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AK SHORTCUTS PART 2
ONLINE PROGRAM - CLASS 1
WITH DR. SHELDON DEAL, DC, NMD, DIBAK
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WHAT’S IN CLASS 1

• Introduction • Psychological Switching

• Electromagnetics • Accurate Muscle Testing Tips

• Centering Screening test • Pulse Synchronization

• Hyoid • Umbilical Reversal

• Gait Reflexes • Pelvic Category 1

• Cloacals • Cross Crawl

• Physiological Switching • Hypothalamus

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ELECTROMAGNETICS

Electromagnetic problems are caused by electrical disturbances in the system, which

are a scrambling of the electrical signals. These problems are different than:

• Mechanical problems (bones, joints, etc.)

• Chemical problems (toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, etc.)

• Emotional disturbances

Tranquilizers can be a major cause of electromagnetic imbalances.

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THE ELECTROMAGNETIC TEST

1. To screen for an electrical problem, test a strong indicator muscle.

2. With the other hand, place all five fingertips on the patient’s chest.

3. Retest the indicator muscle.

4. If strong no electrical imbalance is evident.

5. If weak, there could be a problem in any of the following:

• Ionization • Cross-crawl • Right/left brain dominance

• Switching • Blood Chemistry • Acupuncture

• Centering: hyoid, gaits, cloacals

6. Use a pinch test to determine if electromagnetic problems may be hidden.

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CENTERING SCREENING TEST

1. Check a strong
  indicator muscle.
   
2. Hit the body to shock it, then retest the indicator muscle.

3. If it remains strong, the following are okay.

4. If the indicator becomes weak, check the following:

• Hyoid • Gait Reflexes • Cloacals (always last)

• Every patient who is uncentered is switched, so fix centering in those patients

first and it will fix their switching.

• Not every patient who is switched is uncentered.

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HYOID

The hyoid is a free-floating bone suspended in the front of the throat by several different
muscles and is involved in cerebral hemisphere dominance problems.

• The hyoid bone must be challenged by the tester.

• It cannot be TL’d by the patient.

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HYOID

Test:

1. Check a strong indicator muscle and wiggle the hyoid bone back and forth while
testing.

2. If the indicator tests weak, move the hyoid bone in each of the following directions,
again testing the indicator muscle, and note the results.

• Left to Right • Superior • Anterior • Clockwise

• Right to Left • Inferior • Posterior • Counter-clockwise

The directions Superior, Inferior, Anterior and Posterior can only be one side,
never both.
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HYOID

Correction:

1. In the specific direction of challenge, the muscle that needs correction is the one
which caused indicator weakness when it was being stretched.

2. This can be verified by having the patient TL that particular muscle.

It will test weak.

3. Pinch the belly of this hypertonic muscle to tone down the spindle cells.

Retest:

1. Wiggle the hyoid bone after all 8 directions have been cleared.

2. If the strong indicator still goes weak, have the patient chew on their own
fingernail clipping.

3. If the indicator goes strong, the person needs trace minerals to balance the brain.
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GAIT TESTING

• Over-tiredness is sometimes caused by a disturbance in the normal coordination of

muscles used in walking, as observed in walking pattern distortions.

• The synergistic and antagonistic muscles are not synchronized.

• In each gait test, you’re checking an arm and the leg opposite at the same time.

• While individual limbs might test strong, when tested in combinations the coordination
weakness is revealed.

• You’ll know there’s a problem when one or both limbs become weak under
simultaneous pressure.
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GAIT REFLEXES

Contralateral    
GB  43  
Lateral    
 St  44  

Anterior    
Psoas/PMC    
Liv  2  
K  1   Adduc:on    
Bl  65   Posterior    
Sp  3  
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GAIT TESTING

Posterior:

1. The person lies face down.

2. Raise one arm back (tricep/post. deltoid) and extend

and raise the opposite leg (gluteus max/hamstring).

3. Press down on both simultaneously.

4. Repeat with other arm/leg combination.

SP 3 is the correction
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GAIT TESTING
Anterior:

1. The person lies face up.

2. Raise one arm (ant. deltoid) and opposite

leg (quad) at the same time.

3. Press down on both simultaneously.

4. Note the result and then check the opposite arm/leg combination.

Liv 2 is the correction

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GAIT TESTING
Lateral:

1. With the person still lying face up, extend

opposite arm and leg to the side.

2. Push simultaneously back toward the midline.

3. Note the result and then check the other arm/leg combination.
(middle deltoid/supraspinatus; glut. med.).

ST 44 is the correction

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GAIT TESTING

Contralateral:

1. Sitting on a chair or table, the person places their hands on

opposite shoulders and twists to the right at the same time
raising the right knee.

2. Simultaneously press back on the left shoulder (to untwist)

and down and in toward the midline on the right thigh.

3. Test the opposite combination, twisting to the left.

(abdominal; gluteus medius/fascia lata.)

GB 43 is the correction
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GAIT TESTING
Adductors/Lats:

1. Test latissimus dorsi on one side and the adductors

on the opposite side simultaneously.

2. Check both pairs.

B 65 is the correction

Psoas/PMC:

1. Test the pectoralis major clavicular on one side and

the psoas on the opposite side by simultaneously
pressing down and out.

2. Check both pairs.

K 1 is the correction
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GAIT TESTING

Shortcut Test:
1. TL all points on a single foot at the same time.

2. If weak, then TL individually.

3. The side of the weakness is the combination where the leg is weak.

Correction:

On both feet, rub these points with firm pressure:

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CLOACALS

The screening test for cloacals is the hand mode touching the tip of the thumb nail to
the tip of the little finger nail.

“Cloaca” means “sewer” and refers to the combined urinary, anal, and reproductive
organs in lower animals. Here, the test in humans is for the synchronization of cranial
motion with sacral motion, which is important for the centering mechanism.

Although problems can occur with anyone, especially someone with low energy,
correcting cloacals is indicated for:

• scoliosis • multiple sclerosis • nervous diseases

Cloacals form the eight most basic energy circuits around the body.

These eight are the most important of the 43 different electromagnetic fields
surrounding the body.

Generally in acute cases, the anterior cloacals will be the weak ones; in chronic cases,
the posterior cloacals will be weak.
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CLOACALS

Test gait and hyoid before testing cloacals

• If these are clear and there is a primary priority cloacal problem, correct the
cloacals and then hit the patient again.

• A hidden gait or hyoid problem will then appear if present.

• All testing for cloacals is done with the patient supine.

• Compare the cloacal tests with the gait tests.

• The leg is raised in both.

• In the cloacal tests, the limbs are pushed toward or away from each other; while
in gait’s, the limbs are usually pushed in the same direction.
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CLOACALS

Right Anterior Ipsilateral:

1. Bring up the right arm and leg.

2. Place your hands on the inside of the wrist and ankle, and push out simultaneously,
while the patient holds.

3. For the Left Anterior Ipsilateral, test the opposites.

Right Anterior Contralateral:

1. Bring up the right arm and left leg and push out simultaneously while the patient
holds.

2. For the Left Anterior Contralateral, test the opposites.

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CLOACALS

Right Posterior Ipsilateral:

1. Bring up the right arm and leg.

2. Place your hands on the outside wrist and ankle and push in while patient holds.

3. For Left Posterior Ipsilateral, test the opposites.

Right Posterior Contralateral:

1. Bring up right arm and left leg and push in simultaneously while the patient holds.

2. For Left Posterior Contralateral test the opposites.

Test all 8 and make a notation as to which directions of which arms are involved.
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CLOACALS
Cloacals Correction:

1. Simultaneously hold whichever combination of points that corresponds to those

testing weak.

2. For example, ipsilateral for ipsilateral, contralateral for contralateral

Anterior:

1. Supraorbital foramen

2. On the pubic bone, to the side of the symphysis

Posterior:

1. On the temporal bone, behind the ear. You will find a small indentation near the top
of the ear.

2. Junction of the sacrum and coccyx, at the sacro-tuberus ligament (on the side). Press
medially.
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CLOACALS

To correct, find both contacts with your finger tips. Hold lightly until you feel pulsations
in both contacts, and the pulsations are synchronized.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL SWITCHING TEST

Correcting centering problems will eliminate “switching” permanently unless there is

an unusual, recurring cause.

• Find a strong indicator muscle (PMC is good).

• Test the muscle first with one hand, then change and test the same muscle with
the other hand.

• If the indicator muscle becomes weak when the tester changes hands, the patient
is “switched”, which is a change in the body’s polarity.
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PHYSIOLOGICAL SWITCHING TEST

To determine what kind of switching has occurred, test a strong indicator muscle.
Then have the patient TL each of the following:

• Left-Right: K27

• Front-Back: Umbilicus and coccyx, one hand on each

• Superior-Inferior: GV 26 on upper lip and CV 24 on lower lip

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PHYSIOLOGICAL SWITCHING CORRECTIONS

Corrections:

1. Left-Right:

• Rub the umbilicus and K27 simultaneously

2. Front-Back:

• Rub the umbilicus with one hand, GV 1, tip of coccyx with other.

3. Superior-Inferior:

• Place one hand on the umbilicus while the other hand rubs CV 24 and GV 26
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PSYCHOLOGICAL SWITCHING
This is pretty common in your practice.

If a person says “I’m eating like a bird and I can’t can’t lose weight”, or they can’t stop
smoking, they are probably psychologically switched.

Shortcut:

1. Test the person after they say out loud: “I love myself.”

2. If they test weak they have a psychological reversal.

Correction:

1. Tap SI 3 bilaterally 7-10 times while they say, “I have deep and profound
confidence in myself.”

2. Go back and recheck while they say: “I love myself” and it will strong, confirming
that the psychological switching is fixed.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SWITCHING

• The most common example of this is they can’t lose weight.

• A true statement makes a strong muscle and a false statement makes a weak muscle.

• This came from Roger Callahan who wrote the book The Five Minute Phobia Cure.

• To be a thorough kinesiologist next time you see the patient retest it and see if it held
or not.

• Sometimes you have to redo it, but a lot of times it is a one time correction.

• Once “I love myself” tests strong they are no longer psychologically reversed.

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TEST FOR DEHYDRATION

Hydration

For good performance, clarity of thinking, and proper mind/body function, the body
depends greatly on water.

Without adequate amounts of pure water, the body’s electrical system is impaired and
the lymph system and organ functions suffer.

The water content of each tissue is:

• lungs 90% • heart 80% • muscles 76% • skin 72%

The brain, which is 75% water, utilizes about 30% of our water intake.

Whenever you have stress or pain, it is particularly helpful to drink water.

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TEST FOR DEHYDRATION
A guide to determine the correct amount of water intake for an individual is to
calculate the body weight in lbs. and then multiply by 1/3 to 1/2 oz. of water per day.

For example, someone weighing 130 lbs. would require 6-8 eight ounce glasses per
day under normal conditions.

• More water should be consumed in hotter climates and when extra physical or
mental demands are required of the body.

• If someone is toxic or cleansing, greater amounts of water should be consumed.

• Check if there are any medical contraindications to significantly increasing water

intake.

• Beverages are not processed like water. Some beverages, like coffee, soda, and
alcohol, actually require more water to break down than the water in them.

• Anytime the sugar content of a drink is more than 3%, it can dehydrate you
because the body has to dilute it. Therefore if someone is going to have a cup of
coffee or a sweetened beverage, it is best to follow it with two glasses of water.
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TEST FOR DEHYDRATION

Test for Hydration:

Using a previously strong indicator muscle (IM), gently pull on a tuft of hair to stretch
the skin and retest.

It doesn’t matter whether the tester or the person being tested pulls the hair.

Strong = adequately hydrated

Weak = not adequately hydrated.

Correction: Drink a glass of water and retest.

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TEST FOR DEHYDRATION

• When a person is not adequately hydrated the skin becomes less elastic. This
causes the skin to be stressed when stretched, which results in the IM testing
weak on the hair pull test.

• Receptors in the mouth immediately signal to the body when water has been
taken in, so the IM will test strong.

• People who are dehydrated will always be tender at the upper part of the outside
of the thigh on the tensor fascia lata (which is associated with the large intestine) .
The large intestine is where the reabsorption of water occurs, so this is an
indication that they need more water.

• A strong muscle test after taking in water does not necessarily mean that the
person has had the optimum amount of water they need, but the body is indicating
that hydration is good for it.

• Emphasize to the person that it is beneficial to drink purified water rather than tap
water, but also encourage those without access to purified water to drink tap
water rather than no water at all.
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ACCURATE MUSCLE TESTING
Tips to make muscle testing more accurate:

• If the patient looks up towards the top of their head, it will strengthen a muscle
test so make sure they aren’t looking up, or it could falsely test strong.

• Don’t let your patient hold their breath for the same reason. The muscle could
falsely test strong.

• Anytime you get two or three of the same things showing out on consecutive
patients, be suspicious that it is you, because when you are touching the patient
and a surrogate effect can be in effect.

• To take yourself out of the circuit, touch the neurovascular for the PMC muscle.

• If they get strong after you take yourself out of the circuit it means it was you.

• If it stays weak, then you know it is them that has they imbalance.

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TREATING ONESELF BY BALANCING OTHERS

• When you work on another person and stimulate their body reflexes, such as the
neurovascular and neurolymphatic points, and acupuncture meridians, you are
also fixing yourself by the surrogate effect.

• So when you are touching them while making corrections, you both got fixed.

• We who do kinesiology on other people are fixing ourselves all day long.

• Therefore we should be healthier than the average person.

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PULSE SYNCHRONIZATION

• When you make a statement, the body tells you whether it is true or false.

• A strong muscle means a true statement and weak muscle means a false statement.

• Sometimes you don’t want the patient to know what you’re asking, because you
might scare them, so ask it silently.

• Before testing them you need to make sure you are in tune with them.

• To check if you are in tune think a statement in your head like: “this patient is a
female” then test. Then think: “this patient is a male.” and test.

• If it does not test correctly, you are not in tune.

• So you can’t test silently if you aren’t in tune.

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PULSE SYNCHRONIZATION

• To get in tune, take the person’s pulse and your pulse at the same time.

• If you hold it long enough the fast one will overtake the slow one and they will beat at
the exact same time.

• They only need to beat at the exact same time once.

• The pulses should simultaneously synchronize.

• If you synchronize the two pulses then the two people will be in tune with each other.

• Then you can test silently.

• It works 99% of the time.

• On rare occasions it doesn’t work and the two people can’t get in tune with each other.

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UMBILICAL REVERSAL

This doesn’t show when checking physiological switching (K-27, CV 24, GV 26, GV 1)

• By fixing this it can change a person's life.

• People with this reversal make bad decisions in regards to money, love and career.

• They can show prejudice, go through life with little will power and make bad decisions.

• A person with umbilical reversal is usually very disorganized and has difficulty getting
things done
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UMBILICAL REVERSAL

Test:

1. The person tests strong when they point their fingers into their navel.

2. The person tests strong when you point your fingers into their navel.

3. The person tests weak when you point your fingers into the navel with their hand on
top of yours.

To further demonstrate, they will go weak on two bilateral tests: supraspinatus and PMC.

People go to great lengths to mask this.

To find a hidden umbilical reversal:

• Put a female into flexion by having their head tilted forward and retest

• Put a male into extention by having their head tilted backwards and retest

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UMBILICAL REVERSAL

Correction:

1. Retest while holding the structural hand mode (thumb to index finger)

2. Retest while holding the nutritional hand mode (thumb to middle finger)

3. Whichever correction tests strong is what will fix them.

Nutritional Correction:

• The nutritional correction is sesame seed oil. Test the amount and duration the
person needs to take this.

• 3 capsules per day for one month is usually best.

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UMBILICAL REVERSAL

Mechanical Correction:

1. The mechanical correction is for sacral wobble. (You can have sacral wobble and
not have umbilical reversal).

2. Challenge the sacrum by pushing up on the left and down on the right and test a
hamstring. If strong, challenge in the opposite direction.

3. Correct by pushing in the weakening direction several times on inhalation

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PELVIC CATEGORY 1

• Pelvic Category 1 is the shortcut for the entire pelvis.

• If Category 1 is strong, you can skip checking other things related to the pelvis,
such as Category 2, Category 3 and Sacral Wobble.
Test for Category 1

1. With the person lying prone, have them TL both sides of the SI joint (one hand
touching each side). If it goes weak, they have a Category 1.

2. Retest while holding the priority mode to confirm it is a priority.

3. To establish which is the involved side, retest while they put both hands on one side,
then test while they put both hands on the other side. The involved side will test weak.

4. To determine where to put the blocks to correct them, push down on the ischium on
the left while pushing down on the right PSIS and test. Repeat on the opposite side.

5. The side which tests strong is where you will place the blocks. So if pushing on the
right PSIS and left ischium tested strong, you will place a block under the right ilium
and one under the left ischium pointed towards each other.
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PELVIC CATEGORY 1

Correction:

Always fix the opposite side that TL’d (opposite of the involved side

1. After placing the blocks in the appropriate position, give several quick trusts pushing on
the uninvolved side and not over the block. So if the block is under the ilium you would
push the ischium several times down towards the table.

2. Retest whatever hand position on one side went weak to confirm it is now strong.

• The significance of the shoes (blocks) is you want to block the two sides that did not
challenge so that the other 2 sides are free to move.

• The blocking is a method of stabilizing the pelvis so that it only moves in one direction.

• Shoes can be used instead of blocks when blocks aren’t available.

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CROSS CRAWL

• Some people should cross-crawl to help them attain balance.

• This test indicated will show you how they can cross crawl correctly to do this.

• The cross-crawl test should only be done after all electromagnetic or switching
problems have been corrected.

• This is especially true for schizophrenics, for whom cross-crawl may have a negative
effect. (This will change after treatment)
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CROSS CRAWL

Test:

1. Test a strong indicator muscle (IM).

2. The tester touches the person’s SP 21 on the right side only. To locate, have the
patient bend their right arm across their waist. The elbow crease will be around the
9th rib, and SP 21 is at that level on the mid-axillary line.

3. Test the IM and if it goes weak with the patient’s head straight, cross-crawl is needed.

4. Retest with their head and eyes turned to the left and then test with them to the right.

5. If the weakened muscle becomes strong with head turned to left, the patient is to turn
their head to the left each time the left arm is raised, and return their head to the
center for the remainder of the time.

• This person is right-brained and left side of the body dominant.

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CROSS CRAWL

6. If the weak indicator muscle becomes strong with the head turned to the right,
the patient should look to the right whenever their right arm is raised.

• This person is left-brained and right side of body dominant.

Correction:

Rebalance using the cross-crawl and head-turning as indicated by the results until
the patient tests strong when their right SP 21 is TL’ed.

If the person does not test as needing to cross-crawl, but would like to know which
side to use (for their own interest):

1. Have the patient initially homo-lateral crawl - just long enough to activate the
SP 21 on the right reflex, as in step numbers 2 & 3 of the test.

2. Then proceed with the head-turning test in step 4.

CROSS CRAWL PATTERNS
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HYPOTHALAMUS

This is another test that pays big dividends for the entire endocrine system.

• The furthest back you can trace chemically speaking is the hypothalamus.

• The brain can manufacture 50 different neurochemicals from scratch, one that is 50
times more powerful than morphine.

• If the brain is the pharmacy, the hypothalamus is the pharmacist.

Suspect this when the patient doesn't stay fixed, even though you did the correction
properly.

Useful for:

• Addictive behavior • Hypothyroid • Heavy metal toxicity

• Blood pressure • Hypoadrenal

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HYPOTHALAMUS

Background:

• This was discovered by Dr. Mike Allen when he couldn’t understand why a patient
had cold feet. Out of desperation, when nothing else worked he blew on the feet
and all the muscles in the body went weak.

• He then worked out that the nerve endings that measure light (soft) sensation were
being activated.

• Those nerve endings were carried up to the brain by the lateral spinal thalamic tract
and 77% of those fibers go to the reticular formation, where the hypothalamus is
located.

• When he gave the hypothalamus tablet as the therapy, it took away the symptoms.

• The hypothalamus controls the pituitary and pineal gland.

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HYPOTHALAMUS

Test:

1. Blowing on the skin and test a strong indicator muscle. As an alternative you can
touch the person very lightly

2. If it goes weak the hypothalamus needs correction.

3. If it tests strong, pinch them and retest to find a hidden problem.

4. Retest as you check the hand modes for mechanical and nutrition to see what they
need.

5. If both modes strengthen, check to see which is the priority, though you could do
both.
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HYPOTHALAMUS

Nutritional Correction:

• Place hypothalamus tissue on the patient's body and if it strengthens the I.M. when
you blow on their skin, it indicates the need for supplementation.

• There is no vegetarian substitute as of yet, though vitamin C can be helpful

Mechanical Correction:

1. Tap at the junction of the sacrum and coccyx.

2. This works because the hypothalamus is the organ that goes with the root chakra.

3. This is tapping on the top of the root chakra.

4. Check for cranial faults, TMJ, Pineal Gland and Pituitary Gland.