NES Health body-field scanning

1. Introduction

Version followed: NES Health (originally Nutri-Energetics Systems) as its own practitioner pages and device guide publish it, with founder theory from the publisher's description of Fraser and Massey's Decoding the Human Body-Field (2008). Sections 1–3 describe the method as the company presents it; section 4 is the psychotherapist's own work with a client who uses it. The psychotherapist never performs, sells, prescribes or recommends scans, Infoceuticals or devices.

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 body-field" in 1982, trained at the International College of Oriental Medicine and created an accredited acupuncture degree course at Victoria University in Australia, and Harry Massey, who began working with Fraser in 2001, after a severe illness with chronic fatigue syndrome, to establish Nutri-Energetics Systems. [source: Simon & Schuster publisher page]

Core idea of change (as the method holds it). In the founders' model, each person has a body-field organised along twelve meridian-like channels that process and coordinate information; the publisher's description says health depends on how well information flows through them, linking the Chinese meridian system with "quantum wave theory". [source: Simon & Schuster publisher page] The company describes the body-field as "the underlying control system of everything", running on resonant communication that it says can be distorted by toxins, pathogens, emotional stress and trauma. Infoceuticals are presented as carrying "the correct resonance (or what we call 'information')" to restore coherence; the company attributes the carrying of this information to structured water. [source: NES Health Infoceuticals page] These are the method's own concepts, given here as the company and founders hold them.

Status in one line each.

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". [source: NES Health Infoceuticals page; Hall 2018, secondary]
Regulatory status: no regulator finding specifically about NES Health is documented in the cited sources [uncertain: not verified]; the company's miHealth guide states the device "does not treat disease" and frames the scan as a wellness assessment. [source: NES miHealth Quick Start Guide]

2. Framework

2a. The client's journey as the company and observers describe it

Scan. A small scanner connects to a tablet or computer and the client rests their fingers or hand on it; the reading is brief and the result appears on screen. Cloud software is said to analyse over 150 body systems and subsystems, in nutritional, environmental and emotional/mental categories, and to locate "energy distortions". [source: Hall 2018, secondary, quoting company marketing; Skepsis ProVision page, secondary] A practitioner unit has been marketed as "ProVision". [source: Skepsis ProVision page, secondary]
Recommendation. The system recommends specific Infoceuticals "based on its body-field assessment". [source: NES Health Coaching BioEnergetiX page] Observers report that practitioners recommend drops or supplements from the scan results and invite clients back for repeat scans and follow-up consultations. [source: Skepsis ProVision page, secondary]
Infoceuticals. Liquid products, described by the company as imprinted with information, sold for home use; over 70 are reported. [source: NES Health Infoceuticals page; Hall 2018, secondary] (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. [source: NES miHealth Quick Start Guide] (No settings are given here.)
Coaching. The company runs a "Find a Coach" locator and a bioenergetic health-coaching programme ("BioEnergetiX WellNES System"). [source: NES Health Infoceuticals page; NES Health Coaching page]

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. [source: Hall 2018, secondary] The training and certification route, its length and cost are not described in the cited sources [uncertain: not verified]. Company web pages now also link to a practitioners.e4l.com domain; whether this reflects a rebrand is [uncertain: not verified].

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. [source: ASA ruling, Bioresonance Totnes 2018] A brochure for NES is reported to have been passed to the ASA [source: Brinkmann 2019, secondary]; no published ASA ruling naming NES Health has been verified [uncertain: not verified].
US: A critic reports that NES positions itself as not practising medicine and markets Infoceuticals as dietary supplements; FDA status of the scanner and miHealth, and any enforcement, are [uncertain: not verified]. [source: Hall 2018, secondary]
Elsewhere (EU, Australia, Canada): [uncertain: not verified].
No licence to practise NES confers a licence to diagnose or treat; psychotherapists' own licences do not cover performing or selling it. [synthesis]

Physical safety as the company states it (miHealth). The device guide says not to use it on the body in people with a pacemaker or other implanted electrical device, cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, an organ transplant, stainless-steel allergy, broken or irritated skin, or in pregnancy unless approved by a healthcare professional, and to take care over metal implants and near the eyes, mouth and heart. [source: NES miHealth Quick Start Guide] The guide does not mention epilepsy.

2b. The psychotherapist's framework alongside it [synthesis]

Phase A, discovery and recording (first sessions, then at review points): ask about all complementary use, record it, learn what the client has been told by the scan. Move on when you know what they use, what it costs them and who else is involved in their health care.
Phase B, meaning and expectations (one to three sessions, woven into ongoing therapy): explore what draws them, what they hope for and their explanatory model. Move on when the client can say what the scan means to them and what they would do if it disagreed with their doctor.
Phase C, decisions and coordination (as needed): support values-based decisions and, with consent, coordinate with the doctor or pharmacist. Move on when medical care is in place and decisions are the client's own.
Phase D, risk and reporting (continuous): screen for delayed care, contraindications, children, eating-disorder patterns, financial or group pressure; act and report where needed.
Phase E, the psychological work itself: health anxiety, somatic symptoms, trauma or grief that the scan language has touched, using established treatments (cross-ref Domain II).

Format: within ordinary individual psychotherapy sessions; no separate session count is published for this work [synthesis].

3. Guiding principles

All principles are [synthesis] unless a source is given.

Never perform, sell, prescribe or recommend. You do not scan, interpret scan output, suggest Infoceuticals, refer to NES practitioners or hold a financial interest. Avoid roles where personal or financial interests could compromise your work. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.06]
Curious, not judgemental. Ask so the client will tell you; disapproval drives disclosure underground.
Attribute, do not adjudicate. Describe the body-field, "information" and "energy distortions" as NES describes them; neither affirm them as fact nor mock them.
Respect autonomy, safeguard the vulnerable. The client decides; you protect children and those whose autonomy is limited. [source: APA Ethics Code, Principle E]
Medical care first. NCCIH advises against using unproven approaches as a substitute for conventional treatment or to delay seeing a provider; reflect that and route medical questions to the doctor. [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering]
Never advise on medicines or products. Questions about starting, stopping or combining anything go to the prescriber or pharmacist.
Stay within competence. You work on meaning, emotion, behaviour and decisions, not on the validity of scan findings. [source: APA Ethics Code 2.01, 2.04]
Collaborate with consent. Work with the client's other professionals when it serves them. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.09]
Watch the money and the group. Repeat scans, product recommendations and practitioner pathways can create financial and social pressure; name it without shaming.
Psychological meaning is real even when the mechanism is disputed. A scan reporting "emotional stress" can open useful therapeutic conversations; use the client's own words, not the device's verdict.
Document. Record what the client uses, what was discussed, any risk, and any coordination.

4. Intervention inventory

Every item below is the psychotherapist's own work alongside NES use. None involves scanning, interpreting scan output, or advising on Infoceuticals or devices. Steps are [synthesis] unless a source is named.

4.1 Routine, non-judgemental enquiry and recording

Purpose / when: At intake and at reviews, find out whether the client uses body-field scans, Infoceuticals, the miHealth or coaching, alongside all other complementary and medical care. NCCIH encourages patients to tell every provider about all complementary practices and notes that asking helps people make informed decisions. [source: NCCIH, Tips to start talking]
Steps: (1) Ask a general, normalising question about anything else they do for their health. (2) If NES comes up, ask open questions: what they use, who provides it, how often they see the practitioner, and what it costs. (3) Ask what the scan told them, in their words. (4) Ask whether their doctor knows. (5) Record the facts neutrally in the notes, using the client's terms in quotation marks.
Example language (illustrative): "Lots of people use things besides their doctor's treatment: supplements, scans, energy work, coaching. What do you use? I ask everyone, and I'm not here to judge." / "What did the scan say, in your own words?"
Watch for: hesitation or apology (signals fear of judgement; slow down); the client checking your face for disapproval; it is working when the client volunteers updates later without prompting.

4.2 Exploring meaning, hopes, expectations and explanatory model

Purpose / when: Once use is known, understand what draws the client: control, hope after unexplained or chronic symptoms, distrust of or disappointment with medicine, identity, belonging to a community of users, or a wish to be seen as a whole person.
Steps: (1) Ask how they came to NES and what had happened before. (2) Ask what they hope will change and how they will know. (3) Elicit their explanatory model: what they think is wrong and why, and where the body-field idea fits. (4) Reflect the need underneath (being taken seriously, having a plan, feeling in charge). (5) Note which needs therapy itself can also meet.
Example language (illustrative): "What was it like before you found the scan?" / "When the screen shows your results, what does that give you?" / "If this works the way you hope, what will be different in three months?"
Watch for: a story of being dismissed by doctors (rupture with medicine may need repair work); all-or-nothing hope; the scan replacing the client's own sense of their body. Working: the client describes needs in their own terms, not only in the device's.

4.3 Working with scan language about emotions, stress and trauma

Purpose / when: The scan is described as including an emotional/mental category and the company names emotional stress and trauma as disrupting the body-field. [source: Hall 2018, secondary; NES Health Infoceuticals page] Clients may arrive with a scan result that labels an emotional state or "trauma"; use this as an opening, not as an assessment.
Steps: (1) Ask what the result said and what it felt like to read it. (2) Ask whether it fits their own experience; their answer, not the printout, guides the work. (3) If it fits, move to ordinary assessment of that emotion or event with your usual tools. (4) If it does not fit, explore any worry it created. (5) Do not confirm or refute the scan's reading; say what you can and cannot assess.
Example language (illustrative): "The scan used the word 'grief'. Does that word fit anything in your life right now?" / "I can't comment on what the device measures. What I can do is help you look at what you're feeling."
Watch for: suggestibility (adopting a trauma label from the result); new fear of hidden damage; it is working when the client speaks from experience rather than from the report.

4.4 Supporting informed, values-based decisions without coercion

Purpose / when: When the client is deciding whether to start, continue, increase spending on, or stop NES, or is weighing it against medical advice.
Steps: (1) Ask what decision they face and by when. (2) Clarify values (health, money, family, independence, trust). (3) Offer the general questions NCCIH suggests anyone ask about a complementary approach: is there research evidence rather than only personal stories, who is making the claims and do they profit, has the government reported on it, does it sound too good to be true, and will the practitioner work with your other providers. [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering] (4) Help them find answers from their doctor and from regulators, not from you. (5) Summarise their reasoning back and respect the choice, while keeping the door open.
Example language (illustrative): "You're weighing a lot. What matters most to you here?" / "Some people find it useful to ask: who gains if I buy this, and what would my doctor say? Would those questions help you?"
Watch for: you pushing either way (stop, return to their values); the client outsourcing the decision to you; it is working when the client can state the decision and their reasons in their own words.

4.5 Coordinating with the doctor or pharmacist (with consent)

Purpose / when: When the client has medical conditions, takes medicines, has implants, is pregnant, or is making decisions based on scan results that touch medical care. Collaboration with other professionals is an ethical expectation when it serves the client. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.09]
Steps: (1) Explain why coordination helps. (2) Obtain explicit, written consent, specifying what will be shared. (3) Share facts only ("client reports using NES scans and Infoceuticals and the miHealth"), with no evaluation of the products. (4) Encourage the client to bring their full list of everything they take or use to medical appointments. [source: NCCIH, Tips to start talking] (5) Route every question about starting, stopping or combining products and medicines to the prescriber or pharmacist. (6) Record consent and contact.
Example language (illustrative): "Would you be OK with me letting your GP know you're using this alongside your treatment, so everyone has the full picture?" / "That's a question for your pharmacist. Shall we write it down for your next visit?"
Watch for: refusal from shame or expected scolding (explore and respect it unless risk overrides); the client asking you to advise on medicines (redirect every time).

4.6 Recognising and responding to risk

Purpose / when: Continuously; especially when scan results are used to explain symptoms, guide diet or replace medical review.
Steps: Screen for each risk below and act. (1) Delayed or stopped medical care: ask whether any symptom has gone unchecked because the scan offered an explanation; NCCIH warns against using unproven approaches instead of conventional treatment or to delay seeing a provider [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering]; encourage prompt medical review and, with consent, inform the doctor. (2) Device contraindications: if the client mentions using the miHealth and has a pacemaker or other implanted electrical device, a heart-rhythm condition, a transplant, or is pregnant, note that the manufacturer's own guide lists these as reasons not to use it on the body (or, in pregnancy, without healthcare approval) and direct them to their doctor. [source: NES miHealth Quick Start Guide] Do not give device instructions. (3) Children: if a child is scanned and products are used instead of needed medical care, follow safeguarding procedures (see 4.9). (4) Eating-disorder patterns: scan results in the "nutritional" or "toxin" categories can feed food avoidance; ask about restriction, rigid rules, weight change and fear of contamination, and refer for medical and eating-disorder assessment if present. (5) Financial exploitation: ask what scans, products and coaching cost per month and whether spending feels under control; note pressure to buy more, repeat scans or train as a practitioner. (6) Group pressure: ask whether friends, family or an online group expect them to continue and what happens if they question it.
Example language (illustrative): "Has anything the scan said made you less likely to see your doctor about that pain?" / "How much are you spending on this each month, and how do you feel about that?" / "What happens in your group if someone stops?"
Watch for: new or worsening physical symptoms, weight loss, debt, secrecy, isolation from people who disagree; urgent medical symptoms require immediate medical referral regardless of the client's view.

4.7 Health anxiety, somatic symptoms and environmental-sensitivity beliefs

Purpose / when: When scan reports of "toxins", "pathogens" or "distortions" (the company names these as body-field disruptors [source: NES Health Infoceuticals page]) increase worry, checking, reassurance-seeking or avoidance, or when the client attributes many symptoms to environmental exposures.
Steps: (1) Assess for health anxiety, somatic symptom disorder or idiopathic environmental intolerance using your standard assessment. (2) Map the cycle: trigger (symptom or scan result), interpretation, anxiety, checking or repeat scanning, short-term relief, long-term maintenance. (3) Treat with established approaches as described in Domain II (CBT for health anxiety, reducing reassurance-seeking and checking, attention training, behavioural experiments, graded re-engagement with avoided activities). (4) Treat repeat scanning as a possible checking behaviour, but let the client decide on it; examine its function together. (5) Coordinate with one consistent medical clinician. Cross-ref Domain II.
Example language (illustrative): "After a scan, does the worry go down and stay down, or does it come back?" / "Let's look at what the checking does for you in the short run, and what it costs in the long run."
Watch for: 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.

4.8 Managing your own role, scope and conflicts of interest

Purpose / when: When a client invites you to try the scan, asks your opinion of the technology, offers to scan you, is training as an NES practitioner, or when a colleague in your practice offers NES.
Steps: (1) Decline to be scanned by or buy from a client; avoid multiple relationships that could impair objectivity or risk exploitation. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.05] (2) Do not refer to, endorse or profit from NES products or practitioners. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.06] (3) When asked your view, say what is within your competence and point to independent sources and the doctor. [source: APA Ethics Code 2.01, 2.04] (4) If the client is becoming a practitioner, explore the financial and personal investment like any career decision. (5) If your service offers NES, raise it in supervision or with your professional body. (6) Include in informed consent that therapy does not include these methods. [source: APA Ethics Code 10.01]
Example language (illustrative): "Thank you for offering. I keep my role simple: I'm your therapist, so I don't try products with clients." / "I'm not able to judge the technology. What I can help with is how you're deciding."
Watch for: feeling flattered or pressured into endorsement; the client taking your neutrality as rejection (name and repair).

4.9 Reporting routes

Purpose / when: When advertising is misleading, a product or device causes harm, a regulated professional misuses the method, or a child is at risk.
Steps: (1) Support the client to report, or report yourself where your duties require it. (2) Advertising (UK): the ASA, which has ruled that scan claims to diagnose medical conditions breach the advertising code without a licensed medicine or CE-marked medical device. [source: ASA ruling, Bioresonance Totnes 2018] (3) Advertising (US): the FTC handles deceptive advertising. [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering] (4) Products and devices: the national regulator (in the US, FDA; in the UK, the MHRA [uncertain: not verified]). NCCIH lists FDA and FTC contact routes. [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering] (5) Professionals: the relevant licensing board if a regulated clinician uses scan output to diagnose or treat. (6) Children: local safeguarding or child-protection services where a child is deprived of needed medical care. (7) Document what you reported, when and why.
Example language (illustrative): "If the advert told you it could diagnose your condition, you can complain to the advertising regulator. Would you like help doing that?"
Watch for: client fear of the practitioner or group; your own duty to report overriding confidentiality in safeguarding cases (explain this at the start of therapy).

4.10 Documentation and review

Purpose / when: Each time NES use, risk or coordination is discussed.
Steps: (1) Record what the client uses and how they describe it, in quotation marks. (2) Record risk screening and actions. (3) Record consents and communications. (4) Review at set therapy review points whether use, spending or medical care has changed.
Example language (illustrative): "I'll note that you're using this, so I remember to ask how it's going."
Watch for: notes that read as endorsement or ridicule; keep them neutral and factual.

5. Handling problems

The company sources do not address psychotherapy; all guidance in this section is [synthesis] unless a source is named.

Client wants you to validate (or debunk) the scan. Name your scope: you cannot assess what the device measures. Return to what the result means to them and what they will do with it. (illustrative) "I'm not the right person to say whether it's accurate. Let's look at what you'd do differently either way."
Client is defensive, expecting criticism. Acknowledge past experiences of being dismissed; repeat that you ask everyone and will not lecture. Repair any moment where your tone slipped. (illustrative) "I think I sounded doubtful just now. I'd rather understand than judge."
Stuck: every problem is explained as a body-field distortion. Keep the client's frame available but widen it: ask what else is happening in their life when symptoms worsen; use their own observations as data. Avoid arguing the model.
Overwhelm after a scan (fear of hidden toxins, pathogens or damage). Ground first, then assess for health anxiety (4.7). Encourage a single medical review instead of further scanning to settle uncertainty, and work on tolerating uncertainty.
Delaying medical care for a serious symptom. State your concern directly and once, link it to their own values, encourage prompt medical review, and with consent contact their doctor. NCCIH notes that stopping or not starting conventional treatment can have serious consequences. [source: NCCIH, Are You Considering] Where life is at risk or a child is involved, act under your duty of care and safeguarding procedures.
Non-adherence to medical treatment because of scan results. Do not advise on medicines; encourage the client to tell the prescriber what they are doing and why, and offer to help them prepare that conversation.
Financial strain or pressure to buy, re-scan or train as a practitioner. Make spending visible (what, how often, how much), explore who benefits, and support a budget the client chooses. If high-pressure sales or tiered-training pressure is present, explore it like any coercive relationship.
Group or family conflict. Some relatives may push the method and others oppose it; help the client separate their own view from the group's, and offer a family or couple session focused on communication, not on the method.
Client is a practitioner of the method. Treat it as part of their identity and livelihood; explore doubts or commitment without trying to change their career; watch for scope issues if they are also a regulated professional.
Rupture after you coordinated with a doctor or made a safeguarding report. Be transparent about what was shared and why, acknowledge the impact, and recommit to the relationship.
Disappointment or regret when results do not come. Normalise; explore grief, anger or self-blame; do not say "I told you so"; help the client make the next decision from their values.
Modality-specific: the client brings the device to session or offers to scan you. Decline politely and keep therapy device-free. [source: APA Ethics Code 3.05]

Sources

Book: Fraser, P. H., & Massey, H., with Wilcox, J. P. (2008). Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine. Healing Arts Press [uncertain: content beyond the publisher description not verified].

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