricist, his experimental observations led to perceptions so counterintuitive, and so contrary to later thinking within the scientific and medical communities, that many rejected his conclusions simply because they were unable or unwilling to take homeopathic theory seriously. Indeed, the central tenet of homeopathic medicine, "Like cures like," is as counterintuitive as taking coffee for insomnia. Somehow, Hahnemann got the idea of inverting the biochemical effect of agents that would cause the very symptoms he was trying to cure. This process, which he called potentization, consists of a series of dilutions that progressively remove the active ingredient from the preparation. In homeopathy, the most potent remedies are those that chemists will rightly assure you contain no chemical residue of the original active ingredient.

Hahnemann's claim of an inverse relationship between dosage and potency, combined with his assertion that, with minimal dosage, an agent that causes the very symptoms the doctor is trying to cure can make an effective medicine, has been viewed with disdain by some scientists who have been so skeptical because these twin pillars of Hahnemann's theory seem to contradict common sense, which often assumes that medicines should counteract (antibiotic, antihistamine, antidepressant, decongestant) the diseases they are given to cure or control, and that the potency of a medication grows with the concentration of its active ingredients.

Quantum physicists have conditioned scientists of today to suspend disbelief long enough to give consideration to the empirical basis for theories, despite their strangeness. This is the type of scrutiny that gave rise to homeopathy. Modern physics has also revealed that matter can "remember" energetic input by retaining the resonance of exposure to energy frequencies, in some cases indefinitely. The absence of a chemical "curative agent" in homeopathic medicines is countered by the presence in every remedy of the energetic "echo" of the substance with which it was made. And the effect of this energetic resonance works like a wake-up call to the immune system, subtly provoking it to respond in a manner opposite to the pharmacological effect of the original substance, the "mother tincture."

This potency is measurable with today's bioenergetic technology, making it possible for properly trained and equipped practitioners of Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV) to measure the energetic effects of remedies on clients before any remedy is actually taken. In part because of these theoretical and technical breakthroughs, more and more people are discovering for themselves the efficacy of appropriately applied homeopathic remedies. And appropriate remedies are becoming much easier to select because databases of homeopathic preparations making their unique bioenergetic frequencies available for EAV testing help to eliminate trial and error from the selection process.

In our view, homeopathy and allopathic medicine are better understood as complementary approaches than as contradictory ones. Allopathic medicine often focuses on imposing order on the chaotic conditions of disease to counteract pathogenic influences, while homeopathy seeks to stimulate healthy immune function by spurring the body to exercise its innate healing powers.

The apparently irreconcilable difference in their theoretical approaches stems from the fact that homeopathy and modern (allopathic) medicine think about medication differently. Homeopaths view a client as suffering from specific symptoms, and they focus on finding the preparation that will promote healing of the greatest number of these symptoms. The classic allopathic approach, in contrast, is to arrive at a diagnosis of disease that leads to prescription of appropriate drugs, surgery, or other therapy. Homeopathic remedies are intended to stimulate your immune system to heal your body on its own, while allopathic medications are generally intended to combat pathogenic agents or alter metabolic processes. In our view, each of these therapeutic approaches has distinct virtues. As health care evolves and integrative medicine becomes the norm, a new era is approaching in which we can all get appropriate care that draws on the best of both worlds.

 

Electrodermal Screening

Electrodermal Screening (EDS) gives skilled practitioners direct access to your body's internal information system. Research has demonstrated that acupuncture points have distinct electrical characteristics from the surrounding skin. Electrical measurements of acupuncture points are interpreted as revealing energetic imbalances and pointing to the best course of natural therapy.

We interpret abnormal readings as signs of energetic disorder. In addition to revealing energetic imbalances, EDS can also be used to suggest what the energetic impact of a supplement will be, taking trial and error out of the process of selecting the right combinations of supplements and homeopathic remedies to address your energetic issues.

Electrodermal Screening can also be used to track the energetic signs of focal disturbances. Medical research shows that a focal infection may exist without your knowledge as a secret source of illness that manifests elsewhere in your body. Biological dentists are most familiar with this phenomenon because many focal infections occur in the mouth. Some physicians and dentists believe that removing focal infections can be crucial to recovering and maintaining health.

By applying a comprehensive database of homeopathic remedies by all the major producers, we can select the remedies and dosage that are energetically most appropriate for you. We can use this information to help create a natural supplement protocol tailored for you.

We also use these techniques to create programs of remedies that work synergistically. We can use these "recipes" to combine nutritional and homeopathic support for your immune system in ways that enhance the value of each component of your recipe.

Another application of this technology enables us to imprint frequencies of remedies that are unavailable in substantial form into carrier substances. These virtual remedies have the same bioenergetic effects as the original ones. These frequencies can also be administered directly to the client to counteract pathogenic energies during a session.

Our EDS systems include many thousands of frequency signatures for substances including allergens, foods, pathogens, supplements, homeopathic remedies, etc., making it possible to conduct thorough, efficient testing without provoking allergic reactions or causing side effects. We can also test the biocompatibility of jewelry and prosthetic materials (e. g. for eyewear or dentistry).

Electrodermal Screening (EDS) technology enables you to clear surface energy disturbances, access deeper origins of imbalances, counteract negative influences of pathogens, and address many types of pain. Contact us today for a free phone consultation or to schedule an EDS assessment.

 

Bioenergetic Therapy

"Symptoms of disease are the outward signs of imbalances in your body's energy field," according to Bärbel Aldridge, ND. This field, in bioenergetic theory, consists of a range of energy frequencies that correspond to the individual vibrations of all your body's organs and systems. As in a symphony orchestra, each instrument in the ensemble of the human organism must interact harmoniously with the whole, or else disharmony and dis-ease result.

In our view, disease expresses disharmony in your body on the primary, bioenergetic level of health. Bioenergetic testing and therapies address the energetic causes of problems, naturally helping your immune system to work more effectively by "tuning in" healthy, harmonious energy, "toning down" inharmonious frequencies, and "tuning out" negative, pathogenic vibrations. At Healing Ways, we believe that bioenergetic assessment and therapy will become a major component of health care in the future. That's why we've made it our mission to bring it to you today.

Naturopathy supports your immune system with wholesome, natural therapy. Suppressing symptoms makes energy disturbances worse by increasing tissue toxicity and energetic blockage and imbalance. In our view this approach furthers degeneration that is often mistaken for "normal aging." We apply bioenergetic therapies using bioresonance technologies in combination with highly effective traditional naturopathic means of evaluation and therapy.

Bioresonance technologies including electrodermal screening, and energy-balancing RETEC Therapy enable us to tap directly into your body's internal information system of energy meridians to detect and correct energetic disturbances. These approaches, combined with therapeutic applications of the ONDAMED® Biofeedback System, make Healing Ways Holistic Health one of America's leading centers for bioenergetic evaluation and therapy.

Bioresonance and pulsed electromagnetic biofeedback technologies are the result of over 50 years of international research into the applications of frequencies from the electromagnetic spectrum, including sources like light, sound, and magnetism, in health assessment and therapy. This research has led to the development of techniques that enlist these forces of nature to strengthen your immune system. Biofeedback, your body's reflexive response to information, tells our trained, experienced practitioners when something is good or bad for you.

Combining bioenergetic therapies with biofeedback techniques enables practitioners at Healing Ways to determine what therapy is most beneficial for you and to administer it efficiently. Our clients have been delighted with their results, and you too can find real health care that is not based on invasive tests and toxic therapy at Healing Ways Holistic Health.

 



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