Dr. Herbert Koerner                        
Engineer - Doctor - Circumnavigator

Swim Faster?

Performance Boost for Athletes  (Quotes from Pain-Free Through Human Cybernetics, pages 15, 112, 116, and 117)

In addition to all the successes, especially with chronic pain patients who are usually considered to have exhausted all conventional medical treatment options, human cybernetic treatments show an unexpected but logical "side effect" that no one had initially anticipated. Injured athletes not only got rid of their pain through the therapy. After the treatment, they suddenly achieved significantly better athletic results than just before.
Scientists at the Institute for Applied Human Cybernetics in Berlin then investigated this performance-enhancing aspect more closely—among others, with dancers from Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast and swimmers at the Berlin Olympic Training Center. In both the athletes and the physically demanding dancers, the "energy boost" from the human cybernetic treatment was ultimately scientifically confirmed using biophysical measurement protocols and changes in blood values.


Energy Packages for the Olympics

"What does THAT nutcase want here?" Beate Ludewig reacted with considerable irritation when I showed up one day at the edge of the training pool in the Berlin swimming hall. This wasn't a public bathhouse where anyone could just walk in as they pleased, but a training facility for elite athletes. The current national youth coach of the German Swimming Federation (DSV) was, at the time, the coach of the swimming relay team at the national training center.


Energy Impulses at the Poolside 

The core of the collaboration was initially to be the human cybernetic treatment of those athletes of Ludewig's in whom I had already identified an energetic imbalance. I was able to administer the Atlas Impulse to the swimmers directly at the poolside without much effort. And something almost unbelievable happened: The treated athletes experienced a significant increase in performance almost immediately.
The coach was thrilled. But I wanted more. This was my first opportunity to scientifically substantiate the effects that human cybernetic intervention can have on the regulatory circuits of the human body.


Lactate Test as Evidence

Normally, the body obtains the energy it needs for metabolic processes and muscle work by "burning" fat and carbohydrates from food or from body reserves. Inhaled oxygen helps break down the carbohydrates in this process.
However, above a certain level of physical exertion, another metabolic pathway becomes necessary to satisfy the energy demands of the stressed muscles. In this pathway, carbohydrates are broken down without the aid of oxygen. The waste product is lactose, scientifically known as lactate. ... In sports medicine, lactate is considered a clear indicator of an athlete's endurance capacity. This value is usually determined using a tiny drop of blood obtained with a small prick from the earlobe. The fitter the athlete, the later their blood lactate level rises after the same level of exertion.
Therefore, for a meaningful lactate test, the intensity of exercise is gradually increased in sports science studies. Accordingly, blood samples are taken frequently, and the measured values of all samples, along with the corresponding times from the race watch, are recorded in tables. This creates a completely individual performance curve for each athlete.
It was precisely here that I made a spectacular discovery: We had measured the lactate level at the end of each lap and found that it rose significantly more slowly in swimmers I had previously treated than in the control group. This means that the athlete sent out into the lane with the energy boost expended less energy than their teammates to achieve the performance. This provided the first proof that the Atlas Medical intervention produces measurable physiological effects in athletes—in this case, the mobilization of energy reserves.


Stopwatch Reveals Training Success

At the same time, coach Ludewig, using her stopwatch at the poolside, recorded a significant improvement in lap times among the athletes I was treating. This provided further proof that the human cybernetic impulse directly impacts athletic performance.