Oligotherapy

Did you know that in the absence of vitamins, your body can use minerals to some extent, but in the absence of minerals, vitamins are generally practically useless?

Read and understand:

“Catalytic Oligotherapy emerged in the 1930s through the work of Dr. Jacques Menetrier, who used the preliminary work of Gabriel Bertrand and J. U. Sutter. This form of natural treatment is based on the use of biocatalytic trace elements in the treatment of functional diseases according to the theory of Reaction Syndromes.

Trace elements are minerals present in the body in small quantities that are essential for biochemical reactions. They are divided into essential and non-essential. Essential trace elements play a fundamental physiological role in the chemistry of living beings, to such an extent that an organism cannot develop its life cycle without them. They are present in all healthy tissues; they have a role that cannot be replaced by any other and a relatively constant concentration that requires homeostatic control. Some trace elements considered non-essential play an important role in catalytic oligotherapy.

Minerals are extremely important in the constitution of a healthy organism. According to Dr. Charles Northen: “The function of micro minerals is to participate in the activities of hormones and enzymes, probably a function analogous to that of vitamins.” It is rarely observed that, in general, vitamins control the body's uptake of minerals and that they are often unable, in the absence of minerals, to perform their functions. In the absence of vitamins, the system can use minerals to some extent. However, in the absence of minerals, vitamins are generally useless.

From here we can already see the value of this form of therapy: if a person is deficient in minerals, they will experience various symptoms that orthodox medicine will probably not be able to diagnose through the tests currently used. What are the causes of mineral imbalance? We can list the main risks of deficiency:

1- Calorie restriction: according to lifestyle and spontaneous reduction with the aim, for example, of losing weight, reducing energy intake.

2- Population groups at risk: elderly people, pregnant or breastfeeding women, vegetarians, children and sportspeople are at greater risk of trace element deficiency. The development of intensive farming and the use of chemical fertilizers have reduced the bioavailability of metals through chelation. Although they are present in food, they are neither bioavailable nor biologically active. The process of industrializing food, which uses large quantities of organic macromolecules (preservatives, acidulants, dyes, etc.), which are also chelators, contributes significantly to the reduction in the intake of mineral elements. The process of cooking food also contributes significantly to the loss of trace elements.

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction thanks to the presence of a substance that is not modified and is not consumed during the reaction. The catalyst has the following characteristics: * it accelerates the speed of a chemical reaction by many thousands of times, without changing its equilibrium; * it does not change at the end of the chemical reaction, because it has the ability to transform another substance without intervening in this transformation; * it directs a particular chemical reaction. Because of this property, trace elements have indications for various pathologies: when they enter our body, they activate a reaction that was dormant and when they leave this reaction, they go on to another and another, in short, several others, correcting and activating various functions without being lost or transformed. The therapeutic results obtained by MÉNÉTRIER and numerous doctors who practiced Oligotherapy were and have been confirmed - for several decades - through fundamental and clinical experimentation. Today, it can be said that Oligotherapy constitutes a perfectly reasonable and reliable clinical and therapeutic medical practice, when using metals prepared and presented according to strict pharmacological criteria.”.
(text by Adalberto Jeronimo dos Santos, complete here)

*** Read the book “The Medicine of Functions” by Dr. Jácques Menétrier and better understand the use of the theory of “diathesis” as an aid to health promotion (something widely used in several European countries). Below is an interesting summary I found on the internet - If each of us can be classified into a “diathesis” at each stage of our life, here are the basic ones:

“- ALLERGIC or arthritic-allergic DIATESIS I: There is an acceleration in organic changes, with very rapid, excessive responses. Patients are usually children or young adults, with an allergic condition present (rhinitis, asthma, eczema, food allergies, etc.) and/or inflammatory joint signs, with few or no laboratory alterations, they are hyperactive, especially at night, with difficulty reconciling sleep, and usually in the morning, they have difficulty waking up. They are irritable, dynamic, optimistic, hyperreactive and hyperemotional, with a basic tiredness masked by constant movement and the search for activities. The treatment of this diathesis requires the recommendation of the trace element Manganese (Mn);

- HYPOSTHENIC or arthro-infectious DIATESIS II: there is a decrease in cell exchange. Responses are slow and of insufficient intensity, hyporeactive symptoms, a tendency to infections and abnormal fatigue, which progresses over the course of the day. In children, there is a weight and height deficit, difficulty with attention and concentration, and a tendency towards repetitive infections (flu, ENT, skin, for example). The treatment of this diathesis requires the recommendation of the manganese-copper (Mn-Cu) oligotherapy complex;

- DISTONIC DIATESIS III: There is a maladaptation of the cellular response. It is the diathesis of the second half of life, of maturity. Patients suffer from dystonic, neurovegetative symptoms, often progressing to chronic anxiety. Pathologies begin their transition from functional to lesional. Examples include endocrine changes and menopausal signs and symptoms, arthrosis, peripheral and central circulatory disorders, dyslipidemia, epigastric dystonic manifestations, spasmophilic states, memory loss, chronic allergies, etc. Treatment of this diathesis requires the recommendation of the oligotherapeutic complex manganese-cobalt (mn-Co);

- ANERGIC DIATESIS IV: Cellular exchange is greatly reduced, almost nil, there is a global insufficiency of self-defensive reactions, and therapeutic impotence to any treatment. Symptoms range from transient allergies (post-viral, moral shock, post-surgical or post-traumatic) to degenerative conditions, injuries and death. The main symptoms are: global fatigue, which does not improve with rest, depressive phenomena, decreased intellectual faculties, rapidly evolving, severe and relapsing infections, with a lack of response to antibiotic therapy, rapidly evolving global senescence, cancer and all cellular degenerations. The treatment of this diathesis requires the recommendation of an oligotherapeutic complex (copper-gold-silver).

IMPORTANT: The primary (I and II) and secondary (III and IV) diatheses can be intertwined or isolated”.

(Full text in: https://ahau.org/terapia-ortomolecular-oligoterapia/)