Adding new biomarkers to R7?
Chapter 18 serializing Befriending Your Biology; Physical Health from the Inside Out. Available on Kindle now.
A favorite topic among students is, “Could we add one additional biomarker to Dr. Reams’ R7 + intake info would facilitate the interpretation process?”
More disgruntled students ask the question this way, “Will these tests ever change?!”
In the faculty lounge, professors have their own version of this question, “Which one additional biomarker added to R7 plus gender, age, height, weight — would make it easier for multiple student interpreters to make internal images; and, triangulate agreement on what priorities an array points to?”
Until new biomarkers are accepted by USBA International, student interpreters are encouraged to aspire to the high bar Dr. Reams set for how much whole-body-metabolism can be derived within and between:
- R7 test result numbers,
- intake vital signs, and
- intake demographics.
The Authors are convinced Best Practices in the standard “basket” of non-invasive biomarkers will eventually change as humanity changes. We invite and encourage discussion of which one or two additional biomarker tests could be added to facilitate consensus on interpretation across multiple interpreters.
This brings us to the current state of research and development (R&D) in USBA.
Rise of R&D in USBA
To make number array interpretation easier, what additional tests or other observations can be added to R7?
The rise and decline of European Biological Medicine (many other names) over the period 1955–2043 was highly educational to USBA professionals. What happened? Briefly, European holistic medicine had much deeper and wider roots than in the USA. European holistic medicine starts with Samuel Hahnemann and Homeopathy, comes up thru Enderlein and Rockeweg. Then between 1990–2030 Drs. Dietrich Klinghardt, Thomas Rau and Dickson Thom had their finger on the pulse of this healthcare movement.
Roughly the European approach was make a long list of everything we know which could and does go wrong in the human body. Make the list long enuf to include what can go wrong, all the way down to the cell level; and then, to the DNA level. Check each of these possible disturbed variables until you find one or more which significantly benefit your patron.
A good example is the list of therapeutic modalities for Bio-regulatory medicine at https://www.biologicalmedicineinstitute.com/therapeutic-modalities
Checklist of modes to consider:
Anthroposophical medicine
Antihomotoxic medicine
Apitherapy
Aromatherapy
Ayurvedic medicine
Bioenergetic therapy, frequency therapy, bio-resonance therapy
Cold laser and LED therapy
Colon hydrotherapy
Fever therapy
Homeopathic medicine
Hyperthermia
Isopathy
Massage therapy
Naturopathy
Neural therapy
Nutrition and lifestyle consultation
Organotherapy
Orthomolecular therapy
Osteopathic and structural manipulation, cranial-sacral therapy
Oxidative therapy: ozone therapy
Physical therapy
Physiotherapy
Phytotherapy
Psychotherapy
Spa therapy: sauna, hydrotherapy, thermal and medicinal baths
Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture
A slightly different framing for this list appears here https://www.biologicalmedicineinstitute.com/bioreg-principles
The BRMI list suggests the multiple dimensions of health possible to explore in the modern knowledge-base of holistic-functional healthcare. An overwhelming amount of therapeutic knowledge, insight, method and application is available This is the hologram European Biological Medicine aspired to apply in each practitioner’s practice.
The results? This was workable for marketing holistic-functional healthcare to the public. This was workable for marketing for selling continuing education courses to conventional healthcare MDs. By the late 2040s, after the start of the WHO’s first RBTI-USBA clinic, it began to dawn on European Biological Medicine doctors, all these modes together, was an in-efficient way to practice holistic-functional healthcare with patrons. It was also an un-workable way to train holistic-functional healthcare students.
Very few seasoned doctors were practically familiar with more than a handful of holistic modes on the list above. To expect freshman students entering healthcare colleges to spread their attention to a range of 25 specialized approaches, was ludicrous.
Looking back on this era, the present Authors characterize this as the “kid in a candy story” approach to holistic-functional healthcare.
Looking back on this from 2120, this healthcare approach did create social permission and professional permission, for conventional diagnose-drug-radiate-cut doctors, to look up from their overly-narrow focus on germs; and, begin exploring what Cultural Creatives in medicine-health fields had found more workable and effective “outside the box” of germs-pathology-drugs.
In the final analysis, the situation came back to Dr. Bertrand Babinet’s 1980s insight (paraphrased): If you believe information alone is the source of healing, knowing everything there is to know, this is a dark light, a Faustian bargain, a Faustian dream. Even if you did somehow learn everything which could go wrong with the body, on all levels, this is no guarantee your effectiveness as a healthcare professional is increased. Nor is this any guarantee of greater job satisfaction.
When USBA became a worldwide topic in the 2040s, gradually more and more doctors and healthcare workers in a wide range of fields, saw the value of adding USBA testing to augment the speciality they had been trained into.
Testing a patron’s Living Waters, to learn how to support healing on all levels, allowing each patron’s immune system intelligence, to guide healing, was elegant; healthcare done with grace and ease. This is why the first job a large fraction of Healthcare College grads have is simply performing tests all day long. Plenty of non-USBA clinics wish to outsource the testing and generating of R7 number arrays. Many are willing to pay extra for a written analysis-interpretation, usually verbal and recorded in some form.
In the long run, simpler, cheaper, faster effectiveness beats out high-tech new-new thing every time — tortoise and the hare metaphor here.
The rise and decline of European Biological Medicine was roughly paralleled by the rise and decline of Functional Medicine in the US. In the 2050s, a large fraction of FM doctors began adding Naturopathic training or a USBA certificate to their degrees.
Back to our original question: Which biomarkers, if any, could be added to R7?
The above European Biological Medicine discussion allows us to ask a more precise question:
Which biomarkers could be added to facilitate interpretation of fresh R7 number arrays?
This takes us into USBA research and development.
During his lifetime and up until the 2042 WHO Medical Olympics, Reams students were too few and far between to mount any centralized R&D research efforts. Even tho all professed to follow Reams-Beddoe as closely as possible, individual differences in approach and clinical experience made collaboration the exception not the rule.
Goethean Holistic Science, introduced later in this text, anticipated the need for an expanded, more coherent science paradigm. It says, when individual practitioners put in their 10,000 hours of practice, have accrued massive clinical experience, it’s natural for each to — sooner or later — come to original conclusions, insights and uncoveries about their art and craft. Both Dr. Reams and Dr. Beddoe example this pattern.
Another answer to why R&D was weak in urine-saliva testing prior to the 2040s was Dr. Reams’ array, method and knowledge-base did not need a great deal of R&D. One of few deficiencies in his method Dr. Reams talked about was its weakness in representing all the kinds of stones which can form in both kidneys and gall bladder. Compared to what can be derived from the array, this is indeed a small weakness.
Rex Harrill
For the above two reasons, during and after Reams’ death, the biggest need was defending against well-intended and unscrupulous imitators of Dr. Reams’ method.
Among other Reams volunteers prior to 2042, Rex Harrill did more work than anyone keeping Reams’ legacy in human health and soil agronomy alive and defended from profiteers. Many RBTIers expressed gratitude for Rex’s many aggregations, compendiums and sharings, a commendable body of scholarship. There must be some justice in the world, as — thanks to Rex and others, no scoundrels attempting to dilute Reams and make it their own, for profit, were ever very successful nor influential.
2040–2070s in USBA
Among USBA professionals, the 2040s-2050s were mostly about founding and running Healthcare Colleges in various countries requesting them. In the 2060s, the best USBA minds, men and women, were occupied with setting up workable governance, accreditation and quality control for USBA training colleges. By the end of the 2060s, thanks to the WHO, national and state laws accrediting USBA Healthcare Colleges were made into law.
In the 2070s, USABA Culture Creatives turned to forming consensus across and between Colleges for healthy uniformity. They did this lightly and quickly thru proposing drafts of a Values proposition, Vision statement, Mission statement and Product statement. These were reviewed at annual national and world conferences until over 90% of all Healthcare Colleges had signed on. This facilitated cross certification, portable certifications, exchanges of professors, student exchanges; and eventually, the start of a dedicated R&D effort, addressed more generally later in this text.
So it took a long while before USBA professionals were able to turn to, “What additional biomarkers could make interpretation easier?” and take it seriously.
Each College went its own direction somewhat on adding biomarkers to R7. Perhaps this was good in how different campuses specialized in the additional biomarkers they trained students into. An overview:
Bristol Stool Chart
Because it would have seemed so impolite; and, because Dr. Reams was already “on thin ice” with his urine-saliva method with the AMA, it wasn’t possible to emphasize stool analysis as part of Reams’ method. Between 1850–2018, virtually no conventional doctor would talk or write about gut issues and using your own poop as a health gauge unless directly asked in private.
The “coming out” of the Microbiome into mainstream conversation 2017–2018 was only the start of making poop discussion possible in polite company. It took until the 2050s, when new generations were more serious again about physical health; and, making friends with your own biology, that the Bristol Stool Chart became useful in talking with patrons.
New language for stool analysis
Facilitating discussion of poop analysis was new language supporting practitioners and the general public to learn from their own stools. By the 2060s, the following rhetoric was common online:
What can we learn from our own poop? We can learn quite a bit. Specifically, we can learn about how our unconscious is processing our life. To be more precise, we can learn how burdened our unconscious is with trauma and drama.
Consider, the ideal shape and density of our stool is smooth and easy. No straining, no drama no trauma. Both constipation and diarrhea are excess drama.
When a person’s stool is anything else besides graceful and easy, this is telling us about unresolved, possibly unnecessary, internal trauma-drama.
For internal mental-emotional trauma-drama patrons are aware of, we hope you ask for what you need to heal your unresolved memories; we wish you well.
In terms of optimal physical health, constipation and diarrhea are the two ways our body dramatizes deficient metabolic-nutritional conditions in our digestion, assimilation and waste elimination.
A significant fraction of dramatic stools is likely to be nutritional. A significant fraction of nutritional drama is likely to be mineral deficiencies.
The good news? The physical dimensions here are easier to work on than our unresolved mental-emotional trauma-drama. Even more good news, clearing up the physical disturbance may reduce mental-emotional disturbances.
Many USBA professionals keep a Bristol chart handy when they consult with patrons. By looking at your numbers; and, having you point to which poop image represents you recent experience, a USBA consultant can tell you which of the six calciums you are likely to be lowest on so you can get your poop more into the A Range.
Mental-emotional meaning of constipation
For those interested, mentally-emotionally, constipation tends to dramatize our difficulty releasing old hurts, memories, pains and experiences we are done with. It’s possible to hold onto old memories and experiences from which we have learned everything we can learn from them.
Q: Why would a person hold onto old memories and experiences they have learned everything they can learn from them? A variety of reasons are possible. Some we have encountered are:
- Unresolved trauma-drama which needs more counseling support to come to resolution on,
- To punish oneself,
- To validate and express low self-esteem,
- To validate and express low self-concept.
People can hold onto too many old human experiences for too long. Why? Because there is learning to be had from those undigested experiences. Once they are learned from, they can be released and the waste released. Some people resolving and releasing old memories find they release the “waist.”
It’s also possible to hold onto old experiences for too long because your internal parts who like to worry and analyze, need something to chew on. Over-analysis in your unconscious is a classic way to hard, difficult stools.
Mental-emotional meaning of diarrhea
Diarrhea tends to out-picture learning too little from our human experiences. We are absorbing too little of what we could be processing and learning from our recent experiences and behaviors. We’re letting too much of our human experience go by too soon. …
Adapted from Learning From Your Own Poo, Befriending Your Biology (2092) by Joaquin Closet, USBA-III
Basal body temperature
Basal body temperature is the lowest body temperature attained during rest. It is usually estimated by measuring immediately after awakening; and, before any physical activity has been undertaken. This leads to a somewhat higher value than the true BBT — Wikipedia
Reams’ view of where thyroxin is made
Unlike conventional Old Medicine, little attention is paid to the thyroid in Dr. Reams’ RBTI. The conventional view is thyroxin is made in the thyroid. Dr. Reams’ experience was thyroxin is made in the pancreas, “as an energy loss from the pancreas to the thyroid gland.”
Your liver manufactures a substance known as glycogen; this comes from your liver. The pancreas will use glycogen to make three things: insulin, alcohol, and thyroxine. from REAMS/MANTHEI COOKING in Go By the Numbers pg. 17.
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This is a case where the birth control pill caused overweight. It caused the pancreas to stop manufacturing thyroxine. The pancreas receives glycogen from the liver and manufactures thyroxine out of it. Thyroxin goes to the thyroid gland which adds potassium to it. The potassium then combines with the thyroxine and forms a substance similar to grandma’s old-fashioned soap. This is what dissolves excessive oils in our body, a weight-control factor. This soapy substance is a governor for weight. The birth control pill upset the thyroxine manufacturing in the pancreas. It didn’t manufacture enough; so, the lady just kept putting on weight. This is one great cause of overweight — CLOD pg. 104
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BEDDOE: Algavim is used for four primary reasons. One, it has a low salt with proper oil content, while still having good levels of available iodine for feeding thyroid needs. Each capsule has .225mg of iodine naturally available. Two, it is a general vitamin and trace mineral supplement. Three, it is a source of a type of potassium easily used by the body. Four, it is a source of an enzyme-catalyst to the uptake and availability of vitamin A. The organs which especially benefit from its use are the eyes, skin, lungs, blood, pancreas, liver and brain (http://www.brixman.com/blog-page/buying-supplements-or-rolling-your-own)
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THYROXINE — Produced by the pancreas which sends the thyroxine, as an energy loss from the pancreas, to the thyroid gland. Produced in the thyroid gland — http://www.brixman.com/implications.html
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Dr. Reams’ theory, our pancreas makes alcohol, insulin and thyroxin — still awaits evidence-based confirmation. Yet, no one has so far disproven or found this theory contradicted. It may be thyroid issues are handled adequately by attending to liver and pancreas issues. Many of Dr. Reams’ theories are like this. They do not alter testing and generating fresh number arrays one bit. His alt-biology theories come into play in interpretation. Each interpretive consultant gauges this for themself; and, whether to share with a specific patron or not.
Nonetheless, the above is why, whenever thyroid issues are voiced or suspected, some Healthcare Colleges require basal body temperature be taken on a patron’s first visit; then, the patron is given instructions for taking basal body temperature at home upon rising for three days running.
A long-term research project has begun to compile 10,000 long-term USBA patron cases, each with an intake basal body temperature and a second reading at the end of treatment. When completed this will be useful for several purposes, especially for proving the efficacy of R7 for thyroid issues.
Sclera reading for corroboration not analysis
The examination of the sclera or whites of the eye and the interpretation of the lines or blood vessels seen there has been an ancient art passed on from one healer to the other. Although there has been much inferred about the lack of scientific background of this art, you might talk to your local veterinarian and see if the whites of the eyes of his patients does not tell him much about the condition present in his mute supplicant. … Dr. Donsbach tells you what you always wanted to know about SCLEROLOGY (1981).
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CHALLEN: Each eye has 80 miles of blood vessels — if one does not drink enough pure water, worn out particles collect in the vessels of the eyes. This causes the vessels of the eye to dilate. The sclera of the eyes are not used to tell what is wrong with the body. They are used to see if the body is healing or is shutting down. RBTI Desk Reference pg. 96
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BEDDOE: The blood vessels in the sclera are very delicate channels. It is the only place in the whole body where blood vessels can actually be observed in their uncovered state. These vessels are highly subject to showing a sort of sympathetic reaction when other parts of the body are under an extra load. The load showing relates to the energy loss in the glands, organs, and tissues — RBTI Desk Reference pg. 96
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By writing down the eye numbers of the sclera when it is checked off on our little checkerboard scale form, then the greater the amount of numbers or little boxes we have [noted on the form] in the eye that has dilated blood vessels, the greater the number the delta cells, or even omega cells, which need to be thrown out of the body — RBTI Desk Reference CLOD pg. 96
To Learn More
Left and right eye charts can be found in Beddoe pg. 251–253. We note these charts are dramatically simpler compared to sclera charts used for diagnosis.
See also Chapter 12 in CLOD pg 91–95.
See also Challen pg. 58–64
Testing Food Reactions Using The Coca Pulse Test
Rex Harrill has noted REBTI urine-saliva testing is a form of biofeedback (private email). The present Authors agree. Rex also wonders if the Coca Pulse Test, for food allergies, might be a useful complement to urine-saliva testing; especially, for those with known allergies.
Thankfully a simple option for determining which specific foods are your friend or foe exists. Arthur F. Coca was an immunologist who discovered a method of testing reactions to specific foods. It requires no equipment; it can be done by anyone in their own home at no cost. Dr. Coca’s theory was if someone has a sensitivity or allergy to a food, it would cause a stress response in the body, indicated by an accelerated heart rate.
Dr. Coca’s wife was a medical researcher. She was diagnosed with a debilitating case of angina pectoris (chest pain or discomfort due to coronary heart disease). She was given a five-year life expectancy by two cardiologists. She noticed her attacks occurred within a few minutes of eating. She began to associate which specific foods triggered her symptoms. She would eat these offending foods and inevitably her pulse would speed up and she would have an attack of angina.
Dr. Coca began tracking what she ate and how her pulse changed after each food. Eventually they compiled a list of all the foods causing her pulse to accelerate. These were removed from her diet. Not only did her angina disappear, other health problems and symptoms she’d had went away as well.
After this happy accident Dr. Coca began using this method of testing on other patients. All had similar positive results. Any food causing a patients’ heart rate to increase was identified as problematic. When his patients removed these foods, their symptoms went away. If the problem foods were reintroduced, the same symptoms reappeared. He published his book, The Pulse Test back in 1956. To this day many well-respected practitioners, including my boss, Dr. Klinghardt, recommend this method for assessing food sensitivities and allergies.
So while it may take some time to test every food in your diet, it will be a lot simpler and more affordable to try this method out at home. Dr. Coca’s book is now public domain and you can read or download it. … — “Testing Food Reactions Using The Coca Pulse Test” (2015) https://www.joliverwellness.com/blog/cocapulsetest
