Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Childhood Illness: Training for the Future

By Dr. David Jernigan
Children are to a degree necessarily imbalanced. They are in a constant state of change. Children seek to discover the limits of their control over their environment. What has become known as childhood infectious illnesses are the training ground of achieving and maintaining balance in their life as an adult. The ability to react appropriately to stimuli is a learning process.

If a child is challenged by microbes their body should react appropriately by producing a fever and the lymph nodes should be activated. When a fever occurs it must be understood that the child is already in the healing phase, not the illness phase!

Physicians are seeing more and more children whose body will not generate a fever. In fact now more than ever children are manifesting diseases that were previously considered to be geriatric illnesses, in part due to the generations of drug-interventions from birth to old age.

Obstetric interventions at birth, none or short-term breastfeeding, vaccinations, indiscriminate antibiotic use, suppressive therapies such as fever-reducing, Tylenol-type medicines, poor lifestyle and dietary choices allow our children to bypass these childhood illnesses taking the fast-track towards adult illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis. (See reference for more on the effects of modern lifestyle on children) Book, Treickler, R., “Soulways. The Developing Soul – Life Phases, Thresholds and Biography”
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Heavy Metal Toxicity and Low Body Temperature

By: Dr. David Jernigan

Heavy metals are one of the primary causes of low body temperature and immune system depression. Many microbes cannot be brought back under control until the heavy metals have been removed from the body. High and low-level infections can be ongoing for decades in spite of high dose antibiotics and intravenous antimicrobials when heavy metals are present. Heavy metals promote the over-acidic, low oxygen, low temperature environment which microbes thrive in.


The term heavy metals refers to the over-accumulation of many different types of metals in the fat cells, central nervous system (brain, brainstem, spinal cord), bones, glands, or hair. Heavy metals may include mercury, lead, cadmium, palladium, platinum, arsenic, and nickel, just to name a few.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Taking a Flying Leap Off a Bridge! By: Dr. David Jernigan

I want to tell you a story I once heard that really brings the point to many of the articles I have published to date.


A top student at a prestigious medical school and his favorite professor were walking along a jogging path beside a river outside of the university. The student was very pleased to have this individual time with his professor outside of the classroom environment.

Suddenly they heard cries for help! They looked and saw a man drowning in the river. The student kicked off his shoes and jumped into the river. With much strain and effort the student fought the river current and dragged the now unconscious man onto the riverbank and began CPR. An ambulance had been called, which by the time it arrived the drowned man was breathing again through the heroic efforts of the student.

As the ambulance drove off with the man, the student felt pretty puffed-up, proud to have been able to show off his abilities to his favorite professor. The student glanced at his professor as they continued their walk along the river, but the professor didn’t seem impressed.
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