Health Standard Now Established See How You Measure Up With Laboratory Testing From Your Home "http://www.naturalhealingdirect.com" www.naturalhealingdirect.com 800-474-9906       Our Secret to Successful Healing    For over twenty years, technicians and professionals at Hallmark Wellness Group have worked to perfect an approach to dealing with problems of health, toxicity, and curing disease that far outstrips those used by most other clinics. Among other things, we combine powerful natural healing methods with those of modern biochemical science, analyzing and monitoring hundreds of separate biochemical variables each time we treat a patient. Each of these variables influences a person's overall health and well-being; and unless they all operate optimally, or at least well above average, a person will not feel -- or be -- healthy.  Recently, we've streamlined our lab procedures so that the average person can afford our services, and we've partnered with Federal Express to enable patients from all over America to be able to take full advantage of our specialized lab testing by quickly and effortlessly shipping their lab samples to us from their home for next-day analysis.          We Are Different    At Hallmark Wellness Group our entire system of analysis, evaluation, and therapy is based on the premise that in order to be able to improve a patient's health, we must first obtain a clear biochemical picture, or "snapshot", of that patient's current health status. Once we develop this picture, or "snapshot," we then compare it with what we call our "Health Standard" -- an optimal biochemical picture representing what a person who leads a happy, healthy, and comfortable life looks like in laboratory terms. Essentially, we then recommend the treatment needed to bring a patient's biochemical picture into alignment with our "Health Standard." At that point he, or she, will feel healthy, be healthy, and experience the zest for life that all healthy people can expect to enjoy.  Not everyone needs continuous treatment, but for those patients who do, we adjust our treatment every six weeks (including such things as the formulas we recommend, the dosages of these formulas, and the combinations of formulas), fitting our treatment to the progress each patient makes as his, or her, biochemistry changes and improves over time.            Our "Health Standard"   The level of health that we refer to as our "Health Standard" is the kind of health evidenced by someone who can work or play all day with a consistently high level of energy -- someone who can sleep peacefully at night, and wake up each morning fully rested, full of energy, free of aches and pains, and ready to start each new day's activities. In a sense, this level of health is the level that we imagine our grandparents enjoyed, even though people in our grandparents' time didn't live as long as we live today.    Today, even though we may live longer lives than our grandparents did, our lives are more stressful, the air we breathe is less clean, and our environment is more toxic than just a few decades ago. Because of this, we are often exposed to excessive amounts of carbon monoxide, lead, mercury, asbestos, and other toxic materials that are known to compromise our immune systems. Much of the food we eat is far less nutritious and more chemical-laden than the food our grandparents ate. This can cause malnutrition that can often result in lowered vitality. Viruses and new strains of bacteria multiply faster, and travel around the world -- on jet airplanes --- faster than ever before, exposing us to an ever-increasing chance of infection. Often, we contract a new virus or develop a new bacterial infection without knowing we've done so -- particularly if we don't experience any immediate symptoms, or if we experience new symptoms that are different from those we are already familiar with (like symptoms associated with a common flu virus). Yet each of these factors leaves its imprint on our physical system and saps some of our energy. In the aggregate, they can take an impressive toll on our bodies, and depending upon how and when we are exposed to them, they can sometimes produce a devastating impact on the quality of our personal health.          How We Developed Our "Health Standard"   For over twenty years, professionals at Hallmark Wellness Group have gathered and compared biochemical laboratory data from literally thousands of individuals - not only from people who were ill, but from people who were healthy as well. Over the years, we learned that the hundreds of biochemical variables we measured could be charted, or plotted, in terms of how they varied or diverged from the optimal levels we found in healthy people. Once we collect this data, we group it into several broad categories that we use to make up a patient's biochemical "snapshot". These categories include: 1) the present level of health of the cells and tissues 2) the level of ability to convert the food he eats into fuel he needs to live on, and 3) the efficiency of his individual organs and systems.  Read more. (link to www.naturalhealingdirect.com/about.html ) After we have placed all of our variables in these three categories and have developed a patient's biochemical "snapshot", we then decide which variables to change first, how to move each variable toward its optimal level, and, what additional steps must be taken so that the patient's entire body will react favorably to the change we anticipate will occur. In order to track the patient's progress, we repeat this procedure approximately once every month, each time developing a new "snapshot" which we compare to our optimal "Health Standard". From month to month, as the patient follows his Health Improvement Program, we compare each new "snapshot" with our optimal "Health Standard" in order to track the improvement in his health status. Meanwhile, his symptoms begin to disappear and his health begins to return.  See Personal Health Guide. (link to www.naturalhealingdirect.com/pdfs/personal_health_guide.pdf)       Curing Disease   In recent years, the public has come to expect practitioners of the natural healing arts to say that they "cure disease" and, generally, medical research grants are awarded to -- and the media focuses on -- persons and groups who seek cures for specific diseases. However, the notion of "curing" disease applies only to allopathic medical philosophy, which is based on the use of drug therapies to mask or suppress the symptoms associated with a medical "condition" manifested in a patient's body. Usually, that "condition" involves a degeneration of the patient's organs and systems that has arisen when such things as stress, toxic exposure, malnutrition, or infections have compromised the patient's vitality and strength. Allopathic philosophy has produced a vast array of disease categories, but it does not take into consideration the origin of the degeneration that causes the symptoms that allopaths spend their time and effort trying to "cure". Traditionally, practitioners of natural healing arts have not associated this allopathic notion with their philosophy or their form of healing in a large part because they do not label symptoms and conditions as diseases and they do not use their methods to suppress symptoms as allopaths do. Rather, practitioners of natural healing arts understand the origins of health degeneration, read the patient's symptoms as his body attempts to deal with and correct that degeneration, and chart an individualized course back to health and vitality based on that understanding. In this way, as we help a patient eliminate the toxins, pollutants and infections that are responsible for his condition, and teach him to lessen the stress that he places upon his body and replace the nutrients he needs to feed, run and repair his systems, the variables of his biochemical "snapshot" begin to move toward our optimal "Health Standard". When this happens, his immune system becomes strong enough to rally its own disease-fighting and regenerative forces, his symptoms begin to lessen ­ then to disappear ­ and his health begins to return. Cancer patients regain their strength, arthritis sufferers become more supple, victims of environmental disease find their world more comfortable, and AIDS patients and those suffering from other viral conditions stop deteriorating and start repairing.