Last Updated: April 15, 2026 | Reading Time: 12 minutes | Author: Samantha Stupak | Reviewed by Dr. Wendy Ormsby, Doctor of Chiropractic
A bioenergetics test is a non-invasive wellness assessment that analyzes your body’s energetic patterns to identify potential stress, imbalances, and sensitivities affecting your health. Using a simple hair and saliva sample, this type of frequency-based testing evaluates how your body responds to hundreds of factors—including nutritional deficiencies, environmental toxins, hormonal imbalances, and food sensitivities—all at an energetic level.
At CBH Energetics, we’ve performed thousands of bioenergetics tests since 2012, helping clients across the country uncover root causes of unexplained symptoms like chronic fatigue, digestive issues, brain fog, and hormonal problems. Unlike traditional lab work that captures a biochemical snapshot, our testing examines the energetic frequencies your cells emit, providing deeper insight into what might be creating stress in your body.
In this complete guide, you’ll learn exactly how bioenergetics tests work, what they can detect, the science behind frequency testing, and what to expect when you order a test. We’ll also address common questions like “Is bio energetic testing real?” and how it compares to traditional medical testing.
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What Is a Bioenergetics Test?
Are you aware that everything, from your body to the trees outside, is made of energy? Everything that is matter is also energy. It’s a fundamental concept you might recall from chemistry or biology classes, and this is the very principle behind bio energetic testing.
In the simplest terms, everything around us—every cell, organ, and even our emotions—is made of atoms, which contain subatomic particles like protons and electrons. Matter encompasses the physical things around you! These particles carry electrical charges and vibrate at different measurable frequencies. This energy isn’t something we can physically see, but it’s everywhere and plays a huge role in our overall health.
A bioenergetics test measures the energy (frequencies) your body emits, drawing on principles of quantum physics. It takes a holistic approach that looks at your health and well-being on an energetic level, contributing to these 4 pillars of wellness:
- Physical
- Emotional
- Spiritual
- Energetic
At CBH Energetics, we have created non-invasive home health tests using hair and saliva samples to identify subtle energetic stress that may be causing imbalances in your energetic body – namely, your organ systems. This stress can lead to imbalances that might impact nutrition, food sensitivities, emotions, hormones, or even toxins in your environment.
Conversely, a toxin such as Babesia or a heavy metal like mercury can impact your body systems, along with zapping minerals or changing the structure or function of an organ.
In simple terms, bioenergetic testing helps uncover the unseen stressors affecting your body. Whether it’s physical tension, emotional strain, or environmental influences, bioenergetics is a way to find out which factors are stressing your body.
An Energetic Beginning
For centuries, many cultures worldwide have understood the body as more than just physical—it’s a dynamic flow of energy through pathways. Here are some examples:
- Reiki: Japanese. A practice that channels universal energy to promote healing.
- Qi Gong: China. Combines movement, meditation, and breathing techniques to balance the flow of Qi (life force).
- Shamanic healing: Indigenous people.Focuses on spiritual energy and connection with nature for restoration.
- Healing touch: North American. Uses gentle touch to realign the body’s energy fields.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine: China. Examines meridian systems to balance Qi through acupuncture, herbal remedies, and more.
- Ayurveda: India. Works with the body’s three doshas—Vata, Pitta, and Kapha—to harmonize energy through diet, lifestyle, and plant-based medicine.
Each practice shares a common goal: to restore the body’s energy balance for better health. For instance, Traditional Chinese Medicine teaches that blockages or imbalances in Qi can lead to physical symptoms like joint pain or digestive issues. Acupuncture and herbal remedies, which are rooted in the energy of plants, are commonly used to restore this balance.
Similarly, Ayurveda works with the body’s doshas, each linked to specific energy types and requiring different means of balancing. Curious to learn more? Check out our blog post, What Are The Basics Of Ayurveda? for an in-depth introduction to this practice.
Many holistic health practitioners have been aware of these principles for generations, using tools like acupuncture and other therapies to support the body’s natural energy flow. Today, these age-old practices continue to inspire modern approaches to wellness, blending tradition with contemporary understanding.
The Root of Bioenergetics
The origins of bioenergetic testing date back to the 1940s when Dr. Reinhold Voll, a pioneering acupuncturist, made a groundbreaking discovery. He found that environmental factors—such as toxins, diet, and stress—could disrupt energy flow. Dr. Voll developed electroacupuncture (EAV), also called electrodermal testing, which measures the body’s energy pathways using specialized equipment.
After consulting with other doctors, Dr. Voll found that, in some cases, energy flow could be restored through certain lifestyle changes such as diet, supplements, homeopathy, and exercise. Dr. Voll’s innovations laid the foundation for modern bio energetic testing, which has since evolved into a widely practiced method for assessing and supporting holistic health.
How Bioenergetic Testing Works
The cells in our bodies store an immense amount of information. Just about everything we encounter daily is stored within the cells in our body, including toxins, emotions, and viruses. These environmental factors can affect our energetic pathways and overall quality of life.
Remember that everything is energy! Even something as small as a bacterial or viral cell, like an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) viral particle, is made up of atoms, which are made up of even smaller particles that carry a charge.
Our proprietary bioenergetic testing analyzes these energetic patterns to uncover imbalances using your hair, saliva, or nail samples and measures the resonance from them with our custom-built testing equipment.
Why Hair and Saliva?
Your hair tells a fascinating story about your body. Your hair strands can take upwards of 6 years to grow. Each strand, fed by your circulatory and lymphatic systems, absorbs nutrients and toxins as it grows. This process creates a snapshot of your body’s internal state, storing patterns that reflect your unique energy makeup.
Because every person has a different makeup and lives in a different environment, each hair sample is unique to your own individual energy patterns.
Hair is so informative that it can even be used to determine blood relatives and genetic disorders. That’s why you often see hair used as evidence in criminal investigations, although this type of testing differs greatly from what bio energetic testing looks for.
Saliva glands also secrete biological information that tells the history of the body’s chemicals. Like hair, saliva reveals patterns that help identify imbalances in sensitivities, toxins, and hormonal states.
Hair and saliva tests are popular for a reason—they’re convenient, non-invasive, and incredibly informative. You could think of a bioenergetic analysis as a workup on your magnetic field, giving you an energetic lifestyle blueprint.
Bioenergetics Today
Today, psychologists, holistic health professionals, chiropractors, and individuals use bioenergetic scans and therapy to create personalized care plans or to understand their clients’ and patients’ health more deeply.
Because emotional stress and tension are stored in the body, a physical test (such as a hair and saliva sample) may tell how stress affects the body. On the flip side, unaddressed health complications can contribute to emotional stress. This is why a bioenergetic scan can assist in getting to the root of troublesome health concerns.
Bioenergetic testing with CBH can scan for:
- Hormonal imbalances
- Environmental & food sensitivities
- Nutritional deficiencies, such as mineral imbalances or digestive disruption
- Thyroid stress
- Energetic patterns of toxins like mold, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, chemicals, and parasites
Beyond Bioenergetic Testing
Since the mind and body are deeply interconnected, each carrying its own chemistry and energy, herbal remedies and homeopathics can be used to support the body and the identified stress. Herbalists theorize that plants carry their own energetic properties that can impact the body both physically and spiritually.
Natural remedies, diet support, and lifestyle tweaks balance the body from the resonating stress. An example is the support of the gut. Science tells us that the gut microbiota communicates with your Nervous System through the gut-brain link. Dietary changes help to balance mood and other organ systems.
Using a personalized approach can move the body quickly from a state of stress to balance with custom testing and remedy suggestions unique to your samples. In addition, supporting the physical, emotional, and energetic body can involve bioenergetic exercises – activities that promote an energetic mind-body connection.
One example is massage therapy. Emotions such as anxiety, loneliness, and trauma may accumulate in the body’s muscular systems and form tension or ‘knots.’ Massage therapy can help to alleviate some of those tight spots and release emotions.
Have you ever experienced an emotional release during a lying twist in yoga? This is another way of shifting energy in the body. Energy Medicine Yoga is a current example of a bioenergetic exercise.
Other forms of bodywork therapy methods are targeted muscle exercises and breathing exercises. Always remember to check the credentials of anyone providing professional bioenergetic therapy.
How Can Bio Energetic Testing Help You?
The truth is, just about everyone can benefit from knowing their body better. By being more in tune with all aspects of your body, from physical to emotional to energetic, you’re better equipped to address health concerns when they arise. While it’s not a replacement for modern Western medicine, bioenergetic testing complements traditional methods, offering a different perspective on your wellness.
Many people have used bioenergetics to find clarity and guidance with their health concerns, including:
One of the most compelling aspects of bioenergetic testing is that it is safe for all ages, including older adults, children, and infants. Bioenergetic testing has been met with skepticism among many despite its commitment to achieving positive outcomes for clients and their health goals.
This may be due to the differences compared to Western medical tests, which are needed as part of the picture of overall health. Make your own decisions about your home health test options by reading Is Bioenergetic Testing Real?
Is Bioenergetic Testing Real? Understanding the Science & Limitations
This is one of the most common questions we receive about bioenergetics tests, and it deserves a transparent, honest answer.
Bioenergetic testing is based on established scientific principles:
Biofield physiology: The study of electromagnetic fields produced by living organisms, documented in peer-reviewed research by the National Institutes of Health
Cell signaling: Cells communicate through electrical and biochemical signals (proven, fundamental biology)
Quantum biology: Biological processes involve quantum mechanical phenomena at the molecular level
Frequency medicine: The concept that organisms respond to specific electromagnetic frequencies
What Bioenergetics Tests Are NOT
Not a medical diagnosis
- Cannot diagnose disease or medical conditions
- Not a replacement for lab work — Should complement, not replace blood tests or traditional diagnostics
- Not a substitute for your doctor — Always work with licensed healthcare providers for medical concerns
Our Perspective After 10+ Years
Since 2012, we’ve performed thousands of bioenergetics tests for clients nationwide. Learn more about my personal story here.
Here’s what we consistently observe at CBH:
- Identifying energetic stressors has helped clients make dietary changes that reduced symptoms
- Testing revealed sensitivities their conventional doctors hadn’t considered
- Following custom remedies improved their overall sense of well-being
- The test provided a starting point for investigating the root causes of unexplained symptoms
The Bottom Line: Bioenergetics tests provide energetic information, not medical diagnoses. We see them as functional detective work—a complementary tool that helps you investigate what might be creating stress in your body. If you have serious health concerns, always consult with a licensed healthcare provider first.
How Bioenergetics Tests Compare to Traditional Testing
| Feature | Bioenergetics Test | Blood Test | IgG Food Test | Stool Test |
| Invasiveness | Non-invasive (hair/saliva) | Invasive (needle) | Invasive (blood draw) | Non-invasive |
| Sample Type | Hair & saliva | Blood | Blood | Stool |
| What It Measures | Energetic stress patterns | Biochemical markers | IgG antibodies | Gut microbiome |
| Turnaround Time | 7–10 days | 1–5 days | 7–14 days | 2–4 weeks |
| Best For | Identifying sensitivities, stressors, patterns | Diagnosing disease | Confirmed food reactions | Digestive issues |
| Doctor Required? | No | Usually yes | Usually yes | Sometimes |
Want a deeper dive into how bioenergetic testing compares to traditional blood work? Read our detailed guide: Blood Work vs. Bioresonance Test: What’s the Difference?”
FAQs About Bioenergetic Testing
To many people, bioenergetic scanning and testing are new concepts, prompting a few questions. Some of the most commonly asked questions include:
What is a bioenergetics test?
A bioenergetics test measures the energy that resonates from hair and saliva samples in response to specific environmental, nutritional, and emotional stressors. It is painless, non-invasive, and used by holistic health practitioners to better understand an individual’s energetic well-being. These scans are used to identify bioenergetic issues related to hormonal imbalances, food and environmental sensitivities, and other potential bodily stressors. Each non-invasive test helps practitioners determine where an individual is experiencing stress in their systems and how that may relate to phenomena like chronic pain and discomfort.
How does bioenergetic testing work?
At CBH Energetics, our bioenergetic testing uses small hair and saliva samples and is intended to support our goal of creating balanced health for our customers. Clients receive a collection kit in the mail, collect their hair and saliva samples, and return them to our testing facility. Once received, our expert technicians and practitioners run the samples through our testing equipment, analyzing their digital energy. After the scan, the client receives a detailed report revealing their stress levels, sensitivities, nutritional imbalances, toxins, hormones, and more, depending on the scan type.
Is bioenergetic testing accurate?
Bioenergetic scans accurately measure the energetic health of body systems. As with any test, false positives and false negatives can occur. Bioenergetic testing can also help determine the energetic integrity of glands and organs as well. Overall, bioenergetic scanning is a helpful tool for holistic health practitioners seeking to identify energetic imbalances in the body. An important note is that the test results are based on your biofield at the time the samples are collected for testing.
Why take a bioenergetic scan?
There are several reasons why a practitioner may suggest bio energetic scans for their clients. Some of the most common include understanding weight gain or loss, belly bloat, digestive complaints, chronic pain, and brain fog or fatigue. Bioenergetic testing can help determine how energetic imbalances contribute to these issues and other abnormalities.
Seek the advice of a physician or other qualified healthcare professional with any questions you may have.
Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking treatment.
How often should I get a bioenergetics test?
Most clients retest every 3-6 months to track progress after implementing recommendations, see how stressors have shifted, and adjust supplement protocols.
Can children do bioenergetics testing?
Yes! Bioenergetics tests are completely non-invasive and safe for children of all ages. We’ve tested infants as young as 6 months. Many parents use our testing to identify food sensitivities or environmental stressors affecting their children.
Is bioenergetics testing covered by insurance?
Bioenergetics tests are typically not covered by health insurance. However, you may be able to use HSA (Health Savings Account) or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) funds. We provide detailed receipts for reimbursement purposes.
About the Author:
Samantha Stupak is the Founder of CBH Energetics with over 12 years of experience and more than 50,000 bioenergetic scans analyzed worldwide. Her work focuses on identifying patterns of imbalance across systems and helping clients and practitioners understand the deeper connections driving their health challenges. Her methodologies are applied across thousands of client cases annually. Her areas of expertise include bioenergetic testing, hormone balancing, detoxification, nervous system regulation, metabolic health, and Lyme disease. She also sits on the board of the American Intervention Institute.
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