How You Rot & Rust

The use of a microscope in a health care practice is a most powerful tool to visually see the life activity in blood and to learn firsthand about the ROT theory of aging and disease. To say it impacts patients is an understatement. When patients visually see the activity taking place in their own blood, it gives them reason to pause and rethink their health attitudes - unless of course they don't care about their health. But if they do care, it makes a lasting and positive impact on patients like few other things do. Looking at live blood under the microscope, with an understanding of what is going on, is an education in health beyond what words can impart. Be that as it is, let's look at some still pictures of blood with some explanations.

The blood that we use for observation under the microscope is simple capillary blood, expelled from the pinky through a simple finger stick. In order not to damage the blood, the finger is not squeezed; the blood is allowed to come out on its own and it is quickly placed on a slide with a cover slip.

Blood should be observed immediately after getting the specimen. We do this because it immediately tells us something - and that is; where is the patient "right now".

You see, as blood sits on a slide, it degenerates. HOW FAST it degenerates when out of the body tells us HOW FAST the patient themselves are AGING and DEGENERATING.