Hi, I received an avalanche of emails interested in Carey Reams testing method. One group of emails were from folks who are interested in being tested. The second group of emails were from folks who were interested in learning how to perform the testing. Some of the emails werent clear as to which of those two options they were interested in. I think there were even a few folks who simply wanted to know more about Reams and what he did.
I decided to compose a letter that addressed all of these options, so I wouldnt have to write and send 15-20+ different emails! Anyone who wants to get more info or ask questions, etc., should contact me off-list, or post to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silver-off-topic-list The following is the content of my Metabolic Bioanalysis brochure: INTRODUCTION: Metabolic Bioanalysis is the system of performing urine/saliva testing using specific laboratory equipment for the purpose of determining biochemical imbalances in the human body. The concept is that, if the human body is kept in balance and given the nutrients it needs, it will produce and maintain good health. There are five tests conducted that indicate where attention needs to be paid to one's diet and lifestyle in order to achieve metabolic balance. These tests include: 1. pH (Acid/alkaline) levels. This test indicates which type of calcium (alkalinizing, acidifying or neutral) is most needed in the subject's body to ensure sound bone and teeth structure and development. It also indicates the level of mineral reserve in the body, the speed and efficiency of the digestion, how well the body is assimilating nutrients, blood insulin efficiency and other important facets of human metabolism. 2. Total blood sugars. This test determines the total blood sugars level, not just glucose. This can be important for people with a tendency towards diabetes or hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), as well as other factors such as energy level, mental alertness, etc. 3. Total electrolytes level. Electrolytes conduct electricity within the body. This test gives insight into energy levels, pressure on the heart and other organs, water requirements, etc. 4. Total Ureas. Ureas are by-products of protein metabolism, and this test establishes how much protein should be included in the subject's diet, how well they are digesting protein, what kind of protein that client should be consuming, the effect on the heart and other indicators. 5. Albumin (cell debris). This test indicates how fast the client is aging, cell structure integrity, and affects the readings of the other tests. With the results of these tests, I am able to recommend a specific type of diet and supplement program which is individualized to the client's particular metabolic needs, and designed to encourage the body to balance it's chemistry and optimize it's capacity to heal itself. Normally, balance can be improved using natural healthy foods, self-administered natural therapies and the specific supplements indicated by the tests. I do not diagnose diseases nor prescribe cures for them. HISTORY: Metabolic Bioanalysis was first developed in the early 1930's by the late biophysicist/biochemist Dr. Carey Reams. Early in his career, Reams had earned a reputation for his work in the field of agriculture and animal husbandry. Dr. Reams would test and analyze a farmer's soil, and when the farmer would follow Reams' recommendations for treating and restoring the soil to optimum productivity, the farmer would frequently experience up to a five-fold increase in crop production. Dairy cows fed with grain that was grown on this improved soil were known to produce 3-5 times more milk than ordinary dairy cows, and the milk was noticeably sweeter and creamier. In the late 1930's, Dr. Reams had a neighbor who had a little boy, 3 1/2, whom the doctors said was having epileptic seizures. The doctors had told the boy's father that his son would not live beyond the age of 5, that one day he would go into a seizure he would not recover from. At this time the boy was having 8 seizures per day, and medicine had no effect. Dr. Reams took the principles of biochemistry that he had developed in the field of animal husbandry and applied them to human biochemistry. Dr. Reams (not a medical doctor, but a biochemist/biophysicist) took samples from the boy's body of everything it was possible to get a sample of and discovered that all the test results were duplicated in urine and saliva. (Reams believed he was the first person to ever do hair analysis). He made suggestions to the father of diet changes and supplements. After one month, the boy was down to one or two seizures per day, and after three months, all seizures had stopped. By 1968, Reams was traveling 150,000 miles per year as an agricultural consultant. After he retired as an agricultural consultant, a 20-year old girl with Hodgkin's disease came to see him, telling him that the doctors had given her 30 days to live. He tested her, made recommendations, and she recovered. After that, people began to seek him out in large numbers. As Reams' reputation spread and the demand for his attention grew, he decided to teach his analysis method to others. Though Dr. Reams died in 1988, today his bioanalysis technique is practiced and taught by his son, Eugene Reams, and his many students throughout the U.S. and Canada. Dr. Reams raised six children to adulthood, and none of them ever had a cold, ever had a cavity, ever missed a day of school in their lives! (They were all honor students, too.) People would come to Dr. Reams and say, "I'm experiencing such-and-such a symptom, what do you think I should do?", and Reams would say, "I don't know, I haven't tested you. Don't tell me your symptoms, I don't trust symptoms. I only want to see what your test numbers are. The numbers never lie." He had no favorite diets (except good, natural food), and he didn't believe in consuming unnecessary nutritional supplements. His philosophy was, find out what your body needs, supply that to your body, and you will experience better health. THE BIOANALYST: My name is Terry Chamberlin. I have been trained in using Dr. Reams' urine/saliva analysis method and first began testing people in 1984. I have taken the Bachelor of Science Degree course in Nutritional Consultation from the American College of Nutripathy in Scottsdale, Arizona and the Certified Nutritional Consultant course from the College of Nu-Health in Klamath Falls, Oregon. I completed the Biological Theory of Ionization Course taught by Dr. Sandy Beddoe (one of Dr. Reams' students). I also participated in the hands-on week-long training by Eugene Reams, Dr. Carey Reams' son. In addition, I received off-campus training from Dr. Joseph Manthei, who for many years was Dr. Carey Reams' closest associate in his practice, and his top student. Further comments: After Dr. Reams helped that first little boy, word got around and people began to flock to his door. The local medical folks charged him with practising medicine w/out a license, so he moved to another state and bought a ranch. Pretty soon, 300 people a month were coming to him. The doctors in that state got him thrown in jail for a year, so he sold his ranch, moved to another state and bought a ranch way out in the boonies with no street signs. Still, 300 people a month showed up. One night, someone came in and burned his ranch down. So he moved to another state, and began doing what he should have done from the start: Teach his testing method to others. When I first read one of the books about Dr. Reams, it addressed some very important concerns I had had about the nutritional field. When I first began investigating the field of holistic health (back in the 70's), I didn't like the fact that 10 different people would write 10 different books describing 10 different diets that everyone should eat, accompanied by wonderful testimonies from people who had experienced renewed health. Yet each of these books described diets that were mutually exclusive of each other. One author would declare with great authority that everyone should eat 75 grams of protein per day, while another would state unequivocally that the healthiest diet was pure vegan. Some said no dairy products, another said heavy dairy products. Some said we needed lots of supplements, others said all we needed was good food. When I started to get training, and later when I visited with some of Reams' students, and when I spent a week of intensive all-day training with Dr. Reams' son, I was struck by the individualization that the testing produced. One client was told to eat no protein at all, not even grains, until their chemistry balanced. Another needed 8-ounces of beef per day, again until their chemistry balanced. One client who came in was dying of leukemia. The practitioner (this was in Oregon) put her on a pound of bacon per day. When he told me that, I just about yelled, "BACON?!?! WHY THAT'S FULL OF SODIUM NITRATE!!" But as soon as I said that, I remembered that one of the tests is to determine the level of nitrate nitrogens, which is a by-product of protein metabolism. This doctor told me, "Yeah, her nitrates were so low, I was afraid she would fall into a coma. I had her eat the bacon for one week, tested her, and then told her to never eat bacon again". Dr. Reams, near the end of his career, stated that he had treated 50,000 cancer patients in his lifetime, and only seven of them died from cancer. Plus, these were usually patients who had suffered the doctors worst, then came to Reams as a last resort. Did Reams know everything? No. He didn't know about colloidal silver. But most of Reams' students have gone into hiding from FDA persecution. I am in Canada, in the most relaxed province (for alternative health), and have found a very good reception from the folks here. As far as testing others, I have been unable to find a way to stabilize a urine specimen so that it can be sent to me through the mail and still give accurate testing results. However, one of the main components of the testing is the pH testing. I can do that through the mail by sending a special, very accurate pH paper to my clients. They will test themselves (I provide instructions exactly how to do the testing) and send/email me the results. I will, from these pH numbers, know what kind of calcium they need, what their digestion is doing, and other kinds of information. The pH paper is $20 for a role of it that should last you 6 months to a year. I charge $25 to interpret the numbers and make recommendations. You should first call your local Health Food stores and ask them if they carry pH paper made by a company called Greens Plus. If they do, you will be able to purchase it cheaper than you can get it from me. My philosophy is to only sell my clients those items that I can sell them more economically than they can get them anywhere else, or of a higher quality than can normally be acquired elsewhere, or that they cannot even find where they live. But first, I usually recommend they call around to see if that item can be acquired where they live. Some of the supplements that Dr. Reams felt were highly important are not available everywhere, or are only available from one or two sources. As far as learning to test other people, theres two parts to that idea: One is acquiring the equipment. It can be purchased from a company called Pike Agri-labs. www.pikeagri.com phone: 207-897-9267 orders: 866-745-3247 [email protected] I am presently trying to determine how economically that can be accomplished, but havent heard back from them. Some of the equipment and chemicals they sell is standard stuff, sold by many agriculture supply places. But at least one of the chemicals is unique, developed by Reams for a unique test of his own. The second part is to learn how to perform the tests, and interpret the results. What we are essentially talking about here is a correspondence course. When I envision a Metabolic Bioanalysis course (my name for the Reams testing), I tend to want to focus on practical stuff - how to do the test, things you should know right away, test results and conditions you will see the most often, therapies you will recommend the most often, etc. The principles behind it are good to know, but can come later. Actually, it can be confusing when you study some of the principles Reams used, because he disagreed with mainstream science and medicine about some very basic assumptions. He felt that certain basic misunderstandings had been accepted early in the formation of modern scientific thought, and politics and pride had prevented them from being re-examined and corrected. One approach to a course I have been considering makes it more economical for the student, and keeps me from having to focus 2 or 3 weeks of time (which would be nearly impossible for me to spare) composing it. That idea is to teach the students how to perform the tests (the student would have to purchase the lab kit first). Then the student emails me the test numbers and I return email the interpretation, along with comments intended to explain how I got that interpretation. This would enable me to slowly, in pieces, assemble a written body of teaching and explanation (the student would also be getting this info in lessons). The student would, of course, pay me for my interpretation. This would enable the student to begin working with clients as soon as he/she learned how to perform the tests. By emailing the results to me and my responding within a day or two, the students would be able to offer recommendations to their clients, while at the same time take the "course". If the students received payment from their clients, that would finance payment of the course to me. Even if the student charged no more than they were paying me, their clients would be financing the students education. Also, the student could learn at their own speed. All explanations and interpretations would be emailed to all students, so they would see the interpretations of other sets of numbers, plus my responses to those numbers. What do you think of that idea? Let me know, maybe I'll compose a more detailed course proposition, including prices, etc. The equipment that Pike carries that Reams testers use is mostly all generic stuff used by agriculture scientists and others. Depending on how high-tech you want to get, you can purchase chemicals for pH testing (cheapest), or digital devices that are faster and easier to use (most expensive). If you tell Pike you want to buy the equipment needed for Reams testing, and you want the economical route, or the high-tech route, they will tell you what you need. They keep the references to Reams very low-key, for obvious reasons. Although Mike Devour kindly allowed me to post this post that you are reading to the silver-list, I would like to move further discussion about Reams off the silver-list, whether to the off-topic list, or directly to my email address, [email protected]. Terry Chamberlin Metabolic Solutions Institute RR1 314 Carleton Rd Lawrencetown, NS B0S 1M0 902-584-3810 voice 413-826-7641 fax service [email protected] _______________________________________________________ Build your own website in minutes and for free at http://ca.geocities.com -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
