Knowledge based

Both the providers and the consumers of health care are increasingly overwhelmed with information. What they need and what you need is not more information but more knowledge. Health and Healing Research is dedicated to being a trustworthy source of information which has been evaluated, tested and refined into knowledge you can use. We will present this as succinctly and clearly as possible to accommodate the realistic demands of already over-full schedules.

Research oriented

Disseminating knowledge would be enough if there was enough knowledge. Unfortunately, there isn't. Health and Healing Research taps into the best existing research resources--the best scientists, the best laboratories, and the best technologies--to produce the new knowledge needed to maintain and restore human health now and in the future.

What research is ongoing and what is planned

Ongoing:

The current focus of research is enzyme supplementation. Digestive enzymes have been used both prophylactically and therapeutically for many decades, but many fundamental questions remain unanswered.

• Research at Kansas University Medical Center is underway which is designed to explore the biochemical and physiological details of protease supplementation designed for systemic benefit.
• Research is about to begin at the Washington University School of Medicine on the impact of enzyme supplementation with food on pancreatic metabolism.

Dark field microscopy (live blood cell analysis): Study the correlation of features observed in fresh blood by dark field and other forms of high resolution light microscopy--and quantified by computerized image analysis--with a variety of chemical parameters determined in the clinical laboratory;

Evaluation of the implications of these correlations between image features and blood chemistry in diagnosis.

Enzyme supplementation and allergies: Since more intimate contact with the environment occurs through the lining of our digestive tracts than through our skin, research is needed to study the role of digestive enzyme supplementation in preventing or lessening allergic responses.

Enzyme supplementation and soft tissue injuries: Pain, swelling and bruising occur in soft tissue (i.e. subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle) after blunt trauma, surgery and sports injuries. The value of enzyme supplementation is increasingly recognized as an effective way to reduce these symptoms, but wide acceptance of this depends upon more research to both establish this benefit clinically and to determine how enzymes work to accomplish this.