"The body speaks what the mind cannot say. Total Biology teaches us to listen—and to respond in a language the body understands."
The idea that emotions affect physical health is no longer controversial. Stress causes ulcers. Grief weakens immunity. Heartbreak is not merely poetic—it can trigger measurable cardiac events. What remains revolutionary is understanding how this connection operates with biological precision, and what this means for healing.
The Ancient Recognition
Traditional Chinese Medicine recognized the mind-body connection thousands of years ago, mapping specific emotions to specific organ systems: grief to the lungs, fear to the kidneys, anger to the liver, joy to the heart, worry to the spleen. Treatment addressed not just physical symptoms but the emotional terrain beneath them. Acupuncture points, herbal formulas, and lifestyle recommendations all aimed to restore balance between the psyche and the soma.
This was sophisticated medicine, and it worked—often in cases where purely physical approaches failed. But the mechanism remained somewhat mysterious, wrapped in the language of chi and meridians that modern minds found difficult to penetrate.
What was needed was a bridge: an understanding that honored the ancient insight while speaking in the language of biology.
A Revolutionary Discovery
In 1978, a German physician named Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer experienced a devastating trauma: his son Dirk was shot and killed. Shortly afterward, Dr. Hamer developed testicular cancer. As an oncologist, he wondered: was there a connection between this specific shock and this specific disease?
This question launched decades of research that would upend conventional understanding of how disease originates. Working with thousands of patients and their CT brain scans, Hamer identified a pattern so consistent he called it an "iron law": every disease begins with a biological shock—a sudden, unexpected, emotionally intense event that catches us off guard.
He called this triggering event a DHS (Dirk Hamer Syndrome) in memory of his son. The DHS is not ordinary stress. It is a moment of acute conflict that the psyche cannot immediately resolve—and the body responds by initiating a biological program.
What Hamer discovered next was even more startling: disease unfolds in two distinct phases, not one.
The Two-Phase Model
Phase One: Conflict-Active (Stress Phase)
When a biological shock occurs, the body enters a stress state. The autonomic nervous system shifts into sympathetic dominance—the "fight or flight" response. During this phase, certain tissues may proliferate (tumor growth) while others ulcerate or lose function, depending on the nature of the conflict and which brain relay is affected. The person in this phase often experiences cold extremities, poor appetite, racing thoughts, and difficulty sleeping. They are biologically mobilized to resolve the conflict. This phase continues as long as the conflict remains active.
Phase Two: Healing (Vagotonic Phase)
When the conflict is resolved—either through action, insight, or changed circumstances—the body shifts into parasympathetic dominance and begins repair. This is the healing phase, but paradoxically, it is often when symptoms become most noticeable: inflammation, fever, fatigue, swelling, pain. What conventional medicine frequently diagnoses as the disease is actually the body's repair process.
Many conditions we fear are not the illness itself but the resolution of the illness—the body restoring what was damaged during the stress phase. Understanding this changes everything about how we interpret symptoms.
The Biological Logic
Hamer's research revealed something profound: the body's responses are not random malfunctions but meaningful adaptations. Each type of conflict activates a specific brain relay and affects a corresponding organ in a predictable way.
A "death-fright conflict" affects the lungs. An "indigestible conflict" (something we cannot stomach or process) affects the digestive tract. A "self-devaluation conflict" affects the bones or connective tissue. A "separation conflict" affects the skin. The biological program matches the emotional experience with remarkable precision.
This is not metaphor. It is observable on brain CT scans, where Hamer identified ring-shaped formations (called "Hamer Foci") in the exact brain location corresponding to both the conflict type and the affected organ.
The implications were staggering: the body is not attacking itself. It is not making mistakes. It is running adaptive programs inherited from millions of years of evolution, responding to perceived threats in the only language it knows—biology.
Total Biology: The Evolution of Understanding
Dr. Hamer's discoveries opened a door. But like many pioneers, his work required others to refine, expand, and systematize what he had found. This is where Claude Sabbah enters the story.
Dr. Claude Sabbah was a French physician who encountered Hamer's work and recognized both its genius and its limitations. Over decades of clinical practice and research, Sabbah developed what he called Total Biology (Biologie Totale)—a comprehensive evolution of Hamer's foundational insights.
Where Hamer identified the core mechanism, Sabbah mapped the territory in extraordinary detail. He catalogued over 2,000 specific conflict-disease correlations, refined the understanding of how conflicts combine and layer, and developed precise protocols for identifying the originating shock—often buried in the unconscious or even inherited from previous generations.
Sabbah understood that conflicts don't always originate in our own lived experience. Through what he called the "transgenerational" dimension, we can carry unresolved biological programs from our parents, grandparents, and ancestors—conflicts that were never resolved, passed down through the family system until someone finally brings them to consciousness.
He also recognized "programming conflicts"—shocks that occur during gestation or early childhood, when we are too young to have conscious memory but not too young to be biologically imprinted. A stress experienced by the mother during pregnancy can program the child's biology in ways that manifest decades later.
Total Biology offers a method for detective work: tracing symptoms backward through time, through family history, through the specific language and circumstances of the originating conflict. When the conflict is correctly identified and brought to conscious resolution, the biological program that was running often becomes unnecessary. The body can stand down.
Claude Sabbah's Legacy
Claude Sabbah taught for decades, primarily in French-speaking countries, training physicians and practitioners in the Total Biology method. His seminars were legendary for their depth, precision, and the remarkable healings that participants witnessed and experienced.
Yet his work remains largely unknown in the English-speaking world. His writings have not been widely translated. The detailed conflict mappings, the clinical protocols, the refined understanding he developed over a lifetime of practice—most of this remains inaccessible to those who don't read French.
This represents an enormous loss. While Germanic New Medicine has gained some English-language exposure (often in incomplete or distorted forms), Total Biology's more developed and clinically refined approach remains hidden behind a language barrier.
Sabbah passed away in 2020, but his work lives on in the practitioners he trained and the extensive documentation he left behind.
Our Commitment
At Nature's Place, we consider Claude Sabbah's Total Biology to be among the most important contributions to healing science of the past century. The precision of his conflict mappings, the sophistication of his transgenerational analysis, the clinical effectiveness of his approach—this knowledge deserves to reach everyone who might benefit from it.
We are committed to bringing Sabbah's work to the English-speaking world.
This means translating key materials, making the conflict-disease correlations accessible, training practitioners in the methodology, and offering this understanding as part of our integrated approach to health and purpose.
We do not present Total Biology as a replacement for medical care. We present it as a missing dimension—the why behind the what. When someone understands the conflict that initiated their biological program, they gain something no scan or test can provide: meaning. And meaning, as we have discovered again and again, is itself medicine.
Two Paths to Understanding
Explore the foundational work of Dr. Hamer and the refined clinical approach developed by Claude Sabbah.
A Note on Approach
This work requires sensitivity and precision. Identifying conflicts is not about blaming people for their illness or suggesting that healing is simply a matter of "thinking positive." The biological programs run at levels far deeper than conscious thought.
What Total Biology offers is a map for exploration—a way of asking questions that often reveal surprising answers. Why this disease? Why now? Why this organ? When these questions are approached with skill and care, the body's logic often becomes visible. And visibility is the first step toward resolution.
The ancients knew that mind and body were one. Modern biology is finally explaining how.
The Body Speaks
Nature's Place offers educational resources on Total Biology, transgenerational analysis, and conflict identification. We are actively working to translate and systematize Claude Sabbah's extensive teachings for English-speaking practitioners and seekers.
This is not medical diagnosis or treatment—it is a framework for understanding the biological meaning of symptoms and supporting the body's innate capacity for resolution and repair.