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Muscle testing is the act of holding a substance (a food) and then having a practitioner pull down on your outstretched arm to determine your ability to resist their pressure. The theory is that your strength will weaken if the substance does not mesh with your energy field.
This technique was developed by practitioners who could not draw blood nor run other types of testing, but who apparently saw a connection between food and health. There is no scientific reasoning supporting this procedure, and it really is as strange as it sounds. However, many people claim to have been helped through muscle energy testing, and the number of people who practice this type of testing is significant.
If there is something to the theory that your energy is being affected by a particular substance, this methodology is still very dependent on the practitioner (the person pulling on your arm). There may have been a time when this was better than no testing at all and, maybe there is something to the idea that our energy is affected by various substances, but there are now better tools available with which to detect food allergies.
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