Kinesiology and Laboratory Testing: The Unsuspected Dynamic Duo, Part 1

By Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC

September 14, 2024

Often scorned by those of the medical mainstream ethos, manual kinesiology testing for evaluating patient organ functions, infections, toxic burdens, and nutritional deficiencies is one of the most valuable techniques utilized by alternative medicine doctors. Practiced in various forms, these specialized techniques (often referred to as muscle testing) have the potential to provide significant insight into the patient’s state of health by identifying underlying causes behind symptoms that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to determine through laboratory testing alone. 

Comprehensive laboratory testing is the medical standard for providing quantitative assessments of an extensive range of important biological markers. Test results reveal the health status of organs, glands, and body systems as to whether they possess relatively normal healthy functions or are metabolically hampered by toxic burdens, infections, disease, and poor lifestyle habits. Besides its vital role in emergency medicine, laboratory testing serves as an overall screening process for new patients, alerts doctors to critically out-of-range test values, and provides a means for assessing patient progress. Having this complete overview is a clear advantage laboratory testing offers. 

Patient concerns arise, however, when laboratory test results cannot detect or confirm the cause of their illness. It is not that institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Children’s Mercy Hospital, and other high-profile clinics do not possess the technology and capability to perform the most comprehensive evaluations to test every cell in the body. So, how does this happen? 

In my view, there are two reasons for these medical cold cases. First, it is due to the limited nature of laboratory testing. It is simply impossible to detect every underlying toxin in the body from blood analysis because many toxic substances disrupting metabolic functions are firmly integrated within cellular structures. Second, medical doctors are, for the most part, skilled technicians with pharmaceuticals but often lack knowledge of the intricacies of functional human chemistry and physiology. This absence of functional medicine is largely due to the influence of their medical training which primarily focuses on drug therapy to the exclusion of investigating suspect causes, especially those that diverge from the accepted medical narrative.

Testing by a skilled kinesiologist, on the other hand, provides qualitative assessments of cellular environments and the integrity of metabolic pathways of organs as prioritized by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Much like your computer, these systematic procedures use the ANS as a “search engine” to find priority dysfunctional organs and access their “files.” Through various techniques, the specific toxic burdens handicapping optimal functions are extracted from these “files.” These additional findings complement laboratory test results by providing greater context to patient symptom profiles, minimizing misinterpretations, and improving the specificity of nutritional protocols that result in improved patient outcomes. 

The point to emphasize is that laboratory testing measures (quantifies) the levels of biological markers but may not necessarily indicate the underlying cause to explain why lab values are deviating outside their normal ranges. In other words, laboratory testing generally measures the aftermath of organ dysfunctions, whereas a skilled kinesiologist can more readily identify underlying causes of organ dysfunctions.

Why then is there so much resistance to kinesiology techniques by the medical mainstream? One reason is alternative approaches can often appear contradictory, confounding, or unscientific to trained linear-thinking minds. For instance, consider the theory of homeopathy where “like cures like,” meaning a substance that causes a symptom can be made into a remedy to treat the same symptom when prepared in various dilutions. Adding to the bewilderment, the more dilutions a remedy undergoes the deeper and more powerfully it acts on the body—definitely counterintuitive. How do you explain that to a linear thinker? Similarly, the procedures of kinesiology testing can appear unscientific to those uninformed, both regarding how neurophysiological testing works and the scientific research and clinical results validating its effectiveness and reliability.

However, another reason for the resistance is the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma). It is not a secret that Big Pharma owns the medical science. The industry largely funds and controls a major portion of the research contracts of academic medical centers—hospitals that train doctors and conduct medical research—which means they control the data and the medical training used to promote pharmaceuticals. Thus, alternative approaches such as kinesiology testing, which can accurately identify underlying causes of illness and provide treatment protocols without drugs, are a clear threat to a medical paradigm that exploits a system of health care to promote and normalize the excessive use of—and long-term dependency on—often toxic and health-damaging drugs. 

Part 2 will cover several clinical cases to help emphasize why kinesiology testing is an important diagnostic tool for revealing underlying causes that elude laboratory testing.

© 2024 Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC