Customized treatment for complex bodies
You’ve seen the articles: #1 superfood that you should be eating; This diet cures cancer; This diet will make you live forever. Our magazines, newspapers and TV’s are constantly pitching us ideas that there’s one food or one diet or one supplement that is the key to fixing everyone’s health, and if we can just find it we’ll be cured forever. Never trust anything that is supposed to work for everyone!
The important truth we’ve lost track of is that bodies are not identical. Each body has a different set of genetics, health and diet history, so each body has different needs. Of course, there are some basic ideas that apply to nearly everyone. For example, eat food that is fresh and that still looks like the living thing it once was, and don’t live off fast food and ultra-processed food, but when you start getting into questions like: Should I be keto? Or high fiber? Or low fiber? Or gluten-free? Or paleo? Or should I take Quercetin? Or Humic-Fulvic Acid? Or Vitamin D? There’s no universal answer. The answer depends on your body’s unique needs, and that’s what we call Bio-individuality.
In order to understand what your body needs, there are a couple of key questions that must be answered. Is this supplement/food/diet right for me? In other words, will it improve my health? And, is this supplement/food/diet right for me at this time? In other words, is this the right time to implement this change, or would this change be more beneficial if other changes are in place first?
This is why our first phase with every patient is to conduct an in-depth analysis of their current health and health history. This is key to understanding the underlying functioning of the body and what it might be missing, in other words what it might need. Once we know that, the treatment plan forms naturally. It’s a road map to get to what the body needs to heal. And inside that road map is a particular order of destinations that allows each change to build on the previous one. The big difference between a map and a bio-individual treatment plan is that the treatment plan will adjust as you report your responses to each step. The map is constantly reconfiguring itself to reroute you toward permanent healing depending on what messages your body delivers along the way.
This is the key to getting results. Whenever you look at a treatment that’s been studied, even some of the most effective treatments on Earth, you will find a percentage of people the treatment works for. A really good treatment might be as much as 75% effective. One misunderstanding that many people have is that they read that 75% effectiveness to mean they will get 75% better with that treatment. What it actually means is that 75% of the people who tried it got positive results. To quote one of my favorite teachers in school, Dr. Ai-de Men, “for an individual it’s either 100% or 0%”. Each person either gets helped by that treatment or not. If you are in the 25%, it doesn’t matter that the treatment is successful for 75% of people, you’ll need a different approach, a bio-individual approach.
