Dr. Bob Thomson, DC

The folder of results, and the same answer every time

Most people who sit down across from me have been at this a while. They have had the bloodwork. They have seen the specialists. They have been told, more than once, that everything looks normal. And they still wake up tired, still bloat after dinner, still cannot shift the weight, still do not feel like themselves.

Managing a symptom and finding what is driving it are two different jobs. The first one can go on indefinitely. The second one has an end to it.

Forty years in this profession has taught me one thing above everything else: the body already knows what it needs. It has not forgotten how to repair itself. It needs the right fuel and the interference cleared out of the way.

How I got here

I started as a chiropractor. I spent ten years in the United States Coast Guard. I have been in holistic practice for over forty years on the Northshore, long enough to have looked after three generations of some families here, and I was elected president of the Louisiana Chiropractic Association twice.

Then in 2009 I completed Advanced Clinical Training inNutrition Response Testing® through Ulan Nutritional Systems, and the way I practice changed.

Before that, my work stopped at the spine. After it, I was looking at the whole person, and the difference is everything. I have worked with thousands of patients across these forty-plus years. Most of them had normal labs. Most of them had already tried other things.

How I work

I analyze how your body responds at specific reflex points, identify which organs and systems are under stress and why, and build a whole food nutrition program around what your body is actually asking for.

I do not guess, and I do not run you through a protocol that worked for someone else. Two people can walk in with the same complaint, the same age and a similar history, test differently, and leave with different plans. That happens most weeks.

I am also careful about what this is. Nutrition Response Testing is an analysis, not a diagnosis. We do not diagnose or treat disease here. I identify the stressors getting in your body's way and recommend nutritional support so your body can do its own repair work.

The six stressors I test for

Over forty years, the same handful of things keep turning up underneath stubborn symptoms: scars, food sensitivities, low-grade immune challenges, chemicals, heavy metals and post-viral load. Most people have more than one, and the order we work through them is part of the job. There is a fuller explanation on theNutrition Response Testing page.

What a first visit with me is like

Sixty minutes, $75, and it is a real conversation before it is anything else.

1. A complete health history. Not a clipboard in the waiting room. I want the timeline, because symptoms almost always trace back to something.
2. An HRV test. Heart rate variability gives us an objective reading on how hard your nervous system is working, and we can watch that number move over time.
3. The analysis itself. Non-invasive. Nothing injected, nothing cut, no radiation. Most people find it more interesting than uncomfortable.
4. A plan you understand. Specific whole food supplements matched to what your body responded to, plus the food changes that actually matter in your case.

What I will not do

I will not tell you to stop a medication. Keep your physician. Plenty of my patients work with me and with their doctor at the same time, and that is the arrangement I would choose.

I will not promise a cure, because that is not a word that belongs in this building. I will not hand you the same list I hand everyone with your symptom. And I will not sell you a supplement your body did not ask for.