Terrain Theory and Electro Medicine: Why Electricity, Not Germs, Determines Health

Terrain Theory and Electro Medicine: Why Electricity Determines Health

For more than a hundred years, medicine has focused on germs as the cause of disease. But Terrain Theory and electro medicine offer a different perspective. Instead of blaming invisible invaders, they show us that cellular voltage and the quality of the body’s internal environment determine whether health thrives—or disease takes hold.

By understanding how electricity flows through the body and how terrain shapes our health, practitioners can go beyond symptom management and help patients achieve real regeneration.

📥 Free Resource: The Negative Charge Cheat Sheet

Want to go deeper?
If disease is truly an electrical deficiency, then the fastest way to restore health is by understanding how electrons heal the body.

That’s why we created the Negative Charge Cheat Sheet: How Electrons Heal the Body.
Inside, you’ll discover:

  • The exact millivolt levels that separate health from disease
  • How to identify signs of electrical deficiency
  • Practical ways to restore charge and strengthen the terrain

📺 Watch on YouTube: Terrain Theory and Electro Medicine: Why Electricity Determines Health


⚡ Terrain Theory and Electro Medicine: The Heart’s Four Electric Highways

Every beat of your heart is more than a pump pushing blood. It’s an electrical surge, sending charge through four distinct pathways:

  1. The Ren and Du Channels – via the kidney meridian and spinal nerves.
  2. Fibrous Blood Vessels – among the most electrically conductive tissues in the body.
  3. Body Fluids – electricity flows freely, moving to wherever deficiency is greatest.
  4. Cardiac Nerves into the Spine – feeding central electrical pathways directly.

Key Point: Unlike water in pipes, electricity moves to the places that need it most. Deficiency determines the flow.


📉 Why Voltage Is Central to Terrain Theory and Electro Medicine

Think of your body like a rechargeable battery. For nerves and cells to function, they must maintain at least –20 millivolts of charge.

  • –20 mV = healthy tissue
  • –10 mV = already deficient
  • +30 mV = cancer-level terrain

There’s no such thing as “too much” charge. Health is about abundance. Disease begins when voltage drops too low.

This is why targeted electro medicine is powerful. Devices like the Pointoselect Digital can deliver precise voltage, restoring what the body has lost and helping tissues repair themselves.


⚔️ Terrain Theory vs. Germ Theory

In the late 1800s, Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp clashed over the future of medicine.

  • Pasteur’s Germ Theory: Disease comes from outside invaders.
  • Béchamp’s Terrain Theory: Disease reflects the condition of the internal environment.

Germ theory won the cultural battle—backed by pharmaceutical interests. But on his deathbed, Pasteur admitted the truth:

“The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything.”

For a deeper dive into this concept, see our Post-2020 Terrain Reset training.


🔬 Somatids and Terrain Theory: The Seeds of Life

When you look at a drop of blood under a microscope, you see somatids—tiny living particles also called proteids or microzymas.

  • In healthy terrain, somatids thrive and support the creation of tissues, hormones, and regeneration.
  • In deficient terrain, somatids evolve into bacteria and even larger pathogenic forms.

Researcher Bob Beck described them as “aliens in the blood.” By stage 16, they may become cancer.

Here’s the breakthrough: with restored terrain and proper voltage, somatids reverse. They shrink back into their original form, supporting health again.

It’s not theory—it’s observable in real time.

For practical auricular mapping related to somatid function, see The Big 5 Auricular Reflex Points.


🦴 Proof in the Bones

One patient, diagnosed with “bone-on-bone” osteoarthritis and told surgery was the only option, began a series of targeted electro medicine treatments.

After just 12 sessions, radiological imaging showed:

  • Bony tissue regressing
  • Local irritation decreasing
  • Healthy tissue beginning to regenerate

What changed? The terrain.

By restoring voltage, the body regained the ability to heal itself.

For more case-based strategies, see our Back Pain Protocols.


🌱 Why Terrain Theory Changes Everything

Every day, we act as if germs are the problem—avoiding doorknobs, fearing exposure. But germs are opportunists.

It’s the terrain that matters.

When cellular voltage is strong, tissue regenerates, somatids remain in their life-giving form, and health is restored.

When voltage falls, deficiency takes over—and disease follows.


📥 Free Resource: The Negative Charge Cheat Sheet

Want to go deeper?
If disease is truly an electrical deficiency, then the fastest way to restore health is by understanding how electrons heal the body.

That’s why we created the Negative Charge Cheat Sheet: How Electrons Heal the Body.
Inside, you’ll discover:

  • The exact millivolt levels that separate health from disease
  • How to identify signs of electrical deficiency
  • Practical ways to restore charge and strengthen the terrain

📺 Watch the full training here

For a deeper dive—and to see the full library of terrain-based electroacupuncture trainings—visit:
👉 www.electroacupunctureinstitute.com

To your clinical breakthroughs,
Jeremy Steiner, PhD, MD, DAOM

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