Biological Dentistry: New Blog, Major Health Support

This is likely the final entry into this early blog that I began for sharing some of the important things that I want my patients and the general public to know. Biological Dentistry can transform the sad and ugly look of mouths such as that one (of a cancer patient).

I have posted a new blog on my clinical website and you are invited to visit that and subscribe to receive future blog postings.

The address is: http://naturalconnectionshealthcare.com/blog/2010/clean-to-the-bone-biological-dentistry/

Many of you have had your Mercury dental fillings removed. The picture above was included so that you will remember the suffering, debility and often pain that you experienced before you were helped by Biological Dentistry. Please tell others about the health recovery that may be theirs if they visit a biological dentist.

Best wishes to you all for a healthy and meaningful Christmas/Holiday season!

Ralph Wilson, N.D., Washington DC

Deepening Commitment to NIHA Success

Finding your way to the Integrative Medicine services of NIHA is easy: Just follow the signs.

National Integrated Health Associates (NIHAdc.com) has developed an increasingly visible location on what I call "the healthcare landscape" in the USA.

A Holistic Integrative Medicine and Dental Center, NIHA has recently expanded its offerings to include Holistic Primary Care. With the NIHA Newsletter, NIHA Webinars, online Library of health information, and the new easy-to-use online Wellness Store, the word is getting around that NIHA is a giant on the healthcare landscape.

For the past ten years I have known Mark McClure, DDS, FAGD (NIHA co-founder) since meeting him at workshops of Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., Ph.D. It has been deeply rewarding professionally for me to have been a clinical associate at NIHA since October 2001. I purposely chose to move to Washington DC so that I could help serve our country through my contributions to the growth of health care opportunities for the public.

One of the brilliant practitioners at NIHA is Bruce Rind, M.D., whose innovations are becoming legendary in the integrative medicine community. His assessments and treatments are helping people who had otherwise been given no hope for improvement, such as from strokes, chronic fatigue, thyroid/adrenal conditions and much more. He has information on the NIHA site, as well as on his earlier website: DrRind.com.

These past months and upcoming months mark a pivotal time in NIHA's growth and in the ways that I am contributing to the integrative medicine team there. We have recently been joined by healthcare innovator Steven Shafarman, developer of FlexAware fitness and rehabilitation education. I recently wrote a NIHA blog entry about the Integrative Physical Health Initiative at NIHA which began with Steve's insightful recommendation.

There are other enhancements and additions yet to come to NIHA's services to the public locally, nationally and even globally through the Internet.

I invite you to visit NIHA's internet site (NIHAdc.com) and my own clinical site (NaturalConnectionsHealthcare.com) for more information. It is deeply rewarding for me to contribute to NIHA's success.

Expanding Service for DC Area: Washington Institute

One of the most seasoned of leaders in healthcare growth whom I've met is Dr. Victoria Goldsten -- founder of the Washington Institute of Natural Medicine (WINMdc.com).

The Institute has been a consistent resource for both natural medicine services and training in what they call Traditional Naturopathy or Classical Naturopathy. For several years I have been a supporter of this facility in their former location in the Cleveland Park/National Zoo area of the District of Columbia.

During the past few years when the District of Columbia was considering how to regulate the practices of the relatively new profession of Naturopathic Physician, I have been a consistent advocate for allowing a regulatory structure that honors the public benefits of both of these natural medicine professions. I have observed Dr. Goldsten and naturopaths from DC and surrounding states as they diligently gave inputs to the process and responded to various developments regarding practice of natural health methods in The District.

I am particularly impressed with the Washington Institute's contribution to education in natural medicine and natural health approaches. My repeated statement to them is that their structure for teaching is in alignment with the old-fashioned method of training apprentices using on-site and hands-on learning as a key addition to their online educational opportunities.

Dr. Goldsten's unique "Natural Health Exam" is an example of the eclectic blend of techniques of assessment and treatment that is reminiscent of when I was a student of Dr. John Bastyr, Dr. Gary Berg and others who understood the interface between the "old school" naturopathic doctors and the newly developing profession of "naturopathic physician."

Now that the Washington Institute has relocated to the Tenleytown area of northwest DC, I have begun seeing patients there on a part-time basis. I will be offering the Natural Health Exam, to ensure continuity of their record-keeping system and to enable more effective communication about patient cases when I ask other practitioners at the Institute to participate in their care. I will also offer laboratory testing and other scientific approaches of assessment and treatment as I draw upon my extensive background in western medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, Ayurveda, Craniosacral therapy, biofeedback, counseling, hypnotherapy, physical medicine and more.

I invite you to visit the Institute's internet site (WINMdc.com) and my own clinical site (NaturalConnectionsHealthcare.com) for more information. It is deeply rewarding for me to now include part-time practice there in support of that important Washington DC institution.

"Which lever do I pull, and when?"

Especially when someone has a complex health situation going on, they have multiple choices of assessment and treatments. Whether it is for improving health of body or mind, each person can benefit from looking at life as a process of discovering what works and what does not work for them.

First of all I advise them to learn more about "who is it that is pulling the lever?" What is their basic character type and how might that affect their ability to appreciate the different options for learning about and treating their health concern?

As a doctor of natural medicine I can give them information from these perspectives:
1. Homeopathic personality archetypes [reviewed here];
2. Traditional Chinese Medicine and emotions related to organs [introduced here];
3. Ayurvedic Medicine and personality types [introduction]; and,
4. Rayid Emotional Iridology [introduction].

After we have discovered at least some clues about their personality and neuro-emotional "hard wiring" we can then look at the Three Control Systems that each person has with which to manage their life. [See earlier blog: "Living Inside the Box".] There may be one of the three that seems to offer more return for the investment of time and energies for assessment and treatment using that control system as the starting point.

A quote from Hippocrates is appropriate here:

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."

After choosing which one or more of the control systems may bring about significant improvement in health, we then move to the stage of choosing which assessments and treatments to employ.

My practitioner profile at NIHA will give you an idea of some of the assessments and treatments that I can choose. The NIHA practitioners with whom I sometimes join in integrative medicine programs for patients have an impressive list of assessments and treatments that can become part of a program of combined care if you should choose that option.

Here are two out of several aspects that I consider to be very important in deciding which step to take next:
1. Autonomic Regulation and its importance to health care: Blog--Autonomic Self-Regulation: The Power of Life; and
2. The NES ProVision bodyfield scan with Infoceutical supplements to remove distortions in the bodyfield: NES International Headquarters; NES U.S.A. Headquarters; The Living Matrix Movie (which features NES developer, Peter Fraser, acupuncture educator).

In the end, the decision about what will be most effective depends on you. I act as a coach as well as a detective and a doctor. I have always been impressed with the way people's outcomes depend on their learning about how to manage their life and then gaining access to the assessments and treatments that can help their body heal itself.

I am glad to be part of the NIHA community of clinical associates. You are invited to visit the NIHA website, read in the online Library, sign up for complimentary webcasts about current health topics and choose which practitioner(s) you would like to consider seeing to improve your health.