What is Nutrition Response Testing?
Nutrition Response Testing (NRT) is a technique that can determine any underlying factors that may inhibit the body’s ability to heal itself. By accessing the autonomic nervous system (ANS), information is gathered with relation to your body’s organs and systems. Autonomic means, “occurring involuntarily.” Bodily functions like eye blinking, heart and breathing rates, digestive metabolism, immune response, hormone regulation and so forth are regulated by the ANS. There are two controls to the ANS:
- Sympathetic
- Parasympathetic
Think of them as our body’s accelerator and brake --- our “go” pedal and “whoa” pedal! When our bodies are healthy and in balance, these systems function properly and in tune with one another --- the sympathetic dominates when we are active; the parasympathetic dominates when we are resting.
These regulators are responsible for healthy functions, including our ability to heal. When there is an imbalance we may experience symptoms such as weight gain, fatigue, allergies, acid reflux, high blood pressure, chronic pain, immune deficiencies, headaches, migraines and others. Think of these symptoms as “check engine lights” or “alarm bells.” NRT will address the imbalances by addressing the ANS. The imbalances can be corrected safely, naturally, and effectively with whole food supplements, herbs and lifestyle changes.
When undergoing Nutrition Response Testing you will be tested for these five common stressors:
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Scars
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Food sensitivities
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Immune challenges
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Chemical challenges
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Metal challenges
These stressors can and will prevent your body from healing. Many of you have experienced this already without perhaps realizing it. Have you ever failed to respond to perfectly good treatment? Have you ever experienced the opposite result to perfectly good treatment? Has your condition "plateaued" or gotten better and then worse? If so, these are all indications that your body isn't fully open to healing. Nutrition Response Testing allows the practitioner to test you using the "stressors" to reveal and then remove these barriers.
Next, specific organ reflexes are tested (such as liver, heart and bowel) as well as glandular reflexes (like prostate, thyroid and adrenals). Then the priority reflex is determined. This step is critical to Nutrition Response Testing because pinpointing the priority results in having to take fewer supplements, achieving a lowered pill count and a phenomenon I call "whole body healing. " Have you ever just gotten temporary relief or relief of some but not all of your symptoms? If so, then you haven't achieved whole body healing.
Based on this determination, we will recommend specific whole-food supplements and/or herbs as well as dietary and lifestyle changes. This is all done painlessly, with the practitioner lightly pressing on different acupuncture points or reflex locations on the body associated with specific organs or glands, while simultaneously checking a strong muscle group. The result is a personalized health improvement program that addresses your own body's imbalances and corrects its operation.
Accessing the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
We use a standardized form of applied kinesiology, commonly known as muscle testing. In the hands of thoroughly trained health professionals, this highly effective method of evaluation gives the practitioner essential information about your body's requirements for a return to health. What separates Nutrition Response Testing from most other treatment strategies is the critical information obtained from the body itself or, as we say, accessing the body's innate intelligence in order to find the precise answers to your health concerns.
In this system, we do not “diagnose” or “treat” diseases. Instead, we use revolutionary tools that allow the trained practitioner to obtain a highly dependable assessment of a patient’s current health status.
Accuracy
Einstein and Quantum Physics confirm that everything is energy. Each item and each one of us has a unique energy vibration signature.
The "weak" or "strong" muscle testing response reflects energetic information we hold about, or that is associated to, the item tested. For some items, our responses will be very unique. For example, we would expect that since the nutritional value of organic peanuts is recognized widely, everyone tested for them would test strong. While the nutritional value is logically recognized, testing the peanuts may still produce a "weak" response from someone with a peanut allergy.
This is because each item's energy signature gets run through our database of past learning. It is similar to running fingerprints found on a crime scene through a criminal database for matching. If incriminating information is found associated to the item we are testing, perhaps an unpleasant experience or emotion that is unresolved, our energy system will be disrupted and the body gives us a weak indicator muscle response.
On the other hand, some items may actually strengthen our energy system and help correct present energy imbalances. In this case, the vibration or energy signature of the item will emphasize and strengthen an existing weak energy vibration and help restore energy balance in our body. You can think of the item as vibrating like a tuning fork correcting the frequency of the internal organ, emotion, or thought that went off balance.
To feel the subtle energy that I am describing, try this. Rub the palm of your hands together vigorously for about 10 seconds. Stop and separate your palms, moving them away from each other about 1/2 meter (2 feet).
Now very slowly bring the palms of your hands back together. Keep your fingers relaxed. Pay attention to what you are sensing in the area between the closing palms.
There is a distance a few inches before the palms touch, where you can feel a resistance to moving them closer. You are feeling your energy field. You may need to move away from electrical equipment to get better results (at least 2 m/yrds).
Now try this. Stand near something you can hold on to just in case you lose your balance, and close your eyes. Get a sense of how steady and balanced your body is.
Now open your eyes and find something that you can hold in your hand. Close your eyes again while you hold the item next to your chest and see what happens to the steadiness and balance of your body.
What happened to your balance? Try doing this exercise away from your computer and then next to your computer. Any difference?
Retest yourself with the same items to double check your response. Most people will experience some type of pull or push that moves the body off balance. The push or pull is the equivalent of a "weak" or "strong" arm response. Here you can really feel the attraction or repulsion to the item you are holding or thinking of.
At the smallest level we are energy, reacting and responding energetically. Information comes in to us for processing and is then released. Very similar to our breathing.
Everything has an energetic effect on us and we have an energetic effect on everything. When we do muscle testing with a partner, it is like connecting two electrical circuits to each other. Once you make contact, you are now one electrical circuit.
Summary & My Biblical View of NRT
Muscle Testing is not a strength test. It is a way to indicate an area of weakness in the body based on whether there is a locked or an unlocked indicator muscle, usually the deltoid muscle of the shoulder.
To help you understand, think about falling into a freezing river. All of the blood and energy of the body rushes to your core, to keep your internal organs functioning so you might live. People sometimes even lose fingers and toes from frostbite. In the same way, when you hold out an arm to be tested, it takes energy for you to lock your deltoid muscle and hold that arm in place. We then go through and lightly touch the surface of the skin that contains nerves related to different glands and organs in the human body. If, for example, your liver was in a weakened condition, when you applied pressure to the liver, the body would view this as a stressor and send the blood and neurological energy immediately to the liver, dropping the arm. If the liver is strong and healthy, the arm can easily stay in place as well.
After checking the glands and organs, we simply look for God created, whole food based supplementation to correct the weakened area or to remove a stressor affecting that area. The stressors, or interference as we call them, that block healing are chemicals, heavy metals, immune system challenges, food allergies and scars. Remember that God created a self-healing body. If our body that was created by God is NOT healing, we must discover why, and not simply treat the symptoms as the conventional medical approach often mistakenly does. The healing process is either being interfered with at some level, or there are nutrient deficiencies in the body that must be addressed.
God speaks to us in His word about being stewards of our own body, therefore we must treat our body with value and the gratefulness of its amazing design.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
Muscle testing is not rooted in voodoo or false and evil spirits. It is a way to further discover and understand the human body that God created. He wants us to partner with Him in loving our bodies and become stewards of His creation. By removing the negative interference that often blocks our healing and focusing on giving our body good nutrition, we take authority over our bodies and illnesses by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 10:19 – “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
In order to stand against the pressures of a toxic and processed world, we must become rooted in the love of our Creator which ultimately overflows into Christ-like love for ourselves and others around us.
