FCT® (Field Control Therapy) is an integrative system of medicine created by New York physician, Savely Yurkovsky, M.D. It was developed over a period of many years integrating knowledge from a variety of disciplines including quantum physics, biophysics, toxicology, immunology, immuno-toxicology, endocrinology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and classical homeopathy. The goal of FCT® is the same as other therapies: restoration of the body's homeostasis. In an ideal state of homeostasis, the body should be able to heal itself from disease, including severe, chronic ones, resulting in a good health with a sense of well being without dependence on supplements or medications and increased resistance to future disease.
In a nutshell, F.C.T. accomplishes this by clearing the bioenergetic terrain of the body. FCT® aims to 1) detect and remove the cause of disease, i.e. the factors that interfere with the normal functioning of cells and organs in the body and 2) strengthen weakened cells and organs. FCT® does this at a bioenergetic rather than at a chemical level because according to physics, all matter is controlled by energy fields. The primary diagnostic tool of FCT is non-force kinesiology. The primary therapeutic tools of FCT® are little known branches of homeopathy known as isopathy (nosodes) and organotherapy (sarcodes). The result is the stimulation of the body's innate ability to detoxify and to restore the health of cells and organs.
Originally trained as a conventional cardiologist, Dr. Yurkovsky noticed that once a patient developed a medical problem, he/she would be started on medication usually for life. Instead of the medication resulting in better health, most patients develop more medical problems over time resulting in needing more medication. The medications would often result in side effects. It's been estimated that 25% of all prescriptions result in side effects and about 100,000-200,000 Americans die each year from medication. He also noticed that many medical problems such as fibromylagia and chronic fatigue syndrome simply had no good explanation or treatment. More importantly, he had a personal reason for developing FCT® : He wanted to find a way to help his sick son who did not respond to conventional or alternative treatments.
Out of frustration, he turned to alternative medicine. What he found was a disorganized myriad of therapies. Many alternative therapists “mix and match” treatments: some herbs here, vitamins there, Reiki here, colonics there, etc. Each of these therapies have their own philosophies on what causes disease. There was no overall philosophy which guides when to use what treatments. While alternative therapies had less side effects than pharmaceuticals and were successful for mild-moderate illnesses, the overall success rate for severe, chronic diseases was inconsistent.
Being frustrated with both conventional and alternative medicine, he began by asking what causes illness? If you look in any textbook of conventional medicine, you'll find that the etiology of most diseases are unknown. What you'll find are only statistical correlations, which do not specify causation. An example would be cardiovascular disease. There are several risk factors such as blood pressure, family history, cholesterol levels, smoking, etc. Conventional doctors all know people who quit smoking, eat healthy, control their cholesterol and blood pressure, but still die from heart attacks. Conventional medicine is virtually helpless at preventing diseases such as cancer. With billions of dollars spent on research and countless numbers of scientific studies showing "positive results," there seems to be no progress in slowing down the chronic diseases that people get.
Drugs rarely cure illnesses because allopathic medicine does not know the root cause of illnesses. Allopathic medicine tries to control symptoms with pharmaceuticals to modify chemical reactions in the body without understanding why those chemical reactions were abnormal to begin with. According to FCT, by covering up the symptoms of disease with medications, factors responsible for the problem are driven deeper into the body.
Alternative medicine provides all kinds of explanations. Some of these include an imbalance of Qi, too many toxins, too many parasites, not enough vitamins, too much acid, spinal misalignments, etc. He felt that these explanations alone could not explain why disease occurs. Because of this, he felt that most alternative therapies suppress symptoms symptoms and drive the underlying causes deeper into the body.
He then turned to quantum physics. The reason is that all matter in the universe including the human body is governed by physics. Matter is made of molecules which are made of atoms which are made of subatomic particles which are ultimately made of energy fields. Albert Einstein said that “all matter is energy fields” which is illustrated by his famous equation E=mc2.
Dr. Yurkovsky learned that there has been much research around the world looking at the energy fields of humans. Scientists have found that human tissues contain complex electromagnetic “circuitry” and emit certain electromagnetic frequencies. Healthy cells emit coherent frequencies and unhealthy ones emit incoherent frequencies. Coherence can be thought of an orchestra playing beautiful music because all of the musicians are in tune and in beat. Incoherence occurs when the musicians are out of tune and beat. In the same way that the Chinese thought for thousands of years that good health is defined by balanced Qi, Dr. Yurkovksy felt that good health is defined by normal cellular energy fields.
His next question to answer was what caused abnormal cellular energy fields. He concluded from his study of toxicology that in the vast majority of cases, chronic illnesses are caused by environmental toxins. He also felt that there was a hierarchy of toxins. In other words, there may be thousands of possible toxins in the body, but by removing only a few of the most important ones, the body can handle the other ones on its own. He believes that many other detoxification schemes fail because they address many “random” toxins, not the most important ones.
He has found the most significant toxin to be mercury and he has found it in over 95% of his patients. The major source is not seafood as the press would lead you to believe, but from mercury fillings placed by dentists. According to the World Health Organization, fillings leak up to 18 micrograms of mercury into the body a day. The vapors are inhaled into the lungs and spreads throughout the body via the bloodstream. Mercury can bind to any organ in the body resulting in dysfunction of the organ and immmunosuppression. The American Dental Association has denied that the leaking mercury vapors can cause any health problems but in September 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Association voted to reject a report which claimed mercury fillings were safe. California will be banning the use of mercury fillings and a number of other countries have banned them as well.
Another source of mercury are the preservatives used in some vaccines, such as most flu vaccines. Seafood and coal burning power plants are also common sources of mercury. Mercury is not only one of the most cytotoxic substances on the planet, it has an antibacterial effect which adversely affects the normal flora in the body. This leads to a rise in opportunistic microorganisms especially candida species. Mercury also generates free radicals and overwhelms the body's natural antioxidant system. Mercury becomes even more dangerous when combined with other toxins such as lead and xenobiotics.
Candida is a fungus or yeast found in all people. When it overgrows, it damages the body by feeding on its tissues and by releasing toxic waste products. The growth of candida is promoted by many aspects of our modern lifestyle including the consumption of sugar, white flour, antibiotics, food preservatives, and chronic mercury poisoning. In alternative medicine, there are many ways of treating candida such as anti-candida medications, herbs, immune stimulants, probiotics, and diets. They fail to achieve consistent results because they do not address the root of candida: immunosuppression by mercury and other toxins. They also do not address the consequences of killing candida: the massive release of immunosuppressive waste products, including mercury. By not addressing these waste products, immunosuppression continues and so does candida overgrowth. Even more concerning is that the release of these waste products can cause more disease in many people. The other consequence of the "usual" methods of killing candida is the candida's mutation into more virulent forms. FCT comprehensively addresses the complexities of treating candida: it treats the immunosuppression that leads to candida, it safely guides waste products to exit the body, and it has the flexibility to address mutated forms of candida.
There are other toxins that Dr. Yurkovsky feels are critical to treat. He has found parasites in over 90% of his patients. Conventional stool tests for these parasites are both expensive and very inaccurate. Leftover antibiotics in the colon from antibiotic use and from eating meat from animals given antibiotics are also a priority because they promote the growth of candida by altering the normal flora in the colon. Residual radiation in the reticuloendothelial system from previous X-rays are also important to remove as are vaccine side effects. Immunosuppression by mercury leads to chronic infections such as candida, Lyme Disease, and Epstein-Barr Virus. They can not be successfully eradicated unless the immune system is adequately built up and one understands how to manage the waste products released by their eradication. This is why conventional treatments for chronic infections such as Lyme Disease fail. Antibiotics weaken the immune system by destroying normal flora which then promotes candida growth. The killing of Lyme results in the release of more immunosuppressive waste products. In the essence, antibiotics for Lyme disease attack both the infection and the immune system and it becomes a contest of who will outlast the other.
Ultimately, most of the numerous diseases that people get are caused by a few toxins. The only difference between one disease and another disease is the degree and location of the toxins. This is why a well trained F.C.T. practitioner can successfully treat virtually any chronic disease. There is no need to refer people to multiple specialists nor any need to learn different ways of treating different illnesses. An FCT practitioner considers all illnesses as the manifestation of abnormal terrain. For example, hypertension is the manifestation of abnormal kidneys. Anxiety, depression, headaches, and poor memory are manifestations of a toxic brain. Irritable bowel syndrome is a manisfestation of mercury, candida, and parasites in the colon.
The next step in the development of F.C.T. was figuring out a way to determine what toxins are in the body, what organs are affected, and which ones should be given the highest priority to treat first. In other words, he wanted to know a simple, non-invasive method of detecting abnormal cellular fields. He felt the best method was to use Bioresonance Testing. This form of testing was first developed about 100 years ago based on the observation that the autonomic nervous system can react to external stimuli. When the autonomic nervous system is stressed by certain stimuli, physiologic changes such as changing skeletal muscle tone, heart rate, and pupil size can be observed. There are a variety of bioresonance tests today such as Applied Kinesiology, EAV, and VEGA. In F.C.T, Bioresonance testing is performed by non-force kinesiology to observe changing muscle tone in response to vials containing various electromagnetic imprints. The advantage of a non-force technique is that the practitioner does not have to worry about the impact of muscle fatigue. In addition, many traditionally trained kinesiologists who have learned non-force kinesiology have observed that traditional kinesiology often fails to detect serious toxins such as mercury. Dr. Yurkovsky was mindful that kinesiology itself can not determine the priority of what to treat and often can not probe deeply into the body enough to uncover “hidden” toxins and organs. This is another reason why other systems of Bioresonance Testing are often unsuccessful. To solve this problem, he used his knowledge of quantum physics to create an algorithm based on the use of special test vials and to emphasize the importance of asking the most relevant questions with the greatest clinical impact. Through FCT's non-force kinesiology and algorithm, the toxins that cause disease, the diseased organs, and the priority of treatment can be determined.
Current conventional blood, hair, and stool tests for toxins are inadequate. It is known that the half-life of mercury in blood is very short because of its rapid uptake into body tissues. Organs can be contaminated with mercury while the blood or urine is completely clear. Therefore, the most accurate way to confirm the presence of these toxins is through a biopsy or post-mortem autopsy, but this is quite impractical. The most common conventional test for mercury is to administer a chelator then measure output in the urine. Chelation tests can lead to side effects because when mercury is dislodged from an organ into the bloodstream, it can lodge into a different organ before being excreted by the kidneys. A "normal" chelation test can mean many things. 1) It could mean that there isn't much mercury 2) More likely, it means that either the kidneys have been damaged by mercury and hence unable to excrete mercury or that the mercury is too deep inside cells and organs for the chelator to reach. For example, chelators can not reach mercury in the brain.
The next step in the development of F.C.T. was figuring out a way to remove the toxins while at the same time restoring cellular energy fields. Dr. Yurkovsky felt the best method was to use a variation of homeopathy, developed in Germany about 200 years ago. Homeopathy is the science of imprinting bioenergetic signals into water or a pellet. It is not fully understood how homeopathy works because there is no physical matter in a homeopathic remedy. Physicists have described for 100 years that physical matter can be broken into a coarse particulate aspect and a fine information wave aspect. This is often known as the particle/wave duality of matter. Physicists such as Professor William Tiller of Stanford University theorizes that homeopathy uses the fine information wave aspect of a physical substance to affect the body whereas conventional medicine and herbs use the coarse particulate aspect. In other words, the human body understands both the language of matter and energy with homeopathy using the latter. As far as determining the precise nature of the energy in homeopathic remedies, one recent study showed that they contain magnetic photons. Some recent research suggests that a concept from quantum physics called entanglement is how a homeopathic remedy communicates with the body. Entanglement means that the state of a subatomic particle can affect the state of another subatomic particle even though they are physically separated.
My hypothesis for how the homeopathic remedies in FCT® work is as follows. Cells and organs are made of atoms. Atoms are made of subatomic particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons. A weak or sick organ has an incoherent pattern of these subatomic particles, more specifically an abnormal pattern of nuclear and/or electron spins.The creation of a homeopathic remedy involves entangling the nuclear or electron spins of water with a healthy, coherent pattern of nuclear and/or electron spins via magnetic photons. When a drop of this coherent energy pattern is placed under the tongue, magnetic photons entangle with the subatomic particles of the target organ which changes the quantum state of its nuclear or electron spins. In essence, the energy field of the organ is restored to a more coherent pattern.There have been a number of studies in well respected mainstream journals such as the Lancet, British Medical Journal, and Pediatrics that have verified the positive effects of homeopathic remedies.
The homeopathic remedies used in F.C.T. are unlike that of classical homeopathy. F.C.T. uses causative homeopathy (isopathy) involving nosodes which are made from the bioenergetic signatures of actual toxins such as mercury and candida and sarcodes which are made from the bioenergetic signatures organs. Nosodes seem to cause the body to become more "aware" of toxins and stimulate innate detoxification. Sarcodes strengthen organs to keep them from being weakened by circulating toxins. In addition, the F.C.T. remedies are created using a device which imprints the signals into clean water rather than the traditional technique of dilution and succussion. This cuts down on time, overhead, as well as ensuring no physical substances in the remedies.
The homeopathic remedies in F.C.T. accomplish many objectives in addition to removing toxins from the body. Once the toxins enter the bloodstream, they should be guided safely out of the body otherwise they will get stuck in another part of the body causing side effects. This requires supporting the excretory system, namely the lymphatics, kidney, liver, and colon, as well as supporting weak organs. The body's immune system needs to be strengthened by supporting the bone marrow, spleen, thymus gland, and lymphatics as necessary. This is a critical step in the body's ability to fight off microorganisms such Candida and Epstein-Barr Virus. The body's “power source” is strengthened by supporting the endocrine system namely the pituitary, hypothalamus, pancreas, and adrenal glands. With so many objectives, they need to be performed in the proper priority. Other detoxification programs such as chelation, nutrients, or herbs do not achieve consistent results because they can not manage all the complexities of detoxification. It is simply not possible to detoxify and selectively support multiple organs using any chemical means such as herbs or nutrients. According to FCT, any treatments that work on a chemical level merely push the factors that cause illness deeper.
Through the powerful techniques of Bio-Resonance Testing and comprehensive detoxification and support of the key systems of the body in the correct priority, the root of disease is eliminated so that the terrain of the body is restored. Most existing diseases can be successfully treated and future diseases can be prevented before they even occur. According to Dr. Yurkovsky, none of his regularly treated patients have ever developed serious illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, or cancer.
In F.C.T. a treatment cycle is about 1-4 weeks. At the beginning of each treatment cycle, Bioresonance testing is conducted to determine what is needed. Patients go home to take on average 10-15 homeopathic remedies one at a time over a period of 1-3 days. The rest of the treatment cycle is to let the remedies continue to work and to allow the body to adjust to a decreased toxic load. In F.C.T., the specific order of the remedies is very important. The sickest organs must be supported before less sick organs. Patients return for a followup appointment at the end of their cycle. Bioresonance testing is repeated and another series of homeopathic remedies are prescribed. Each treatment cycle removes a portion of the total toxic load. Typically, F.C.T. requires a minimum of several months of treatment to remove a lifetime's worth of toxins. Patients usually note changes in their symptoms during the 1st 4-6 weeks.
Because the remedies used in F.C.T. are homeopathic, i.e. contain no physical substances, there are no side effects when taken properly and no interactions with medications.
F.C.T. involves more than just taking homeopathic supplements. It involves active participation of the patients. They must avoid activities that aggravate their toxicities and that block the treatment. They are required to follow a strict anti-candida diet which is basically a no sugar, no yeast, low carbohydrate diet. Eating foods which raise blood sugar excessively promotes the growth of yeast in the body which interferes with the effects of FCT® . The second thing patients must do is to avoid strong electromagnetic fields (EMFs) during critical time periods during the treatment. Strong electromagnetic fields come mostly from computers, fluorescent lights, TVs, cars, and cordless and cellular phones. Because the most important toxin, mercury, is a metal, electromagnetic fields can prevent mercury from exiting the body safely. They can also neutralize the effect of the homeopathic remedies. Patients are only required to avoid EMFs for the first 2-4 days of each treatment cycle. Most people take their remedies over a weekend.
Patients must also have any mercury fillings eventually removed otherwise progress will be limited. It is highly recommended to use a specialist who uses extra precautions such as dental dams and frequent suctioning to avoid spilling mercury during the removal. Only a small number of dentists have such training. FCT patients are given homeopathic protocols to help minimize the effect of any spilled mercuy. It is also recommended that patient undergo at least a couple of treatment cycles to strengthen their body before having their fillings replaced.
Because of the active participation needed and the duration of the therapy, F.C.T. is only for people who are deeply committed to their health and able able to make the necessary lifestyle changes.
The bottom line is whether all this theory translates into practice: do patients become healthier? There are countless therapies with wonderful theories and success stories, but don't produce consistent results. I have been to Dr. Yurkovsky's office and witnessed his patients having dramatic improvements in health. My personal experience in my first year of using FCT is that the results far exceed the placebo rate of 30%. A review of my patients' charts will show that nearly 100% of my patients who properly follow F.C.T. instructions have had significant improvements in their health with most people starting to discontinue their medications.
All conventional and alternative therapies have some success stories. F.C.T. believes that the litmus test for a successful modality is the consistent ability to restore the health of even chronic, difficult cases and I believe F.C.T. is such a modality. I believe that in the future, we'll look back at conventional and alternative medicine of today as being in the dark ages. There may even be a time when it will be considered medical malpractice not to offer better health through F.C.T. or another therapy that incorporates the principles of FCT.
--Dave Ou, M.D.
--Last updated January 26, 2007
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