Jean-claude lapraz
DAY 2
17/2/24
My life’s work is divided into four phases: standard practice, phytotherapy, endobiogeny, and elaborating endobiogeny. In 1970, I completed medical training at the University René Descartes and began general practice. Within years, I was searching for a better way to treat patients. Soon, I met medical aromatherapy pioneer Dr. Jean Valnet and Paul Duraffourd, a pharmacist with microbiology training. We formed the French Society of Phytotherapy and Aromatherapy and studied the actions of plants. Using a technique called the aromatogram developed by Paul, we studied the effects of nearly 50 essential oils. We quickly realised that the clinical effects of essential oils were more complex than in vitro results suggested. Sometimes, they worked better at lower-than-expected doses, sometimes not as well as expected at higher doses, according to the aromatogram. Our successes and failures could only be understood if we had a theory of terrain that could shed light on why, with two patients with the same pathology undergoing the same treatment, one would recover and the other would not.
In our society was another young doctor, Paul’s son Christian Duraffourd. Together, we elaborated a theory of terrain he developed to explain health and illness and the individualised response to treatment. In 1989, Christian officially presented his theory of terrain, called the Theory of Endobiogeny. It is a neuroendocrine approach to living organisms and offers a new vision of health and illness. While we continued our general practice, we also made rounds in the public health surgical-oncology Boucicaut Hospital. From this experience, Christian created the first formulas of predictive biomarker modelling of physiology called the “Biology of Functions” (BoF). We spent decades teaching Endobiogeny worldwide and continuing our publications on his theory of terrain. Time Laboratories of Idaho generously supported my teachings in the US. It was in 2007, during a seminar, that I met Dr Kamyar Hedayat, a Stanford-trained critical care physician. He studied intensely under my tutelage for seven years. From his strong background in complex physiology and clinical experience, he brought a disruptive leap to the theory of Endobiogeny. He systematised Christian’s teachings and then expanded them with new ones: theories of disease, biomarker formulas and therapeutic options based on biomarker analysis. Together, Endobiogeny went from empirical clinical practice to a scientific theory. Our work together now focuses on textbooks, training, testing and treatment.
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