The original web site with this page is down so I've copied the information and put it up here on Kyrieology. This is written by Steve Richfield and I do not necessarily agree with all he has written. I do agree that Low Body Temperature contributes to a wide variety of health problems. Now for the Health Disclaimer: The Kyrieology web site is designed for educational purposes only and is not intended to serve as medical advice. The information provided on this site should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you have or suspect you may have a health problem, you should consult your health care provider.

Overview by Steve Richfield

If you are looking for a fundamentally religious approach to correcting your problems, then please read the This Technology From a Religious Point of View section before continuing with this presentation.

If your temperature isn't pretty close to 97.4oF when you first wake up, and pretty close to 98.6oF during most of the day, then you definitely have some sort of metabolic control system problem. You're not alone, as most people with chronic health problems also have metabolic control system problems that greatly exacerbate their other problems. Every system in your body has good reason to operate differently depending upon whether you are awake or asleep. To broadcast this message, your brain sends signals to your metabolic control system to adjust your temperature so that all of your systems know how to operate. When this process breaks down, then subtle problems develop. Left uncorrected, these subtle problems will stress your entire body, usually shortening your life by decades. Fortunately, you can easily recognize these problems by simply taking your temperature with an ordinary thermometer.

While every case is unique, the methodology has progressed to the point that you can now have your temperature regulation problems corrected in a week or so.

You may have noticed that most doctors are more of a source of historical misinformation than modern information in this area. You may have been assured by your doctor that incorrect temperatures are perfectly normal. Normal, but NOT healthy. You may have been told that this is a sign of hypothyroidism. While most hypothyroid people do have low temps, most people with low temps are NOT hypothyroid. Most people diagnosed as "mildly hypothyroid" have their symptoms permanently disappear and their test results return to normal without continuing medication, once their temperature is corrected.

Hopefully you have a preliminary diagnosis from your doctor. Here are some clarifications of common medical terms that you might see in your medical file:

* Adrenal fatigue is a term used to describe people whose adrenal hormone output is inadequate. Some people have actual organic damage, while others have had their output downregulated for some reason. There are now effective treatments for both conditions.
* Allopathic is a medical term that describes treatment to induce a pathological reaction that works against to the problem being treated. Most prescription medications are allopathic. This is intentionally causing one problem to mitigate another problem, without ever addressing the root cause, that left unabated will doubtless cause still more problems. Allopathic medications are often excellent diagnostic tools, as they can temporarily hide a severe symptom so that you can see what else is wrong, to give you more clues as to what the root cause might be. Most methods for finding the root causes of medical problems require the temporary withdrawal of allopathic medications to fully expose the underlying problems, so it is really important to fully complete the diagnostic process before going onto long-term allopathic medication.
* Central is a medical term that means brain-controlled. Many medical problems are the result of patient's brain making poor decisions as to how to operate their body, and then sending neurological and hormonal signals to their bodies to execute these poor decisions. This can result in wrong temperatures, or a wide variety of other chronic malfunctions that lack any apparent organic cause. A few astute physicians will recognize some of these situations. "Central" problems must be suspected when no other root cause can be found. While these were uncorrectable until my methods were developed, standard medical practice has been to administer hormones for life, to override the brain's misdirection.
* Central hypothermia is a medical term referring to a condition where a person's brain regulates his body temperature at too low a value. This is easily confirmed by taking a long hot shower and seeing how high you can push your temperature. People without this condition can easily push their temperature to 100oF or above, while people with this condition can barely push it above 98.0oF and they feel sick when doing this.
* Comorbid refers to conditions that exist together, either from a common cause, or because one causes the other. These often provide the best clues as to what hidden underlying condition is causing all of the visible problems.
* Hypothyroidism is a medical term that means that your thyroid gland is unable to generate sufficient T4 and other hormones to tell your body to stay warm enough. Of course, the amount of heat you need to keep you warm is about equal to the rate that you lose heat, that in turn depends on how you dress. People with true mild hypothyroidism can usually feel better with no medication at all, once they make suitable adjustments in the way they dress and live.
* Idiopathic is a medical term that means that the doctor sees that something isn't working right, but doesn't see what is causing the problem. Doctors have a wide variety of diagnostic tools at their disposal, so this term usually ends up getting applied to problems that can NOT be seen with any of their diagnostic tools - like "central" problems. Standard medical practice has been to attempt to force reasonable operation while ignoring its continuing cause. Forcing a system to operate in a way that is different than instructed by your brain invariably causes other problems, requiring further such treatment that then causes still other problems, etc.
* Mild hypothyroidism is usually a misnomer. It refers to situations where the TSH is somewhat elevated, but does not exceed 5.5. There are several reasons why a person with a perfectly healthy thyroid can have an elevated TSH and hypothyroid symptoms. Some of the more common causes are central hypothermia, adrenal fatigue, and inappropriate dress in cold weather.
* Primary is a medical term that means that the associated organ is the root of the problem. Of course, it didn't just spontaneously fail - it was damaged by something else, that left unchecked will probably do still more and more damage to other organs until it eventually kills you. Often, eliminating the cause will allow the damaged organ to gradually heal, sometimes over a period of years. While not standard medical practice, it is important to find out what caused the "primary" failure, not only to provide for possible healing, but to keep it from causing other problems, both in yourself and in your immediate relatives.
* Scientific Method is the process of forming hypotheses and testing them to improve the understanding of something. It has nothing at all to do with statistics or double blind studies, that are sometimes useful for gathering information in preparation for applying the Scientific Method.
* TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) is the hormone that activates your thyroid to release T4 and other hormones to warm you up. When your thyroid becomes inadequately able to respond to TSH, your brain cranks the TSH level up, and up, and up, so that astronomical levels of TSH have become the "gold standard" to indicate thyroid malfunction. However, there are several non-thyroid conditions that can elevate your TSH level, but still within normal limits. Many doctors collectively call these conditions "mild hypothyroidism" and inappropriately treat patients with these conditions by prescribing thyroid hormone supplementation, rather than figuring out and fixing whatever is really wrong.
* Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome (WTS) is usually a misnomer that refers to low daytime body temperature. This is because most patients with low daytime body temperature clearly have no "rT3 diversion" or any other thyroid-related problems, as can be easily demonstrated by their perfectly normal response to a small test dose of T4. Instead, most people with low daytime body temperature have central hypothermia, a condition that barely responds to WTS therapy in the easiest 40% of people with central hypothermia.

Steve's Approach

I am a part-time alternative health care researcher and consultant now specializing in the diagnosis and correction of “central” (brain-controlled) metabolic control system disorders, the most common of which is low body temperature.

Some of the most common conditions that often trace their cause and effect chains back to/through various central metabolic control system disorders include:

1. Idiopathic Hypothyroid symptoms, e.g. with normal TSH test results.
2. Idiopathic immune deficiency conditions.
3. Idiopathic inability to sleep through the night.
4. Idiopathic atrial fibrillation.
5. Idiopathic morbid obesity.
6. Idiopathic occlusive problems e.g. clogged arteries, stones, etc.

By their nature, central metabolic control system disorders don't leave any observable evidence of their existence, so that “idiopathic” often becomes a part of the description of each patient's condition. The nature of central metabolic control system disorders must be inferred from experiments. Confirmation comes when a carefully engineered corrective procedure restores operation to optimum.

Until now, the only available approach for treating central metabolic control system disorders was through a lifetime of hormone supplementation (in those situations where hormone supplementation is even possible) to correct for the brain-induced imbalance. However, without brain-controlled regulation, these treatment methods usually produce poor results. New techniques that I have borrowed from control theory and artificial neural network research and refined in a medical context now provides for the complete diagnosis and permanent correction of most of these disorders.

Some common conditions that have been successfully corrected by myself and others using my methods include:

1. Central hypothermia – daytime temperature that is “stuck” at 98.0oF or below
2. Central hyperthermia – elevated temperature, especially at night
3. Central hypothyroidism – normal TSH but low T4
4. Clogged arteries
5. Low iron level in the brain causing restless leg syndrome, etc.
6. Inability to switch in and out of ketosis, resulting in morbid obesity
7. Restoring hair growth

Yes, the low body temperatures that elderly patients almost always exhibit can usually be corrected, often resolving their ongoing occlusive and immunological problems in a week or two. No, this is not “Wilson’s Thyroid Syndrome Therapy" that seldom works as advertised, especially on elderly patients.

I prefer to work with your physician where possible, as the “learning curve” is just too steep for most people who have no significant endocrinological background. However, conditions involving functional instability, like atrial fibrillation, usually require college-level training in control theory as a prerequisite to be able to truly understand them. Unfortunately, there are no medical schools that offer this sort of training, so physicians having this skill are very rare.

Similar presenting patients usually have very different things going on in them, so a series of experiments is usually needed to understand and confirm each individual patient's own particular cause and effect chain before corrective action can be taken.

For example, central hypothermia is usually confirmed by having the patient take a long hot shower while monitoring their temperature. People without central hypothermia can easily push his temperatures to over 100oF, whereas patients with central hypothermia usually cannot push their temperatures above 98.something, and they feel really awful in the process. A few rare patients (usually young people) feel really good when they finally get to 98.6oF. These rare patients are usually the easiest to correct.

Often there is an underlying organic problem that caused the central metabolic control system problem, that must be addressed before correcting the central problem. In the above example of central hypothermia, many patients have underlying hypothyroid and/or hypoadrenal problems. Often these situations are complex, e.g. where the adrenals are OK at 97.something, but immediately go into overload at 98.6oF, which may be the reason that their temperature went low to begin with. Hence, correcting these disorders requires attention not only to the patient's ongoing problems, but also the reasonably expected problems as parameters (like daytime body temperature) are changed.

Even in those somewhat rare cases where a patient is tentatively misdiagnosed as having a central metabolic control system problem, subsequent testing will usually characterize the underlying organic malfunction, so that traditional methods can then be applied to the correct problem.

Correcting a central metabolic control system problem usually requires “clamping” the errant parameter(s) to their correct value(s) for a day or so, followed by days or weeks of decreasing efforts and/or medication to gently “push” the errant parameters to their correct values. Months of recovery often follow such treatments, as the patients gradually adapt to their new bodies that now function somewhat differently.

Some patients don't have anything at all wrong with their central metabolic control system, but they do have some organic problem that would be a LOT easier to deal with if they could only make some "minor" alteration in the way their metabolic control system worked. Most of these cases involve organ destruction from accident or disease. It is often possible to "reprogram" a patient and their metabolic control system to operate somewhat differently than "normal" to achieve a particular desired result, e.g. operating briefly at 98.6F each day to greatly reduce the problems otherwise associated with never operating at 98.6F, or becoming acutely aware of dropping temperatures to avoid dying from them.

If you just prefer to "do it yourself" and correct your own problems, then...

1. For central hypothermia, read through .
2. For comorbid adrenal fatigue, read through .
3. For comorbid hypothyroidism, read through
4. Fro atrial fibrillation, read .

This Technology From a Religious Point of View

First, God created Earth, then he created us to dwell upon it. Then we changed EVERYTHING. Now, we just can't see why we aren't living well as a result. Praying to get well while still grossly violating God's apparent plan is disingenuous, like praying for forgiveness while still in the act of committing the crime. Most people's medical cause and effect chains can be traced directly to something they did, and are probably still doing, that violates God's apparent plan. My methods identify just what you are doing that is indirectly causing your problems, then I find some way to set things right. This usually involves some significant changes in lifestyle that brings your life more into alignment with God's apparent plan. As the successes of my patients has clearly demonstrated, God appears to be more interested in you straightening your life out than in you praying to him while leaving major things wrong in your life. Prayer is good, but NOT when it is used instead of you straightening your life out.

I simply don't see the difference between science and religion that many others see. I see these as two sides of the very same coin, as understanding God through science. Being two different views of the very same thing, I can easily explain things in either scientific or religious terms, at your option. I see that few doctors have any clue what science is all about, and that most can't even tell you what the Scientific Method is. Illness doesn't just spontaneously occur, nor does it usually occur through God's intevention. It usually occurs because we have somehow abused God's creation, our bodies. If someone abused and broke something that you had created, and was obviously going to go on doing the same thing again and again, would YOU bother to fix it again and again just to see it broken again and again? Of course not. Obviously, the first step is to stop breaking things, then look for some way to fix things. Only in failing human remediation should we look for divine intervention, as no single act of divine intervention will do when you keep on breaking things again and again.

Our life here on Earth is clearly a training exercise and test, to see whether our next move should be up or down. Often, we have problems getting it right, and so we are mercifully given some not-so-subtle clues, like a really serious illness. You can't just take a pill or dump this onto someone else, like a doctor, any more than you can transfer your sins to someone else to suffer. I provide some scientifically-directed guidance to focus your attention on just what it is that you are doing that is most out of alignment with God's apparent plan. Straightening out whatever this is usually resolves most but not all of our problems, without continuing medication, as no one is ever in perfect alignment with God's plan. Sometimes we are left with some permanent reminder that not keeping with the plan can have really serious consequences.

Various Disclaimers Required by Some States

Correcting central metabolic control system disorders is usually somewhat unpleasant, but not painful. Often, people's brains have adopted poor metabolic control strategies as a protective mechanism to avoid some real or imagined danger. As the real dangers are dealt with and normal healthy operation is forcibly restored, your metabolic control system will often make you feel sick to encourage you not to change things, until it figures out that normal operation won't hurt you and works better than what it has been doing it the past. Then come weeks or months while other systems in your body that have adapted to how you previously functioned (re)learn to operate normally. If you are looking for short term feel-good rather than long term health, or if you don't have anything or anyone important to live for, then these methods are NOT for you. You'll probably feel worse before you feel better. You should always have someone else around when performing these procedures, to help with any medical emergencies that might develop. There's only been one known death, in 1991, when a lady was self-administering a more dangerous and now obsolete regimen on herself without adequate provisions for dealing with medical emergencies. Quitting halfway through this process won't help you at all, and may complicate future treatments.

While I have no formal medical education, I spent two years as an assistant to William Calvin, the now famed neuroscience author, see , while he was doing focal epilepsy research at the University of Washington Department of Neurological Surgery, see . There, I applied my computer and electronics skills to create really advanced experimental setups to observe individual mammalian neurons in normal and abnormal operation, and learned some of what I needed to develop the above described methodology.

Shameless Promotion

Depending on the specifics of your condition, I may be able to help you through correcting it via phone calls. I may need to work with you in person, or I can consult with your own personal physician to help him through this process; sometimes, it works out best for me to work on the "central" issues, while your physician works on the comorbid conditions. If you need some help with your central metabolic control system issues, then please give me a call at 505-934-0832, or email me at .

I am also available for full-blown fast-track research projects, to find cures for your diagnosed incurable and terminal illness - before you die from it. Indeed, it was one such fast-track research project that developed the methodology described above.

Steve Richfield

Another Steve Richfield article:
Curing Low Body Temperature