Science is more than Lab Tests
How I Use 5 Methods
Five methods of science have the common element of Empirical Observation:
- Interpretation of symptoms
- Energetic testing
- Empirical feedback: individual results
- Collective lessons from tradition and clinical practice
- Lab tests you may already have
Some people are limited in their health search to a narrow idea of science that determines what is legitimate knowledge:
Lab Test for Toxicity
The first important thing I learned was in 1997 that I had mercury poisoning from a hair mineral analysis that was off the charts. This introduced to me to the concept of toxicity as a root cause.
Solutions where random and incomplete:
I had a zinc deficiency as identified by zinc drink test.
Ascorbic acid was prescribed by Dr Robert Cathcart in Los Altos, California, who had been a student of Linus Pauling at Stanford. He created the method of "titrate to bowel tolerance.”
I got some good initial results taking up to 100 grams a day until I “blew my guts out.”
I got my mercury dental fillings out but that just ended the exposure: it was what had vaporized and entered by body that would take years to get out.
There was a whole community around mercury detox but they barely understood how to do it.
There was no systematic identification of all basic nutrient deficiencies that are all relevant to detox and energy. They did not even know how to get in the very important glutathione for detox, I learned about that from chronic fatigue forums but could not assimilate it into an overall program that reassured me that detox symptoms would not be more than I could handle.
I went through the practitioner merry-go-round that turned out to the a big rip-off with being lucky to learn one thing of lasting value from spending hundreds of dollars or more at each practitioner.
Traditional Knowledge
I came upon an approach to nutrition based on whole foods that worked very well to begin my healing by someone with no formal credentials who had been through many chronic illnesses and studied traditional nutrition and healing. He knew modern science, but much of this contradicted some existing science. I’m not going to say who or what to avoid tangents and arguments. I continue what I learned then. This is empirical science of what has worked historically under survival conditions, without microscopes. This is traditional, cross-cultural and practical or clinical knowledge that is empirically observed.
From there I had to figure out everything on my own.
Empirical Feedback
I was able to experiment and feel results because at this point I had a good baseline of things that worked, so that things that did not work showed up in contrast—thing that made me feel worse, there was little neutral.
When people are really stuck nothing seems to work or you can’t feel it because you feel so bad.
I’ve always been very sensitive in the sense of not tolerating things but I turned it into a strength of feeling what works.
Immediate feedback enables rapid learning through rapid course correction.
This is one way I found best quality products, which very people including practitioners know how to do if they have never been sensitive. This is where "the science" is not enough.
Future Estimates: Energetic Testing
This is not really considered science and is dismissed by many people, although there are people who try to explain this is in terms of quantum physics as a way to communicate between the energy of the nutrient and my nervous system, or between my nervous system and other person's nervous system--kind of like a mother's instinct.
I learned to feel what would work ahead of time my holding a food or supp in my hand to feel the energy.
I quantified by holding the amount, or the size of spoon still empty that would give me the right amount.
I could also feel the energy of products through online pictures.
I also learned to test energetically, learning to muscle test myself.
There are many considerations for it to work I have explained under Health Coaching--Assessment.
The most important thing in energetic testing is not the technique, but questions asked, especially the quality of solutions considered. I have spent a huge amount of time shopping and learning food selection.
Interpretation of Symptoms
All science requires interpretation of observations and data. The major concerns here are:
Matching symptoms with nutrient deficiencies.
Matching nutrient intolerances to nutrient cofactor deficiencies.
Matching symptoms with organ weaknesses: constipation, bile, lymph, pain, etc.
An overall sense over time of how all nutrients work together and how major organ systems work together.
Interpretation of symptoms is where all the levels of knowledge come together with experience, attention to detail, nuance and big picture synthesis of all the parts as a whole.
Lab tests can be helpul in the full picture.
The point is not to explain all symptoms, but to identify root causes in nutritional deficiencies.
Nutrition is all that is necessary to detoxify.
Parasitic infections require nutrients to boost immunity, in addition to things that kill parasites.
Deficiencies are root causes because when the body has what it needs it can heal itself.
And we are only as strong as our weakest links.
That is the framework and purpose for interpreting symptoms.
Emotional Intelligence
Objectivity is a relative term, more like being able to look at things from different points of view.
First, acknowledging that there is another POV,
Being honest about whether we understand another POV or dismiss it because we must be right.
These adult attitudes are prerequisites for scientific inquiry.
The food world is sometimes comically dogmatic:
Vegans who love animals but hate people who have animal products.
Carnivores who declare people who eat plants to be heretics: Crucify him! LOL
Beyond that, it takes a lot of energy to learn new things especially with brain fog, fatigue, and pain.
The problem is complexity, which means that there are always limits to our understanding.
Or allowing ourselves to be distracted and going for easy energy hits through scrolling tiny bite text messages.
Please be diligently focused and willing to read slowly and repeatedly what could be important.
- Lab tests
- Discussion of detailed chemistry
- Formal expertise like MD, ND, etc.
Lab Test for Toxicity
The first important thing I learned was in 1997 that I had mercury poisoning from a hair mineral analysis that was off the charts. This introduced to me to the concept of toxicity as a root cause.
Solutions where random and incomplete:
I had a zinc deficiency as identified by zinc drink test.
Ascorbic acid was prescribed by Dr Robert Cathcart in Los Altos, California, who had been a student of Linus Pauling at Stanford. He created the method of "titrate to bowel tolerance.”
I got some good initial results taking up to 100 grams a day until I “blew my guts out.”
I got my mercury dental fillings out but that just ended the exposure: it was what had vaporized and entered by body that would take years to get out.
There was a whole community around mercury detox but they barely understood how to do it.
There was no systematic identification of all basic nutrient deficiencies that are all relevant to detox and energy. They did not even know how to get in the very important glutathione for detox, I learned about that from chronic fatigue forums but could not assimilate it into an overall program that reassured me that detox symptoms would not be more than I could handle.
I went through the practitioner merry-go-round that turned out to the a big rip-off with being lucky to learn one thing of lasting value from spending hundreds of dollars or more at each practitioner.
Traditional Knowledge
I came upon an approach to nutrition based on whole foods that worked very well to begin my healing by someone with no formal credentials who had been through many chronic illnesses and studied traditional nutrition and healing. He knew modern science, but much of this contradicted some existing science. I’m not going to say who or what to avoid tangents and arguments. I continue what I learned then. This is empirical science of what has worked historically under survival conditions, without microscopes. This is traditional, cross-cultural and practical or clinical knowledge that is empirically observed.
From there I had to figure out everything on my own.
Empirical Feedback
I was able to experiment and feel results because at this point I had a good baseline of things that worked, so that things that did not work showed up in contrast—thing that made me feel worse, there was little neutral.
When people are really stuck nothing seems to work or you can’t feel it because you feel so bad.
I’ve always been very sensitive in the sense of not tolerating things but I turned it into a strength of feeling what works.
Immediate feedback enables rapid learning through rapid course correction.
This is one way I found best quality products, which very people including practitioners know how to do if they have never been sensitive. This is where "the science" is not enough.
Future Estimates: Energetic Testing
This is not really considered science and is dismissed by many people, although there are people who try to explain this is in terms of quantum physics as a way to communicate between the energy of the nutrient and my nervous system, or between my nervous system and other person's nervous system--kind of like a mother's instinct.
I learned to feel what would work ahead of time my holding a food or supp in my hand to feel the energy.
I quantified by holding the amount, or the size of spoon still empty that would give me the right amount.
I could also feel the energy of products through online pictures.
I also learned to test energetically, learning to muscle test myself.
There are many considerations for it to work I have explained under Health Coaching--Assessment.
The most important thing in energetic testing is not the technique, but questions asked, especially the quality of solutions considered. I have spent a huge amount of time shopping and learning food selection.
Interpretation of Symptoms
All science requires interpretation of observations and data. The major concerns here are:
Matching symptoms with nutrient deficiencies.
Matching nutrient intolerances to nutrient cofactor deficiencies.
Matching symptoms with organ weaknesses: constipation, bile, lymph, pain, etc.
An overall sense over time of how all nutrients work together and how major organ systems work together.
Interpretation of symptoms is where all the levels of knowledge come together with experience, attention to detail, nuance and big picture synthesis of all the parts as a whole.
Lab tests can be helpul in the full picture.
The point is not to explain all symptoms, but to identify root causes in nutritional deficiencies.
Nutrition is all that is necessary to detoxify.
Parasitic infections require nutrients to boost immunity, in addition to things that kill parasites.
Deficiencies are root causes because when the body has what it needs it can heal itself.
And we are only as strong as our weakest links.
That is the framework and purpose for interpreting symptoms.
Emotional Intelligence
Objectivity is a relative term, more like being able to look at things from different points of view.
First, acknowledging that there is another POV,
Being honest about whether we understand another POV or dismiss it because we must be right.
These adult attitudes are prerequisites for scientific inquiry.
The food world is sometimes comically dogmatic:
Vegans who love animals but hate people who have animal products.
Carnivores who declare people who eat plants to be heretics: Crucify him! LOL
Beyond that, it takes a lot of energy to learn new things especially with brain fog, fatigue, and pain.
The problem is complexity, which means that there are always limits to our understanding.
Or allowing ourselves to be distracted and going for easy energy hits through scrolling tiny bite text messages.
Please be diligently focused and willing to read slowly and repeatedly what could be important.
Eat to energize, detoxify & immunize.
Move to circulate, align, & relax.
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enough to make a difference
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enough to implement
Sensitive
to individual needs
Move to circulate, align, & relax.
Primal Rejuvenation Health Coaching
Find out what you get in a
Free Assessment
See how I support you fully in
Health Coaching Steps
I work over video: Facebook, Zoom, Google, from Michigan, USA
[email protected]
Follow me on FACEBOOK:
choose “See First” to get all notifications. blog posts
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Systematic
enough to make a difference
Simple
enough to implement
Sensitive
to individual needs
