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Goodheart years to ferret out the connections: the shoulders' deltoids map to the lungs; glutei maximi in the butt to the prostate; and the psoas that run through the groin to kidneys.

Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen.

That may be hard for doctors to swallow, but Goodheart's patients in his Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., center swear he gets results — as do the patients of thousands of applied kinesiologists worldwide who now practice his techniques.

 


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