Biological Terrain Analysis - Mapping Your Inner Health

[Guest guest]

Biological Terrain Analysis - Mapping Your Inner Health JoAnn Guest Oct 26,

2005 17:46 PDT

 

Alkaline foods are the healthiest and include fresh fruits, vegetables,

juices, green foods and natural sweeteners. As well, stress, poor

digestion, lack of exercise and aging all tend to produce excess acid

buildup in the body.

 

 

 

Trying to discover the best nutritional program can be a confusing and

at times frustrating exercise. We try to eat the best diet we can and to

take the appropriate supplements. How do we know if what we are eating

and taking is really working for us, taking into account our unique

lifestyle and individual body? It seems to involve guesswork, intuition

and even faith. Fortunately, there is an approach to the quest for

health and inner balance that is accurate and specific to the

individual. This approach uses a scientific method to analyze samples of

blood, urine and saliva to reveal a unique biological terrain for each

individual. The method is called the biological terrain analysis or BTA

and has revolutionized the way I practice naturopathic medicine.

 

Biological terrain was developed over a hundred years ago in France. At

that time there was a fierce intellectual battle going on concerning the

true cause of disease. Louis Pasteur argued that germs were the sole and

only cause of human disease. Claude Bernard argued that both disease and

germs emerged only after the internal milieu or chemistry of a person

was out of balance. Unfortunately, Pasteur’s germ theory won out and has

become the dominant paradigm in medicine. It is said that Pasteur

recanted on his deathbed and admitted that Bernard was right, that “the

microbe is nothing, terrain is all.”

 

Germs called viruses are being blamed for more and more diseases today,

yet our ability to control them continues to evade us all the more. It

is now apparent that germ theory has its limits and that an approach

focusing on internal chemical balance, such as biological terrain, is

more useful for optimizing health and reversing disease.

 

Traditional farmers have a practical understanding of biological

terrain. They know that to produce healthy plants and crops, you need to

have healthy soil. Healthy soil consists of organic matter, minerals and

adequate water. The soil is the plant’s biological terrain. A plant

subjected to acid rain, air pollution and chemical fertilizers will

become unhealthy and subject to diseases such as rot and insect

infestation. Thus it is actually the biological terrain of the plant

that ultimately determines its health and not the plant’s germs.

 

We use the same concept of biological terrain to evaluate the health of

a patient and how prone they are to disease. The pH or acid-alkaline

balance, the redox potential or relative amount of free radicals, and

the resistance or mineral content defines biological terrain in the

human. The three body fluids we measure are the blood, the saliva and

the urine. Thus we take three readings of three body fluids for a total

of nine measurements. This constitutes a biological terrain analysis.

This test is done in a doctor’s office using a sophisticated laboratory

device linked to a computer. The results are printed and analyzed within

minutes of the test. We always perform the test on fasting subjects in

the morning to get reliable and consistent results.

 

What can be learned from the BTA?

 

The BTA provides a wealth of information about the state of the body’s

cells, organs and biochemical balance including:

 

 

 

 

• Level of acidity of the cells and fluids of the body

 

• Blood alkalinity as a compensation for tissue acidity

 

• Tendency of the blood to thicken and become sticky

 

• Ability of the kidneys to excrete acids and other waste products

 

• Ability of the cells to produce energy

 

• Free radical activity in the body

 

• Mineral deficiencies or excesses in the body

 

• Digestive enzyme deficiency or efficiency

 

• Sufficient anti-oxidants in the body

 

• Candida or dysbiosis

 

• Liver toxicity

 

• Lymphatic congestion

 

• Heavy metal toxicity

 

• Dehydration

 

• Immune system breakdown

 

• Tendency towards degenerative disease

 

 

 

 

pH and Acid-Alkaline Balance

 

Acid-alkaline balance is extremely important for body functions. When pH

is off balance enzymatic reactions in the body slow down and oxygen

delivery to cells is impaired. Microorganisms like viruses, bacteria and

yeast grow more easily when the pH of the blood is off balance. Cancer

tends to grow more easily in an acidic and oxygen-deprived environment.

 

Excess acidity in the body is the prevailing imbalance in most people.

This is because most things people consume are highly acidifying to the

body: coffee, alcohol, sugar, drugs, refined foods and meat all promote

acidity. Alkaline foods are the healthiest and include fresh fruits,

vegetables, juices, green foods and natural sweeteners. As well, stress,

poor digestion, lack of exercise and aging all tend to produce excess

acid buildup in the body.

 

Symptoms of excess acidity include fatigue, achy and stiff joints,

heartburn, poor sleep, candida or yeast infections, excess mucus and a

tendency to get frequent infections. The primary way to reduce excessive

acidity is to switch to an alkaline diet. The alkaline diet consists of

eating at least 75 percent of your diet from foods that are

alkaline-forming in the blood. This is a tricky concept for most people.

Most alkaline foods are fruits and vegetables. Even acidic fruits like

citrus are converted to alkaline after digestion in the body. Most

grains, sugar, proteins, and refined foods are acidic and should be kept

to only 25 percent of your diet.

 

The body will try to balance excess acid build up in the cells and

tissues through the kidneys, if they are functioning properly. The blood

will also buffer the excess acids by becoming more alkaline. Human blood

is normally slightly alkaline at a pH of 7.3.I have seen people’s venous

blood as high as 7.8, which means it is 50 times more alkaline than it

should be.

 

When blood becomes very alkaline it becomes very sludgy and sticky. The

red blood cells have a tendency to stick together in rolls called

rouleaux. This is commonly seen in the examination of live blood using

an in-office microscope. When the cells stick like this, they cannot

flow easily in the small capillaries and release oxygen to the cells.

Chronically cold extremities can result, as well as generalized fatigue,

from a lack of oxygen at the cellular level.

 

As well, blood that is this alkaline is able to sustain more viral,

bacterial and mutated fungal growths. This is the beginning of not only

a chronic infection but also chronic disease. When medical researchers

discover a microbe associated with a particular ailment they announce

that they have discovered the cause of the disease. An example of this

was the discovery of the H. pylori bacteria as the cause of stomach

ulcers and chlamydia as the cause of arterial plaque. The true cause of

these diseases is the acid terrain produced by an unhealthy diet, which

then produces conditions favouring the growth of these bacteria. The

recommended course of antibiotics will only treat the symptom of the

disease and not the true cause. Unfortunately they will change the

terrain to favour the growth of fungal organisms such as candida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Stefan Kuprowsky

Dr. Stefan Kuprowsky is the director of the EcoMed Clinic in Nanaimo, BC

and the EcoMed Health Institute on Gabriola Island. His website is

www.ecomedspa.com, or email him at in-. ;

 

-

 

The second measurement taken in a BTA is the level of free radicals and

electrons in the three body fluids. This is the only laboratory test

that I know about that actually measures free radical activity in the

body. Eighty percent of the free radicals in the body are naturally

produced through normal body metabolism. As well we get more free

radicals from chemicals, pollution, and all the toxic things we are

exposed to on a daily basis. A free radical is an unpaired electron that

is unstable until it finds another free electron. Unfortunately, the

free radical grabs an electron from a nearby molecule in our body,

creating cellular damage in the process. The molecule missing the

electron then grabs another nearby electron and thus the damage

escalates. This is known as a free radical cascade.

 

We now know that free radicals are at the biochemical core of most

chronic diseases such as arthritis, chronic fatigue, heart disease,

cancer and premature aging.

 

Anti-oxidants are molecules that have an extra electron to donate to a

free radical, thus preventing it from damaging the body. Our body makes

these anti-oxidant molecules and we also get them from vitamins and

minerals such as Vitamin C, E, beta-carotene, and selenium.

 

If there are an excessive number of free radicals detected in the blood

or saliva, this is an indication of either a chemical or biological

toxicity in the body. If there are an insufficient number of electrons

detected, then this indicates a lack of anti-oxidants or some more

serious cellular problem.

 

The ability to quantify the level of free radicals and electrons in the

body is an extremely useful function of the BTA. We use this information

to assess the toxic load present in the body as well as an indication

whether a viral or bacterial infection is likely. One of the most

important interpretations that I get from the BTA is an indication

whether heavy metal toxicity is a likely factor in someone’s body.

Although the BTA cannot tell me which metal is present, it gives me an

important insight into whether I should be looking for a heavy metal

problem such as mercury in a particular patient. My success rate in

identifying a heavy metal problem, as revealed by further testing, is

quite high. Thus the BTA is an important screening tool for helping me

to identify what kind of toxin is present in a patient.

 

One of the most interesting interpretations that the BTA allows is a

prediction of a person’s biological age. Biological age is an estimate

of the age of a person’s cells as compared to their actual chronological

age. Thus if a person is really healthy their biological age may be 10

years younger than their actual age. If they are really sick and

out-of-balance, their biological age may come out 30 years older than

their real age. The computer predicts this on the basis of the free

radical activity present in the three body fluids being tested. As we

know, free radicals cause disease and aging, so an excess would be

interpreted as a biological age that is higher than a person’s actual

age.

 

Resistivity and Mineral Balance

 

The third measurement in the biological terrain is the mineral status of

the three body fluids. In some ways, minerals are more important than

vitamins.

 

Minerals are involved in literally thousands of chemical reactions in

the body. As well, they make up a substantial part of our bones and

tissues.

 

Mineral depletion is very common today even when people are taking

mineral supplements. The body just does not absorb many mineral

supplements very well. Minerals need to be taken in their organic form

such as in food. Unfortunately, most commercial agriculture uses

mineral-depleted soils. This contributes to an even greater mineral

depletion in our population. The only solution is to eat organic foods

and to encourage the practice of organic farming.

 

When minerals are low in the body, then the resistivity of the body

fluids is high, meaning they are resisting the flow of electricity. If

the resistivity is low, then the minerals are not being distributed

appropriately. This is an indication of lymphatic congestion. Our lymph

system is an invisible organ but one of the most important functions of

the body. Cells dump their waste products from metabolism into a kind of

open sewer called the lymph system. The lymph flows between our cells

through channels into the liver where the toxins and wastes are

disposed. If the lymph is congested, this means that our wastes are not

being eliminated and are piling up in our cells, tissues and organs.

This provides the breeding ground for infection and if present long

enough, a chronic disease will develop. Therefore, if the BTA picks up

excessive minerals in the blood or saliva, it often is an indication of

lymphatic congestion. It can also indicate excessive minerals, which is

possible but rare. It can also indicate that the minerals are not being

transported properly in the body and may be accumulating where you don’t

want them, such as soft tissues instead of bone.

 

One of the most interesting insights revealed by the BTA is a sign of

adrenal stress. This is seen by high values of resistivity in the urine.

Under stress the adrenal glands pump out stress hormones known as

gluco-corticoids. If the amount of mineral corticoids is low, this is

revealed by low mineral content in the urine. This is an indication that

the body is producing more gluco-corticoids than normal and that a

stress condition exist in the body. I have been able to determine the

role that chronic stress plays in many people’s health conditions and to

suggest ways to change this.

 

The biological terrain analysis is an extremely valuable laboratory tool

in the determination of the relative health of individuals. As well, it

plays an extremely important role in my practice in providing me with a

direct insight into a person’s biochemical balance. It is also very

helpful in determining the true causes of disease and the most direct

way of treating and reversing the disease process. It is also useful as

a preventative tool to help people maintain good health and avoid

premature aging.

 

 

 

JoAnn Guest

mrsjo-

www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets

 

 

 

 

AIM Barleygreen

" Wisdom of the Past, Food of the Future "

 

http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.