Supportive Therapies
NUTRITION
Good nutrition is one of the most important prerequisites for good health and should be a part of everyone’s health maintenance strategy. When a person becomes ill, nutrition can play an even more crucial role. Higher, therapeutic doses of basic nutrients may be used to help combat illness. The powerful synergistic effects of whole food supplements, minerals, herbs and other nutrients can speed the healing process in people who are undergoing other forms of treatment. Once health has been restored, the individual can return to taking these nutrients at maintenance levels or may stop taking them altogether if no longer required.
So you want to improve your nutrition, either as a preventive measure or to help boost your immune system’s ability to fight an illness. Where do you begin? How many times have you seen people browsing the shelves of their local health food store, choosing vitamins they think will benefit them? They may have heard “good things” about vitamin B or read that vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant, and often make their purchases without being sure they actually need those particular supplements, without giving any thought to the formulation and strength of the vitamins and minerals they have selected. The vitamin B might include B-1, B-2 and B-12, but what about the rest of the spectrum? Is it better to take vitamins individually or is a good multi-vitamin the answer? And how much is actually required to make a difference? How much better it is to eliminate the guesswork and know exactly what your body needs. That way, you don’t waste your money on supplements that will have no beneficial effect.
For more information on the nutrition program, go to www. specificnutritions.com. There you will be able to request an online nutrition survey form. The results will be emailed to you along with specific recommendations for your nutritional needs.
These are some of the reasons why nutritional assessment and therapy are an integral part of FDM, and why I generally recommend a wellness program that is tailored to the individual’s circumstances as a supplementary form of therapy.
SCLEROLOGY
Sclerology is a small part of my practice but a tool that I use when other diagnostic measures have failed to produce an answer and I remain puzzled about the cause of a patient’s symptoms. It is worth having an option like this in reserve if it provides the key to only one patient’s improved health.
Sclerology is a holistic diagnostic tool that studies the red lines and other markings in the whites of the eyes, their shape and their location to identify stress patterns in a person’s health that may be indicators of disease processes, toxicity, injury, metabolic imbalances or other problems. Readings can be used to identify underlying pathology that is already in process or warning signs of trouble to come that may respond to preventive measures. Sclerology can also be used as a “second opinion”, to confirm conclusions reached using other measures. Because changes occur in the sclera as health conditions change, a series of readings may be used to confirm that therapy is working once a baseline has been established.
OTHER HEALING TECHNIQUES
I have a number of other techniques such as Reiki and reflexology that I use, on occasion, to promote healing. Reiki is a form of natural healing that employs light hand placements to transmit healing energies to the individual. Reflexology is an approach similar to acupressure that involves the manual stimulation of reflex points on the hands, feet and ears that correspond to specific areas and organs of the body. Both techniques help to relieve stress and tension, and restore balance in the body.