By Dr. David Jernigan:
In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there are many theories as to the cause.
Some say it is the effects of heavy metal and chemical toxicity. Some
say it is chronic infections, while others say it is the side-effects
from vaccines and the use of suppressive medicines such as
acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen, still others say it is
dysregulated hormones or the effects of emotional trauma.
It this author’s opinion everyone is correct in the same way as the
proverbial three blind men describing an elephant from the head, tail,
and the side are correct in each one’s description but only from his
unique vantage point. However, in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome there is one
common overriding finding…low body temperature!
This article deals primarily with the very predictable problems seen in
low body temperature and the profound importance of restoring and
maintaining normal core body temperature. T
his is true not just in
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but in every degenerative disease of our day.
Your core body temperature is the temperature taken under the tongue.
When human physiology books refer to the “normal” core body temperature
it is presented as a range sometimes listed between 97.0-99.0°F .
Understand that the “Normal Range” for temperature or even the normal
ranges in blood tests are based upon the average person of our day. That
is why “normal” changes periodically, because as our average population
continues to get sicker the normal ranges must be adjusted. So in this
discussion I am speaking about what is an optimal core body temperature –
98.6-99.6°F.
Much emphasis in conventional medicine is usually placed upon feverish
conditions; however, a low body temperature can be a much more sinister
condition. Where a fever can be viewed as an active developmental and
corrective process of the healthy body, a low body temperature can never
be viewed as a normal or healthy condition, nor is it a mechanism for a
learning or developmental process in the body.
A low body temperature creates a happy home for viruses and chronic infections, and is a sign of degeneration and gradual cellular death. The problem with a low core temperature is that no effective immune response can be mounted therefore no fever is generated and infections go undetected. The sickest person is one who gets the same infections
but never miss a day of work because there is no response by their
immune system, so they have a false sense of wellness as healthier
individuals go through healthy fevers and immune responses that may
cause them to miss work.
Low body temperature is the plague of the 21st century. People with low
body temperature have a weak reaction to even the most ideal medicines
and therapies.
As the body’s core temperature decreases all cellular energy also
decreases thereby leading to profound and chronic fatigue that is not
relieved by sleep.
The effects of low temperature:
The cooperative and collective intelligence of the human organism is
short-circuited as the body temperature cools. As a result, all cellular
functions decrease. There is a decrease in the production of all
hormones, neurotransmitters, and other body chemicals necessary for
healthy regulation of energy.
In this mild hypothermia condition there is an increased susceptibility
to infectious disease as temperature drops the acidity of the body
increases and the normally predominantly negative polarity of the cells
become more positively charged.
The colder the body becomes the more prone to depression and other
psychological abnormalities and all degenerative illnesses of the body,
mind and spirit.
Until the causes of the lowered temperature are addressed and corrected,
the best that can be hoped for is only temporary or mild improvement of
symptoms and a gradual but steady overall decline in health.
Viruses prefer and promote a cold environment and replicate at a much
more rapid rate when the body is cold. Viruses are killed and further
replication is impeded by maintaining a warm body.
Some bacteria such as
Lyme spirochetes also prefer and promote a cold environment and can
remain in a chronic state as long as their cold environment is
maintained. Therefore, in the interest of the prevention and treatment of any viral, bacterial, or chronic illness, this topic must be understood.
The ultimate body coldness is seen in death. When observing a corpse
many clinical gems can be gleaned and correlated to degenerative states
of human suffering. In death, the blood and lymph fluid of the body
solidify and the body becomes stiff and cold.
In the same way many
chronic cold illnesses such as, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, cancer,
Lyme disease, Multiple Sclerosis, diabetes, and heart disease, we see
that the body becomes progressively colder. As the body cools, the
electrical oscillations of the fluids in the body slow down and there is
a shift in the body’s polarity which promotes infectious microbes and
cancer.
We can see the same principle of what happens in the body by observing
the same dynamics in a water molecule. When the electrical oscillations
of a water molecule slows down it becomes a solid, ice, as we speed up a
water molecule’s electrical oscillations it liquefies and ultimately
becomes a vapor.
The colder a body becomes, the slower the electrical oscillatory rate
and therefore the thicker, more viscous, or syrupy the body fluids
become. The more viscous the fluids become the more difficult it is for
the body to push the fluids through the body. The lymph fluids that are
normally supposed to bathe the outsides of all of your cells become
progressively stagnant as it is too thick to move efficiently.
Now, consider the fact that just like your skin is constantly dying and
flaking off and being replaced, so it is that every cell in your body is
in a constant state of dying and being replaced. Only now the cold,
syrupy lymph fluid cannot wash the dead cellular debris away. As a
result the body becomes a toxic waste dump!
Muscles normally have a high demand for energy. Through contraction and
relaxation muscles assist in eliminating their own cellular waste
products. In a cold body however, the liquidity of the fluids inside of
the muscles is gone, and the muscles cannot move the toxins and cellular
debris.
The deeper you go into belly or center of the muscle, the colder and
more difficult it is to move the toxins. Without normal viscosity of the
body fluids, muscular contraction and relaxation grinds to a halt, like
an engine with no lubricating oil. The belly of the muscle develops a
knot that can be felt when massaging the muscle. This is the knotted,
painful, muscle condition commonly known as “trigger points” of
Fibromyalgia Syndrome, which is being diagnosed in millions of people
every year.
If the low body temperature is allowed to persist and no therapies are
applied, even in a palliative manner as in massages to move toxins
manually out of the belly of the muscle, the condition follows that of
the water molecule. The belly of the muscle, due to the increasing
coldness and decreased muscular activity progressively over time reaches
the point of zero electrical oscillations at which time the tissue
solidifies in a calcified stone in the belly of the muscle.
Interesting research that supports this concept has been performed by
Dr. Carolyn McMakin, D.C. using the electro-therapy called microcurrent.
The microcurrent is applied through direct contact on these trigger
points via vinyl/graphite gloves connected to the microcurrent machine.
The trigger points virtually vanish under the gentle touch of the glove
when applying the correct electrical frequency. What may be happening
here is that the stimulation of the muscle through microcurrent is
externally increasing the electrical oscillatory rate of the thickened
fluids in the muscle resulting in temporarily restoring the normal
liquidity of the fluids allowing the muscles to once again contract and
pump out the toxic accumulation.
The results are somewhat temporary due to the fact that the underlying
condition that created it in our scenario, the overall low body
temperature, remains unchanged. However, used in combination with
various other corrective measures, this microcurrent therapy can speed
healing in many cases. Relief of Fibromyalgia Through Microcurrent
Therapy by John W. Addington ImmuneSupport.com 7-11-2001
Organ Circuits and low temperature
The body is set up with dedicated electrical circuits all of which are
interdependent and interconnected. A circuit in the body has a specific
organ, gland, teeth, muscle, and nerves. If anything goes wrong in one
of these organ circuits the circuit energy goes down approximately 60%
of normal.
The laws of thermodynamics state if we decrease energy we decrease
temperature. Due to the interconnectedness of all the circuits, one
circuit in the body cannot go down without ultimately affecting the
whole.
Therefore, if the muscle is seizing up and becoming progressively rigid
and solidified, what do you suppose the organ that is also on that same
electrical circuit is doing? It is likely that to some degree it is also
progressively seizing up and solidifying.
In the 50,000 miles of blood vessels, the cold thick blood is more
difficult to flow through the veins and arteries. Arteriosclerosis, the
progressive hardening of the arteries, and the clogging of the blood
vessels is manifesting the exact same problem that is being experienced
by every tissue in the too cold body.
Edema in the extremities is seen as the muscular walls of the blood
vessels seize up and can no longer maintain tone and the fluids leaks
out of the pores in the vessels.
I look at many older patients, and some not so old, who are experiencing
all the signs and symptoms of death in the extremities. They are dying
in their extremities first, from the feet and hands up to legs to the
torso. To touch their feet is just like touching an icy, stiff, dead
corpse. The foot is deathly whitish blue and etched in blue/black blood
vessels from devitalized, stagnant blood.
The overcooling of peripheral blood returning from cold legs and feet
causes depression of the temperature in the vital organs with slowing of
metabolic processes, particularly in the brain and medullary centers.
Cotran R.S., Kumar V., Robbins S.L., Robbin’s Pathological Basis of
Disease 4th ed. 1989 pp501. Death occurs when a vital organ reaches the
point of being too cold.
Your physician can name your disease, he can call it cancer, he can draw
your blood and show you everything that is wrong with it, but he is
simply describing the process I have just outlined. When the core
temperature of the body is cold every organ, gland, and tissue is
affected and becomes hypo-functional or may even become hyper, as in the
case of hyperthyroidism, in a last ditch effort to compensate for the
hypothermic condition of the body.
Hypo-function in the body means that there are fewer hormones, and less
of every chemical involved with normal body and brain function. Even the
psyche is affected leading to virtually any type of psychological
problem, especially depression. How many people are told that they have
psychological depression from a deficiency of a certain brain chemical?
Many!
Can you see that of course they are deficient in “happy” brain chemicals possibly due to the overcooling of the body?
It might be said that you are dying in direct proportion to the coldness
of your body. Follow this logic: Cells degenerate and die in direct
proportion to the depletion of oxygen. Blood that is overcooled from a
cold core temperature is too thick to efficiently carry oxygen and the
lung vital capacity is reduced leading to shallow breathing.
This means that the oxygen to carbon dioxide exchange rate in the lungs
is minimal. Now combine the degenerative effects of the oxygen
deprivation and the cold temperature and the fact that all of this and
the overgrowth of microbes promote an acidic environment and you have
greatly accelerated cellular degeneration and the onset of
life-threatening disease.
There is an optimum body temperature is which all chemical reactions in
the human body need in order to maintain health...98.6° F. I can
honestly say that I rarely see a new patient come into my clinic with a
normal body temperature. One 66 year old woman came in as a new patient
with a temperature of 94.6! She was in dire straits for certain. She
could not feel her feet and to touch her legs was like touching the legs
of a corpse, the legs even looked dead and grey, streaked with
blue/black veins of stagnant devitalized blood.
In classic hypothermia, as seen in people stranded in blizzards, it is
well known that the circulation of blood in the arms and legs is reduced
dramatically, almost to zero, in order to provide protection and warmth
to the vital organs. These people will also cease to feel cold and will
experience numbness, loss of coordination, mental confusion, and heart
rhythm problems. It sounds like I am describing many elderly people, and
some cancer sufferers doesn’t it?
One way to treat weather related hypothermia is to give the person warm
sugar drinks. Sugar is a cheap, fast burning fuel for your body and
therefore generates a lot of heat in the process. This may be why so
many people suffering from lifestyle induced cold core temperature are
plagued with sugar cravings.
Many of them consume copious amounts of sugar in the form of soda pops,
chocolate, pastries, and various candies. It may be a craving that is
driven by the body’s desire to generate fast heat to keep the body
functioning.
Sugar cravings should diminish as the core body temperature problems are resolved.
Keep in mind that the body has been too cold possibly since birth, due
to multi-generational use of suppressive medicines, vaccines,
fever-reducers, heavy metal and chemical toxins, and from the
consumption of energetically dead food.
The retraining and resetting of the body’s thermostat is just the
beginning of healing the body of chronic illnesses. The normal body
temperature must be held steady possibly for a year or more in some
cases before the body can undo the damage of a lifetime of coldness.
Understanding your Temperature
Everyone can afford a simple thermometer. Track your temperature when
you first awaken in the morning, before even getting out of bed. This
reflects your core body temperature, when it is not being influenced by
what you just ate, drank, or your activity level. Many of you will
likely be surprised to see just how cold you already are. This is the
result of generations of suppressive therapies and an imbalanced life.
You must save yourself.
Many doctors will undoubtedly say that you need to take a thyroid
medication to bring up the body temperature; however this is the same
mentality of taking a Tylenol for a headache. If you don’t believe me
then ask anyone on the prescription thyroid medicines- what happens when
they go off of the medication? The body returns immediately to the
previous cold, hypo-functional condition.
One should definitely support the normal functioning of the thyroid, by
detoxification, organic iodine, adrenal glandular supplements, and
nutritional support, but see the coldness for what it really is, a sign
of multi-organ system breakdown, and longstanding or even generational
imbalance. Besides, it is the hypothalamus that regulates your core body
temperature, along with regulating your degree of motivation and sex
drive. The hypothalamus is actually “upstream” from your thyroid,
helping the pituitary regulate the thyroid.
The healthy body has daily temperature fluctuations (diurnal) with the
coolest temperature upon awakening in the morning hours of 6-8 a.m. and
the warmest being in the evening between 8-10 p.m. Tracking of the
difference between morning and evening temperature should reveal, in a
healthy person, a difference of at
least 0.9° F (0.5° C).
People with a low body temperature and an overall degenerative condition
will find that this temperature variation is minimal. Another unusual
finding of
dysregulated body temperature is that the evening is often
colder than the morning reading.
The body’s best chance at long-term healing increases in direct
proportion to the restoration of normal body temperature. The effect of
even the most perfectly selected medicines is limited by the available
energy in the body to correctly utilize those medicines.
You and your healthcare team must address your body from every direction
and with every balancing tool available. You can never truly overcome
this condition with pills. Therapies must engage and reactivate and
stimulate the rhythmical, metabolic, and nerve/sense aspects of your
body, addressing the body, mind, and spirit.
Other supporting therapies designed for restoring the rhythms of the
body must be applied. These therapies might include color and sound
therapy, hot and cold contrast therapy, life-activity planning,
breathing and voice therapy, rhythmical massage therapy, curative
movement therapies, and indeed every other treatment from your doctor
will address in some way the rhythmical aspects of your body.
Low body temperature must be addressed to bring the body back to
balance. The temperature must be elevated to end the dying process of
the body and to help the body eliminate the cellular debris or the
“sludge” in the body.
Treatment:
· Temperature monitoring and graphing (upon awakening before getting out
of bed, and between 8-10 pm after a 30 minute resting period)
· CRT (Computerized Regulation Thermography) for identifying problem areas and tracking of progress.
· Core Warmth™ herbal formula (Hansa Healing Products, Inc.) to open all
meridians and restore proper fluid dynamics and warmth regulation in
the body.
·
Sleep on an Amethyst Infrared BioMat, provides
detoxification and restoration of fluid viscosity and core body warmth
through variable infrared heat and negatively-charged ions from amethyst
crystals.
advantages that conventional sauna treatments are unable to match.