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Computerized StressTesting At Wellness Associates of Chicago we have had five years of experience working with this system. The results have high rate of agreement with other forms of testing. Our clients have found that when they eliminate the foods, additives, chemicals and allergens that the computer shows are stressors, generally their illnesses--“irritable bowel”, chronic sinusitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD), ADD, eczema, acne, abdominal pain, restless leg syndrome, migraine headaches--go away. We have heard wonderful results from parents. Recently the mother of a seven year old we had tested last year came to get tested herself. She told us that her daughter’s life had changed completely. From age two to age seven, five long years, her daughter had had severe eczema, sores all over her body, intense itching, repeated ear and sinus infections, gum disease, and recurrent strep throats. Her mother said she had been at the doctor almost every week. After testing with the computer method, and removing the allergenic foods and airborne pollutants identified by the computer from this little girl’s diet and environment, her mother said that she had just spent a year being completely well. She only saw a doctor once—when she fell on the playground and hit her hand. She only got a rash once, and that was when she decided to try to eat a piece of cake. This non-invasive method is suitable for adults and children. We have worked with children who are less than two years old. There are approximately 14,000 items in the system, including hundreds of foods, and many chemicals, metals, microbes, and allergens. They may be checked painlessly and quickly. The standard stress panel takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes. The computer can detect many types of reactions. One is the “classic” Type I allergic reaction that is a histamine response, and causes symptoms such as hives and immediate swelling of the lips face or throat. However, the computer also records other types of allergic response, including the other three, more delayed-type responses. Delayed type responses are particularly important in food reactions, since many allergies to foods do not involve histamines. Allergists often tell people who suffer from illnesses caused by delayed reactions to foods that they absolutely do not have food allergies. Yet, the allergists have limited their testing to skin tests for histamine response, and have never considered the possibility of testing for the other types of allergies. These delayed symptoms come on as much as several hours to a day after eating an allergenic food, and cause inflammatory responses that target many different parts of the body—causing problems such as attention or memory deficits, (allergy-based brain dysfunction), sinus or migraine headaches, “irritable bowel”, bloating, fatigue, chronic sinusitis, swollen lymph glands, eczema, psoriasis and other forms of skin problems, insomnia, restless leg syndrome, rapid heart beat, and swelling in the face, hands and legs. These are often diagnosed with terms based on the symptoms rather than the cause—and are called, for example“fibromyalgia” “chronic sinusitis” “irritable bowel syndrome” or “chronic constipation”, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) etc. These “diagnoses” are really only descriptions of groups of symptoms, and do not deal with the causes of the problems. Therefore, the delayed type allergies are never discovered, and are not treated. In the United States, this type of testing must be classified as non-medical, and non-diagnostic. In Germany, conductance testing is used extensively by medical doctors, and its scientific basis is recognized. Here is some of the latest scientific theory about the method, from a recent article by a Chinese researcher. In terms of the science of electronics, balance in the body system can be defined as “coherence, or harmonic resonance, in a dynamically stable system of electromagnetic standing wave interference patterns within a resonance cavity.” This may seem complicated at first, but is easy to understand with some definitions of the terms:
If you picture the “standing wave” patterns of the body as a field of stable waves like those around rocks in a flowing stream, you can see that it would be “dynamically stable” just as the stream is, and would be affected by many factors. If you slow a stream down, speed it up, or move the rocks, there is a change in the height and pattern of the waves. The same thing happens to the wave pattern in your body when physical, emotional and environmental factors change your energy and state of well-being. Acupuncture points represent standing wave peaks in the body’s entire system of waves. They are close to the surface of the skin, and have higher electrical field strength than other points in the system.* Measuring response at these points of higher electrical field strength can reveal much about the operation of your entire system. This is the current scientific theory behind the testing. Computerized testing helps to solve mysteries by getting beyond diagnoses that are only descriptions of symptoms, and discovering some of the underlying causes of health problems. Again, in the United States, this method must be currently classified as non-medical and non-diagnostic. *Zhang, Chang-lin “Skin Resistance vs. Body Conductivity: On the Backgound of Electronic Measurement on Skin” ISEEM, Vol 14 No. 2, (January 2005) pp. 151-174 |
