Ask Dr. Lo: What Are You Feeding Your Body?
By Dr. Thomas K. Lo, Advanced Chiropractic & Nutritional Healing Center
As a nation, Americans eat inexpensive, poor-quality food that has been stripped of its nutrients. Most of us do not consume enough fresh fruits or vegetables daily, and many of the grains we consume are from instant rice, refined wheat breads, pastas, and cereal. We also tend to eat a tremendous amount of prepackaged and pre-made meals. Did you know that one-quarter of Americans eat at fast food restaurants each day? Many of us are overfed and undernourished, and many of the foods we eat do not provide our bodies with the nutrition it needs to survive and be healthy. Our bodies are crying out for nutrition, as we suffer from diabetes, heart disease, obesity…the list goes on.
Over the past seventy years, there has been a drastic decline in the quality of our food, resulting in a nation of sick people who are dependant on pharmaceutical drugs. Your body’s ability to function in a healthy way is dependent on the nourishment from the foods we eat, but many of those foods contain heavy metals, toxic chemicals, and pesticides. Our foods can also contain food coloring, preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, and synthetic additives. Some food is processed to the point of almost non-recognition. Current food conditions make it difficult to get all of the nutritional components your body requires to maintain its resiliency and heal.
There is Good News
Whole food supplements can help remedy this. Whole food supplements complete the nutritional gap. Nutrients within foods work synergistically to provide the body the tools it needs to restore and maintain optimal health. Given proper nutrition, the human body has an amazing ability to heal itself.
So How Do You Know Which Supplements Are Right for You?
At the Advanced Chiropractic & Nutritional Healing Center in Frederick, we utilize a technique called Nutritional Response Testing® (NRT). Nutritional Response Testing® is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body to determine the underlying causes of ill or non-optimum health. The actual procedure is simple and direct, with the body providing all the information and feedback needed. Nutritional Response Testing® provides an accurate reading of how the different points (neurological reflexes) on the surface of the body relate to the state of health and to the flow of energy in every organ and functional system of the body. These reflexes are the body’s way of telling us what and how your nervous system is doing, as it is the nervous system’s responsibility to regulate the body’s functions for every organ. By testing the reflexes, the practitioner has a method of evaluating your body’s imbalances. The practitioner is able to identify exactly what whole food supplements your body needs and in what quantity.
After you are tested, you will get an individualized nutritional program, custom designed from the results of your analysis. Each case is unique and the nutritional program that you receive matched to your body’s needs. Most programs include dietary suggestions, as well as whole food supplements to aid your body in healing itself.
Reasons to Use Nutrition Response Testing
The following list contains the reasons that you should use Nutritional Response Testing.
- You have one or more health problems that will not go away.
- You have visited doctors, or even alternative practitioners, but the results were not what you expected or hoped.
- Your health conditions are interfering with your life and affecting your career, family, and/or personal finances.
- You realize that these conditions are probably not going to get any better unless the real source of the problem is found and corrected.
- You are healthy, but want to make sure you are doing everything you can to maintain optimal health.
