Electromedicine

[Dynamique]

The article about electric bandages brought this to mind. It was included in a recent e-newsletter from Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a practicing cardiologist on the East coast who also does a lot of R&D and, of course, makes money selling the results.
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[from the 10 January 2009 issue]
Let’s Talk About Electromedicine -- It’s not nearly as strange as you may think…

About a decade into my career, I became aware of a curious pattern: There always seemed to be an increase in patient complaints, usually arrhythmias and chest pain, around the time of a full moon or intensified solar flare activity.

I don’t remember exactly how I connected those dots—it may have been a patient who said something, because I had no clue how to explain the phenomenon. Nonetheless, it piqued my curiosity, and I began looking for legitimate reasons for the connection. My search led me into the field of electromedicine.

The term electromedicine may sound way out there and conjure images of Bela Lugosi, but electromedicine is an accepted concept, at least in diagnostics, and it even includes everyday medical tools such as EKGs and MRIs. EKGs, for example, measure electrical activity in the heart, and MRIs use radio waves to produce detectable magnetic fields that can be captured visually and analyzed.

Less accepted, but gaining increased medical attention and respect, are electromagnetic treatment devices such as pulsed electromagnetic field units, which address pain and musculoskeletal disorder. Pain-reducing transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machines that emit low electrical voltage have been around for years.

Over time, my research and conversations with experts in this field have helped me understand how electromagnetic events occurring in the heavens can cause a response—positive or negative—in the heart, the brain, and the rest of the body. In fact, I participated in a telephone seminar sponsored by the Energy Medicine Foundation earlier this month that touched upon some of these same issues.

We’re All Electrical Beings

You may be thinking, “Doc, you’ve gone off the deep end. EKGs, I get. But space? The full moon? I’ve always heard that’s just a myth.”

I think many people think this way because we usually talk about our bodies and our health in terms of biochemical activity—how chemicals, cells, and nutrients interact, and the physiological responses they produce. Electromedicine, however, requires a different perspective. To understand it—and accept it—we must look at ourselves from a bioelectrical point of view, and consider what factors can influence our health through electrical pathways.

The first step in doing this is to understand that all beings are conglomerations of electromagnetic energy. Remember the Periodic Table from high school science class? Everything—including our bodies—is made from elements in that table. And because each of those elements carries a specific electrical charge, that makes us electrical beings from the ground up.

Our bodies function—for better or for worse—as dynamic electrical circuits. Cells constantly transmit and receive energy while going about the biochemical processes necessary to sustain life, and each type of cell has a “frequency range” in which it operates. Healthy cells, for instance, oscillate at higher frequencies than do unhealthy cells, such as cancer cells.

James Oschman, PhD, a top electromedicine expert and author of Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003) says all “organisms (are) poised to respond to minute ‘whispers’ in the electromagnetic environment,” whether those fluctuations come from near or far. I’ve talked to Dr. Oschman on a number of occasions, and he’s helped me understand how our “bioelectrical makeup” can be upset by electromagnetic fluctuations and how those disruptions can lead to illness.

Manmade electromagnetic fields also can influence our bodies. Perhaps the most well-documented effect of this is the incidence of leukemia in children who live near high-voltage power lines. Electric devices such as hair dryers, computers, televisions, cell phones, and radios also produce “electropollution,” some of which can radiate directly into your tissue.

Unfortunately, you can’t see or feel the effects of electropollution, though it can slowly poison you over time. I believe that it will someday be named as the cause of many disorders that are difficult to manage and diagnose, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. We did not have those ailments 100 years ago, but the number of people suffering from them has increased as technology has become ever more pervasive in our lives.

I feel so strongly about this area of medicine that I wrote a full article about it in my printed newsletter, Heart, Health & Nutrition. The response to it, as you might imagine, was overwhelming because most doctors simply aren’t talking about it.

[from the 24 January 2009 issue]
Some people aren’t bothered at all by electropollution, but others can develop headaches, arthritic pain, insomnia, chest discomfort and arrhythmia, anxiety, and depression as a result of exposure to transformers, fluorescent lights, microwave ovens, as well as the other common household appliances mentioned earlier.

The connection between these conditions and electropollution is rarely diagnosed, and even though people who complain of these symptoms may be prescribed medication for them, the problems rarely go away.

You will almost never see or feel the effects of electropollution, yet it can slowly poison you over time, and it can adversely affect your heart. That’s what I want to talk with you about today…

Electropollution and Your Heart

Electropollution has the specific potential to reduce heart rate variability (HRV), a term that refers to the imperceptible variations in the heart’s beat-to-beat interval. These variations are governed by breathing and other physiological rhythms. HRV is currently regarded as an extremely accurate indicator of stress as well as a predictor of sudden cardiac death.

People with low variability are less able to “go with the flow” when faced with external stressors and are more prone to stress-related disorders, including cardiovascular disease. And because the heart’s rhythm is itself a response to electric impulses from the sinus node (a small area of tissue in the right atrium), electromagnetic disturbances can push people with low HRV into cardiac arrest, arrhythmia, and stroke.

Sadly enough, a lot of people suffer with poor HRV. And for those who also take alpha-blocking drugs, which are commonly used to treat high blood pressure and prostate disease, HRV can be exacerbated.

As I’ve written about in my printed newsletter, Heart, Health & Nutrition, one way to measure and increase your HRV is through the use of a handheld device called the StressEraser. Other HRV-enhancing options include exercise, meditation, and supplementation with fish oil (1–2 g daily for healthy people, and 2–4 g for people with heart disease).

Getting Rid of Electropollution

I encourage everyone to discharge electropollution from their body, but especially people who have arrhythmia or low HRV.

One free, simple way to do this is to ground yourself by walking barefoot on dirt, sand, grass, or unpainted cement. The more time you can spend directly connected—skin to earth—the better. You are literally, figuratively, and electrically grounding yourself. Try sitting and reading for 15 minutes or a half hour in your backyard, weather permitting of course, with your bare feet on the ground.

When connected to the earth in this way, the electropollution that has accumulated in the body is naturally pulled into the earth, and “activated” electrons produced from solar radiation on the surface of the earth are drawn into your body. In essence, you trade damaging energy for healing energy.

[Yubajeff]

This post almost had me charged up, until the absurdity of the final paragraph cast the entire article in a different electromagnetic spectrum ie light.
The concept of ridding the body of "electropollution" is ludicrous, givien that we live in an undeniable and easily measurable sea of "electropollution". We are continually bombarded with electromagnetic radiation, which is proven mutagenic and carcinogenic. There is no known lower limit of safety: the dose/response curve is linear and remains positive to the zero point of the x and y axis. Much of this exposure is the result of our own daily choices: the use of cell phones, cordless phones, bluetooth devices, loitering near the microwave oven, and living near high voltage power lines. Much is the unavoidable exposure to omnipresent FM, AM, UHF, VHF , UVA, UVB, etc. Some of the most intense exposure results from, you guessed it, the medical establishment, in the form of xrays, CT scans (now hitting the medical literature for its risk in children), and most likely but yet to be proven MRI scans. Of course therapeutic radiation, while ocassionally life-saving (Hodgkins Disease) or breast-saving, is well proven to increase the risk of a second primary malignancy; a fact known for many years. At least one prominent neurosurgeon agrees with my casual observation of an increase in brain cancer incidence, likely due to cell phone use, and expects an epidemic over the next 10-20 years. I would also look to electomagnetic pollution as causative for cancers that have few identified risk factors, such as pancreas, some leukemias, and certain lung cancers in non-smokers. Of course nearly all skin and thyroid gland cancer is known to be due to electromagnetic energy exposure, whether its is UV light or "trace" amounts of radioactive fall-out.My own father suffered thyroid cancer about 20 years after serving in Asia during WW2, at the time of the only 2 wartime atomic bombs. The cancer incidence around the necrotic epicenter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was staggering, as expected, and fitted the linear dose/response curve noted above exactly as the science predicts. The same phenomen was seen in a low key way at Chernoble. My Dad's oncologists at Cedar Sinai in LA continued to compound the problem by giving him annual radioactive iodine scans every year for 10 years, until I figured out what was what and insisted they put a stop to it (a somewhat courageous act for a timid young pre-med student, I might modestly add). He has been fine ever since, now 87 years old, ironically living in Albuequerque NM near the lab that built those bombs! The only side effect was acute hepatitis B contracted from a blood transfusion during the thyroid surgery, a "radical neck dissection" it was called.
So the kindest way I can describe the author here is "clueless". Let's not put our collective head in the sand, sorting colored glass for recycling, when the atmosphere is completely infested with bad rays. Interestingly it is all simply and immediately reversible by plugging the plug on all these devices, unlike the material pollution of our water, soil, and air. Depressingly, it will likely be rather late in the game when someone in authority recognizes this possibility,and even longer before action is taken. That is the history of medicine, if you look at it. Does anyone else remember the years before cigarettes were accepted as carcinogenic and fetotoxic, in the face of massive and easily obtainable epidemiological and pathophysiological evidence. I'm surprised academia didn't insist on a double blind, placebo controlled study (like they do for Prozac, et al)...
We no longer need expose ourselves to "second hand smoke" (another overly hyped distracting tactic, in my view), but where do we go to avoid EM waves? Maybe one of those Radon Mines where folks go to heal their arthritis. The Radon is probably less harmful than the EM in the open atmosphere! AS for me, I'm going to submit completely and study the theremin.


The article about electric bandages brought this to mind. It was included in a recent e-newsletter from Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a practicing cardiologist on the East coast who also does a lot of R&D and, of course, makes money selling the results.
----------
[from the 10 January 2009 issue]
Let’s Talk About Electromedicine -- It’s not nearly as strange as you may think…

About a decade into my career, I became aware of a curious pattern: There always seemed to be an increase in patient complaints, usually arrhythmias and chest pain, around the time of a full moon or intensified solar flare activity.

I don’t remember exactly how I connected those dots—it may have been a patient who said something, because I had no clue how to explain the phenomenon. Nonetheless, it piqued my curiosity, and I began looking for legitimate reasons for the connection. My search led me into the field of electromedicine.

The term electromedicine may sound way out there and conjure images of Bela Lugosi, but electromedicine is an accepted concept, at least in diagnostics, and it even includes everyday medical tools such as EKGs and MRIs. EKGs, for example, measure electrical activity in the heart, and MRIs use radio waves to produce detectable magnetic fields that can be captured visually and analyzed.

Less accepted, but gaining increased medical attention and respect, are electromagnetic treatment devices such as pulsed electromagnetic field units, which address pain and musculoskeletal disorder. Pain-reducing transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machines that emit low electrical voltage have been around for years.

Over time, my research and conversations with experts in this field have helped me understand how electromagnetic events occurring in the heavens can cause a response—positive or negative—in the heart, the brain, and the rest of the body. In fact, I participated in a telephone seminar sponsored by the Energy Medicine Foundation earlier this month that touched upon some of these same issues.

We’re All Electrical Beings

You may be thinking, “Doc, you’ve gone off the deep end. EKGs, I get. But space? The full moon? I’ve always heard that’s just a myth.”

I think many people think this way because we usually talk about our bodies and our health in terms of biochemical activity—how chemicals, cells, and nutrients interact, and the physiological responses they produce. Electromedicine, however, requires a different perspective. To understand it—and accept it—we must look at ourselves from a bioelectrical point of view, and consider what factors can influence our health through electrical pathways.

The first step in doing this is to understand that all beings are conglomerations of electromagnetic energy. Remember the Periodic Table from high school science class? Everything—including our bodies—is made from elements in that table. And because each of those elements carries a specific electrical charge, that makes us electrical beings from the ground up.

Our bodies function—for better or for worse—as dynamic electrical circuits. Cells constantly transmit and receive energy while going about the biochemical processes necessary to sustain life, and each type of cell has a “frequency range” in which it operates. Healthy cells, for instance, oscillate at higher frequencies than do unhealthy cells, such as cancer cells.

James Oschman, PhD, a top electromedicine expert and author of Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003) says all “organisms (are) poised to respond to minute ‘whispers’ in the electromagnetic environment,” whether those fluctuations come from near or far. I’ve talked to Dr. Oschman on a number of occasions, and he’s helped me understand how our “bioelectrical makeup” can be upset by electromagnetic fluctuations and how those disruptions can lead to illness.

Manmade electromagnetic fields also can influence our bodies. Perhaps the most well-documented effect of this is the incidence of leukemia in children who live near high-voltage power lines. Electric devices such as hair dryers, computers, televisions, cell phones, and radios also produce “electropollution,” some of which can radiate directly into your tissue.

Unfortunately, you can’t see or feel the effects of electropollution, though it can slowly poison you over time. I believe that it will someday be named as the cause of many disorders that are difficult to manage and diagnose, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. We did not have those ailments 100 years ago, but the number of people suffering from them has increased as technology has become ever more pervasive in our lives.

I feel so strongly about this area of medicine that I wrote a full article about it in my printed newsletter, Heart, Health & Nutrition. The response to it, as you might imagine, was overwhelming because most doctors simply aren’t talking about it.

[from the 24 January 2009 issue]
Some people aren’t bothered at all by electropollution, but others can develop headaches, arthritic pain, insomnia, chest discomfort and arrhythmia, anxiety, and depression as a result of exposure to transformers, fluorescent lights, microwave ovens, as well as the other common household appliances mentioned earlier.

The connection between these conditions and electropollution is rarely diagnosed, and even though people who complain of these symptoms may be prescribed medication for them, the problems rarely go away.

You will almost never see or feel the effects of electropollution, yet it can slowly poison you over time, and it can adversely affect your heart. That’s what I want to talk with you about today…

Electropollution and Your Heart

Electropollution has the specific potential to reduce heart rate variability (HRV), a term that refers to the imperceptible variations in the heart’s beat-to-beat interval. These variations are governed by breathing and other physiological rhythms. HRV is currently regarded as an extremely accurate indicator of stress as well as a predictor of sudden cardiac death.

People with low variability are less able to “go with the flow” when faced with external stressors and are more prone to stress-related disorders, including cardiovascular disease. And because the heart’s rhythm is itself a response to electric impulses from the sinus node (a small area of tissue in the right atrium), electromagnetic disturbances can push people with low HRV into cardiac arrest, arrhythmia, and stroke.

Sadly enough, a lot of people suffer with poor HRV. And for those who also take alpha-blocking drugs, which are commonly used to treat high blood pressure and prostate disease, HRV can be exacerbated.

As I’ve written about in my printed newsletter, Heart, Health & Nutrition, one way to measure and increase your HRV is through the use of a handheld device called the StressEraser. Other HRV-enhancing options include exercise, meditation, and supplementation with fish oil (1–2 g daily for healthy people, and 2–4 g for people with heart disease).

Getting Rid of Electropollution

I encourage everyone to discharge electropollution from their body, but especially people who have arrhythmia or low HRV.

One free, simple way to do this is to ground yourself by walking barefoot on dirt, sand, grass, or unpainted cement. The more time you can spend directly connected—skin to earth—the better. You are literally, figuratively, and electrically grounding yourself. Try sitting and reading for 15 minutes or a half hour in your backyard, weather permitting of course, with your bare feet on the ground.

When connected to the earth in this way, the electropollution that has accumulated in the body is naturally pulled into the earth, and “activated” electrons produced from solar radiation on the surface of the earth are drawn into your body. In essence, you trade damaging energy for healing energy.