HORMONE: Comes from the Greek word meaning to stimulate, excite or impulse. It is a substance that is produced by an organ and carried by the body's fluids to another organ or tissue, where it has a specific effect. Hormones are the words or language of the body.

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: A communication system of glands that secretes hormones (words). It is another communication system (like the nervous system), but instead of using nerve impulses to communicate, it uses hormones to communicate. The advantage of this system is that it can create longer lasting effects as well as travel further than the nervous system communication.

The endocrine system, starts to slow down as a person ages, becoming inactive and sluggish. Hormones don't seem to work as well as they used to. They become resistant and become out of balance. The BRT technique helps to remove those environmental factors which interfere with and create a premature loss of this system. Many illness are simple a loss of these communication connections.

Why do we need BRT?

The hormones in the body can easily become disturbed and confused by many factors. Low fat, low cholesterol, low protein diets as well as external synthetic hormones added to our food supply greatly influence our delicate endocrine hormone balance. Synthetic estrogen and growth hormones given to cattle and chickens to artificially increase size gives many negative effects to our own delicate hormones and glands. Our endocrine system is always trying to maintain a delicate balance and when one hormone is increased in one location, other hormones are decreased in another. Body Restoration Technique was designed to realign the communications between glands, restore hormone function and rid the negative effects of synthetic hormones and chemicals that mimic hormones introduced into our bodies.

What can BRT improve?

The endocrine system is involved in many health problems. The endocrine system is another communication system in the body. It will create effects via its hormones that act on specific tissues. Problems with the following glands can product these symptoms:

THYROID: Fatigue, overall body weight, cold body temperature, dry hair, ridged nails, dry skin, carbohydrate cravings, mental sluggishness, decreased libido, cold hands and feet, depression, high cholesterol, heart problems, a feeling of tiredness.

OVARY: PMS, hot flashes, lower body weight gain in hips and thighs, low back pain during certain times of the month, fibroid conditions, cravings for rich creaming foods, cystic ovaries, cystic breasts as well as endometriosis and urinary bladder problems.

ADRENALS: Stress, weight gain in the midsection with skinny arms and legs, round face, facial hair - women, buffalo hump in upper back, dizziness, water retention, craving salty foods, anxiety, sleeping problems, allergies, difficulty getting out of bed, inflammation and pain, inability to absorb calcium, ankle swelling at night, and difficulty walking up stairs - getting out of breath.

PANCREAS: Blood sugar imbalances, weight gain, boils, acne, eye sight problems, neurological problems like tingling and numbness in feet and hands, cravings for sugar and refined carbohydrates.

PROSTATE: Low back pain, difficulty urinating, enlargement, sexual dysfunction and frequent urination at night.

LIVER: Even know the liver is not a true endocrine gland, it is involved with hormones. Stiffness in the hands in the morning, right shoulder pain, pot-belly, cracked heals, itching, spider veins in upper body, tightness and stiffness in the lower neck area, bloating with foods, especially fatty foods, right lower rib cage feeling of fullness and difficulty getting out of bed yet energy increases late night.

How does BRT work?

Fortunately the body has a built-in keypad and self testing type mechanism to assess not only the location of a problem but also the actual cause. The body is basically a living computer (computers within computers) composed of a multitude of electrical circuits, switches, resisters, and fuses. It's a carbon-oxygen machine that runs at a very specific temperature - 98.6 degrees. These many circuits in the body are set on automatic (involuntary). Many of these circuits are directly connected between the nervous system and endocrine system (hormone system). Liken to a computer, the body can be susceptible to viruses, interferences, overloads, blown fuses, shut downs, frozen programs, and so forth.

Information about the nature and cause of these alterations can be assessed through the nervous system. Since the brain, nervous system and even the endocrine system retain cellular memory of past damage, if exposed to an allergic substance, these systems can cause a reaction affecting the either system. Every time the body gets exposed to this allergy, it responds in the same way. Because nerves control muscles, the muscle of the arm can be tested for strength while being exposed to various substances. If the body is exposed to lets say pollen, the nervous system reacts creating a subtle weakness with the muscle, which can be easily tested. Acupuncture points are small areas on the surface of the skin, which link to organs and glands. If an organ is sick or weak, the electrical energy coming from the organ can create be inhibited. So if the patient was a Christmas tree with several lights burnt out, you could easily see where the problem is. Unfortunately you can't see acupressure points. But you can muscle test each one to find out where the subtle weaknesses are. Usually one or two points will show up being weak upon muscle testing giving clues to the location of the main body's weakness. You can use these points as the keyboard to "tap into" the bio-computer to gain information.

In BRT, we use a testing kit containing vials of the most common substances (endocrine disruptors) that have been know to alter the endocrine system. These substances and many others are tested through finger receptors and acupuncture points. Finger receptors on the pad of the hand are tiny nerves that connect to bigger nerves, which eventually go to the brain. If an organ, lets say the thyroid has been damaged by a chemical, the cells of the thyroid retain memory of this damaging substance. Upon re-exposing the acupressure point (that connects to the thyroid) to this chemical, a subtle reaction will occur creating a weakness within the nervous system and the muscle. This is similar to having someone do skin testing for allergies. You can put several substances on the surface of the skin and watch the reaction on the skin - this is due to cellular memory of the allergen. If the skin can retain memory of substances, why couldn't a gland or organ do the same thing?

The surface receptors on the body are the links to the nervous system and brain. Just try touching a hot stove and you'll understand how the receptors work. These receptors and nerve points act as a radio receiver capable of picking up different frequencies of information through the skin, up the nerves, and to the brain. As you know, to tune into a radio station, only one place on the dial can give you that information. These radio stations could be compared to the different substances. Every substance gives off a different energy. When you look at a tree, you see green leaves. How do you know? The leaves give off an energy that can be received by the receptors in your eye. With BRT, we use muscle testing and acupressure points to assess what went wrong in the body by seeing what acupressure point reacts with what substance. If the gallbladder acupressure point makes the arm muscle go weak after being contacted with wheat, then we now have a clue to what is wrong with a person's case. A tremendous amount of research and trial and error has been done to find out how exactly what points and what substances to check for specific body problems.

By putting the body nerve receptors into contact with various substances (in homeopathic form), information can be received and processed by the nervous system. A weakened muscle indicates that the nervous system is interacting with a substance the body considers toxic. Thus we can gain feedback from the body, which direct us towards the physical cause of the problem. If the body is not having a problem with that substance, then no electrical alterations will occur and the muscles will stay strong. If there is a reaction to the substance, then the muscle will be weakened. The way we use muscle testing and acupuncture points is unique to BRT.

Once You Find The Problem, How Does BRT Correct It?

Once the main organ or gland weakness is found, we then create a very subtle vibration into acupressure points or over certain organ points. This vibration causes a release of toxins through the lymphatic system, which drains out through the urine the next day. It is considered a gentle detox of chemicals from a specific area. In BRT, we found that detox to the entire body (by taking herbs, etc.) is not specific enough to correct these endocrine blockages.

Another way we can test and correct is finding what part of the endocrine pathway is broken down. In this procedure, we don't detox the organ, we repair the blocked communication. If a hormone is sent from the brain to the ovary and the ovary doesn't receive this hormone communication and doesn't send back feedback letting the brain know it was connected lots of problems can occur. This mechanism is what is behind cysts, tumors, excessive hormone production, etc. BRT can locate what part of this pathway is blocked and unblock it. If the immune system is in confusion, BRT can use muscle testing to find what part of the immune system is failing or over-reacting as in allergies. Once this is found, a correction can take place to normalize immune reaction. We've gotten hundreds of results using this procedure.

The principle of BRT is the similar to the principle of homeopathy: like cures like. Homeopathic remedies contain very diluted substances. Consider a person who has mercury poisoning. A homeopathic substance containing a very diluted mercury can help detoxify mercury from the body because of the law of similars. Vaccinations work off this principle. But in BRT, a person doesn't consume any substance.

The same principle works with sound. If you take two speakers in a room and align them so the sound crosses at a certain point, a nullification or dead spot will occur. If someone has ringing in the ears, certain researchers are working on a device that matches the ringing sound thus canceling it out. They even have sound waves that can break up kidney stones. To make the correction, a carrier wave (push impulse) or vibration needs to be sent through the nervous system to push these signals to the organ and causing a release of toxins. The tissue gets cleaner and the organ can now do its job better. It can now receive hormone communication and send hormone communication. Illness is just alterations and compensations. Unhealthy patterns of function come from the body's compensations. All one must do to break this cycle is to restore the body to its' original function by removing the inappropriate reactions.