Nutrition Response Testing: Uncovering Hidden Causes of Chronic Illness and Restoring Natural Health

The podcast features Freddie Ulan, founder of Nutrition Response Testing (NRT), discussing his personal health crisis and the subsequent development of this diagnostic and healing technique. Ulan, a chiropractor since 1965, recounts his severe illness in the 1980s, attributed to pesticide exposure, which left him incapacitated despite conventional and early alternative treatments. This personal struggle became the catalyst for his extensive research into suppressed nutritional and healing knowledge, leading him to discover and refine methods for communicating with the body to identify root causes of illness.

NRT is presented as a non-invasive system that utilizes muscle testing and various stimuli to pinpoint underlying stressors, distinguishing it from conventional diagnostic procedures that often miss subtle functional imbalances. Ulan emphasizes that NRT focuses on identifying either nutritional deficiencies or toxicities (e.g., heavy metals, chemicals, pesticides, plastics) as the primary drivers of disease, rather than merely addressing symptoms. He highlights the critical difference between NRT's goal of restoring health and the conventional medical model's focus on symptom management, often with low expectations for full recovery.

The core practical insight is the necessity of addressing both toxicity and nutritional deficiencies. Ulan stresses that no natural healing system can overcome the "Standard American Diet," which he argues is laden with poisons (pesticides, GMOs) and lacks essential nutrients, creating a double burden on the body. NRT protocols involve gentle detoxification and targeted nutritional support to rebuild organ function, likening the process to reversing a "dimmer switch" of declining health. Patients are encouraged to shift from asking "what do I take for this?" to "what's causing this?"

The broader implications extend to a paradigm shift in healthcare, moving away from a disease-centric, pharmaceutical model towards a functional, restorative approach. Ulan's mission to train thousands of like-minded doctors underscores the potential for NRT to impact millions of lives by empowering practitioners to identify and correct fundamental imbalances. The discussion touches on the widespread, often undiagnosed, impact of environmental toxins and processed foods on public health, manifesting in conditions from chronic pain to severe neurological disorders like autism and brain tumors, which NRT claims to effectively address by tackling their root causes.

At my bottom I was able to eat this is my diet steamed cauliflower and Uncle Ben's rice Wow that was it anything that had protein it closed a terrible reaction in my body.

I was on a crusade actually which was many many hours of my year 1986 87 88 I was traveling around the world educating parents as to the dangers of psychiatric drugging of children and the actual handling of the conditions that they were given drugs for which is all nutritional by the way.

I was actually at a point where the best chiropractic the best nutrition is available at the time this is at the very beginning of the alternative medical so and I had some friends who were very advanced medical doctors had no answers now.

We found that the answer to what had occurred to me was actually already know but very very well suppressed.

Nutrition response testing is a method of finding out the actual underlying causes of situations not the it's not a diagnostic procedure it doesn't say well you have this disease now it's a it's a system of identifying the underlying usually hidden to modern examination procedures and blood tests and things like that.

There is no system of natural healing that will overcome the standard American diet.

Today you have a double problem of eating commercially raised food which is poison yeah so you get a combination of nutritional deficiency and toxicity.

The struggle is in educating our patients and you know you've really won you've really hit the homerun when the patient comes in and says help me find out what's causing this.

When we checked him to find out what why do you have this there is nothing natural that's going to suppress that kind of pain no so all I can do is say well look I don't know about your pain right now but um but I am curious to see if we can find out what's causing this then when we examined him we found out what was causing it was chlorine.

All of these kids regardless of whether the causes vaccines or not that's the big contention I don't even care about that argument other than I discourage people from vaccine deanna kids if possible but once the kid has autism they have mercury poisoning lead poisoning aluminum poisoning chemical poisoning that's affecting their brain affecting other organs working affecting how their digestive system is working.