Alternative Health Improvement Center (AHIC) delivers natural, non-invasive techniques to help patients with chronic (stuck or stubborn) health problems.
Watch the video to hear an explanation of our approach to handling chronic health problems:
Our approach is unique in many ways among medical and alternative health practices in helping patients recover their health and quality of life:
Our purpose is to help patients fully recover from stubborn health problems and to prevent these issues from coming back. At the same time we work to help the person improve their health so that their quality of life and stability of health are improved (often dramatically). We don’t treat a patient a few times to help them feel a bit better for awhile. Patients come to us to help them resolve the causes of their problems.
Weaccept only those patients who are qualified to get a complete result. Patients are initially tested to find the main stresses preventing their bodies from healing. We then use a 4-step process to determine if a patient is a good candidate for our programs. Despite the fact that most of our patients have long-term and often severe problems that have not resolved with many attempts by multiple doctors, we are able to accept almost 70% of the cases we review.
Our programs are designed to handle the patient’s full health condition to a stable, final result. Patients do an individualized natural health improvement program, including multiple treatment techniques along with diet and lifestyle consulting and education.
Our goal with every patient is to return their bodies to a self-healing condition and end the active phase of their treatment program as rapidly as possible. We educate patients to allow them to take over the job of maintaining a stable, healthy life. Our goal is to complete your active treatment program as rapidly as possible.
We specialize in difficult cases that have not responded well to medical or alternative treatments. We have numerous tools and protocols to handle really difficult or “impossible” cases that have resisted all previous efforts.
Patients are always fully informed about all aspects of their treatment programs. You’ll know what results to expect, how long it is likely to take to achieve this, and what you’ll have to do to get there. There is never any mystery about time, diet and lifestyle changes or finance.
Sometimes people are skeptical that assisting the body to heal itself could work when millions of dollars of advanced medical technology have failed.However, patients are often amazed as they experience the power that their own body has to heal itself.
Our question to skeptical patients is, “Is it OK with you to use non-medical techniques as long as this works?” If your answer to this question would be “You bet it is!” then you won’t be prevented from recovering your health by traditional medicine’s fixed ideas that they have the only valid treatments in existence.
Patients find that with us they get stable RESULTS instead of just a diagnosis or explanation of why they aren’t getting well.
Some observations in this area:
In the final analysis, only the body can rebuild its tissue and repair its function to get back to a state of normal health. It is an accepted medical fact that drugs and surgical techniques work by making it easier for the body to heal itself and by themselves can do nothing.
You may not be familiar with the effectiveness of our approach because health care in the United States has increasingly fallen under the influence of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, politically powerful lobbying organizations and the government. There has been a long-term effort to convince the public that the only way to be "healthy" is to take more and more expensive drugs and have (frequently needless) expensive surgeries. The cost of this is hidden in "health insurance" which is paid for in lowered wages by employees (you!), but presented as a "benefit." To allow the truth about the body's own ability to heal itself to be “officially validated” is perceived by the status quo to be damaging to their system.
Our approach to health improvement is results-based. Patients come here to get their health problems handled and continue their treatment programs only because they are getting the results they want.
Patients actually get well, not just “feel better.” People experience improvement in their symptoms because of reduced stress on the body’s systems. As the body recovers its ability to heal and gets these damaged systems under better control, symptoms naturally lessen and vanish. With our techniques, symptoms improve only because the body is actually healing and improving in health, not because we’re temporarily covering up the symptoms.
Medical treatment is designed to bypass the body and force changes to occur that the body would otherwise not be able to accomplish at all, or in a shorter period of time than normal. We are not “anti-medical.” Used properly in an emergency situation, medicine can save lives or dramatically decrease the time a person suffers. It’s only when medical treatment is used to handle chronic (long-term or not-healing) problems that can only be resolved by the body healing itself that it becomes truly ineffective.
Because none of our treatment techniques are damaging, dangerous or even invasive in any way, it makes sense to use techniques designed to assist your body to heal itself FIRST, and only resort to dangerous and potentially damaging drugs and surgeries last. It’s often not possible to reverse the effects of taking drugs or having surgery, so why would this be a person’s first choice?(back to top)
Treatment Program Information
Our Case Director (Dr. Melodie Billiot) personally oversees all patient treatment programs—from the initial visit to ending active care with a maintenance program.
Your personalized natural health improvement program at this clinic is the responsibility of an organized group of highly qualified and trained professionals, not just a single doctor.
By combining the technical skill and observational abilities of our doctors and technical staff with Dr. Billiot’s personal supervision as Case Director, we are able to maintain a much higher degree of control and predictability on our patients than would otherwise be possible.
Your patient program is an exact series of steps programmed just for you by the Case Director, based on tests, examination and evaluation of your case. The program is written up by the Case Director, put in the patient’s folder and is used by the doctors to know exactly what steps to take with that patient. Your program is updated and adjusted as often as needed to keep you making the best possible progress.
Getting anyone’s body to regain its ability to heal itself can be a fairly complex process. It is not unusual at all to have a patient hit a slow point, or experience a temporary worsening of a symptom. If this situation does not improve shortly just by continuing the patient’s normal program, the patient may be put on a special program to handle whatever situation is causing the slow in progress.
There are two reasons why we go to such great lengths to organize our treatment programs:
More than one half of our patients are “medical failure” cases, often these patients have tried everything both medically and alternatively and have failed to get well. These could be legitimately called “impossible cases.” It does take extraordinary techniques to get these patients to respond well and recover their health.
As a result of our many years of experience successfully helping “impossible cases,” we have developed programs with exact, expected outcomes from each step of the program. We don’t treat patients on a “try and see if it works” basis. Because we operate this way, even our easier cases recover much more quickly.(back to top)
Treatment Techniques Used
AHIC patients are not just “treated,” they are instead tested, interviewed and then given an individual customized health improvement program. A treatment program may include several different treatment techniques custom-blended to assist the body to heal in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Important Note: The owners and practitioners at AHIC do not endorse all the techniques or opinions espoused by the various researchers we have studied to develop our treatment techniques. It is possible (and common) for a researcher to develop several techniques, some useful and some not. Similarly, we do not recommend every product from the supplement suppliers we use.
All our recommendations and treatments are based on research and practical experience. Please keep these facts in mind if you follow the links provided to research and supplement supplier web sites.
Clinical nutrition is using exact testing techniques and food supplements to give the body the materials and tools it needs to rebuild cells and heal. We use close to 1,000 different supplements from dozens of suppliers in the US, Europe and Australia. Listed below are some of our most commonly-recommended product suppliers:
Many whole-food nutritional products we use are from natural food sources grown on a 1000-acre organic farm in Palmyra, Wisconsin by Standard Process (established in 1929) the largest supplier of whole-food based supplements in the world.
See http://standardprocess.com.
One of our primary suppliers of functional supplements (these are designed to assist body function, such as homeopathics) is Energetix, headquartered in Dahlonega, Georgia and in the UK. See http://goenergetix.com.
Supplements we use as “tools” to assist the body to deal with challenges from environmental and toxic problems are made by Systemic Formulas. This company uses herbs and other plants from the entire globe to create specialized products.
See http://systemicformulas.com.
Supplements designated as “drainage” assist the body to handle toxins using normal detoxification channels and without creating detoxification stress. A leading manufacturer of drainage formulas is Marco Pharma of Germany.
See http://marcopharma.net.
Another supplier of “drainage” formulas is HVS Laboratories, a US company that makes water-based drainage supplements for many very specific types of toxicity. See http://hvslabs.com.
Herbs can work with the body as “smart” supplements, helping to raise energy levels in exact places and ways that can allow healing to take place. One of the highest-quality suppliers of herbal remedies on the planet is MediHerb of Australia.
See http://mediherb.com.
Pleomorphic supplements are extremely specific tools to assist the body in coping with problems of an acute nature. Only tiny amounts of liquid are used, making this an ideal solution for infants and small children. These supplements are manufactured by a German pharmaceutical company that specializes in homeopathic remedies.
See http://sanum.com.
Heart Rate Variability testing is computer evaluation of the autonomic nervous system to determine how well your body is functioning and its capacity to heal. We also use this test to screen for neurologic abnormalities that can prolong or prevent the body from healing itself. Because this test is non-invasive, takes only 15 minutes and is very inexpensive to run, we use it extensively as an objective measure of patient progress. (back to top)
See http://www.nervexpress.com).
ART "Autonomic Response Testing" is a technique for testing the autonomic nervous system using the body's own reflexes. We apply this testing for the purpose of identifying the exact supplements that will assist a patient’s body to heal (“Clinical Nutrition”).
ART was developed by Dietrich Klinghardt MD, PhD as a testing system for the medical technique of Neural Therapy. Dr. Klinghardt researched the testing techniques originally developed in 1964 by Dr. George Goodheart, applying modern physiology to the previously mysterious subject of “muscle testing.” This research made possible a giant leap forward in the accurate and detailed evaluation of health conditions and provided the basis for Drs. Freddie Ulan and Lester Bryman to develop the modern evaluation technique of Nutrition Response Testing (see below). See http://www.klinghardtneurobiology.com/art.htm.
Nutrition Response Testing is an evaluation (testing) technique optimized for clinical nutrition. Based on Autonomic Response Testing (see “ART” above) this technique takes efficiency and effectiveness to a new high.
AACT ("Advanced Allergy Clearing Technique") is a method of assisting the body to desensitize itself of allergies and other issues that block nervous system communication channels. The technique is based on acupressure; we use a cold laser to stimulate acupuncture points on the body during treatment. The treatment is completely non-invasive, involves no discomfort and minimal reactions.
Our theory of allergies and sensitivities is that some bodies misidentify substances that are harmless as toxic, or tiny amounts of toxic substances as overwhelming. AACT assists the body to reevaluate these substances and stop the misidentification.
The most common symptoms of patients we have tested as having allergies are joint pain, brain fog (concentration, memory and mental lethargy), fatigue, digestive problems and immune issues. Allergies are commonly found in children with behavior and learning problems and such diverse issues as bed wetting.
With some help in eliminating allergies, patients have often recovered from even seemingly disrelated problems such as menstrual, thyroid, weight and even blood pressure. (back to top)
BBR (“Body Balance Restoration”) is a method of helping the body to recover from the effects of very specific toxins that can block or alter communication in the hormone and nervous systems. This is an acupressure technique (we use mechanical pressure and cold laser to stimulate acupuncture points).
BBR has protocols to help the body repair itself from specific toxic issues:
Blood Sugar
Menstrual / Menopause
Prostate
Kidney/Fluid
Heart
Immune
Liver / Digestive
Thyroid
Adrenal
Patients are treated using BBR when evaluation tests that the body has become imbalanced by toxic triggers such as metals, viruses, bacteria, funguses, endocrine disruptors, solvents, medication and dental material residues, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, toxic chemicals, etc. By bringing the body’s attention to the interaction of an exact location with an exact toxic trigger, we assist it to compensate and rebalance the area.
Dietary recommendations advice is specific to the patient, one diet doesn't fit all. Our recommendations are designed to fit into a busy lifestyle and are based more on education than lists of do's and don'ts. We work with patients on a step-by-step basis as little or as much as necessary to bring about a healthy enough diet to allow our treatment programs to work.
Lab testing is used to obtain specific information in areas where other evaluation techniques would be less accurate. (back to top)
Types of Health Problems We Have Had Success With
Patients usually come to us as a last resort. As you might expect, most people go to a medical doctor when they have a health problem, often with successful results. It’s only after realizing (often after a long and frustrating effort) that their problems are not going to resolve with more drugs and surgeries, and that the overall situation has done nothing but worsen under medical care that people begin to look for an alternative.
Patients who are told by their doctors that “nothing is wrong” even though they have severe symptoms is another common case we see a lot. Often these patients are put on psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, etc.) by their doctors because “it’s in your head, you’re depressed.” It’s interesting that in a large number of these cases (many hundreds) that the symptoms resolve and the person gets off the drugs.
Therefore, the types of health problems we see are typically those problems that traditional medicine doesn’t handle well:
Hormone imbalances of all kinds; menstrual problems of almost every variety, menopause problems, thyroid, adrenal, prostate, pituitary and pancreas issues.
Digestive problems: gas, bloating, heartburn, reflux, diarrhea, constipation, cramping, alternating diarrhea and constipation, burning stomach, gallbladder problems, etc.
Fertility problems: often fertility issues have as a basic cause that the body just isn’t healthy enough to get pregnant. For example, a person under a lot of chronic stress for a long time will be in adrenal “resistance” phase with high cortisol levels, decreasing fertility. This shows on a simple lab test, but there is no medical solution.
Fatigue (low energy to debilitation exhaustion), sleep (can’t get to sleep, wakes in the night and can’t get back to sleep, not rested in the mornings, not functional in the mornings, sleep too much, falls asleep during the day or while working or driving), depression and lethargy (both mental and physical).
Emotional issues: irritable and moody, lack of interest in life, anxious, panic attacks, worries incessantly, fear of something terrible happening, mood swings, learning and concentration problems, hyperactive and fidgety.
Pain: back, neck, hip, buttocks, leg pain. Arthritic-type pain in joints and hands, headaches, general muscle pain (fibromyalgia type pain).
Diet problems: sugar, carb, salt and junk food cravings, can’t stop eating, eats too little, no appetite, eating disorders.
Children’s problems: “ADD” and “ADHD” type symptoms, allergies, picky eaters, bed wetting, behavior problems (such as hyperactive), weight problems, puberty menstrual problems, rashes, dark eye circles, sinus and ear problems, sick a lot.
Sinus problems and allergies: sinus headaches, constant congestion and post-nasal drip, sore throat, cough, chronic chest tightness, blows nose constantly, red or itchy eyes, hives, swollen lips. Asthma-type breathing problems.
Urinary problems: frequent urination, incomplete voiding, up during the night.
Blood sugar problems: irritable, moody and shaky when hungry. Has to eat constantly. Weight gain, frequent urination, numbness in extremities.
Weight problems: weight gain or can’t lose from chronic health conditions (thyroid, adrenal, liver, ovaries). Weight from diet problems (sugar cravings, increased appetite, eats when stressed). Overall health improvement: increased feelings of well-being, less illness, more energy, better concentration and memory, greater ability to handle stress, less worry or concern about health. Often-reported minor problems that have improved: hair loss, facial hair (women), thin, ridged or brittle nails, dry skin, acne, eyesight, nail fungus, general joint pain, gum disease.
*NOTE: Reports of results are based entirely on patient experiences as reported to us in success stories and during periodic progress interviews and are not claims of treatment outcomes. Cases are different and results vary, the only way to know if your particular problems will resolve is to give your body every chance to heal and observe the results. (back to top)
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Disclaimer: Advanced Allergy Clearing Technique ("AACT") and Nutrition Response Testing ("NRT") are not methods of preventing, diagnosing, treating, healing, relieving or curing symptoms, disease or medical conditions of any kind.
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