Bio-Terrain Analysis

WHAT IS THE BIOLOGICAL TERRAIN?

     The Biological Terrain is the biochemical environment in which organs and cells function. Several factors influence the body's biological terrain, such as, life styles, diet, acidity, fluid intake, metabolic activity, oxidative stress, electrolyte condition, stress, and various key nutrients. All of these factors tied into each other will have a tremendous effect on your body. These factors are what lead to degeneration and disease in the body. The biological terrain is like soil in the ground, if it has plenty of nutrients, you get a healthy response. If the ground is devoid of good soil, you get degeneration and an unhealthy response. 

Wouldn't It Be Nice To Know

Where these imbalances are coming from?

• What organs and systems are being affected?
• If the nutrition you are taking is working.
• What key buffering nutrients you are deficient in.
• Being able to correct future problems from happening.

USING THE INTEGRA BIO-TERRAIN TESTING PROCEDURE

     The Integra Bio-Terrain System (by Stephen Stietler) uses a one-of-a-kind advanced technology designed around key bio-marker tests specially selected to objectively and quickly identify hidden biological terrain imbalances. The uniqueness of this approach is the way it integrates individual urine and saliva tests to extract valuable information about the weakness of the overall biological terrain system.

     By correlating these tests to one another as a whole “system,” the practitioner gains an invaluable perspective on the depth of the primary disturbance as well as the root of the disturbance.

     The overall biochemical/metabolic picture presented by these tests can reveal several important factors not otherwise detectable through individual test. These include:

SYSTEMIC ISSUES:

• Hypochlorhydria assessment
• Ammonia production
• Sugar metabolism
• Electrolyte status
• Nitrate evaluation
• Bone breakdown
• Oxidation (free radicals) vs. Reduction
• Excretor vs. non excretor assessment
• Reactive acidosis vs. metabolic acidosis
• Extent of mineral loss
• Cellular debri
• Screening for yeast and dysbiosis (leaky gut)
• Cellular ATP reduction (energy in the body)
• Monitoring sympathetic stress
• Hydration assessment (patient water intake)

ORGANS AND THEIR CONDITION:

• Organ performance (can indicate need for further diagnostic testing)
• Adrenal stress vs. fatigue (crucial for proper correction of the adrenal function)
• Intestinal permeability (leaky gut, amount of toxicity)
• Thyroid temperature and iodine assessment (thyroid function)

SPECIFIC NUTRITIONAL & METABOLIC ASSESSMENT:

• Differentiating enzyme needs for fat, protein, carbohydrate (sugar) maldigestion
• Determine slow and fast digestive transit time
• Specify need for Vitamin C
• Detect and monitor low Mg/K, and Zinc levels
• Relationship between other mineral levels in the body
• Calcium insufficiency (early indicator for possible osteoporosis)
• Monitor effectiveness of antioxidants
• Adrenal stress vs. adrenal fatigue
• Urine Chemstrip? you can also see levels of leukocytes, pH, specific gravity, nitrites, protein, glucose, ketones, urobilinogen, bilirubin, and blood in the urine.

NUTRIENTS AND METABOLIC BLOCKAGE

     Most of the population has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These deficiencies are usually from poor diet, but in most cases, they are caused by metabolic blockages within the patient's system. A metabolic blockage can act like a brick wall that prevents the nutrients from being absorbed and the metabolic waste from the cells being excreted. When this happens, the body starts to become very toxic and degenerative changes start taking place.

     For example, many people are low in calcium and can‘t tell physically in most cases that they are low in calcium. A person with low calcium levels may not be able to effectively breakdown and assimilate calcium in the system even though they might be taking calcium. A metabolic blockage may inhibit this process. In such a case, supplementation of calcium without addressing underlying causes may result in certain long-term complications as described below:

     A person has a calcium deficiency, so they take a calcium supplement thinking they are doing the right thing. However, the following are potential problems in this line of thinking:

     A better way of thinking is using the Integra Bio-Terrain System which presents a unique and innovative approach for the assessment of nutritional deficiencies and the related metabolic blockages. Using the specialized urine and saliva tests, it is simple to assess these blockage(s), and treat the actual cause of the problem. 

     After evaluating all these parameters, you can determine what the best course of therapy would be. A question for you to wonder about. Why is there still so much osteoporosis in our society with calcium being the number one single mineral being bought and taken.

This is an affordable and non-evasive testing procedure that
gives you great information on your body's performance.