BO­BIE-LEE DIXON

(bo­bie-lee.dixon@guardian.co

Imag­ine ly­ing on a bed for ten min­utes and get­ting rid of your aches and pains? Doesn't that just sound like a “get out of here”, type of sit­u­a­tion? We al­so thought the same at the first sound of it, un­til the Sun­day Guardian team vis­it­ed Parc Di­ag­nos­tics (PD) in Wood­brook, Port-of-Spain, and was al­lowed to ex­pe­ri­ence the BE­MER (pro­nounced beam­er) mi­cro­cir­cu­la­tion ther­a­py. Pret­ty soon, to­wards the end, there were very few 'mon­key faces' left.

The BE­MER, which is the acronym for bio elec­tro­mag­net­ic en­er­gy reg­u­la­tion, is the com­bined cre­ation of Switzer­land and Ger­man al­ter­na­tive health ex­perts. As ex­plained by PD CEO and di­rec­tor Richard Charles, for the first time, the tech­nol­o­gy is be­ing in­tro­duced to T&T through PD.

Very much like the com­fort of your Sealy Pos­ture­pedic, with the on­ly dif­fer­ence be­ing the built-in mag­net­ic coils, all you do is lie there, re­lax and al­low this mag­net­ic bed when switched on, to trans­mit elec­tro-mag­net­ic fre­quen­cies through­out the body, pro­mot­ing oxy­genat­ed blood flow which is sup­posed to re­lieve a menu of health con­di­tions in­clud­ing asth­ma, arthri­tis, poor cir­cu­la­tion, and back pain to name a few. Charles has even claimed some of his clients who are can­cer pa­tients have found that af­ter us­ing mi­cro­cir­cu­la­tion ther­a­py, they have ex­pe­ri­enced few­er neg­a­tive side ef­fects fol­low­ing chemother­a­py ses­sions.

It's not dan­ger­ous and there are no side ef­fects, Charles ex­plained. He said mi­cro­cir­cu­la­tion ther­a­py, which has been and is still used in North Amer­i­ca, Eu­rope, and even in parts of West Africa, ac­tu­al­ly helps to ac­ti­vate the body's nat­ur­al heal­ing abil­i­ties. Ex­perts add, it's so safe, even chil­dren could re­ceive the treat­ment. In fact, it emits a pulse, which is ac­tu­al­ly just be­low that of the earth's own mag­net­ic field.

“The BE­MER ther­a­py stim­u­lates blood cir­cu­la­tion in the small­er blood ves­sels and im­proves the sup­ply and dis­pos­al of tox­ins pro­duced by hu­man or­gans and tis­sues,” Charles elab­o­rates.

Re­search by in­ter­na­tion­al med­ical ex­perts who have used the BE­MER ther­a­py on pa­tients, re­veals the core tech­nol­o­gy be­hind this ther­a­py is a mul­ti­di­men­sion­al sig­nal struc­ture, which ef­fec­tive­ly stim­u­lates the lim­it­ed or de­fec­tive mi­cro­cir­cu­la­tion. There­fore it sup­ports the most im­por­tant reg­u­la­to­ry mech­a­nisms of the hu­man body, the pro­ce­dures for pre­ven­tion, treat­ment, re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, and re­gen­er­a­tion.

It's on­ly been six weeks since the treat­ment has been made avail­able in T&T, yet Charles boast­ed that there is a lengthy list of users who have all found the treat­ment to work in their favour. Dur­ing our vis­it last Fri­day, we ran in­to for­mer na­tion­al cy­clist Michael Phillips who was there for an­oth­er di­ag­nos­tic as­sess­ment of­fered by PD but had al­so pre­vi­ous­ly used the BE­MER ther­a­py. He de­scribed it as 'con­ve­nient' and def­i­nite­ly 'some­thing' he would use again.

Oth­er tes­ti­monies came from 47-year-old Sandy Neemar and 63-year-old Garth Eligon. Neemar who was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing joint pain and an over­all un­well feel­ing told the Sun­day Guardian that af­ter her sixth ses­sion of the ther­a­py, she no longer had the pain and felt much health­i­er.

Af­ter a back in­jury, Eligon vis­it­ed PD and was placed on the BE­MER for a week, to­geth­er with sup­ple­ments al­so pro­vid­ed by PD. To­day, he said he was pain-free and nev­er ex­pe­ri­enced any side ef­fects fol­low­ing the ther­a­py.

But what gives Charles the ex­per­tise to treat his clients? Af­ter all, his back­ground be­gan in the fi­nance sec­tor. He said he was be­ing bogged down by asth­ma for years and haunt­ed by the death of his grand­moth­er who died in her 50s of a heart at­tack, a health threat which he dis­closed is preva­lent in his fam­i­ly. This, he said, quick­ened him to switch his fo­cus to health and well­ness. When he mi­grat­ed to Flori­da years ago, he joined Rex­all Sun­down Vi­t­a­mins, the leader in the di­etary sup­ple­ment in­dus­try at the time. It was there he be­gan to un­der­stand how sup­ple­ments work and how the hu­man body re­spond­ed to them.

He sub­se­quent­ly be­came af­fil­i­at­ed with the in­ter­na­tion­al al­ter­na­tive health brand, Parc Well­ness Cen­ters, and re­turned to T&T 20 years ago as a dis­trib­u­tor for the com­pa­ny, first sell­ing its trade­mark sup­ple­ment—Alkoxy­rol—an im­mune builder made of shark liv­er oil. To­day, the com­pa­ny car­ries a wide range of or­gan­ic health sup­ple­ments from detox­i­fiers and cleansers to male en­hancers.

PD, a ser­vice of Parc Well­ness Cen­ters, prides it­self on al­ter­na­tive meth­ods of non-in­va­sive di­ag­nos­ing of dis­eases that show trends be­fore clin­i­cal symp­toms de­vel­op, as well as its al­ter­na­tive meth­ods of fight­ing dis­eases, by mak­ing lifestyle changes and us­ing nat­ur­al meth­ods that na­ture has pro­vid­ed.

The Sun­day Guardian got a first-hand ex­pe­ri­ence of this non-in­va­sive ap­proach with the Parc EMD (Elec­trom­e­try Mea­sure­ment Di­ag­nos­tic), whole body scan, which saw in­side the body and showed what was wrong and what could go wrong. The method was sim­ple and pain­less; a de­vice was used on the merid­i­an points of the wrist and an­kles to give the di­ag­no­sis.

We al­so tried the Parc Car­dio, a two-minute screen­ing of the heart us­ing an un­con­ven­tion­al ECG de­vice that cre­ates a 3D im­age, which al­lows for im­me­di­ate eval­u­a­tion. Need­less to say, the Sun­day Guardian team had 'sweet hearts.'

What's im­por­tant to note, these two screen­ings are be­low $500. Charles al­so de­scribes the BE­MER ther­a­py as 'af­ford­able,' how­ev­er that treat­ment takes a more tai­lored ap­proach based on the client's con­di­tion, there­fore de­pend­ing on the num­ber of ses­sions re­quired, the cost could vary.

Charles ex­plained that a pop­u­lar be­lief held by many is 'I rather not know than know,' and by the time they find out, it's too late, which is the worst pos­si­ble choice when it comes to one's health. He said in many in­stances de­vel­op­ment of chron­ic dis­eases could be avoid­ed by ear­ly de­tec­tion and health­i­er lifestyle choic­es.

“It's time to stop play­ing Russ­ian roulette with your health and take charge of it to­day,” he ad­vis­es.

For more in­for­ma­tion on Parc Di­ag­nos­tics vis­it www.par­cwell­ness­cen­tres.com