Kelley Jess Higgins - Bioregulatory Medicine: towards a new therapeutics of self-healing

Praise for Bioregulatory Medicine

Sick has become the new normal as the numbers of chronically ill adults and children is ever-increasing, and patient frustration mounts as Western medicine fails to address chronic health challenges. Bioregulatory Medicine offers a clear and concise map on how to understand the holistic model of integrative health practice via a unified mind and body approach while supporting the individuals biology to self-regulate and regenerate. This evidence-based book takes the reader on a journey to understand how to implement a systems-focused approach to healing. This concise review is an excellent book for patients wanting to get healthy based on time-tested methods as well as for health practitioners looking to expand their own practice treatment modalities.

Michelle Perro , MD, author of Whats Making Our Children Sick?

I sincerely hope that the future of medicine looks much more like the approach outlined so expertly in Bioregulatory Medicine . Imagine a world in which each persons individuality drives the approach to treatment and good health doesnt simply mean not having any disease, but rather an optimized state of balance that permits a person to achieve their ultimate or highest purpose. Luckily, this type of health care is already being practiced by doctors all over the world, and this easy-to-digest guide will open this whole world to you.

J.B. Handley , author of How to End the Autism Epidemic

This small book captures so many important ideas about sustainable, biologically based medicine. Its wisdom is palpable, and its science believable. To my many colleagues who, like myself, were steeped in the sciences during medical school but became disillusioned once we hit the clinical years, there is hope. This book shows us where we left our roots, which were deeply embedded in an understanding of our amazing human physiology, its intricate biochemistry, and its awe inspiring anatomy which serve as the scaffolding for each miracle of life. Bioregulatory Medicine is a refreshing look at what matters in medicine and how we can work with the human body, not against it, and without fear. We are all a complex integrated system of body-mind-spirit and, I might add, a community. Each of us is unique, each person has their own presentation and history. Thank you to all the authors who help us see what we share in common and embolden us to better care for ourselves and each other.

Heather Tallman Ruhm , MD, medical director of the Biomed Center NE

BIOREGULATORY MEDICINE

An Innovative Holistic Approach to Self-Healing

Dr. Dickson Thom , DDS, ND

Dr. James Paul Maffitt Odell , OMD, ND, L.Ac.

Dr. Jeoffrey Drobot , NMD

Dr. Frank Pleus , MD, DDS, OMFS

Jess Higgins Kelley , MNT

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Copyright 2018 by Dickson Thom,
James Paul Maffitt Odell, Jeoffrey Drobot,
Frank Pleus, and Jess Higgins Kelley.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Thom, Dickson, author.

Title: Bioregulatory medicine : an innovative holistic approach to self-healing / Dr. Dickson Thom, DDS, ND [and four others].

Description: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018028377| ISBN 9781603588218 (paperback) | ISBN 9781603588225 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Homeostasis. | Physiology, Pathological. | BISAC: MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine. | MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine. | MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Patient-Focused Medicine

APPENDIX
Bioregulatory Organizations and Clinics

T oday, over half of the worlds population is afflicted with some form of chronic or degenerative illnessheart disease, diabetes, dementiathe list is long. Arthritis is now the most common cause of disability, and one in four people struggle with normal activities because of joint pain. Half of all people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. One in five people have an autoimmune disease. And these are just a few of the diagnosable diseases. Currently, an estimated one in ten people have a rare, undiagnosable, or medically indefinable condition. Passed like a hot potato from specialist to specialist, these tired, frustrated, and debilitated patients often spend yearsnot to mention significant financial resourcesseeking answers, relief, and eventual cure. And the Western, conventional, allopathic, suppress-the-symptoms-with-pharmaceutical-drugs model is rapidly falling out of favor as more patients desire a nontoxic, noninvasive prevention and healing medical model that identifies and addresses the root cause of illness and elicits true healing. Bioregulatory Medicine , authored by five experts in the field of natural health, introduces a model that has been alive and well in Europe for decades. In countries such as Switzerland, Germany, India, China, Canada, and Franceall ranking far higher in health care than the United States bioregulatory medicine is a household term.

Bioregulatory medicine , or BioMed (both terms will be used interchangeably throughout this book), is otherwise known throughout the world as European Biological Medicine, bioregulatory systems medicine, Swiss biological medicine, or biological regulatory medicine. It is a comprehensive, evidence-based, and holistic medical model that has been used and refined for over five thousand years by some of the brightest minds in medicine, science, and philosophy. A total body (and mind) approach to health and healing, the scope of BioMed extends into disease prevention, optimizing performance, and chronic and degenerative illness treatment. Using a sophisticated synthesis of a wide range of natural and technologically advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment, BioMed aims to help facilitate and restore natural human biological processes. It is a proven, safe, gentle, highly effective, drugless, and side-effect-free medical model designed to naturally support the body to regulate, adapt, regenerate, and self-heal. What you will learn in this book is that repairing and restoring your bodys systematic natural biological processes is the only way to prevent, reverse, and correct the deepest roots of chronic and degenerative disease. And this restoration is achieved by placing the focus on the interconnections among all the regulating systems of the body while simultaneously facilitating detoxification, deep nutrition, oral health, and nervous system calibration.