About us
Where did MitoLife come from?
The founding of MitoLife s.r.o. was a very interesting coincidence of two fates - Hana and my husband Hynek... (Or why psychosomatics is sometimes not enough, and why even a nutritional therapist needs a medical education.)
Many of you already know our story. I wrote the first version sometime in 2015 when the company was founded. However, so much has changed and happened in that time that this story needs a "new edition".
We were less than 35 years old when a bolt of lightning and thunder suddenly struck our relationship out of the blue...
Like it was today. I'm sitting at home waiting for a call from my boyfriend. My cell phone rings and I don't know if I want to answer it because I know what's probably coming. And it came! "Honey, they sent me straight to oncology after tests, I'm sitting here, it's creepy, they say I have cancer." Hynek was diagnosed that day with stage 3 lymphatic cancer and a 10x3x6 cm tumor in his mediastinum. A tumor the size of my palm was crushing him right next to his heart. The doctors' suggestion to start conventional chemotherapy treatment immediately was rejected without hesitation. It was clear to him, too, ignorant of alternative approaches to illness, with no other alternative path, that this was not the way to go and that he needed to take a moment to breathe, look around and think before deciding which treatment path he would choose for himself.
An excerpt from a book that Hynek wrote a year after his cure as part of his therapy:
Day 1:
"I'm sitting in the hospital after a full day of tests. I'm used to hospitals, I've had knee surgery. At least this is a decent hospital, new, renovated, a showpiece of our otherwise terrible health care system. Thank you, Jenda, for arranging this for me. It's weird, a whole day of checkups and everyone's looking at me, so sympathetic. I think I'm in some kind of trouble. What am I gonna do if it's something serious? Dude, I'm not going to chemo if it's something like that. They're not gonna get me there, I'd rather die. I know, they treat you till you're dead... I'm not gonna do that. And watch out, the head doctor's coming. Hynk, please come with me, we're going to see our specialist. We go down the long corridor to the elevator, the doctor presses the second floor, next to the elevator number it says ONCOLOGY. Oh, great, here we go. The doctor is standing next to me in a classic white coat, fair hair, medium build, quite pleasant woman in her forties, maybe a little older. She's looking at me seriously, maybe rather sympathetically. I prefer not to even ask, however, she launches herself. Mr. Hynek, it's serious, I'm taking you to our oncology specialist. We'll need some more tests for a full diagnosis, but it is a cancer. I'm not reacting. I was expecting trouble, so here it is.
We get off on the second floor, the doctor leads me to the oncology specialist. We walk down the corridor, on the benches there are oncology patients waiting, some without hair, all ashen white, it looks like I'm about to be part of the team. I don't like the jersey, though. They look so resigned to me, waiting to die. I don't want to. I walk into the specialist's office and my doctor introduces me: Hello, Lenka, I'm taking this patient to you, as we spoke. I'll leave you alone now, I have some work to do. I shake hands with the doctor - an oncology specialist, an unpleasant lady with black hair, big glasses. I sit on the patient chair, she sits opposite me at her desk. The surgery is all green-tiled, cold, terrible energy from the surgery and the doctor starts. Mr. Hynek, you have a serious cancer consisting of a 10x6 cm mediastinal tumor, then she adds more sentences full of Latin and medical names I don't even remotely understand. Gradually I stop taking in what he is saying and withdraw into my own world.
What are you gonna do? You're gonna get treated to death here? I imagine the specialist doctor laying me down on the belt like a piece of meat, a row of meat-patients in front of me, and behind me she loads up her daily workload of more meat-patients, routinely poking and cutting what's left over. This is not me, this is not where I belong, I am not a piece of meat, I am not one of them. That's not how my story ends. I'm a warrior, I'm gonna take it. I've taken it so many times, even when they told me I couldn't..."
The strange thing for me was that it came up this late. Hynek had been attending the psychosomatic medicine clinic regularly and had been unwell for some time. He had long been in a difficult dispute over the care of his then young son. He had fought like a lion and had forgotten all about himself and how much stress this was causing him. He began to lose weight, he was malaise, his temperature was constantly higher. Simply put, six months before the diagnosis, he was already showing the typical symptoms, the so-called B-symptomatic symptoms of the disease. I know this now, but at that time I was not yet a doctor of alternative medicine and unfortunately I had no idea how much the psyche can affect the health of an individual even so strong and healthy until then. I could have guessed it, though, because I too developed a breast tumor a year after my divorce from my first husband. Fortunately, it was benign and my attending physician in Germany (our family doctor since the birth of my sons has been a Heilpraktiker - an alternative doctor in Germany - a homeopath) warned me at the time that it was just a warning and advised me to change a few things in my life so far. I obediently did what she advised because the idea that "it" could come back in its malignant version really scared me. The boys were only four and six years old. Maybe this experience of mine somehow stuck in Hynek's mind. He knew that he hadn't caught the cancer anywhere, but that he had somehow grown it in his own body and that only he and no one else could cure it.
Excerpt from the book:
"Actually, the best and worst part of my whole anabasis is that I can't make any excuses. I didn't catch cancer anywhere, nobody spat it on me, I just brought it on myself. I can't prove it, as they say nowadays, I don't have a study on it and I don't have 20 stamps to back it up. But that inner feeling, it's relentless. It's clearly telling me, you did this to yourself, man. Nobody's to blame but you with your struggle with life, pissing in the wind (as my dad would say).
A week ago, Dan came to me and said, "Dude, what you did to yourself is what you got." I guess he didn't even know how right he was. I couldn't help but agree with him, it's horrible, but it's true."
Everyone believes in something different and we at home believed in the power of nature and the power of us. Hippocrates said: "What no hunger can cure, no medicine can cure."
It was the only thing we could think of at the time. We had no plan or alternative treatment, just the desire, faith and love of the two of us and our children. Today, I must add that what we had most of all was the incredible courage and determination to get Hynek well. Because the way he approached the whole thing was not only crazy, but more importantly, very brave.
The first step was an immediate change of diet and a cleansing fast. Hynek himself knew that he had to cleanse himself and that this was his way. We started with a "classic" - the Breuss method, i.e. drinking juices. It wasn't to somehow "starve" the tumor, as is sometimes recommended. We really didn't think so, but we needed to get some time to do some research. Unfortunately, Hynek got very sick after these juices, so he went on a zero fast - that is, on water only.
The first step was an immediate change of diet and a cleansing fast. Hynek himself knew that he had to cleanse himself and that this was his way. We started with a "classic" - the Breuss method, i.e. drinking juices. It wasn't to somehow "starve" the tumor, as is sometimes recommended. We really didn't think so, but we needed to get some time to do some research. Unfortunately, Hynek got very sick after these juices, so he went on a zero fast - that is, on water only.
Excerpt from the book:
"Here we go again... in the morning!!! I'm waiting for the feeling of cold and wet blankets to arrive. I await my morning that I've been experiencing for 4 months, where I get up completely wiped out and wet by morning and there is an entire night's worth of t-shirt consumption on the floor. It's weird, the feeling doesn't come. I'm warm, touching my shirt, dry too. What's going on? I open my eyes in disbelief and the feeling of complete exhaustion doesn't even come. I lie in bed, enjoying the feeling of having slept and being refreshed after all this time. The sun is shining outside, I lie in bed under the covers, looking into the sun and a pleasant feeling of relaxation spreads over my body. My head starts to scramble. For the first time in a long time in a positive way. Could it be that the fast is starting to work? Actually, I think the fevers have stopped too, I don't really know, somehow I don't keep track. I'm not the type to take my temperature three times a day, the last time I took it was in the mountains. Where my thermometer is at home, I don't even know. I'll try to find it when I get up, now I'll enjoy the dry bed for a while... Looks like I'll be asleep for a while..."
In the meantime, and throughout the treatment, we went through everything that made the slightest bit of sense and could help Hynek on his road to recovery. We visited the well-known healer Vladimír Kafka and built mounds of healing at a distance, we went through the astrological psychotherapy of Mrs. Liliana, the family constellation of Mrs. Dana in Pribram. After the end of the fast we put Jonah on drops, herbs, oil and protein cure according to Dr. Johanna Budwig.
I decided to have a comprehensive treatment only at a clinic in Germany. HP Ralf Meyer (an alternative doctor) was then running his clinic based, among other things, on Cellsymbiosistherapy according to Dr. Heinricher Kremer in Pirmasens near the Swiss border. This comprehensive concept made the most sense to us and especially to Hynek. The basis of this concept was an anti-inflammatory diet based on intolerance tests, orthomolecular medicine based on blood tests, microbiome saturation based on stool analysis, infusion therapy to support mitochondrial function and cellular and non-cellular immunity based on all laboratory tests including urine, and psychotherapy, chelation therapy, lifestyle changes... In short, everything that complementary-whole therapy should include. Our attending physician was and still is our family friend HP Frank Stubenvoll. We have come to understand that cancer and the tumor itself is not "the" disease, but only a symptom, and that treatment must affect all areas of life.
All I remember is the feeling of incredible relief when I entered Frank's office. After almost 2 months of searching, groping, looking after Hynek on fasting, I could breathe a sigh of relief and hand him over into the hands of someone we trusted immensely from the very first moment. But even then we knew that it would be a very long and uncomfortable journey...
Eventually, Hynek got to the hospital he had avoided at the beginning. After four months of treatment in Germany and after an agreement with Frank and then MUDr. Trneny, he underwent a short treatment with cytostatics for a total of 6 doses at the hospital in Karlak. Of course, now he went there not as an oncology patient with the feeling he described at the beginning of his book, but as a man on the road to recovery, and especially by his own decision and conscious that this is also part of his journey, and that he really has his life in his hands. And that's where I see a big difference now.
We were notified of the cure by MUDr. Trneny exactly 5 months after the last dose was administered. I must add that during the whole time we continued both the infusion therapy and the supplementation with natural food supplements from the TISSO company, which produced products according to the recipes of the aforementioned Dr. Kremr.
I myself was so inspired and motivated by Hynek's journey that I decided to study alternative medicine in Munich, Germany, as a Heilpraktiker, take the state exams in medicine and bring the whole concept to the Czech Republic.
It is said that many people have founded their business based on their needs, and that is the case here.
The company's products have become an integral part of our lives. Hynek was still feeling well, he wasn't sick... So I asked the owners of HP, Albert Hesse and Markus Junge, to import these products to us.
The word was given and we set off with Hynek to the distant Wenden, where we gained exclusive representation for the distribution of TISSO products in our country and Slovakia.
And MitoLife was born!
Mito, as mitochondria, because the products are produced on the basis of mitochondrial medicine. Life, as in the life that is embedded in them by their composition and method of production.
How are we today and what do we draw from this journey?
Hynek is still with us, even though they gave him half a year to live. It became our mission to help people on the path to healing, and so with the great support of my husband I run my own holistic medicine and mental coaching practice in our little house outside Prague. Frank and I have become colleagues and together we offer therapeutic practices that are not yet as established and well known in his office in Karlsruhe. We hold seminars and try to spread the principles of Cellsymbiosis therapy further. Hynek continues to be under his care and regularly undergoes maintenance infusion and orthomolecular therapy as a prevention against recurrence.
We are grateful for our journey. We don't have a TV at home, we talk every night, we ride horses, and overall we have learned to appreciate the small simple pleasures, the things around us, our family, the people around us, and most importantly nature itself. If it weren't for nature, there would be no natural alternative medicine to draw from on our journey to healing.
In the time of covid, we fulfilled our dream and started our own permaculture garden, where we not only grow our own fruits and vegetables, but to give back to the "universe" somehow, we started to rescue insects, birds and reptiles and this year we are expecting our first hives. Thanks to the microbiome, we have become acutely aware of how important insects are to the health of our planet, and if we want to be healthy, the environment around us needs to be healthy too.
We firmly believe that our journey will continue to inspire and help as many people as possible find optimal health, energy and vitality.
Your Hynek and Hanka
Albert Hesse and Simone Axt with Hanka Lang at the opening of MitoLife. Albert Hesse is the founder of Tisso, whose products we distribute. It's really special to have the owner of the company come to the opening of a distributor.