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Simply put, clinical nutrition is allowing the body to do what it has been designed to do—repair itself, by using clinically potent phyto-nutrients from whole food sources.

Vitamins, minerals, enzymes and thousands of other complex compounds from foods combine to support the immune system, balance blood chemistry and supply the building blocks for regenerative cell growth. Without these nutrients, the body is incapable of repair and maintaining good health. You can literally starve to death and have plenty of food to eat.

Clinical nutritional therapy provides the missing pieces your body needs to regain chemical balance. Without this balance, disease and illness have ample opportunity to invade, and without a strong immune system for protection, can have devastating results. The body can repair itself in many ways given the right raw materials to work with. The correct raw materials are found in food and food concentrates. It is an amazing process that combines these nutrients with digestive enzymes and begins the manufacturing process to give the body raw building materials to repair and regenerate.

Regenerative Medicine

Doctors and scientists have been studying regenerative medicine for quite some time. Good progress is being made in tissue growth and organ replacement research using stem cells and patient tissue cells to “re-grow” body parts. The best progress has been documented when the patients own cells are used--which certainly answers the debate over embryonic stem cell research. Our bodies keep producing stem cells right up to the time of our death; that’s a medical fact. What researchers are trying to do is produce body parts outside the body from a synthetic basis. But the intricate design of our solid organs is far too complex to duplicate. However, amazing progress in some areas like skin transplants are showing great promise.

Another example of regenerative medicine working is when researchers used pig bladder stem cells to help a man re-grow his finger after being partially amputated. The researchers ground up the dried bladder containing active stem cells, and applied it to the finger. The stem cells stimulated the mans own regenerative cells and within a few short months, the finger returned to normal size, and even regenerated the finger print. Is that not amazing?

The one constant found in this cutting edge therapy is that when the patients own cells are used, and their own body’s capacity to heal is given opportunity, miracles can happen. This would not be possible without a strong foundation to work from. Clinical nutrition provides that structure.

When we eat overly processed foods, devoid of anything resembling nutrition, we short change ourselves and hobble our ability to be healthy. Supplementing with vitamins and mineral products are fine when needed. Using chemical synthetics and fractions of vitamins and nutrients instead of the whole food form, however, can result in disappointing nutritional results. There is no such thing as a riboflavin bush or vitamin D tree in nature. Vitamins and minerals are best when they contain all of the trace minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, macro and micro-nutrients as found in a whole food form. If you take a supplement that is a chemical synthetic, or just contains a piece of the whole nutrient, then you are essentially taking a drug. A drug changes the function of a gland organ or tissue, but does not change the structure of it. The body combines nutrients with complex bio-chemical processes to change the structure of it on a cellular level, in effect changing the function from the inside out.

Clinical nutrition uses the best whole food organic products to effect chemical change in the body. When the body is balanced, symptoms go away (some times quickly, other times not so quick), but change happens and health returns.

Even with regenerative medicine in its infancy, it has become apparent that success hinges upon the bodies ability to accept and work with “raw material.” We can substantially increase our potential for a long and healthy life by keeping the chemistry part of our body running smart and efficient. Clinical nutrition is by far the best tool out there, in my opinion, to establish and maintain good health for the long term.

I believe that stem cell therapy will provide the opportunity to see near miraculous health benefits in the near future. If the moral implications, logistics and negative public sentiment can be worked out, this therapy, I believe, will show great promise for otherwise untreatable conditions.

The idea that stem cells can be introduced into the body, and then transform into specific building blocks of nerve tissue, organ tissue or whatever the body needs to heal and rebuild, is exciting to say the least. Early research has shown that stem cell therapy can work.

Organic Stem Cells

Yet even before stem cells research, our bodies already contained the genetic blueprint in the cell nucleus for repair and re-growth. When this blueprint goes awry, our immune system overreacts with the end result of autoimmune disease and even early death. These tiny specks of life are called protomorphogens (PMGs), and are the blueprint skeletons for regeneration of tissue. PMGs accomplish this feat by actually helping in the construction of chromosomes, the final blueprint of life itself.

Early in the twentieth century, Dr. Royal Lee, the founder of Standard Process products, found that he could actually gather PMGs from the glands and organs of other mammals. He engineered a process to gather these cells and manufacture supplements that the human body could use. To my knowledge there is no other company that can duplicate this process.

Through the use of these PMGs, specific gland and organ tissue extracts can be used to help the body recover and rebuild new tissue and help the healing process. In the purest sense, we have at our disposal organic stem cell therapy. In addition to tissue repair, these products are extremely supportive to our immune system.

Auto Immune Disease

When the immune system goes haywire, autoimmune diseases are the result. The body will produce natural tissue antibodies or NTAs that turn on the body and cause disease and illness. A certain amount of these NTAs are necessary for normal body repair, however when gone unchecked, they can and will cause damage. Unfortunately, at this time western medicine has few treatment options short of powerful and sometimes harmful drugs.

Enter in PMGs and their natural ability to normalize and strengthen our immune system and correct specific gland and organ tissue imbalance. They do this by stabilizing the production of natural tissue antibodies. Therefore, PMGs are critical in the fight against autoimmune problems.

Most allergies are the result of over production of NTAs which cause an adverse production of histamine in the body. When protomorphogens are used, an over reactive immune system—an over production of NTAs, can be stabilized and reduced. This means that PMGs can help you reduce the pain of autoimmune disease and help correct allergies.

By “borrowing” PMGs from other mammals, incorporating them into supplements that contain the raw materials (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc.) for healing and growth, Dr. Lee was able to demonstrate that these specific supplements could help people heal when no other treatments were effective. The discovery of PMGs was not well understood, but further research and study found them similar to stem cells. Remember that stem cells can reproduce into any type of cell. PMGs are specific to the target tissue, gland or organ. Whereas stem cells are “blank” blueprints, PMGs are directed to their specific target—kidney to kidney, thyroid to thyroid and brain to brain etc.

When we supply the appropriate PMG in a supplement form with all the synergists and vital whole food nutrients, your body begins to heal itself. You are the only one that heals your body. No doctor, medical procedure or medication does that for you. It can help, but ultimately you are the true healer.

Traditional Medicine

Traditional medicine had a brief foray into PMG therapy which was called oral tolerance therapy. This therapy introduced bits of raw gland into the body and then the targeted gland or organ was observed for changes. Positive response was noted by experts including those at Johns Hopkins University. This therapy was crude at best and was soon replaced by pharmaceutical medications.

Dr. Lee found however, that manufacturing PMGs in their natural state delivered a far superior form of “organic stem cell therapy” which bypasses the stomach and goes directly to the intestines for metabolism and uptake.

True clinical nutrition works effectively in the body. It is safe and provides the body with the building blocks to heal. Many of the supplements I use in the clinic contain PMGs along with their synergists. In my opinion, this is truly cutting edge technology that has great promise and a good track record for effectiveness.