What is Endobiogenic Medicine?

If you have an autoimmune, inflammatory or any chronic condition, I may suggest that you consider an Endobiogenic Medicine (EM) test. EM’s Biology of Functions produces a uniquely personalised set of index markers that identify hormonal imbalances behind your current health condition. All that is required from the client is a normal blood draw.

It is important to note that these markers are not simply measuring hormonal quantities in the blood stream: they are markers of the relative activity of hormones in the body at cellular, tissular and metabolic levels.

 The markers offer a unique view of the body’s hormonal regulation and its shaping of the internal terrain. Each individual’s set of markers reveal their hormonal functionality and relative hormonal relationships which govern and shape the individual’s terrain. After a key life change or a major stressor, the internal terrain faces intense demand on its resources and has to adapt under hormonal regulation; sometimes this can result in major imbalances, experienced by the individual as a condition of ill health.

Through EM’s Biology of Functions markers, the hormonal factors affecting the individual’s terrain are much better understood and can inform the design of highly personalised herbal treatment and nutritional support.

Hormonal regulation of the internal terrain

Endobiogenic Medicine emerged as the lifework of medical doctors Duraffourd and Lapraz, who worked on it for decades and, joined by other medical doctors, developed and refined the Biology of Functions index markers. Early on the endobiogenists adopted the use of whole medicinal herbs (not single compounds) as the complex medicinal agents needed for the complex problems of human health.

EM views the body as an organised system generated and sustained by the endocrine (hormonal) system, which determines key stages in life as well as the body’s adaptation in the face of stressors. These stressors can be physical (e.g. pathogens or overwork), mental or emotional, and may be current or chronic.  The autonomic nervous system has a central role in that it calibrates the actions of the hormonal system.

The concept of terrain is very important in Endobiogenic Medicine and has been defined as ‘all the structural and functional elements that interact in a dynamic fashion to create, maintain and adapt an organism in its expression of Life’.  Each person’s terrain is their own and determines the way that their body adapts to stressors.