Limits of Lab Tests 
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Incomplete
​Don’t prescribe solutions
Require sophisticated interpretation (necessary in any case)

This is for the disheartened people who can’t afford the many lab tests out there and for those who realize it's hard to interpret test results fully or derive useful solutions. 

There are doctors charging $2000 in tests “just to see what’s going on” that still can’t find effective solutions.
 
I suggest we need to interpret symptoms as a whole, not a just one to one match with supplements and methods, and experiment from a list of many highest quality solutions.
 
Lab tests are often body samples of particular parts that do not necessarily represent the whole: serum, blood cells, urine, feces, hair, etc. It’s great if you can afford to do a collection of tests that give you at least some objective picture, especially if you are a beginner and are not convinced you have toxic metals, for example.
 
For example, the B1 thiamine expert Elliot Overton explains that there are no accurate tests for levels and deficiency.
There is no standard for what people need: the RDA is no guide to therapeutic levels, that may be a 1000x or more until someone feels any benefit, to make up for years of deficiency and higher requirement beyond daily healthy functioning due to toxic load. Plus, figuring out all the cofactor nutrients to utilize B1. He says this is more about observing the patient and clinical experience with quality solutions.
 
People often know they have a varied toxic load and infections that are growing, morphing, and not coming out in their poop to be measured.  In that case they need to focus on designing highly individual solutions  based on what they can tolerate. Labs can’t prescribe for that.
 
You may have an infection but that does not tell you what percent of the solution is to kill the infection.
There is still more than adding some probiotics and gut healing.
Other levels to address are nutrient deficiencies for every cell in the body including white blood cells for immunity, and supporting the immune system directly, bile flow, lymph flow, sun bathing, EMF protection, blue blocking etc.
These support systems are worth considering for those who have “tried everything” for years of frustration--except think outside the box.
 
One example of a testing method that has fewer limitations yet still requires sophisticated interpretation of results are a broad set of methods is a 14K$ electronic energetic testing machine using electro dermal screening: pushing a conductive metal pen looking probe into the wrists so the machine can read the frequencies.
This has the advantage of assessing the body as a whole with energetic resonance.
It can also evaluate the resonance of solutions that strengthen the body, especially if the exact food or solution is held by the person, not just a general sample programmed into the machine
They are still limited by categories in the machine. For example, a practitioner using such a machine said I had a problem in my mouth, she asked if my mercury amalgams were out and I said yes. Then said maybe something to do with your orthodontic appliance but then gave up and got tired. I had to eventually figure out on my own that the orthodontics was not working and another practitioner figured out I was getting silver toxicity from the soldering to repair the gold wired that often broke. She could not look at what was going on but wanted a simple answer based on what was in her head and in the machine and easy to infer.  Complexity and specific context are exhausting. They also never fully identified basic nutritional deficiencies and therapeutic needs, just like all the practitioners I saw.
 
Other methods of energetic testing like muscle testing can also ask for yes or no answers so it totally depends on questions asked, including the range of quality solutions to consider.
With energetic testing there are many things that can go wrong and usually do according to complaints, so this method depends on science and clinical experience. 

The most well known form of energetic testing is muscle testing:

• The person holding something to see if it strengthens or weakens them.
• Or long distance someone testing themselves as the surrogate thinking about the person and the solution.

I don't want to discuss methods here, the point is questions asked. using lists of questions with all the options, a testing template.  
Example of questions and answers: 
Is nutrient X deficient ?  YES
Can this person add this nutrient in isolation NO
How many other cofactor nutrients are needed at the same time to utilize it: 3
Test for other nutrients minerals, vitamins, proteins, fats, etc.
What are the sources of these nutrients: foods or exact top quality products?
This is where failure often occurs with substandard supplements and foods because people don’t know the best or better options..
What is the order of implementation?
Quantify:how much to start with?.
What doses to build up to?
What systems need to be supported: lymph, gut, liver, brain, immunity, etc?
 
Quality solutions must be derived from extensive experience.
I am a highly sensitive person and learned immediately what did not work as it made me worse when I had chronic fatigue.
​I learned to read labels for fillers and sources of nutrients.
I can pretty well feel the energy of products in my hand and even in pictures online even for other people.
Sometimes something will jump out at me and grab my attention and I have to figure out why and for whom. 
I consider this animal instinct or motherly instinct
Some explain it as working through energetic resonance across a quantum field.
Everything needs empirical confirmation.
No method is perfect  but by reviewing everything diligently during implementation we can catch what is missing. 
 
People who get better learn to feel what is working and intuit what they need or crave, what catches their attention in the store, just like the deer wandering through my garden with many choices and eating what they are drawn toward--they didn’t research it on Pub Med.
 

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Move to circulate, align, & relax.

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