Do's and Don'ts of Tick Removal

The Secret to Proper Tick Removal

Having written four books on the natural treatment of people who were diagnosed with Lyme disease, and treating over 10,000 people for the last 23 years, I adamantly encourage you to take tick removal seriously. The old saying, "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" is true, and while the safe removal of ticks will not guarantee you won't get infected, it definitely decreases your odds!

Every year it seems that the tick populations are getting larger, and tick-borne illnesses are the number one most prevalent types of microbial diseases in North America. Lyme disease is the fastest growing infection on the planet. There is even a new type of tick from Asia, called a Longhorned Tick that has been found in the United States that carries the risk of new tick-borne disease! 

Once a tick bites you it spits it's bacteria and virus filled fluids into your body(Tick Spit Research). The problem is how to get the tick off from where it has essentially a syringe needle stuck through your skin, without the tick injecting even more of the infectious fluids into your body as you physically remove it or irritate it causing it to back itself out of your skin. 

There are many theories as to how to remove a tick that has become imbedded in the skin. Everyone seems to have their favorite, so before everyone comments on how and why their way or their device is better, I will say, yes there are a couple of devices that do a decent job of tick removal. It really comes down to what device you like. We now know that most of the home-recipes are incorrect, since the majority of ideas actually cause the tick to regurgitate (vomit) more bacteria into your body as you try to remove them. http://1.usa.gov/1Id9hvb

Some BAD methods for tick removal: 

·      Putting essential oils, nail polish or remover, dish detergent, or any other substances on the tick to agitate it and cause it to pull itself out, all of which cause the tick to potentially vomit more saliva and stomach contents containing infectious microbes, before backing itself out of the skin. 

·      Using tweezers or the fingers, gripping as close to the head as possible. This sounds good until you attempt to do it without squeezing or crushing the body and head, which often leaves the ticks mouth piece still embedded in the skin and still squeezes more potentially microbe-filled juices into the your body. Using tweezers was the best method of removing ticks until the invention of the tick remover I am going to show you later in this article.

·      Holding a match over the tick is an obvious mistake as it definitely causes the tick to vomit from the agitation. Other people use the heat from a hair dryer, which potentially has the same effect. 

A Blood-Engorged Tick

Anyone who has seen a blood-engorged tick can see that in order to become engorged with blood, its mouth has to penetrate a blood vessel. It is spitting right into your blood stream! Yuck!  

Any removal method that squeezes or agitates the tick, causing the tick to back out, may increase the risk of more infectious fluids entering the blood stream, distributing more bacteria throughout your body. 

Most people would agree that even one more bacteria or virus entering the body is unacceptable. It is interesting to see how passionate various people are about their way of removing ticks in one of the above ways. Remember, the point is not just to get the tick out, it is to get the tick out without it injecting more infectious fluids into your body in the process.

Possibly the best method of removing a tick:

            Here is what I feel is the best way to remove a tick and why many experts think it works the best. Its mechanism of action is based upon the way a tick anchors itself in your skin with retractable hooks. 

To understand why this works the best, study the structure of the mouth portion, called the hypostome and pictured here, generously provided by the Trix® Tick Remover company. 

The serrated teeth are like rows of fish hooks that anchored into your skin and will hold tight with virtually any pulling action that you might use to remove the tick. However, the tick's serrated teeth will literally fold flat if the tick head is rotated in either direction. 

This is how the tick removes itself after it has finished feeding, now you know -- it twists the teeth flat! Trix works in the same way as the tick uses to remove itself! 

Without agitation of any kind to the tick, and without squeezing it's bacteria-ladened digestive juices into your body, a syringe, the Trix noose gently slips over the tick, and with a twist the teeth lay flat and it slides out of the hole it made in your skin. 

The serrated mouth portion of a tick.

 My favorite type of tick remover, the patented TRIX Tick Removal System®, made in Sweden by InnoTech. This device is available through various distributors worldwide (www.tickremover.com) I don’t sell these, however they are readily available online for under $10.

 I like to keep the TRIX® in several places so that I can use it as soon as I find a tick on myself, others, or on a pet. You may want to buy several to keep in your backpack, kitchen drawer, auto glove compartments, boat, RV, fishing tackle box, hunting jacket, barn/horse stable/kennel, and where you work. Obviously, it is best to have a TRIX® handy when you first notice a tick embedded in the skin.

 

Here is how the TRIX® Tick Remover works:

·      The Tick Remover is working by the lasso principle. It is very gentle, and easy to use on children and pets, who sometimes find it difficult to hold still. 

·      The design makes it easy to use in even in the ears, hair, thick fur and other difficult places. The remover also works very well even if fur or hair comes into the loop.

·      The removed tick is always stuck at the tip of the remover and can be disposed of easily. The loop is made of special fiber. The loop is big enough to take care of most tick species in the world. 

 How to use the TRIX® tick remover:

TRIX is a very effective remover which easily and safely can remove the whole tick, big or small. Even the smallest tick nymph is easy to remove with this tool.

	1) Press down the loop and put it over the tick, as close to the skin as possible.
	2) Let go of the button and tilt the tick remover perpendicularly against the skin.
	3) Keep the green point against the skin and turn it one round between your fingers. Lift away.

4) If it is a very small tick: Place the green point close to the tick and press the point down a little into the skin to angle up the loop. Release the button, twist and lift.

 

1. Twist the tick away

If you look at the photomicrograph of the ticks mouth and suction organ (hypostome) you can easily see that if you pull straight outthe barbs grip and get even more stuck in the skin (that´s what barbs are for). The risk of pulling the tick apart dramatically increases. If you twist instead, the barbs will release their grip easier and all of the front part together with the head can come along. Tests have shown that it does not matter what direction you twist, clockwise or counterclockwise gives the same good results.

2.  Twisting also reduces pain 

When you pull a tick away, it causes some pain in the skin which may cause some pets to really dislike the treatment. But if you twist it away with a tick remover which keeps the mouthpart in a firm grip, the removal will be painless and the pet usually do not even notice because the bite area is stunned by the tick. 

3. Always twist the tick away when using TRIX TickLasso

• It´s faster. 
• Gives less pain. 
• Safer complete removal of whole tick. 
• Decreases the risk of infections.

For over 20 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has specialized in the restoration of health for people with previously unresponsive and chronic illnesses of virtually all types. Over 85% of people come from other states and countries. If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling, contact our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara, at patientcare@hansacenter.com, for information on the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. For additional info, visit our website at www.HansaCenter.com.

This article is for educational purposes. Before implementing any supplements/remedies always consult with your healthcare professional. Due to the complexity of the human condition there remains the possibility of symptoms getting worse. Again, discuss the ideas presented here with your health care professional before beginning, and stop, or get support, if your condition worsens. This information is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA. The Hansa Center does not treat named diseases, but seeks to restore the body's optimum structural and functional integrity so that the body can rapidly heal itself. 

*Due to the exhaustive time spent per day with each patient, and poor repayment history of insurance companies, we unfortunately cannot accept insurance assignment. We do participate in Care Credit, and accept all major credit cards. We will gladly accept insurance when our elected officials revamp the health insurance industry to cover all results-based care. We encourage you to vote with this in mind. Please call 316-686-5900 ext. 1, for current pricing for our economically-priced, All-inclusive 2-3 weeks intensive packages of care.with 

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Nobel Prize-Winning Science Opens New Treatments for Chronic Illnesses

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine just went to three biologists1,2,3,4,5 — Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young — for their discovery of master genes that control your body's circadian rhythms and how energy regulates health and healing.

Why is this so important? Your symptoms worsen or improve at different times of the day or night because of what this important science reveals.

You may not cough at all during the day, but like clockwork you start coughing at 11 p.m. or some other time of night. You might have anxiety, pain, or some other symptom that only shows up at a certain time of day, only to disappear later at night. This science explains why you worsen or feel better at different times of the day. The science also enables your doctor to now dig deeper and get more effect from treatments that are non-pharmaceutical and non-toxic, and that actually respect the wisdom of your body, as they work to restore your body's ability to heal itself of virtually every malady that plagues mankind.


It turns out that each organ, tissue, and indeed every cell in your body, receives more energy for a two hour period at specific times of the 24 hour body clock. Your symptoms will often get worse or better at different times of the day when these rhythms shift in your body. This awareness can lead to more strategic targeting and treatments to correct the epigenetic expression of these master genes, that create cyclical worsening of infections, and systemic organ/gland dysfunctions.

The human body regulates its functions via electromagnetic signals. Naysayers and scientific-know-it-alls will likely come out of the woodwork to attempt to debunk this fact and indeed even the Nobel-winning science, screaming "pseudoscience." Pseudoscience" is often screamed by those with pseudo-intelligence to justify their narrow view of the issue, but I digress. 

The body is controlled by regulatory-encoded energy that flows through somewhat dedicated circuits. The heart is the primary generator of energy in the body, producing 60 times more electromagnetic energy than the entire central and peripheral nervous system combined! Of course every tissue also produces energy via the energy factories called mitochondria. The heart is now being consider as a second brain that sends out bioregulatory information with its powerful electromagnetic pulses.

Another Nobel-prize winning scientist, Luke Montagnier, Ph.D., demonstrated how profoundly important the body's energy is when he was able to spontaneously construct perfect strands of DNA using just the electromagnetic signature imprinted into water containing all the individual ingredients necessary to make DNA. The individual DNA ingredients self-organized into perfect strands of DNA. The body's energy is not just on or off, such as a light bulb. The body's energy contains your dynamic regulatory information that controls every bodily function.

Dr. Montagnier demonstrated he could create perfect strands of HIV DNA and he also created perfect Lyme bacterial DNA by imprinting the water with each microbe's unique electromagnetic signature! (On a side note, interestingly, this remarkable and reproducible research so scared the "powers that be" that they ostracized Dr. Montagnier and have done every they can do to discredit him and his research.)  Even though the most advanced research around the world of biomedicine has already demonstrated much the same basic concept using encoded microwave technology to create self-organizing and self-assembling polymers, which bear shocking resemblance to those suffering from Morgellon's disease, an illness where star plastic polymers are isolated from the skin, urine, and saliva. One might get the idea that "the powers that be" don't want the public to understand that subtle energy controls everything, and that potentially the microwaves emitted from your cellphone, wifi signal, and even vaccines are delivering frequencies into your body that could, in theory, either purposely or incidentally disrupt genetic expression. The more subtle the energy, the more profound its effect on your body's electromagnetic regulation.

This may be one reason that the FDA and FTC are going after homeopathy to severely limit its availability to the public. Homeopathic remedies are the electromagnetic signatures of therapeutic substances. Homeopathy uses subtle frequencies to counteract pathological subtle frequencies. The only profound way to treat what is essentially your body's software, is to counteract the energetic glitch in your body with a strategically selected energetic remedy, homeopathic remedies.

When the energy production and therefore the bioregulation of your body breaks down, becomes dysregulated, or loses its synchronization, dysfunction and disease will always be the end result. It is important to know that if all of the organs of your body got all of the energy all of the time there would not be enough energy to go around. Each organ has its time during the day when it gets the most energy. Indeed, when more energy is needed, such as when exercising, every tissue has to increase it's energy creation and output, if not then your body is profoundly drained and it can take a long time to recover from the exercise, and may even lead to bringing down a circuit low enough to allow an illness to arise.

Based upon the organ circuit clock we can see that the bio-rhythms of the body can get very messed up. The whole body clock can be altered due to illness, jet-lag, and switching work shifts from day to night, medications, vaccines, and electromagnetic pollution from wifi, cell phones and computers.

The Chinese discovered and mapped the organ clock thirteen centuries ago and it has stood the test of time, and now with this Nobel-prize winning research we can understand just how important it is to achieving your most optimum health and quality of life. Understanding this body clock is important for both you and your doctor.

Many people tell me their symptoms get worse or better at a certain time of day. This is a great clue to a doctor who knows the organ clock. If the symptoms are worse at night between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. then the doctor knows that the liver is a good place to look for the source of that problem, since the liver is most active at that time.

Notice that the bladder and kidney circuits should be essentially "turned off", or just operating at a low energetic level at night when you should be sleeping, since they have their turn of highest energy between 3 p.m.-7 p.m. So for all of you who urinate all night, yet justify it by the fact that you drink a lot of water, your clock is likely messed up.

It is interesting that your bowels should eliminate soon after you awaken to start the day "fresh". Also interesting is that the heart's time of highest energy is between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Lunch time is when most heart attacks occur.

All this is just to show how beautifully we are made, and how just killing bacteria, detoxing, taking supplements, exercising, and eating well is often not all that is needed to heal from today's complex illnesses. It is my opinion, after almost a quarter century of treating only the toughest, chronic illnesses from around the world, that if you have to continually take something in order to feel better, then it is likely not addressing your body's primary issues. If you are addressing the primary issues then you should reach the point where you can stop taking everything and the body will maintain itself with just good diet, and healthy lifestyle choices.

So...not only does it take time to heal, but we must also heal our organ time zones!

Your body organ clock:
5-7 a.m. —   Large Intestine
7-9 a.m. —   Stomach
9-11 a.m. — Pancreas
11 a.m.-1 p.m. — Heart
1-3 p.m. —   Small Intestine
3-5 p.m. —   Bladder
5-7 p.m. —   Kidney
7-9 p.m. —   Reproductive system
9-11 p.m. — Thyroid, adrenal glands
11 p.m.- 1 a.m. — Gall Bladder
1-3 a.m. —   Liver
3-5 a.m. —   Lung



Organ Time Zone (OTZ) problems are caused by interferences in the body's regulation, such as illness, medications, and environmental factors. All of the organs and glands are interdependent and must work in unison. If one organ is struggling, it throws off all of the others. It is like an orchestra playing a beautiful classical piece of music, and suddenly a trumpet player breaks out into a Hip Hop song. The rhythm of the entire orchestra is thrown off.

Organ time zone problems are medically referred to as desynchronosis, or chronobiology, which is a physiological condition which results from alterations to the body's circadian rhythms. Anyone who has traveled overseas has experienced desynchronosis in the form of jet-lag. The circadian rhythms of the body are most often associated with our waking and sleeping schedule, however it also includes the shifting of the organ energy levels.

The following chart was developed by Thomas Rau, M.D. of the Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland and is the most detailed Organ Time Zone or "circuit chart" available:

People with thyroid and adrenal weakness often feel best just before bedtime. From the chart you can see that energy shifts to supply these glands with more energy between 9-11 p.m. It is sad because they feel horrible all day long, and just when everyone else in the house is tired and ready for bed, these people are just hitting their best time of day and don't want to go to sleep. In this case, it is not that they are on the wrong time zone, meaning maybe their liver is going active and is getting the most energy when the thyroid and adrenal glands are supposed to be having its time of highest energy.  In this case, you can see that the thyroid and adrenal glands are weak (often even with medication to treat these glands) and the reason these people feel better in the evening is because there is more energy being sent to the glands. Once the time and energy aspects of the thyroid and adrenals are corrected, as well as all the other associated tissues and issues, these people can often get back onto a more normal sleep schedule and feel energized throughout the day.

There are many potential strategies your healthcare provider might use to address these organ circuit problems. It must be understood that organ time zones can be off for multiple reasons within each organ circuit. It will require the ability to test the circuits individually as well as collectively in order to synchronize your cellular and organ body clock. 

The doctors at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, KS, have developed tests and therapeutic strategies to address and reset the circuits of the body. If your healthcare team is not addressing the totality of what is going on in your body circuits, you can take all the right sounding medications and remedies with little effect on your symptoms. Correcting the timing and organ circuits at the Hansa Center involves synchronizing the heart-brain with the head-brain via NeuroCardial Synchronization (NCS), and NeuroPhotonic Therapy (NPT), as well as strategic use of low potency homeopathic sarcodes made from Biodynamically-grown sources, to increase energy in a weak circuit, or high potency sarcodes for helping the body in situations where there is an overactive circuit. Indeed every treatment our doctors utilize is strategically targeting and reinforcing all of the highly specific issues, as well as the overall integrity of the body's circuitry.

Another common example of OTZ problems is seen when the bladder circuit, which should have its time of highest energy between 3-5 p.m., instead turns on in the middle of the night. You can see from the chart that the bladder's time of highest energy should be between 3-5 in the afternoon, so if it is active  at 3-5 a.m. it indicates that the body's time zones are off off by six time zones!

Organ time zone problems cannot be detected by blood tests, nor are they corrected by medications and natural supplements that strive to do for the body what the body should be doing for itself. Thyroid medication is a good example of this because they are most often providing the body with the thyroid hormones, instead of working to restore the thyroid's ability to do it for itself, the way is was designed. Of course, if the thyroid has been destroyed for whatever reason, these medications are the best thing you can do. The OTZ for the thyroid can still often be reset to the correct time and energy, even if the gland itself does not work perfectly.

Often the body clock will be temporarily shifted when an organ or gland is so dysfunctional that the wisdom of the body knows it needs to keep the majority of its energy going to that situation. Although all of the other organs still get some energy throughout the day, the majority of energy is going to fight the infection or whatever issue is affecting the organ.

A real problem is seen when multiple organs and glands are being attacked and are dysfunctional, as seen in infections that can affect every system of the body, such as Lyme disease, mold issues, and other microbial attacks. Now the body's energy is spread out all the time, in an attempt to provide each affected organ or gland with the energy it needs to fight and repair. The body's energy production cannot keep up with the demand and global chronic fatigue sets in.

OTZ problems go largely undetected and unaddressed by the vast majority of doctors because they are focused solely on the numbers on your blood test. Not only that, but the energetic nature of the human body is only mildly acknowledged in the mainstream. Doctors would need to actually come out from behind their desk or look up from the patient file and do energetic testing. That is not likely to happen anytime soon.

OTZ problems can only be addressed by a doctor trained to detect and correct the body's energetic clock and organ time zones. In the mess that most chronically ill people's body are in, it makes sense that if the goal is to restore the body's ability to heal from the inside out, then reseting the proper body clock time zones would be an important thing to do.

Of course, not every case of excessive urination at night will be due to OTZ issues. Not every case of insomnia, coughing, pain, neuropathy, and such, can be blamed on OTZ problems. The concept goes much deeper than this article can cover. Click on this hyperlink to see that organ desynchronosis includes all the rhythms of the body, right down to genetic rhythms. This is why the simplistic idea that drives most of modern day medicine, that every organ and biochemical can be pharmaceutically forced to behave, is really flawed. Forcing the body into drug-induced illusions of health, symptom-suppression, when there are better treatment options, is just throwing off the rhythms of everything. Much of the conventional and even many natural medicine treatments are what I call, "Pieces and Parts Doctoring."

Resetting the organ time zones requires advanced testing and treatment skills, and can result in virtually instantaneous improvements in many individuals, however beyond just quick improvements,  our desire is not just to help you feel better, but to help you stay better in the longterm. This is one reason we most often ask you to allow two or more weeks so that we can continue daily to help facilitate the fine tuning of your physiology. As your body changes in response to our treatments, we are addressing how your body did or did not shift correctly overnight during your daily testing and treatments. 

Ideally, in this day and age of electro-polution and other life challenges, you would see a healthcare professional every three months, at the very least, to check and readjust things in order to maintain optimum cellular and organ circuit rhythms. No matter what treatments the doctors at the Hansa Center use, from the first office visit to the last, they are always checking to ensure that the remedies and treatments are all working with the natural rhythms of your body. 

Call today and let us help you get your body clock set correctly!

For over 20 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has specialized in the restoration of health for people with previously unresponsive and chronic illnesses of virtually all types. Over 85% of people come from other states and countries. If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling, contact our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara, at patientcare@hansacenter.com, for information on the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. For additional info, visit our website at www.HansaCenter.com.

This article is for educational purposes. Before implementing any supplements/remedies always consult with your healthcare professional. Due to the complexity of the human condition there remains the possibility of symptoms getting worse. Again, discuss the ideas presented here with your health care professional before beginning, and stop, or get support, if your condition worsens. This information is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA. The Hansa Center does not treat named diseases, but seeks to restore the body's optimum structural and functional integrity so that the body can rapidly heal itself. 

*Due to the exhaustive time spent per day with each patient, and poor repayment history of insurance companies, we unfortunately cannot accept insurance assignment. We do participate in Care Credit, and accept all major credit cards. We will gladly accept insurance when our elected officials revamp the health insurance industry to cover all results-based care. We encourage you to vote with this in mind. Please call 316-686-5900 ext. 1, for current pricing for our economically-priced, All-inclusive 2-3 weeks intensive packages of care.with  Share

Why do some people have Lyme bacteria, but not Lyme disease?

More shocking than finding an embedded tick, and even bullseye rash of Lyme disease, is often the realization that the infection uncovered previously unrecognized weaknesses all over the body, and the sheer magnitude of problems the infection triggers.

A common misconception is for one to say “I was healthy before this bug bit me”. It may be so, but simply feeling good does not guarantee that you were healthy when the bug bit you. It is my experience that most people have much unresolved hurt and dirt contributing to their state of health, and ultimate succumbing to Lyme disease and its coinfections. Simply testing sero-positive to having the Lyme bacteria does not mean you will definitely develop clinical Lyme disease.

The fact that so many people do develop clinical Lyme disease is a testament to how dysfunctional our population has become, as more insults to cellular function accumulate from our environment. While bringing down the bacterial overgrowth in clinical Lyme disease is important, the complete annihilation of the bacteria is not what determines restoring the quality of life that is so desperately desired.

Everyone at any given moment is being exposed to, and has innumerable potentially harmful organisms in and on their body. Why aren’t we all sick? Could it be that what we call the human organism has the ability to control every pathological microbe? Experts now agree that is the case, and that we have been overreacting to microbes with antibiotics.

It is very telling to observe the wide diversity of symptoms that can be seen in those suffering from Lyme disease (LD). Lyme disease does not affect any two people in the exact same way. I have seen people with only one bad symptom, and others with over 50 major symptoms, though both groups test highly positive for LD. 

There are common symptoms, but there are always many symptoms that fall outside of the norm. Then there are those who test highly positive for LD and yet have no symptoms year after year. At the early stages of my career as a doctor in the mid-1990's, I wondered why the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete affected each person in unique ways. It seem about the only commonality was that whatever symptoms each person had, that no doctor could determine what was causing the symptoms and no treatment would budge the symptoms.

From my clinical experience I have come to the conclusion that not only can chronic Lyme Disease bring about new problems to your body, but it is unique in that it also brings the out dirt of your life that got swept under the carpet, and the weak spots to light. A person may have been asymptomatic (having no symptoms) prior to being bitten, they may have always exercised, eaten perfectly, and been on top of the world, however just being asymptomatic is no guarantee of underlying health. 

We see this daily when people are diagnosed with cancer, even though they were "perfectly healthy" on every yearly exam...until they were not. We know that by the time cancer can be diagnosed, multiple systems in the body have been malfunctioning for up to 10 asymptomatic years.

From birth to present time your body is constantly being challenged. These health challenges may arise from emotional traumas such as the death of a loved one, sexual and emotional abuse, physical injuries such as auto accidents, chemical challenges from medicines, toxic personal care products, toxin-loaded foods, or environmental pollution, not to mention chemical and pharmaceutical toxins that activate dormant DNA mutations or cause more mutations leading to increased susceptibility to disease and increase variety of symptoms. 

The reality is that any underlying immune, endocrine, and other bioregulatory dysfunctions, or unresolved physical, mental, or emotional issues will be manifested physically or psychologically as your body becomes more dysfunctional by the chronic infection of LD. These underlying dysfunctions that are unique to each person, combined with the Borrelia's ability to suppress the immune system even further, is why LD can create so many diverse symptoms.

Most people can recall a time when they injured their body. We’ll say you injured the back for this example. You may have not ever gone to get it treated, and eventually the pain went away. The body adapted to the problem. The problem is still there, only now the pain and the problem are “put on the back burner” by your brain. This adaptation mechanism of the body occurs on every level, whether the level is of a physical, chemical, or psychological nature. Unfortunately, many times these insults cannot be effectively adapted to and they manifest in an ever worsening cascade of symptoms to get your attention so you can deal with the true cause. Indeed it is the loss of functional integrity and the body's ability to adapt to challenges in its internal and external environment that leads to disease and death!

Lyme bacteria can be the proverbial "straw that breaks the camel's back." In a dysfunctional body, the Lyme bacteria break down the body’s ability to keep these underlying problems on the “back burner”. These back burner problems are areas of weakened tissues, which may have never manifested as an obvious problem if life had gone on without a major challenge such is Lyme disease. 

The fact is that the bacteria of LD and any other invading organism or parasite will always go to the weakest areas of the body first. This phenomenon is seen throughout nature. One example of this is seen in the plant kingdom. Plants that come from a strong genetic heritage and have been nurtured in ideal conditions for generations have an increased natural resistance to bugs and plant illnesses. Weak plants from poor soil and poor genetic heritage are extremely susceptible to infections.

The point of all of this is that you are the sum total of all of the challenges and lifestyle decisions you and your ancestors have made. In chronic Lyme disease, all of this will be brought to the fore-front and all of it will need to be finally addressed by you and your healthcare team.

Everyone has heard the saying, “you are what you eat”. Well, you really are much more than that. You are, more accurately, the sum total of all that you have experienced and been exposed to in life. You integrate all of the good in your life, and hopefully with the proper naturally-oriented health care,  you can resolve all of the bad. 

Optimum health is when the body and mind can adapt instantly and correctly, maintaining optimum functional integrity, in spite of any challenge from the internal and external environment. The treatment goals of the Biological Medicine treatment philosophy is to identify every problem of adaptation, and to work with the natural design of the body to facilitate the restoration of its integrity and function using only natural means. From restoring optimum health, dis-ease can fall away.

An interesting fact was revealed in conversations I had with my friend Lida Mattman, Ph.D., a Nobel prize nominee, Lyme disease laboratory researcher, and author of Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens, and Joanne Whittaker, M.D. of the Bowen Research Laboratory, both of which were able to culture the Lyme microbes from the blood from many hundreds of cases from around the world. From their research they found that Lyme bacteria or its pleomorphic phases could be found in 100% of cases, even after years of antibiotic cocktails, after years of natural antibacterial protocols, after Rife technologies, and after every form of energy medicine. Everyone tested by these two laboratories were found to still have the Lyme bacteria, even when the person was completely restored to perfect health. 

Clinical experience has taught us that it is those people who take a more comprehensive treatment approach that experience the best chance of achieving lasting good health. 

It would seem that if you only treat the bugs then stronger bugs will often follow. If you treat to restore the optimum human condition health will follow in spite of the bugs.

For over 20 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has specialized in the restoration of health for people with previously unresponsive and chronic illnesses of virtually all types. Over 85% of people come from other states and countries. If you have done everything you and your doctor know to do and are still struggling, contact our wonderful Patient Care Coordinator, Kara, at patientcare@hansacenter.com, for information on the exciting new treatments we have developed at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health. For additional info, visit our website at www.HansaCenter.com.

This article is for educational purposes. Before implementing any supplements/remedies always consult with your healthcare professional. Due to the complexity of the human condition there remains the possibility of symptoms getting worse. Again, discuss the ideas presented here with your health care professional before beginning, and stop, or get support, if your condition worsens. This information is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA. The Hansa Center does not treat named diseases, but seeks to restore the body's optimum structural and functional integrity so that the body can rapidly heal itself. 

*Due to the exhaustive time spent per day with each patient, and poor repayment history of insurance companies, we unfortunately cannot accept insurance assignment. We do participate in Care Credit, and accept all major credit cards. We will gladly accept insurance when our elected officials revamp the health insurance industry to cover all results-based care. We encourage you to vote with this in mind. Please call 316-686-5900 ext. 1, for current pricing for our economically-priced, All-inclusive 2-3 weeks intensive packages of care.

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The Best Way to Remove a Tick

The Secret to Proper Tick Removal

Every year it seems that the tick populations are getting larger, and tick-borne illnesses are the number one most prevalent types of microbial diseases in North America. Lyme disease is the fastest growing infection on the planet. Once a tick bites you it spits it's bacteria and virus filled fluids into your body(Tick Spit Research). The problem is how to get the tick off from where it has essentially a syringe needle stuck through your skin, without the tick injecting even more of the infectious fluids into your body as you physically remove it or irritate it causing it to back itself out of your skin. 

There are many theories as to how to remove a tick that has become imbedded in the skin. Everyone seems to have their favorite, so before everyone comments on how and why their way or their device is better, I will say, yes there are a couple of devices that do a decent job of tick removal. It really comes down to what device you like. We now know that most of the home-recipes are incorrect, since the majority of ideas actually cause the tick to regurgitate (vomit) more bacteria into your body as you try to remove them. http://1.usa.gov/1Id9hvb

Some bad methods for tick removal:

·      Putting essential oils, nail polish or remover, dish detergent, or any other substances on the tick to agitate it and cause it to pull itself out, all of which cause the tick to potentially vomit more saliva and stomach contents containing infectious microbes, before backing itself out of the skin. 

·      Using tweezers or the fingers, gripping as close to the head as possible. This sounds good until you attempt to do it without squeezing or crushing the body and head, which often leaves the ticks mouth piece still embedded in the skin and still squeezes more potentially microbe-filled juices into the your body. This was the best method of removing ticks until the one I am going to show you was invented.

·      Holding a match or burning over the back of the tick is an obvious mistake as it definitely causes the tick to vomit from the agitation. Other people use a the heat from a hair dryer, which potentially has the same effect. 

A Blood-Engorged Tick

Anyone who has seen a blood-engorged tick can see that in order to become engorged with blood, its mouth has to penetrate a blood vessel. It is spitting right into your blood stream! Yuck!  Any removal method that squeezes or agitates the tick, causing the tick to back out, may increase the risk of more infectious fluids entering the blood stream, distributing more bacteria throughout your body. Most people would agree that even one more bacteria or virus entering the body is unacceptable. It is interesting to see how passionate various people are about their way of removing ticks in one of the above ways. Remember, the point is not just to get the tick out, it is to get the tick out without it injecting more infectious fluids into your body in the process.

Possibly the best method of removing a tick:

            Here is what I feel is the best way to remove a tick and why many experts think it works the best. Its mechanism of action is based upon the way a tick anchors itself in your skin with retractable hooks. To understand why this works the best, study the structure of the mouth portion, called the hypostome and pictured here, generously provided by the Trix® Tick Remover company. The serrated teeth will hold tight with virtually any pulling action. However, they will literally fold flat if they are rotated in either direction. If you ever wondered how the tick removes itself after it has finished feeding, now you know -- it twists the teeth flat! Trix works in the same way as the tick uses to remove itself! Without agitation of any kind because the noose gently slips over the tick, not choking or squeezing it, and with a twist the teeth lay flat and it slides out of the hold it made in your skin. 

The serrated mouth portion of a tick.

I recommend only one type of tick remover, the patented TRIX Tick Removal System®, made in Sweden by InnoTech. This device is available through various distributors worldwide (www.tickremover.com) I don’t sell these, however they are readily available online for under $10.

 I like to keep the TRIX® in several places so that I can use it as soon as I find a tick on myself, others, or on a pet. You may want to buy several to keep in your backpack, kitchen drawer, auto glove compartments, boat, RV, fishing tackle box, hunting jacket, barn/horse stable/kennel, and where you work. Obviously, it is best to have a TRIX® handy when you first notice a tick embedded in the skin.

 

Here is how the TRIX® Tick Remover works:

·      The Tick Remover is working by the lasso principle. It is very gentle, and easy to use on children and pets, who sometimes find it difficult to hold still.

·      The design makes it easy to use in even in the ears, hair, thick fur and other difficult places. The remover also works very well even if fur or hair comes into the loop.

·      The removed tick is always stuck at the tip of the remover and can be disposed of easily. The loop is made of special fiber. The loop is big enough to take care of most tick species in the world.

 How to use the TRIX® tick remover:

TRIX is a very effective remover which easily and safely can remove the whole tick, big or small. Even the smallest tick nymph is easy to remove with this tool.

	1) Press down the loop and put it over the tick, as close to the skin as possible.
	2) Let go of the button and tilt the tick remover perpendicularly against the skin.
	3) Keep the green point against the skin and turn it one round between your fingers. Lift away.

4) If it is a very small tick: Place the green point close to the tick and press the point down a little into the skin to angle up the loop. Release the button, twist and lift.

 

1. Twist the tick away

If you look at the photomicrograph of the ticks mouth and suction organ (hypostome) you can easily see that if you pull straight out the barbs grip and get even more stuck in the skin (that´s what barbs are for). The risk of pulling the tick apart dramatically increases. If you twist instead, the barbs will release their grip easier and all of the front part together with the head can come along. Tests have shown that it does not matter what direction you twist, clockwise or counterclockwise gives the same good results.

2.  Twisting also reduces pain

When you pull a tick away, it causes some pain in the skin which may cause some pets to really dislike the treatment. But if you twist it away with a tick remover which keeps the mouthpart in a firm grip, the removal will be painless and the pet usually do not even notice because the bite area is stunned by the tick.

3. Always twist the tick away when using TRIX TickLasso

• It´s faster.
• Gives less pain.
• Safer complete removal of whole tick.
• Decreases the risk of infections.

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