The new healthcare paradigm coming
For 20 years we thought Functional Medicine might be the new paradigm. We were wrong
The old medical paradigm was a linear equation: Germs cause cell and tissue pathology. Nature’s most numerous helpers, the cleanup crew, microbes, were blamed for our physical health symptoms. The old medical paradigm was also fear-based: Nature is out to kill us. We need to protect ourselves from Nature.
The new paradigm is taking along time to manifest publicly. Why? It’s more complex, more nuanced; and, includes Feeling, Intuition, Imagination and Inspiration. This means more women are more likely to resonate with — and get good at — the new healthcare than men. One-sided, Patriarchal males despise areas where women are naturally superior.
I conceive of RBTI as part of a larger topic, Metabolic Typing or Metabolic Patterns. This is:
- Identifying basic metabolic systems (lymph biochemistry is one of these systems),
- Learning and performing the non-invasive tests for each system,
- Producing numerical biomarkers from your tests,
- Discard “normal” and “average” reference ranges; use only optimal reference ranges,
- Compare your biomarkers to the A Range of health.
Do this a few times and it’s obvious if you are trending towards or away from optimal wellness.
Q: Do I have to test all my metabolic systems?
A: No. RBTI tests only one system. However, the more metabolic systems you address this way, the more clearly an individual’s bio-chemical uniqueness comes to light and can be profiled. Make sense?
RBTI uses optimal reference ranges for one major metabolic system, lymph. I consider RBTI the middle school, high school and community college level of Metabolic Typing. More recent MetType methods test the optimal reference ranges for 2–5 major systems.
Q: Without invasive tests and bloods tests, how do we address our multiple major and minor metabolic systems?
A: It’s easy. All we need to do is identify:
- Which systems are over-charged (hyper),
- Which systems are under-charged (hypo), and
- Which systems are already balanced?
Then we modulate our internal systems with food and drink we eat. Specifically, we calm down our hyper systems, we stimulate our hypo systems; and, we nourish our balanced systems.
Physical health as a “three body problem” ~
Given the above, it’s more accurate to describe physical health as a juggling problem, juggling three to five different balls.
This replaces the old linear medical equation: “suppress and extinguish all physical symptoms.” Instead of linear equations, “Germs bad; sickness bad; doctors good; drugs good; surgery good,” the new “three body problem” paradigm is more sophisticated, evolved, nuanced and effective. Physical health never was a linear equation. Physical health was always an internal community effort, between all your major and minor metabolic systems.
Can we make the new healthcare paradigm simple? Simple enuf to explain to a young child? Yes we can. Mother Nature has a Plan for human physical health. We are following Nature’s Plan for human wellness.
All we have to do is:
- Keep doing non-invasive vital signs-like tests,
- Compare our numbers to reference ranges for optimal health, if we do
- We can “follow the numbers” to wellness, a maxim of Dr. Reams.
I conceive of RBTI as an excellent foundation for Metabolic Typing for two reasons. For one, among all MetType methods, RBTI offers the simplest, most tangible learning curve. I consider RBTI the middle school, high school; and, community college level of Metabolic Typing.
The second reason RBTI is an excellent foundation for Metabolic Typing is this. The results of all healthcare practices, from foot doctoring, to acupuncturists, to brain surgeoning — are improved or accelerate by bringing the patient’s lymph biochemistry towards its healthy A Range, as Reams-Beddoe did. Where this is most true, is in hospital Recovery Rooms after surgery. Make sense?
Q: What was off about Functional Medicine?
A: Between 1990–2010 it appeared Functional Medicine (FM) might take over as the leading edge of mainstream holistic healthcare. However around 2010 Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, trained in both journalism at TIME magazine; and, in Metabolic Typing put FM in its place. He charcterized FM as merely “Green Pathology.”
In the old Germ Pathology Medical Paradigm, doctors diagnose, then apply non-nutritive, patent drugs (pharmaceuticals) until all physical symptoms are extinguished or suppressed; or until, surgery is required.
Dr. Gonzalez said Green Pathology merely swaps out drugs and surgery trial and error for vitamins, herbs and homeopathics. The old pathology paradigm remains:
- Trial-and-error,
- Distrusting Nature, fearing Nature and her microbes,
- Disinterest in how to support the immune system with food and drink,
- Paying an expert to tell us what to take, waiting to see if it helps or not.
