2502 NYCC TRANS FINAL2 - New York Chiropractic College

Interview With: Howard F. Loomis, Jr., D.C., F.I.A.C.A.
Howard F. Loomis, D.C., president of Enzyme Formulations, Inc., majored
in chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a
1968 graduate of Logan Chiropractic College. Dr. Loomis’s interest in nutritional
food enzymes began when he had the privilege of working with Edward
Howell, M.D., the food enzyme pioneer. His broad knowledge of human physiology
and nutrition, plus his practical experience with various testing and treatment
modalities, contribute to Dr. Loomis’s expertise on the clinical application
of nutritional food enzymes. He is currently lecturing on the benefits of Enzyme
Replacement Therapy(TM) and has articles appearing monthly in The Chiropractic
Journal and The American Chiropractor. As president of 21 st Century
Nutrition, Dr. Loomis educates people worldwide regarding diagnosis and treatment
of enzyme deficiency syndromes. Dr. Loomis may be contacted at 800-
662-2630 and supports an internet website at www.loomisenzymes.com.
Transitions recently had the good fortune to interview Dr. Howard
Loomis. Throughout an interview that ultimately focused upon nutrition,
Dr. Loomis recounted a variety of functions common to all
of life – ranging from the lone cell to entire living organisms. The
functions he mentioned included, among others, reproduction, respiration,
digestion, elimination and protection. His tracing the development
of multicellular organisms helped clarify the important
interrelationship between bodily systems and nutrition’s vital role in
maintaining health. According to Dr. Loomis, cells that organize
into “communities” specialize and form distinct organ systems. While
the amoeba exists in an external environment, humans and other
multicellular organisms are required to maintain internal environments
in which the various bodily cells can function. Organs and
organ systems work to sustain specifically defined internal environments.
Relevant environmental conditions would include temperature,
acid/base balance, nutrient concentration, and oxygen/nutrient
flow.
Mechanical, chemical/nutritional, and emotional stresses that
challenge the various organ systems increase demand for nutrients
and create additional wastes. Ultimately, when the organ systems can
Cancer and Obesity
The World Health Organization (WHO)
reported that obesity and lack of exercise
were major factors in up to one third of
cases of cancer of the colon, breast,
kidney, and digestive tract. While there
are few studies indicating that weight
reduction reverses the risks, WHO
advocates active weight loss among
persons with a body mass index above 25.
no longer meet the stressful challenges,
symptoms begin to appear.
Additional compensatory
organ systems are then called
upon that may exhaust themselves
in the process. Eventually,
exhaustion may result in measurable
pathological changes. It is
at this advanced stage that medicine
may finally identify and assess
damage and, consequently,
begin treatment.
Due to their unique training,
chiropractors often recognize the
onset of health problems before
measurable damage. In this regard,
subluxations will appear as
Howard F. Loomis, D.C.
effects of emerging health problems
rather than as causes. For example, the chiropractor may palpate
muscle contractions along nerves that connect the hypothalamus
and stressed organs. Dr. Loomis believes the treatment and
enhancement of digestion is a wide open healthcare opportunity for
chiropractors. As he puts it, “No one out there is looking at it. And
medicine will give it to chiropractors!” Considering the public’s annual
expenditure for antacids, Dr. Loomis’ proposal may be very
lucrative indeed.
Transitions: I enjoyed your article “Key Issues in Geriatric Nutrition
Part I: The Physiological Changes,” as reported in The American
Chiropractor. I was struck by your remark that chiropractors are
uniquely qualified to determine by case history, examination, and
urinalysis, early deviations from homeostasis. Anti-aging expert, Dr.
Philip Santiago, made similar reference to chiropractic’s unique position.
Are chiropractors uniquely positioned because they have learned
to not simply treat “symptoms,” or is it because the symptoms that
medical doctors treat are already late-stage problems?
Dr. Loomis: I believe chiropractors are uniquely suited to recognize
potential health problems before they manifest themselves as
disease entities. This is because of what they measure or what deviations
from normal they recognize as problems. I left Logan College
in 1968 having been trained not to treat symptoms but rather to
recognize the stress that was exhausting the body’s ability to maintain
health.
Allopathic physicians, on the other hand, must wait for demonstrable
pathological changes to be recognized and a name placed on
the process before they can initiate current therapy. In other words,
symptom A = drug A = insurance code/payment A. Until that diagnostic
parameter is met they can only guess at the appropriate remedy.
This problem has led to the current state of advertising propaganda
being funded by the pharmaceutical industry. In the late 1980s
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