What Can I See in My Blood?
* condition, shape, health of your red blood cells
* condition, vitality, quantity, behaviour of your white cells
* free radical damage
* acid/alkaline imbalances, blood sugar imbalances and possible disturbances
* tendency to sluggish lympathics
* atherosclerotic plaque, unhappy liver and hyper-clotting disorders
* bacteria, parasites, candida/yeast /fungi (indirectly extrapolated)
* undigested proteins and fats, dysbiosis and unhappy intestinal tract
* hormonal imbalances including thyroid
* folic acid, B12, vitamin C and E and iron deficiencies
* uric acid crystals, antibiotic crystals and other crystals
* poor circulation, poor oxygenation
* heavy metal burden
* presence of allergies and infections
What Can’t You See?
* defining of specific heavy metals
* defining of specific allergies
* your specific blood type
* your pH in actual numbers
* your blood sugar levels in actual numbers
* parasitic infection - specific species and their stage details
What is Nutritional Microscopy?
It is the use of a specially configured, very high-magnification microscope, camera and monitor - a tool for gaining insight into the details of one drop of your blood at the cellular level, such that it allows the practitioner to view it, immediately upon having taken it at 9000 times magnification. The quality, details, behaviour and condition of your red cells, your white cells and other information further tell it’s own story. This discloses what imbalances and deficiencies need correcting.
Microscopy is also an exceptional educational tool. When you see your details for the first time, you realize that there is incredible dynamic activity taking place within you, and you can begin to better understand the specifics that need to be addressed without guessing in vein, without purchasing unneeded supplements or investing in unneeded therapies. It has been shown that client compliance is greatly improved with understanding - once you know what you are doing and why. Seeing is knowing. You’ll see yourself through a powerful window and view your dynamic micro-life processes going on in one of the most important of your body fluids. Red cells, white cells, T cells, B cells, toxins, bacteria, crystals, pteropharpens, symplasts, speed of red blood cell deterioration and so forth, are the centre of our focus and give us our insights. Additionally, it helps to identify potential conditions within your body that might not otherwise have been obvious.
How is a Microscopist Trained?
Ideally a microscopist's training consists of an understanding of oxidology, pleophophism, nutrition and physiology. This should be a minimum expectation. Additionally, a lot of self education and continuing education is called for, coupled with attending classes given throughout the world by advanced teachers and lecturers. Much like other alternative modalities, some teachers require a certain amount of documented sessions before a certificate is given while other teachers simply pass on what they know on an ad hoc basis and might be questionable. Each teacher brings a bias into their work from their own perspectives and specialties.
Training and learning never ends. I use the knowledge of pleomorphism, oxidology theories of disease and wellness, the European/German research and knowledge of biological and ortho-molecular medicine as a basis. I also analyze blood from a nutritional perspective where necessary.The best practitioners and teachers tend to be the ones that are not operating from the perspective of product sales. My teachers are listed at "about".
Why Doesn’t my Medical Doctor do This Test?
Medical doctors are an integral component of anyone’s healthcare puzzle, but not the only piece. The reality is that no one area of medicine has all the answers, especially in a system that allows 7 minutes per person per visit for a G.P. in Canada. A G.P. therefore could not spend the time required to become acquainted with your specific details in a seriously comprehensive manner. Microscopy knowledge evolved outside the regular mainstream medical establishment and is consequenty not accepted nor taught. This same system also greatly discounts the importance and science of nutrition and metabolic conditions. Healthcare needs to be an integrated process and live blood analysis ideally would be a serious piece within this sort of comprehensive system, but we are far from that sort of an open-minded system evolving from practical concept into practice - in fact, presently we are sliding in the opposite direction (note the articles at: http://www.thehealingjournal.com – article categories of “alternative health “ and “health politics”). Emergency medicine, by virtue of it’s nature, has my unwavering respect and the traditional system of medicating the symptoms as a form of healing and curing has my disdain.
Persecution of brilliant people on the front lines of scientific healing but using new paradigms, sends me into a ballistic tailspin - so you see, it’s all a matter of degrees, bias and perspective - mine included.
Live blood analysis with powerful microscopes, has been practiced for the last 100 years - approximately as long as our present pharmaceutically oriented mainstream medicine exists! It is the work of European scientists such as Drs. Bechamp, Descartes, Bernard and Dr. Gunther Enderlein that have advanced the use of this pleomorphic work, assessment of the “terrain” and the science based on the fact that we are not internally sterile. Louis Pasteur’s beliefs and science work however seems to have prevailed, even by his own admission that “le milieu est tout”.
Californian, Dr Virginia Livingston Wheeler and our Canadian scientist, Gaston Naessens (both persecuted), are just two examples of brilliant minds who have continued this work, not to mention the people who carried on Dr. Enderlein’s work in Europe and North America.
What Can I Expect from My Initial Session?
Your first analysis consists of an in depth microscopy session so that basic suggestions and recommendations can be compiled. This might include information such as current and prior health and diet habits and concerns, stress, lifestyle, exercise, past illness and environmental exposures, but more importantly, it’s what I see in the microscope as a complete picture of you, that guides us. Taking that one drop is not painful and you just feel a light prick. Your consultation lasts for 2 hours 30 minutes with a full written report and guidelines. Further sessions are only for tweaking and follow-up purposes. They last no more than 1 and 1/2 hours; these follow-up sessions become quite in-depth as you become more informed and in tune with your body, your knowledge and your improvements. Your understanding and eagerness to be self empowered are the most important components in your healing process. Therefore, your sessions are designed to focus on education and create an atmosphere of questioning and interaction to ensure that you are fully on top of your own health issues. The initial session costs $150 and the follow up session is $75.
What Exactly is a 'Darkfield' Microscope?
A darkfield lens is usually part of a research, laboratory microscope that utilizes a fiber-optic light source and a dark background to transform how light comes through and bounces off particles in the specimen - for special, enhanced viewing of details under high magnification.
What is 'Brightfield'?
This type of lens shines light straight through the specimen - which is useful for the dry peripheral part of the analysis. When light shines straight through a specimen, transparent objects are invisible.
What is a 'Phase Contrast' Microscope?
This is another type of lens - a way to view live blood such that the light coming through the specimen is altered and slightly shifted and is said to be out of phase and lights up normally invisible particles. This is also important for viewing live blood specimens.
What is a Dry Layer Test?
Here we have a means of seeing any free radical damage, the condition of tissue and potentially toxic conditions within your body and gives even more information in regards to dysbiosis, mineral imbalances, organs/tissue functioning, mal-absorption and mal-alignment and other areas of “physical stress”. I take a series of very thin blood layers from your one drop in a specific manner and let them dry on the slide. The twelve plus steps of the clotting / coagulation cascade causes your blood to dry in a very specific manner - showing specific patterns of fibrin and fibrinogen. These clues for specific stresses, mycotoxins, and/or imbalances reveal more information. The dry layer also called the peripheral blood test originated in France about 100 years ago by Drs. Heitan, Le Garde and Bolen and now stands for Heitan, LeGarde, Bradford
Why is pH So Important?
Nutritional / lifestyle rebalancing and blood analyzing cannot be done without an understanding of the effects of pH, terrain and pleomorphism and what that looks like. There has been a lot of misinformation spread through “health” magazines, self-serving sources and supplement sales! Our blood, maintains a narrow pH range of 7.35 to 7.55, which is slightly alkaline. Our bodies' "programs" know that there is a priority to keep this pH steady. Minerals and other necessary buffering elements are extracted from other tissue, such as muscle and bone and 'donated' to help with this job, 24/7. Over time depleteion can set in and cause imbalances in the 'donating' tissues and organs.
When our blood is in poor working order, it will have irregular blood cells, sluggish or mis-shapen white cells and many more items relating to unnecessary bacterial and fungal activity that we can observe in microscopy.
Why are the Lymphatics Important?
This very essential part of our housekeeping is often overlooked. The lymphatic system is our 2nd circulatory system and responsible for overall “garbage collection/synthesis”. Your lymphatics run parallel to your blood circulation system, except that it is not a circuit rather it is a system that starts in the farthest areas of your body and flows/gathers into your chest and joins into your blood circulatory system.
Read the article: One Drop of Blood
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