Dr. Jernigan Radio Interview on Lyme Disease

Listen to Dr. David Jernigan's latest radio interview discussing the unique treatment philosophies used at the Hansa Center and his 20 year journey of helping people with Lyme Disease.

The Hansa Center for Optimum Health in Wichita, KS has five doctors all trained to treat with the same powerful innovations and treatment philosophies developed by Dr. Jernigan. There are over twenty support staff and therapists to lovingly support your journey to better health.

The many traumas in our lives are cumulative. From the womb and birth the systems and tissues of our body are traumatized by chemicals that we breathe in, that we get on our skin, from what we drink, and from the medications that we take, not to mention emotional traumas and physical injuries sustained during our lives.

All of these traumas accumulate and create chaos in our bodies that ultimately lead to disease by whatever name it's given.

The difference at the Hansa Center is that we strive to restore order from chaos, coherence from incoherence, and harmony from disharmony, so that the body can finally heal itself.

In this interview, Dr. Jernigan discusses whether you need to take antibiotics. In Lyme disease simply taking antibiotics often adds more chaos to the already chaotic condition of the body.

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Most Common Phrase in the Lyme Disease World: "Why Don’t I Feel Better?"

The question that dominates most Lyme Disease Forums is "Why don’t I feel better, even after doing everything I can think of to get well?"

The dominant protocols are conventional medicine’s combinations of long-term antibiotics, and natural medicine protocols, such as the Buhner Protocol, Zhang Protocol, The Cowden Protocol, The Klinghardt Protocol, and the Jernigan Perfect-7 Protocol.

Each of the natural protocols were developed by doctors that have spent years pursuing the identification of the best remedies/natural medicines to help facilitate the restoration of health of real suffering in their clinics. Each one of these doctors had to eventually develop their own line of remedies where they were not getting results with products available on the open market.

Most of these natural health doctors use hundreds if not thousands of various remedies in their clinics and like myself have usually only developed a few unique formulas. I personally have only formulated about a dozen formulas, though I don’t own the company, Jernigan Nutraceuticals, yet I use over 3000 different natural remedies that we keep on hand at all times at the Hansa Center.

Antibiotic protocols are simplistic in their goals, when compared to any of the natural protocols, and especially compared to the Hansa Center goals. The antibiotic-prescribing doctors often have a handful of natural supplements to help the body. They are most often still following a "canned protocol" from some big name M.D.

The reality is that no canned protocol, natural or conventional, can do everything and cover every potential health issue, especially when dealing with people who have many symptoms and been sick for many years. The longer you have been sick, and the more symptoms you have, the less likely one of the “heal yourself at home” protocols is going to work. Please hear me. I am not saying that none of these various protocols will work. I am saying they are less likely to work for you, the more complex your illness.

The infections and accumulated toxins have caused disruptions in every system in the body. Simply seeking to kill the infections and mop up the toxins does nothing to repair the damage and does nothing to get the biochemistry of the body and bioenergetic regulation of the body restored.

I do understand that money is part of the problem, and it is a problem I cannot fix, beyond striving continually to exceed the expectations of everyone who comes, and to package care so that you receive way more services than you paid for at the Hansa Center.

Of course some of these protocols are much cheaper as they point people to herbs in a health food store or bulk herb supplier, but the skill and knowledge necessary to help the severely ill person can often not be passed on in any one book and placed in the hands of the person who is usually too sick to read. For example, if you are taking an herb and you start feeling worse, is it working or are you having an adverse reaction to the herb? Maybe it is a great herb, but your unique body needs it to be combined with a few other herbs to really get it to work right. Maybe you took too much or too little for your body size, or it just didn't require very much of the herb even if you are big person. Maybe you are allergic to the herb or for some reason you got sent the wrong herb, or it just is wrong for your body type. A doctor trained in sensitive testing can determine these things before you ever put it in your mouth! 

I don't mean to scare you away from using herbs at home. I am stressing the point that there is a reason that the most common phrase in the LD world is, "Why don't I feel better?"

My book and blogs on LD are clear that any one who is very sick is not likely going to regain the full quality of life they seek without the skill of a professional doctor who is trained to do sensitive testing of each patient.

Herbs are like any tools, they are only as good as the skill of the one using them. Our doctors would not have over 3000 different remedies in each of the treatment rooms if all you needed to do was take a standardized "canned" Hansa Center protocol. Every single treatment or remedy we give you, every single day, is tested specifically to determine that it will do what we want it to do without causing your body any problems. 

People often ask me what we actually do at the Hansa Center that makes it where we get such remarkable results. It is this unique testing and innovative treatments that we developed at the Hansa Center that sets us apart and lets us often enjoy near miraculous results on the toughest cases. It doesn't mean that we can win every case, guaranteed, but we can often do what no other previous doctor was able to do. (See three of the latest: Maren's story and Tessa's story.and Megan's video)

A great friend of mine, and one who is an M.D., PhD. said a wonderful statement today… “Lyme disease is not a true disease, but is more a syndrome and should actually be called Lyme Syndrome, since it is truly not one cause, but is indeed a tremendous range of symptoms unique to the various weaknesses in the body, mind, and spirit of the person who succumbed to the illness.”

Most if not all of the natural protocols are designed to address the most common issues that lead to illness in Lyme disease.

None of the canned protocols can address every issue, since not every issue needing to be corrected can be fixed with a pill or nutritional supplement. For example, if you dislocate your finger there isn’t a pill in the world that can correct that finger. You might think, “But I have infections, allergies, and toxicity issues, so I do need a pill!” The reality is that yes you often do need a pill, but not only a pill. You likely need a selection of tailor made, customized botanical and/or homeopathic formulas that are tested to specifically what your unique body, with it’s unique dysfunctions desperately needs.

If what you need is a Fascia Release Therapy or spinal alignment, or NeuroPhotonic Therapy to correct the biophotonic metabolism, or even to synchronize the brain and heart communication with NeuroCardial Synchronization, you cannot achieve these with a standard pill or supplement.

Any resistance or interference in your body, mind, or spirit will put a little resistance or interference throughout the entire organism. This means you can be taking the absolutely best medicine in the world and yet that medicine often cannot reach or work everywhere in your body because of these interferences.

You must find a doctor with the knowledge necessary to correctly eliminate the energetic and physical blockages on each office visit and streamline what you are taking so that they all “play nicely together” inside your body.

If a person is diligent with any given protocol, and is still not getting better or is even feeling worse, they should seek out professional help from a doctor trained in American Biological Medicine. As a matter of fact all of the doctors whose protocols are listed above do not actually use their own protocols in their clinics! All of these doctors tailor every treatment to the unique needs of the person they are treating.

The reality as this author sees it is that no doctor has all the answers, so if you are trying to be your own doctor and follow a canned protocol of any type, you will be very limited in your knowledge of what to do beyond that protocol to get the improvements you seek.

Find a doctor you trust. Do what he recommends until you feel that you don’t trust that it is enough. Find another doctor who does things differently that you can trust. Repeat until the last issue at the level of cause has been addressed and you will be well.

At the Hansa Center for Optimum Health we bring to bear an incredible array of healing modalities and techniques in functional diagnosis and treatments in order to facilitate the removal of everything that is interfering with your body’s ability to repair and regenerate what has been damaged.

Remember, every doctor can only go as far as they have been taught, so for years our doctors at the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas have gone out of their way to travel the world learning from the best healing philosophies, and coming back and innovating new ways to get faster healing to occur. Come let us help you.

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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Lyme and POTS for six years! See teenager walk for the first time and read her story!

This truly miraculous story just came to us this week! I want to share it with you to provide you with encouragement that even when six long years have gone by, such as in this beautiful 15 year old, that the seeming impossible is indeed possible! 

This recovery was not from the annihilation of bacteria. It was not from a canned treatment protocol that finally worked, but from the gradual repairing of an incredible range of issues in every aspect of her body. Under the skillful hands and brilliant creativity of natural treatments from the mind of Dr. Streit of the Hansa Center, health restoration was achieved! 

Here is the story of terrifying illness to restored health in Maren's mother own words...

"We are so excited to share Maren’s story of healing with you! On Friday, October 16^th our 15 year old daughter Maren, stood up by herself and took her first step....she was able to walk again….and she hasn’t stopped walking since! It was a miraculous moment in her journey to optimum health that she has been on since she first became ill six years ago.

When Maren was 9 she developed neurological problems and excruciatingly painful neuropathy in her legs and feet. She recovered from the neuropathy but since then she’s had body and joint aches, headaches, nausea and fatigue. 

Two years ago, when she was 13, she woke up one morning with extreme dizziness causing her to vomit and was so exhausted that she couldn’t get out of bed without help. Her normal sensation of feeling like she was lying on the bed wasn’t there...she couldn’t feel the bed.

She had lost the feeling of being grounded and she felt like she was floating in space. She couldn’t feel where her limbs and head were in relationship to her body, it was such an unsettled feeling and it was hard for all of us to understand. 

Soon it became impossible for her to walk because of her fatigue, dizziness and not being able to feel where her body was in space. Eventually she couldn’t read and write and found it hard to even converse with us. She saw many doctors and specialists and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and POTS. 

She was treated with a lot of conventional medications, antibiotics and therapies, but nothing relieved her symptoms and the unrelenting dizziness she had every minute of the day.

Last fall our prayers and research led us to the Hansa Center and that has truly been the greatest blessing. Maren started treatment there in October 2014, and we knew as soon as we came through the front doors that we were finally in the right place. The staff embraced us with care, compassion and understanding, and we could feel God’s love and joy coming through all of them. 

When we met Dr. Streit for the first time we were amazed, he explained that there were many systems in her body that were out of balance and that he would use different remedies to empower and give her body what it needed to heal itself. We truly learned more from him about her situation in one hour than we had in the past six years from the dozens of doctors we had seen. 

Through his wisdom and knowledge he had the ability to understand what she explained to him about her symptoms and used integrative ways to treat Maren as a whole person…body, mind and spirit.

Since our first visit, her symptoms have slowly and persistently improved and we’ve noticed positive changes from month to month with her fatigue, brain fog, digestive issues and pain. During the follow up visits with Dr. Streit he used innovative methods to help her feel her body as a whole and regain normal sensation. Her dizziness steadily improved and he helped her to be able to feel stable when standing at her last visit in September.

In Maren’s own words, “I felt major changes in my body after every appointment and now I am walking and playing with my horse again, I feel so good!! Most of the time I am not dizzy at all, I can feel my body and what I am sitting on, I have so much more energy! I never have headaches, nausea and my body is not in pain anymore. God truly worked though Dr. Streit by using his gifts to heal and teach my body, mind and spirit…it has been such a humbling experience to see God’s great love and power at work! Thank you Dr. Jernigan and all the staff and therapists at the Hansa Center…you have truly changed my life and not just my body!”

Hans, Linnae, Whitney and Maren Hamm"

February 2014

  

October 2015

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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Is the optimized human body more powerful than antibiotics?

Is the optimized human body more powerful at keeping potentially disease causing bacteria under control than combinations of our best antibiotics? You might be convinced you know the answer. I will relieve your suspense. The body is the determining factor over getting a disease from bacteria, and the body is also ultimately better than antibiotics at keeping infectious bacteria from causing disease!

The National Institute of Health (NIH) is conducting research to map all of the various types of bacteria that live in healthy individuals. The research is called The Human Microbiome Project. The NIH researchers found, "that nearly everyone routinely carries pathogens, microorganisms known to cause illnesses. In healthy individuals, however, pathogens cause no disease; they simply coexist with their host and the rest of the human microbiome, the collection of all microorganisms living in the human body. Researchers must now figure out why some pathogens turn deadly and under what conditions, likely revising current concepts of how microorganisms cause disease." (emphasis added)

This might lead some people to point to the era before the invention of antibiotics and say that antibiotics definitely have saved lives, and that I am being irresponsible to suggest otherwise. So to be clear, I do believe there are times when antibiotics are necessary. The problem with antibiotics is they are becoming less and less effective, even on types of bacteria which used to be easily killed. 

We see this same phenomenon in agriculture. Farmers are resorting to using GMO seeds because the weeds in their fields are no longer being killed by the weed-killer chemicals. It is requiring more and more weed-killer to kill them. So the genetically modified (GMO) seeds grow into crops that can withstand the huge amounts of weed killer chemicals necessary to keep the weeds from growing.*

It would seem that nature is attempting to tell us something. I believe nature is telling us that you either live in harmony with all things or you will suffer the consequences of our warfare, whether we are killing bacteria in your body, or the weeds in the fields. Nature will adapt and win ultimately. 

That leaves us with the question, "What are we supposed to do if not antibiotics?" Bioinformatics and Bioenergetics is the next frontier. The following is just one example of why I am convinced that the human body truly is more powerful than antibiotics.

Otto Wolf, MD reports that the normal blood component, albumin, is six times stronger than penicillin at preventing the overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. Interestingly, albumen mysteriously loses this ability when the person succumbs to illness. Peer-reviewed medical research states that, "Albumin has well‐established and important functions in health. Its kinetic and dynamic properties are significantly altered in the critically ill." Not only that but low blood albumin is an independent predictor of whether you come down with any disease. 

Mainstream medicine tried to correct disease by giving patients albumin. It didn't work. Apparently the mechanistic view of the world doesn't work the same inside the human body. The power or "kinetic and dynamic properties" of albumen are not due to its molecular structure, but from the human "software" that is unique and dynamic, changeable, based on our overall health, or lack thereof in each person. 

You are more than pieces and parts of a chemical machine. Your biochemistry can be programmed to perform different tasks by your body's own bioenergetic, bioinformation, and biocommunication systems. that programs the albumen to either work or not work, based upon the energetic encoding of the molecules.  I am fascinated by the energetic nature of the human body, something largely ignored by mainstream medicine. The bioinformation system of the body and the biocommunication system  is the new frontier in healing technology, and what drives our success at the Hansa Center through powerful innovations, such as BioResonance Scanning (BRS), NeuroCardial Sychronization (NCS) technique, and NeuroPhotonic Therapy (NPT), all developed here.

We would all agree that if we had something that was six times more powerful than one of our most powerful class of antibiotics, the penicillins, and if your body could be taught to return to being that powerful, it would be pretty significant. The trick is working at the level of the body's energetic software to restore not just the albumen, but all of the integrity of the body at the same time.  

The mechanistic view of the human body is what got us through the dark ages to the present day. Now we are entering a new era in healing technology, one that works to restore the function and integrity of the entire human being, down to the glitches in its software.

Treat the bugs and stronger bugs will follow. Treat the human condition and stronger health will follow.

*To be clear, Non-GMO foods that are not certified organic are still full of pesticide, herbicide, and fungicides. The real-deal GMO foods are even worse not only for the mixing of the DNA of various species, something forbidden in the Holy Bible, but also because the foods contain even more of the pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, than the Non-GMO/Non-Organic foods.

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.

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Are you convinced no doctor can help you?

I suppose it is only natural to think the illness you are suffering is worse than anyone else, especially after you have seen many different types of doctors with no help.

When we do new patient consultations, people often will say, "Are you sure you have seen someone as bad as me?" Often the next question is, "What is your success rate?" Both are great questions.

In twenty years of specializing only in the treatment of the toughest cases of all types, it is almost impossible that we haven't seen as tough, if not tougher cases. Some of our patients have seen over a hundred different doctors of all types, often in multiple countries, many have been given only two weeks to live, yet lived years beyond.

The success rate question is more difficult to answer. As different as you look on the outside from everyone else in the world, so are you as different on the inside of your body. This is why even aspirin only works as a "cardio-protective" agent for one-third of the people. Two-thirds of the people taking aspirin to protect their heart, break down the aspirin differently and the aspirin is doing nothing to protect the heart.

Still, we must strive to answer the question as best as we can, especially when the internet is full of doctors and clinics claiming they have the answer for you.

How better to answer the question of just how good our healing techniques and treatment philosophy is than testing it out on people who have been declared, "incurable?" If you can help the people that no doctor has been able to even shift one symptom on, and do it in just two weeks, without prescriptions, and without thousands of dollars of special blood tests, and using only natural methods, that would be pretty significant! So that is what we did at the Hansa Center.

The Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas, did what is called an "Case Outcome Review" on 29 people who were verified to have previously non-responsive illnesses of any type. To be included their medical records had to prove that every treatment they had tried had failed to improve their condition and/or their symptoms had only gotten worse. Essentially all of the participants were proclaimed "incurable" by their previous doctors.

In summary each of the 29 people had an average of 13 major symptoms that had persisted an average of 11 years. It is amazing to realize in these twenty-nine people, the group had a total of 385 symptoms, but even more amazing is the diversity of types of symptoms. There were 145 different major symptoms in the group! (See the full report for a full list of the individual symptoms. Are your symptoms in the list?)

With the primary purpose of treatment to restore the optimum integrity and function to every tissue in the body, and the function of every system in the body, using only our innovative testing and treatments, here is how the group responded.

Out of the 385 symptoms in the group, at the end of just ONE WEEK of treatments, 71% of symptoms had improved! IN JUST TWO WEEKS of daily treatments (Monday through Friday), 85% of the symptoms were reported by the patients as improved!

You might say, "Improved is not saying much!" However remember, none of their symptoms had improved in eleven years, even with high-power prescription and natural treatments of all types.

Okay, it gets better...after just two weeks, literally on the last day of the two weeks, 45% of the group's major symptoms were reported as GONE! That is 174 symptoms in the group that were no longer there, not just improved, but gone.

It is amazing how rapidly things can shift when we stop treating the symptoms and effectively address the entirety of the body in these powerful, yet gentle treatments. It might surprise you to know that 110 symptoms were reported by the 29 patients as not there anymore after just the first 5 days of treatments. That is fast!

Just like there are many strains of microbes, there are many strains of people, you are unique in the universe. Our methods address your uniqueness. No "canned" treatment protocol will address your uniqueness. You are much more than just the label a doctor gave your illness. All illness is a breakdown of every system in the body. It is never just a bacterial, viral, mold, or other thing. Those things cannot thrive and cause disease in an optimally healthy body. Are they all a challenge to everyone, of course, but we are a living, eating, breathing microbial soup. It is not the absence of microbes that creates these dramatic changes in our patients. It is the restoration of health at every level and enabling the body learn to do the work that brings down the over-population of the bugs.

It has been reported that 88% of all conventional medicine treatments address an illness by seeking to suppress the symptoms through pharmaceutical drugs or invasive interventions. This is the definition of the Allopathic Medicine philosophy. Allopathic Medicine’s philosophy treats pain with pain-relievers, allergies with antihistamines, infections with antibiotics, depression with antidepressants, and so on. Due to the fact that the symptom suppression treatment never seeks to identify the interfering causative factors the best that can be hoped for with this philosophy is drug-dependence and remission of symptoms.

The results of this short case study demonstrate that it is possible to enable often rapid and dramatic improvements by seeking to restore the health and integrity of the whole organism. With the goal of true restoration of health, the patient does not need to continue with years of treatments, chasing every infection, or continue taking medicines, supplements, or remedies in order to continue feeling well. Share

Three-Letter Dirty Words that Sabotage Healing!

Beliefs are thoughts that live at the heart level. Whatever you think with conviction is what you truly believe. What you truly believe is often revealed by what follows three letter “dirty words.”

Never before in history has knowledge been so available to so many people. Many people now understand that thinking positive thoughts, memorizing truths, and speaking in positive ways are more powerful than wallowing in negativity.

While thinking and speaking positively is wonderful, they do not have the power to actually change your body's chemistry or manifest the desired positive situation. It is the things that living in the heart that have the power to change your health and your entire life.

Knowing the truth and actually living and doing the truth are two different things. What comes out of your mouth are the beliefs of your heart.

Knowing the truths that govern manifesting good things in life are often just head-knowledge that is constantly negated by the reality in that person’s heart. Heart-knowledge trumps head-knowledge.

An example of this is a person saying something positive to start with and then negating it with its complete opposite. This may sound like, “I am a very positive person, but my life is so stressful!”

The dirty, three-letter word here is “But.” All the “buts” of the world stink! Anything that follows a “but” stinks. The phrase, “I am a very positive person…” is what the person wants to believe and is negated by their real heart truth…after the “But”, that they see so much negativity in their life, manifesting by the phrase “…my life is so stressful!”

It doesn’t matter how positive this person talks. In their heart lives a very different reality.

Another dirty, three-letter word is the word, “try.”

To say “Try” gives the speaker permission not to fully commit to an action. When the word “Try” is used in regard to whether a person will do something, it provides the person with an escape clause. In over twenty years as a doctor, I knew if I asked a person if they are taking all of their recommended natural medicines, and their answer was, "I try", then I knew they were not. If they were, they would just say, "Yes!" Almost always the person was missing one or two doses everyday and wondering why they were still not feeling good.

The three-letter dirty word, “Try” is dirty because it sabotages the positive manifestation of what the person says they want to do, and liberates the person from taking full responsibility for doing it.

This is seen in a similar phrase to the last one, when someone says, “I will try to be positive all day.” There is a condition of the heart where a person must come to the decision to really “Do” what they say they will to do.

To get back to the very first sentences of this article, “Beliefs are thoughts that live at the heart level. Whatever you think with conviction is what you truly believe. What you truly believe is often revealed by what follows three letter “dirty words.”

The phrase, “I will try to be positive all day” reveals that the true belief is that they cannot and likely will not be positive all day. This person likely also believes that no one can really be positive all day, therefore, the person fluctuates in there positive stance with each passing moment and when confronted with new situations.

It requires a conscious decision and deep self-awareness to recognize where we are blocking the manifestation of what we want by using these “dirty” words.

Watch your thoughts and observe your speaking habits and align them with the truths you really desire. Write down what follows your "buts." Write down the sentence that you used the word, "try" in order to not really commit to something. Consider what heart truths are driving you to say these things and rewrite better truths upon your heart.

Speak from your heart with these new beliefs that you can and you will do! You will be amazed at how much more productive and powerful you will be in achieving your goals.

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Even if You Don't Drink, Alcohol Intolerance May be the Cause of Your Symptoms!

Many of your symptoms could actually be caused by alcohol intolerance, even if you don't drink! 

Everyone produces small amounts of endogenous (produced inside the body) alcohol due to gut fermentation*. Anyone with SIBO bacterial infections, such as H. Pylori essentially have a microbrewery in their gut as the bacteria produce ethanol. 

Typically, alcohol is produced and then rapidly removed from our systems through enzymatic activity via alcohol dehydrogenases (ADH) and acetaldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDH). Cytochrome P450(CYP2E1) and Catalase represent the major enzymes in the CNS that catalyze ethanol oxidation. CYP2E1 is expressed abundantly within the microsomes of certain brain cells and is localized to particular brain regions.

These enzymes are not the same as the common over-the-counter digestive enzyme supplements. ADH and ALDH be produced by the stomach lining and Cytochrome p450 in the liver.

Some individuals may have poorly functioning enzyme systems due to illness or may be genetically predisposed to the intoxicating effects of alcohol due to inadequate production of ADH or ALDH enzymes. 

For almost 25 years the Hansa Center for Optimum Health, in Wichita, Kansas has been a leader in adjunctive testing and treatment innovations for people suffering with what is supposed to be incurable and chronic illnesses. Almost all cases of chronic illness, whether just incurable headaches, pain, POTS, MS, ALS, or other serious illnesses have multiple interferences in the body's ability to produce adequate amounts of many key enzymes, whether from genetic/epigenetic mutations or chemical damage.

It is estimated that 1 billion people worldwide suffer from alcohol intolerance—an inability to safely digest and metabolize alcohol. With 7.3 billion people in the world, that means one in every seven people have this problem. I would estimate 75% of chronically ill people have this problem and almost 100% of people with chronic Lyme disease have it.

Findings published January 10, 2016 in the online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, suggest the possibility of treatment for those affected by the inactive enzyme. A new compound called Alda-1, may lead to treatments not only for alcohol intolerance but also to reduce the risk of heart disease. Unfortunately Alda-1 has only been tested on mice, and is not available yet and may not be for many years. This is why I have forged ahead to develop natural ways to do the same thing at the Hansa Center.

Alcohol intolerance, while not life threatening, can be the primary reason behind many lingering symptoms. It can manifest in people who do not drink, due to alternate sources of alcohol and acetaldehyde.  Many people with chronic illness complain of symptoms which are identical to the symptoms of a hangover or drunkenness.

Hangover symptoms are not directly due to the alcohol, but are due to acetaldehyde build up, which is the substance that alcohol breaks down into in the body. Acetaldehyde is 30 times more toxic than alcohol. A person with adequate amounts of ALDH2 enzyme can rapidly breakdown (metabolize) the acetaldehyde. 

A person who does not produce enough of this enzyme, cannot breakdown the byproduct of alcohol, acetaldehyde, and therefore suffers all the same symptoms of someone who drinks heavily. They are indeed, to a small or large degree, in a perpetual state of being hungover! And the symptoms are much worse if these people try to drink alcohol.

How many of these symptoms of alcohol intolerance do you have?

• Fatigue and weakness

• Thirst

• Headaches and muscle aches

• Nausea, vomiting or stomach pain

• Poor or decreased sleep

• Increased sensitivity to light and sound

• Dizziness or a sense of the room spinning

• Shakiness

• Decreased ability to concentrate

• Mood disturbances, such as depression, anxiety and irritability

• Rapid heartbeat

• Asthma, wheezing

• Rashes, flushing

• Heartburn

• Cognitive disturbances, brain fog


I have treated many chronically ill people who state that they cannot drink even one sip of wine or beer, without feeling like they drank a large amount. Many of these same people said they used to be able to drink alcohol with virtually no problems. This was my first indication that it might be worth my time to pursue ways to correct alcohol intolerance. If it was truly a genetic issue, then it is likely they would have never been able to consume alcohol without these problems. 

My thought was if I could repair the specific cells and tissues that produce these enzymes then the person's condition would dramatically improve. The nice thing about it, is that alcohol intolerance is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not, so there would be no argument of the results.

Often people's symptoms have been blamed on infections, when they were really due to alcohol intolerance from enzyme imbalances. Of course, the infections could have damaged the cells responsible for making these enzymes, however just killing the infections would not necessarily correct the enzyme production problems.

What I found was that when the Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase enzyme imbalances were corrected, as well as the Heme pathway in the body, which is responsible for making Cytochrome P450, another substance involved in completely metabolizing and detoxifying alcohol, that the symptoms and inability to drink normal amounts of alcohol or the ability to use alcohol-based remedies often improved dramatically.

The sensitivity to alcohol points to the fact that the tissues that produce the two primary enzymes necessary to properly metabolize alcohol, the stomach and the liver, have been damaged, possibly by medications. These include antibiotics, which are the dominant class of drug in this patient population, or other medications, not to mention damage and irritations to these tissues by environmental and microbial toxins.

Many theories have been presented as to why women** are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol than men. The dominant theory used to be that body mass is greater in men, making them more tolerant to alcohol. Research has now shown this to be incorrect, and that the primary reason is women produce less of the enzymes Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which can lead to 30% higher blood alcohol levels for the same amount of alcohol consumed as men.

Nutrients for improving alcohol metabolism are Lipospheric Glutathione, N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC), as well as vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, (Use a high potency B-Complex), and vitamin C, and minerals such as Molybdenum, Zinc, and Magnesium. The herb, Milk Thistle has been shown to be beneficial in liver regeneration from alcohol damage. While these nutrients can help with alcohol metabolism, almost all of the people we see with chronic illness take these nutrients and still have issues with alcohol. This is because without the actual two necessary enzymes, you will still not be able to break down the alcohol and acetaldehyde. This is not to say the above nutrients are not crucial, they definitely are very important to take.

The exciting news is that the doctors at the Hansa Center have developed innovative tests to challenge the patient's body in order to help determine if they are indeed deficient in these two vital enzymes, and then our doctors can test to determine what unique combination of nutrients, homeopathic remedies, and/or botanicals that the body needs in order to cause it to once again start producing the enzymes necessary to correctly metabolize alcohol. Unfortunately, no one has identified a "one-size fits all" solution, however once an individual solution is achieved, in combination with these nutrients, the body can once more tolerate alcohol.

Correcting these enzyme problems can possibly save your life and may be a determining factor in the mortality of people with heart attacks. Alcohol triggers production of the ALDH2 enzyme, and during heart attacks, this same enzyme can neutralize toxins and lessen possible damage to heart tissue. 

While still a recent innovation at the Hansa Center, this knowledge has led our doctors to develop new tests and natural treatments to target the body's ability to once again manufacture the enzymes. Although anecdotal, with more lab analysis needed to be performed to verify this improvement in enzyme production is occurring, the results for some of our patients seems to verify the suspicion. It is our desire to find a standardized formula or set of treatments that can be easily taught to healthcare professionals.

The following testimony is from one of our first Hansa patients to be tested and treated in this new way:

"While in college I was in a sorority, and I went out a lot and drank pretty heavily. I always seemed more affected by the alcohol than my friends. I would often get sick and the morning after partying was particularly hard with tons of hangover symptoms. After graduating from college and entering the workforce I would just drink socially, a few drinks a week, with the predictable buzz that one would expect. 

In 2009 I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and coinfections and was put on several types of antibiotics. It felt like each of these about killed me, with a cascade of horrible symptoms. I began to feel like I was hungover all of the time and even one sip of beer or wine made my arms and legs feel super heavy, my brain fog would be awful, I would get flu-like symptoms, and a terrible headache. These were symptoms that I was experiencing all the time since starting the antibiotics, but with the alcohol they were dramatically worse. 

It isn't that I wanted to drink and get drunk, but after years of suffering and being very restricted in life activities and diet, I just wanted to enjoy a drink once in awhile.

In 2010 I found the Hansa Center, after having to quit working and being essentially bedridden. Within the first two weeks of treatment I was 75% better in almost all my symptoms. I even came home and was able to start jogging again. I had lost all but 10 foods that I could eat, and after the next two trips to the Hansa Center I could eat anything I wanted. I could even eat seafood, which I was anaphylactic to since childhood! I have now eaten crab, shrimp, lobster, clams, and fish of all kinds with no problems. 

The alcohol problems remained however until Dr. Jernigan tested me and gave me remedies to help my body start producing more of the enzymes my body needed to handle it. He asked me to go home and challenge the body to produce the enzymes by drinking a beer...something I definitely wanted to do, but I must admit, I was scared to do! The logic of pushing the body to do what we were asking it to do made some sense though, so I did it. 

I went home and took a swallow of my favorite beer and waited a bit for the usual symptoms to show up. THEY DIDN'T! I drank a few more swallows and started crying...tears of relief!

I can now drink a beer and enjoy a glass of wine with no problems. Many of my "normal" symptoms, I now know were caused by problems from the alcohol my body produced from the action of yeast in my gut. 

I can't thank Dr. Jernigan, and the doctors and the staff at the Hansa Center for constantly pushing the boundaries of healing science to help get people out of the prison their life has become. I highly recommend that if you have any type of illness that your doctors cannot figure out, that you give the Hansa Center a try!"

Other potential causes of alcohol symptoms:

• Red Wine is high in Histamine, and contains up to 200% more histamine than white wine, which can increase allergy symptoms, especially in people with Histamine Intolerance. (HIT) New "Low-Histamine" red wines are recently being introduced that promise fewer headaches and symptoms.

• Preexisting nut allergies can be aggravated by nut flavored drinks, such as Amaretto which uses almonds.

• Sulfur dioxide, and sulfites in wines and microbrew beer can increase asthma symptoms and cause headaches. Consider taking Molybdenum to increase production of sulfite oxidase from the liver to help breakdown sulfites. I am excited to be one of the first to announce a new product on the market. It is called Ullo, and is a unique filter that will remove all the sulfites from even the most expensive wines, without adding anything to the wine or taking any of the flavor or aroma out of the wine! I could not believe how much chemical taste there was in wine from the sulfites until I tried a before and after test the inventor had me try.  Check it out at https://ullowine.com

• Wheat, rye, barley, and oats all contain gluten, which many people are allergic to. Often these are used in beer and malted drinks, like vodka, gin, whiskey, and bourbon.

An estimated 40 percent of people of East Asian descent, have a genetic mutation that produces an inactive form of the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2), which is responsible for breaking down the toxic alcohol, Acetaldehyde.

*Addressing yeast and mold overgrowth, if a factor, is necessary to help eliminate these sources of alcohol and acetaldehyde, not to mention the mycotoxins that damage the stomach lining and liver that produce the enzymes ADH and ALDH. 

**An additional factor for women is hormone differences from men. Research suggests that the menstrual cycle and the use of any medication that affects the liver (because of the change in hormones) may intensify a woman’s response to alcohol. Women have been shown to develop their highest blood alcohol concentrations immediately before menstruating, and their lowest on the first day of menstruation.

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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