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Darrell Misak, ND
Every practitioner navigates through a range of plausible explanations of disease presentations to develop a rational assessment and supportive protocol aimed at achieving positive clinical outcomes. What if a basic analytical assessment could explain and predict the presumed “dis-ease” symptoms, without even considering why the client initially sought care, and provide a foundational approach to diet, lifestyle, and supplementation, leading to the resolution of “dis-ease” symptoms? A simple understanding of a Bio-Electric restorative health approach provides a tool to assess and evaluate therapy successes or failures, helping to anticipate the symptoms clients may experience. I hope this article aids readers in developing critical restorative health thinking skills through exploring a Bio-Electric assessment approach–an effective, cost-efficient in-office method for determining where to begin supportive approaches for illness.
This article is not intended to comprehensively explain Bio-Electric concepts but to build upon previous articles and strengthen the foundation for why this approach should be standard training in naturopathic and functional medical practice. In the May 20, 2023, edition of the Townsend e-letter, I explained the concepts of a 5-Phase restorative health lifestyle designed to increase awareness of one’s environment and self, minimize negative energy loads on the body, enhance energy efficiency, and naturally support detoxification and restoration of health. Additionally, I discussed using urine pH to identify foods with optimal forms of calcium to improve mineral bioavailability and energy efficiency. This article introduces the clinical insights that the Reams’ analysis offers. Â
Reams’ Analysis is a simple in-office or home urine and saliva test using a refractometer, pH meter, conductivity meter, and a soil nitrate and ammonia nitrate test. The measured results provide the analytical variables that are compared to ideal, and what Dr. Reams called the healing range, which outlines chemical energy efficiency, the line of energy resistance, and directs the practitioner for needed support or signs of toxicity. In his book, Biological Ionization as Applied to Human Nutrition, Dr. A.F. Beddoe is considered the textbook for better understanding Dr. Reams’ principles and testing.
In my years of studying Dr. Reams’ lectures, reviewing his teachings, and attending retreats to replicate Reams’ results with clients, I found that none offered a perspective encompassing the naturopathic understanding of the body’s restorative process. The general rule of thumb is “go by the numbers” and support accordingly. I hope to demonstrate a basic medical association for what those numbers reveal, facilitating critical thinking to best support clients through a restorative process.
One of my favorite philosophical lectures at NCNM was by Dr. Jared Zeff, who described a hierarchy of therapeutics and the application of the least toxic therapies to adhere to the principle of “no harm” in supportive care.1 Dr. Zeff also frequently discussed healing patterns, highlighting that the discharge or detox phase before restoration indicates that healing is underway. Building on this wisdom, I aim to demonstrate how Reams’ analysis can determine whether the therapies enhance or deplete the vital force. I also intend to explain how the equation measures Energy-in vs Energy-out and its relevance to detoxification capacity when necessary.
In reviewing Reams’ analysis, the principle is that by identifying what is mathematically “perfect,” the numbers furthest from perfection reveal where the greatest energy loss occurs. Understanding the physiological significance of these numbers provides a roadmap for identifying the most burdened systems to direct support. Again, you “go by the numbers”.
The chart below is a basic outline to stimulate critical thinking and analysis of the information that Reams’ analysis provides. Suggested within the chart is a hierarchy of natural processes from Energy efficiency-> Chemistry efficiency-> Metabolic efficiency-> Clinical Significance-> “Dis-ease” associations. This chart is not intended as a diagnostic tool but to highlight how Reams’ analysis demonstrates cause-and-effect associations in health restoration or deterioration.
“Illness starts when you continue to burn up more energy than you take in.” ~Dr. Carey Reams
On a fundamental restorative level, you must generate more energy than you consume. In the May 2018 NDNR publication2, I explained how Reams’ analysis values of Brix, pHs, and Conductivity represent Energy-In. Conductivity, Cell Debris, and Nitrate elimination represent Energy-Out within a biological system. I recommend reviewing that article to understand how Reams’ analysis values correlate with symptom presentations, and how symptoms can be predicted when you learn how the numbers interrelate.
“The brix has the greatest effect on overall conscious and subconscious feeling of the body than any other number in the equation.” ~Dr. A.F. Beddoe
On a chemical level, Energy-In variables (Brix, pHs, Conductivity) represent oxygen availability, rate or speed of reactions, the thickness or density of fluids that impact electrical and heat transfer, and influence temperature regulation. The Brix percentage represents sugar regulation and reveals potential energy available, directly associated with oxygen availability to the liver and brain; this explains why the Brix can have the most influence on both conscious and subconscious well-being.3. Given that pH levels affect the electrical availability of minerals and vitamins in chemical processes and influence oxidative stress potential, it becomes clear how metabolic disorders may develop. Additionally, the associations of fluid density and energy movement with the conductivity variable allow an understanding of how nerve conductivity capacity can become excessive, potentially leading to neurological breakdown or impaired energy distribution. I tell my clients that excess Conductivity is comparable to consistently running 20 amps through a 15 amp wire, which eventually causes a breakdown.
On an Energy-Out level, Conductivity, Cell Debris, and Nitrate elimination represent the body’s ability to eliminate excesses and reflect the efficiency of detox metabolism. Conductivity indicates the thickness of body fluids; Cell Debris correlates with fluid density and the kidney’s ability to handle cellular waste, while the nitrates reflect digestive efficiency by indicating the balance of toxic (ammonia nitrate) vs usable nitrogen (nitrate nitrate) from proteins. Understanding how the equation works together tells you if the person can handle the body’s load and their ability to detoxify. A Reams’ analysis provides chemical insights into the physiological capacity to convert food into energy and the body’s ability to eliminate metabolic and physical waste. Comprehending energy and metabolic efficiency underscores the effectiveness of recommended lifestyle, diet, and supportive therapies. Once the clinical correlations are understood, how to best support clients and minimize adverse detoxification symptoms during the restorative health process becomes clear.
Constantine Hering, the first American homeopathic doctor, developed what is known as Hering’s Laws of Cure through observation. Hering described the patterns exhibited by the body during a healing reaction, with the opposite patterns indicating “dis-ease” progressing deeper into the body. Hering’s Laws are: the body heals from top to bottom, from inside out, from the most important to the least important organ, and in reverse order of symptoms experienced in the “dis-ease” process. Naturopathic philosophy teaches to observe these patterns to assess if the therapeutic approach is stimulating the vital force to restore health.Â
”Why guess when you can know?” ~Dr. Carey Reams
Most practitioners with a “dis-ease” based mindset are looking for a pattern in signs and symptoms presented by clients to make an educated guess about what is occurring in the body. My naturopathic education at the National University of Natural Medicine (NCNM) emphasized understanding pathology to prevent disease processes and ideally achieve a cure. Detailed instruction was given on the natural progression of “dis-ease” and on using food, supplements, therapies, detoxification, and other natural mechanisms to stimulate the “nature cure”. Reams’ analysis helps gain the ability to understand how chronic chemistry imbalances drive the “dis-ease” process, which can then be systematically identified and corrected. Hering’s Laws manifest through patterns in the Reams’ analysis numbers, which merits an article of its own. In looking at the above chart, I find that focusing on clinical significance helps me meet my clients where they are, especially in addressing their primary complaints.Â
There is a basic approach to understanding the chemistry of a Reams’ Analysis; when you learn to control the Brix and saliva pH through lifestyle modifications, the other numbers will adjust, demonstrating how the body can respond. Controlling the Brix involves hydration and resultant oxygen availability by removing negative-energy foods (food sensitivities) that act as a chronic immune burden, and by considering the macronutrient ratios based on chemistry speed (pH urine), improved energy efficiency can be observed. As digestion improves, the pH of saliva will reflect enhanced liver bile strength, leading to better mineral and vitamin absorption and availability, alongside improved metabolic speed and proteins/fat-to-energy conversion. Many other patterns in Reams’ Analysis indicate restoration at the energy, cellular, biochemical, and microbiological levels. I hope this approach illustrates the complexity of Reams’ Analysis in understanding the body’s homeostatic optimization.
The general rule of thumb is that the body will use what is available in its internal environment, operating at the highest rate and efficiency possible in pursuit of restoration. This beautiful process slows down when overburdened with excessive stimulation and support. Consequently, more is not always better regarding energy efficiency. If the body lacks only 10 specific nutrients and a multivitamin has 40 or 50 ingredients, the things the body does not need may become an energetic burden, increasing conductivity, causing nerve irritation, and creating a phlegmatic effect on body fluids.Â
For this reason, I use single nutrients based on identified deficiencies through Reams’ analysis and live blood microscopy, adjusting therapies according to subsequent analysis data. Another article on supplemental needs based on Reams’ analysis would be a logical next step for those interested in a straightforward approach to deficiency vs excess in treatment.
In summary, Reams’ Analysis offers the practitioner a quantum understanding of introductory chemistry and the efficiency of biological systems. It gives clients a tool to assess whether they eat the right foods, drink adequate water, or need additional support and guidance. Dr. John Bastyr was once asked if he only had one tool as a naturopathic physician; he chose his hands. If I were asked? It’s Reams’ analysis. In my view, the self hierarchy starts with bio-electric energy composed of anions and cations, leading to atoms, molecules, elements, minerals, and ultimately cells and their structures. Enhancing elemental chemistry and energy positively impacts cellular, hormonal, neurological, biochemical, and microbial processes, allowing the identification and correction of deficiencies through functional medical techniques available to physicians.
Dr. Darrell S.C.S. Misak, ND, RPh is a WVU Pharmacy graduate that later became a Naturopathic Doctor after earning his degree at National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2000. Realizing the pitfalls of traditional medicine and pharmacy, Dr. Misak searched for truth in health, which directed him to naturopathic medicine, and to explain that truth through his 5 Phase Optimal Health Mentality and Bio-Electric Chemistry quantum health understanding.
Dr. Misak has a goal to teach and equip others to create health awareness and change the world. He has been published multiple times in Naturopathic Doctor News and Review (NDNR), performs lectures, podcasts, and has done YouTube videos teaching an analytical and quantum Bio-Electric approach of health to optimize personal energy efficiency, correct deficiencies, and observe natural health restoration.
Darrell Misak, ND
Every practitioner navigates through a range of plausible explanations of disease presentations to develop a rational assessment and supportive protocol aimed at achieving positive clinical outcomes. What if a basic analytical assessment could explain and predict the presumed “dis-ease” symptoms, without even considering why the client initially sought care, and provide a foundational approach to diet, lifestyle, and supplementation, leading to the resolution of “dis-ease” symptoms? A simple understanding of a Bio-Electric restorative health approach provides a tool to assess and evaluate therapy successes or failures, helping to anticipate the symptoms clients may experience. I hope this article aids readers in developing critical restorative health thinking skills through exploring a Bio-Electric assessment approach–an effective, cost-efficient in-office method for determining where to begin supportive approaches for illness.
This article is not intended to comprehensively explain Bio-Electric concepts but to build upon previous articles and strengthen the foundation for why this approach should be standard training in naturopathic and functional medical practice. In the May 20, 2023, edition of the Townsend e-letter, I explained the concepts of a 5-Phase restorative health lifestyle designed to increase awareness of one’s environment and self, minimize negative energy loads on the body, enhance energy efficiency, and naturally support detoxification and restoration of health. Additionally, I discussed using urine pH to identify foods with optimal forms of calcium to improve mineral bioavailability and energy efficiency. This article introduces the clinical insights that the Reams’ analysis offers. Â
Reams’ Analysis is a simple in-office or home urine and saliva test using a refractometer, pH meter, conductivity meter, and a soil nitrate and ammonia nitrate test. The measured results provide the analytical variables that are compared to ideal, and what Dr. Reams called the healing range, which outlines chemical energy efficiency, the line of energy resistance, and directs the practitioner for needed support or signs of toxicity. In his book, Biological Ionization as Applied to Human Nutrition, Dr. A.F. Beddoe is considered the textbook for better understanding Dr. Reams’ principles and testing.
In my years of studying Dr. Reams’ lectures, reviewing his teachings, and attending retreats to replicate Reams’ results with clients, I found that none offered a perspective encompassing the naturopathic understanding of the body’s restorative process. The general rule of thumb is “go by the numbers” and support accordingly. I hope to demonstrate a basic medical association for what those numbers reveal, facilitating critical thinking to best support clients through a restorative process.
One of my favorite philosophical lectures at NCNM was by Dr. Jared Zeff, who described a hierarchy of therapeutics and the application of the least toxic therapies to adhere to the principle of “no harm” in supportive care.1 Dr. Zeff also frequently discussed healing patterns, highlighting that the discharge or detox phase before restoration indicates that healing is underway. Building on this wisdom, I aim to demonstrate how Reams’ analysis can determine whether the therapies enhance or deplete the vital force. I also intend to explain how the equation measures Energy-in vs Energy-out and its relevance to detoxification capacity when necessary.
In reviewing Reams’ analysis, the principle is that by identifying what is mathematically “perfect,” the numbers furthest from perfection reveal where the greatest energy loss occurs. Understanding the physiological significance of these numbers provides a roadmap for identifying the most burdened systems to direct support. Again, you “go by the numbers”.
The chart below is a basic outline to stimulate critical thinking and analysis of the information that Reams’ analysis provides. Suggested within the chart is a hierarchy of natural processes from Energy efficiency-> Chemistry efficiency-> Metabolic efficiency-> Clinical Significance-> “Dis-ease” associations. This chart is not intended as a diagnostic tool but to highlight how Reams’ analysis demonstrates cause-and-effect associations in health restoration or deterioration.
“Illness starts when you continue to burn up more energy than you take in.” ~Dr. Carey Reams
On a fundamental restorative level, you must generate more energy than you consume. In the May 2018 NDNR publication2, I explained how Reams’ analysis values of Brix, pHs, and Conductivity represent Energy-In. Conductivity, Cell Debris, and Nitrate elimination represent Energy-Out within a biological system. I recommend reviewing that article to understand how Reams’ analysis values correlate with symptom presentations, and how symptoms can be predicted when you learn how the numbers interrelate.
“The brix has the greatest effect on overall conscious and subconscious feeling of the body than any other number in the equation.” ~Dr. A.F. Beddoe
On a chemical level, Energy-In variables (Brix, pHs, Conductivity) represent oxygen availability, rate or speed of reactions, the thickness or density of fluids that impact electrical and heat transfer, and influence temperature regulation. The Brix percentage represents sugar regulation and reveals potential energy available, directly associated with oxygen availability to the liver and brain; this explains why the Brix can have the most influence on both conscious and subconscious well-being.3. Given that pH levels affect the electrical availability of minerals and vitamins in chemical processes and influence oxidative stress potential, it becomes clear how metabolic disorders may develop. Additionally, the associations of fluid density and energy movement with the conductivity variable allow an understanding of how nerve conductivity capacity can become excessive, potentially leading to neurological breakdown or impaired energy distribution. I tell my clients that excess Conductivity is comparable to consistently running 20 amps through a 15 amp wire, which eventually causes a breakdown.
On an Energy-Out level, Conductivity, Cell Debris, and Nitrate elimination represent the body’s ability to eliminate excesses and reflect the efficiency of detox metabolism. Conductivity indicates the thickness of body fluids; Cell Debris correlates with fluid density and the kidney’s ability to handle cellular waste, while the nitrates reflect digestive efficiency by indicating the balance of toxic (ammonia nitrate) vs usable nitrogen (nitrate nitrate) from proteins. Understanding how the equation works together tells you if the person can handle the body’s load and their ability to detoxify. A Reams’ analysis provides chemical insights into the physiological capacity to convert food into energy and the body’s ability to eliminate metabolic and physical waste. Comprehending energy and metabolic efficiency underscores the effectiveness of recommended lifestyle, diet, and supportive therapies. Once the clinical correlations are understood, how to best support clients and minimize adverse detoxification symptoms during the restorative health process becomes clear.
Constantine Hering, the first American homeopathic doctor, developed what is known as Hering’s Laws of Cure through observation. Hering described the patterns exhibited by the body during a healing reaction, with the opposite patterns indicating “dis-ease” progressing deeper into the body. Hering’s Laws are: the body heals from top to bottom, from inside out, from the most important to the least important organ, and in reverse order of symptoms experienced in the “dis-ease” process. Naturopathic philosophy teaches to observe these patterns to assess if the therapeutic approach is stimulating the vital force to restore health.Â
”Why guess when you can know?” ~Dr. Carey Reams
Most practitioners with a “dis-ease” based mindset are looking for a pattern in signs and symptoms presented by clients to make an educated guess about what is occurring in the body. My naturopathic education at the National University of Natural Medicine (NCNM) emphasized understanding pathology to prevent disease processes and ideally achieve a cure. Detailed instruction was given on the natural progression of “dis-ease” and on using food, supplements, therapies, detoxification, and other natural mechanisms to stimulate the “nature cure”. Reams’ analysis helps gain the ability to understand how chronic chemistry imbalances drive the “dis-ease” process, which can then be systematically identified and corrected. Hering’s Laws manifest through patterns in the Reams’ analysis numbers, which merits an article of its own. In looking at the above chart, I find that focusing on clinical significance helps me meet my clients where they are, especially in addressing their primary complaints.Â
There is a basic approach to understanding the chemistry of a Reams’ Analysis; when you learn to control the Brix and saliva pH through lifestyle modifications, the other numbers will adjust, demonstrating how the body can respond. Controlling the Brix involves hydration and resultant oxygen availability by removing negative-energy foods (food sensitivities) that act as a chronic immune burden, and by considering the macronutrient ratios based on chemistry speed (pH urine), improved energy efficiency can be observed. As digestion improves, the pH of saliva will reflect enhanced liver bile strength, leading to better mineral and vitamin absorption and availability, alongside improved metabolic speed and proteins/fat-to-energy conversion. Many other patterns in Reams’ Analysis indicate restoration at the energy, cellular, biochemical, and microbiological levels. I hope this approach illustrates the complexity of Reams’ Analysis in understanding the body’s homeostatic optimization.
The general rule of thumb is that the body will use what is available in its internal environment, operating at the highest rate and efficiency possible in pursuit of restoration. This beautiful process slows down when overburdened with excessive stimulation and support. Consequently, more is not always better regarding energy efficiency. If the body lacks only 10 specific nutrients and a multivitamin has 40 or 50 ingredients, the things the body does not need may become an energetic burden, increasing conductivity, causing nerve irritation, and creating a phlegmatic effect on body fluids.Â
For this reason, I use single nutrients based on identified deficiencies through Reams’ analysis and live blood microscopy, adjusting therapies according to subsequent analysis data. Another article on supplemental needs based on Reams’ analysis would be a logical next step for those interested in a straightforward approach to deficiency vs excess in treatment.
In summary, Reams’ Analysis offers the practitioner a quantum understanding of introductory chemistry and the efficiency of biological systems. It gives clients a tool to assess whether they eat the right foods, drink adequate water, or need additional support and guidance. Dr. John Bastyr was once asked if he only had one tool as a naturopathic physician; he chose his hands. If I were asked? It’s Reams’ analysis. In my view, the self hierarchy starts with bio-electric energy composed of anions and cations, leading to atoms, molecules, elements, minerals, and ultimately cells and their structures. Enhancing elemental chemistry and energy positively impacts cellular, hormonal, neurological, biochemical, and microbial processes, allowing the identification and correction of deficiencies through functional medical techniques available to physicians.
Dr. Darrell S.C.S. Misak, ND, RPh is a WVU Pharmacy graduate that later became a Naturopathic Doctor after earning his degree at National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2000. Realizing the pitfalls of traditional medicine and pharmacy, Dr. Misak searched for truth in health, which directed him to naturopathic medicine, and to explain that truth through his 5 Phase Optimal Health Mentality and Bio-Electric Chemistry quantum health understanding.
Dr. Misak has a goal to teach and equip others to create health awareness and change the world. He has been published multiple times in Naturopathic Doctor News and Review (NDNR), performs lectures, podcasts, and has done YouTube videos teaching an analytical and quantum Bio-Electric approach of health to optimize personal energy efficiency, correct deficiencies, and observe natural health restoration.
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