Muscle Testing/Standard Process

Maybe I'm getting desperate here, but I reached out to a local chiropractor that does muscle testing. He used to practice in Chicago, but now is located in my city.

He has a long list of positive reviews so i figured for the $70 session it's worth a shot.. right?

Does anyone have any experience with muscle testing? Is it just a bunch of crap?

He also "prescribes" standard process supplements so I'd like thoughts on that as well.

Muscle testing is imperfect, but as far as I can tell most other testing is imperfect as well. ;) I think that when it is done right, there's something to it. It makes sense to me that the body knows what it good for it, so muscle testing is more accurate than, say, tossing a coin.

Some say it's best to use a third person for the testing. How does your practitioner do it?

I had one practitioner (mainly PEMF device therapy) who encouraged dowsing with your body - basically asking your body yes or no questions, leaning forward for yes and backward for no. I had another practitioner (acupuncturist) who did muscle testing on me with my arm but also could get the same results from using her own fingers - basically a flicking motion. And a third practitioner I saw (chiro) used an extensive system of muscle testing that lasted an hour and was constantly being tweaked, using charts, etc. called Neurological Integration System. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because a friend swore by him, but when he started trying to sell me a great deal of expensive remedies, and would not let me take a picture of things i wanted to research for myself, I bailed.

That's the thing about muscle testing that gives me the most pause. It cannot be proven, so practitioners inclined toward swindling people really love it. Definitely trust your gut if you get a sketchy vibe.

I have had muscle testing result in some useful insights. For example, I told my practitioner that I started a progesterone cream and a few other supplements, and had experienced a downturn. She tested for each supplement, and when she got to the progesterone, she said, "You're not reacting to the progesterone, but you're reacting to something else in the cream. There is an herb in it that's bothering you." I had no idea, but I went home and sure enough, there was black cohosh in the formula. (I had ordered the progesterone-only formula, and the wrong one was delivered.) When I switched to the progesterone cream without black cohosh, my new symptoms subsided. Things like that.

We find ourselves often in this awful situation where we ask what is causing some new sensation, what made an old sensation return, which of our 25 supplements might we be reacting to, which ones are actually helping us, which infection or condition is responsible for this symptom, which treatment will be effective, which foods am I reacting to ... and no one actually can tell us most of the time. People guess, at most. Lab testing is inaccurate and costs a fortune, and every doctor has their favorite labs and thinks the other labs are crap. I like the idea that with muscle testing someone tries to connect with your body to find the answer. We may not understand how it works, but I believe that sometimes it does.

I hear you. I am not the biggest fan of muscle testing, but I'm learning more and more as time goes on that if we try the things that resonate with us and they don't work ... then it's time to try some things that feel strange!

I took SP when I saw a chiro for hel pre-diagnosis. The chiro I just started seeing also sells it and muscle tests it. Haven’t done muscle testing.

Oh and I did question him when he was testing her. Asking stuff like how does this work etc.
He took a moment to show me on my own self. I made up my mind he would NOT push my arm down😂
There were things I could hold strong and some that seriously, I was like, how is this happening that my arm just goes weak? Still seems crazy but there’s something to it.

We sort of lightly blew it off and my daughter took the medicine he gave her called LymEx. She also took some other supportive supplements.

We kept trekking around to doctors looking for answers for another month...MRIs, etc Honestly, I didn’t even know how serious it was that he said she has Lyme. We were still thinking MS or whatever else could cause all this.

Got a clinical diagnosis from another MD (integrative Doctor) a month later but negative western blot. Over the next few months, we got positive ehrlichia on DNA connexions and at least four bands on western blot have since shown up.

Yes, very interesting! Blows my mind now thinking back about it. I should’ve researched it immediately when ND said Lyme but thankfully, it wasn’t too long that we confirmed it and started treating.

Where I live in Australia you would be hard pressed to get a lyme diagnosis. In my state you can't even find a Doctor that will take on a lyme patient even the specialists who used to treat lyme wont see you.
I got a lyme diagnosis from a kinesiologist who was doing muscle testing on me. She also diagnosed Bart and babesia. I got confirmation with a bioressonance test - they found lyme but no bart or babesia.
I think bioresonance diagnostic tests are a better option the machine is picking up frequencies in your body. In one test I got a list of all infections, vitamin deficiencies and allergiy responses but it does depend on the practitioner. Some dont have lyme on their machines and some get only the results they are looking for. It depends on the programs they choose to use to diagnose you. Muscle testing is hit and miss but I wouldn't dismiss it. It was life changing to get a proper diagnosis.