Energetix North East Road Trip… Come Out and See Us This Spring!
Posted on | April 28, 2010 | No Comments
During May Energetix will be taking their education on the road for the first time. James Maskell and Dr. Andrew Colyer will be visiting 6 cities in 8 days, providing a range of educational opportunities for the unique needs of the modern professional practitioner.
Topics include:
- Successfully combining nutrition and homeopathy for the quickest results
- Getting the most out of the Energetix line – best remedy combinations
- The keys to building strong, sustainable and sellable practice
- A range of unique new services available to Energetix clients
The dates and times are as follows:
Tuesday May 18th, 6.30-9.30pm – Niagara Falls, Canada
Wednesday May 19th, 7-9pm – Burlington, VT
Thursday May 20th, 7-9pm – Manchester, NH
Friday May 21st, 9am-5pm – Bedford, MA – How to Muscle Test with Dr Andrew Colyer
Saturday May 22nd, 9am-5pm– Bedford, MA – Individualized Solutions for Weight Management
Monday May 24th, 7-9pm – Rochester, NY
Tuesday May 25th, 7-9pm – Syracuse, NY
If you are interested in attending, or if you know a practitioner in those areas who could benefit from these events, please email James Maskell at jmaskell@goenergetix.com as soon as possible. To see Dr. Colyer and James in action please see this video.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tags: chiropractic > natural healing > nutritional > practice management
Metabolic Seminar a Great Success
Posted on | April 22, 2010 | No Comments
Energetix continued its quest to provide the finest education to our practitioner clients by putting on our first one day metabolic event in New York last Saturday. The speaker, Dr. Ricardo Boye, is the program coordinator at The Spa on Green Street and senior lecturer at Energetix College of BioEnergetic Medicine, and is passionate about working with patients whose health concerns fall somewhere along the spectrum of metabolic disorders.
That passion is reflected in the success of the model at the Spa on Green Street in Gainesville, GA, including cutting edge holistic medicine, group education, personal training and diet and 
lifestyle recommendations.
Included in the talk were tips for practitioners on how to effectively move patients towards health, focusing not only on new research in this field and optimal use of the Energetix line, but also on how to inspire patients to be more compliant with the lifestyle modifications that are needed for sustainable improvement.
If you would like to learn more about these effective strategies, please view our recent Metabolic Webinar or join Energetix and Dr. Andrew Colyer for our Individualized Solutions for Weight Management class in Boston, MA on May 22nd.
Integrative Medicine: Underlying Principles
Posted on | April 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Gregg Hake, CEO | Energetix
The medical system in the United States is largely based on the Cartesian principle of reductionism. René Descartes (1596-1650), a French philosopher, mathematician and physicist, is credited as being one of the fathers of the Scientific Revolution. Descartes argued that complex things can be understood by reducing them to their component parts and that a complex system is nothing more than the sum of its parts. His line of reasoning created the substructure for the “find-it-and-fix-it” approach to medicine that we use today, an approach that has proven to be incapable of handling the complex chronic diseases that represent the majority of medical visits in our era.
Two hundred years later, Abraham Flexner produced a report that transformed medical education in our country. Many argue that this report codified the disease-driven approach to medicine and in turn, set the stage for the reactive, fragmented and specialized system birthed in the soil of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the changes set in motion in the early 1900s catalyzed incredible advances in the practice of health care, the unintended side-effects of this approach are now of such magnitude that doctors, policy-makers and health care consumers are aggressively seeking more efficient approaches and better outcomes.
Integrative medicine, a new system of health care that unifies the best of the old with the most promising of the new, aims to reduce the inefficiencies, redundancies and waste of the fragmented system currently in place. In contrast to the present system, the care models under development and in use are patient-centered, personalized, preventive in focus and emphasize shared decision-making. It is likely that science will fuel the transformation, particularly as predictive sciences such as genomics and proteomics get their legs under them. Early detection, it is argued, requires less aggressive and costly interventions, much as a gentle correction of course on a bicycle is preferred to a large swerve.
Once identified, a personalized treatment plan is created, not on the basis of the “find-it-and-fix-it” approach, but according to a holistic, integrated and coordinated plan. Many of the interventions required will likely be low-tech, involving patient education, minor lifestyle changes and simple adjustments to diet and exercise.
Integrated medicine is full of promise, though reinventing health care is no small task. Some of the nation’s brightest medical, political and business minds are working to develop, test and refine this new system. Many of the nation’s medical schools have created centers for integrative medicine and the research necessary to prove scientifically the efficacy of this new system is now underway. The combination of public interest, research, training, funding and economic necessity are fueling this transformation, but change in a system that represents nearly 20 percent our nation’s gross domestic product will likely not come easy or quickly, even though it could if the right minds were to get with the appropriate decision-makers quickly and with a strong plan.
Tags: education > Flexner > Gregg Hake > gregory hake > healthcare > natural healing > Rene Descartes
Homeopathy May Be Clinically Effective in Treating Breast Cancer – Promise for the Future
Posted on | April 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
When conventional healthcare providers consider homeopathy there tends to be a preconceived idea that it is impossible that a diluted drug/substance can have any potential healing effect. If anything they recognize that if a patient is feeling better as a result of homeopathic intervention, it can only be due to a placebo effect. Of course, those who have used homeopathy with success have seen its result and have experienced something very different. In the pursuit of scientific research recent evidence has shown that there may be something to homeopathy.
A study was published in the February 2010 issue of the International Journal of Oncology that demonstrated the effectiveness of homeopathy in treating breast cancer cells. (See the following link for the abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20043074). The research was conducted at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, a major cancer treatment & research institution, under the Integrative Medicine Program and found that ultra-dilutions of Carsinosin, Phytolacca, Conium and Thuja delayed/arrested the cell cycle of breast cancers cells and induced apoptosis. The other interesting effect the investigators found was that both Carcinosin and Phytolacca appeared to have similar activity of Taxol, the most commonly used chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. This is significant because not only does this demonstrate that homeopathy may be effective, but it may be equal to Taxol without the same dramatic side effects. If studies like this are heeded by enough physicians the entire scope of the way oncology is practiced could change significantly.
Generally, so little funding has been put into the pursuit of scientific validation for homeopathy, especially in the United States, that the evidence there is either appears insubstantial or is easily dismissed. This study will most likely not have an immediate impact on the medical community as a whole, but it does provide a great launch pad for continued scientific investigation. Currently India and most European countries are at the fore front of accepting homeopathy as a viable and primary means of healthcare. India, in particular, may be considered a leader in this area and has continued their efforts in research with government backing. As more evidence begins to mount, hopefully the global stance towards homeopathy will soften and the full potential of this approach to treatment will be embraced.
Tags: breast cancer > education > holistic cancer treatments > homeopathic > natural healing > oncology
Research and the Future of Integrative Medicine by Gregg Hake
Posted on | April 9, 2010 | No Comments
As CEO of a natural remedy company, I am intrigued by the recent surge of interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in the United States. CAM modalities such as chiropractic, acupuncture and homeopathy and prevention are increasingly seen as mainstream and prevention is now viewed by many as a key part of their health care program.
Add to that the fact that insurance companies are beginning to cover CAM services, medical schools are rapidly deploying new “integrative medicine” programs and the number of hospitals in the U.S. that offer CAM services has more than doubled in the last decade, it is clear that CAM is helping to transform the health care landscape.
One of the greatest challenges our industry will face in the days to come is to find ways to deliver meaningful research on the efficacy of CAM modalities. Most of the current research methodologies have their roots in Cartesian thinking, where complex systems are understood by reducing them to their component parts. As a result, today’s research methods are narrowly focused on subsystems rather than on whole systems.
This approach was cemented in the American model 100 years ago as a result of a Carnegie Institute-funded study of the American medical education system called “The Flexner Report.” The dominance of specialists in medical practice and of specialization in medical research so prevalent today was uncommon prior to Flexner’s catalytic report. While there is no doubt that we have learned much in the last century in the field of medicine, I often wonder if we’ve lost the forest for the trees.
Most researchers today are using the same reductionist approach to CAM research, which is a bit like describing stereo sound with one ear covered or describing depth perception with one eye closed. Researching CAM modalities and more importantly integrative approaches (conventional + CAM) by focusing on a single intervention may not provide accurate data on a complex, holistic intervention. Modalities such as homeopathy or acupuncture, for instance, are often marginalized because they do not fit in the research models presently in use, no matter how many thousands of years of evidence of their effectiveness stand in their defense!
Many of the CAM modalities work as much with the physics of the body as with its bio-chemistry. The reductionist research models largely focus on the body’s biochemistry, and far too often the logic “if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist” is applied to research of potentially valuable and viable CAM interventions.
As I mentioned, CAM and Integrative Medicine are on the rise. Insurance companies, medical educators, medical professionals and patients are all interested, but the jury is still out – not for lack of evidence of the effectiveness of CAM approaches – but for want of the commonly accepted credentials given to “proven and approved” medical approaches in our era.
We have a lot of work to do to satisfy all of the stakeholders in this debate, but I am confident that this rekindled interest in medical approaches used successfully in many cases for thousands of years (acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, botanical remedies, etc.) will transform the landscape of medical care in our country in the years to come.
Tags: Carnegie > Flexner > Gregg Hake > gregory hake > healthcare > natural healing > Reform
Effective Combining of Nutrition and Homeopathy – Video
Posted on | March 26, 2010 | No Comments
With the tougher cases practitioners are seeing in their practices, often nutritional solutions alone are not sufficient to make the sustainable increases in function that patients (and practitioners!) are looking for. Please see below as Andrew Colyer DC shares some of his thoughts about the easiest and most effective ways to combine nutrition and homeopathy, with a particular focus on the art and science of Applied Kinesiology.
Tags: applied kinesiology > chiropractic > education > homeopathic > natural healing > nutritional