An initial evaluation includes a detailed patient history, physical examination, and ANSA testing. After the initial evaluation and additional testing in our center, a full treatment program is presented to the patient in most cases. Depending on the complexity of the patient's health program additional tests conducted in outside laboratories may be required and must be scheduled accordingly.

The following is an explanation of all the diagnostic methods used at the Manhattan Advanced Medicine
medical practice:

BIO BODY TEST

The Bio Body test is a medical tool that provides information about the patient's biochemical status in a quick, effective fashion. The results are put into a basic status report, as well as panel reports that break down results from the status report into component subsets of blood chemistry. These subsets include electrolytes, hematology, liver function, kidney function, lipids, cardiac markers, allergy markers, etc. The results of the metabolic pharmacology recommend specific supplemental enzymes, fatty acids, electrolytes, and other nutrients to help support the patient's biochemical imbalances and deficiencies. The Bio Body testing is limited to reporting analysis of body fluids.

HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS (HMA)

The mineral salt content and amount of heavy metals and other toxins in the body is very important in order to evaluate regulatory blockages and recognize the mineral supplementation required. Most of the content of mineral salts and trace elements is intracellular, where these play a vital role in the enzymatic function of the cells. Therefore they do not correctly correspond to usual test results of blood, urine and stool analysis. Hair mineral Analysis tests the cellular content of minerals and heavy metals and its results can determine a lot about the intestinal function of absorption, permeability, and quality of intestinal flora.
HMA also provides information about mineral salt requirements and helps to establish a functional diagnosis supplementing other regulative medical diagnostic procedures such as dark field microscopy, computerized thermography, and redox potential (BTA) determination.

BIOLOGICAL TERRAIN ASSESSMENT

Biological Terrain Assessment has its beginnings in Europe and is based largely on the clinical research of the noted professor Louis Claude Vincent. Professor Vincent discovered that the key to healing the body was not contained in the mere administration of drugs, but rather in the biochemistry of the body. His belief, based on a lifetime of gathering and evaluating human clinical data, was that the building blocks of life--the elements, amino acids, enzymes, all molecules and atoms found in the bodily fluids (blood, urine, saliva)--provide vital data about the way the body is actually functioning. This led to monitoring the subtle, yet powerful values of pH (acidity and alkalinity), oxidation and reduction, or redux (the electron potential and enzymatic activity), and resistivity (molecular ion movement) of these bodily fluids. By making changes at a biochemical level, health and vitality can be reestablished within the body and help it to naturally combat illnesses.
Biological Terrain Assessment, like raising a healthy garden, necessitates a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the chemistry of the human body. When the patient's body chemistry is balanced and maintained with a healthy diet and proper vitamin and mineral supplementation, as well as exercise and rest, the body can remain healthy. Like a garden, the healthy body will nourish a vibrant immune system that can protect and sustain it. However if the body is fed a poor diet that is processed and chemical-laden, much like the typical American diet, the body will experience illness and is unable to maintain or sustain a strong immune system. Likewise, if the body is exposed to improper amounts of rest or exercise or excessive levels of stress, the body becomes more susceptible to illness. Just as a neglected crop fails to produce healthy food and becomes susceptible to breakdown, the human body that fails to produce vitality and wellness will become increasingly prone to illness, stress, fatigue and chronic degeneration.
Many patients who initially undergo BTA come to their doctor's office with reports of "normal" laboratory values and yet display illness both objectively and subjectively. After analyzing their bodily fluids for pH, redox and resistivity, important data begins to emerge that can aid the medical practitioner to accurately determined the underlying cause of the patient' disease.
Never before in history, has the human organism had to deal with such overwhelming degree of stress, abuse and neglect. The depletion and degradation of vital resources, the exposure to new viral and bacterial strains, pollution, allergens, additives, and chronic environmental and mental stress are giving rise to a new array of health challenges.

COMPUTERIZED REGULATION THERMOGRAPHY

Computerized Regulation Thermography is a new and improved version of diagnostic thermoregulation.
Regulation of body temperature in humans follows a very definite pattern which includes response to a variety of endogenous and exogenous stimulation. Diagnostic thermoregulation, such as computer regulated thermography, is based on the theory of regulation and information in the biological system. Basically, indications in temperature in different locations on the body corresponding to different organs, may provide clues as to states of health. Recordings obtained in thermoregulation testing add greatly to reliable knowledge of the function of various body organs. Evidence points to the fact that thermal changes precede organic disorders, making thermography a true valuable, prognostic tool of preventive medicine.

DARKFIELD MICROSCOPY

Because the precursors to serious health imbalances may be observed in the state of ever-present floras found in the blood, health imbalances may be averted by reading these early warning signs and making the necessary changes that will allow one to balance physiology. In today's conventional approaches to blood analysis-using stains or an electron microscopy- the blood is effectively killed through the process utilized in observation. In a dark field the blood is stained with light frequencies, allowing the blood to remain alive, giving many unobtainable clues as to the relative health of the blood-and thus the person.
Dark Field Microscopy involves the principle that the smallest living componenet in the body is not the cell, as traditionally perceived, but a living colloid. The colloid is most clearly observed in a dark-field, and thus targets blood examination on the deeper causative factors at the organic level.

AUTONOMIC RESPONSE TESTING

Autonomic Response Testing (ART) is a testing method developed by Drs Dietrich Klinghardt and Louisa Williams to enable medical practitioners to assess the autonomic nervous system and direct its treatment.
This sophisticated testing system is a combination of the best and most effective techniques from muscle response testing in conjunction with autonomic nervous system research. The autonomic nervous system is the main regulator of most body functions.
ART consists of multiple neurological tests to assess the most common disorders and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system including general body regulation, as well as regional autonomic ganglia function corresponding to the body's organs. ART may demonstrate a patient's general health condition, dysfunction of organs, nutritional deficiencies, causes of diseases, and allow the practitioner to establish an optimal, individualized program of treatment. ART is part of the initial evaluation of the patient but occasionally additional tests utilizing autonomic system properties (EAV, Vega) may be administered.

ACMOS TEST

The ACMOS testing is a part of the most advanced and truly 21st century medical system-the ACMOS method. The ACMOS method combines the wisdom of ancient traditional medicine with the scientific discoveries of modern molecular biology. The influence of Chinese traditional medicine as well as decades of research in biophysics and bioenergetics, culminated in 1986 with the creation of the ACMOS method, an acronym derived from the "Analysis of the Compatibility of Matter on the Organism and its Synergy". The aim of the ACMOS method is to reestablish the energetic qualities of the body and restore its proper self-organization and adaptation ability to achieve the energetic balance we simply know as perfect health.
The ACMOS method can also analyze the compatibility of the organism with food, medication, environment, and help balance full vital energy flows in all parts of the body.
By using the ACMOS method a precise treatment program is created, that is individually tailored to the pathological condition of the patient. This includes a dosage, frequency and duration that can be accurately established.
The ACMOS method was created by French scientist, Dr. Rene Naccachian, Doctor of Molecular Biology (PhD), and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dr. Naccachian has researched energy of the human body for more than two decades and from his state-of-art research into biophysics and bioenergetics , he has developed a range of high-tech, non-invasive, non-traumatic instruments and natural products concerned with regulating the level of body and mind disorders.

ANSA TEST

The ANSA test is a computerized, non-invasive, fully quantitative Autonomic Nervous System Assessment based on Heart Rate Variability spectral analysis. Any dysfunction of the organism will be exhibited as an inadequate reaction of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) response during this test. The computer gives a graphical representation of ANS state and its reaction using sympathetic and parasympathetic activities as the coordinates.

The ANSA test can automatically determine the functional state of human body. It makes possible to obtain qualitative and numerical characteristic of a person's functional state based on mathematical analysis of the wave structure of the Heart Rate Variability. This structure is a unique " wave portrait" reflecting the body's regulating processes. This wave portrait is unique to each individual, like a fingerprint. The computer defines an individual portrait's deviations from the ideal portrait that can be called the "Optional Regulation Mechanisms condition". This is reflected in the index of current general physical fitness of an individual, indicating level of physical fitness and level of the adaptation reserve.

The key advantage is the method's ability to detect the early signs of pathological processes or the presence of a functional disorder, which may not be revealed by the procedures of an ordinary physical examination