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NATURAL HEALTH & HEALING CENTER
Restoring the Wholeness In You
Dr Keith A Sarver DC, NRT
 
 
George J Goodheart, Jr.

Dr. Geourge J. Goodheart

In 1964, Dr. Goodheart made the first correlation between finding a weak muscle and making it stronger. Since then he has looked beyond the chiropractic profession to the fields of medicine, osteopathy, acupuncture, dentistry, nutrition, biochemistry, etc.. for methods to increase the health and well being of the patient based on using the body as a diagnostic tool. From the beginning, Goodheart spoke of this approach to health care as involving three components, what he called the Triad of Health. They are the Structural, the Chemical, and the Psychological factors.

He has a unique way of looking at a problem and asking "Why?". This has allowed him to correlate many different types of examination and treatment procedures into a unified method of examining and then treating many difficult patient's.

Today, he still works in his office and lectures many week-ends of the year. He travels from Europe to Japan and lectures throughout the United States. He produces a monthly research tape as well as a yearly manual on the latest findings in Applied Kinesiology.

"If a muscle, tendon, skin or fascia becomes tightened in one area it can result in problems in other, even remote areas of the body. This tightness can result in loss of motion, contracture, loss of strength, abnormalities in sensation and pain. "

Dr Goodheart uses the following analogy:

If someone pulls down hard on the left side of the shirt you are wearing, it makes it more difficult for you to raise your left arm. Treating your left arm would do little to relieve the decreased range of motion of your arm as long as the tension is exerted on your shirt. Loosening the tension on your shirt hem, however, does effectively produce a marked increase in the range of motion of your left arm because you are getting to the cause of the problem and fixing it.

Dr Goodheart further adds that scars can also cause alterations of nerves, lymph, blood and nutrient flow not only to the scar, but also to remote areas of the body.

The best selling class of drugs is for heartburn and acid reflux. Heartburn and acid reflux are two of the easiest conditions to handle nutritionally. One patient with 30 years of heartburn took a supplement that got to the cause of his problem. His heartburn was gone within 2 weeks, and nothing had helped him before.

He told a group of 40 people in my presence, "I just had a doughnut and coffee. Normally, I would be feeling a burning right here (pointing to his stomach), but I don't have that anymore because of what Dr. Sarver has given me." Another patient in her mid-forties had heartburn since age 8. She said to the same group, "You should see what I can eat at night now. Pizza, chips, cookies, all before going to bed, and I have no more heartburn!"

My thought was "I've created a monster, eating all this junk food." Just because you can eat junk food doesn't mean that you should; however, she was enjoying a new freedom in her good health that she missed for most of her life.

A young sixteen year old patient had been in the emergency room three times in the summer of 1998 due to her stomach pain. Her medical bill was approximately $7,000 - $9,000 but she had gotten no relief.

I appreciate the efforts of the medical establishment to rule out disease, but simple things like nutrition are ignored. I put her on 1 bottle of supplements that got to the cause of her pain. She ate two bottles' worth in the following weeks. Her pain went away and never came back, even when I saw her again three years later for another health concern. My total bill was less than $500.

The supplement I used was a combination of whole-food nutrients that came from Standard Process nutritional supplement company in Wisconsin. The product has been around since 1959. It most definitely should be on the shelf of every doctor who claims to treat heartburn. (Be advised that I don't treat any symptoms, I treat the body, which heals itself.)

"Dementia" is a scary symptom to witness. To see your strong father or mother lose their mental capacity can be difficult. Some patients of mine brought in their 73 year old mother whose mental clarity and functions were beginning to fail. Nutrition Response Testing showed that she needed some good essential fatty acids. She was already on bilberry and ginkgo to open up small and medium sized arteries. In the following 2 months, her husband died in the hospital. Before his passing, she spent time there visiting and communicating with sign language since both of them were deaf. All the while, another deaf couple was on the floor visiting their loved one. The other couple mentioned to the son that they noticed a change in her as the weeks passed. She was communicating better, her thoughts were clearer, she was brighter and "waking up". The son explained that it was the supplements that were helping her to become lifted out of the fog that is dementia.

G.M. complained of severe fatigue of 6 months. A friend of his referred him into the office. He and his friend had not seen each other in a long time. When she asked him how he was doing, his exact words to her were "I'm dying". The fatigue had happened several times in the past lasting days to weeks. Spending time in bed allowed him to recover; however, this current bout of fatigue was not going away. He was not able to walk for more than a half mile. He was also complaining of painful headaches of 2 weeks duration and heartburn for the last three days. He had had a pain under the left scapula that felt like a knot. He had recently suffered from the flu and was in bed and out of work for 6 weeks.

Nutrition Response Testing showed a virus allergy reflex. The location of the virus allergy was the spleen. It was causing the pain in the scapula. It was probably causing the heartburn and headache secondarily. He also tested for digestive support.

One week later he said the headache was only a dullness, he had had no heartburn all week and his left scapular pain was less. He was able to a walk the 1 mile trail at work three times in the last week with no fatigue and no shaking of the knees which he had experienced before. He was very encouraged about the improvement of his health. After 8 months of treatment, he was working out and walking 5 days a week. He had walked 36 holes of golf in one day while his friends rode in a cart. He had gotten the flu and kicked it within 24 hours. He was feeling much better. What increased his health was very simply diet and nutritional supplements."

Psoriasis is known in the nutritional field to be related to how well the kidneys function. As an example, I had a patient who had psoriasis on the back of her head and neck. On muscle-testing, her kidneys were weak. I put her on a supplement that flushed her kidneys out. In one week, her skin was 60% better.

 
Partial List of Conditions Related to Nutritional Deficiencies:
  • Allergies/Hay Fever
  • Ankle Swelling
  • Arthritis
  • Back Pain
  • Blood pressure
  • Bronchial Conditions
  • Colitis
  • Colon, Spastic
  • Constipation
  • Diabetes
  • Diarrhea
  • Diverticulitis
  • Dizziness (Vertigo)
  • Fatigue, Chronic
  • Feet, Cold or Burning
  • Gall Bladder Disorders
  • Gas
  • Glandular Troubles
  • Headaches
  • Heart, Fast “Nervous”
  • Insomnia
  • Joint Pain
  • Kidney Problems
  • Knee Pains,
  • Chronic Leg Pains
  • Leg Cramps, Tingling,
  • Liver Problems
  • Neuralgia
  • PMS
  • Prostate Trouble
  • Sciatica
  • Sinus Trouble
  • Thyroid Conditions
  • Ulcers—Stomach
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