About Us

Alternative Health Improvement Center (AHIC) is an alternative health clinic offering natural approaches to health. Instead of diagnosing and treating a disease or health condition, we evaluate to find the reason why the body isn't healing. We then use natural techniques to assist the body to regain its ability to heal. At that point, the BODY heals the underlying cause of the disease, which ends the person's health problem. More important, with the body now able to heal, this problem won't return and the person will have a higher overall level of health.

At AHIC, we specialize in difficult or "impossible" cases that have not responded well to other treatment (either medical or alternative). We have found that getting results on these difficult cases is possible because of the vast power of the body to heal itself. Our job is just to get the stops out of the way so the body is free to heal.

We are often met with skepticism on the possible effectiveness of this type of approach. This skepticism turns to amazement as patient after patient experiences for the first time the incredible power that their own body has to heal itself.

If one examines this idea--that the body can heal itself--there are a couple of interesting observations:

1. Obviously, the body heals itself. In fact, no drug or surgical technique has ever done anything but made it easier for the body to heal. In the final analysis, only the body can rebuild tissue and repair function to get back to a state of improved health.

2. Health care in the United States has increasingly fallen under the influence of big business, especially the pharmaceutical companies. There has been a long-term effort to convince the public that the only way to be "healthy" is to take more and more expensive drugs and have (frequently needless) expensive surgeries. The cost of this is hidden in "health insurance" which is paid for in lowered wages by employees, but presented as a "benefit." Allowing the truth about the body's own ability to heal itself to surface would be disastrous to the entire system . This could be a reason many people aren't familiar with our approach to health care.

At AHIC , we use many tools. These include:

• Clinical nutrition (exact supplementation using whole food supplements to give the body the materials and tools it needs to rebuild. Many nutritional products we use are from natural food sources grown on a 1000-acre organic farm in Palmyra, Wisconsin. See http://standardprocess.com).

• Heart Rate Variability testing (computer evaluation of the autonomic nervous system to determine overall physiological function. See http://www.nervexpress.com).
  
  
• ART ("Autonomic Response Testing" a technique for testing the autonomic nervous system using the body's own reflexes. Originally developed in Germany, this technique allows an exact evaluation and eliminates guessing and shotgun approaches).
  
  
• NRT ("Nutrition Response Testing" a reflex-testing technique that allows very exact evaluation of the causes of health issues and the clinical nutrition needed to assist healing).
  
  
• AACT ("Advanced Allergy Clearing Technique" a method of assisting the body to desensitize itself of allergies and other issues that block nervous system communication channels).
  
  
• Functional Rejuvenation Technique: an acupressure technique used to assist the body to improve hormonal and nervous communication).
  
  
• Various light-force chiropractic techniques (used to assist in nerve communication problems to free up the body's ability to heal itself).
  
  
• Dietary and exercise advice (advice is specific to the patient, one diet doesn't fit all. Our recommendations are designed to fit into a busy lifestyle and are based more on education than lists of do's and don'ts. We work with patients on a step-by-step basis as little or as much as necessary to bring about a healthy enough diet to allow our treatment program to work).

Patients coming to AHIC for the first time are carefully evaluated, then given a written report of findings. A specialist then works with the patient, carefully going over all test results, the reasons WHY the patient has health problems and the exact program required to restore their body's ability to heal itself. Every patient who starts a program with us knows exactly what they will have to do on their program and has had every question answered before their first treatment. It is our policy to never accept a patient we can't help.

Alternative Health Improvement Center is owned and operated by Dr. Melodie M. Billiot, certified as a Doctor of Chiropractic by the states of Georgia and Florida . The practitioners working at AHIC have been hand-picked and trained personally by Dr. Billiot.

	Dr. Billiot has been in practice since 1993, and has never stopped researching more effective ways to help her patients. She is certified in CRA clinical nutrition, N.A.E.T. allergy elimination techniques, Advanced Allergy Clearing Technique, JMT (auto immune therapies), NRT clinical nutrition techniques, several chiropractic techniques, and has studied extensively in Homeopathy, herbology, Chinese medicine, clinical nutrition and pain control using nutrition. She gives regular talks to public groups on health and nutrition as well as teaching seminars to other doctors on the techniques she uses in her practice.
Dr. Melodie M. Billiot
From childhood, Dr. Billiot envisioned herself as a medical doctor. During her college years, she was enrolled in a premed curriculum when she took a summer job with a chiropractor. Her experience that summer changed her entire viewpoint on health care. She became determined to find out WHY people are unhealthy and to find the causes of illness instead of just treating the symptoms. Instead of returning to medical school, Dr. Billiot enrolled at Life University, graduating summa cum laude as valedictorian of her class with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree and a BS in nutrition. Alternative Health Improvement Center was created in 1998, integrating several holistic techniques and advanced patient management practices.  The clinic moved to its current location in 2000, with 6,000 sq. feet on 3 floors. Dr Billiot has never stopped researching ways to get better and faster results with patients. Her patient treatment system, BILLIOT HEALTH RESTORATION METHOD, integrates bioenergetic and chiropractic techniques with clinical nutrition and diet and lifestyle correction. These treatment techniques are governed and coordinated with multiple evaluation techniques using reflex analysis, biocomputer and lab testing and program management by statistics.