Our office uses subjective and objective evaluations to develop a designed clinical nutrition program for the patient. We use cutting edge and the most effective, safest, and natural health analysis tools available anywhere.

The program includes:

1.  Symptom questionnaire

2. Heart Rate Variability  (HRV) Testing

3. Nutrition Response Testing

4. Body Fat Percent and Weight

5. Designed Clinical Nutrition (Standard  Process)

6. Daily record of food intake forms (diet analysis)

Symptom questionnaire's used may include a symptom , toxicity, or endocrine questionnaire.

The Heart Rate Variability (HRV) testing is a valuable tool used to determine the fitness level of the individual (health of  the heart), if the autonomic nervous system is regulating properly, as well as objectively monitor the effectiveness of the nutritional health program you are put on.

Nutrition Response Testing is very precise and scientific. However, if I were to analyze you using Nutrition Response Testing before it was explained to you, you might find it strange, or simply not believable-only because it is probably very different from anything you may have experienced before.

I can completely understand that because when I first saw this type of work being done, my first reaction was "Hmm, what is this strange stuff?" No one was more skeptical than I was.  As a result, I studied Nutrition Response Testing extensively to see if it was for real.  I am sure happy I did because it has helped me improve my health, and because of Nutrition Response Testing, we are here and are able to help you improve your health.

Quite frankly, if you want to get healthy and stay healthy, it is important that you understand what Nutrition Response Testing is, and what our recommendations are based on.  Otherwise, you are less likely to follow through and actually do what you need to do to get well.  To put it simply, if you don't follow through, you won't get well.  If you are not going to get well, why do it in the first place?

The results we have been having with Nutrition Response Testing are very impressive.  The only reason we are here is to help you get well. 

In medical practice there are two key parts:  The diagnosis (identifying and/or naming the "disease"or syndrome) and the treatment (drugs, surgery, etc.).

In Nutrition Response Testing we do not diagnose or treat disease, but we also have two parts: The analysis and the personalized health improvement program (using designed clinical nutrition).

The analysis is done through testing the body's own neurological reflexes and acupuncture points.  The neurological reflexes are derived from the part of the nervous system whose job it is to regulate the functions of each and every organ.  The acupuncture points are selected from the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture, which is thousands of years old.

Nutrition Response Testing is a study of how the different points on the surface of the body relate to the state of health and to the flow of energy in each and every organ and function of the body.

Interestingly, since the human anatomy has not changed significantly in thousands of years, the utilization of these reflexes and specific points have become extremely useful in our practice because they are so accurate!

Think about it.

Each Nutrition Response Testing reflex represents a specific organ, tissue, or function and indicates the effect that energy or the lack of energy is having on the body.  By testing the Nutrition Response Testing reflexes, we have a system of monitoring your body at each visit that has proven to be extremely accurate clinically and helps us identify exactly what the body needs as well as how well we are meeting that need.

           How do we access the Nutrition Response?

Testing reflexes in order to get this information?

If I were to hook you up to an electro-cardiograph machine and take a reading, that would make perfect sense to you, right?

What is actually happening during this procedure?  Electrical energy from the heart is running over the wires.  This electrical energy makes the electrocardiograph record the energy pattern in the form of a graph or chart.  I could then study this graph and tell you what it all means.

Here is what we do with Nutrition Response Testing.  Instead of connecting electrodes to the specific points being tested, the Nutrition Response Testing doctor contacts these points with his/her own hand while the other hand tests the muscle of the patients extended arm.  If the reflex being contacted is active, the nervous system will respond by reducing energy to the extended arm, causing the arm to temporarily  weaken.  This drop signifies underlying stress or dysfunction, which can be affecting your health.

Let's say the liver or kidney reflexes are active. 

Then what?

Our next step is to test specific, time-tested and proven, highest-possible quality nutritional formulas  (Standard Process) against those weak areas, to find which ones bring the reflexes back to strength. 

Designed Clinical Nutrition is not 'over-the-counter' vitamins.

Over-the-counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not "whole food", and the body does not actually recognize these as anything even vaguely beneficial.  Call our office for a CD, "The Whole Truth About Vitamins" for $5. It is an entertaining, in-depth explanation of this aspect of vitamins and other nutritional supplements.

Because they are not made from whole foods, "over-the-counter" vitamins lack the essential synergistic elements normally present in WHOLE foods.

An example of a whole food could be carrots.  Carrots are high in Vitamin A Complex.  A "complex"  is something made up of many different parts that work together.  Synthetic vitamin A does not contain the whole "Vitamin a Complex" found in nature.  So, if we were looking for a food high in Vitamin A, carrots might be one of our choices.

Our clinical experience tell us that  when  we combine Nutritional Response Testing, the symptom survey questionnaire, the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) testing, Designed Clinical Nutrition, reviewing the daily record of food intake form and other objective testing results,  we are able work out a highly personalized nutritional supplement schedule and accomplish the most important first step in correcting the underlying deficiency or imbalance.

By following the program as precisely as possible, you are well on your way to restoring normal function and improving your health.

It's that simple!

In medicine, the medical doctor makes a diagnosis and then uses drugs or surgery to attack or suppress the symptom, or to surgically remove the "offending" organ or part.

In our nutrition program, we work to correct the cause of the problem, so that the body can regain the ability to correct itself.

Your friend in health,

Rod Alward D.C.
Alward Wellness & Nutrition Center
3339 El Camino Ave.
Sacramento, CA.  95821