SUBCLINICAL
This is our turf, the period of time when a potential disease is still
potential, and a functional imbalance or tendency has not caused any organic disruption.
Years of poor digestion, heartburn, and systematic suppression of upper GI function by
adrenalin stress have not become overt gastritis, ulcers, or IBS. You have symptoms of
distress (subclinical) but no real, ripened clinical disease.
Some medical authorities (usually administrative docs from the “spokesman” and
“quack-patrol” ranks of industry, academia or agency) actually insist that there is no
such thing as a subclinical condition...you are either SICK or NOT SICK and presumably
well. Sort of like the mechanic saying that the car works or doesn’t work...four quarts
low on oil, but it WORKS. Only when it is five quarts low and has a siezed-up engine is
there a need for a mechanic.