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What Is Live/Dry Blood Microscopy?
Live blood cell analysis is carried out by placing a drop of blood from the patient's fingertip on a microscope slide under a glass cover slip to keep it from drying out. The slide is then viewed at high magnification with a dark-field or bright-field microscope that forwards the image to a monitor. Both practitioner and patient can then see the blood cells, which appear as dark bodies outlined in white. Often things are noticed that are never seen using traditional methods of blood screening.
In itself, live blood screening with microscopy is not a diagnostic procedure. However, it can often point you in a direction to take for further diagnostic testing. For our purposes, we simply want to view the "terrain" of the blood to catch a glimpse of the overall "toxic load" and consequent state of health of our client.

What Can Live Blood Analysis Tell Me?
Carl approaches blood anaylsis differently than many darkfield clinicians. With years of training in functional blood chemistry, which is conventional blood report, combined with the visible exam of blood he cross references information. Functional blood values have very narrow ranges compared to conventional ranges. These very narrow ranges can be achieved through natural methods, diet, supplementation, hydration, whereas, the ranges in various conventional test much be so wide to allow for reactions to medication and for continue unhealthy eating and still be considered normal.

What does Carl Find when looking at the blood?
More than identifing the various marker that are ususally label in darkfied Carl focus on identifing the reguires supporting diet, hydration and supplementation to improve the blood.

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Description and History of the Dry Blood Analysis

The Oxidative Stress Test is a procedure in which layers of capillary blood are pressed onto a glass slide which is then left uncovered in order to allow it to dry. The blood is left to sit on the finger for approximately 20 seconds to 1 minute before being pressed onto the slide in layers, generally taking 8 layer samples in two rows of four samples each. In the process of drying, the blood goes through a natural process of spinning as it coagulates. The unique characteristics of the sample are then viewed and evaluated.
This form of testing originated in Europe in the 1920’s and has been used by medical practitioners and natural therapists in Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, Italy, Portugal, the United States, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. There are hundreds of clinics world wide using this test today.
In the 1930’s, the head of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. H.L. Bowlen, MD, introduced the use of this test in the U.S. He had personally learned the test from General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s NATO Physicians, Dr. Heitan and Dr. La Garde. Dr. Bowlen’s earlier work included some misinterpretations that were inadvertently passed on. He soon recognized his error, but by that time the test had fallen into disrepute and was ridiculed. The incorrect communication had to do with the fact that Dr. Bowlen initially believed that the polymerized protein puddles that appear white in the sample all had to do with cancer. In actuality, they are related to a host of inflammatory and degenerative disease conditions. Although Dr. Bowlen and the Massachusetts General Hospital still use this test to date, the test remains unrecognized by many.
Drs. Heitan and La Garde also trained Dr. Robert Bradford of American Biologics Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Bradford brought the test to North America again, where research has been ongoing. A number of other Hospitals in Tijuana are also utilizing this test.
This science of looking at oxidative stress in blood has been termed Oxidology. The soft white clots of protein puddles have been labelled PPP's, or polymerized protein puddles. These are not clear holes but rather contain a white material that is the result of excess H2O2 bursts which accompany degenerative disease processes. Each white "footprint" represents an inflammatory or degenerative problem.
For over 70 years, layered dried blood analysis has been performed by hundreds of microscopists. The resulting accumulation of clinical research data indicates how these blood pictures relate to health problems.
Recent advances in photomicrography (microscopic photography) now allow for simple tracking of the progress of these blood pictures, over time. These records serve as "blood benchmarks", for tracking purposes. Records may be made on a number of media such as a Polaroid video printer and a VCR. In the more advanced clinical settings, computer interface allows for graphical capture and comparison of the blood pictures, through cross-correlation of conditions. Recent technological and manufacturing developments have driven the drop in cost for computer technologies. This factor makes the equipment accessible to a much greater percentage of practitioners, and currently it is not unusual to see this equipment being used by individual practitioners and small clinics. On the basis of such widespread use, a very strong body of empirical evidence has been compiled which clearly points at consistent conclusions. This very simple, fast, inexpensive, and highly applicable technique has grown in popularity, with increased demand for training.
In recent years, much credence has been given to this test, and conventions are held for the purpose of training health professionals in this method. The New England Journal of Medicine has published peer review articles on the subject.
It is now a well established fact in the medical community that these polymerized protein puddles (ppp’s), or soft clots or puddles seen in a thin layer of hard-clotted capillary blood, indicate oxidative stress. Excess hydrogen peroxide in an unhealthy individual activates enzymes which strip the negatively charged sialic acid protection off of the blood fibrin protein, allowing it to unnaturally hook together and polymerize into a white pasty mass which is termed the ppp. There is an FDA approved blood test for sialic acid levels in cancer sufferers which can corroborate the Oxidative Stress Test findings.
In the process of coagulation of the sample, there is a natural centrifugal activity that occurs whereby the soft clots and metals spin out into rings before they harden into the layer, depending on their specific gravity (weight). Unhealthy organs near the center of the body produce light ppp’s that don’t spin out very far. Breast or lung disease produce medium weight ppp’s which spin about halfway out. Lymph or skin problems create heavy ppp’s which spin out around the outside of the layer. Metals are the heaviest and spin out the furthest, causing a darkened protein rim if they are present in the fatty tissues, brain, central nervous system, and cells. The position of the ppp’s in the clot and their distance from the center of the sample indicate what area of the body is affected. The ppp’s shape indicates whether it is irritation or inflammation (round and clear inside) or degeneration (irregular shapes, like a lake shore, with dots in the white areas). The larger the ppp’s, the more serious the problem may be. Normal, healthy blood will dry with an intermixed fibrin protein network. In healthy blood, the fibrin web will be uniformly dark throughout in a pinkish-red background.
Due to the research of McCord and Fridovich of the Universities of Alabama and Duke, the biological mechanisms that are active in the test are now well understood and the test has developed credence.
These blood pictures, along with standard laboratory testing, live-blood analysis, and other forms of evaluation, help to determine dietary insufficiencies, metabolic disorders, pH imbalance, free radical activity, calcium/phosphorus levels, the efficiency of the cell’s sodium/potassium pump, metals toxicity, bowel toxicity, degenerative correlations, inflammatory activity, and nutritional considerations such as vitamin, mineral, amino-acid, and enzyme activity.

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