Contrary to any impression that patient work-ups, planning and treatment is an academic exercise and deals solely with patient biochemistry and analysis of laboratory results and the interpretation of medical records, Dr. Keys believes that patient contact should be both mutually enjoyable, fun as well as interesting; Getting well or improving yourself should not be a pedantic exercise; accordingly, Dr. Keys also covers the following areas.

I. Nutrition & The Art Of Healing

• You should experience dramatic shifts in your vitality, endurance and moods in the direction of improvement.
• We help you to end your cravings and addictions.
• We urge you to stop careless, habitual compulsive eating.
• We teach you to nourish and strengthen your body.
• We show you how to eat sanely, even on your busiest days.
• We teach you how to prepare simple, wholesome meals; this may include a field trip to your local supermarket to teach you how to look at food labels and how to shop. Misleading labels can disguise hidden food allergens. Current food labeling makes it difficult for you to read labels and stop buying allergy causing foods. Even safe foods may become contaminated by still other, allergy producing foods in food manufacture and packaging, causing hidden poisons and grief for you. See: Steinman, Harris A., MCBChB, Hidden Allergies in Food, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, August, 1996, 98(2):241-250. People with severe food sensitivities are shown to avoid processed foods completely and eat more natural, whole foods. Yes, Dr. Keys has gone with patients to the super- market to teach patients how to shop!!!
• How to use your test results for vitalistic and deterministic nutrition;you are both what you eat, absorb and utilize.
• We show you the disease-toxicity connection and how to individualize your own detoxification: good detoxifiers live longer.
• We show you how to identify and manage your own food sensitivities; laboratory records and reports may be used.
• Acid Alkaline balances may be shifted as well as tempermental features of the your catecholamine-adrenal system: temper- ments may be shifted and changed.
• We may attend to special nutritional care in acute illnesses; special diets may be developed, even special Intravenous feeding. The role of parenteral and enteral nutrition is frequently neglected in acute illness.
• Specialized nutritional pain and anti-inflammatory protocols are developed to substitute for pharmaceutical management, when appropriate.

II. The Art Of Movement

• It is a priority to make you stronger, more flexible and vital.
• We work on your stamina and endurance to increase your range of function.
• We help you to learn to enjoy creative, new ways to move your body.
• We teach you the value and joy of exercise for the rest of your life!
• We show you that movement is a simple expression of your joy, its philosophy and physiology, mind body breathing with principles of endurance, strength and flexibility.
• We show you how to value and use your "inner voice" and how to have a "healthy inner dialogue."

III. Education, Inspiration & The Art of Study

• We guide you to clarify your deepest desire: everybody has a special wish, desire or dream that needs to be manifested.
• We show you how to develop and maintain concentration and motivation; special subliminal tapes are commonly used as therapeutic adjuncts to overcome areas of cognitive deficit.
• Healing emotional blocks, negative beliefs and emotions is a standard prerequisite for going forward with health and healing; subliminal tapes as therapeutic adjuncts are employed in this important area to facilitate patient progress.
• We teach you the art of self love; you are your own best friend; create changes that last; produce results; tools for self- reflection and inspiration; we set you up with a personal journal to channel your values and vision, when appropriate.
• We show you how language is a healing, nurturing tool.
• We look for every possible way to remove obstacles to your growth and self-expression. Your own actions cause your own health and happiness.

IV. Recreation & Rest

• You can learn the true value of rest and recreation as a re-creation; re-inventing yourself and rising from the ashes.
• You can learn the influence of rest on thought, emotion, eating and relating; learning that your life is not the tree but the whole forest; webs of relationships are the essence of all existing things; you as a living, thinking, breathing person, like all living things, have the potential to grow and transcend yourself. You will learn the potentiality of yourself as a living system related to everything and everybody around you. Accordingly, you learn to be more playful and experience more fun in your life.

V. How To Relate To Others

• You learn how to create, grow and nurture supportive relationships.
• You learn to listen for and speak the truth.
• You learn to love more and judge others less.
• You learn to be open, receptive and understand others.
• You learn how to re-create a dead or impaired relationship: the value of limerance and limerant emotions are taught in male-female relationships
• You learn alternative, safe methods of conflict resolution.
• You learn the special value of intrinsic openness in all relationships.

VI. Using The Simple Virtues of Hope & Faith To Heal

Contact Dr. Ronald B. Keys at (718) 460-3966 or e-mail at rkeysphd@brainlink.com.
After all, it's only your life.