NUTRITION
Muscle Response Testing
IF you listen to your body,
it will tell you what it needs!
Imagine if your body could communicate directly with you—revealing exactly what it needs to function at its best and even the ideal sequence to address those needs for optimal health and vitality. What if you could tap into that inner intelligence and gain clear guidance tailored just for you?
That’s the power of Nutrition Response Testing at The Well of Life.
This innovative, non-invasive approach allows us to work with your body’s innate wisdom. Using advanced techniques like Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing, we help uncover the hidden stressors and imbalances that may be affecting your overall well-being. These tools, rooted in a deep understanding of the body’s complex systems, allow us to pinpoint areas of concern and identify the precise nutritional support your body requires.
By addressing these stressors systematically and in the correct order, Nutritional Testing empowers you to take a proactive role in your health journey. Whether you’re seeking relief from chronic issues, aiming to boost your energy levels, or simply striving for a greater sense of balance, Nutritional Testing offers a personalized path to healing and wellness.
At The Well of Life Center, we don’t just guess when it comes to your health – we listen to what your body has to say.
IF you listen to your body,
it will tell you what it needs!
Imagine if your body could communicate directly with you—revealing exactly what it needs to function at its best and even the ideal sequence to address those needs for optimal health and vitality. What if you could tap into that inner intelligence and gain clear guidance tailored just for you?
That’s the power of Nutrition Response Testing at The Well of Life.
This innovative, non-invasive approach allows us to work with your body’s innate wisdom. Using advanced techniques like Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing, we help uncover the hidden stressors and imbalances that may be affecting your overall well-being. These tools, rooted in a deep understanding of the body’s complex systems, allow us to pinpoint areas of concern and identify the precise nutritional support your body requires.
By addressing these stressors systematically and in the correct order, Nutritional Testing empowers you to take a proactive role in your health journey. Whether you’re seeking relief from chronic issues, aiming to boost your energy levels, or simply striving for a greater sense of balance, Nutritional Testing offers a personalized path to healing and wellness.
At The Well of Life Center, we don’t just guess when it comes to your health – we listen to what your body has to say.
Unlocking Your Body’s Healing Abilities
A Q&A with Our Founder on Nutrition Response Testing
To help you better understand this transformative process, we’ve prepared a brief Q&A with our founder, Cynthia Hofmann-Coale, where she shares insights into how these methods work and the benefits they can offer.
Unlocking Your Body’s Healing Abilities
A Q&A with Our Founder on Nutrition Response Testing
To help you better understand this transformative process, we’ve prepared a brief Q&A with our founder, Cynthia Hofmann-Coale, where she shares insights into how these methods work and the benefits they can offer.
Simple Science
Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing
Muscle Response Testing
We utilize two types of response testing at The Well of Life Center: Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing. Both are very precise and scientific. However, they are most likely very different from anything you may have ever experienced before.
Our primary method of assessment, Muscle Response Testing, begins with an analysis that tests the body’s own neurological reflexes. Your job is easy – all you have to do is extend your arm. Your clinician will test each neurological reflex points with a light touch of their hand. With their other hand, they will gently test the muscle strength of your extended arm.
Each of the reflex points they touch represents a specific organ, system, or function in your body. By testing the strength of your extended arm as each reflex point is touched, your clinician can determine the effect that the flow of energy to that organ or system – or lack thereof — is having on your body.
This unique approach allows us to identify areas of stress and imbalance in your body that may not be apparent through conventional methods. By pinpointing exactly where your body needs support, we can create a personalized plan to address the root causes of your health concerns, helping you achieve optimal well-being in a way that is both gentle and highly effective.
Simple Science
Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing
Muscle Response Testing
We utilize two types of response testing at The Well of Life Center: Muscle Response Testing and Autonomic Response Testing. Both are very precise and scientific. However, they are most likely very different from anything you may have ever experienced before.
Our primary method of assessment, Muscle Response Testing, begins with an analysis that tests the body’s own neurological reflexes. Your job is easy – all you have to do is extend your arm. Your clinician will test each neurological reflex points with a light touch of their hand. With their other hand, they will gently test the muscle strength of your extended arm.
Each of the reflex points they touch represents a specific organ, system, or function in your body. By testing the strength of your extended arm as each reflex point is touched, your clinician can determine the effect that the flow of energy to that organ or system – or lack thereof — is having on your body.
This unique approach allows us to identify areas of stress and imbalance in your body that may not be apparent through conventional methods. By pinpointing exactly where your body needs support, we can create a personalized plan to address the root causes of your health concerns, helping you achieve optimal well-being in a way that is both gentle and highly effective.
Let’s break it down
When a Muscle Response Testing clinician applies even a light pressure to one of your reflex points while also testing the muscle strength of your extended arm, your brain is forced to choose which is more important, and, therefore, will receive more energy. If the organ, system, or function corresponding to this reflex point is distressed, your arm will weaken and drop, because your body has to send more energy to the distressed part. If the organ is functioning properly, the arm will stay strong because your body will not have to compensate by diverting energy to a compromised organ or system.
In this way, your body will “tell” your clinician not only which of your organs, systems, or functions are distressed, but also which one is in most need of being addressed.
Distress within an organ, system, or function could be caused by a variety of factors. These factors can include food or immune-related challenges, or the negative effect of heavy metals or toxic chemicals.
Healing the Dysfunction
So let’s say the liver reflex is weak. What then? The next step is to test specific high-quality nutritional formulas against that weak area in order to find which ones bring the reflexes back to strength.
By following a personalized supplemental protocol based on your individual areas of need, you are getting your body back on track to be the self-healing and self-regulating machine it was designed to be.
Autonomic Response Testing
Going Deeper
When you are suffering from severe symptoms or have received a critical medical diagnosis of an advanced dis-ease, we may use Autonomic Response Testing to offer additional healing benefits. This technique is used exclusively by our Critical Care and Senior Clinicians.
Autonomic Response Testing uses a similar method of muscle response testing, but it looks beyond the scope of Nutrition Response Testing to evaluate multiple levels of function within the body, including the Ecoderm, Matrix, and Cellular levels.
The Ecoderm level represents the organ, system, or function on the whole, and gives us a general picture of function or dysfunction within the body. The Matrix level is concerned with cellular communication between organs, systems, and functions, as well as the way the cell communicates with the rest of the cells in your body. The Cellular level deals with the function of the cells themselves, individually and internally. This speaks to the vitality of the cell and its ability to regenerate.
As with Nutrition Response Testing, the goal of Autonomic Response Testing is to identify the cause of degenerative stress and bring regeneration back into play using whole food, herbal, and homeopathic nutritional supplements. Autonomic Response Testing opens even more opportunities for healing advanced cases, often utilizing other tools and techniques that are designed to further facilitate the healing process, allowing the body to be restored to a state of self-regeneration.
A Note About Our Supplements
The Well of Life Center does not use “over-the-counter” vitamins, many of which contain more fillers than nutrients, which the body does not recognize as beneficial. The supplements used at The Well have been formulated to match the needs of the body, as determined by the positive response shown when tested against the body’s reflexes.