Tag Archive: Muscle Testing


I went to a UNS (Ulan Nutritional System) symposium in Clearwater, Florida early December. The theme was nutrition, nutrition, nutrition and kids, kids, kids! The point was really hammered home, and my next blog will be about autism and muscle testing/muscle kinesiology. Then, sports injuries and healthy pregnancies. I learned a lot.

White sugar, closeup, cube, cubes, seven, sugar, sweet, white, photo

Could nutrition be the answer for our problems? It seems too simple. Could white sugar and flour be responsible for many of our diseases and ills? I never thought so.

White Bread

The more interested I have become in Nutritional Response Testing (muscle testing), the more I have learned about the human body and disease. I’ve been clearing the cobwebs off my biochemistry, microbiology, anatomy and environmental health background. It is exciting to hope that we have a place to start – that we can reverse many of the health concerns and declines through diet and supplements.

Me, with Taylor, on a downhill slide....

For years I’ve taken vitamins, antioxidants and tried to eat right. Yet I still had cancer (twice), joint issues, stomach trouble and a racing heart. I could feel myself declining, and it was scary to me that I couldn’t do anything about it. I changed my lifestyle completely:

                                            1) Retiring from a job I loved that was slowly killing me

2) Eating better

3) Getting more exercise

                                            4) Being stress free (Having fun, only doing things I loved, etc.)

Yet I still didn’t feel great. I just couldn’t get on top of things.

Tough to get on top...

I didn’t eat badly. Really, I didn’t. One cup of coffee in the morning, one glass of red wine at night. I love salads and vegetables more than fruit…I like fish and grass-fed beef and free range chicken and eggs. I switched to olive oil and butter, and tried to eat whole grain breads and pasta. Last summer I took a healthy gourmet cooking class. White sugar was out of my house. So why is my weight still creeping up and why did I feel just okay?

Muscle testing showed my heart needed support, and also that I had parasites and titanium in my system. I had tried muscle testing before, but no one had placed me on a long-term program with bi-weekly monitoring. The biggest point that was hammered home:

                                        1) Diet, diet, diet. Supplements can only do so much. Diet is the other 70%. Eat protein for breakfast. Cut out white sugar. Completely. I had it out of the house, but not totally out of my diet, especially at restaurants.

                                         2) Keep a food log…pay attention to how I feel and how I am sleeping. Look back over the last 4 days of food when I have issues.

Getting back on top...

Within weeks of taking the whole food supplements that I tested for, I felt better.

Now, months later, the trend continues.

I’m taking Standard Process whole food supplements to help my body heal itself. No covering up the symptoms anymore. I have more energy. My heart is stronger. I even ran my Mom’s little dog, Ruffy, around her complex without getting short of breath, and no, I haven’t been working out per-se. My heart has stopped the up-in-the-throat beating that was so annoying and scary. (But a stress test on the treadmill was fine….)

The white dog in front is Ruffy. At 14, he can still run around the building with me! I ran with him in June and I could only run for a minute, period.

All I know is that if I can feel this much better this fast, maybe there is hope! And if we can get kids and pregnant moms to eat better, future generations should get healthier and healthier.

Pilots look down the road, not right in front of them....

Muscle Kinesiology

Muscle testing, or applied kinesiology sounds too good to be true. But after having reflexology in the Orient, and acupuncture at home, I am no long the Doubting Thomas I would have been years ago. But pilots like logic, and some “out there” ideas seem too odd.

Several of my girlfriends experiment with Reiki and other New Age ideas. I had to admit some of it seemed to work. After a year of experimentation, I decided to take a class from Ulan Nutritionals in Los Angeles.

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t snowing at home, but it was cold!

I flew into LAX last weekend and stayed at the airport Embassy Suites North, where the seminar was. I took the trolley to Manhattan Beach, and walked out to the end of the pier, watching all the surfers and sunbathers. What a great change from cold and windy at home! Walking along the walkway, it was so odd to only see houses – no restaurants or bars. So I went to eat a block from the beach, and the coleslaw with cilantro was awesome.

My room in LAX.

The hotel rooms were so modern and unusual. I guess I am a hotel snob. I have to say, the employees there were some of the best I’ve found at Embassy. Especially at breakfast, the crew on Saturday couldn’t have been more helpful, friendly and efficient.

Dr. Darren Schmidt (a chiropractor) gave the presentation on muscle testing. The whole idea behind it is a bit of Quantum Physics with energy medicine thrown in. When you find the “lock” on a person, you can touch different parts of their body while applying pressure on their arm. The arm goes “weak” when a compromised area on the body is touched.

Then you test for heavy metals, toxins, food allergies, parasites, bacteria, etc. using the same technique. The ideology is that every compound in nature has a frequency, and the body knows what it needs to heal. I’m not very good at it yet, but I hope it proves out, at least on me.

Mostly, I love to learn and grow and try to keep an open mind. We practiced on each other, and it was so much fun. Mia and Aaron and I were a team towards the end, and it was like playing doctor as a kid – just laughing and learning.

My girlfriend Linda picked me up afterwards, and I stayed at her cute little bungalow in Temecula. We talked and talked and ate crepes and talked and shopped and talked and drank wine and, well you get the idea!

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