We have all heard the saying, “A chain is only as strong as
its weakest link.”This is so true in
every aspect of healthy living.Any area of your life which is
out of health rhythm and balance becomes a weak point.Weak links in a person’s life can be often
identified by where the focus of infection is located in the body.
Bacterial challenges may be the result of
nutritional deficiencies, toxin overload, weather extremes that weaken tissue
resistance, and physical injuries such as cuts and abrasions.
Anyone who has lived in
Hawaii knows that it is a happy home environment for molds.The walls and shower stalls will rapidly turn
green with mold.You can kill it with
spray chemicals but it will always come back because Hawaii is warm and humid,
a perfect environment for mold.
In the human body, all treatments and
therapies should seek to change the environment inside the body back to one
that is not a good environment for microbial overgrowth.
The factors that may lead to microbial
illness through upsetting the body’s healthy balance are numerous. The following list is by no means complete:
Basically, any influence that leads to an
over or under stimulation of any aspect of life can adversely alter your
receptivity to infection.
The type of illness and the areas affected most by the infections are determined by the weaknesses in the person and the number of factors from the above list, that are involved.Sometimes several of the above listed factors are involved in creating
the illness, as well as prolonging the time it takes for the illness to resolve.The point is that an
effective treatment strategy must include therapies that will correct any and
all factors leading to the receptivity to disease.
Most people have taken antibiotics at some
point in this day and age.Once the
symptoms are gone, most people, and their doctor, don’t give it another thought. Research shows that the antibiotics don’t kill all of the bacteria, and yet you may never need to take another dose if your body and other issues are addressed as well?
When dealing with the primary infectious disease of our day, Lyme disease, and its coinfections, you must, must, balance all aspects
of your life and the many issues of the body and mind, before the symptoms will disappear. The bacteria will likely always be detectible on sensitive tests, yet the disease will never to return as long as you stay
in balance.
The Hansa Center for Optimum Health is one of the largest, and most innovative natural healthcare facilities in the United States. 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 this protocol with your health care professional before beginning, and stop or get support if your condition worsens. The information in this article is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA.
Seriously choking back the tears about this joyful event! We just got this testimonial today with permission to publish it. This picture was taken just today! Even though there have been many thousands of stories of dramatic recoveries that have taken place at the Hansa Center over the last twenty years, I still get moved to tears of joy...who says big boys don't cry! Five months ago Tessa was in a wheelchair and not expected to live. I cannot tell it better than the words of her mother: "The bitter season of my life that led me to Hansa was a living nightmare. My teenaged daughter, Tessa, was barely clinging to life, and nobody could tell us what was wrong with her. Tests showed no reason why our bright high school senior could no longer count to ten, read, write, walk, or bathe herself. No reason why her body was thrashing in seizures and throbbing with unbearable neuropathic pain.When a diagnosis of Lyme Disease and its co-infection, Ehrlichiosis, was finally made, we were so relieved because treatment was simply antibiotics. Unfortunately, they made her so much worse that the doctor who prescribed them pulled me aside and said she didn’t have much time left. Diving into fanatical research, I came across Hansa. Patients’ testimonials gave me hope. Tessa arrived at Hansa suffering unimaginable pain, in a wheelchair, rolling an oxygen tank behind her, dark glasses protecting her sensitive eyes from light. I arrived ragged and desperate. But once I sat down in the reception area, a calm washed over me. The staff and patients offered grounded encouragement. Dr. Streit, one of doctors at the Hansa Center in Wichita, KS, was brilliant and compassionate. For two weeks, treatments and remedies customized specifically for Tessa’s body brought brightness back to her eyes and color to her cheeks. Her sunglasses were off. She was slowly emerging. Honestly, I was disappointed that she wasn’t completely healed after two weeks. I was ready for a miracle. But, over the course the next five months, we returned to Hansa two more times. Each time, she got much better. At Dr. Streit’s suggestion, we added functional neurology and energy therapy to her treatment plan.
As I write this, ten months have passed since our first trip to Hansa. Tessa can now walk through the neighborhood, climb stairs, participate in her favorite hobbies of art and music, and is enrolled in college classes. Treatment at Hansa was worth every penny we had to beg and borrow for.
Thank you, Hansa. My heart overflows with gratitude and love for you all." ~Renée Lichtenhan
I used to have a marketing person who worked at the clinic tell me, "Dr. Jernigan, we cannot tell these amazing stories. We have to tell the lesser tale, because these are just too fantastic for anyone to believe!"
Score one more for the philosophy of treating to restore the integrity and optimum functioning of the body to eliminate serious disease.
I want to thank you Renée and your husband, for trusting us with your daughter's life! We praise God for this great outcome!
The Hansa Center for Optimum Health is one of the largest, and most innovative natural healthcare facilities in the United States. 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 this protocol with your health care professional before beginning, and stop or get support if your condition worsens. The information in this article is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA.
After practicing for twenty-five years I have a different perspective on the profession of Chiropractic Medicine. I have to laugh when thinking about my time in Pre-med, during my Bachelors in Nutrition, and later in Chiropractic college, when people would ask me what degree I was pursuing. When I would tell them that I was studying to be a Doctor of Chiropractic, they would always ask, "Why not go to be a REAL doctor?" Now after twenty-five years, I, more than ever, love the profession of Chiropractic Medicine! After treating around 10,000 people, virtually all of whom had exhausted mainstream, conventional medicine, for their chronic illnesses of all types, I know what I know for certain... Chiropractic Medicine is the most powerful medicine on the planet! In the immortal words of the President of my alma mater, Cleveland Chiropractic College, we truly are the "Wellness Physicians of the 21st Century!" WHAT??? You might be saying, "Chiropractic Medicine?" Yes, Chiropractic Medicine! "Is it even legal to say, Chiropractic Medicine?" Yes. "But I thought the only thing a Doctor of Chiropractic does is adjust the spine." Although many Doctors of Chiropractic do specialize in adjusting the spine, the profession of Chiropractic Medicine is just about as diverse in specialties as is mainstream medicine. Many people are unaware of the fact that Doctors of Chiropractic are trained in almost the exact same coursework as any mainstream medical doctor, and exceeds medical training in many ways. The Doctors of Chiropractic are licensed to order any blood test, MRI's, or other special tests, and can even perform gynecological and digital prostate exams. The overwhelming difference between Chiropractic Medicine and mainstream, conventional medicine is seen in our philosophy of how to treat the body, based upon the same labs and special tests. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts, which regulates all of the various healthcare professions in the state, outlines in the law and statutes, exactly what "Chiropractic Medicine" entails. The following is a direct quote from the statutes. "Persons who examine, analyze and diagnose the human living body, and its diseases by the use of any physical, thermal or manual method and use the X-ray diagnosis and analysis taught in any accredited chiropractic school or college and (b) persons who adjust any misplaced tissue of any kind or nature, manipulate or treat the human body by manual, mechanical, electrical or natural methods or by the use of physical means, physiotherapy (including light, heat, water or exercise), or by the use of foods, food concentrates, or food extract, or who apply first aid and hygiene..."
Notice it says, a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine can analyze and diagnose the living body AND its diseases. It goes on to say we can adjust any misplaced tissue of any kind or nature, AND treat the human body by any natural means!
I want you to pay close attention to the fact that this statute spells out the primary difference in opinion between your conventional medical physician and the chiropractic physician...and that difference makes all the difference in the world! The Chiropractic Physician is trained and licensed to diagnose the illnesses and then treat to restore health to the all the tissues and issues of the human body, using any natural means.
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts defines the definition of Medical Doctor as:
"Persons who prescribe, recommend or furnish medicine or drugs, or perform any surgical operation of whatever nature by the use of any surgical instrument, procedure, equipment or mechanical device for the diagnosis, cure or relief of any wounds, fractures, bodily injury, infirmity, disease, physical or mental illness or psychological disorder, of human beings." The conventional medical physician is trained to treat the named disease using drugs and surgery, but largely ignores how the treatments will affect the rest of the human body. This is most manifest in medicine's division of specialties by body parts or diseases. No matter what treatment modality a Doctor of Chiropractic uses it is always with the view of how that treatment will affect the entire human organism. For twenty-five years the Biologix Center for Optimum Health has specialized in restoring health to every tissue in the human body for people with "medically non-responsive illnesses" and chronic illnesses, using amazing, and innovative natural methods. I have treated people from almost every state and country. I have successfully treated people with serious infections and illnesses in Africa and other countries, so I know that Chiropractic Medicine is not just "feel good" medicine. It is powerful medicine that works on the world's worst conditions affecting the human body. No, we do not treat "named diseases." That is what mainstream, conventional, drug medicine does. However, when Chiropractic Medicine treats to restore what is most optimum in the person's body, then "named diseases" often disappear. It all boils down to one's treatment philosophy...do drugs create health or is health achieved once the function of the human body is restored? I have chosen the latter for twenty-five years, and that has made all the difference! Often people seem to think that they are too sick to come get this type of treatment, but I would say, if you must perpetually take a drug in order to feel good (or still feel this badly in some cases) then maybe the drugs are not really addressing what needs to be addressed...your human body! When doing more of the same things is not a good option, and doing nothing is an even worse option, you might consider letting us help you get your body back to optimum health. The Biologix Center for Optimum Health is one of the largest, and most innovative healthcare facilities in the United States. For over 20 years the Biologix 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 Coordinators, Kara or Jacque, at patientcare@Biologixcenter.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.BiologixCenter.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 this protocol with your health care professional before beginning, and stop or get support if your condition worsens. The information in this article is not intended to treat, cure, diagnose, or mitigate any disease or illness, and has not been evaluated by the FDA.
History of the Hansa Center ~ 20 Years of innovations!
People who have never been to the Hansa Center for Optimum Health often have a difficult time understanding why the vast majority of people posting online about their results, are overwhelmingly positive, almost overboard, in their praise for the experience. We have even had people accuse us of somehow, scrubbing all the posts off of the internet that were negative! I don't think that is possible, but if it were then we wouldn't bother, since we are passionate about providing the best care we know how.
After 20 years and over ten thousand people treated, and hundreds of thousands of individual treatment visits, we know that we can often achieve better results than any other clinic/hospital that previously treated our patients. Why do we passionately know this to be true? Because the majority of health care delivery systems use the same basic minimalistic testing and treatment philosophy.
Of course there are those that still don't respond to our treatments. Thankfully this is a very small group, since we can help the vast majority who come. In one in-house case review of any type of "incurable" cases, 85% of the previously unresponsive symptoms improved, and 45% disappeared within the first two weeks!
It is this group of people, the ones who didn't get the healing that they and we wanted, that keep our doctors up, burning the midnight oil, studying and ultimately innovating new ways of testing and treating!
When a doctor specializes in the absolute toughest cases, it forces the doctor to learn things that the easier cases would never have stimulated. From almost day one of graduation in 1995 I had people who told me, "Doctor Jernigan, my doctors tell me I have two weeks to live. Please help me! They won't treat me anymore and told me to go home and settle my affairs."
This is pressure! When you are scrambling to do what no other doctor thought of to do, to get to the bottom line issues...IN A HURRY...you don't just put the person on some good sounding remedies and cross your fingers! You dig, and search, and innovate new ways to do things to stop the illness, and at no point do you, as the doctor, say, "This isn't in my job description!"
I have often called my patients my "Humpty Dumpty Bunch" since "All the King's horses, and all the King's men couldn't put them back together again."
Humble Beginnings:
For my first 14 years of practice I never had a sign for my clinic, since initially I couldn't afford the one I wanted since I had just graduated and was just a poor doctor, fresh out of college and unproven. Then after some amazing initial successes with some very difficult cases, I was very busy from just word-of-mouth referrals of happy patients, and that is still to this day one of our best source of new patients...happy people telling other people!
The Hansa Center started with very humble beginnings. For the first seven months of opening my practice, my family lived in a back room of the clinic and slept on a mattress on the floor. We lived and ate at the clinic with two of our children, one was 2 years old and one was just born. We all took baths in the sink! Shockingly, the banks didn't see us as anything other than a bad risk, so we opted for a better clinic, instead of a house or apartment! It was a bit difficult, as you might imagine, to represent that we were the best option for seriously ill people, as our babies were often walking around the clinic in diapers...or nothing at all!
Thankfully, we gradually kept putting our patient care first and improving our treatment and testing options to get even better results, above everything else, and we dug out of those difficult days and now we have the largest, results-based clinic, that specializes in the treatment philosophies of Biological Medicine in all of North America.
After my training in Germany and Switzerland, having seen what beautiful healing centers they have over there, I set out to set up my clinic in the same way. This was not to boost my ego, but to provide the most powerful healing environment I could for my patients. One might say that they don't need a nice building, but every aspect of human experience plays into healing, including having the best facility, best-trained staff and doctors, and best testing and treatment options.
We now have what I call my "Dream team" staff at the clinic! There are 20 support staff and therapists and five doctors who are all maximally trained in the systems I developed over these 20 years! Each and every staff person and doctor were hired because they demonstrated great knowledge and wisdom, and most importantly, they still had their heart intact! Our staff love caring for people and creating the most supportive and healing experience for every person who comes to "our house." We have created a healing environment where you feel like you are in our family, protected, nurtured, and supported. People have often said they have never seen a better run facility and a more cohesive team!
Over the twenty years of treating only the toughest cases, I realized that illness was not ever just one thing that had gone wrong in the body. Nothing happens in the body without the entire body, mind, and spirit being affected. The longer a person had been developing their ultimate illness situation, the more the entire human condition had to be individually and collectively addressed.
The doctors that people had seen previous to coming to see me were usually great at one thing. Maybe they were good at killing microbes, others would be good at dealing with the gut, still another would be good at balancing the meridians. It was what I came to call, "Pieces and Parts doctoring." It was the philosophy of, "Let's treat your thyroid or adrenals and see how you do." "Let's fix your gut and see how you do." "Let's chase this or that microbe and see how you do." The idea is not necessarily wrong, but it generally only works when the condition has not progressed that far.
I became convinced, and remain convinced, that in order for rapid healing to occur, no matter how horribly sick you are, we must start really addressing the entire human condition, NOT in a general balancing sense, but with hundreds of types of very strategic testing and treatment innovations. This is what made us masters at powerfully addressing every aspect of the body, mind, and spirit on each and every office visit! Each and every doctor at the Hansa Center has mastered all of these innovations.
You might be asking, "What innovations have you developed over the last 20 years of treating people who no one else could help?"
First let me say that all innovation springs off the research of previous discoveries by other scientists and clinicians. I was blessed to have trained with some of the greatest minds in the healing arts and science, and was therefore able to start my practice where they left off. One of these great scientists was Dr. Delta Gier, Ph.D., actually a three time Ph.D., who was an acting chemist at the age of 14 and worked with Albert Einstein for 7 years. So I credit much of what I have been able to do to these giants. I also credit my Heavenly Father, to whom I would constantly pray what I call the "Prayer of Solomon", who asked God for greater knowledge and wisdom, above all else. So many of my innovations were simply inspired ideas that came to me as I was treating some tough case. I thank God for this!
The first thing I developed was BioResonance Scanning ™ the science of which I published in this peer-reviewed scientific article at this link. This has been the biggest discovery of my career! BioResonance Scanning (BRS) in a nutshell is a way to dynamically test and treat all in one functional system. Like so many things, there are other technologies that are also called Bioresonance machines, devices, and such, but none come close to what I developed almost 20 years ago. Innovations and improvements on BRS have continued to this day and enabled our doctors to always know what is going on and how to facilitate the body's systems so that the body can rapidly repair itself, whether the problem is coming front the body, mind, or the spirit. BioResonance Scanning is an adjunctive system that takes a lot of the guesswork out of doctoring. It can help our doctors determine what the best remedy or treatment is, how much to use, how many times a day is the remedy needed, and even how long the remedy should be needed. It can also help the doctor determine if you are going to likely be allergic, toxic to a remedy BEFORE you have even put it in your mouth! BRS can do so much more, but that would require it's own book! :)
BioResonance Scanning enabled me to make many discoveries about various illnesses, some of which I have written about in published books and articles. The following lists some of these firsts, publications, and innovations:
The first doctor to write a book on the natural treatment of people diagnosed with Lyme Disease and now the author of four books on Lyme Disease, the latest edition is "Beating Lyme Disease; Living the Good Life in Spite of Lyme, 2nd edition. Changing lives, not just bodies.™
The first to develop a botanical formula (Borrelogen) specifically frequency-matched to enable the body to effectively eliminate Lyme spirochetes.
The first to present laboratory research verifying the effectiveness of a natural botanical formula (Borrelogen) to facilitate the body's ability to kill Lyme spirochete bacteria.
The first ever to present laboratory research verifying the effectiveness of a natural botanical formula at the International Tick-Borne Diseases Conference in New York, NY 1999
First to publish on the need for a more comprehensive approach, including detoxification for people with Lyme disease.
The first to identify Hyperammonemia (ammonia) as the primary toxin byproduct of Lyme disease. (Published Townsend Newsletter for Patients and Doctors)
The first to develop a botanical detoxification formula that can cross the blood/brain barrier and relieve the physiological effects of neurotoxins as verified by Functional Acuity Contrast Testing (FACT)
First to develop a Lyme disease specific scoring system of Lyme neurotoxin levels using FACT testing.
First to publish on abolishing the physicians use of a Herxhiemer Reaction as a guide to effective treatment. The sign of good treatment is that the patient feels better.
First to identify global ammonia as the dominant toxin in Multiple Sclerosis and ALS.
Developer of BioResonance Scanning (Adjunctive Diagnostic and treatment technique)
Developer of NeuroPhotonic Therapy
Developer of Multi-posture/Intraoral Cranial Fixation technique
Developer of NeuroCardial Synchronization Technique
Developer of BRADE (BioResonance Allergy Desensitization & Elimination Technique)
Formulator of over 30 novel botanical and homeopathic remedies
Publications:
Book: "Surviving Lyme Disease Using Alternative Medicine", Somerleyton Press, 1997
Book: "Surviving Lyme Disease", 2nd edition, 1999
"Borrelia burgdorferi antigen release stimulation by nutraceutical formula as determined by Lyme Urine Antigen Testing (LUAT)" Research poster Presentation at the International Tick-borne and Infectious Disease Conference, New York, NY 1999
Book: "Beating Lyme Disease; Using Alternative Medicine and God-Designed Living," Somerleyton Press, 2004
Peer-Reviewed Research Article: "Illuminated Physiology and the Medical Uses of Light," Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Journal, 2004
Book: "Everyday Miracles by God's Design," Zulon Press, 2005
"Realities of Antibiotics for Lyme Disease," 2007 Townsend Newsletter for Doctors and Patients
"Lyme Toxins the Cause of Your Symptoms," 2007, Townsend Newsletter for Doctors and Patients, Journal Article
Book: "Beating Lyme Disease," 2nd edition, 2008
"Hyperammoniemia in Lyme Disease, Bacterial toxins the Cause of Your Symptoms, 2008 Townsend Letter’s Examiner of Alternative Medicine Publication, Journal Article insert
"Cancer and Low Body Temperature" 2012, Townsend Letter’s Examiner of Alternative Medicine Publication, Journal Article
"Bacteria-Focused Treatment of Lyme Disease May be Incorrect" 2013, Townsend Letter’s Examiner of Alternative Medicine Publication
Life is full of lessons. Learning the lessons quickly can lead to a better, more satisfying life. While there are things in life that are out of our control, there are many things in life that we definitely have control over, such as our decisions, our actions, and how we handle situations.
One of the biggest lessons I wish that someone had told me early in my life, is that everything that I do that is good or bad in life will have a cumulative effect in the long run! If I continue doing things in a less than optimum way, then the bad effects grow. If I continue doing things in an optimum way, then things will progressively get better. Maybe someone told me these lessons, but I didn't hear or listen to them, and I ended up having to learn them the hard way.
Anyone who has diligently watched their weight can attest to the fact that eating poorly may not show up as weight gain until weeks, months, or even years later.
I would like to think I would have listened if someone had told me when I was young and skinny, and would eat a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in one sitting, without gaining an ounce, that eventually I would fight weight issues.
I wish I were wiser when as a young man I chose to smoke cigarettes off and on for 11 years, thinking it wasn't doing much to me. I could have saved a lot of suffering years later when I almost died twice from severe pneumonia and repeated bouts of bronchitis, even though I had not been smoking for years by the time it caught up with me.
I wish someone had told me that the health care choices I made as a young man, surgery, pharmaceuticals, and hospitalizations, would limit my health for the rest of my life. I might have made different decisions, and left surgeries and aggressive pharmaceuticals as a last resort, since now I have health issues that not even the most creative natural medicine can undo.
I wish I had known that every vile and hateful thing I thought and said to others would create cumulative ramifications in my relationships.
I wish someone had told me that the more I live in high personal integrity in body, mind, and spirit, the more joy-filled, healthy, and fulfilled my life would be.
I wish someone told me that more I loved other people, the more other people would express love to me.
I wish that I had listened more intently when that small voice in my head told me the right thing to do, and I chose to ignore it, leading to bigger problems down the road of life.
After suffering the consequences of my poor decisions, I have since decided to learn the lessons of life while they are still small, so they don't turn into massive and painful lessons that cost me dearly.
I have learned that the better I do things in life, diet, health care, my walk with God, and my interactions with others, the better those things get. When we live with high personal integrity, and appreciation, loving God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and our neighbor as our self, that we can expect that everything in life will cumulatively get better.
The point is to learn how to not get into trouble in the first place, not to do everything wrong and then pray your way out of the consequences.
Life is cumulative, whether you are consistently making poor decisions or you are making wise decisions. Choose your path wisely. As a good friend once told me, "It is never, the better it gets, the worse it gets. It is always the better it gets the better it gets!" You may not notice the difference in the short run, but in the long run your rewards will be greater.
There are not many issues that can cause so many problems in virtually every area of the body than Histamine Intolerance (HIT). The following is from a lecture I gave the doctors at the Hansa Center. Although every doctor has been extensively trained at the post-graduate level in virtually every pathology known to mankind, as you will see here, HIT is a specialty of its own, since there is so much to know. The following are just the bullet points outlining everything you would want to know about HIT.
Histamine Intolerance has been called a "Pseudo-Allergy," because many of its symptoms appear to be allergies when in fact they are not truly IgE-mediated, Type-1 hypersensitivity reactions typically seen in those suffering with allergies.
It is likely that some level of histamine intolerance is aggravating the condition of any person suffering from the many chronic, degenerative or inflammatory illnesses. Without our BRS testing to help guide our doctors, it would be a very difficult quagmire to navigate a person to resolution. Thankfully we can often rapidly find and address many of the possible causes, though it is definitely a lengthy process to dig deep enough to figure out all the various things that have created this systemic issue and how to then facilitate the body's restoration of how it handles histamine.
This article will also provide you with the information of things you need to avoid in your diet, as well as medications, and even natural supplements that might be promoting the overproduction of histamine.
Before you say, "This isn't my problem" please read this article thoroughly and possibly print it out for your doctor so that they can possibly help you.
What is the difference between Allergies and Histamine Intolerance?
• Allergies are an IgE mediated, histamine response to an allergen, i.e., pollen or cat dander.
• Histamine Intolerance (HIT) is a toxic response by the body due to the excessive accumulation of endogenous or exogenous histamine from an inability of the body to efficiently breakdown histamine and hypersensitivity of cell antigen receptors.
Histamine Intolerance is caused by:
– The Over production of Histamine
– The decreased ability of the body to breakdown histamine
• Decreased Diamine Oxidase (DAO) enzyme production in the body
– Histamine is broken down by oxidative deamination by DAO (former name: histaminase)
• Decreased Histamine N-Methyl Transferase (HNMT) enzyme production in the body which is needed to breakdown histamine.
– Histamine is broken down by ring methylation as a result of histamine-N-methyltransferase (HNMT)
See how many systems and symptoms can be caused by HIT
Symptoms of Histamine Intolerance (HIT)
• Histamine serves various functions in our body. This is why histaminosis may trigger a wide range of symptoms, affecting different organ systems.
• People suffering from HIT may display highly diverse symptoms. Every person has individual weak spots, which may be afflicted earlier than other parts in the body. Sufferers may be troubled by many of the following symptoms, either simultaneously or alternately
• Some afflictions are chronic or very frequent, others may only occur sporadically. The symptoms are so varied that the people affected by HIT often do not suspect a single trigger
• Irritable stomach or an irritable bowel respectively. A direct connection between food intake and the symptoms is often difficult to discern. This is due to the fact that the ingredients of ingested foods are only slowly absorbed by the body during the bowel transit time, which may last several hours, so that problems may only manifest themselves with a considerable delay.
• Eating aged or leftover foods, or those with high histamine content, may trigger abdominal cramps and severe diarrhea within 15-30 minutes.
• Histamine increases the motility of the bowel movements, so that the bolus passes the intestines faster than normal, which impairs the absorption of nutrients because of the short retention time.
• More rarely also constipation or constipation alternating with diarrhea
• High levels of histamine (as well as high melatonin) in the body may lead to a wide range of neurological symptoms. Neurological symptoms are in particular pronounced with a HNMT enzymopathy. Headache, fatigue, sleep disturbance may also be typical symptoms of a DAO enzymopathy.
• Flulike symptoms without defined onset of disease, prolonged malaise, pain in the limbs
• Sinus infection (sinusitis): frontal sinusitis, maxillary sinusitis, inflammation of other sinuses such as sphenoid or ethmoid sinuses
• Constant swelling painful lymph nodes
• Tonsillitis, adenoid vegetation (adenoid hyperplasia), possible surgical removal of tonsils. (The tonsils serve the immune defense. Their removal may further acerbate the increased susceptibility for infectious diseases.)
• Soft-tissue rheumatism: e.g. pain in the tendons or joints, back pain: the back muscles hurt similar to a strained muscle/muscle ache (muscular rheumatism, inflammation of a muscle)
• Periodic toothache, inflammation of the gums or wisdom teeth
• Herpes simplex labialis (oral herpes, cold sores) or symptoms similar to herpes (e.g. badly healing skin cracks)
HIT and Skin
• Excessive sweating, attack of sweating, night-time sweating, perspiring hands/feet, hot flashes
• Physical irritation such as scratching, strokes or heat triggering flashes/rash or itching
• Upper arms covered in little red spots/pimples, partially keratinised or purulent (impaired keratinisation), perhaps in connection with pollen allergies?
• Hands with burning/aching inflammation/blisters/nodules/calluses
• Sun allergy: the skin goes very quickly red in the sun, but the sunburn disappears on the following day.
• Blowing the nose may lead to nosebleed (because of increased permeability of the blood vessels)
• Aphtha lesions of the oral mucosa, which become small yellow-white holes/wounds that hurt and will not heal for days and sometimes months. In addition to the oral mucosa, some papillae on the tongue may hurt like an aphtha.
• Constant clearing of the throat, particularly in stress situations
• Sputum: viscid mucus to expectorate, frequent clearing of throat, perhaps also breathy vocal cords, particularly after sumptuous meals (similar to cystic fibrosis)
DAO vs HNMT (The two pathways your body has to break down histamine)
• Diamine Oxidase enzyme (DAO) expression is restricted to specific tissues; the highest activities are shown for small intestines, ascending colon, and for placenta and kidney. DAO is responsible for scavenging extracellular histamine (i.e., after ingestion of histamine-rich food) after mediator release.
• Histamine N-Methyltransferase enzyme (HNMT) is widely expressed in human tissues; the greatest expression is in kidney and liver, followed by spleen, colon, prostate, ovary, spinal cord cells, bronchi, and trachea. HNMT is regarded as the key enzyme for histamine degradation in the bronchial epithelium. HNMT can convert histamine only in the intracellular space of cells.
Sources of Histamine and the cellular release of Histamine
• Histamine release increases during the periods of panic attack, especially when the adrenergic, “fight or flight” response is at its peak.
• Histamine factors into the fight or flight because H3 histamine receptors in the brain promote the most "wakeful" firing pattern. In fact a sudden rush of histamine in the brain could contribute to a schizophrenic episode.
• Histamine is involved in panic events by causing a closing of the airways in the lungs. When released in the lungs, histamine causes the airways to swell shut in an attempt to close the door on offending allergens and keep them out. Panic attack periods are known for the sense of weight or contraction on the lungs.
• The cell bodies of neurons which release histamine as a neurotransmitter are found in the posterior hypothalamus, in various tuberomammillary nuclei. From here, these histaminergic neurons project throughout the brain, to the cortex through the medial forebrain bundle.
• Found primarily in bone marrow and white blood cells. It is also expressed in the colon, liver, lung, small intestine, spleen, testes, thymus, tonsils, and trachea.
– The excessive histamine is still circulating so it can be forced more to the H3 and H4 receptor pathways
– H3 and H4 receptors are more related to Headaches, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, circadian rhythm problems, arousal, insomnia, appetite issues, memory problems, learning, and body temperature problems.
• Treat Mental/Emotional (HPA axis) stress issues with BRS testing.
• Stabilize IgE mediated prostaglandin activation of mast cell release of histamine. (gamma linolenic Acid…Evening Primrose oil, Borage Oil, Black Currant Seed oil.)
• Oxford University Peptide shots (Amino acid shots) to block the histamine receptors at the cellular level.
Oxford University Peptide Injections
• An antigen must first be attached to cell surface receptors on mast cells. This triggers a response that often includes the release of histamine. Most allergies involve the release of histamine and other pro-inflammatory substances.
• The Oxford Peptides (U.S. = Amino Acid Injections) physically block the receptors so that antigens cannot attach to the cell receptors, therefore no histamine is released by the mast cells.
Antihistamine Supplements
• Allermac (Jernigan)
• HistDAO (Xymogen)
• HistoCal (NutriWest)
• Resveratrol
• Turmero
• Whole System Histozyme (Nutriwest)
• Total CMO (NW) (autoimmune)
• Phoenix (Dr. Recommends)
• Isopathic Phenolics
• All homeo categories, Dairy, Beautox,
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E
• Sulfur (MSM)
• Essential fatty acids (GLA)
• Bromelain
• Boswellia (Frankincense)
• Pancreatic enzymes (Digest, Total Enzyme, Carbo-zyme, Amylase)
• R-lipoic acid
• Glucosamine hydrochloride
• Proanthocyanidins (Plant pigments)
• N-Acetyl Cystiene
• Allergic reactions typically have an adrenal component. Cortisol, is a strong anti-inflammatory agent. For this reason proper adrenal function plays an important role in mediating the histamine release and inflammatory reactions that produce the symptoms experienced with allergies.
• A vicious circle occurs with adrenal fatigue and the tendency to having allergies. The more histamine that is released the harder the adrenals have to work to produce more cortisol, thereby the more fatigued the adrenals become, which increases allergic reactions in a vicious circle.
Interactions of Nitric Oxide and Histamine
• Increasing Nitric oxide will down-regulate the release of histamine. (NO Saliva test strips; treat with Neo-40, NOx…)
• Histamine stimulates NO synthesis and release.
• Too much NO increases histamine as the body strives to bring down the high NO. (Be careful when treating low NO that new symptoms are not created by causing the over production of NO.)
• Several factors increase levels of NO in the body: Allergies (histamine), poor iron status, hypoxia (oxygen deficiency), estrogen dominance and Carbon Monoxide exposure.
Dietary Recommendations and Histamine (While eliminating high-histamine foods from your diet is a great idea, diet alone is NOT a long term correction for the underlying HIT problems. You must work with your doctor to correct the enzymatic and histamine metabolic pathways.
• Avoid or reduce eating canned foods and processed or ready made meals.
• Avoid or reduce eating ripened and fermented foods (older cheeses, alcoholic drinks, products containing yeast)
• Histamine levels in foods vary, depending on how ripe, matured or hygienic the foods.
• As much as it is possible, only buy and eat fresh products.
• Don’t allow foods to linger outside the refrigerator – especially meat products
• Histapenia (Low Histamine): It is found that 30-40 % of people with schizophrenia have low whole blood histamine levels and are over-methylated.
• People with low histamine tend to have more severe mental disorders and hallucinations, paranoid thoughts with less pronounced obsessions, despair, depression, low libido, anxiety, nervous legs and grandiosity.
• People with low histamine often have a multitude of food allergies and environmental allergies but they do not typically have seasonal allergies.
• Approximately 25% of bipolar patients have low histamine levels.
Biochemistry of Histopenia
• Low “Whole blood histamine”
• Low blood zinc
• Low basophils
• Elevated levels of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
• Elevated copper, which is a brain stimulant and destroys histamine; causing brain dopamine levels to rise; copper then oxidizes catecholamines such as dopamine thus propagating neurotoxin formation. This causes paranoia and hallucinations in younger individuals, but depression may predominate in the older ones.
Testing for Histamine Intolerance (HIT): (Not all of these test must be performed to diagnose HIT.)
Serum Tryptase levels are persistently above 15 ng/mL
24-hour, Urine histamine metabolite, PGD2
11-β-prostaglandin F2 alpha
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