My involvement with nutritional testing started about ten years ago with my quarter horse mare P.J. who is extremely allergic to all shots. Since I was regularly taking my horses to shows and having other horses coming to me for lessons and training, it was vital that I find another solution for protecting my horses and keeping them healthy.

Fortunately, I had registered for a nutritional seminar for horses sponsored and taught by Dynamite, a company which has an entire line of horse nutritional products. This seminar presented to me life-changing information. In the first place, I learned a whole new concept of horse health through proper feeding and the use of supplements and secondly, I met Diannne Lukenbill, who later taught me muscle testing.

The problem with using the new program of feed and supplementation was that I had no way of determining how much of which supplements to feed my horses. During the next Dynamite meeting which was held at my house one of the members, Dianne Lukenbill, gave an acupressure demonstration. I found it very impressive watching her use acupressure points and muscle testing to determine my horses’ needs. Dianne became my horses’ new best friend! Since then I have set up many acupressure clinics so that my 4-H members’ horses have been able to benefit from Dianne’s ability also.

Dianne is also a good friend of mine and as time went by, she graciously and patiently taught me muscle testing. At the time that I was learning this new skill from Dianne, it never occurred to me that I would end up working out nutritional needs and Candida diets for people! However, last year my mom’s health needs became critical. She had systemic Candida that had almost destroyed her digestion. I was able to test for her what and how much she could eat and how best to take her supplements to deal with the Candida and improve her digestion. Through muscle testing, I was able to discover that my dad also had Candida and I started him on his own program.

With the witness of my mom’s improving health, an increasing number of people began asking about Candida and how to deal with it in their own lives. I was able to work out nutritional programs using muscle testing and the knowledge of Candida I had gained working with my mom and dad. Since I had often been in our favorite health food store helping mom and different friends with diet food, the owner soon had customers calling me with dietary and Candida questions. So many people were calling that Mom and I decided to start a Candida support group at Settanni’s health food store. Because of the large number of Candida sufferers needing help and the time involved in testing and working out diet and supplemental needs, it has become necessary for me to have a minimal charge.