On the Edge—Unconventional Diagnoses

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On the Edge—Unconventional Diagnoses

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Oct 22, 2006 19:01 PDT

 

 

 

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By Burton Goldberg

 

lternative medicine is best known for preventing health problems,

but it can also enable us to detect degenerative disease well before

it becomes a serious threat.

 

Part of its advantage stems from the tendency of alternative

practitioners to evaluate the whole body to look for causes of

disease. I don't think my heart doctor would have died of cancer or

my cancer doctor died of heart disease if they had been able to see

systemic imbalances rather than focusing on one particular body part

that was diseased.

 

Finding out about such an imbalance early on might well have given

each a fighting chance of reversing his illness.

 

Alternative diagnostic methods also offer a degree of sensitivity

you won't often find in conventional medicine, which relies heavily

on standard blood workups that don't always pick up on subtle

problems.

An example of this sensitivity appears in the work of physician Wolf-

Dieter Kessler, who uses electromagnetic frequency to detect

problems like hormonal imbalances well ahead of conventional methods.

 

In our industrialized world we all " dance close to the fire, " as a

friend of mine, physician Garry Gordon, likes to say. The fire is a

devastating health condition and the dance is the combination of our

sedentary lifestyle, toxic environment, and poor diets.

With knowledge from new diagnostic mechanisms, however, we can learn

when and how to move away from the fire.

 

I believe that if we make use of these new tools, we can drastically

reduce our chances of facing a diagnosis of any number of advanced

degenerative diseases.

 

With that in mind, I've asked four alternative physicians to tell me

what they think are among the most promising new diagnostic methods

available today.

While more research is warranted on all of them, I believe they

represent exciting new ways to apprehend serious illnesses early

enough to head them off with natural and non-invasive methods.

 

Garry Gordon

Blood Viscosity Test

Garry Gordon, who practices in Payson, Arizona, reports that he has

made exceptional progress in preventing stroke and heart attack by

focusing on the viscosity of blood rather than on the arteries that

contain it.

 

Measuring viscosity accurately, however, is surprisingly tricky, and

Gordon is one of the few who has an effective protocol that employs

natural techniques.

 

Unlike most fluids, blood is thin while moving but thick when it

slows—and blood should flow like wine, not ketchup! Why are we so

prone to ketchup-like blood? Some have speculated that thousand of

years of violent human activity have selectively bred our species to

be geared toward surviving bodily injury (by rapid control of

bleeding) rather than toward just surviving into a peaceful and

healthy old age.

 

The fight-or-flight stress response triggers the flow of the

insoluble protein called fibrin, and fibrin responds to injury by

causing blood coagulation or clotting.

 

So in modern humans under stress, whether physical or emotional,

the mechanism that controls clotting becomes too easily triggered.

The eventual result can be a catastrophic blockage of

a blood vessel.

 

Measuring blood viscosity in his patients helps Gordon more

accurately direct chelation therapy, enzyme supplementation, and

other natural approaches he favors for preventing thrombosis and

heart attack.

 

Scott Moyer

Biological Terrain Assessment, Dark Field Microscopy

 

Scott Moyer, a naturopathic practitioner in Santa Rosa, California,

begins his patient examinations by doing what he calls a biological

terrain assessment, in which he measures blood, saliva, and urine

for the acid/alkaline, electron, and electrolyte balance.

 

Moyers next tries to suss out hard-to-diagnose problems by measuring

the patient's adaptive capabilities using a computerized

electrograph, which locates areas of stress and dysregulation in the

body that he says can lead to disease if not addressed.

 

He likens the test to an EKG of the entire body: By searching for

anomalies in the pattern of electrical

field distribution, he believes, it's possible to identify potential

problems that are often invisible to conventional diagnostic tools.

 

Other diagnostic techniques used by Moyer include dark field

microscopy, which closely examines blood cells for aberrations that

might be indicative of progressive disease.

 

Wolf-Dieter Kessler

Ondamed, Electrodermal Screening

 

Physician Wolf-Dieter Kessler, of the Kessler Clinic in Victorbur,

Germany, likes to use the Ondamed, an electro-magnetic impulse

frequency device I've written about, to help decipher a patient's

health problems.

It detects what he classifies as physiological, lymph, organ, or

metabolic blockages. A blockage, in this context, is defined as an

area of the body that contains an abnormal concentration of acid.

 

The first sign of any impairment of cellular function is an increase

of acidity in the cell.

 

The Ondamed detects these by reading the response of

electromagnetic frequencies to damaged tissue. It then treats

afflicted tissue by subjecting it to certain corrective frequencies

of electromagnetic energy.

 

Kessler also uses electrodermal screening, which takes acupuncture

several steps further by using electrical measurements at meridian

points to diagnose a wide range of underlying factors. Kessler cites

its

ability to detect hormonal imbalance, autoimmune conditions, missing

nutrients, and secondary organs involved in the causal chain of

disease.

 

Tsuneo Kobayashi

Tumor Marker Combination Assay

One of the pioneers of early cancer prediction is Tsuneo Kobayashi,

a molecular biologist turned pathologist turned oncologist who

practices near Tokyo. Kobayashi was among the first to develop a

blood analysis protocol called the tumor marker combination assay.

His particular test looks for 10 different tumor-specific markers

and other indicators of abnormal cellular activity.

 

Kobayashi's approach can detect physiological markers that are

invisible not only to the eye but to imaging devices as well. The

test tags people who are at high risk for developing cancer so they

can immediately make the lifestyle changes necessary to reduce their

risk—stop smoking, start exercising, and cut back on animal fats and

sugar. In the ten years that a group of his patients have been

annually taking his test, all have remained cancer-free.

 

The downside is that currently the only way to take advantage of the

predictive ability of the tumor marker combination assay is to send

chilled samples to Kobayashi, care of Lobos Tejas Laboratories in

Dallas, Texas.

 

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