Health insurers, blood tests and hair analysis

21 min readOct 29, 2021

My best guess how to prevent all future pandemics. What needs to be learned to do so.

Chapter 6 serializing of Befriending Your Biology; Physical Health from the Inside Out. Available on Kindle now. USBA stands for “urine-saliva biomarker testing,” a new name given to the original method of Dr. Carey Reams, RBTI.

We’ve described the 2042 Worldwide “Medical Olympics” sponsored by the WHO for the purpose of identifying new models and methods of ehalthcare capable of preventing future world pandemics.

One of the unexpected public health education benefits of these “Olympics” was informing and educating the public and mass media on how unsuitable blood tests and blood biomarkers are for two purposes:
- Defining optimal metabolic wellness; and,
- Yielding theapeutic direction for healing-rebuilding.

Of all the proposals pitched to the WHO, only three used blood biomarkers.
This became a big mental reset for the public and for mass media. Much discussion was stimulated because it created UNcertainty where formerly there had been — faulty — certainty about the usefulness of blood tests.

Over several months of public discussion, people and journalists came to make the useful distinction between what purposes blood test results were reliable for; and, what blood test results were not useful for. PubMed published a number of new papers on this specifically.

Two more unexpected benefits resulted from this directly. One was tens of thousands of people began accessing PubMed online, government-funded research, a huge fraction of it free to access. This put “biomarkers” “on the map” in the public’s mind. The public began accepting biomarkers as a real thing. They began asking which biomarkers were more useful than blood test results, for defining optimal physical wellness?

Strengths of blood test biomarkers

For over a century, blood tests were used as a physiological profiling and monitoring tool.

A wealth of information based on robust research evidence can be gleaned from blood tests, including:
- identifying vitamin and mineral excesses or deficiencies;
- identifying oxidative stress and inflammation; and
- identifying the status of red blood cell populations.

Serial blood test data can be used to monitor athletes and make inferences about the efficacy of training interventions, nutritional strategies or indeed the capacity to tolerate training load. … — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901403/

Limitations of blood test biomarkers

How? Why? Our blood is highly engaged with both sugar and oxygen regulation, the two nutrients all cells and organs require for life. Human blood sugar “travels” a general 24 “wave” puncturated by meal times and fasting between meals. This makes blood biochemistry very changeable. Reams said, the blood is too changeable; it changes every 15 minutes. There is too much going on if your goal is specimens representing whole-body activity over a 3 hour to 12 hour period.

What about oxygen? Nature knows the blood pH at which oxygen is most easily on-boarded and offloaded by red blood cells. The main thing the body guards against is the blood going too acid. If blood pH leans too acid, either the kidneys release bicarbonate to raise the pH and/or the diaphragm moves more to take in bigger breaths of oxygen. This also raises the pH back into the healthy range.

These wonderful mechanisms keep our blood pH balanced. However, for the purposes of optimal physical wellness, which is based on lymph pH, not blood pH, which in turn is based on mineral intake, these blood chnages are statistical “noise.” This insight was probably first deduced and expressed by Carey Reams.

Limitations of live blood analysis

In the 1980s-2000s, Live Blood Analysis (LBA), putting a drop of your live blood on a TV monitor, gave many people more insight into the complexity of analysing blood thru visual inspection. Sadly, the legitimate method of LBA was hijacked by scammers selling vitamins in both the US and UK. YouTube videos of practioners analyzing and interpreting live blood cells on a TV monitor can be seen to be guessing as to what is happening, what they they are seeing and the causative factors involved.

The story of how LBA regained its scientific integrity and efficacy in the 2030s thru the sons of Henry Bigelsen, is beyond our scope here.

What was learned for USBA purposes was — Reams was correct; so many phenomena are visible in live blood analysis, so much “noise” exists, blood is not useful for the pupose of defining optimal physical wellness and identifying clear Therapeutic Direction towards healing and re-building.

In short, many disturbances show up in blood tests; yet, such tests are notorious for the lack of clarity they provide for the causes of visible disorders.
Blood analysis is limited. Though it does uncover valid symptoms, it is incapable of pointing to the cause of symptoms. … Not until the blood system is unable to get nutrients from someplace else in the body, because of total depletion, will the blood system show a deficiency. Why wait until then? We want to correct deficiencies and causes before they become full-blown-symptoms. We can also be sick, dis-eased in some part of our body; and yet, based on a blood analysis, nothing may “show up”. Blood test results simply aren’t complete enough for a useful analysis of whole-body chemistry of our interior terrain ~ Gene Kraus (slightly revised for clarity).

Add to the above the high-tech aspects of collecting, refrigerating and transporting fresh blood samples inThird World countries. These considerations were why the WHO biomarker group gave a low priority to proposals employing blood biomarkers. Too much technology required; separate lab operations required. All these details became much better known thru the Medical Olympics of 2042.

The WHO task group considered blood-derived biomarkers as a distant Plan B, useful only if no non-invasive, low-tech healthcare mode merited the Godl silver or Bronzae medals.

Q: Besides urine and saliva, are there any other non-invasive biomarkers which can determine whole-body wellness?

A: Human tears, fingernail clippings, tongue and pulse diagnosis were all proposed. None were judged to be of gold, silver or bronze level in reliability or train-ability.

To Learn More

“Proteomics approach and techniques in identification of reliable biomarkers for diseases” (2020) — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X20300218
“Blood Biomarker Profiling and Monitoring for High-Performance Physiology and Nutrition: Current Perspectives, Limitations and Recommendations” (2019) by Charles R. Pedlar, et al — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901403/

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Why not hair analysis?

Since the focus of USBA (RBTI) is an individual’s “mineral diet,” it would seem hair analysis, the mineral composition of hair ash, would be of great interest. Dr. A.F. Beddoe, DDS explains why Reams considered then discarded hair analysis in the 1930s.

Dr. Reams was not very interested in finding and removing heavy metals. Why? His aim was to make the body so healthy and full of reserve vitality, it can and would, over time, be able to re-make every cell in 180 days, including bones. If our body was working optimally, it would also never use any toxic materials. So in Reams’ mind we can image him thinking, get healthy; your body will stop using heavy metals in cells and will excrete them all. — Paraphrase from http://rbtiworld.com/2012/the-perfect-detoxification/

A big problem with hair analysis for RBTI purposes comes in this form. You can easily find hair analysis tests interpreting the calcium value like this: Calcium looks “adequate.” The per-cent of calcium in the hair ash falls into the “adequae” zone on the test results chart. In reality, calcium in the hair is telling us only the body is excreting a surplus of an unneeded kind of calcium into the hair. Hair analysis is unable to tell us about extras calcium being deposited in the body where it’s neither wanted nor needed: arthritic joints, heel spurs, bursitis lumps, spinal growths, or even a calcified liver — (Beddoe website)
[Hair analysis ignores how minerals are distorted by either a too-acid interior terrain; or, a too-alkaline interior terrain.] This is why hair analysis isn’t an accurate accurate method of whole-body mineral evaluation. Further, hair analysis never shows the multiple types of calciums; nor, which are in excess and which are deficient. [Because hair analysis results never incorporated pH, nor multiple kinds of calciums — clinicians remained in the dark.] … Hair analysis was unable to show how the lack of certain calciums caused the excesses of other calciums. [Lacking one or more calciums causes excessive build-up of other calciums. [Hair analysis only showed the apparent relative excess or deficiency of all calciums aggregated into one]. …When the pH drifts [in one direction] for too long a time, the body will develop a lack of calcium in some areas while showing excess calcium in other areas. — Beddoe pg. 73 end of page revised for clarity

Daily shaving of head needed to assess minerals thru hair

Hair Analysis has been suggested as another baseline test, especially for identifying excess heavy metals …

Reams, “As far as I know, I did the first hair analysis ever done … some 46 years ago (circa 1930). I discontinued it because you would have to shave your head every day to know something about what I needed to know. …” (p. 60 Kirban)

In this way, the public and media jounralists were educated about the problems inherent in defining optimal physicla health; and, problems in identifying clear Therapeutic Direction for recovering lost physical health.

Health insurers embrace USBA

There was one group to whom all the above was mostly old news. Health insurers. Insurers make the most money when premiums are paid; and, diseases-conditions are avoided-prevented. In the minds of health insurers, the 2042 Medical Olympics was doing cost-cutting research health insureres could have taken up decades earlier.

The first effect health insurers noted, was health costs for pesons served by the Nigerian USBA clinic plummeted. Anecdotal reports pourred into the few health insurers in Nigeia; then, spread to other insurers. Eventually research data was collected and the good news was verified and validated in The International Journal of Health Policy and Management — https://www.ijhpm.com Health insureres were warming up to USBA.

Over the next ten years, practice of USBA spread both among professionals and lay persons. Between 2044–2055, in countries and regions where USBA took hold, insurers saw payouts for healthcare soften and decline slowly and gradiually. America’s Health Insurance Plan (AHIP) recognized something unknown to them was occurring. Health claims were declining. Why? Health insurers following USBA closely made presentations to health insurers not yet familiar with the benefits of USBA for insurers. The good news spread. USBA was the common denominator in markets where healthcare costs were declining.

Clumps of people, usually starting around a local church, synagogue or mosque, families and friends, were employing USBA testing and consulting to take charge of their health to “get ahead of their diseases.” USBA ennabled people to stop and reverse more physical symptoms earlier, before expensive symptoms appeared, than drugs and medical procedures.

Also a benefit, the number of elderly persons using USBA testing and consulting who were healthy until a short terminal illness, rose dramatically. No prolonged illnesses, no prolonged hospitalization, no prolonged long-term nursing.

This definitely got the attention of health insurers. By 2056, AHIP was an enthusiastic supporter of USBA. Insurers were happy to pay for less expensive USBA consults rather than pay for surgeries and drugs at inflated hospital prices. USBA was effective at slowing, often reversing diseases; so, it was a cheaper form of healthcare than diagnose-drug-surgery for insurance companies.

Typical insurance billing for a USBA consult (2050s)

Item: 30 mins to collect, test and calculate urine-saliva numerical values.
Item: 30 min conversation with one or more consultants on the meaning and significance of the latest set of numbers.

Item: 15 minute discussion of future recommendations, which one, two or three diet-supplement-lifestyle experiments were likely to improve the client’s numbers on their next test.
Health insurers began promoting USBA testing-consulting worldwide in most countries.

By 2060 in the USA, 911 call centers noticed calls for healthcare emergencies in the USA were mysteriously declining. By 2065 the National Emergency Number Association — https://www.NENA.org figured out and began collecting data on how USBA was able to identify and treat with foods and minerals symptoms at very early stages. This is what was reducing later emergency situation and 911 calls. NENA became another big supporter and promoter of USBA healthcare.

By the 2080s health insurance became more like car insurance. If you own an individual use vehicle — like your physical body — your insurance rewards you with lower premiums for changing the oil and getting it checked out preventively every 30,000 miles. USBA testing only required equipment under $500. Starting with retired doctors and nurses, thousands more people, invested in equipoment sets to test themselves to overcome their own health challenges.

Q: Were electronic-computer-driven machines never invented to analyze urine-saliva?

A: Yes. However the most useful software merely plotted the seven numbers on a chart so the patron could more easily visualize how far outside the A Range they were. Human labor was still needed to test and generate the seven numbers.

Another machine, much more expensive equipment, could accept urine and saliva entered into recepticals for analysis. The problem here was contamination. These machines went out of calibration quickly and required frequent, thoro, labor-intensive cleaning. More trouble than they were worth. A trained human tester was more accurate and reliable most of the time.

Indeed, even with the manual method, test result accuracy depends in part on competent, knowledgeable CLEANING of reaction plates and utensils; as well as, avoiding errors which contaminate reagent bottles.

Another answer: In Germany since the 1980s, a long history exists of Electric acupuncture machines (EAV-Voll machines). After 40 years of such machines in professional use, an unexpected result emerged. Practs using digital EAV machines had shorter longevity in the health field than practs using old-fashioned needles and pulse diagnosis.

In other words, pushing a button to produce a printout of a patient’s condition is much less fun than a hands-on approach. Anyone can push a button. After a few months, the novelty wears off. What does NOT wear thin is the challenge of applying your own talents, your own experience; and, exercising your own iNtuition, both extraverted (Ne) and introverted (Ni) attempting to perceive this patient’s story, the facts of this person’s Internal Living Waters, interpreting the effects on their cells and organs, in support of their next positive therapeutic intervention.

The art of healing-rebuilding

A sizable number of USBA grads surveyed after two years working in the field say they remain enthused to continue. They like the personal challenge of using their training and experience to improve the lives of others. The appreciation received back from patrons continues to be a big job benefit. Pushing a button is not nearly as rewarding. In this way, USBA resists automation and remains partly analytical, partly an art, a balanced exercise of left and right brain intelligences.

For many USBA students, especially in their first two years of professional practice, consultant insight into metabolic activity is enhanced by doing your own R7 experiments and calculations; as opposed to, kicking back while a machine does a portion of your work for you.

So human effort won out over high-tech. This was also a godsend for third world countries and places without electricity, refrigeration and local computer repair shops.

One of the surprising outcomes of the 2042 Worldwide Medical Olympics sponsored by the WHO was the weakness; even, absence of proposals based on blood tests and blood biomarkers. Much of the public and in mass media were surprised to learn how nsuitable blood biomarkers are for the purpose of defining optimal metabolic wellness; and, for yielding theapeutic direction for healing.
We’ve described the 2042 Worldwide “Medical Olympics” sponsored by the WHO for the purpose of identifying new models and methods of ehalthcare capable of preventing future world pandemics.
One of the unexpected public health education benefits of these “Olympics” was informing and educating the public and mass media on how unsuitable blood tests and blood biomarkers are for two purposes:
- Defining optimal metabolic wellness; and,
- Yielding theapeutic direction for healing-rebuilding.
Of all the proposals pitched to the WHO, only three used blood biomarkers.
This became a big mental reset for the public and for mass media. Much discussion was stimulated because it created UNcertainty where formerly there had been — faulty — certrainty about the usefullness of blood tests.
Over several months of public discussion, people and journalists came to make the useful distinction between what purposes blood test results were reliable for; and, what blood test results were not useful for. PubMed published a number of new papers on this specifically.
Two more unexpected benefits resulted from this directly. One was tens of thousands of people began accessing PubMed online, government-funded research, a huge fraction of it free to access. This put “biomarkers” “on the map” in the public’s mind. The public began accepting biomarkers as a real thing. They began asking which biomarkers were more useful than blood test resutls, for defining optimal physical wellness?
Strengths of blood test biomarkers
For over a century, blood tests were used as a physiological profiling and monitoring tool.
A wealth of information based on robust research evidence can be gleaned from blood tests, including:
- identifying vitamin and mineral excesses or deficiencies;
- identifying oxidative stress and inflammation; and
- identifying the status of red blood cell populations.
Serial blood test data can be used to monitor athletes and make inferences about the efficacy of training interventions, nutritional strategies or indeed the capacity to tolerate training load. … — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901403/
Limitations of blood test biomarkers
How? Why? Our blood is highly engaged with both sugar and oxygen regulation, the two nutrients all cells and organs require for life. Human blood sugar “travels” a general 24 “wave” puncturated by meal times and fasting between meals. This makes blood biochemistry very changeable. Reams said, the blood is too changeable; it changes every 15 minutes. There is too much going on if your goal is specimens representing whole-body activity over a 3 hour to 12 hour period.
What about oxygen? Nature knows the blood pH at which oxygen is most easily on-boarded and offloaded by red blood cells. The main thing the body guads against is the blood going too acid. If blood pH leans too acid, either the kidneys release bicarbonate to raise the pH and/or the diaphragm moves more to take in bigger breaths of oxygen. This also raises the pH back into the healthy range.
These wonderful mechanisms keep our blood pH balanced. However, for the purposes of optimal physical wellness, which is based on lymph pH, not blood pH, which in turn is based on mineral intake, these blood chnages are statistical “noise.” This insight was probably first deduced and expressed by Carey Reams.
Limitations of live blood analysis
In the 1980s-2000s, Live Blood Analysis (LBA), putting a drop of your live blood on a TV monitor, gave many people more insight into the complexity of analysing blood thru visual inspection. Sadly, the legitimate method of LBA was hijacked by scammers selling vitamins in both the US and UK. YouTube videos of practioners analyzing and interpreting live blood cells on a TV monitor can be seen to be guessing as to what is happening, what they they are seeing and the causative factors involved.
The story of how LBA regained its scientific integrity and efficacy in the 2030s thru the sons of Henry Bigelsen, is beyond our scope here.
What was learned for USBA purposes was — Reams was correct; so many phenomena are visible in live blood analysis, so much “noise” exists, blood is not useful for the pupose of defining optimal physical wellness and identifying clear Therapeutic Direction towards healing and re-building.
In short, many disturbances show up in blood tests; yet, such tests are notorious for the lack of clarity they provide for the causes of visible disorders.
Blood analysis is limited. Though it does uncover valid symptoms, it is incapable of pointing to the cause of symptoms. … Not until the blood system is unable to get nutrients from someplace else in the body, because of total depletion, will the blood system show a deficiency. Why wait until then? We want to correct deficiencies and causes before they become full-blown-symptoms. We can also be sick, dis-eased in some part of our body; and yet, based on a blood analysis, nothing may “show up”. Blood test results simply aren’t complete enough for a useful analysis of whole-body chemistry of our interior terrain ~ Gene Kraus (slightly revised for clarity).
Add to the above the high-tech aspects of collecting, refrigerating and transporting fresh blood samples inThird World countries. These considerations were why the WHO biomarker group gave a low priority to proposals employing blood biomarkers. Too much technology required; separate lab operations required. All these details became much better known thru the Medical Olympics of 2042.
The WHO task group considered blood-derived biomarkers as a distant Plan B, useful only if no non-invasive, low-tech healthcare mode merited the Godl silver or Bronzae medals.
Q: Besides urine and saliva, are there any other non-invasive biomarkers which can determine whole-body wellness?
A: Human tears, fingernail clippings, tongue and pulse diagnosis were all proposed. None were judged to be of gold, silver or bronze level in reliability or train-ability.
To Learn More
“Proteomics approach and techniques in identification of reliable biomarkers for diseases” (2020) — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X20300218
“Blood Biomarker Profiling and Monitoring for High-Performance Physiology and Nutrition: Current Perspectives, Limitations and Recommendations” (2019) by Charles R. Pedlar, et al — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901403/
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Why not hair analysis?
Since the focus of USBA (RBTI) is an individual’s “mineral diet,” it would seem hair analysis, the mineral composition of hair ash, would be of great interest. Dr. A.F. Beddoe, DDS explains why Reams considered then discarded hair analysis in the 1930s.
Dr. Reams was not very interested in finding and removing heavy metals. Why? His aim was to make the body so healthy and full of reserve vitality, it can and would, over time, be able to re-make every cell in 180 days, including bones. If our body was working optimally, it would also never use any toxic materials. So in Reams’ mind we can image him thinking, get healthy; your body will stop using heavy metals in cells and will excrete them all. — Paraphrase from http://rbtiworld.com/2012/the-perfect-detoxification/
A big problem with hair analysis for RBTI purposes comes in this form. You can easily find hair analysis tests interpreting the calcium value like this: Calcium looks “adequate.” The per-cent of calcium in the hair ash falls into the “adequae” zone on the test results chart. In reality, calcium in the hair is telling us only the body is excreting a surplus of an unneeded kind of calcium into the hair. Hair analysis is unable to tell us about extras calcium being deposited in the body where it’s neither wanted nor needed: arthritic joints, heel spurs, bursitis lumps, spinal growths, or even a calcified liver — (Beddoe website)
[Hair analysis ignores how minerals are distorted by either a too-acid interior terrain; or, a too-alkaline interior terrain.] This is why hair analysis isn’t an accurate accurate method of whole-body mineral evaluation. Further, hair analysis never shows the multiple types of calciums; nor, which are in excess and which are deficient. [Because hair analysis results never incorporated pH, nor multiple kinds of calciums — clinicians remained in the dark.] … Hair analysis was unable to show how the lack of certain calciums caused the excesses of other calciums. [Lacking one or more calciums causes excessive build-up of other calciums. [Hair analysis only showed the apparent relative excess or deficiency of all calciums aggregated into one]. …When the pH drifts [in one direction] for too long a time, the body will develop a lack of calcium in some areas while showing excess calcium in other areas. — Beddoe pg. 73 end of page revised for clarity
Daily shaving of head needed to assess minerals thru hair
Hair Analysis has been suggested as another baseline test, especially for identifying excess heavy metals …
Reams, “As far as I know, I did the first hair analysis ever done … some 46 years ago (circa 1930). I discontinued it because you would have to shave your head every day to know something about what I needed to know. …” (p. 60 Kirban)
In this way, the public and media jounralists were educated about the problems inherent in defining optimal physicla health; and, problems in identifying clear Therapeutic Direction for recovering lost physical health.
Health insurers embrace USBA
There was one group to whom all the above was mostly old news. Health insurers. Insurers make the most money when premiums are paid; and, diseases-conditions are avoided-prevented. In the minds of health insurers, the 2042 Medical Olympics was doing cost-cutting research health insureres could have taken up decades earlier.
The first effect health insurers noted, was health costs for pesons served by the Nigerian USBA clinic plummeted. Anecdotal reports pourred into the few health insurers in Nigeia; then, spread to other insurers. Eventually research data was collected and the good news was verified and validated in The International Journal of Health Policy and Management — https://www.ijhpm.com Health insureres were warming up to USBA.
Over the next ten years, practice of USBA spread both among professionals and lay persons. Between 2044–2055, in countries and regions where USBA took hold, insurers saw payouts for healthcare soften and decline slowly and gradiually. America’s Health Insurance Plan (AHIP) recognized something unknown to them was occurring. Health claims were declining. Why? Health insurers following USBA closely made presentations to health insurers not yet familiar with the benefits of USBA for insurers. The good news spread. USBA was the common denominator in markets where healthcare costs were declining.
Clumps of people, usually starting around a local church, synagogue or mosque, families and friends, were employing USBA testing and consulting to take charge of their health to “get ahead of their diseases.” USBA ennabled people to stop and reverse more physical symptoms earlier, before expensive symptoms appeared, than drugs and medical procedures.
Also a benefit, the number of elderly persons using USBA testing and consutling who were healthy until a short terminal illness, rose dramatically. No prolonged illnesses, no prolonged hospitalization, no prolonged long-term nursing.
This definitely got the attention of health insurers. By 2056, AHIP was an enthusiastic supporter of USBA. Insurers were happy to pay for less expensive USBA consults rather than pay for surgeries and drugs at inflated hospital prices. USBA was effective at slowing, often reversing diseases; so, it was a cheaper form of healthcare than diagnose-drug-surgery for insurance companies.
Typical insurance billing for a USBA consult (2050s)
Item: 30 mins to collect, test and calculate urine-saliva numerical values.
Item: 30 min conversation with one or more consultants on the meaning and significance of the latest set of numbers.
Item: 15 minute discussion of future recommendations, which one, two or three diet-supplement-lifestyle experiments were likely to improve the client’s numbers on their next test.
Health insurers began promoting USBA testing-consulting worldwide in most countries.
By 2060 in the USA, 911 call centers noticed calls for healthcare emergencies in the USA were mysteriously declining. By 2065 the National Emergency Number Association — https://www.nena.org figured out and began collecting data on how USBA was able to identify and treat with foods and minerals symptoms at very early stages. This is what was reducing later emergency situation and 911 calls. NENA became another big supporter and promoter of USBA healthcare.
By the 2080s health insurance became more like car insurance. If you own an individual use vehicle — like your physical body — your insurance rewards you with lower premiums for changing the oil and getting it checked out preventively every 30,000 miles. USBA testing only required equipment under $500. Starting with retired doctors and nurses, thousands more people, invested in equipoment sets to test themselves to overcome their own health challenges.
Q: Were electronic-computer-driven machines never invented to analyze urine-saliva?
A: Yes. However the most useful software merely plotted the seven numbers on a chart so the patron could more easily visualize how far outside the A Range they were. Human labor was still needed to test and generate the seven numbers.
Another machine, much more expensive equipment, could accept urine and saliva entered into recepticals for analysis. The problem here was contamination. These machines went out of calibration quickly and required frequent, thoro, labor-intensive cleaning. More trouble than they were worth. A trained human tester was more accurate and reliable most of the time.
Indeed, even with the manual method, test result accuracy depends in part on competent, knowledgeable CLEANING of reaction plates and utensils; as well as, avoiding errors which contaminate reagent bottles.
Another answer: In Germany since the 1980s, a long history exists of Electric acupuncture machines (EAV-Voll machines). After 40 years of such machines in professional use, an unexpected result emerged. Practs using digital EAV machines had shorter longevity in the health field than practs using old-fashioned needles and pulse diagnosis.
In other words, pushing a button to produce a printout of a patient’s condition is much less fun than a hands-on approach. Anyone can push a button. After a few months, the novelty wears off. What does NOT wear thin is the challenge of applying your own talents, your own experience; and, exercising your own iNtuition, both extraverted (Ne) and introverted (Ni) attempting to perceive this patient’s story, the facts of this person’s Internal Living Waters, interpreting the effects on their cells and organs, in support of their next positive therapeutic intervention.
The art of healing-rebuilding
A sizable number of USBA grads surveyed after two years working in the field say they remain enthused to continue. They like the personal challenge of using their training and experience to improve the lives of others. The appreciation received back from patrons continues to be a big job benefit. Pushing a button is not nearly as rewarding. In this way, USBA resists automation and remains partly analytical, partly an art, a balanced exercise of left and right brain intelligences.
For many USBA students, especially in their first two years of professional practice, consultant insight into metabolic activity is enhanced by doing your own R7 experiments and calculations; as opposed to, kicking back while a machine does a portion of your work for you.
So human effort won out over high-tech. This was also a godsend for third world countries and places without electricity, refrigeration and local computer repair shops.