Posted by Kath on March 30, 2009, at 21:35:06
In reply to Re: alpha tocotrienol, posted by garnet71 on March 29, 2009, at 13:37:44
Hi :-))
Yeah - I think it can be called that also.
You can do it using the arm to test. I prefer the finger-test.
I hold my left thumb & ring finger together forming a circle, & try to keep them together. The 'tester' part might be hard to describe...
The person who is testing, takes their thumbs & index fingers of both their hands, & make 'rings' into the circle I've made. The tester tries to pull my finger & thumb circle open. (It's NOT a contest - just a test for muscle strength/weakness.)
You do the test first to get a 'baseline' strength indication. Then I would hold the bottle of vitamins I want to test against my wrist & repeat the whole thing with the tester & myself exerting the same amount of effort as the first time.
It can be really surprising how certain vitamins/herbs/etc can REALLY strengthen a person. Sometimes I've experienced that the tester can't even get my 'circle' apart!!! Or sometimes the result can be that I am weakened.
I've done the test both as tester & tested.
:-)) Kath
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