Rex, you said.... "Min-Col is nothing more than the
calcium-rich purified remains of marine organisms"

 Doesn't Reams say that Min-Col is the essence of bone meal?

He did say that.  Being as "bone meal" is where they steam off the fat from slaughtered animal bones and then grind up what is left, I suspect he mis-spoke, unless to him "bone meal" meant the remains of ancient marine organisms.

At the bottom of each RBTI message from the Yahoo server is this note and link.

FUN RBTI QUIZ:   https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11543729/RBTIquiz.exe

If you click it, a short quiz will download as an executable file.  When you open the quiz, you will be shown 20 simple random RBTI questions (from a current database of about 200).  After you finish, you will see your score and the CORRECT answers to each question.  You can then take another test of another 20 random questions if you wish.

The questions are drawn from general RBTI literature and should be a big help to each of you in building your basic RBTI knowledge.

So how do the thoughts and ideas of a man finally make it into the Quackwatch spotlight?  Obviously, this is a first step in being singled out by the American Medical Association as a target.  Interestingly, Carey Reams, although mentioned, has never made the cut while one of his wayward students, Gary Martin, rates a full page.  Wayward, you say?  Yes, while Martin did attend at least one of Reams earlier classes, he has long since moved on to his own thing which has earned him a "bogus" rating from some of the more staunch RBTIers.

Actually, Reams tended to find himself in the sights of local medical societies instead of the national AMA.  This usually came about when too many of their patients started preferring gentler, kinder treatments that zeroed in on bodily dysfunction via analysis, rather than diagnostic guessing.  While Reams steadily denied he was a medical doctor ("neither am I posing as one"), he did have an ego and was not so inclined to turn away a loving "Doc" now and then from a grateful client.  Guess what?---that can get you charged. 

Trying to explain away the charge in a courtroom to a letter-of-the-law judge is a tough job.  And only a foolish person would think that having one or more people testify of the incredible help you got from "Doc Reams" might mitigate "practicing medicine without a license".  No, that merely proves the charging document is true.  You can almost see the glee in the eye of an AMA representative sitting in the back of the courtroom as a prosecutor lets the defense make the prosecution case.

From my seat it appears that if you truly wish to help your fellow man through dietary reform, then the most safe path to avoid the wrath of the AMA is to openly practice Unlicensed Practice.  This book has merit even if you are a licensed MD and you wish to use urine/saliva analysis in lieu of the long-dominant cut/burn/poison paradigm urged by such as the PDR. 

Yes, there is a way to help your fellow man but you are not apt to avoid trouble if you think you can simply photocopy a form in a book and use it as a shield against laws originally intended to keep you from competing with an established money machine.  Do your homework.

I've been searching around for rules on how to determine who might be good candidates for going to a retreat.  So far I have found the Reams criteria and the Manthei/CHEM table, which are similar but not exactly the same.

If you wish to take a look, you can click this link.  Hopefully, some of the more RBTI savvy will study these and submit other thoughts.

An interesting point of view is that many "candidates" are so very... 

Most folks who venture into our little internet corner are ailing and also wary of the drugging scene.  Only a few will understand right off the bat that all disease is some form of mineral deficiency. Actually, they have had it hammered into their heads that sickness is a DRUG deficiency. We are talking quite a leap and I'm never surprised when a couple of people quickly bail out because the chasm is just too vast.

More than likely, our new visitors have a lifetime of being taught that all food is the same and that what you or I eat doesn't have anything to do with one's health.  Although some have abandoned the drug scene (legal or illegal) because of the harm they have witnessed and the dependency they wish to avoid, a few will only rise to the level where they start thinking that this or that "secret" fruit cures this or that disease and some "rare" juice is the remedy for arthritis---or whatever. In other words, they will climb out of the void---but only so far.

No one will force feed them anything here, but they do now stand a chance of learning, starting with the idea that worn out soil with scarce minerals produces food of nutritional nothingness and that there are several ways out of the wilderness.  One, actually the best, is to grow or find food of superior nutrition---the foods that their ancestors took for granted.  Trust those of us who have been here a while.  That is one tough task.


An alternate path is what RBTI is all about.  If you decide to walk our straight and narrow way, you will learn that you gain most of the benefit of superior high Brix foods by eating a very wide diet---a great variety---buffered with small amounts of special condiments and carefully selected mineral supplements.

Both ways out of the jungle require proper water drinking and digestive assistance from the common ordinary lemon.

When the simple RBTI urine and saliva analysis shows improvement, you will have your proof that the old dead or dying cells clogging your body are being steadily replaced with fresh new high energy cells.  You should experience that "aha" moment, as so many before you have, when you realize that "disease"---whatever disease is---is going out with the yucky and useless.

It is a good moment.  Of course, there are the few who go back to the comfort of a pill for every trouble.  It's OK.