One of the most common questions I receive is:
“How can you assess someone remotely through Zoom?”
It’s a fair question, and one I welcome because it allows me to explain both my philosophy of healthcare and the clinical system I have developed over the past two decades.
God Is the Ultimate Healer
Before discussing muscle testing, I want to make one thing clear: I believe that God is the ultimate healer. Every gift, every ability, every insight, and every success in my practice comes from Him.
James 1:17 reminds us:
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights…”
Throughout Scripture we see that God often works through people. He gave wisdom to craftsmen, discernment to leaders, and healing gifts to others. I believe He still equips people today with unique abilities, education, and experience to serve others.
Every patient I see is created in God’s image. I approach every consultation with humility, prayer, and the desire to listen—not only to the patient—but to seek God’s wisdom in helping them.
I never claim to heal anyone.
Healing belongs to God.
My responsibility is to faithfully use the knowledge, education, clinical experience, and gifts He has entrusted to me.
The History of Muscle Testing
Muscle testing has been used in healthcare for over sixty years.
In 1964, chiropractor Dr. George Goodheart developed Applied Kinesiology after observing that manual muscle testing could provide valuable clinical information beyond simple muscle strength.
Today, manual muscle testing is routinely used by chiropractors, physical therapists, neurologists, orthopedic physicians, rehabilitation specialists, and sports medicine providers to evaluate muscle function and neurological integrity. If you’ve ever watched the sideline evaluation of an injured athlete, you’ve likely seen manual muscle testing being performed.
Over the years, many practitioners expanded upon Dr. Goodheart’s work, including Dr. Dick Versendaal (Contact Reflex Analysis), Dr. Victor Frank (Total Body Modification), Dr. Scott Walker (Neuro Emotional Technique), and others.
I have studied numerous muscle testing systems throughout my career.
Rather than relying on one single technique, I developed Muscle Response Analysis (MRA)—a structured clinical system that integrates nutritional assessment, patient history, physiology, muscle testing, and years of clinical observation into one reproducible process designed to identify the body’s priorities.
I have taught Muscle Response Analysis to healthcare practitioners since 2022.
Advanced Training in Remote Assessment
In addition to my doctoral education, I am Level III Certified in Quantum Nutrition, the highest level of certification offered within that educational system.
Unlike many muscle testing programs that focus exclusively on in-person assessments, Quantum Nutrition includes extensive training in remote assessment techniques. This training helped refine my ability to evaluate patients regardless of physical location while maintaining a structured, repeatable process.
Today I work with patients mainly throughout the United States, but have tested in other parts of the world, including Spain and Dubai via Zoom consultations, allowing individuals who cannot travel to still receive personalized care.
What Makes My Assessment Different?
One of the greatest advantages of Muscle Response Analysis is efficiency.
Conventional healthcare often evaluates one body system at a time.
A patient may see one physician for thyroid testing, another for gastrointestinal issues, another for hormone evaluation, another for infectious disease testing, another for environmental medicine, and another for nutrition.
Many specialty laboratory tests are excellent tools, but they are also expensive. Advanced functional and specialty laboratory testing often requires high out-of-pocket costs, and no single laboratory can comprehensively evaluate every organ system, nutritional imbalance, environmental exposure, metabolic stressor, and potential pathogen simultaneously.
My assessment is designed to screen for multiple body systems in a single consultation.
I evaluate the body’s priorities, including organ function, nutritional needs, metabolic stress, drainage pathways, environmental stressors, and other areas that may be contributing to the patient’s overall health picture.
The purpose is not to replace medical diagnosis or every laboratory test.
Instead, it helps prioritize where support may be needed first.
When additional laboratory testing would meaningfully change the diagnosis or treatment, I simply order the appropriate specialty laboratory test while treatment is already underway, rather than delaying care for weeks or months to wait for results.
This allows patients to begin restoring their foundational health while still benefiting from conventional diagnostic tools when appropriate.
What Does the Research Say?
Manual muscle testing has been studied for decades, showing amazing results even expensive labs cannot measure. I can tell you stories for days about how patient outcomes improved dramatically after I taught muscle testing to healthcare providers, including MDs.
Research has demonstrated that standardized manual muscle testing can show moderate to strong reliability when performed by properly trained practitioners.
As with many clinical examination techniques, practitioner experience, consistency, and standardized methods appear to play important roles in reliability.
Muscle testing continues to be used daily by healthcare professionals worldwide as part of physical examinations, and below are some studies to read.
Why I Believe Remote Assessment Works
One of the questions I am often asked is whether it is possible to perform meaningful assessments when the patient is not physically present.
My answer comes from two places:
First, over twenty years of clinical experience, and here is an example:
During Zoom testing, when a patient tests positive for mold exposure, which is mold that is found in the lungs and sinuses, it would indicate that they are breathing in mold. To help determine where the exposure is occurring, I have them set out open, clean mason jars at home, at work, and in their vehicles. Then cover them up and bring them to the next Zoom visit. When a jar points us to a specific area. The follow-up checks in that area consistently found an issue, and they started the clean-up process. I have used this on hundreds of remote visits.
Second, my Christian worldview.
I believe that God is not limited by geography.
Psalm 139 reminds us that there is nowhere we can go where God is not already present.
As I build rapport with a patient, carefully listen to their history, and apply the structured methods I have spent decades developing, I believe God can provide wisdom, discernment, and insight that helps guide the clinical process.
This is not something I claim science has proven.
It is a belief that has been reinforced through thousands of patient encounters and years of clinical experience.
Quantum Entanglement and My Clinical Perspective
The field of quantum physics has demonstrated that reality is more complex than classical physics once believed.
In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for experiments confirming quantum entanglement—a phenomenon in which quantum systems exhibit correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics alone.
These discoveries transformed modern physics.
The application of quantum concepts to human healing remains theoretical and is an area of ongoing exploration within fields such as quantum biology.
Educators including Dr. Paul Drouin, Dr. Amit Goswami, Dr. William Tiller, and others have proposed that consciousness, intention, and the practitioner-patient relationship may influence healing in ways not yet fully understood.
These ideas have influenced my thinking, but I present them as theoretical frameworks rather than established scientific fact.
Whether future science ultimately explains these observations through neuroscience, quantum biology, biofield science, or mechanisms not yet discovered remains to be seen.
What Ultimately Gives Me Confidence
At the end of the day, every clinical tool should be judged by one question:
Does it consistently help patients?
Over the last decade, using Muscle Response Analysis has been the foundation of my clinical practice.
It has allowed me to work with thousands of individuals both in person and remotely.
Patients have voluntarily shared more than fifty five-star Google reviews describing their experiences after working with me. While testimonials are not scientific proof, they represent meaningful, real-world outcomes from individuals who sought a different approach after other methods failed to deliver the answers they were seeking.
The Foundational Metabolic Reset™ is built upon one guiding principle:
The body heals in sequence—not through force.
My role is not to force healing.
My role is to help identify the body’s priorities, restore the foundational signals that support health, use the best available clinical tools, and trust God with the outcome.
I remain committed to continual learning, scientific curiosity, intellectual honesty, and faithful service to every individual who entrusts me with their care.
To God alone be the glory.
Research links:
Soares et al., 2025 — Reliability of Manual Muscle Testing in Applied Kinesiology https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41236460/
Hall et al., 2008 — A Review of the Literature in Applied and Specialised Kinesiology https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18334813/
Cuthbert and Goodheart, 2007 — On the Reliability and Validity of Manual Muscle Testing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17341308/
Haas et al., 2007 — Disentangling Manual Muscle Testing and Applied Kinesiology https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2000870/?utm
Jensen, Stevens and Burls, 2016 — Estimating the Accuracy of Muscle Response Testing https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27903263/
Jensen et al., 2025 — Variation in Muscle Response Testing Accuracy https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0326208&utm
Mahlknecht et al., 2025 — Objectification of the Functional Myodiagnosis Muscle Test https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40807176/
