Lab Testing has its place in any practice…but is it enough?
It’s often frustrating when a patient hands me their lab work or recent CBC (Complete Blood Chemistry) and tell me their primary care Doc said, "it’s all good ….nothing to worry about" and then we analyze it according to a Functional model and we find a number of imbalances that suggest something entirely different.
It’s important to understand that any lab testing only provides a piece of the puzzle and the information provided is only as useful as the level of skill of as the practitioner analyzing the results. There is also the pitfall of false positives and samples that have been contaminated or even worse is sending the same sample to three different labs and getting three different results. I’m often dismayed by what insurance companies are willing to pay and accept as the "standard of care." Some of the most useful biomarkers such as Vitamin D, and Thyroid antibodies and Leptin are not recognized as "standard of care and Doc’s don’t bother to run the panel because the insurance company will deny payment and the patient will be left paying out-of-pocket.
At raSahealth we have found it valuable to test in multiple ways. We embrace the 5 levels of health and healing model and we know that bio-chemistry is only one small piece of the human design.
Have you gone to the Doctor with a concern of a small mass or symptom and the Doc say’s I don’t see anything to be concerned about come back in 3 months and we’ll check it again. Why is that? It may just be because the Docs know that many of the tests they rely on are not very "sensitive" and if they wait long enough eventually the test will come back positive. Frankly, the longer you wait to "find" the problem ….the bigger the problem has become. Cancer has been developing many years before there are symptoms or before the traditional tests we rely on are sensitive enough to detect the anamoly. We know the longer you have it…the harder it is to correct. By the time a mass has developed on a breast and detected through a mammogram it may be several years after the cells began to change. Therefore, using "sensitive" tests and cross checking through different systems often reveal imbalances before they become life-threatening.
One test we can use is a Functional interpretation of your blood chemistry which compares the patient to a population of "healthy" people instead of a population of sick patients which results in a far wider bell curve and ultimately leads to the Doc saying "you’re blood work was fine! We’ll see you next year." Let’s look at this option a little more closely.
BioChemistry
Most Docs are using the conventional laboratory reference ranges for blood chemistry and CBC interpretation. For many practitioners blood chemistry and CBC analysis is a matter of comparing a test result with the conventional laboratory reference range, seeing whether or not the patient’s results are normal or abnormal and attempting to fit them into a particular disease pattern or pathology. These conventional laboratory ranges are designed to identify and diagnose disease states and pathology. People who fall within the reference range are assumed to have no clinical signs and symptoms of any disease, and are considered "normal." Have you heard of someone who had just been cleared in their yearly physical only to drop dead of a heart attack only weeks later.
Practitioners of Functional and holistic medicine understand that symptoms of deep fatigue, migrating muscle aches and joint pain, numbness, tingling, and brain fog is not normal. Yet our patients with these symptoms do not have a clinically identifiable disease. As a result they are told by their doctor that they have an "unremarkable" or "normal" laboratory test, i.e. they are "clinically" normal or "it’s all in your head." They may be normal when compared to a database of the sick or diseased , but often they fall into an entirely different light when compared to a population of those with optimal health. As a practitioner trained in Functional interpretation of Blood Chemistries we know to also look for trends and patterns that may indicate the need for further investigation.
This patient’s lab was considered "normal" by his medical doctor yet when we ran his panel according to functional analysis we saw a pattern of elevated AST, decreased Co2 and increased alkaline phosphotase which placed her at an 78% risk for congestive heart dysfunction.
We can no longer rely on the "standard of care" as dictated by insurance companies. Insurance companies are in business to earn a profit. Their focus is sick care not "health" care.
I’ve posted before about my personal loss and journey with a beloved brother who spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals.. Near the end time when I visited I could see he was very ill. Yet I asked his specialist how he was doing and they answered "we expect a great recovery!" I began to weep silently. My brother asked, “what’s wrong,”….I said, “I hate to see you like this.” He said, “Why? Do you think I’m sick?…. The Doctors tell me I will recover.”
My prognosis was very different. I looked at the tongue, the nails, the pulse, the eyes, his bio-field and I saw decay and loss of life. This was a perfect example of relying on labs only or having a Doc who has no skill interpreting the numbers or the signs. I did not need the "labs" to tell me how he was. His body told me everything I needed to know.
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This picture represents the 3 levels we are evaluating. (Left) The physical body (through chemistry) (Middle) The Biofield through Bio resonance and (Right) Autonomic Response Testing.
Have you had the experience where one day your computer "isn’t working the way it used to?" It’s slower…the files may appear rearranged and everything takes longer. So you call Tech Support and they guide you through the steps…check the cables, the monitor, the processor, the connections, the keyboard and you say everything is fine….You even bang every key and nothing changes and the voice on the other ends says "everything seems to be fine." But YOU KNOW EVERTHING IS NOT FINE. The breakdown isn’t in any one individual part– it is IN THE WHOLE. It could be the operating software. This is why conventional medicine is limited. It only looks at the individual parts In fact—we have specialists for every part but no doctor to assess the whole.
Bioresonance testing offers a view of the whole.
BioResonance Testing
Information leads to Transformation!
Physical matter is only one interpretation of the human body. It has been what Western medicine has focused on for the past 100 years. Other cultures and systems of healing recognize that the body is composed of and emits light. In fact, these ancient systems embrace a model that understands it is the bio-field that influences the bio-chemistry and many of their treatments revolve around physics and the use of frequency, resonance, sound, light and more. Therefore, if we are only assessing a patient according to their biochemistry we are missing the forest through the trees.
The bioresonance system we use in our office is based on a "frequency matching" model. Once the patient is scanned their blueprint is matched against the "optimal" and the results are reported in various graphs, graphics and colors. Perhaps, you are aware of the connection to emotional trauma and heart disease. There are numerous studies to show the affects of emotional trauma and heart disease. This information is stored in the bio-field and able to be matched to specific locations in the body.
Remember the patient with the 78% risk for Congestive Heart Dysfunction? After we performed their Bio-resonance scan we were able to precisely identify the underlying emotional patterns locked in their field indicating an earlier trauma surrounding the concept of "loss." When questioning the patient they revealed the significant loss they had experienced only 3 years ago with the untimely passing of two loved ones. We began a multifacted approach and immediately began to address the underlying factors significantly decreasing their risk.
What you see here is a matching of the concept of "loss" revealing itself in the "coronary veins" as depicted by the RED in each of the following scans.
Note: The primary focus in this scan is anything in red. Notice the "red" indicating coronary veins in the first figure.
Note: Highest focus is shown in "red." The concept of "loss"
Can someone die from a brokenheart? Internationalgriefcouncil.org was founded by three women from three different cultures and three different countries as each of them tell their personal story of how grief and profound loss tore their worlds apart and left them changed forever. Their lifework is now dedicated to counciling, guiding and helping others with a profound and unshakable sense of loss rediscover themselves and their wholeness.
In our patient care we use Applied Psycho Neurobiology to address this level of healing
Bio Field Testing
See your health in a whole new light!
Great minds have often said if you want to understand life you only have to observe nature. Most of us have at one time or another planted a seed and watched it grow. Think of the components you need…seed, soil, water, oxygen and light. This summer I often sat in the morning and reflected on how the trees in our yard would twist and bend themselves as to only draw closer to the light. Seasonal Effective Disorder (S.A.D.) is a condition that effects millions as the seasons turn into winter and our light dependent bodies yearn to feel the nourishing rays.
Our dense physical body is composed of things that the naked eye cannot see–atoms, molecules, chromosomes and cells. However, words like "atoms," "chromosomes," and "cells" can hardly describe divinity’s creative activities or the true nature of life. Our cells contain the DNA/RNA memory codes and intelligence factors to access and fulfill their evolutionary advancement.
In the 1970′s, Fritz-Albert Popp, theoretical biophysicist at the university of Marburg in Germany was looking for the difference between two similar hydrocarbons. Although their chemical structures are virtually the same, one of them is carcinogenic. He discovered the only difference between them is how they interact with UV light. He performed his test on 37 other chemicals, some cancer-causing, some not. After a while, it got so that he could predict which substances could cause cancer. In every instance, the compounds that were carcinogenic took the UV light, absorbed it and changed the frequency. When he presented his findings at a conference for oncologists, they told him it was crazy. They said his results must mean light is being emitted by cells. Popp said, "YES!"
Popp and one of his students developed a photo-multiplier that could measure light emitted by cells, photon by photon. His research showed that our own cells produce biophotons that communicate with one another. These photons are coherent, as in laser light. Coherent light occurs when the wavelengths are the same and the waves are in phase with one another.
The work in Biophotons has challenged our accepted understanding of cellular processes. Light does two things in the body. First, it changes the condition of the atoms for the order of the system. Second, it transfers information between the cells. We have over 100,000 reactions per second in each cell. These reactions must be activated by a process that works much faster than enzymes can. Only light can do that–provide the information to coordinate 100,000 reactions in each cell per second! The body also uses light to make order, a special kind of order. It is the knowledge and understanding of these principals that encouraged Dr. Klinghardt to develop Autonomic Response Testing. You may find it interesting to know that this model is accepted widely throughout Europe. In fact, Dr. Klinghardt has often said his patients in Germany would much prefer a Laser Energetic Detox and Autonomic Response Testing instead of any lab or pills he may have in his black bag. Yet, his patients in the U.S. are so conditioned to receive a prescription when they go to their Doc they feel like the visit wasn’t valuable if they leave without one.
There are many tools and techniques to assess the Bio-field. Autonomic Response Testing is the tool I am certified in and it has been a lamplight on a sometimes dark and lonely path and a wayshower when other Docs said there was no way.
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If you have read this far then you are one of the few that has begun to think outside the box of our current understanding of health and healing. Like you–I am on a journey to greater awareness and understanding. By no means is the information here meant to imply we have all the answers. Like the popular folk song, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain and …what do you think he saw? He saw another mountain…" We are experiencing a paradigm shift in what health is and how to heal. Everyday there are dynamic leaps in physics and the new biology pointing the way to what may be another mountain waiting to be discovered. If you are one who has felt the inner nudge that we are more than our biochemistry and know that by not addressing the other principals of human design we are in fact missing the forest through the trees– jump on board and explore what’s possible on the frontier of greater health options. I’ll meet you on the mountain.
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This conversation takes place in our office every week and daily in homes around the Country. Life as we know it stops dead in its tracks when you or someone you love sits face-to-face with the news of a life-threatening diagnosis.
More personally this was a conversation I lived with when a beloved family member faced a life changing diagnosis. The loss is still ripe with sudden moments of deep ache and sadness punctuated by a need to make it all mean something …be something …contribute something more that may make a difference to one other person or a family who is navigating this uncharted territory.
Meryl Streep said, "it’s amazing how one person dies and the whole world seems empty."
Some Experiences Leave Us Forever Changed
My brother was a big force. He didn’t come into the world soft like a spring rain and he didn’t exit any more gently. His journey on earth was volcanic, colorful, adventurous and bold. Why should his transition be anything other? Living life with such boldness often comes with a price that may include feelings of: injury, loss, achievement, acquisition, understanding, betrayal, anger, resentment and sudden spiritual insight.
Our Mom died when she was only 51 years and me and my siblings were in our early years of adulthood. Innately I assumed a mother/sister role with my younger brother and our rich love was entangled by deep conflict, –fraught with competition, loyalty, fierce stubborness and passion for life.
Vincent’s journey of reckless abandonment left him in the hospital with broken bones, ribs, internal bleeding, Hep C, Cirrhosis, Diabetes and more. He was stitched up, sewn up and sent back out to pasture so many times we all knew him as the man with more lives than most of us dreamed possible. Most of these incidents would have left many with a much earlier demise but his faith in what he knew to be God and his ability to find a way when he was told there is none was undeniably other worldly.
I loved this about him and I hated this about him. I wanted him to live. I wanted him to be on this journey with me for as long my life would last.
A year ago we realized we were soon to loose him and we gathered at Christmas to have a living memorial and tell him while he could see us, hear us and hug us how much his life impacted ours and how much he was loved.
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30 days later he was still with us and I asked him if he wanted to live or leave and he said, "I WANT TO LIVE!" Okay then I said, "here is what I am offering you….Come live with us in our home and I’ll assume full care of your health and treatment. All I wanted from him was to give it 100% no matter what. He said, YES!"
I’ll never forget the day my sister-in-law delivered him to my office. He shuffled. His breath was labored and his eyes had lost the twinkle. Most of the time he just was dead awake.
The next 60 days I loved him well. We loved him well. I put together a small team of family members who were willing to believe health and healing were possible. I turned over every stone I found and we lived and breathed the 5 levels of health and healing model. From bone broth to raw and Family Constellation therapy to healing touch. We diced, drank and left no stone unturned as we sought the right combination of remedies, therapies, treatments and protocols that would bring him into a world of the healed and healthy. And we won.
Day by day his energy returned. He went from not being able to walk to baby steps and from baby steps to stair steps and from stair steps to steps across the room and then one day around the block.
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He was engaged again. He began to dream and envision and hope and he smiled for the world to see and I celebrated each and every success and clawed my way out of despair when we hit a road block or a setback and then 60 days later he went home. This was longest he had gone without having to go to the emergency room for blood transfusions or emergency paracentesis. We celebrated life and we sent him home to continue the journey surrounded by the things he loved most.
While I no longer could monitor his daily activities, I not only had to pick up the pieces in my own life, I slowly began to see him return to his old habits…Let’s face it kicking cancer, disease, pathology or any life threatening diagnosis in the ass is an uphill climb. It takes a village. It requires tenacity, vision, hard work and a plan. He just wasn’t able to keep it going. It was easier to order a pizza than prepare life giving meals and it required commitment and energy to take daily enemas, healing treatments, meditate, exercise and breathing visualizations. It also took money. Every decision was between paying out -of -pocket for care or using the benny card for meds. A choice of a $35 co-pay for the liver doctor or $200/hour for the alternative practitioner.
Eventually mainstream won out. Before I knew it he had a team of "Liver Experts" representing the finest, smartest, most technologically advanced in the United States and he surrendered to their direction. He chose to be their patient and abandoned all and everything we did up until that time.
His life became a daily struggle for a next breathe, a next draining, a next dialysis as his kidneys failed, a next intubation as his lungs filled and I wept. In the beginning I was just angry. I just couldn’t stand to see him struggle. I was filled with pain and rage and helplessness and powerlessness. My heart hurt from the minute I opened my eyes until the minute I closed them and everything in between.
I heard his Team of professionals declare "He was doing Well"…."he was making progress" .."he was stable"…he was going to be fine and yet my naturopathic trained senses told me a very different story. I observed all the signs I had been taught….the quality and tone of the skin, the nails, the tongue, the eyes and the breath and I saw fatality. Yet, I also keenly understood the Biology of Belief and how that impacted the dis-ease process. One day I brought myself to my favorite sanctuary and I asked for guidance. I asked for help in letting go and Letting God. That day I decided I would no longer see death or dying. I would no longer feel the deep despair of powerlessness. I would no longer give him subtle clues of my deep disappointment in the turn of events. That day I decided to just be LOVE. I decided to appreciate the team of doctors and nurses and care givers who believed in a different way. I decided to love on him with foot rubs and neck rubs and storytelling and essential oils and the healing truth of unconditional love. I just hugged him with my every breath and I stood present to each and every procedure, needle, oxygen, dialysis, blood draw, they would offer him. I did it with total surrender to the path he told me he wanted to walk and I did it with a loving heart.
On February 2, 2015 we say "we walked him home." He called me that morning from his hospital bed where he had been for 3 long months and he was having trouble breathing. He asked if I would come. I quickly dressed on a snow covered frozen morning and arrived at his room to find him surrounded by a team of well meaning doctors. We were ushered aside and told….we were nearing the end and…they could make him comfortable. I did not want to be afraid and I did not want him to see my fear of loosing him. I sang hymns and Christmas songs and Willie Nelson and James Taylor that I knew were his favorites. I brushed his hair, held his hand and read from his Bible the 23rd Psalm…."The Lord is My Shepherd…." I annointed him with the essential oils he had come to love and I watched him breathe his last breath and then we sat for hours….unable to leave…unable to say farewell….unable to let his hand go for the very last time and I wept.
To Chemo or not to chemo….to cut or not to cut….to go alternative or traditional I understood in the days that followed was not the only question to be asked or answered. The question that also needs to be asked is How Can I serve best? How can I be present to my loved one in this moment? What can I offer that will help them most.
It was and is a difficult journey. I don’t regret one thing I did. I don’t regret trying to help him heal naturally and I don’t regret aligning myself with his wishes to take a conventional approach. I don’t regret loving him.
If you find yourself in a similar situation I hope in some small way this personal experience can offer you at least a glimpse into our struggle….our path…..our loss and our love.
As part of our in-take process for all new patients we have a question that reads:
Please Comment about your past health care experience, and future expectations, feelings and intent
A patient wrote, (printed with permission)
"My experience with traditional medicine (except in emergencies in which cases I have always felt grateful for their expertise) has been that doctors have been close minded as they have been unable to go outside of their “box” and it is frustrating that no matter how much experience they have or even how newly out of med school they are, they and their med schools have neglected whole areas of investigation. The doctors I have dealt with will not consider anything alternative outside of their medical and pharmaceutical world. It seems to all be about only getting rid of symptoms, AND probably I am where I am now is because I have not regularly gone for checkups. With the clinic doctors at my hospital in this particular case, they are nice but there is a lot negativity and not a lot of support and/or hope unless I were to do exactly what they say. They become impatient with my questions and either look at me like I’m crazy or shake there heads “no” (whether they have heard of something or not) when I bring up something that does not hold medical truth in their world. With a diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer metastasized to the liver I will soon be dead (between now and a year as most people only live a year and if I am one of those few EXTREMELY lucky people there is a VERY slim chance of making it to 5, IF I stop all of this foolishness and do what they say (chemo immediately). When I suggested that I might not want to do chemo, I was met with head shaking and/or silence as if I am committing suicide an sorrowful looks. I have just in the last few days decided that I definitely do NOT want Chemo. I have not told them this. They are thinking that I will be showing up for my first chemo appt next week. Medical professionals and friends have said, “Why not just do both?” But I don’t want to weaken my body and inhibit it from doing its job. To me it becomes a break-even affair instead of accomplishing real healing… AND I really, really believe to my core that healing is possible for me… not just a painful extension of life – waiting to die. I want to work with people who believe this and who will guide and support me…and not think of me as crazy. We are all going to die and NONE of us knows when… I could get hit by a car tomorrow and die which would have nothing to do with cancer. I refuse to live my life by statistics, probabilities and what reports say which is why I have not looked at my medical reports and did not want the doctor to tell me how long I had to live. I hate that he and all are treating me as if I am terminal. We have all been terminal since the day we were born. Reports and statistics don’t take individuals, God, Spirit, Soul and what we are outside of the physical into consideration…
We are all here for a reason to make a difference and to learn… When we have fulfilled our mission this time around then we move on…"
Some Experiences Leave Us Forever Changed.
As a natural health care practitioner the journey I took with my brother allows me to be a better doctor. I am willing to stand in the fire with my patients but I am no longer held hostage by their life or their death. There is freedom to be found in both.
One life can make a difference. Vincent J. Rasa, Jr. Made a difference.
