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The Absence of Symptoms Does Not Mean Good Health


A black and white image of an artistic symbol.Good health is not just about not being ill; it is also about being happy and feeling whole from physical, mental as well as spiritual perspective. To be healthy, popping some medicines only when unwell or taking action only after you see the symptoms is not enough. You have to take care of yourself proactively to prevent illness from reaching you.

But, we do the exact opposite. We think that health problems are the sudden onset of a disease we unsuspectingly acquired, when actually the problems are a matter of degree of symptoms. This is why the use of pharmaceutical drugs to suppress symptoms definitely provides short term relief, but it also tends to make the problem worse over the long run. The same pharmaceutical medications then invariably fail to even control the symptoms because the underlying problems begin to worsen, and the drugs are no longer able to contain the symptoms for which they were first prescribed.

When we push ourselves too much, be it physically or mentally, our bodies have their own ways of telling us that something is wrong. For instance, we may experience a headache when we are extremely stressed. Our standard procedure to counter it is taking acetaminophen. It helps. It makes the headache fade away. But, the actual cause of the headache is still there, without even being identified. Thus, sooner or later, the headache will resurface again.

Please don’t make the false notion that I am against the use of pharmaceutical drugs. I am not. There are numerous good medications out there that help ease symptoms. I am only against the misguided belief that drugs used to suppress symptoms are curing you. They are not. This is the fact where we are in denial on a national scale.

It is ironic that a large number of people, who are ready to take full responsibility for all the problems that life throws at them, have their head in the sand when it comes to health problems. We cannot define health as the absence of symptoms. We have all heard of or know of the person who feels great, had a great check up with the doctor only to have a sudden heart attack or stroke shortly thereafter. He didn’t have any detectible symptoms, but he was obviously not in good health. It is, therefore, not dependable to rely on the correlation of symptoms with the underlying causes of ill health.

Ever wondered why the United States health care system is ranked so low by the World Health Organization? After all, we can sew on our finger, transplant a kidney, replace the cochlear fibers in the ear of a 2 month old baby yet we still rank incredible low. It is because we have delegated the responsibility for our health and well-being to pharmaceutical intervention without a plan to address the underlying causes of the particular health decline. An integrated approach is vital in this particular situation. Isolating and managing symptoms together with a strategy to correct the underlying causes is the need of the hour.

Nutritional Response Testing, a system which focuses on health restoration using the instinctive intelligence of the body to identify vital whole food supplementation to restore health, can be of a great help!

Nutritional Response Testing and Organ Dysfunction


We all wish to live a life without any illness slowing us down. But reality is different. We all face health concerns to one degree or another. If the causes of these problems are not identified at the earliest, they can further damage our health.

The most common underlying causes of health concerns are organ dysfunction from nutritional deficiencies. These deficiencies are the long term result of processed foods, highly refined sugars, soil erosion, and environmental hazards exasperated by our misguided belief that food is not fundamental to our health on any levels. Therefore, in order to restore health and functionality, we must replace these deficiencies just like we need to untie a knot in order to have a straight rope again.

But, merely eating a better diet is not enough to correct the problem because the foods available in the market are of low quality as a result of soil erosion, pesticides and genetic modifications irreversibly applied to crops. Even the best foods do not contain sufficient nutrients to undo the long term degeneration causing symptoms and disease. This where my Applied Clinical Nutrition practice comes to the rescue.

So, how do I correct the underlying causes to correct health problems? It is done using Nutritional Response Testing, a system of analysis to identifying the precise organ dysfunction and nutritional deficiencies that lie at the cause of the symptoms and then handle these deficiencies with the appropriate supplementation to fix it. These supplements are in the form of concentrated whole food medicines that are available only through a physician. They are made to address specific clinical nutritional deficiencies and concerns.

How do I find the specific organs? First, I do a complete intake of all existing and prior diagnosis, pharmaceutical drugs that have been taken, symptoms, etc. I then order lab tests, both blood work and hair analysis. I test the health of the nervous system using a heart rate variability device which allows me to assess the wear and tear on the nervous system as it relates to organ function.

Finally, I perform a clinically proven system of analysis called ‘nutrition response testing’ which allows me to assess the precise organs that need repair and what specific nutrition is required to repair them. I then consider all this information and present a written report of findings in which I lay out which organs need repair, what they need to repair them and how long it will take. I then offer a treatment course which I supervise over a period of time to get the results required. This method is very safe and natural. I can work with patients of any age, patients who are pregnant, patients who are on existing medications and have existing diagnosis. My youngest patient is 2 years old. My oldest patient is 75 years old, and both are doing fine.

Many of my patients have been able to reduce or eliminate some or all of the medications they have been taking and are well on their way to full health restoration, thanks to nutritional response testing.