FAQ
Here are some questions which I’m frequently asked by clients and potential clients:
What type of practitioner are you?
I am a Health Kinesiologist. I trained over a period of three years, and amongst the topics I studied were muscle testing, anatomy and physiology, nutrition and energy balancing.
Since qualifying in 1999, I have been in private practice in the UK in Surrey and have also worked in London’s Harley Street for several years. I am now working from my office in Chichester, West Sussex.
How is your testing done?
I test with a small hair or fingernail sample that clients send me. The client’s sample is then put together with a test vial containing, for example, a particular toxin. When the combination of sample and toxin vial results in an indicator drop, it means that the toxin in the test vial is a problem for your body and needs to be eliminated with a supplement the client needs to take. If the indicator stays stable, it means that this toxin is not a problem for the client.
Once I have established that the toxin is a problem for my client, I start going through my test kit with supplements and start to put a supplement test vial with the client’s sample and toxin vial. If the indicator drops, it means that this is not the right supplement to eliminate this toxin from the client’s system. In that case, I need to check through more supplements until a supplement results in a stable indicator. This is the supplement that is right for the client and will help with the detox process.
This sounds quite unscientific!
Kinesiology is a recognised profession by the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).
Research on the accuracy of this testing can be found here
Is Health Kinesiology based on a placebo effect?
Many practitioners of HK work on their pets and other animals, and HK also works on babies and very small children.
I normally only treat humans, but once I had a request to treat a cat which suddenly developed problems with severe loss of fur with several bald patches. I tested with a sample of fur hair and found that a drop of a homeopathic remedy would solve the problem. A couple of weeks later, the owner contacted me to say that her cat’s shedding had stopped and the bald patches were starting to fill in again. So unless this cat sat there and thought, “Oh, I bet this extra drop on my food will make me better!”, I think we can agree that HK is not based on a placebo effect.
Will I get a complete vitamin and mineral profile with your test?
No. My testing focusses on toxicities and how to remove them from your body with supplements.
A profile of vitamin and mineral levels is nice to have but it will not help you with your health problem because it is not looking at the underlying reason why you are short of that mineral.
If you have such a profile done with a conventional laboratory test and the results show, for example, that you are low in ferritin, you will be advised to take an iron supplement. However, that will not give you the underlying reason WHY you are low in ferritin. Iron is a very important detoxifier, but just adding iron to your daily routine will not solve your health problem. The question is why your body is low on ferritin. You may have amalgam fillings or root canals in your teeth that may deplete your body of iron, or your diet may be deficient in iron for example, or, in some cases, your brain may not be able to recognise iron so treats your iron supplement like something that needs to be thrown out of the body.
One of my hair loss clients had amalgam fillings in her teeth, and once these were removed and an appropriate detox was done with supplements, her hair grew again and her iron levels normalised when she had a laboratory check the levels again. Another client had spent a lot of time and money having psychotherapy because he suffered from depression. After testing him for toxic metals and invasive organisms (=microbes) and testing for the right supplements, his depression disappeared. – Neither of these two clients had iron on their tested supplement plan, even though their laboratory tests showed a deficiency.
So once I have had your tests done, can I stop my prescribed medication?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! Please continue to take your medication as prescribed by your doctor. When you have detoxed sufficiently, I will ask you to see your doctor and ask whether your dose of your medication can be reduced with a view of eventually phasing it out. You need your doctor’s permission to do so.
I am a vegetarian. Why are you saying on the order form that my chances of recovery are reduced?
When you are vegetarian, you normally still eat dairy (=animal milk products) and eggs. If you are ill, there are toxins in your system, and if there are toxic metals in your body, it is not possible to get them out without animal protein. 99% of my clients are dairy-intolerant, and if they are eating animal milk products, they become even more poorly. If you are vegetarian and you cannot have dairy, you are left with only eggs as your animal protein source. This makes it more likely that you develop an intolerance to eggs because there is not enough animal-protein variety in your diet. And yes, beans also contain protein but it simply doesn’t have the detox effect that meat or fish have. When I started working with clients 24 years ago, I did accept vegetarians for testing but had only very limited success, whereas those clients who had even just 2 tablespoons of meat or 3 tablespoons of fish a day, on 5 days a week, had much better results with their supplement plans.
The need for animal protein is also the reason why I am unable to accept clients who are vegan.
Does the price of your tests include the necessary supplements?
No, it doesn’t. What you pay for is the testing itself and the facility to ask me questions after you have received your test results. I am not affiliated with any particular supplement company. My focus is on the quality of the supplements, with as few fillers and binders in the tablets, capsules or drops as possible. If I am able to get a discount with some companies because I am a kinesiologist, I will always pass the discount on to you.
Why can't I order Test 4 Supplements without also ordering Test 3 Food Intolerances?
The reason is that taking the best supplements won’t help make you better if you are still eating foods that you don’t tolerate. While taking the supplements from your supplement plan start the detox process, eating your problem foods will stop the detox which means you are wasting your money on the supplements.