I hear myself asking that question regularly as I describe the specific health niche I address in my practice. Marinites tend to answer in the affirmative more frequently than the East Bay population I encounter. Many local Chiropractors use muscle-testing for analysis of the specifics at cause of a person’s discomfort. I use it to determine exactly what the person before me has sensitivities/allergies to.
Muscle Response Testing or MRT, was discovered in the 1950’s by a respected Chiropractor, Dr. George Goodheart, DC. Dr. G noticed that we humans go weak in the face of something we perceive as a lie or a threat—we’re sort of “walking lie detectors!” If we pay attention we’ll notice the body never lies.
How it looks in my work is: a cuff is attached to the person’s body and a digital representation of an allergen is sent almost soundlessly to the person. I then muscle-test them (using myself or an adult as surrogate for the wee ones). Muscle testing is a learned ability to discern the strength of a muscle when the body is confronted with a threat. By tracking the subject’s response before and after treatment we can evaluate how they’re progressing in relation to their inappropriate allergic response.
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In wishing to offer you useful, practical applications it may be useful to describe how allergies develop. Broadly, symptoms are the result of an overload of stress on the body caused by multiple stimuli. For example, people living with pets often believe that their pet is not an allergen or trigger for their symptoms. They may feel fine in the presence of their pet but become symptomatic when exposed to pollens or foods.
In reality it may be that the pollens and foods push them past their stress limit when combined with exposure to pets, dust/dust mites, or other irritants. Many substances contribute to this toxic load but one great place to start to relieve your load is to eliminate grains—yes, all of them—from your diet, first for a week, then two weeks, etc.
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Monitor your symptoms of bloat, skin distress, hay fever, etc. and evaluate whether you need to stop eating grains altogether. Your symptom-relief will have to suffice instead of muscle-testing in this circumstance. If you get better your body has provided you with some information about your diet: the body never lies! - Dr. P. Jill Cohn, DC, Marin Allergy Relief & Chiropractic
