Nutrition Response Testing (NRT)
Written by Dr. Fred Ulan, DC, CC |
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What is NRT?
NRT is very precise and scientific. However, if we were to analyze you
using NRT before it was explained to you, you might find it strange or
simply not believable- because it is very different from anything you
have experienced before.
I can completely understand that, because when I first saw this type
of work being done, my first reaction was, “Hmm what is this strange
stuff?” No one was more skeptical than I was. As a result, I studied
NRT extensively to see if it was for real. And I am sure happy I did
because it has helped me improve my health, and because of NRT, we are
here and are able to help improve your health.
Quite frankly, if you want to get healthy and stay healthy, it is important
that you understand what NRT is, and what our recommendations are based
on.
Otherwise, you are less likely to follow through and actually do what
you need to do to get well. To put it simply, if you don’t follow through,
you won’t get well. And if you are not going to get well, why do it in
the first place?
The results we have had with NRT are often in the 90% and better range.
The only reason we are here is to help you get well. We have no other
reason for being here, and hopefully you are here for the same reason.
That is why we want to make sure you have the correct understanding of
NRT is right from the start.
Let’s Get Started
In medical practice there are two key parts: the diagnosis (identifying
and/or naming the “disease” or syndrome) and the treatment (drugs, surgery,
etc.).
In NRT we do not diagnose or treat the disease-but we also have two parts:
the analysis
And the personalized health improvement program (using designed clinical
nutrition).
Simply put, first we do an analysis and then we design a natural health
improvement program to help you handle what we find in our analysis and
your body and condition.
First the Analysis
The analysis is done through testing the body’s own neurological reflexes
and acupuncture points. The neurological reflexes are derived from the
part of the nervous system whose job is to regulate the functions of
each and every organ. The acupuncture points are selected from the ancient
Chinese system of acupuncture, which is thousands of years old
NRT is a study of how different points on the surface of the body relate
to the state of health and the flow of energy in each and every organ
and function of the body.
Interestingly, since the human anatomy has not changed significantly
in thousands of years, the utilization of these reflexes and specific
points has become extremely useful in our practice because they are so
accurate.
Think about it
Each NRT reflex represents a specific organ, tissue, or function, and
indicates that effect that energy, or lack of energy is having on the
body. By testing the NRT reflexes, we have a system of monitoring your
body at each visit that has proven to be extremely accurate clinically,
and which helps is identify exactly what the body needs and how well
we are meeting that need.
Doesn’t this sound like something you would want for yourself in order
to predict, with certainty, what is needed and wanted by the body to
get you to the next stage of improved health?
How do we access the NRT reflexes in order to get this information?
If we were to hook you up to an electro-cardiograph machine and take
a reading, that would make perfect sense to you right?
What is actually happening during this procedure? Electrical energy from
the heart is running over the wires. This electrical energy makes the
electrocardiograph record the energy pattern in the form of a graph or
a chart. We could then study this graph and tell you what it all means.
Here is what we do with Nutritional Response Testing. Instead of connecting
electrodes to the specific points being tested, the NRT practioner contacts
these points with his/her own hand. With his/her other hand, he/she will
test the muscle strength of your extended arm. If the reflex being contacted
by reducing energy to the extended arm, the arm will weaken and drop.
This drop signifies underlying dysfunction, which can be affecting your
health.
Why is the person who referred you feeling better?
Because we did a NRT analysis for him/her, and we found the “active”
reflexes, and then made specific nutritional recommendations to help
the body return to a better state of health.
We are prepared to do that exact same thing for you now. Isn’t that exciting?
However, the best is yet to come.
Let’s say the liver or kidney reflexes are active. Then what?
Our next step is to test specific, time-tested and proven, highest possible
quality nutritional formulas against those weak areas, to find which
ones bring the reflexes back to strength.
Our clinical experience tells us that when we have found the correct
nutritional supplements, as indicated by this procedure, and when we
work out a highly personalized nutritional supplement schedule, we have
accomplished the most important first step in correcting the underlying
deficiency or imbalance that caused the reflex to be active in the first
place. By following the program as precisely as possible, you are well
on your way to restoring normal function and improving your health.
It’s that simple!
In medicine the practioner makes a diagnosis and then uses drugs or surgery
to attack or suppress the symptom, or to surgically remove the “offending”
organ or part.
In NRT we use “DESIGNED CLINICAL NUTRITION” to correct the cause of the
problem, so that the body can regain the ability to correct itself.
What exactly is "Designed Clinical Nutrition"?
First of all, Designed Clinical Nutrition is not ‘over the counter’ vitamins.
Over the counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions
of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not ‘whole
food’ and the body does not actually recognize these anything even vaguely
beneficial (to put it mildly).
Because they are not made from whole foods ‘over the counter’ vitamins
lack the essential synergistic elements normally present in WHOLE foods.
An example of a whole food could be carrots. Carrots are high in Vitamin
A Complex. A “complex” is something made up of many different parts that
work together. Synthetic vitamin A does not contain the whole vitamin
A complex found in nature. So, if we were looking for a food high in
vitamin A, carrots might be one of our choices.
If one actually were deficient in any of the components of vitamin A
complex, one would be wise to seek out a supplement that was made from
whole foods that were rich in this complex-not from chemicals re-engineered
in a laboratory to look like one little part of the vitamin A complex
that has been mislabeled as vitamin A.
Vitamins that are being used all over today generally only need to have
a small percentage of their actual content derived from natural sources
to be labeled “natural”. If they are not derived from the whole foods,
they often can make you more deficient and nutritionally out of balance.
They can create other health problems because they do not contain all
the co-factors found in nature that make the vitamins work.
So-called “scientific research” done with these shoddy substitutes, repeatedly
“proves” that vitamins don’t do much good for anyone! Can you imagine
who pays for these “researches”?
“Designed Clinical Nutrition” is exactly that: designed (especially prepared
based on a specific plan), clinical (pertaining to results gotten in
clinical use or actual practice on huge numbers of clients over many
years), and nutrition (real food designed by nature to enable the body
to repair itself and grow healthy).
It is the whole food in a tablet, capsule, powder, and concentrated in
a vacuum-cold press system that preserves all the active enzymes and
the vital components that make it work as the Creator intended. These
real food supplements have been designed to match the needs of the body,
as determined by the positive response shown when tested against the
active NRT analysis. These are nutrients you are simply not getting,
or are not assimilating, in your current diet.
These deficiencies may be due to your past personal eating habits and
routines, but it is for sure due, in some large extent, to the lack of
the quality in the foods commercially available in grocery stores or
restaurants today.
Summary
1. Through an analysis of your body’s reflexes, we help you to determine
the exact nutrients you need to supplement your diet, in order to bring
about balance and better health.
2. We make these highly concentrated therapeutic formulations available
to you in tablets, capsules, or in a powdered form to supplement you
current diet. That is why they are called “food supplements”.
3. Depending on your individual situation, we might also require that
make some specific changes in your diet and eating habits, and in your
routines, in order to bring about the best possible results.
How are these products produced?
One example of a designed clinical nutrition supplement that we use is
called “Catalyn”. This product is produced by starting with a wide variety
of carefully chosen organically grown vegetables and taking the water
and fiber out using a vacuum. Low heat process-without heating or cooking
the vegetables, and then utilizing the concentrated food to make a bottle
of Standard Process Catalyn Tablets.
The key to this whole procedure is the way it is done, using the “Standard
Process” method:
A. Standard Process nutrients are derived from plants grown on their
own farms, in soil free of pesticides-and no chemicals are ever used.
Ph.D.’s check the soil before the seeds are sown-and even the weeding
is done by hand.
B. The machinery involved in the processing of these products is made
of glass and stainless steel only.
C. The temperature used in processing harvested plants is never raised
above the point of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, so that the active ingredients
are not cooked, they remain active and alive, and have a very long shelf
life.
Your vitality and energy is derived from live food. Most foods today
are all dead- or are not really foods at all-as in boxed cereals, canned
vegetable, soda pop, etc. You can readily understand the difference between
dead, devitalized pseudo-foods, with the synthetic or isolated vitamins
on the one hand, and “Designed Clinical Nutrition” and a diet of real
foods on the other.
There is a great deal of technology and know-how behind what we do.
Having been designed through decades of clinical use on tens of thousands
of clients, and on other clients from many different types of healthcare
practitioners, you can be assured that NRT is capable of evaluating and
solving your health concerns.
A complete NRT analysis can be done on each client and each subsequent
visit, thereby revealing the next layer of dysfunction so these can also
be addressed and corrected.
In this way, each client gets a completely individualized handling, in
the correct sequence for his or her body.
Very much like opening a combination lock, you must use the right numbers
in the right sequence and in the right direction at the right time-then
the lock falls open.
By following the correct sequence as revealed through NRT, you don’t
“shot-gun” your diet or supplements. With a correctly done NRT analysis,
we can determine the correct food supplements for you-designed to give
your body the best possible chance of getting well and staying that way.
Conclusion
Many people we see in our practice have eaten themselves into their current
state of ill health. The deficiencies or imbalances lead to a breakdown
in resistance, or immunity, and a loss of the ability to cope with environmental
stresses (chemical, microscopic, or otherwise).
The good news is that it is possible to reverse the process!
Is it possible to restore your health?
What could be more natural? What could be more correct? Each cell, tissue,
and organ in your body is in the process s of replacing itself every
day, month, and year. The health of each organ is dependent on making
the correct nutrients available to upgrade or maintain the health of
the body at the cellular level.
Designed Clinical Nutrition provides the right basic materials
Nutritional Response Testing tells you when and what to use to bring
about a desired result.
With this understanding of what we can do, can you see how we might be
able to help you do something effective to get yourself well?
And once that is achieved, do you see how you might be able to use this
approach to stay well?
Now you have the complete 1-2-3 package. You now know:
• What we do
• How and why we do it
• What you need to have the potential of restoring your health and staying
healthy
But in the end you are the one responsible for your own condition. And
with our guidance, we feel that-if you are an NRT case-your chances of
greatly improving your health can be as high as 90% or better. In our
experience if our analysis indicates that you are not a NRT/nutritional
case, then in all probability, while a nutritional program may give you
some benefit, it may not give you the maximum results you desire.
But if our analysis confirms that you are an NRT/ clinical nutritional
case, then in our experience, nothing else will ever come close to what
you can possibly achieve using NRT and Designed Clinical Nutrition.
We wish you the best of good lick in your quest to take back the full
responsibility for your health. Just remember to do it one step at a
time, and that we are here to guide you in that quest.
Once we accept your case, you can count on us to do everything in our
power to help you achieve your health objectives, and to help you achieve
a healthier, happier life.
May you never be the same.
