Empowering the natural therapist

There is a growing number of therapists interested in the rapidly increasing field of sciencebased natural health, but many of them are limited in their practice by an insufficient fundamental scientific understanding of the therapeutic options at their disposal. Moreover, natural therapies are often marginalized by the medical profession and the media as unproven, and are, therefore, seen as inferior to conventional pharmaceutical approaches.

Now, the Dr. Rath Research Institute, an independent research facility in California, is helping to lift the entire natural health field to an unprecedented level of acceptance – on the strength of science­based natural health formulas that have been acknowledged by the US Patent Office.

This acknowledgment is of particular significance since the US Patent Office is an official part of the US government and one of the most influential authorities of its kind in the world.

Micronutrient combinations –the key to preventive health

The greatest advances in the field of natural health in recent decades were made in researching the health benefits of vitamins and other micronutrients.

This is no coincidence. As long as a century ago, the indisputable health benefits of vitamins were already published. During the first half of the 20th century, these discoveries were considered so important that they were acknowledged by more than a dozen Nobel prizes.

Under the increasing influence of the pharmaceutical investment business on medicine in general, this invaluable knowledge was then neglected – and in a great part forgotten – for several decades. In the early 1990s, however, groundbreaking discoveries in the field of vitamins and cardiovascular health triggered an avalanche of renewed interest in establishing the health benefits of vitamins and micronutrients (details in ‘Appendix’). This, in turn, led to an explosion of scientific publications documenting the value of micronutrients in the fight against all major human diseases (see graphics).

What has not been fully understood for almost a century, however, is the synergy – the mutually beneficial interactions – of micronutrients at the cellular level. The study of this crucial scientific phenomenon has been the focus of research at the Dr. Rath Research Institute over the past decades. This scientific technology of micronutrient synergy formed the basis of the natural health formulas described here that have now been acknowledged by the Patent Office.

Unprecedented benefits for therapists and patients

The fact that combinations of micronutrients have now been acknowledged by the world’s most influential patent office for the health benefits they confer on cellular metabolism has significant consequences – and benefits –for global health. Now, for the first time, a scientifically recognized natural approach for the prevention of major human diseases has become available. These benefits are for:

• Natural health therapists

Preventive and therapeutic options become available that have been scientifically developed and recognized by a government authority. Moreover, the fact that these formulas are acknowledged by the Patent Office sig­ nifies that they have not been around before and are unique in the world.

These formulas empower the entire natural health profession to become part of scientifically recognized cohort of healthcare providers.

• Medical doctors and conventional therapists

For medical doctors and other conventional therapists, these formulas also significantly widen their therapeutic options. The formulas may be used as an adjunct – or, in some cases, even as alternatives – to conventional therapies. This is particularly true for the multitude of diseases where conventional therapies are currently limited to treating symptoms rather than addressing the metabolic malfunction at its cellular roots.

• Above all: benefits for millions of people

Most significantly, these scientifically founded formulas for the first time provide an effective, safe, and natural way for millions of people to help to prevent the development of major health problems in the first place.

This new natural health technology represents a major contribution towards the improvement of global human health.