INFORMATION ON ALLERGY & DEFICIENCY SYMPTOMS AS IDENTIFIED IN BOTH ALTERNATIVE AND MAIN STREAM MEDICINE

Most physician and individuals associated food /air borne allergies with familiar symptoms, as wheezing, runny nose, increase mucus, itching, skin rashes are other histamine response symptoms of the body.

Many other immunological responses are happening in the body as a result of these allergies. Even many less recognized responses may be identified in some individuals such as digestive disturbances, effects on mood, behaviour, mental alertness, fatigue and aggravated autoimmune disease systems and inflammation. These may occur after individuals have been in contact with or consumed different allergens; naturally found compounds/phenols and synthetic chemicals in food, beverages, air, water and in our environments etc.

Dietary associated inflammation responses and associated health problems are recognized by both mainstream Allergist and Physician along with Naturopathic Doctors. Such as the association of an increase inflammation levels and aggravated symptoms in some patients, with pre-existing auto immune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. This condition can be worsened by ingesting plants in the nightshade family. (Potatoes, Tomatoes, Peppers, Egg Plant).

Regular Physicians do now test for Celiac Disease when an individual exhibits certain symptoms. This is a total allergy to the proteins and gluten in wheat and other foods containing gluten. Their symptoms may include severe digestive disturbances, dermatitis, great pain, fatigue and intestinal loss. This is a relatively uncommon condition to have, although a much milder, common form is to have a simple sensitivity to wheat and gluten containing foods, due to over consumption and a lack of food rotation.

Doctors, Pharmacists and Natural Practitioners even now commonly recommend lactase supplements for milk intolerant individuals.

Your family Doctor has probably even warned you about some foods not to eat if you are prone to migraine headaches such as red wine, cheese and chocolate. These foods contain different natural food chemicals or phenolics, which cause disease and numerous health related effects, allergic reaction, unknowingly for some individuals.

It is important to not just cover up the symptoms but to know the underlying cause of an affliction and its potential negative, internal health consequences. This is important in order to avoid long-tern symptoms and negative health problems that may be underlying or that these systems could be indicating potential health problems for the future.

Paediatric Physicians are even seeing ADD, ADHD, and other hyperactivity problems linked with sugar, chocolate and caffeine in childrens diets and food allergens and the subsequent decrease attention, and associated hyperactivity.  . Others have now implicated food allergens.

The New York City public school system decided to change childrens School Diet, in light of increasing scientific findings associated with diets and performance. They decreased the amount of sugar, food colouring, synthetic flavourings and two of the most commonly used preservatives. Over the next 4-years there was an associated dramatic 15.7% increase in academic performance. Other such findings that associate adverse health effects like hyperactivity with food sensitivities have been noted in Germany by Dr. Joseph Eggers, Pediatric Neurologist research.

The Electrodermal Food Testing protocol call help bring your attention to several groups of food, with seemingly unrelated common compounds that may be adversely effecting your health and burdening your immune system and causing inflammation increases, which are markers for disease. (See Dr. Andrew Weil MDs latest book discussing the connection with inflammation and disease and aging for more details).

Regular Physicians are even testing patients for different Homocysteine markers in their blood to see the likelihood of diseases such as heart trouble by looking at your levels of different B vitamins. Scientific research has found individuals lacking these can compromise their health and increase their likelihood for certain disease.

That is why Electrodermal Screening can look at all of these excess, or deficient foods, vitamins, minerals, allergens, chemicals and identify them and help correct these imbalances with the correct supplement or food elimination for the disease preventions and improvement they could bring to you and your body.

Many people swallow vitamins, dietary supplements without having any way of knowing whether they are improving their health or not. Urgently we need some way to assess the value of what we are putting into our bodies. Without such a gauge we rely on our practitioners to prescribe the right therapy without our informed feedback Quote from the Book Paradox and Healing Medicine, Mythology and Transformation. By Dr. Greenwood and Dr.Nunn, Paradox Publishing, Victoria, B.C. 1992. These Doctors have also highlighted another very important reason that you should consider a health care provider with diagnostic equipment such as the Electro-Dermal Testing Device to give you proper feed back from your body on what it needs and also what is not working for it, to save not only your money but more importantly your health.

1. Illness, Accelerated Aging And Imbalances, Less Than Optimal Body Functions And Diminished Energy Can Be Caused By Many Factors:

• Allergic overload from food, air borne pollens, animal danders, dust, molds, and fungi.
• Envronmental pollutants in the air, soil, water, food, house hold cleaners and garden products, industry, work place, pesticides, food chain and contamination.
• Ingestion/inhalation of parasites, microbiological agents such as virus and bacteria.
• Poor nutrition, nutritional vitamin and/or mineral deficiencies, lack of hydration from water.
• Allergens or environmental factors contributing to Immune Suppression or Over Activation and/orinflammation.
• Dental problems, dental incompatibility, accumulation of heavy metals, from work environments, hobbies, or ingestion.
• Excess/imbalance in diet or utilization of drugs and alcohol.
• Excessive stress, anger, depression, worry, and over work.
• Lack of proper sleep, lack of relaxation and peace of mind.
• An imbalance or lack of exercise Poor life style/unhealthy habit(s).

2. What Is Food, Allergy, Organ and Environmental Testing And How Does It Work?

We use a Computerized Electrodermal Screening Device for our Food, Allergy, Organ and Environmental Testing, one of the most sophisticated diagnostic equipment available.

This CEDS/EDS (Computerized Electrodermal Screening Devices) using EAV (Electroacupuncture) points according to Dr. Voll and traditional Chinese Acupuncture. It has been found over the years since it was first invented in 1940s to be accepted and practiced around the world by over 100,000 practitioners, 40,000 alone in just Japan.

It is not only an effective but also a safe and non-invasive procedure used by various Medical Doctors, Naturopathic Doctors, Dentists and various respected health practitioners in their practices.

An article in IEEE (Acupuncture in Engineering Index Annual Bioengineering) titled Engineering in Medicine and Biology, by Julie Tsuei 1996 and Chen 1986, states the non-invasive EDS devices may prove to be the greatest tool against disease created in this century.

This combines Acupuncture principals of Electroacupuncture **(acupoint/meridian based electronic system) with Electrodermal Screening. It takes principals from the East with the 5000 year old practice of Acupuncture and Western and Eastern Medicine and Science, Physics, Anatomy, and Chemistry with Electrodermal Technology. It uses the knowledge from Science and Engineering, along with modern Bio-energetic Medicine principals. CEDS is based in Bio-Energetics, which is the field of Biology which studies energy.

The Natural Institute of Health says Bio-Energics is the Scientific study of interactions between living organisms and electromagnetic fields, forces, currents, energies and charges.

Many of the most advanced diagnostic tools in Conventional Medicine uses the Science of Bio-Energetics. This refers to therapies that use an energy field such as electric, magnetic, sonic, or acoustic energy to give us information on the bodys energetic field and help find imbalances, which are causing illness in the body.

Examples of conventional medicines diagnostic screening devices that use Bio-Energetic principals today include an EKG an Electrocardiogram or an EEG an Electroencephalogram, MRI, and Cat-Scans.

Electroacupuncture Screening Devices have been very successful in screening for a wide variety of conditions. It has been used to specify causes of system imbalances cause by bacteria, virus, toxins responsible for illness, disease or infection and it can test individual remedies to see what ones can be the most effective to rebalance the system Quote from The book The Alternative Medicine The Definitive Guide

Computerized Electrodermal Screening Devices can be used in Food or Enviromental Sensitivity Screening. This allows the device operator to store, retrieve, and compare on going patient visits to compile a data base of one or more elements in their lifestyles and environment may be causing illness and imbalance.

3. The following elements are used for screening, which are in the computerized database:

Once identified the patient can work towards eliminating these factors and be tested on one of the 1000s of more compatible foods and helpful natural products (supplements, herbs, vitamins, homeopathic remedies etc.) in the data base which may help to correct these organ or body system imbalances. In addition we usually work with the client with life style and diet changes, in combination with the results from the screening, to work toward improvements and optimal health and wellness and to help meet any goals or health concerns they have.

This is such a detailed procedures and precise instrumentation is used with the skills the trained operator possesses. These can make this a superior method in conjunction with its use of modern technology and its extensive database to screen clients with.

During a visit a practitioners with my training and qualifications would do a detailed assessment using anywhere from 1 to 180 acupuncture points. Usually with a Organ Efficiency Test we use 54 of the **acupuncture meridian points on the hands and feet that correspond to that organ system/organ to allow the operator to obtain detailed information on the status of the body to analyze if you are in balance or not.

These subtle imbalances can indicate illness and/or precursors to potential illness, which may precede the physical/cellular manifestation of illness and to recognize and correct it before it becomes serious.

Eastern medicine calls it homeostasis (a stable equilibrium). Eastern is balanced yin/yang. Compared to set norms for that exact meridian/acupuncture point, you are considered in or out of balance. Higher than normal numbers indicate excess, which can indicate an irritation or inflammation of that organ or organ system, which may be more of an acute problem. While lower than normal numbers may represent a deficiency, fatigue or degeneration of that organ/organ system, perhaps a chronic problem/long term.

**Acupuncture works on the principal that there is a network of energy channels called meridians throughout the body. These have been mapped for the last 5000 years and verified by *modern research and technology. Different organs are associated with different energy meridians. *For additional research and studies look up studies by Chen 1996 and 1998, Jean-Claude Darras, Pierre de Vernejoul and Pierre Albarede 1992. **Acupuncture points form the meridian, they cross skin, nerve, muscle, organ, blood vessels and other parts. By measuring an acupuncture point you determine the energy status of the organ of the meridian and all the structures that function along the meridian. Acupuncture points have also been found to have corresponding relationships with specific teeth and spinal vertebras and emotions. .

**A Meridian is a pathway through the body. The meridian system relays a nutritive subtle energy, the Chinese call chi, from the environment to the nerves, blood vessel and deeper organs of the body via acupuncture points. Quote from book Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber, M.D.

INFORMATION ON SCREENING ENVIRONMENTAL ALLERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS

Humans have a chemical- filled environment in which we live in on planet earth, which may produce ill effects in humans and animals alike. These adverse environmental health effects and carcinogens/chemical levels are now based in modern scientific research. This research is backed up globally by The World Health Organization, government agencies (EPA), cancers specialists, environmental scientists, marine biologists and many mainstream and most alternative Physicians and Naturopathic Doctors and other health practitioners.

Portions of this was from the book by Doctor Richard Gerber, MD

Over 600 physicians of the AAEM, The American Academy of Environmental Medicine have stated some factors which influence individuals susceptibility to sensitivity to diet and environmental agent are: Heredity/Genetics, Poor Nutrition, Deficiency In Vitamin, Minerals, Enzymes And Other Vital Nutrients, which may impair the effects of the bodys ability to cope with allergies effectively. Other factors that increase an individuals susceptibility to the adverse effects to diet and environmental agents stated were Infections, Immune Problems, Chemical Exposure And Stress.

4. How does environmental sensitivities affect me and my health ?

Commonly people associate symptoms such as respiratory and skin reaction complaints, to some substances in their environment. Certain chemicals also induce subtle abnormalities in an individual. These include but are not limited to behavioural changes, decreased mental alertness, mild confusion, headaches, sore throat, and cough, nasal irritation and mucus and body aches. Unknown to us is the additional cellular damage, mutation of our DNA and chemical reactions which have been identified, as contributors to pre-cancerous reactions by some of the more trouble some chemicals in our environment Portions of this was from the book by Doctor Richard Gerber, MD

What are the more common chemicals I knowingly ingest, several times per day, that can effect me and my health?

Ill effects can be experienced by some individuals of all ages from food additives, food dyes, colourings, artificial flavours, and preservatives, MSG etc. Doctor Richard Gerber, MD

5. Why Is The Information From What Is Food, Allergy, Environmental Testing Helpful?

These subtle health reactions cannot always be easily distinguished and identified by our own observations, though food diaries are an excellent preliminary tool. This is where the benefit of the Electrodermal Acupuncture Screening can become an invaluable tool to identify what items, sources or a combination of these are adversely effective our health and our bodies. You than can more easily limit or then eliminate these items.

Some experts in the Allergy Sensitivity Screening field have stated that this can sometimes lessens the severity of the reaction over time and it can be possible to reintroduce the item back into your diet after a certain period of elimination. In additional to the elimination, greater positive results can be experienced when your organ system is strengthen, and built up over time with the addition of natural herbs or supplements or other product. The body can become more balance and less susceptible to future sensitivities.

We also can make larger connections of seemingly unrelated chemicals, which are naturally occurring in foods, called phenols. These can be the chemical item that cause the reaction in the food and is a common chemical in many unrelated food. This can aid in finding patterns to different foods you would not realize were connected. In turn helping you avoid these and be screened for more appropriate alternative foods for your own body.

Our Electrodermal Acupuncture Screening devise can screen you on 1000s of natural supplements which are beneficial to helping control some unavoidable symptoms and help to strengthen your system over time by giving you a personalized, complementary/beneficial list of remedies to build your system, bringing it back into more of a balanced and a less reactive state.

A portion of the above information from the heading INFORMATION ON SCREENING ENVIRONMENTAL ALLERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS came from the book Vibrational Medicine by Doctor Richard Gerber, MD. Presently Doctor Gerber is practicing Internal Medicine in Livonia, Michigan and has sold well over 125,000 copies of this book.

6. Background On Environmental Sensitivities:

The EPA Environmental Protection Agency even 20 years ago had identified over 400 toxic chemicals in human tissue.

The American College of Allergy and Immunology have sponsored various Food Allergy Conferences in the past.

The term Environmental Medicine is Defined As Medicine That Explores The Role Of Dietary And Environmental Allergens In Health And Illness.

There had been extensive research in this field for over 40 years. Such researches include Theron G. Randolph MD. He is a prominent researcher and was a Professor at 4 Medical Universities where he has taught this concept. He been quoted in saying that sensitivity reactions can occur from commonly eaten foods. They can produce a wide range of systems/disease in susceptible individuals. He was a renowned allergy specialist in Chicago and author of the book; Human Ecology and Susceptibility to Chemical Environment, 1962. Dr. Randolph any many other Physicians cite a link between patients illness and environmental factors such as diet, pollens, molds and chemicals.

See research from Dr. Marshall Mandell, MD, located in Norwalk Connecticut who has been called the Father of Bioecologic Medicine. He has stated, Illness can be aggravated by environmental sensitivity. Medicine has discovered a relationship between many severe health conditions and how they are significantly complicated by allergic reactions. Individuals also positively benefit when they are recognized and treated He worked closely on the subject of the serious effects allergies have on childrens nervous systems and behaviour, with Dr. Doris Rapp, MD and former President of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

Dr. Richard S. Wilkinson MD of Yakima Washington is an expert in Environmental Medicine. He has been quoted in saying physicians who have been practicing environmental medicine for 3-4 decades point out patients illnesses has become more complicated over the years due to increased chemicals. Seldom is the solution to find a single food that causes the patients symptoms. Effective treatment requires changes in lifestyle, diet and environment.

Electroacupuncture Technology is useful equipment for measuring minute changes and its results are is immediate, faster than other methods, it avoids the unpleasantness and pain associated with tests like the scratch or under the skin injection methods and their associated allergic reactions. It is a safe, painless, non-invasive external method of testing for Environmental and Allergy sensitivities.

Quotes and information above from the Alternative Medicine Guide, The Definitive Guide. A Deepak Chopra, MD recommended book.

7. BACKGROUND AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON RESEARCH BEHIND ALLERGY TESTING WITH (CESDS) COMPUTERIZED ELECTRODERMAL SCREENING

(The following information is fully of partially quoted from the Alternative Medicine Guide, The Definitive Guide)

 Professor Cyril Smith of the University of Salford, England and other practitioners such as myself, have used the Electronic Acupuncture Testing equipment to determine and treat allergies successfully.

This is done by testing diets, artificial dyes, major chemicals in their environment along with mold spores, house dust, and various pollens to analyze patient allergies and the best remedies for each individual. In recent years Electronic Acupuncture Meridian testing machines have been used for preliminary diagnostic screening of government employees in Japan; since it measures internal organ function that has been show to predict serous pathology, which has been later collaborated by conventional Western diagnostic testing. Quote from optimal Wellness Book by Ralph Golan, MD.

For additional information see studies by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama of Japan and Dr. Yoshio Manaka who are well known researchers and scientists in this field. Researchers at the University of Hawaii compared a diabetic population with a control using Electro dermal acupuncture screening and measured the spleen-pancreas meridian. The resulting data demonstrated a 95-97.5% correspondence between the Elecrtodermal Acupuncture assessment and the traditionally confirmed method of the diabetic group testing. Quote from Alternative Medicine Book.

Another study at the University of Hawaii compare electro acupuncture assessment of the allergy meridian with 6 other methods of assessing food allergies and the Electrodermal Acupuncture Screening method gave the highest compatibility with the Food-Re-Challenge Test. The Food-Re- Challenge test is the most sensitive of currently available diagnostic techniques for determination of food allergies.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Southern California University, were also able to demonstrate an 87% correlation Electro Acupuncture Screening results and traditional x-ray diagnosis.

The above paragraph was quoted from the Alternative Medicine Guide, The Definitive Guide.

8. What Should You Look For In Practitioners Who Perform Food, Allergy, Environmental And Holistic Counsellong?

• There are many practitioners and devices for Food/Allergy/Organ Function and Sensitivity Testing, in addition to traditional diagnostic procedures.
• Who ever you chose should be certified and practicing for a number of years. There should have an accredited course in Food/Allergy Testing this should include on their equipment and procedures not only in a classroom setting but on the job, hands on patient care experience.
• Ask their number of patient hours or years they have accumulated. It is necessary to have a background in Nutrition, Health, Supplements, Holistic Counselling etc. This is necessary to give more meaning to the diagnostic results and look at the person as a whole.
• Each person with his or her own health backgrounds should be investigated. A generic print out is not always good enough, for each of us are individuals with our personal health needs and this must be analyzed to insure proper, optimum treatment and safety.
• Diagnostic machines are a tool, an aid to patient care and should not always be solely dependent on for the whole patient care. These are just as good as the operators using them and their experience of analyzing their data. Without proper experience and a broad health and nutrition background the usefulness and effectiveness of these results can be limited sometimes, and less effective.
• There is no substitute for knowledge and experience. With this you can surpass just the results of a diagnostic tool and have a Holistic or whole body recovery plan.
• For your practitioners to be most effective it seems familiarity with Health and Nutrition protocols and experience along with equipment familiarity can yield the best results for the individual.

9. What Is My Background In Food, Allergy, Environmental Testing And Holistic Counselling?

• I have been in the Health Field for some 15 years. My experience has varied from apprenticing under Canadas top Health and Vitamin Counsellors to Victorias most renowned herbalists. Working most of these years in one- on-one patient a nutrition and supplement advisor and/or manager. Through out the years I proceeded to establish, train staff, manage, and promote Health Food Stores in Canada for individuals.
• Regularly over the last 15 years I have attended various seminars from the worlds leading experts in Naturopathic Medicine, top Holistic Physicians, Homeopathic Medicine Practitioners, and Herbalists, Bach Remedy Therapists etc. who have written books that most Holistic Practitioners use as references guides in their daily practices.
• For many years have assisted Naturopathic Physicians in their practices and assisting in patient care and doing their Vega Organ/Food/Allergy/Environmental Sensitivity Testing and then building a health, supplement, lifestyle and nutrition protocol to support these results.
• The equipment I use for the Organ/Food/Allergy/Environmental Sensitivity Testing is a Computerized Electrodermal Screening Device. It is one of the most sophisticated diagnostic equipment available. As quoted above many governments, universities and Medical Doctors, and Naturopathic and Biologocial Dentist have acquired years of successful and effective results. Its effectiveness is has also been in comparison to tradition diagnostic practices from mainstream medical practices.
• I have taken the necessary program to become a Certified Computerized Electrodermal Screening Practitioner. The program I received was from one of the actual founders of Computerized Electrodermal Technology Mr. Clarke. In the program we received hands on and procedural/diagnostic protocol training.
• For most of these years I have also ran a successful herbal health and body care company Flower Fairy Herbal Healer, supplying products to health and vitamin stores, pharmacies, naturopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, other health practitioners and the general public across Canada and the. U.S.
• I was enrolled in the University of Victoria working toward my BSc, majoring in Biology (medical biology, genetics, molecular biology and anatomy), Psychology, and Chemistry.
• I am presently upgrading my skills further, proceeding with my certification as a Holistic Nutritional Counsellor/Registered Nutritional Counsellor.
• My experience has allowed me to have years of varied experience with a broad range of individuals illness/health concerns, especially those in the Food Sensitivity realm. This along with health challenges from my friends, family and my own to draw a wealth of knowledge and experience from.