The Walk That Wasn’t: Atherosclerosis (Showcase disease) and a Territorial Conflict
Male, 42 years, right-hander
Symptoms:
Normally, I went jogging two to three times per week, usually between five and seven kilometers. At the beginning of February, I suddenly noticed while jogging that after one and a half kilometers, my legs became extremely heavy, and my calves down to my feet hurt and kept getting heavier, so I had to sit down on a park bench to relieve my legs. After about three to five minutes of sitting and the associated relief, the pain was gone, and I was able to continue jogging. However, the pain returned within the next 500 meters, and I had to sit down again.
That was the first time I realized that something was wrong with my legs. At first, I blamed it on my daily form and thought to myself that surely, I would be able to jog pain-free again tomorrow. When in the following days and weeks, while jogging and soon also while normal walking, there was no improvement but rather a continuous deterioration, I knew that something was definitely wrong.
Back then, I searched for all kinds of reasons and causes for the problem. Was it due to my diet? Were it the ingredients from the COVID-19 vaccinations, which, according to some researchers, are now found in everyone’s blood (including the unvaccinated), and were now blocking my veins? I went for a massage once a week and had my legs and feet massaged very hard, often with great pain, which actually brought relief. However, only for a few days, before the pain returned while walking after a few minutes, and I had to sit down to relieve my legs. Without relieving my legs and the associated pain reduction, continuing to walk was often impossible due to the severe pain. It felt as if my legs were fixed in vises that were being tightened further. With every meter I had to walk, the pain became more unbearable.
The Diagnosis: Atherosclerosis / Showcase disease

Eventually, after the problem occurred at ever-shorter intervals and I finally stopped jogging altogether, I asked my friends and experts in Germanische Heilkunde for advice. They all agreed: This can only be the so-called Showcase disease (peripheral artery disease / “shop window disease”).
What is Atherosclerosis / Showcase disease?
I was explained that the “Showcase disease” gets its name because elderly women, who due to their age and the associated physical wear and tear often can no longer walk properly, typically stop for a long time at every shop window while strolling through the city, looking at everything closely. From the outside, the ladies stop because they are interested in the products in the window. In truth, however, they gather new strength through the stop to be able to walk to the next window. This is, of course, an exaggerated depiction and certainly does not apply to 100% of all cases, but it visualizes the problem very clearly.
These were exactly the symptoms I had. So the case was clear: I had atherosclerosis. The only question was: Why did this “disease” occur in me?
From the beginning of the SBS to the resolution of the conflict, about four months would pass. Only when the conflict came into resolution did I slowly understand what had happened.
The Conflict:
The problem was that shortly before I first felt these symptoms, I had booked a flight that was supposed to take me to Spain on the Camino de Santiago. The plan was to walk the Pilgrimage route Camino de Santiago (820 km) together with my girlfriend at the beginning of June.
The problem: I now only had four months left to finish my website, which was supposed to generate my income in the future. If I didn’t finish the website by the departure date, the consequence would be that, willingly or not, I would have to continue working on it while in Spain, if that was even possible.
I realized relatively quickly that the four-month time window until departure was too tight and that I could impossibly finish all the outstanding work before the start of the trip. So I bought myself a new, super lightweight laptop that I could easily carry in my backpack to – as I planned – walk half the day and work the other half. That is not at all the purpose of the Camino, but from my perspective at the time, it was the only realistic perspective to be able to do the trip at all.
In the following weeks, everything in my head revolved around this website and its completion. I worked on the project from morning until night. If I woke up at night and couldn’t fall back asleep, it was usually because I was mentally running through the things that still needed to be done so the website would finally be finished. The website was my number one priority because my financial future would depend on it. I think at this point one can speak of compulsive thinking (the problem occupied me day and night) and a track (website). So I was permanently on the track, as they say in Germanische Heilkunde.
The closer the Departure date came, the shorter the distances I could walk became. About two weeks before the planned trip, I had to walk up a 2-kilometer-long hill. I had to sit down every two minutes to relieve my legs. I felt a clear deterioration the closer the trip came. At that time, however, I was not aware of any connection.
The Conflict Resolution:
After much back and forth, I decided two weeks before the planned trip to invoke my trip cancellation insurance and cancel the trip.
I still remember well how I said to my girlfriend on the Sunday that would have been the departure day: “I am very glad that we canceled the trip for now. Now I can concentrate fully on my work and have enough time to finish the website.” I was extremely relieved.
The next morning, the day after the actual departure date, I noticed a tingling sensation in my throat and pharynx area. I know this feeling well, because it reliably announces an impending flu and has never deceived me. So I immediately knew that a conflict must have resolved, and it could only be connected to the trip and the cancellation. Over the course of the day, the flu symptoms became stronger, and at night sleep was out of the question. My nose ran, I had fits of fever, the sore throat became more and more intense, and I woke up in the middle of the night with my T-shirt soaked in sweat. The flu symptoms persisted for about eight days before they subsided more or less completely. That I was in a healing phase was absolutely clear to me – only I would not have expected that it would also be connected to my claudication.
I only noticed this a few days later (but still during the symptom/healing phase) when I walked to the supermarket to do some shopping. The hill I had to walk up on the way back suddenly caused me no problems at all. I had not the slightest sign of pain in my calves or feet. That same evening, I walked another route that I had walked with my girlfriend a week earlier with great pain, and which was also slightly uphill. And again: I had no pain in my legs. I could hardly believe it.
Exactly what my friends from Germanische Heilkunde had told me a few months earlier had happened: “You have the Showcase disease, and the reason for it is most likely your planned trip. You either have to cancel it or travel there as quickly as possible, because if you keep postponing the decision, the symptoms will remain.”
That’s exactly how it turned out. I had finally decided to reschedule the trip and cancel it for now, which resolved my conflict that had been building up for months. As I learned in the case debriefing, the website can be seen as my territory, which makes absolute sense. I would never have come up with the idea myself that a website could represent a territory, but apparently it is so. Thus, I resolved a territorial conflict and at the same time realized that a territory does not always have to be about a partner, a child, or an actual territory (house, property, workplace …) in the classical sense.
I am so fascinated by the events surrounding this claudication, how it arose in me and how it was resolved, that I am writing this testimonial to share it with my fellow human beings – in the hope that, based on my experiences, the penny might drop for other affected individuals as well, and insight, and thus conflict resolution, can occur.
If I didn’t know Germanische Heilkunde, I would now believe in spontaneous healing. But because I know it, I know that everything is simply logical and that Dr. Hamer gave us the greatest discovery in human history.
Comment by GHK Academy:
Atherosclerosis (commonly also called “Showcase disease”) is the hanging healing of a self-esteem conflict involving the leg veins, which has to do with walking. Not being able to walk or not being allowed to walk.
Conventional medicine, unaware of the cause, also refers to the symptomatology as “vascular calcification.”
As this testimonial very clearly shows, it is not only older people who are affected – it can certainly also affect younger people, or even children. Just as there is no “disease” (SBS) that would only affect children (childhood diseases) or only affect elderly people. But depending on age and life situation, one is more susceptible to certain conflicts.
The author of the testimonial was Helmut Pilhar’s webmaster, built his homepage, and helped us translators build our respective GHK-websites in our own language. So he is familiar with Germanische Heilkunde, one would think. However, it keeps happening that he has to turn to his friends with his symptoms to get the last important but decisive clue about what he has and what he should do. Too quickly does he fall back into old conventional medical thinking: “diet, poisoning, etc.”
Not everyone has such friends available at all times, who at the last moment give the decisive clue to find a conflict resolution or avoid the track – and atherosclerosis is not something to mess with. Conventional medical “therapy” quickly cuts off your legs.
This testimonial is truly valuable because the author describes in great detail and comprehensibly the situation he was in, which ultimately led to his atherosclerosis.
What I would like to add from my perspective, however, is the recommendation that everyone seriously and systematically studies Germanische Heilkunde themselves. Anyone who wants to apply GHK for themselves must come into biological thinking themselves. As long as one haven’t truly understood GHK – based on the own experiences on the own body – one will not get into biological thinking. And as long as one is not in biological thinking (at any times), one will always be tempted to look for a possible cause or cure for the symptoms in an absolutely wrong, and therefore dangerous, place like poisoning or diet.
Having learned Germanische Heilkunde only “partially” or in a “distorted and modified” form is meaningless and dangerous in an emergency.
Everyone is free to study Dr. Hamer’s legacy in various “alternative groups” on the internet. But what really counts in an emergency, what decides between healing or disaster, is whether one have access to the complete and unadulterated knowledge of Germanische Heilkunde – or not. Therefore, my repeatedly given advice to everyone interested: When it comes to Dr. Hamer, always only reach for the original, for Germanische Heilkunde.
So I wish my friend, that he will use the weeks on the pilgrimage route in Santiago de Compostela to deepen his knowledge of Germanische Heilkunde and practice his biological thinking.
Thank you very much.






