Being able to get a glimpse inside the human body makes a big difference in medical care.
There are a couple of machines now on the market which pass a low electrical charge through your body, and then a computer posts the results.
The Medical Advisor scan process only takes 30 seconds. It takes a few minutes to get wired up with 14 electrodes. From head to waist, from back to front. Each point coincides with specific locations that are supposed to relate to specific body organs.
Gaye Bennett is an Ottawa area homeopath learning about the Medical Advisor. Dimitri Polytico says he is a Russian trained doctor now living in Toronto and developing this idea: pass the current through the electrodes, and use computer algorithms he developed to analyze the response.
Polityko looks at my scan and says, "Your brain is very, very busy and your lungs are working harder to keep up the oxygen supply."
I had the scan done three times. over a couple of days. Each scan had different results. Polityko says that reflects the changing demands on our body. He looks for underlying trends. The device shows readings for more than dozen different parts of the body, and says whether they are under strain or normal or in between. He believes this can focus attention on trouble areas, and he can then apply tests or treatment from a conventional doctor or alternative sources.
Bennett says "Acupuncturists, homeopaths, naturopaths all of that area could certainly benefit from this information. It would be very helpful, absolutely."
Neither of them suggest that this replaces conventional medicine.
Yet they are part of a growing movement looking at alternative treatments, often from other parts of the world. In many cases, western doctors are dismissive and point to incidents of fraud. The experts say you need to consider the effectiveness of a treatment, the safety and the cost in order to decide if its worth it for you.
Richard Jackman of Ottawa uses a similar machine. It was developed in France and the machine costs $14,000. It compares your body's electrical response to a data bank of thousands of other people. The Medical Advisor wants to do the same thing.
Jackman says, "It's a second opinion. It's a quick and safe second opinion, and I think its effective. "
Jackman feels many in medicine are caught up in what he calls "A paradigm paralysis. They won't look at any new approaches."
The Medical Advisor machine is just now being made available to practitioners. There's a $1,000 deposit and $20 per scan. Eventually he hopes for Health Canada approval
Polityko says, "Health Canada demands a very clear set of rules be followed and so that is what we want to do. We want to work towards that and make sure we do all the things that are required, and follow their rules.
It always takes a very long time to get Health Canada approvals. CTV News spoke with the Ottawa Academy of Medicine about these devices and was told that it's "Not the role of the Academy to make any kind of comment."
Being able to get a glimpse inside the human body makes a big difference in medical care.
There are a couple of machines now on the market which pass a low electrical charge through your body, and then a computer posts the results.
The Medical Advisor scan process only takes 30 seconds. It takes a few minutes to get wired up with 14 electrodes. From head to waist, from back to front. Each point coincides with specific locations that are supposed to relate to specific body organs.
Gaye Bennett is an Ottawa area homeopath learning about the Medical Advisor. Dimitri Polytico says he is a Russian trained doctor now living in Toronto and developing this idea: pass the current through the electrodes, and use computer algorithms he developed to analyze the response.
Polytico looks at my scan and says, "Your brain is very, very busy and your lungs are working harder to keep up the oxygen supply."
I had the scan done three times. over a couple of days. Each scan had different results. Polytico says that reflects the changing demands on our body. He looks for underlying trends. The device shows readings for more than dozen different parts of the body, and says whether they are under strain or normal or in between. He believes this can focus attention on trouble areas, and he can then apply tests or treatment from a conventional doctor or alternative sources.
Bennett says "Acupuncturists, homeopaths, naturopaths all of that area could certainly benefit from this information. It would be very helpful, absolutely."
Neither of them suggest that this replaces conventional medicine.
Yet they are part of a growing movement looking at alternative treatments, often from other parts of the world. In many cases, western doctors are dismissive and point to incidents of fraud. The experts say you need to consider the effectiveness of a treatment, the safety and the cost in order to decide if its worth it for you.
Richard Jackman of Ottawa uses a similar machine. It was developed in France and the machine costs $14,000. It compares your body's electrical response to a data bank of thousands of other people. The Medical Advisor wants to do the same thing.
Jackman says, "It's a second opinion. It's a quick and safe second opinion, and I think its effective. "
Jackman feels many in medicine are caught up in what he calls "A paradigm paralysis. They won't look at any new approaches."
The Medical Advisor machine is just now being made available to practitioners. There's a $1,000 deposit and $20 per scan. Eventually he hopes for Health Canada approval
Polyticio says, "Health Canada demands a very clear set of rules be followed and so that is what we want to do. We want to work towards that and make sure we do all the things that are required, and follow their rules.
It always takes a very long time to get Health Canada approvals. CTV News spoke with the Ottawa Academy of Medicine about these devices and was told that it's "Not the role of the Academy to make any kind of comment."
