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Avatar Advanced Nutritional Health Scan
A personal wellness consultation with Christian Bates, designed to explore your health concerns and help guide a conversation about your next steps.
Help the root cause of your problem, not just treating the symptom
Meet The Avatar Scan
The Avatar system is based on Electro-Dermal Screening (EDS), also known as Electro-Acupuncture according to Voll (EAV). It uses a very small electrical current at selected acupuncture points to take readings.
During your appointment, we will discuss your health history, explain the process and talk through the readings with you. The aim is to support a wider conversation about your wellbeing and possible areas to explore.
What happens during the scan?
Your appointment is guided by your health history and the questions you want to explore.
01
Talk through your health
Start with a conversation about your concerns, health history and what you would like help understanding.
02
Take the readings
The practitioner uses the Avatar instrument at selected acupuncture points. The process is non-invasive and designed to be pain-free.
03
Discuss the next steps
Review the readings together and discuss suitable nutrition, lifestyle or follow-up options where appropriate.
A broad view of your wellbeing
The scan may include readings linked to a range of body systems. These readings are not a diagnosis of how an organ is functioning.
Digestive system
Hormonal system
Nervous system
Immune system
Thyroid & adrenals
Liver & kidneys
Respiratory system
Food responses
And more.... It's totally amazing!
Once the full screen is complete the priority point is calculated by the Avatar and this is the point that further testing is done from. The importance of this point is that it is the best point to access the health of the whole person, according to Voll's years of experience.
For example, the priority point may be the liver, indicating that the liver needs help, or will do shortly. However the patient, off this point, may then test for a complete range of bowel remedies and no liver ones at all. This is called the "causal chain" and indicates that the liver requires the bowel remedies to help it, and as we know the bowel clears its toxins into the liver.
In this scenario just cleansing the liver and not the bowel would not get to the CAUSE of the problem as the bowel toxicity will just re-fill the liver. This is the advantage of having a highly accurate assessment device like the Avatar it can show the causal chain of events and enable me to track events back to get to the cause of the problem to give long term relief.
This approach digs deeper to find the CAUSE and not just the symptom.
Remedy testing
It is also possible to test remedies and supplements that will then be specifically chosen for the person tested. The extremely effective ranges I use have been designed specifically for this type of testing. There are remedies for the different organs, drainage remedies to shift toxins and ones for specific problems like candida, bacteria overgrowth, viral problem, mycoplasma patterns and many others. In fact there are hundreds that can be tested.
In the example above if the liver point tested up for bowel remedies and one of those was the one to clear candida then we can assume that the liver is actually being affected by candida overgrowth in the gut!
Food allergy testing
Along the same lines as remedy testing it is possible to test for food intolerances or allergies. For example if the allergy acupoint is used and this reads at a 50, so it is well balanced, and then a food it tested and it throws this point out of balance to a 30 then it is indicated that there is a bad reaction to the food and it should be avoided.
The Avatar is able to test a few foods at a time but we have a far quicker device to test more foods in a short time which is extremely effective and economical compared to food intolerance blood tests. Read more about the Bioscan SRT here.
Meridian branches
On top of the 49 points of the basic screening it is possible to use all of the points on an acupuncture meridian to really focus and improve accuracy. For example when assessing foods for allergies I would "branch" up the allergy meridian and find the best point to test the allergies on. In the same way when testing hormones I would "branch" up the hormone meridian and find the best one to test off, i.e. adrenal, thyroid or ovary point among others.
I am commonly consulted by patients with:
Fatigue and tiredness
Hormone problems
Digestive problems
For general health check up's
Lowered immunity
Stress related issues
Post Natal recovery by new mums
See the Avatar in action
The Avatar can show these readings for each organ…
A balanced reading
A weakened reading
A stressed reading
The Avatar is not a diagnostic tool, it cannot say you have this or that disease. It reads "energetic" health. So we can get an idea of weakened or stressed organs. Where it is incredibly helpful is with issues that could have many causes. For example, fatigue problems can originate from the gut, from toxicity or the liver, from thyroid / adrenal / or other hormone problems. But which one to treat first? The Avatar helps prioritise this. For example the Avatar scan often indicates that treatment for many hormone problems starts with healing the gut. Why could this be? Well, the gut delivers toxins to the liver and the liver is responsible for managing the breakdown of hormones. If the liver doesn't do its job then excess hormones float around causing problems. But if you give hormone balancing remedies then you haven't fixed the liver, the source of the problem and if you cleanse the liver then it just tops up with toxins from the bowel. So commonly it is cleanse the bowel first, which helps the liver, which helps the hormones.
What your appointment may consist of as is appropriate:
Full case history of issue
Avatar scan of meridian points
Assessment and explanation of the "causal chain" of your problem (basically finding the CAUSES not just treating the SYMPTOM)
Prescription of the supplements / remedies specifically needed to help this CAUSE not just the symptom
Short assessment of any food sensitivities you may have (Discount on Bioscan SRT food intolerance scan if this is more suitable)
Food plan according to problems found if needed
Food plans and lifestyle advice according to your BODY BIOTYPE and explanation of how to use it
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