Live and Dry Cell Microscopy Training for Holistic Practitioners

As holistic practitioners, we look for what is underneath. It is not just about addressing your client’s symptoms but addressing what is causing those symptoms.

Live and dry cell microscopy (LCM) allows us to look at the cells and the terrain that they are bathed in. Symptoms and disease can only happen in a terrain that supports them. Live and Dry Cell Microscopy is an extremely useful tool to guide the practitioner, and at the same time, involve the client in the management of their terrain and its priorities. Although not diagnostic, LCM provides a very accurate picture and takes away all the guesswork.

Edison Institute of Nutrition’s Live and Dry Cell Microscopy training course is conducted live, online through video conferencing and runs for 4 days. You will learn about all aspects of live cell microscopy, including:

• An introduction to the blood system and its vital role in overall health
• How to interpret live and dry (oxidative stress) blood cell samples
• How to incorporate LCM into your practice
• How to operate a dark field microscope
• The principles of pleomorphism
• Capillary puncture training and certificate
• Accurate methods of obtaining live and dry blood cell samples
• How to interpret your findings and make effective health recommendations

At Edison Institute of Nutrition, one of the continuing education units  that we offer is the Live and Dry Cell Microscopy training course. With this CEU, you will gain the knowledge you need to integrate live and dry cell microscopy into your practice. This can help you offer greater insight into your clients’ level of health and better address their health concerns.

What Is Live and Dry Cell Microscopy?

Microbes are abundant in our system. They work symbiotically, creating our internal ecosystem. Most are not pathogens, but can become pathogenic in a toxic terrain. Viewed in this light, disease is terrain dependent and not microbial.

Live and Dry Cell Microscopy differs from traditional medical blood testing.

With that model, preserved blood is sent to a laboratory for an “autopsy” and analyzed for chemical composition and cell counts.

LCM imaging techniques, on the other hand, involve magnifying a single living drop of blood to 1,000 times or more under a specialized darkfield microscope system.

Live and dry cell analysis, uses a specialized darkfield condenser and objectives, and must be done quickly and carefully, since blood elements will lose their integrity when exposed to external stressors.

Nutritional and environmental imbalances can be determined from the presence and condition of the live blood elements, red and white blood cells, clotting factors, and other metabolic wastes. Once the sample becomes stressed, an analysis can be made of the upward microbial development of Günther Enderlein’s protit. This is known as the Pleomorphism Cycle. Identifying where the client is on this Pleomorphism Cycle is key to determining appropriate protocols.

Dry blood analysis, using low magnification (2.5X) and a brightfield system, analyzes the patterns that the blood elements make when allowed to air dry for a short period of time.

With the aid of a live and dry cell imaging microscope video camera, observed on a monitor, live and dry blood cell microscopy can reveal certain subtleties missed by laboratory blood tests.

Although live cell microscopy imaging was researched over 140 years ago, only with the advent of the video camera and monitor did it become possible for the client to become involved by observing the immediate results on the screen.

These live and dry cell imaging techniques are mainly responsible for the growing popularity of a live and dry cell microscopy assessment. Many nutritionists, naturopaths, and other integrative healthcare professionals use live and dry cell microscopy imaging as a tool for assessing the state of their clients’ overall health.

What Does Live and Dry Cell Microscopy Show?

Live and dry cell analysis can reveal the root causes of many different health concerns. In particular, it can expose distortions in a client’s blood. These distortions reflect their nutrition and lifestyle status.

Live cell microscopy can reveal deficiencies in:

• Iron
• Protein
• Vitamin B12
• Folic acid
• Fatty acids
• Antioxidants

Incomplete or delayed digestion of fats and proteins can also be observed, which can be a marker for other digestive disorders. In addition, liver stress and undesirable bacterial and fungal byproducts may be revealed and altered “blood ecology” patterns can be observed.

These patterns can indicate a terrain that can allow a degenerative process to occur over time. With this information, you can work with your clients to modify and improve suboptimal patterns before serious trouble, such as disease, arises. Even if a disease has been diagnosed medically, the body has an innate ability to rebalance itself when the correct nutritional and lifestyle guidance is provided along with medical treatment.

The live and dry cells thus act as an educational “feedback mechanism”, motivating people to improve their nutritional intake and lifestyle choices. Positive changes in the structure of cells can be viewed over time as improved nutrition and lifestyle choices impact the blood.

Other health conditions observable through live and dry cell microscopy include:

• pH balance issues
• Allergic reactions
• Toxicity levels
• Evidence of parasitic forms
• Digestive issues

Dry Cell Microscopy for Oxidative Stress

Dry cell microscopy imaging can also be used to reveal oxidative stress. This is done by allowing blood drops to dry on a slide.

Originally developed by Dr. Goldberger and then continued by Dr. Bolen in the US in 1942, it was called the Sedimentation or Bolen Blood Test.

Dr. Henri Heitan and Dr. Philippe LaGarde continued developing this technique through the “color microphotographic test”, and Dr. Bradford later published the rationale for this test in 1981.

Oxidation occurs within the cells of any aerobic organism at a controlled rate. During oxidative stress, however, cell membranes, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids become altered. During a dry cell microscopy examination, this alteration is visible.

Edison Institute of Nutrition’s Live and Dry Cell Microscopy Training course will teach you the theory behind using dry cell microscopy to look for oxidative stress.

Eligibility:

EIN’s Live and Dry Cell Microscopy training program is geared toward those who are already practising holistic healthcare.

As an online holistic nutrition school, many of our Live and Dry Cell Microscopy students are holistic nutritionists. The course is also open to:

If you are a practitioner, as listed above, we welcome you to study live and dry cell microscopy at Edison Institute of Nutrition. Be sure to consult your individual board’s CEU requirements to see if this training will satisfy their needs.

If you are not listed above and are interested in this course, please contact us for more information.