Nutrition Response Testing​

 

Nutrition Response Testing is a non-invasive and precise method of analyzing the body in order to determine the underlying causes of ill health using your body’s own neurological reflexes. When these are corrected through safe, natural, and nutritional means, the body can repair itself in order to maintain more optimum health. Imagine that your body could tell you exactly what it needs and the most effective sequence in which you should address those needs – that’s what Nutrition Response Testing allows your body to do.

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Often people will have deficiencies or imbalances that lead to a breakdown in resistance or immunity, and a loss of the ability to cope with a stressor. These can display themselves as fatigue, loss of sleep, indigestion, gas, bloating, weight gain/loss, frequent colds/infections, depression/anxiety, behavioral issues/ADD and we could go on and on. This can happen from past personal eating habits or it can largely be from the lack of quality foods that are commercially available.

 

The Process

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In a conventional medical approach, there are two key parts: the diagnosis (identifying and/or naming the disease or syndrome) and the treatment (which usually consists of drugs, surgery, or radiation, to attack or suppress the symptom, or to remove or destroy the offending organ or part). In Nutrition Response Testing we do not diagnose or treat disease – but we also have two parts: the analysis (the assessment of your body’s current health status) and designed clinical nutrition (a personalized natural health improvement program). The analysis tests your body’s own neurological reflexes and acupuncture points. The neurological reflexes are part of the nervous system that regulates the functions of every organ. Through our analysis we can find the specific nutritional supplementation that your body needs to regain its balance and optimal functioning.

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For the assessment, we use a standardized form of applied kinesiology, commonly known as muscle testing. This is all done painlessly, with the practitioner lightly pressing on different acupuncture points or reflex locations on the body associated with specific organs or glands, while simultaneously checking a strong muscle group.

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In the hands of thoroughly trained health professionals, this highly effective method of evaluation gives the practitioner essential information about your body’s requirements for a return to health. What separates Nutrition Response Testing from most other treatment strategies is the critical information obtained from the body’s Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Your autonomic nervous system includes two parts-sympathetic and parasympathetic. When our bodies are healthy these two systems are in balance, when they are not balanced, this can impact our ability to heal and we can experience symptoms.

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When undergoing Nutrition Response Testing you will be tested for common stressors that can and will prevent your body from healing. Many of you have experienced this already without perhaps realizing it. Have you ever failed to respond to perfectly good treatment? Have you ever experienced the opposite result of perfectly good treatment?

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Has your condition “plateaued” or gotten better and then worse?

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Nutrition Response Testing allows the practitioner to test you using the “stressors” to reveal and then remove these barriers. Next, specific organ reflexes are tested (such as liver, heart and bowel) as well as glandular reflexes (like prostate, thyroid and adrenals). Then the priority reflex is determined. This step is critical to Nutrition Response Testing because pinpointing the priority results in having to take fewer supplements, achieving a lowered pill count and a phenomenon called “whole-body healing.” Have you ever gotten temporary relief or relief of some but not all of your symptoms? If so, then you haven’t achieved whole-body healing.

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In the second part of our system, we design a specific plan for you to follow to achieve your optimal health. The plan will help you adapt to specific stressors and secondly, nourish weakened body systems. This may involve adjusting which foods you are eating that may be affecting your body. You may need to avoid certain foods while your body heals itself. We may ask you to increase the consumption of vitamin rich foods or we may also encourage you to use whole food nutritional supplements to bridge the gaps of any missing nutrients. We are here to help you, but ultimately you are in charge of your own health. The more closely you follow the recommendations, the greater your chances are of achieving your goals.