Homeopathic Ways to Speed Up Metabolism

Homeopathy takes a natural approach to medicine based on the idea that your body can cure itself. Homeopathy defines health as the absence of disease, not just having a lack of symptoms. Oligotherapy is a homeopathic remedy believed to speed up metabolism.

History

• Research done by Bertrand and later continued by Jacques Ménétrier created the foundation for oligotherapy. The idea is similar to chaos theory, a theory which holds that when a system finds itself close to separation between two states, it only takes a small event to force the transition from one state to another.

Effects

• Minerals and trace elements are vital to a healthy metabolism, yet because of modern stresses and disruptions in life--like pollution in air and water--many people are deficient in these necessary minerals and trace elements.

Significance

• Oligotherapy uses small doses of separate trace minerals, which supplement the necessary minerals for enzymatic functions. These are believed to be catalysts that kick-start metabolism at a cellular level. The oligotherapy remedies offer necessary nutrition to prohibit free radical activity which destroys body tissue.

Function

• Oligotherapy supplementation is believed to to increase the movement of ions in and out of cells. The catalyst forces an action in the cell to occur in less time and with less energy, without disrupting the function of the cell.

Identification

• Some of the trace elements used in oligotherapy are: manganese, copper, cobalt, iodine, selenium, iron, gold, silver, lithium, zince, chromium and nickel. There are also "macro" elements (minerals needed in large amounts), which act as catalysts: calcium, magnesium, fluoride, phosphorous, and sulphur .