Fads: “Is this food good for me?”
Chapters 17–18 serializing Befriending Your Biology; Physical Health from the Inside Out. Available on Kindle now.
… When new RBTI students asked him about food fads, Dr. Reams often told this story:
“A man came into my office and said, “Doctor, what do you think about people living on an all raw food diet?”
I responded in a joking way by saying, “It’s good enough for an old goat.”
He said, “I raise goats and I live on all raw foods.”
When I tested him, he was as sick as any person I’ve seen.
What I’m saying is, don’t get hooked on a fad, go by the numbers. If the body is too acid, make it a bit more alkaline. If it has too much salt, take the salt out of the diet and be sure to use distilled water. If too much sugar, drop the sugar down. If the body doesn’t have enough of something, try to get it into the body, and remember potassium is very significant. If the person has too much, try to reduce it.”
A classic fad example Reams commonly used, was the old “vinegar and honey” cure. He usually told it like this.
“If you have read the vinegar and honey cure book, you’d think the only thing in the world you need to be healthy and live to 150 years old, is to take vinegar and honey regularly.
Suppose you had a body which was extremely acid and you also were a diabetic. Into this acid high sugar system you put more acid and more sugar. [What do you think would happen?] This is a perfect example of the foolishness of fads.
What we’re doing is taking the fads out, revealing the truth of diet and health in numbers. We go by the numbers to understand how to feed the body. …”
Take Vitamin C. When this was a fad, people believed and assumed Vit C was necessarily good for everyone all the time; and, more is better. The Vitamin C fad proved unsustainable. Why? It did benefit some over-alkaline people They benefited from having their biochemistry moved towards 6.4 pH. The over-acid people saw minor benefit, no benefit or worsening of symptoms. Why? An over-acid body is not interested in more acid input.
Many fads follow this pattern; a few people are benefited, many are not. If the needs of individual biochemistry are ignored, we remain “blind” to what our metabolism needs to balance and achieve the A Range.
Beddoe — https://rbtiworld.com/2012/exposing-health-fads/
Magic pill thinking
The vast majority of health fads are based on childish, magical, panacea thinking: “X is good for everyone, everywhere, and all the time; after all, ‘everyone is doing it!’” This is thinking like sheep, “sheeple” thinking.
As a USBA tester, people will come up to you and ask, “Is this food good for me?” Please smile and explain to them you are not a psychic. You are only a chemist. In chemistry we really like numbers and comparing numbers. Using numbers we can perceive which way food X moves your Internal Living Waters. If it moves them towards the A Range of health, food X is good for you. If food X moves them away from A Range, food X has no benefit for you at this time.
If you really must know for sure, a simple non-invasive 30 minute test and analysis experiment can give you absolute certainty about food X. This is health science as we view it. See also Coca Pulse Test in this context.
Human nature being what it is, we probably will never be able to completely shake our fads — -we can only try. We can be polite when friends or family buttonhole us for a “yes” or “no” answer and perceive whether this is a teachable moment about “better living thru chemistry” — or not.
If they later come to us to learn what their numbers say, with intention to better their numbers, this is something to celebrate. Chemistry trumps guessing any day. Chemistry is a better way than guessing — (Revised from Rex Harrill, see below).
When our Internal Living Waters are honored, as the primary organ of whole-body metabolic wellness, when health questions arise,
urine-saliva biomarkers yield values,
which go into (populate) an array.
To those trained to interpret the array, this yields mental images. Each USBA analyst does this somewhat uniquely.
This way, the vast majority of health fads are exposed as people falling prey to “one size fits all” “magic pill thinking.”
“Follow the numbers” is a way to properly feed and care for your biochemical individuality, ending the mystery, ending the guessing games.
