One of the Greatest Setbacks of My Life! How Dr. Thomas Rau and biological medicine appeared to me at the eleventh hour

My life as a spiritual teacher, shaman, guide, author, and human being isn’t always what I wish it were. In this article, I open up about one of the most difficult periods of my life – a time when my body was on the verge of completely failing me. You’ll also see how a chance encounter with Dr. Thomas Rau brought me a crucial step closer to solving my greatest health problem.

2017 was one of the hardest years I’ve experienced since the burnout that nearly took my life in 2003.

For more than fifteen years, I had done everything in my power to find answers. To understand what had really happened to my body back then, and how I could heal what still plagued me. I had searched everywhere. Read countless books. Traveled to specialists in multiple countries. Spent a fortune on treatments and education in both Western and complementary medicine.

I had found the key to filling life with happiness, joy, meaning, love, and abundance. I thought I was close to finding the solution to regenerate my physical health as well.

But then I collapsed.

Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Rau

Dr. Thomas Rau is one of the world’s most recognized physicians in holistic biological medicine.

Here are some of the topics covered in the interview:

• The philosophy behind how he achieve his exceptional results.
• How nearly 100% of those with CFS/ME and Lyme disease (borreliosis), even in advanced stages, are healed.
• Why the use of antibiotics in treating Lyme disease is harmful.
• Why they have such excellent results in treating breast cancer, prostate cancer, and other forms of cancer without using surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy – by healing the underlying causes of the cancer.
• Why preventively removing breasts after a genetic test to avoid getting cancer later in life is pointless.
• Why wisdom teeth, cavitations, root canals, and implants are often the main cause of chronic illness.
• And several other fascinating topics.

The First Shock

Since Western medicine hadn’t been able to help me with my physical health problems after the burnout, I had also been seeking solutions in complementary medicine since 2004. After several thousand hours of education in functional medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, meditation, feng shui, astrology, and shamanism – and after going through a multitude of comprehensive therapies that cost me a fortune – I finally thought the solution was near.

Year by year, I had gradually gotten better. Not dramatically, but noticeably. Enough to give me hope. Enough to make me believe I was on the right path.

But in the final months of 2016, I felt something was wrong. Something I couldn’t put my finger on. An unease in my body that wouldn’t let up. A fatigue that was different from before.

During my first seminar in Norway in January 2017, things almost went wrong.

More than a hundred seminar participants sat eagerly waiting to learn about shamanism for the modern person. I stood there in front of them. And for the first time in my adult life, I had trouble activating enough strength and energy to get through it.

It was as if someone had pulled the plug.

I felt completely empty after the first day. Completely empty. Not just tired – but drained. As if there was nothing left to give. I wasn’t sure if I could continue at all, or if I would have to cancel the rest of the seminar.

This had never happened before. And it worried me. Because I had no idea why.

Somehow, I managed to muster enough strength to complete the seminar well enough. But something had changed. And I knew it.

The Greatest Setback

Over the following months, everything only got worse.

I barely managed to get through my seminars. Many appointments had to be canceled. Trips were called off. Eventually, I was placed on 80% sick leave.

I took three months of summer vacation – in practice 100% sick leave – without it helping me the slightest bit to get back in shape. My body refused to cooperate. No matter what I tried.

Even though I’m an optimist by nature, I must honestly admit that this made me worried. Truly worried.

On one hand, I started preparing to make major changes in my professional life. I needed to have a solution ready in case my body just kept getting weaker and weaker – a backup plan that would mean giving up what I loved most about my work: Holding seminars and guiding people to find their way back to themselves and their path.

On the other hand, I felt a deep frustration. A frustration that hung in the air like a heavy fog – frustration over having spent so many years, and vast amounts of time, energy, and financial resources, for more than a decade trying to find solutions to get back in good physical shape.

How could it be that my body had virtually overnight stopped producing energy?

It didn’t help that I had an exceptionally healthy diet with a hypoallergenic regimen free of gluten, sugar, dairy, soy, and low FODMAP. It didn’t help that I had lost nearly 90 pounds in total.

It didn’t help that I had healed my severe sleep apnea with more than 25 breathing stops per hour – and no longer needed a CPAP machine.

It didn’t help that my irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, and SIBO were healed – and that for the first time in ages I no longer had a bloated stomach, pain, and cramps.

None of it helped.

I had been through extensive diagnostics from both Western medicine and complementary medicine. Everyone gave me the same answer I had heard countless times before:

“We can’t find anything wrong with you, Mr. Wanvig…”

But I felt something was wrong with my body. I could feel the inflammation in my head. My face and gums felt swollen and inflamed.

Was this just imagination and hypochondria? Was this depression?

I had been to numerous dentists, both traditional and alternative. They all said the same thing: Your teeth and gums are perfectly healthy.

But I knew they were wrong. I just knew it. The problem was that I couldn’t prove it.

At the Eleventh Hour

One evening at the end of August 2017, I sat in front of my computer searching for answers. Yet again. And then I came across a lecture by Dr. Thomas Rau.

Dr. Rau had treated more than 30,000 patients from 80 countries. His clinic specialized in treating cancer, burnout, ME/CFS, Lyme disease (borreliosis), MS, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and all types of chronic diseases – with excellent results.

And something struck me.

Dr. Rau said he was expert in cases like mine – people who had tried countless therapies, been to dozens of medical professionals without it helping, and who had been more or less given up on by conventional medicine.

These were people like me. People who had done everything right. Followed all the advice. Taken all the tests. And still hadn’t gotten answers.

For the first time in a long while, I felt a glimmer of hope.

First Step

Three months later, I sat in Dr. Rau’s office.

I had been through two days at the clinic with intensive diagnostics. They used methods from both Western medicine and methods from biological medicine I had never heard of before. All to find the real causes of my chronic condition.

During our conversation, Dr. Rau pulled up the first test result that had appeared on his screen – my dental health.

The first place I was sent for diagnosis on my first day was actually the dentist. There, they started by performing a three-dimensional scan of my teeth and gums.

Dr. Rau wrinkled his nose when he saw the image of my teeth on the screen.

“Here we probably have one of the main reasons you’re chronically ill and why no therapy has worked for you,” he said. “You have severe inflammation in the pockets around your wisdom teeth in the upper part of your mouth, hidden under the gum tissue.”

I stared at the images. There it was. Clear as day. Exactly what I had felt for years – a hidden inflammation that no one else had found.

Dr. Rau went on to explain the health consequences of having hidden wisdom teeth with inflammation, root canals, cavitations, implants, and metals in the mouth.

“In more than 70% of all the cancer patients we have at the clinic, the main cause behind the cancer lies in the patient’s dental health. That’s why we always send all patients to our dental clinic first and take a 3D image of their teeth.”

Dr. Rau explained that it didn’t matter which therapies and treatment methods I used if the underlying causes of the illness weren’t removed – like my inflamed wisdom teeth.

These had been causing problems for me for many years. Without my knowing it. Without anyone finding it.

The hidden inflammation had significantly reduced my body’s ability to regulate itself. It had blocked my body’s self-healing powers. Year after year.

It was like completely overhauling the engine of a car without it helping much – because the cause of the engine problems lies in the electronic ignition. Until that gets replaced, the engine will never function at full power.

Frustration and Relief

At first, I felt relieved.

Finally, someone found something wrong with me. Finally, I had an answer. Finally, I could point to something concrete that could be the cause of my chronic fatigue.

But the frustration was also palpable.

After all, I had been to several dentists who found absolutely nothing wrong. The last dentist I visited just a year ago even had a professorship in holistic dentistry. And he had emphasized the same thing as all the others:

“There’s nothing wrong with you, Mr. Wanvig.”

How could it be that dentists don’t find such obvious problems – problems that even I could see on the 3D images Dr. Rau showed me?

The reasons could be many. But I believe that a lack of understanding and knowledge about inflammation – and the consequences of hidden wisdom teeth, cavitations, root canals, and implants – ranks high on the list. So does the lack of effective treatment methods to heal the inflammation.

Additionally, most dentists would probably have avoided the somewhat complex surgery I needed to undergo to remove the wisdom teeth. They were in contact with my sinuses. If the dentist isn’t an expert in such procedures, it can create major problems for the patient, Dr. Rau explained.

But now I finally had an answer. And a way forward.

After all those years of fumbling in the dark. After all those doctor’s offices and treatment rooms. After all those tests that showed “nothing wrong.” This is where the answer lay.

Hidden under my gum tissue. Invisible to everyone who didn’t know what to look for. But visible enough to have been destroying my life for years.

This is the story of how Dr. Thomas Rau and biological medicine appeared to me at the eleventh hour. It’s the story of why we sometimes have to search outside the usual frameworks. And it’s a reminder that our body is always trying to tell us something – even when no one else is listening.

I listened to my body. And in the end, I found someone who listened to it with me.

Article Series on Biological Medicine

Article 1: One of the Greatest Setbacks of My Life!

Article 2: Serious Illness Can Hide in Your Teeth!

Article 3: Holistic Diagnosis and Treatment with Biological Medicine