Thursday, July 17, 2014

Heavy Metal Toxicity and Low Body Temperature


 

 

Heavy Metal Toxicity and Low Body Temperature

   
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.

Of interest concerning low body temperature are the metals palladium and platinum. Researchers from Notre Dame University and Wichita State University, in the most detailed study of its kind, found that the catalytic converters in automobiles are spewing out palladium and platinum in the exhaust fumes.[i] It is now understood that we are driving through an invisible cloud of these metals and are breathing them into our lungs; we are also potentially consuming them in our foods as these clouds of metal are known to deposit up to 150 feet on either side of the roadways. Crops, farm animals, and even your kitchen and home are constantly being poisoned by the fallout of these metals.  

Interestingly, palladium is known as “The Depressive Metal,” since it is known to cause depression in people. It is also known to cause overcooling of the body. Now consider what maladies are plaguing most of America -- depression and low body temperature. Coincidence, or good science? 

A story was published in a recent edition of Environmental Science and Technology, reporting that roadside platinum is an allergen that aggravates asthma sufferers and causes other respiratory difficulties.[ii] Platinum toxicity has also been associated with cancer and birth defects.[iii]
 
We must change the body’s internal environment so that it is not a happy home for microbes. Heavy metals play a large role in setting you up for chronic and repeated infections. The effects of all the various heavy metals cannot be addressed completely in this book, but you can see that the detoxification of the body is a an ongoing chore. We live in an incredibly toxic environment. Even when you seemingly live a healthy lifestyle, toxins will remain an issue.

The problem with most efforts to detoxify the body, especially in someone with a low body temperature, is the fact that many of these heavy metal toxins are deposited deep within the body tissues. These deep tissues are cold, rigid, and many times too solidified for even the most clever detoxification medicines and therapies to reach. This is difficult for many people to comprehend, but consider how a body with poor lymphatic fluid movement and poor circulation cannot effectively deliver the detoxifying medicines to the various areas of the body. 

In order to effectively detoxify the body, it stands to reason that the doctor and healthcare team must address the low body temperature. Restoring the normal body temperature will then restore the normal liquid-fluid flow dynamics that would allow the detoxification medicines to reach and remove the metals and toxins.
Another primary source of heavy metal toxicity is the dental material, primarily mercury, used for the last 100+ years, which is used in many “silver amalgams.” These amalgam fillings were so controversial when first introduced in the late 1800’s that it split the only dental association of the time, the National Association of Dental Surgeons, into two groups. One group said no one should ever use mercury in the mouth because it is so very toxic and is known to leach out over time, poisoning the body. The other group of dentists liked how easy it was to work with and how inexpensive mercury amalgams were. In the 1800’s, gold was the otherwise preferred dental filling material. The two factions debated the issue until a new dental association was born, the American Dental Association (ADA), our present-day leading dental association, which you see approving most grocery store brand toothpastes. It was the ADA who approved of the mercury fillings, which became the norm of our society. 

Of historical interest, the first use of the name “Quack” when referring to a questionable doctor was used to label these dentists using mercury, since mercury was then known as “Quacksilver.” Today it is estimated that millions of mercury amalgams are placed in teeth every year in the U.S. alone. One can only marvel at the power and influence various associations in our country have over our standard of living, especially when considering that doctors and dentists have been persecuted and prosecuted, sometimes losing their license to practice in the U.S., for attempting to spread the word about these issues and relieve suffering through the removal of amalgams. Recent legislation has been proposed to outlaw the use of mercury in amalgams.
Some countries, such as Sweden, have banned the use of mercury and will even pay up to 50% of the cost to have it removed from its citizens, stating that the cost of removal is cheaper than paying for the long-term chronic illnesses as the result of these amalgams.[iv]  (On a related dental note, many European countries do not allow the use of fluoride in water and toothpaste due to limited benefit and excessive health complications.)

Mercury is 1000 times more toxic than lead, while the methyl-mercury vapor coming off of fillings during chewing is 100 times more toxic than elemental mercury. 
These “silver amalgams” actually contain up to 50% mercury by weight, 35% silver, 13% tin, 2% copper, and a trace amount of zinc.[v]
 
German research has shown that mercury from a pregnant mother’s amalgams are directly related to high levels of mercury in their fetuses.[vi] I have seen many toothless patients who use only dentures and are incredulous that they have heavy metal toxicity still from old amalgams long removed. The teeth were likely removed due to long-term degenerative changes in teeth that were full of amalgams, crowns, root canals, and bridges, all of which were releasing various metals into the bones and tissues of the jaws, and indeed the entire body. Dr. Stephan Edelson, M.D., medical director of the Environmental and Preventative Health Center of Atlanta, Georgia, explains that, “mercury vapor (methyl-mercury) is readily absorbed into the blood because of its solubility in blood lipids (fatty molecules). This process contributes to between 80 and 100% absorption through the lungs from which the mercury is then carried to virtually every tissue of the body, including the brain."[vii] Therefore, the burden all of those years of metals leaching from the teeth and from other sources are not relieved by simply removing the teeth. You must understand that it is no simple matter to detoxify the body of heavy metals.



[i] Cohen E, 2001, Grit could be a roadside attraction. Notre Dame Online Magazine.
[ii] Hodge V, Stallard M, 1986, Platinum and palladium in roadside dust. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1058-1060.
[iii] The Wichita Eagle, Monday, November 26, 2001, front page story, Denise Neil.
[iv] Definitive Guide to Cancer, Goldberg, B., Diamond J. Future Medicine Publishing Inc., 1997
[v] Let the Tooth be Known…, Are Your Teeth Making You Sick, Dawn Ewing RDH, PhD, ND, 1998, Published by Holistic Health Alternatives
[vi] Definitive Guide to Cancer,
[vii] Definitive Guide to Cancer and  Kudsk, F. “Uptake of Hg Vapors in Blood In Vivo and In Vitro from Hg-containing Air” Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica 27 (1969), 49.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Miraculous Diagnostic Machine! Part 3



(Read parts 1 and 2 blog posts first)

How do I know healing doesn’t require the Miraculous Medical Diagnostic Machine?

Because of all the successes we get to see that ultimately have little to do with the label or name we call an illness.

American Biological Medicine, like we teach and practice at the Hansa Center, is the most scientific and comprehensive philosophy of healing.

Health from a bottle is a myth!

True remedies/medicines work to restore the body's own restorative, healing functions to occur. True healing never involves masking the symptoms, since that would defeat the point of truly healing!

The world’s most astute and celebrated physicians cannot heal even the most simple paper cut, much less serious illnesses like cancer, heart disease, and depression. Neither can I or anyone else at the Hansa Center. Healing is a function of the body, not some drug! In true healing, a person does not need to continue taking a medicine for the rest of their life in order to remain symptoms free...unless they have damaged their body beyond repair, in which case you now must take whatever you can to improve the quality of your life. However, before you get to the point where your body cannot be repaired, you must seek out health care that works to help your body truly heal, not just mask the symptoms.

So if we truly cannot heal anyone then our job and specialty must be to identify anything interfering with the body’s own ability to heal, facilitate the restoration of the functional integrity within the body, mind, and spirit, and provide the building blocks and bio-information the body needs so all the things that the Miraculous Medical Diagnostic Machine found will naturally be corrected.

If one continues to do the same things, one will continue to get the same results or worse! The rule is...the better it gets the better it gets. By changing what you do to care for your body for the better, the better your body will be able to function better.

If everything you have done up to this point has created your present reality, then if you want a new reality, one with optimum health, then you must change everything you are doing.

Optimum Health is the product of living with the highest degree of functional integrity within the body, mind, and spirit. Optimum health is also the ability of the body, mind, and spirit to adapt instantly and correctly to any changes in its internal and external environment.

Healing is the product of guiding and facilitating the restoration of integrity of the body, mind, and spirit through thoughtfully applied physical treatments, natural medicines, therapies, and through teaching and coaching one back to optimum health and healthy lifestyle choices.

We encourage you to tell everyone you know that is sick to come experience American Biological Medicine at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health.

While we cannot guarantee results, the pure philosophy of healing and broad range of natural science and healing techniques that we can bring to bear on a case insure that there is no type of illness and no one who will not benefit from American Biological Medicine. One thing I can guarantee you is that the pharmaceutical drugs most often only seek to cover up the symptoms, and that will never result in true health...only the illusion of health. Share

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Miraculous Diagnostic Machine, Part 2



(If you haven't read the first post, scroll below and do so before continuing.)

As I left off last time:
I can’t tell you how many people have come for treatment that ultimately came in saying ........
“Well doctor, I poured the pills down the toilet today!” “What pills?” I ask. “Oh, I wasn’t going to continue living if you couldn’t fix me, so thank you for helping me!”

While knowing what going wrong in a person’s body is useful, it is my experience that rarely can a person’s illness be boiled down to one cause and rarer still boiled down to one magic prescription.

The “Miraculous Medical Diagnostic Machine” doesn’t really exist, although the myriad of blood tests and MRI’s and fancy diagnostics obviously do exist. These tests and the volumes of medical research describing what goes wrong during every illness lead one to feel quite convinced that mainstream conventional pharmaceuticals, surgery, and radiation treatments are the logical way to get the quality of life back that we seek.

It seems that acceptance of a broken system has become the norm in the world!

Women look at every other woman having severe PMS and think this dysfunction is now the norm, when it is actually a sign of dysfunction.

The millions of people on antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, insomnia and cholesterol-lowering medicines seem to also think they are so blessed to have pharmaceutical drugs that they will need to take for the rest of their life.

Like sheep to the slaughter, much of our country has accepted that depending upon symptom-masking drugs is acceptable and is now the norm. It is viewed much like gray hair and wrinkles…it is inevitable that we all will need some sort of drugs as we age.

This is a lie that I feel must be revealed.

When we help people at the Hansa Center our goal is to facilitate true healing through facilitating the restoration of optimum health and integrity within every aspect of the body, mind, and spirit.

The ultimate goal is NOT to switch a person from a lifetime of pharmaceuticals to a lifetime of natural supplements.

Our goal is to get a person to the point, as quickly as possibe, where they don’t need to take anything natural or otherwise in order to live a joy-filled, healthy life.

A secondary goal, but equally important is for us to teach our patients is how not to get in trouble in the first place!

If you have to keep taking something (natural or pharmaceutical) in order to feel good or be symptom-free, then it is not fixing anything! It is masking the symptom only, and it might as well be magic potions, since if you take the pills away the reality is evident. Not only do you still have your original problem, but it has grown worse underneath the pills!


The idea that the human condition can be broken down into biochemical markers and genetic flaws on blood tests is flawed and only works to support a flawed system of dependency upon drugs and “Cookbook Doctoring.”

How do I know healing doesn’t require the Miraculous Medical Diagnostic Machine?

Come back and find out......3rd and final part of this article next time! Share

Monday, July 14, 2014

Miraculous Diagnostic Machine Part 1



What if a medical diagnostic machine was created that would replace every single lab test and every type of other diagnostic device? What if it could generate reports that could tell you with incredible accuracy every biochemical malfunction? Every microbe would be identified and every toxin revealed using this new machine.

The diagnostic machine would then print out reams of data revealing the minutia of imbalances and items which are outside the statistical norm of the average American. With this machine we could finally see all the hundreds of thousands of problems that need fixing in a person who is sick.


The problem with this "miraculous diagnostic machine" is that although it would show all of the problems it could not reveal how the doctor should go about restoring everything that is wrong. The true reality is that the shear wonder of all feats is how the body deals with an incredible amount of problem situations every moment of every day. Millions, upon millions of potential challenges are dealt with every second.


One begins to see how that true health and true healing is indeed a function of the body, in its totality, not just this or that nutritional deficiency, or this or that microbe that has gotten out of the control mechanisms of the body.


I am a great fan of the television sitcom, “House, M.D.” I know several doctors who also like to watch it. The program is fun to watch as a doctor because it allows us to flex our own diagnostic mind to try and solve the case before Dr. House. However as I watched more episodes a worrisome pattern began to emerge that I couldn’t quite put my finger on for awhile. You know what I mean, that nagging feeling you get when something just isn’t matching up to what you hold to be true.

Now, you may be wondering why I am shifting topics from our “fantastic new diagnostic machine” to House, M.D., however it will be clear shortly.

The thing that eventually just didn’t work for me about House is that it seems that the program celebrates and is selling the idea that with more and more diagnostic tests the patient’s problem can almost always be boiled down to one specific thing. Since the program is an hour long then once that one problem is identified they can deliver the perfect medicine for that problem and patient is gloriously well.

For almost 20 years, the Hansa Center has been treating some of the toughest, chronic cases of all kinds from all over the world, much like the patient’s on the T.V. show House, who for those of you who don’t watch it, treats with a team of doctors, only the most baffling cases in a hospital.

Approximately 90% of our patients have already seen over 20 different doctors and specialists, both natural and conventional medicine, many coming from our country’s most prestigious hospitals, before coming to see us.

We often “rock and roll” with these cases and enjoy great success at improving these cases which no doctor previously could even budge. So, I feel very qualified to question the direction that medicine is taking us.

Do we win every case? No, however we have won many. We have been able to improve the quality of life and often dramatically reduce the severity of a person’s symptoms, something that usually twenty or more other doctors had not been able to perform.

At the Hansa Center we recognize that while it is good knowing some of the minutia of problems within the body, when it comes down to healing, we must treat to restore that which truly controls health and healing...the entirety of the human body.  From this stance, we never treat named diseases, although our doctors are very well trained in the many diseases that can affect a body. We work with the goal of restoring a person back to perfection.

We want a person to be able to get out of the wheelchair, but if all we achieve is better bladder control, the ability to hold up their own head without having to have it strapped to the wheelchair, to feed themselves, then to that patient our treatments were a great success and well worth it since most other efforts were simply to slow down the gradual worsening of their condition!

I can’t tell you how many people have come for treatment that ultimately came in saying ... Share

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Are your muscles tight and painful due to low body temperature?



Organ Circuits and low temperature

The body is set up with dedicated electrical circuits all of which are interdependent and interconnected. A circuit in the body has a specific organ, gland, teeth, muscle, and nerves. If anything goes wrong in one of these organ circuits the circuit energy goes down approximately 60% of normal.

The laws of thermodynamics state if we decrease energy we decrease temperature. Due to the interconnectedness of all the circuits, one circuit in the body cannot go down without ultimately affecting the whole.

Therefore, if the muscle is seizing up and becoming progressively rigid and solidified, what do you suppose the organ that is also on that same electrical circuit is doing? It is likely that to some degree it is also progressively seizing up and solidifying.

In the 50,000 miles of blood vessels, the cold thick blood is more difficult to flow through the veins and arteries. Arteriosclerosis, the progressive hardening of the arteries, and the clogging of the blood vessels is manifesting the exact same problem that is being experienced by every tissue in the too cold body.

Edema in the extremities is seen as the muscular walls of the blood vessels seize up and can no longer maintain tone and the fluids leaks out of the pores in the vessels.

I look at many older patients, and some not so old, who are experiencing all the signs and symptoms of death in the extremities. They are dying in their extremities first, from the feet and hands up to legs to the torso. To touch their feet is just like touching an icy, stiff, dead corpse. The foot is deathly whitish blue and etched in blue/black blood vessels from devitalized, stagnant blood.

The overcooling of peripheral blood returning from cold legs and feet causes depression of the temperature in the vital organs with slowing of metabolic processes, particularly in the brain and medullary centers. Cotran R.S., Kumar V., Robbins S.L., Robbin’s Pathological Basis of Disease 4th ed. 1989 pp501. Death occurs when a vital organ reaches the point of being too cold.

Your physician can name your disease, he can call it cancer, he can draw your blood and show you everything that is wrong with it, but he is simply describing the process I have just outlined. When the core temperature of the body is cold every organ, gland, and tissue is affected and becomes hypo-functional or may even become hyper, as in the case of hyperthyroidism, in a last ditch effort to compensate for the hypothermic condition of the body. Share

Monday, July 7, 2014

Are You Cold All the Time? Dangers of Low Body Temp!



Health Thought of the Day: (Second in our series on the causes, ramifications, and possible treatments of the effects of having a low body temperature.)

Are you all bundled up to go to bed? Cold all the time? Much emphasis in conventional medicine is usually placed upon feverish conditions; however, a low body temperature can be a much more sinister condition.

Where a fever can be viewed as an active developmental and corrective process of the healthy body, a low body temperature can never be viewed as a normal or healthy condition, nor is it a mechanism for a learning or developmental process in the body.

A low body temperature creates a happy home for viruses and chronic infections, and is a sign of degeneration and gradual cellular death. The problem with a low core temperature is that no effective immune response can be mounted therefore no fever is generated and infections go undetected. The sickest person is one who gets the same infections but never miss a day of work because there is no response by their immunes system, so they have a false sense of wellness as healthier individuals go through healthy fevers and immune responses that may cause them to miss work.

Low body temperature is the plague of the 21st century. People with low body temperature have a weak reaction to even the most ideal medicines and therapies.

As the body’s core temperature decreases all cellular energy also decreases thereby leading to profound and chronic fatigue that is not relieved by sleep, not to mention setting you up for chronic illnesses.

If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling call our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara to discuss the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. Visit our website www.HansaCenter.com, or call Kara at 316-686-5900 ext 1.
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Low Body Temperature and Chronic Fatigue (CFS) and Degenerative Diseases



There are many theories as to the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Some say it is the effects of heavy metal and chemical toxicity. Some say it is chronic infections, while others say it is the side-effects from vaccines and the use of suppressive medicines such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen, still others say it is dysregulated hormones or the effects of emotional trauma.

It is my opinion that everyone is correct in the same way as the proverbial three blind men describing an elephant from the head, tail, and the side are correct in each one’s description but only from his unique vantage point. However, in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there is one common overriding finding…low body temperature!

This post is the first of a series on the causes, ramifications, and possible treatment options of Low Body Temperature from whatever cause.

Almost EVERY person with type of chronic, degenerative illness has a low core temperature. Cancer, CFS, Fibromyalgia, MS, ALS, Lyme disease, heart disease, diabetes, and so many more are what are known as Cold/Sclerotic illnesses. As a society, we have largely moved away from the inflammatory illness associated with fevers.

There are very predictable problems seen in people with low body temperature and the profound importance of restoring and maintaining normal core body temperature. This is true not just in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but in every degenerative disease of our day.

Your core body temperature is the temperature taken under the tongue or armpit (add a degree if using the armpit). When human physiology books refer to the “normal” core body temperature it is presented as a range sometimes listed between 97.0-99.0°F . Understand that the “Normal Range” for temperature or even the normal ranges in blood tests are based upon the average person of our day. That is why “normal” changes periodically, because as our average population continues to get sicker the normal ranges must be adjusted. So in this discussion I am speaking about what is an optimal core body temperature – 97.6-98.6°F.

You have a definite problem if you are often below 97.0°F. If this is you, stay tuned for many more posts on this topic. Many people will say that you can fix this easily with this that or the other treatment, but it is often a very difficult and stubborn issue to correct because it is most often a manifestation of all the other problems going on in your body...not just your thyroid.

If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling call our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara to discuss the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. Visit our website www.HansaCenter.com, or call Kara at 316-686-5900 ext 1.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Wounds






The goal of our treatments for people with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), is not to create amnesia, although many people would prefer never remembering their traumas. The goal is to break the pathological attachment to living a life that is skewed and altered by the new software that was set in motion by the trauma.

In PTSD your perceptions of life are preventing you from living in the moment you are in without your perceptions in that moment being interpreted by the
trauma.

Often the mind of a person with PTSD works much like a jukebox. With the right stimulus/trigger, a button in the mind is pushed and out flops a record playing your sad song.

Candice Pert wrote and book called Molecules of Emotions and reported research that showed that every emotion causes the hypothalamus to secrete neuro peptides unique to the type of emotion your are experiencing. We become addicted to the type of emotional neuropeptides produced by our dominant emotions...which makes PTSD so difficult to break.

A person will literally go into withdrawal from their negative neuropeptides when they get into a very positive environment. Their hypothalamus will secrete neuropeptides unique to positive emotions and the person will almost certainly start creating drama and negativity around them in order to get their "fix" of the negative neuropeptides they are addicted to having.

Treatments must address the malware (Negative software programming from the traumas) on all levels of the body, mind, and spirit.

This is why at the Hansa Center we are not just addressing PTSD as a chemical imbalance, but have developed new treatment innovations, such as NeuroCardial Synchronization and NeuroPhotonic Therapy, to reach deep into the person where these stored memories live.

Listen to a radio program Dr. Jernigan gave discussing PTSD: http://bit.ly/1o8DIpS

If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling call our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara to discuss the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. Visit our website www.HansaCenter.com, or call Kara at 316-686-5900 ext 1.
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