Everyone who is interested in alternative medicine gets their information from reading, talking to other people, or personal experience. When I first started studying it, I was very excited about the getting everyone off their medicines and curing serious disease. When I started to try these therapies on my patients and myself, I found that the results were not as advertised. I've been fortunate in meeting people who understood the limitations of various modalities and I share some of that information below.
What about acupuncture?
Acupuncture was the first alternative therapy that I learned. The overall response rate in my practice is about 65%. Because of my desire for better results, I created my Natural Healing Program that is over 90% successful. For example, Dr. Ou has found that acupuncture can improve fibromyalgia about 10-20%. With his program, it improves by 75-90%.
Acupuncture works on certain frequencies of energy in the body. There are many other frequencies that acupuncture does not address. That is why acupuncture is better for certain problems such as pain, but not so good with other problems. Also, acupuncture have very limited means to remove the physical blocks to healing.
What about using vitamins and other supplements?
Most people take vitamins without understanding why they may be deficient in vitamins or the consequences of taking unnecessary vitamins. One factor is that modern foods are not as nutritious as they once were due to commercial farming. The other factor which few people are aware of is the ability of the body to absorb nutrients from food. Many people are so toxic that their gut is unable to absorb nutrients from quality food and any nutrients that are absorbed are unable to reach the cells and organs than need them. This explains why some people remain sick even with a healthy diet. They effectively still have malnutrition. With Nutri-Energetics testing, I almost always find that even people who take multi-vitamins are effectively malnourished.
Taking vitamins can temporarily improve symptoms, but do nothing to the underlying toxicity. Eventually, the symptoms can return and new problems can develop. I use bioresonance testing to see if certain supplements are compatible with a person. Bioresonance testing shows that over 90% of the supplements that people take are not compatible. In other words, my tests show that most vitamins and supplements will cause harm in the long term.
There is a another little known danger of taking vitamins. When taken on a regular basis, the body can lose its ability to absorb vitamins from food because the GI tract can become too "lazy".
A more common danger are the fillers used in supplments especially titanium dioxide and magnesium stearate. These fillers are toxic and the bowels will try to protect themselves from them by creating a biofilm to coat the bowels. This blocks the fillers from being absorbed but also nutrients from food. Recent research shows that this is a common problem among people who take supplements. This often explains why some people feel better at first when taking supplements but the symptoms return.
In Dr. Ou's Natural Healing Program, normal digestion is restored so that nutrients can be absorbed from food. Removing toxicity from the body allows these nutrients to reach the cells. This is the holistic solution to making sure all cells are well nourished.
As a result, long term vitamins are not needed.
What about antioxidants?
Antioxidants are substances that counteract the effect of toxic substances known as free radicals. Taking antioxidants is quite popular among people today. However, bioresonance testing shows most antioxidants to be incompatible with most people.
What people don't realize is why there are free radicals to begin with. Free radicals are used by the immune system to fight off infections and toxins in the body. Infections and cancer occur if the body's terrain is poor from toxins such as mercury. Also, mercury directly attack the body's antioxidant system. (For you chemistry buffs, glutathione is critical to antioxidation and mercury has a strong affinity for damaging the -SH bonds in glutathione.)
The danger of taking anti-oxidants is that they block the immune system's efforts to get rid of infections and toxins from the body. This may temporarily improve symptoms because some symptoms are caused by the substances released by the immune system. However, it leaves the toxins in the body. This is why study after study shows that antioxidants don't improve health. Nutri-Energetics research has confirmed that taking anti-oxidants is generally incompatible with the body.
Dr. Ou's Natural Healing Program addresses these issues by 1) removing the toxins which lead to oxidation. 2) repairing the antioxidant system. Therefore, there is no need for taking antioxidants regularly.
What about herbs?
Bioresonance testing shows that most herbs are not compatible with most people. In general, herbs are generally safer than pharmaceutical drugs, but not as powerful. Most people use herbs in the same way as medications: to temporarily suppress symptoms without addressing the root of disease. In many cases, once the herbs are stopped, the symptoms return. I've worked with people who are very ill despite taking herbs that were supposed to detoxify the liver yet I ultimately found that had very toxic livers. Herbs are also limited in their ability to repair damaged organs and to correct energetic imbalances in the body unless you work with a master herbalist.
What about hormones?
It is also fashionable to correct low hormone levels. In my opinion, taking hormones can suppress the body's ability to make it's own hormones. For example, a pineal gland that doesn't make enough melatonin will further be weakened when taking melatonin. My preferred approach is to assist the pineal gland in making correct amounts of melatonin.
There are exceptions to my general approach of avoiding hormones. If someone is missing a gland through surgery such as a thyroidectomy or hysterectomy/oopherectory, then thyroid hormones and estrogen would be appropriate.
What about other liver flushes?
There are dozens of liver flushes that you can find over the Internet or in books. They are mostly successful in flushing toxic bile out of the liver. However, that are mostly dangerous because they don't ensure that the toxic bile exits the colon into the toilet. When the toxins get stuck in the colon, they are reabsorbed by the body effectively repoisoning the body leading to side effects.
Other programs fail to pre-treat the liver to "loosen" the toxins and to open the bile ducts to prevent stones from getting stuck. They also frequently fail to give the proper dietary advice to maximize the results of flushing.
Fasting
Fasting does cause the release of toxins from cells, but can be dangerous if these toxins don't exit the body. If someone's liver, kidney, or colon doesn't work well, then the toxins will be redeposited in another part of the body leading to new problems. I have personally experienced this from fasting. Without food to stimulate the liver and colon, weaks livers and colons can become even weaker.
Colonics
Colonics are useful for clearing out toxins from the colon. However, they have little effect on detoxifying the liver and kidneys. In order for the colon to function at its best, the liver needs to be secreting enough bile. In other words, the colon will improve its function only temporarily without addressing the liver.
Ionic foot baths
I'm not certain about this but it is possible that they remove some toxins from the body. However, they have little effect on clearing out the major source of toxins which are located in the liver, colon, and kidneys.
Other detoxification programs
There are hundreds of detoxification programs including herbs, colonics, fasting, vitamins, chelation, blood cleaners, liver cleansers, kidney cleansers, colon cleansers, etc. Dr. Ou's Natural Healing Program is built upon the principles of these older programs, but takes a large leap forward. Compared to these other programs:
1) Dr. Ou's program goes deeper into the organs and cells than other programs.
2) Dr. Ou's program restores the function and detoxes most cells of the body. Other programs only detox a few organs and neglect other ones.
3) Dr. Ou's program manages more toxins than other programs.
4) Dr. Ou's program is designed to manage the effects of moving toxins from the body. Other programs can move toxins but what happens frequently is that they'll get released into the bloodstream and get stuck in a different part of the body instead of exiting the body causing new problems and side effects. This is why some people feel worse after trying other detoxification programs. This does not occur with Dr. Ou's program.
5) The modalities Dr. Ou uses have successfully helped many people suffering from a variety of diseases from relatively mild ones to some of the most difficult ones. Most other programs are limited to mild to moderate problems.
In summary, other detoxification programs can be helpful for minor health problems. More serious problems benefit more from the comprehensive approach of Dr. Ou's program.
Energy medicine
Energy medicine can be very good at balancing abnormal energy flows within the body leading to dramatic improvements. However, there are multiple energy systems within the body and I don't know of any system that encompasses them all. In my opinion, few systems are as thorough as Nutri-Energetics Systems. Unlike other systems of energy medicine, Nutri-Energetics continues to do more research into learning and discovering more aspects of the body's energy systems.
Another limitation of energy medicine is that it often does not address the matter aspect of the body. My philosophy is that the body is both matter and energy. For complete healing, the body needs to be addresses at both the matter and energetic levels..
