Alice had been through the medical doctor route.  She had become quite familiar with antibiotics for her colds and flu, and also took synthetic thyroid hormone—­the doctor had diagnosed her fatigue as being caused by an underactive thyroid, which was partly correct—­but the thyroid medication didn’t give her much more energy.  Alice had been supporting this medical doctor in grand style for over thirty years but never obtained the relief she sought.

I put Alice through my usual two hour first-time-visit thorough analysis.  For two weeks before coming to see me she had saved tiny samples of everything she ate, wrapped them in plastic film, carefully labeled, and put them in the freezer.  Along with these food samples and a typed list of all these foods, she brought a big box full of her condiments, herb teas, vitamins, spices, prescription medications, over the counter drugs, oils, grains, breads, crackers and small samples of her usual fresh vegetables and fruits.  Even her water.  Her entire kitchen!  By biokinesiology we proceeded to test all of her foods for allergic reactions.  I also tested the integrity of her organs and glands and in the process, got a detailed medical history and list of her complaints.

Alice had exhausted adrenals, and they probably had been that way for thirty years.  Her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetarian diet.  She was allergic to wheat, soy, and dairy products and had especially been eating dairy in the mistaken notion that it was necessary to keep up her protein intake.  Really very typical.  So many health food store shoppers these days mistakenly believe that, because they are vegetarian and do not eat meat, they especially need to boost their protein intake with dairy and soy.  Unfortunately, so many North Americans are highly allergic to dairy and unfortunately, soy products are as hard or harder to digest than cooked meats.

Alice was especially shocked to discover that she was allergic to such foods as cabbage family vegetables, alfalfa sprouts and citrus.  Most people don’t think that anyone could be allergic to something as healthy as alfalfa sprouts.  The doctor was right about one thing; her thyroid was underperforming.  He had not noticed that her heart was weak.

Medical doctors rarely discover an organ weakness until that organ actually begins to catastrophically fail.  A busy honest doctor will usually tell the complaining patient there is nothing wrong with them:  go home, take two aspirin, accept the fact that your body is not perfect and don’t worry about it.  A hungry doctor will be delighted to perform countless lab tests, seeking any possible reason for the complaint.  This can go on as long as the patient has money or as long as the insurance company will pay.  They rarely find anything “wrong” and the patient is far better off if the doctor doesn’t discover something “serious” to treat because their treatment may carry with it consequences far more severe than the complaint.  For example, I have seen dozens of people whose lives were virtually ruined after surgical treatment for chronic back pain.