When trying to discern the problem facing a person in terms of
their health, one of the best indicators is a person’s blood.
Blood, it is said, is thicker than water, not because it will
stop dripping after a while, but because it contains the multitude
of components that circulate through our bodies carrying nutrients
and immune particles to the organs and muscles and taking waste
products and dead cells for disposal. In the blood the main constituent
is plasma, which makes up about 55% of the blood volume. This
plasma is about 90% proteins, 1% organic acids and 1% salts. The
plasma has a critical role in immunity and clotting activity.
The fluid that remains after clotting has occurred is called serum.
Healthy blood should have around 97% red blood cells, 3% white
blood cells and some platelets
The red blood cells are sacs of haemoglobin, (which gives blood
its red colour), and is the substance which carries the oxygen
to the bodies tissues. Another action of the red blood cells is
to collect the CO2 that is the waste product of metabolism and
carry it back to the lungs where it can be filtered out and breathed
out.
Every one should be familiar with the usual blood tests carried
out by the pathology lab that are done when one is ill to find
the various levels of material that the blood is carrying around.
These tests are done using blood that is dried, stained or treated
in a manner to detect specific components so they may be measured.
But there is another way of looking at blood that presents a
different aspect.
This system is called ‘live blood analysis’,
and is done using a powerful microscope coupled with a monitor
so the make up of the blood can be viewed in real time.
Live blood analysis has been around for many years but it is
only recently that with the use of monitors and computers patients
are able to view their blood easily on screen in real time.
This system allows you to view the particles that make up the
blood and to see the quality of these constituents. It does not
replace the normal blood tests done by a GP but you can see variations
in the white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, as well
as microbial forms. It is good to see a whole screen of nicely
formed red blood cells moving about in a quiet easy manner, but
a screen that shows the cells with jagged edges, misshaped bodies
or surrounded by large numbers of white blood cells, is a good
indicator that further investigation is required and may well
act as a pointer as to where the problem is coming from.
The emphasis of live blood screening is very much on
the nutritional side of things and will clearly show the state
of the blood in terms of
- Antioxidants
- Essential Fatty Acids
- Iron
- Immune support
- Vitamin B12 or folate
- Lipotropic nutriments
- Digestive enzymes
- Gut permeability
- Genetic predisposition: which may give rise
to the inability to produce a certain enzyme;
- Stress: which will include social conditions
(family,work etc.), temperature, infection
- Nutrition: since all body tissues are replaced
every 5 to 7 years it is imperative that the regenerative cells
are given the optimal conditions to work under or disease and
aging will accelerate.
Live blood analysis assists your practitioner to work out a programme
that can include nutrition, homoeopathic medicine, herbs or some
associated treatment regime such as Osteopathy or Acupuncture
that will help with your problems.
More importantly, if a follow up screen is done you should be
able to see the changes occurring in the live blood that will
indicate that improvement is taking place. It is important to
remember that live blood analysis does not treat any thing. What
it does do, is allow you to see the state of your blood, in the
sample, at a specific time.
- The basic equipment is a microscope with darkfield illumination.
This is a special light that allows the blood to appear bright
on a dark background.
- The image is then passed to a TV monitor so the state of the
blood can be seen by both the patient, and the practitioner
at the same time.
- All that is needed from a patient is a spot of blood, that
is placed on the slide and viewed through the lens.
The procedure generally takes only a few moments, but so
that a clear picture of the condition of the blood can be built
up, the practioner will normally take several views of the same
slide (called screens) so any isolates, (things that appear only
once for unknown reasons), can be eliminated.
So in the big overall picture it is worth remembering that orthodox
medicine has a long history of development from trauma care, especially
from battlefield injuries, so the great strength is in acute care
and symptom management. Nowadays, however, chronic degenerative
disease has supplemented trauma in the western world as the major
cause of morbidity and mortality.
In the care and management throughout life three main features
stand out as major influences in how we age,
Genetic disposition….we are born with this and have to
work with it
Stress….we impose this on ourselves through our social conditions
Nutrition…..what we eat will effect the way we age significantly.
Now there are two major prerequisites in the successful prevention
and treatment of chronic disease;
Detection…identifying the disease process operating in
the individual;
Compliance, which means the patient takes the necessary steps
to reverse the degeneration.
This is where the live blood analysis is of assistance, in that
in conjunction with other quantitative tests, it provides a practitioner
with the means of identifying how a regenerative regime can be
instigated to improve health and secondly allows an easily viewed
means of seeing if the body is responding to treatment.
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A valuable tool in
the diagnosis of people's health problems.