Mission Statement
- To measure
body function non-invasively and
non-destructively.
- To measure how
well a body system is working when
challenged
- To measure how
well that system regulates its products.
- To provide
performance information to the client
and their healthcare provider, that may
allow early interventional opportunity
to optimize health.
Background
We all know a
friend or loved one who became suddenly ill
with a life threatening disease or had a
heart attack unannounced. Why is it that we
can go to the doctor for our yearly
checkups, walk out of the office door and
keel over on the street with an attack from
an undiscovered illness that we are later
told has been 15 years in the making? We can
no longer wait for catastrophe to strike.
The Solution
Robert P. Mathis,
MD, ABHM, MCP is located at 9 East Mission
St, in Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Dr Mathis's "Health
Performance Screening Clinic" is the first
of its kind and is being established in
Santa Barbara. Using state of the art
hardware, diagnostic software, blood and
saliva testing to measure your current state
of wellness, Dr Bob will show you how to
maintain balance, a balance that he measures
and charts. He creates a personalized
wellness program for each patient, teaching
them to retrain their focus toward
prevention and peak performance, rather than
toward curing a specific disease. His
mission is to put you in touch with how well
you are, rather than how sick you are. "The
old saying is as true as ever, an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure. Working
with my patients over the years has shown me
time and time again that prevention is the
cure."
Baseline Health
Performance Screening™ is done to evaluate
the body's ability to respond to
specialized, focused functional testing™.
Both static and dynamic testing of a system
is done yielding the client's normal resting
state and the client's body's reaction to a
stressful challenge. Trending of this
person-specific information over time will
illuminate subtle changes that reflect
system function/balance problems. The client
and their healthcare provider can then
institute lifestyle and/or other changes to
bring the system back to its known good
baseline thus averting the eventual system
failure. Please review a brief list (below)
of some of the system tests available.
"The journey of
life can truly be appreciated when we feel
healthy, balanced and in harmony with our
environment. Please allow me to assist you
in achieving your optimum state of
wellness."
Dr Mathis has been
an Urgent Care-Family Physician for 17
years. He is also Board Certified in
Holistic Medicine (ABHM). Dr Bob's
background in the field of medicine,
physiology, teaching and urgent care, along
with being a Microsoft Certified
Professional (MCP), puts him at the
forefront of Medicine.
Testing Theory:
The
body is a redundant and fault tolerant
system. It does every thing it can to
survive. Since we can't be bothered by every
little ache or pain or malfunction, the body
just recruits other systems or steals from
other systems to support the low function of
the failing system. We all know a friend or
relative who was recently diagnosed or had a
life treating disease discovered and then
was told this disease has been in the making
for more than 15 years. Symptoms are the
last thing you feel right before the system
crashes all together. A crash is defined as
system performance below 12 to 15 percent
function (see figure below). From 100% to
15% we are virtually symptom free and have
no clue that we are depleting our nature
resource.
Below 12
to 15% we begin to notice, shortness of
breath, pain, numbness, tingling, or some
other symptom. For example, patients are not
put on dialysis until they are in the last
10 to 12% of kidney function.
I recently had a 47
year old male who worked out in the gym
daily. He was symptom-free. We found his
right heart artery 100% closed up.
Fortunately he had not had a heart attack
and the cardiologist was able to put in two
stents and he regained nearly 100% of the
blood flow to that artery. This husband and
father of two was able avert sudden death or
worse yet a crippling heart attack.
A modular
approach to testing
Develop a suitable test for each system that
challenges that system and gives us "Useful
Information" meaning information that is
sensitive enough to describe how a system is
performing. That is how close you are to the
top 100% instead of how close you are to the
bottom 0%.
