| In this article, Richard DiCenso shares on the unique | | | | existence and maintains everything in existence. So |
| Matrix Assessment Profile. Richard DiCenso is a | | | | the answer is that it's both inside and out. |
| doctor, author and leading authority on whole person | | | | Kevin: Okay. That's pretty cool. Now, you've seen |
| therapy and author of Exploring A New Way of | | | | over your time different elements that contribute to |
| Thinking. | | | | physical symptoms. |
| Kevin: Well, why don't you tell us a little bit about | | | | Richard: Yes. |
| yourself and how you got from being a medical | | | | Kevin: What are some of those? I know some of |
| doctor to finding this book, Beyond Medicine, that | | | | them are listed in your book. Can we just run over |
| there was more out there than what we think. | | | | one or two or three of them? |
| Richard: Well, part of my frustration was in my | | | | Richard: Obviously, if you are in an automobile |
| training, because I went from discipline to discipline to | | | | accident and you experience physical pain, then the |
| discipline over a period of years and it included | | | | cause-and-effect is relatively straightforward, |
| everything from medicine to chiropractic to forensics | | | | although the reason for the accident may not be as |
| to acupuncture to trauma rehabilitation, human | | | | easy to understand, but we won't go there yet. |
| biochemistry and nutrition and what I found is that | | | | That's part of another realm, but then you |
| every discipline was that there was a formula to a | | | | experience physical symptoms and particularly if you |
| recipe approach and when I started looking at people | | | | don't know why you're experiencing them then, |
| with symptoms and looking at the different disciplines | | | | that's where we start with the analysis, is where |
| I found that each discipline had their own approach to | | | | you're experiencing the symptoms. So I'm |
| the same symptoms, but none of the disciplines | | | | experiencing physical pain. We look at the physical |
| attempted to identify the cause of the symptoms | | | | structure. It can be associated with repetitive |
| and that's when I stepped back from all the | | | | movements, prolonged positional stress. It can be |
| disciplines and started to look at what is it that all of | | | | associated with a nutritional deficiency, or it could be |
| these symptoms have in common and in the final | | | | associated with some kind of cycle or emotional |
| analysis in its simplest form, I found that all | | | | imbalance or inconsistency that expresses itself as a |
| symptoms are simply symptoms, that they are just | | | | physical symptom. For instance, a child that doesn't |
| the net result of an imbalance, or deficiency that's | | | | want to go to school, because he's being bullied gets |
| progress over a period of time to exhibit itself as | | | | this horrendous stomach ache and they take him to |
| symptoms and in a worst-case scenario, a | | | | the doctor and they can't find anything, but they put |
| diagnosable the thieves. | | | | him on bed rest and it becomes a recurrent |
| Kevin: So for instance, fibromyalgia is a symptom of | | | | experience, a physical experience and then over time |
| -- | | | | it is identified and dealt with, it will lead to other |
| Richard: Some imbalance or deficiency. It can be a | | | | forms of behavior and other physical experiences and |
| different one for each person. That's interesting part | | | | things are just going to be unsolvable, because |
| of it, because if there were a simple | | | | they're looking in the wrong place for the source of |
| cause-and-effect, we'd have it already and there | | | | the physical pain or discomfort or symptoms. |
| would be a cure. | | | | Kevin: Wow. That's an incredible explanation of how it |
| Kevin: Okay. | | | | all works. How do you assess that, though, with |
| Richard: It is a name for a group of symptoms that a | | | | modern or conventional medicine? |
| number of people are experiencing. They come in | | | | Richard: Well, once again, you always rule out the |
| complaining of the same thing, so they've narrowed it | | | | obvious. So most of the people who come to me |
| down to being diagnosable. If you have, I think, it's | | | | have already been through all the conventional |
| 18 tender points of different parts of the body then | | | | analysis and there are two ways to use conventional |
| you get the diagnosis fibromyalgia, which means | | | | medicine at this point in trying to determine what's |
| what? | | | | causing those symptoms. One is to have the test |
| Kevin: I don't know. | | | | done, because you don't want to miss anything |
| Richard: Right and that's what I'm saying is that's how | | | | obvious, like a virus or IBS or irritable bowel |
| a lot of medicine is conducted, is they're telling you | | | | syndrome, or celiac spruce. Some of the organic |
| what they're telling them, using a different word. | | | | dysfunctions that can produce similar functions, you |
| Kevin: Got you. | | | | don't want to miss those. Once you've had the test |
| Richard: So my elbow hurts and so if you've got | | | | done and their negative, the next that the process is |
| arthritis. You got tendinitis. You've got degenerative | | | | to look at those tests and see if they come back |
| or rheumatoid arthritis. You have whatever, but | | | | normal, are there elements within those results that |
| basically they're going to use a word that means | | | | are high normal and low normal, because these are |
| what it is that you're telling them without really | | | | just as powerful to a tool in terms of determining a |
| describing what's caused what you're experiencing | | | | pattern in the process of developing an imbalance in |
| and therefore, if you can't identify a cause, you can't | | | | the process of developing a deficiency in the process |
| affect a cure. | | | | of developing by looking at highs and lows in related |
| Kevin: So it's kind of like making up words. | | | | chemistries and then if that's there, then we use that |
| Richard: It's a lot like making up words. It's very | | | | as an initial tool to start normalizing biochemistry. If |
| similar to what the pharmaceutical companies do with | | | | that's not there, then next step in the process is let |
| the ad agencies in New York. One of my clients has | | | | me look at the Matrix. Let me look at the relationship |
| a large advertising agency in New York and 20% of | | | | between the child and the parents. Let me talk with |
| his business is from pharmaceutical companies and his | | | | a child. Let me ask some very explicit questions to |
| job is to come up with a name for a drug that they | | | | the child that seem like I'm having a dialogue, but |
| discovered that relieves certain groups of symptoms | | | | they're really designed to elicit responses that would |
| and so they sit in a brainstorming session for a few | | | | be consistent with an imbalance in the emotional |
| days and they come up with something that is | | | | realm, so that I can either implement some |
| catchy and can have an acronym associated with it | | | | treatment myself or recommend a course of |
| that rolls off the tongue that people can remember | | | | treatment with a child psychologist or someone that |
| and basically it's we've got a new pill now and we | | | | might be more skilled in one or more of the areas |
| need a disease to go with it. | | | | that I'm not. So my role isn't necessarily to solve the |
| Kevin: Wow. So how do you go backwards from a | | | | problem of the symptoms, but to solve the problem, |
| symptom to the actual imbalance? | | | | which may involve other people that I need to |
| Richard: That's a great point and I'm a simple guy in | | | | interface with professionally. |
| the final analysis. So I had to come up with a simple | | | | Kevin: Have you found that nutritional deficiencies can |
| process that I could understand and communicate so | | | | cause emotional behavior and emotional reactions? |
| that the people I'm working with could become | | | | Richard: About 80% of the emotional symptoms that |
| proactive in the process, instead of just looking to | | | | I see have a nutritional basis. |
| me for the answer and kind of help me find the | | | | Kevin: Wow. |
| answer. So the answer to your question in a | | | | Richard: So it's huge. |
| sentence is always start where you are. So that's | | | | Kevin: When the nutritional deficiency is addressed, |
| the beauty of the Matrix Assessment Profile, which is | | | | then that goes away? |
| a protocol that I've developed over a period of years | | | | Richard: Yes, because again, you're dealing with a |
| based on research produced by NASA to monitor | | | | symptom that appears to be emotional and if you |
| the health of the Apollo astronauts and the Matrix | | | | treat it with pharmaceuticals, you treat with therapy |
| Assessment Profile means that we're assessing the | | | | and it doesn't get any better and you're missing the |
| matrix. Now, I don't want to do the same things with | | | | obvious, which is nutritional imbalance or deficiency, |
| the words here that these doctors are doing with | | | | then you've served no purpose. |
| these diagnoses. So there's a method to the | | | | Kevin: Wow. |
| madness and there's a reason behind this name. So | | | | Richard: So think about it this way, Kevin. One of the |
| an assessment of the matrix means that we're | | | | issues we have in this country is that the soil is |
| looking at more than just the symptoms that you're | | | | depleted of vital nutrients. The last senate document |
| describing to me. We're looking at the potential | | | | I saw said that there were only three minerals left in |
| causes for that symptom or group of symptoms | | | | the soil in this country and so if the nutrients aren't in |
| within the human matrix, which is composed of | | | | soil, they're not in the food and if they're not the |
| structural, biochemical and a cycle of emotional or | | | | food, they're not in the diet. If they're not in the diet, |
| virtual realm that all interacts 24/7 to produce the | | | | they're not in the body and the body was designed |
| experiences we have in life and so the Matrix | | | | to operate in function on all of these nutrients. So it's |
| Assessment Profile is an assessment of all of those | | | | a supply and demand problem. If the demands are |
| realms. What do you do for a living? What kind of | | | | that the lungs keep pumping and oxygen is delivered |
| stress are you experiencing? What do you eat? | | | | to the cells and the bowels move and the heart |
| What percentage of your diet is raw? How often do | | | | pumps blood and all of the other systems work the |
| you eat out? How much water do you drink? Do you | | | | way they were designed and there are not enough |
| take supplements? How much sleep you get? What | | | | raw materials to go round, the body has to begin to |
| kind of spiritual beliefs do you have? These are all | | | | compromise function and prioritize the use of the |
| things that will contextually interact to produce | | | | raw materials that are available, which then sets up a |
| symptoms as part of the human matrix. | | | | whole chain of events over a period of time based |
| Kevin: So the matrix is all the different things that are | | | | on a law of accumulation, which means it that if |
| around you. Let me ask you this question. Is the | | | | something is done repetitively of a period of time, |
| matrix outside of you, or inside of you, or is it is a | | | | there's going to be a reaction to that given the fact |
| combination of all of that? | | | | that there is an insufficient supply to meet the |
| Richard: It's very similar to the concept of zero point | | | | demand for that function. |
| energy. It's the creative and life-sustaining force that | | | | Kevin: It sounds so logical. |
| contributes to the expression of everything in | | | | Richard: It is. |