NES Health body-field scanning

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Peter H. Fraser, Harry Massey · 2001

What it is

NES Health sells a "body-field" scanning system, liquid products called Infoceuticals, and a handheld device (miHealth), delivered through practitioners and coaches. The co-founders are Peter H. Fraser (1943–2012), who according to his publisher began researching "the energetics of the human…

Format

• Infoceuticals. Liquid products, described by the company as imprinted with information, sold for home use; over 70 are reported. (No product use is described here.)
• miHealth device. A handheld bioelectric device that the company says delivers "corrective information" through pulsed magnetic signals, used on or near the body, and that practitioners can link to software for a wellness assessment. (No settings are given here.)

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Who practises it. Practitioners and coaches licensed to the company's system, including people with other health or wellness backgrounds; one critic reported the company's claim of about 5,000 practitioners in 25 countries in 2018. The training and certification route, its length and cost are not described in the cited sources. Company web pages now also link to a practitioners.e4l.com domain; whether this reflects…
• Regulation and licensing in main jurisdictions.
• UK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) treats claims that a body-field or bioresonance scan can diagnose conditions as medicinal claims that need a licensed medicine or a CE-marked medical device; in a 2018 ruling on a different bioresonance scanning business it upheld complaints that such claims were unsubstantiated and misleading. A brochure for NES is reported to have been passed to the ASA; no published…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status: no controlled trials are reported in the cited sources; the company's own outcome survey states it was self-reported and "not collected with a research study in mind".

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• notes that read as endorsement or ridicule; keep them neutral and factual.
• feeling flattered or pressured into endorsement; the client taking your neutrality as rejection (name and repair).
• client fear of the practitioner or group; your own duty to report overriding confidentiality in safeguarding cases (explain this at the start of therapy).
• refusal from shame or expected scolding (explore and respect it unless risk overrides); the client asking you to advise on medicines (redirect every time).
• substitution of one form of checking for another; the scan becoming a safety behaviour; working looks like less time spent on worry and more on valued activity.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.