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Healing Is Voltage
Handbook
JERRY TENNANT, MD, MD(H), PSCD, FOUNDER OF THE TENNANT INSTITUTE
FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
HEALING IS VOLTAGE HANDBOOK
To understand voltage in the body, one must understand the term “pH”. When you think
about voltage in a copper wire, the switch is either on or off and electrons are either
moving through the wire or not. However in a liquid, you have the possibility of the
solution to be an electron donor or an electron stealer.
To measure the voltage of a liquid, one must use a special “voltmeter” called a pH
meter. Such a meter measures both the voltage and whether it is an electron donor or
an electron stealer. The software will then convert it to a logarithmic scale called pH.
The scale ranges from zero to 14. A pH of zero is a synonym of +400 millivolts of
electron stealer and -400 millivolts of electron donor is a synonym of a pH of 14.
As you will see, cells are designed to run at a voltage of -20 to -25 millivolts. This is the
same as saying that cells must run in an environment of a pH of 7.35 to 7.45 (different
sources vary slightly, so don’t get lost about whether it is -17 or -20 millivolts and
whether a pH of zero is +400 or +420 millivolts).
Intracellular is the term that describes inside the cell (Intra). Extracellular is the term
that describes outside the cell (Extra).
Intracellular pH
All cells contain an intracellular fluid whose pH value is known as the intracellular pH
(pHi). The pHi plays a critical role in the function of the cell, and close regulation is
required for cells to survive. There are numerous mechanisms that can cause pHi to
change, including metabolic acid production, leakage of acid across plasma and
organelle membranes and membrane transport processes. The mechanisms that
regulate pHi are usually considered to be plasma membrane transporters of which two
main types exist — those independent of HCO3− and those requiring HCO3−. The
normal extracellular pH is 7.4±0.1. (~-25 millivolts)
Intracellular pH is around 6.8 (~1.0 mV) due to acid production. It contains low HCO3−
levels and thereby at pCO2 above 45 mmHg, the pH can not be 7.4 (~_25 mV)but much
lower. The intercellular pH of HEK cells (HEK 293) (Human Embryonic Kidney cells
used in laboratory experiments) is 7.3.
In the pH range between 6.8 and 7.4, lymphocytes maintain a constant internal pH of
7.17± 0.06 (~-20 mV) pH unit. Out side this range, intracellular pH changes with
extracellular pH.
Extracellular pH
Extracellular fluid (ECF) or extracellular fluid volume (ECFV) usually denotes all body
fluid outside of the cells. The remainder is called intracellular fluid..
In some animals, including mammals, the extracellular fluid can be divided into two
major subcompartments, interstitial fluid and blood plasma. The extracellular fluid also
includes the transcellular fluid, which comprises about 2.5 percent of the ECF.
Many are confused about the voltage of cells because they remember the voltage
reading if you put an electrode inside the cell and one outside the cell and measure the
“transmembrane potential. Of course our cells in our body are not in a petri dish to
measure this potential. Our cells are designed to work in an environment of -20 to -25
millivolts even though the transmembrane potential may be as high as -90 millivolts.
Membrane potential
Typical values of membrane potential are in the range –40 mV to –80 mV. Many ions
have a concentration gradient across the membrane, including potassium (K+), which is
at a high concentration inside and a low concentration outside the membrane. Sodium
(Na+) and chloride (Cl−) ions are at high concentrations in the extracellular region, and
low concentrations in the intracellular regions. These concentration gradients provide
the potential energy to drive the formation of the membrane potential. This voltage is
established when the membrane has permeability to one or more ions.
separation of charges is what causes the membrane potential. Note that the system as
a whole is electro-neutral. The uncompensated positive charges outside the cell, and
the uncompensated negative charges inside the cell, physically line up on the
membrane surface and attract each other across the lipid bilayer. Thus, the membrane
potential is physically located only in the immediate vicinity of the membrane. It is the
separation of these charges across the membrane that is the basis of the membrane
voltage.
Note also that this diagram is only an approximation of the ionic contributions to the
membrane potential. Other ions including sodium, chloride, calcium, and others play a
more minor role, even though they have strong concentration gradients, because they
have more limited permeability than potassium.
Key: Blue pentagons – sodium ions; Purple squares – potassium ions; Yellow circles –
chloride ions; Orange rectangles – membrane-impermeable anions (these arise from a
variety of sources including proteins). The large purple structure with an arrow
represents a transmembrane potassium channel and the direction of net potassium
movement.
Thus we see that cells are designed to run in an environment of -20 to -25
millivolts of electron donor: cells must have energy to work!
There are several bad things that happen as voltage begins to drop.
As voltage drops more, several bad thing get worse, ending with cancer.
The amount of oxygen that will dissolve in water is dictated by the voltage of the water.
If you put a tube into a glass of water and bubble in oxygen, the amount of oxygen that
dissolves in the water is dictated by the voltage of the water. Since our cells are about
70% water, as voltage in our cells drops, the oxygen comes out of solution.
Pain is a symptom of low voltage. As voltage drops, we have chronic pain due to lack of
oxygen.
Inside our cells, a rechargeable battery system provides the voltage necessary for the
cell to work. When the batteries are charged, they are called “ATP”. When they are
discharged, they are called “ADP”. Since we have a rechargeable battery system, we
need a battery charger. It is called the Krebs Cycle or the citric acid cycle. It prefers to
run on fatty acids. If oxygen is present, for every unit of fatty acids that passes through
the Krebs Cycle, you get enough electrons to charge up 38 of these ADP batteries. If
oxygen is low, for every unit of fatty acids processed by the Krebs Cycle, you only get
enough electrons to charge up two of these ADP batteries. This is like a car going from
38 miles/gallon to two miles/gallon. Thus our organs are running very inefficiently and
require much more fuel (fatty acids) to function.
Another bad thing that happens has to do with infections. Each of us contains about a
trillion “bugs”. These bugs are suppressed as long as oxygen is present. However, as
voltage and oxygen drop, the bugs wake up. They want to have lunch and they want to
have you for lunch. Since they don’t have teeth to take a bite out of your cells, they
release digestive enzymes to dissolve your cells to get the nutrients. As these digestive
enzymes dissolve your cells, you have all the signs of disease.
These digestive enzymes get into your blood stream and go throughout your body,
causing damage at distant places. For example, when you have strept throat, the
enzymes go throughout your system causing fever, nausea, muscle pain, headache,
etc. They can also go scar your heart valves and your knees.
Voltage Drop: Cell Wall Deficient Organisms - L-form bacteria and fungus
As voltage and oxygen drop further, the bacteria lose their cell membranes. These cell-
wall- deficient organisms were described as long ago as the mid 1800’s by Antoine
Béchamp in Paris. They have been noted by others (Enderlein, Naessens, Rife,
Livingston, etc.) about every fifty years and given different
names. The name currently used by most microbiologists
is “L-forms”, a name given by the Lister Institute in Paris.
When voltage drops to +30 millivolts, cell-wall-deficient fungus shows up. They are
always present when cancer occurs. Note that cancer occurs when the polarity changes
from electron donor to electron stealer in a specific
acupuncture meridian.
The current paradigm in medicine in the US says that we must find some chemical
(drug) that will remove your symptoms if you are sick. If we can’t find such a chemical,
we surgically remove the offending part and throw it away. If that doesn’t work, we have
nothing more to offer except pain pills and sedatives. This is called “standard-of-care”
medicine.
If you expect your insurance company to pay for your medical care, you will get
care that ranks 37th in the world in effectiveness!
A Better Paradigm
I suggest that there is a better paradigm. It is based on the fact that our cells are
constantly wearing out and must be replaced. We get new cells in the macula of our
eyes every two days. The lining of our gut is replaced every three days. The skin is
replaced every six weeks and the liver is replaced every eight weeks. Our nervous
system is replaced every eight months.
Chronic disease occurs when we lose the ability to make new cells that work!
If you believe in this paradigm, you must ask the question, “What does it take to make
new cells that work?”
Although cells run at -25 millivolts, it takes -50 millivolts to make a new cell.
Characteristic of almost all chronic disease is the lack of the voltage necessary to make
new cells. Of course we must also have the materials it takes to make new cells and we
must deal with any toxins that damage cells as fast as we make them.
The voltage in my thumb is -25 millivolts. Now I hit it with a hammer and destroy some
cells. My thumb will automatically go to -50 millivolts.
When tissue is at -50 millivolts, it dilates the arterial capillaries. This is necessary for the
body to provide the materials necessary to make the new cells. Dilated arterial
capillaries give all the signs we know as
inflammation:
• Swelling
• Warmth
• Redness
• Pulsing pain
• Loss of function
We get busy and make new cells to replace those smashed by the hammer. Then the
thumb goes back to -25 millivolts and we are happy.
However, there is another possibility. If we didn’t have the -50 millivolts necessary to
make new cells, we are stuck in chronic disease. The thumb doesn’t have the voltage to
work correctly, it is cold, pale, and has chronic pain. No matter how many pills we take
or how much surgery we do, we cannot get well because we don’t have the voltage
necessary to make new cells.
Note that pain is a symptom of abnormal voltage. If the voltage is high, you get a
pulsing pain. If the voltage is low, it hurts all the time. If you correct the voltage (use
phosphoric acid like found in a Coke to lower high voltage or baking soda to raise the
voltage), the pain will go away but it will come back because you haven’t corrected the
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reason the voltage was abnormal in the first place. In chronic disease, you must figure
out why the battery pack to that organ or tissue can’t hold a charge.
Our muscles are piezoelectric. When you exercise, your muscles create electrons.
Piezoelectricity
Fascia
Our muscles are also rechargeable batteries. These batteries are surrounded by a
stocking of fibrous material called fascia. Fascia is depicted in the illustration below.
Fascia is white and muscles are red.
Every organ has its own battery pack composed of a stack of specific muscles. These
stacks of muscle batteries have been known as acupuncture meridians. For example,
the following stack of muscle batteries is called the stomach meridian.
From Wikipedia
1. When a battery or cell is connected to a
charging circuit the wrong way around.
2. When a battery made of several cells connected in series is deeply discharged.
In the latter case, the problem occurs due to the different cells in a battery having
slightly different capacities. When one cell reaches discharge level ahead of the rest,
the remaining cells will force the current through the discharged cell. This is known
as "cell reversal".
Cell reversal can occur to a weakly charged cell even before it is fully discharged. If
the battery drain current is high enough, the cell's internal resistance can create a
resistive voltage drop that is greater than the cell's forward emf. This results in the
reversal of the cell's polarity while the current is flowing. The higher the required
discharge rate of a battery, the better matched the cells should be, both in the type
of cell and state of charge, in order to reduce the chances of cell reversal.
When one has chronic symptoms, one must ask the question, “Why can’t the power
supply to this symptom retain a charge?” First you must identify which power supplies
(acupuncture meridians) are at fault. The following example is helpful.
54 y/o male
• Begins to notice increasing fatigue and mental fog over 2-3 years.
• Increasing inability to deal with stress
• Insomnia
• Can’t remember entire phone number when dialing
• GERD
• A visit to internist reveals nothing.
• Spectrocel blood test reveals low level of vitamin B12.
• Blood test for B12 level confirms low level and platelet count of 43,000
(150,000-350,000).
• Hematology consultation results in bone marrow test. This reveals active
marrow with no malignancy.
• Started on prednisone, 80 mg/day with no effect on platelet count.
• Prednisone causes severe weakness in legs and increased GERD.
Started on Prilosec.
• Progresses to overwhelming fatigue and confusion including inability to
find way home.
• Started on Effexor with no improvement in mental confusion.
• Develops “idiopathic neuropathy” in left foot.
• Periodic pain in left upper abdomen and aching in left maxillary sinus. X-
rays are normal.
• Develops double vision. Exam by three ophthalmologists cannot
determine cause.
• Worsening of platelet count accompanied by petechiae of feet and ankles.
• Constipation
• Postural hypotension
• Can’t stand loud noises, rowdy crowds, people arguing.
• EEG reveals evidence of encephalitis.
This patient was me and this one root canal put me in bed for seven years! Forty-eight
hours after I had this root canal pulled, my bleeding disorder was cured (my platelet
count went from 30,000 to 150,000) and my brain started to work again!
When one has a chronic disease, you must look for all the things that can cause the
battery pack to those symptoms to be unable to hold a charge. The most common
things are:
3. Dental infection (all root canals are infected because they are dead and all dead
tissue left
in the body gets infected.
4. Emotions: emotions are stored in meridians as magnetic fields. They act like a
computer
virus: they such up all the RAM but you don’t know they are there.
The magnetic fields of emotions block the movement of electrons in a circuit,
lowering the voltage in that circuit. These magnetic emotions can easily be
removed with the Tennant BioModulator® in about ten minutes.
Nutrition
In addition to voltage, one must have all the materials to make cells.
1. The inside of most cells is made from amino acids. When you eat a protein, stomach
acid
is supposed to break the proteins in to amino acids. You use those to make
new cells. If you don’t have stomach acid, you can’t make new cells that work
correctly.
2. The inside of nerve cells are made from cholesterol. If you are taking drugs that stop
your liver from making cholesterol, you can’t keep your brain maintained! In
addition, these statin drugs are only helpful in preventing heart attacks in one
person out of 2,000! This is discussed at length in my book Healing is Voltage:
The Handbook.
3. The outside of cells is made from fats called phospholipids. For the liver to absorb
fats, you must have bile. The liver is told to make bile and store it in your gall
bladder when stomach acid hits the small intestine. Again, if you don’t have
stomach acid, you will be deficient in the fats and fat-soluble vitamins you need.
If you are missing your gall bladder, you must take bile with every meal the rest
of your life.
4. Vitamins and minerals are also necessary and are under control of fulvic acid. Our
diets are very deficient in this substance and we must take it as a supplement.
6. Oxygen is very necessary. If you don’t think so, hold your breath! The delivery of
oxygen to cells is dependent upon circulation. Circulation is controlled by nitric
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oxide. Everyone past forty is deficient in it. Once it is corrected, you must also
have voltage in the cells as the oxygen is held in the cells by voltage
I became discontent with having to take twenty capsules of nutrients every morning and
my inability to find nutrients that didn’t contain toxic fillers like GMO corn meal and
magnesium stearate.
I went through the physiology books looking for everything I could find that cells need to
work. I then asked a biochemist to put all of these things into a powder that one could
use to make a smoothie every day. My instructions were that they could not contain any
toxic fillers or other toxic substances and must be pure. She developed a system for
me.
If you take Restore, Lugol’s Iodine Plus, Raw Materials, DigestRx, and Neo-40 (if you
are past forty), you have everything you need to make cells. See the shopping cart on
this website.
If you have adrenal insufficiency, you will also need to take adrenal support and have
your emotional baggage treated.
If you have heavy metals like mercury, you will have to take Fulvic 400X for 6-12
months.
The point is that we have developed a system that efficiently deals with nutrition making
it easier to comply and less expensive since you can use the system as a meal
substitute.
The thing you will have to do is to stop buying GMO food. To grow GMO food, farmers
buy seeds that contain pesticides. As the seeds grow into plants, these plants contain
these pesticides. That keeps the insects from destroying the crops but instead you are
eating pesticides with every meal. In spite of the FDA declaring they are safe (with
almost no testing), the literature is now quite clear that GMO foods are toxic and are
killing us. Go to PubMed and search for the many articles about the toxicity of
glyphosate.
Tennant BioModulator®
the body soon adapts to them so they no longer work. However, if you increase the
voltage in the cells to -50 millivolts with the BioModulator, healing occurs.
Our clinic is designed to work with chronic disease. We are not equipped for acute
illness or trauma. We do not accept the role of your primary care doctor and you must
apply and become a member of Tennant Institute, a Private Expressive Association by
filling out the registration forms on this website.
1. Some come for a few hours for us to put together a protocol that you must follow
when you go home. You will have a written list of what you need to do, but some
find it overwhelming.
2. Others come for 1-3 weeks so that we can work with each deficiency that we
find. The latter is obviously more effective and is easier for you.
In each situation, we must identify the circuits that have low voltage and figure out why
the circuits can’t hold the charge.
Thus we measure thyroid function, adrenal function, scars, dental infections, and
emotions.
For more information about the Tennant BioModulator®, see www.senergy.us. Most
people with chronic disease will find it very helpful to own a Tennant BioModulator and
come to training so you will understand in greater detail about how to get yourself and
your family well and to stay well.
• Dental infections put out very severe toxins. One root canal tooth puts out
enough toxins to shut down 63% of your immune system. Most organ
malfunction is due in part to a dental infection. If you have a dental infection, you
will never get well no matter what else you do. An infected tooth acts like a circuit
breaker and shuts down the circuit it controls.
• Heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, etc. block enzyme function and
cause problems like ADHD, autism, methylation defects, etc. The most common
source for heavy metal poisoning is mercury dental fillings.
• Soy is a poison that has been marketed as a health food! It blocks the function of
most of your endocrine system. For more information, read about it in my Healing
is Voltage: The Handbook and in the book The Whole Soy Story.
• GMO foods are the major cause of obesity and a major cause of chronic disease
and cancer. For more information, see
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/gmo-dangers and go to www.PubMed.org
and search for “glyphosate toxicity”.
• Smoking
• Alcohol blocks the absorption of your major minerals and puts stress on your liver
and brain.
• Coffee and black tea also block the absorption of your needed minerals.
There are many toxins that damage cells and get stored in your gall bladder, large
intestine, and fat cells.
As part of the full workup for your complaint or concerns, which includes a full energetic
exam with your physical, review of your labs and any other history, and appropriate
treatments at the clinic. Depending on each case, your therapy will be to improve your
physical, energetic and mental function.
Every cell has basic needs, and the Tennant protocol is the BEST way to bring your
health to true wellness and assist your body to “be well”.