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Detoxify or Die
Dr Sherry Rogers
Chapter on Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields
and the QRS |
Dr. Sherry A. Rogers M.D. on the Quantron
Resonance System
Injury and Healing Generate Electricity
So let me make it as simple as possible.
You know that the difference between you and me alive versus
you and me dead is that the electricity has stopped flowing.
The EKG and EEG are flat. We have the exact same composite of
chemicals, but the flow of electrons has ceased. The living body
is electrical in nature, since being alive requires electrons
to be continually flowing in and out of our cell membranes. In
fact we capitalize on this electricity by measuring the flow
of electricity in the heart with the EKG or electrocardiogram.
We measure the electricity of the brain with the EEG or electroencephalogram.
We measure the electricity in a muscle with the electromyogram
or EMG. And we define death as absence of electrical signals.
Years ago physiologists measured other
currents that were generated in living animals. First they found
there was a measurable ''current of injury'' generated after
they cut off salamanders' tails. There was likewise a measurable
current of healing. Next they wondered if they could accelerate
healing by duplicating and modifying this current. As it turned
out they not only speeded healing, but they caused total regeneration
of a new tail. Soon they learned how the frequency, direction,
pattern, and strength of the fields were very important for obtaining
maximum regeneration.
But these researchers had a much more magnanimous
goal in mind than re-growing amputated salamander tails. For
out of these experiments came work that allowed orthopedic surgeons
to heal non-union fractures with pulsed electromagnetic fields.
One of the worst problems in orthopedics (the specialty of bones
and joint surgery) is a nonunion fracture. In other words, x-ray-proven
fractures sometimes just do not heal. This is very prevalent
with auto accidents and in wartime soldiers.
Months and sometimes years later, x-rays
confirm no healing has taken place; there has been no union of
the two ends of bone. This is extremely scary because it can
end in serious osteomyelitis (infection) from which the person
can die. And as long as the two ends of broken bones are not
united, the limb is useless. But by placing the non-union fracture
in a pulsating electromagnetic field, bones have healed. Many
of these cases of non-union fractures were of years' duration,
having failed surgery, pins, metal plates, casts, braces and
all sorts of immobilization and stabilization.
After these successes, orthopedic surgeons
tried specific pulsating electromagnetic fields on all sorts
of other painful diagnoses. Electromagnetic fields were successfully
used to heal tennis elbow, elbow and heel tendinitis, osteoarthritic
knees, calcified shoulder tendinitis, rotator cuff tendinitis
and even reverse osteoporosis of the hips and spine. As well,
there has been marked improvement in healing damaged or severed
nerves (Rusovan, McDevitt, Raji, Wilson, Sisken, Jacobson, Subramanian),
as well as amelioration of Parkinson's disease (Sandyk) and multiple
sclerosis (Sandyk).
Osteoporosis Cured With Pulsed Electromagnetic
Fields
With more than 20 million people with osteoporosis
alone in the United States, it makes it imperative that folks
should know about this safe, natural, effective cure. For we
have no other medical cure for osteoporosis. Sure we can put
people on a lifetime of estrogens or estrogen mimics like Evista,
or on Fosamax and other biphosphonates that can cause a myriad
of side effects and don't restore the missing minerals to bone.
All of these drugs merely, once again, turn off a normal pathway,
this time of breaking down and then rebuilding new bone. They
make it so that you don't normally break down and remodel bones,
but you merely keep the same old bone.
With this physiology in mind where normal
bone turnover is halted, I wonder if it will increase the storage
of cancer causing cadmium and other heavy metals that notoriously
deposit in bone. Studies (TW 2002) already point toward increased
cancers with these drugs. And with millions of Americans taking
NSAIDs daily, osteoporosis and the need for hip and knee replacements
will continue to flourish even more. For these medications, by
stopping the body from making new joint cartilage (they inhibit
glycosaminoglycan synthesis), cause a steady deterioration of
joints, eventually requiring joint replacement (Shield).
Anyway in spite of all of this knowledge
I was still skeptical until I got tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis)
again. Having had it numerous times, I knew it was a sign of
poor tennis technique, and that I needed more lessons. I also
knew I would be in for agonizing pain for the next six months
no matter what I did, since stopping tennis is never an option.
You can imagine my surprise when within 24 hours the pain was
completely gone. I have tested this on five other separate occasions,
and every time the QRS has come through within hours or two days
maximum. This is unheard of in medicine. At least I thought it
was until I came across papers 20 years old showing that far-thinking
physicians have been doing this all along for not only elbows,
but ankles, knees, and shoulders (Lee, Binder, Pilla, Devereaux,
Pennington). Next I read a personal report from a Harvard medical
school faculty physician in her 40s with resistant osteoporosis.
She improved her continually deteriorating bone scan 6% in less
than a year with using the QRS. She was ecstatic, since nothing
else had worked before this.
The Quantron Resonance System (QRS) is
the result of German technology. There are currently four ways
to treat the body with this pulsed electromagnetic device, with
more on the way.
(1) There is a pen-like applicator (which
I used right on the olecranon bursa for tennis elbow, and have
used it successfully on teeth roots when they have been traumatized).
(2) There is also an applicator pad for small areas like the
elbow, shoulder, back, feet or the heart, for example.
(3) A full-body mattress is available for general whole body
regeneration as well as for promoting a restful sleep.
(4) There's also a chair.
Briefly, each one of these comes with a
control box that has ten different settings. If you want to go
for the maximum health, I would certainly recommend adding the
QRS to your anti-aging plan. In addition, the whole family can
benefit, plus you have it to use forever.
An instruction booklet accompanies the
QRS, giving guidelines for which of the ten settings is appropriate
for various conditions. As an example, for pinpoint pain such
as tennis elbow or a painful tooth after biting on something
hard, use the pen applicator on the point at setting #10. Do
three 8 minute sessions three times a day. If you are worse in
any respect, you'll need to back off to a lower and tolerable
setting. I suggest you also buy the inexpensive EMF meter, the
Cell Sensor, so you know whether you have hooked it up properly.
You can also measure electrical activity around your house.
For a sprained back, shoulder, knee or
ankle, the pad is more convenient. For osteoporosis of the hips,
use the entire mattress. The dose tolerated by many would be
one or two 8 minute sessions in the morning, one or two 8 minute
sessions in the afternoon, and one or two 8 minute sessions in
the evening. How much time you spend depends on how fast you
want to correct your condition, and how damaged you are. Many
report reversing osteoporosis with only eight minutes twice a
day for 4-8 months. Meanwhile, some need to do only 1-2 settings
on #1 before bed to stimulate the brain waves of relaxation.
This is also useful in the middle of the night if you awaken
with insomnia.
As with any modalities, there is huge individual
variation. Although I have never seen them, I bet there are people
who could only tolerate two minutes at #1. Therefore just as
with a sauna, there are folks who will have to use very short
times initially and build up.
The beauty of the QRS, as with the sauna,
is that there is no time lost, for you can read, listen or watch
instructive material. I absolutely adore getting healthier and
not having to waste any time doing it.
How Does the QRS Work?
The body is made up of all types of cells,
each having their specialized functions. Muscle cells conduct
electricity and contract causing movement, nerve cells conduct
electricity and transmit chemical messages to turn on adjacent
cells, which could be thyroid cells to secrete hormone or liver
cells to detoxify a chemical. Because cells are all very unique,
I'm going to talk about a generic average cell, which of course
doesn't exist. But basically a cell has a membrane or an envelope
surrounding it to hold its guts in. When that membrane gets damaged,
by eating trans fatty acids, accumulating heavy metals or plasticizers,
or having deficiencies of minerals or fatty acids like DHA, the
cell membrane leaks. This can cause body swelling (edema) or
fluid retention. If the leaking is really bad, the guts spill
out and the cell dies. Swelling or edema isn't the only manifestation
of damaged cell membranes. Since the cell membrane houses all
of the receptors for communication with every other cell in the
body, it is like the Internet of the body. Anything can go wrong
once the communication system is damaged.
Because the cell membrane is constructed
like a sandwich with fatty acids on either side and proteins
in the middle, it also has an electrical charge across the inner
and outer membranes. The potential across the average cell membrane
is -70 mV. But once cell membranes become bogged down with chemicals
or nutrient deficiencies, the trans-membrane potential (the difference
in electrical charge from the inside to the outside of the cell
membrane) can swing the other way to as much as + 30 mV. This
happens, for example, in pain syndromes, old age, swelling either
from injury or inflammation, and in most disease states, including
cancers. Applying a pulsed magnetic field to a painful site can
bring the membrane potential way down to a hyper-polarization
level of better than normal, about -90 mV. This makes it more
difficult for a pain signal to be detected, and therefore, much
less effective in causing pain.
In one study, over 45% of patients showed
good results for control of pain, and mind you no one was doing
a nightshadefree diet, which should have provided a much higher
percentage improvement (Paccagnella). In other studies, the QRS
worked better than oxygen protocols (working where they had failed)
in opening the diameter of blood vessels and improved ulcers
(Leran, Stiller) and wound healing (Kioth, Brighton, Im, Canady).
This in turn improved blood flow, bringing precious nutrients
to speed healing and diminish pain (Warnke). Researchers even
included horses in this study and improved their cardiovascular
performance as well. Just about every condition you can think
of has been improved with pulsed electromagnetic fields, because
you are coming down to a fundamental correction of damaged body
physiology (Brighton).
It would take several books just on QRS
to detail all of the research. One particularly good starting
place for interested physicians would be the book that has chapters
by physicians from NIH, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Columbia College
of Physicians and Surgeons, and more (Blank). These folks have
done a wonderful job explaining how the calcium channels that
sit in the lipid sandwich of the cell membrane are really pores
lined by proteins. These proteins and fatty acids are not static,
but like all living things, are moving or oscillating. These
oscillations not only can be characterized by frequencies, but
have harmonics that can change the alignment and activities of
the proteins that govern how much calcium, for example, moves
in and out of the cell. This is exciting, because it proves we
can control biochemical and cellular function with electromagnetic
energy.
Why do so many folks end up with knee surgery
after they tear a cartilage? Remember the cartilage from adult
humans has no blood vessels, no nerves and no lymphatics. It
has a sparse nutritional supply that is primarily derived from
the joint fluid. As well, glucosamine sulfate, silicon, water,
and much more are needed to modify the regeneration of this vital
substance (see Pain Free In 6 Weeks for even more detail when
needed).
Also calcium flow is a crucial part of
this regeneration, and pulsed electromagnetic fields (which is
what the QRS provides) work in part by facilitating calcium flow
through calcium channels in cell membranes (McLeod, Grande).
Likewise highly charged proteo-glycan molecules (which make up
the ground substance or the stuff in between cells) are critical
for translating the messages from mechanical forces into cell
growth. Equally important, these GAG substances that hold cells
together are the major communication link between all cells.
The QRS works through all these vital areas to normalize charge
and chemistry and ultimately accelerate healing (Trillo).
Clearly, all of this chemistry really comes
down to electricity as the primary force determining the movement
of calcium in and out of cells. Where it finally goes in the
body and governs most crucial functions like nerve transmission,
bone healing, and general energy (Blank, Brighton, Madronero).
Nothing else is comparable. Pulsed electromagnetic fields are
so beneficial that they have also improved the ability of chemotherapy
to kill cancer cells (Omote), and to strengthen the immune system
(Walleczek).
Regeneration With Electromagnetic Fields
Dr. Bob Becker, an orthopedic surgeon by
training, is one of the pioneers in helping the world understand
the uses of electromagnetic fields. When I was just in medical
school 37 years ago, his lab was right across the hall from my
room in the VA Hospital (where I got room and board for covering
the analytical chemistry laboratory every sixth night). He identified
the measurable electric current of injury, learned how to duplicate
this current, and actually improved upon it, finding its harmonics
(Becker, Lednev). With this knowledge he and colleagues figured
out how to heal non-union fractures in humans, an especially
common problem post wartime. Two decades later pulsed electromagnetic
fields have salvaged thousands of limbs that would have been
amputated, become a source for lethal infection, or otherwise
ruined lives through disability.
Dr. C.A.L. Bassett from Columbia Presbyterian
Medical College in New York published numerous papers on the
success of pulsed electromagnetic fields in healing non-union
fractures in the '70s, carrying on this work for decades. In
fact, they had an 80% success rate with over 6000 surgeons country-wide,
and no patients suffered complications or biological side effects.
Electromagnetic fields have accomplished what nothing in surgery
or medicine could, and without side effects.
Lets take a peek at how the other important
application, reversing and preventing epidemic osteoporosis,
works. When bone is not subjected to physical stress or weight
bearing, it starts to lose its minerals and osteoporosis results.
It is known that patients who lay in bed too long will develop
osteoporosis. When Russians first sent astronauts into space,
they were surprised that they came back with osteoporosis because
they had no longer been under the influence of the earth's magnetic
and gravitational fields. It became clear to scientists that
even the earth's magnetic field, as small as it is, is absolutely
vital in preventing osteoporosis.
Hundreds of papers show us a variety of
other QRS mechanisms. Basically you can dissect the body down
into its organs or you can analyze the body down to its chemical
level. Or you can go one step further and take it to its electrical
level. For example, just as the heart, muscles and brain have
their own internal electrical systems that we measure in medicine,
so does bone have an electrical nature.
Bone has a special piezo-electricity (Fukada,
Brighton). In other words, the molecular structure of bone is
such that when we put stress on it, as in standing, tiny electric
currents are generated which actually help us to continually
make new bone. The electricity is translated into the language
of chemistry that creates continual bone growth and renewal.
That's why folks who are bedridden for long periods of time lose
bone and develop osteoporosis, and why astronauts in the early
days before this was discovered, would come home from an atmosphere
of no gravity with osteoporosis. There was no gravitational stress
to turn on the piezo-electric cycle.
Many researchers since then have shown
that just as the harmony of a barbershop quartet or orchestra
enhances a tune, harmonics of pulsed electromagnetic frequencies
can enhance diverse biological functions (Ledlev, Hinsenkamp).
They have identified harmonics or resonance frequencies that
control the alignment of proteins in cell membrane channels,
thus becoming a gate for controlling cell functions, especially
swelling and pain. At the same time improved cellular function
promotes healing.
One of the nastiest conditions in medicine
is when high doses of steroids are used for serious arthritis
pain, colitis, or other auto-immune diseases. Sometimes the side
effects of steroids (prednisone) is that the tiny femoral artery
(that feeds the neck of the long thigh bone ending in the hip)
dies. The artery in the neck of the ball that fits into the hip
joint literally rots away. Without this ball and socket connection
for the long thigh bone, the person can no longer stand. Other
things that can damage this besides steroids is alcohol use,
sickle cell disease and of course trauma or injury.
But pulsed electromagnetic fields have
improved and reversed this deterioration. In one study (Bassett,
1989), 87% of the folks with osteonecrosis of the femoral head
were progressing to the point that they would need an artificial
joint. When the pulsed electromagnetic fields were used, this
dropped to 16%. In other words, 71% of patients with aseptic
or a vascular necrosis of the femoral head were healed and spared
hip replacement (and these were folks who had a high potential
for failure).
One of the many QRS mechanisms involves
release of calcium from membranes (Azanza, Ryaby) and because
it does work on calcium, the QRS has also been used to improve
calcifications of arteries and heart valves (Madronero). Likewise,
folks tear shoulder tissues and develop calcifications, limiting
motion. But tendonitis of the rotator cuff in the shoulder has
been improved with QRS (Binder), as has multiple sclerosis (Guseo),
as well as hip osteoporosis and osteonecrosis (Aaron). Even folks
who have had a hip replacement that has become loose have tightened
up with the QRS, stimulating new bone growth (Rispoli, Kennedy,
MacDonald). And some of these in clinical trials were performed
double-blind so there could be no doubt (Bassett). They were
spared surgery through ''energy'' medicine.
Once you understand that electricity is
one of the basic mechanisms for regenerating and healing the
body, it opens up a plethora of potential uses. Doctors have
improved fibromyalgia (Colbert), persistent neck pain and whiplash
(Foley-Noland), and healed resistant skin ulcers (Leran, Stiller,
Salzberg), a big problem especially in diabetics and bedridden
folks. They have improved postpolio syndrome (Vailboria), delayed
union of leg fractures (Sharrard), even when infected (Rinaldi),
and reduced swelling and speeded healing of fractures (Pennington,
Pilla), promoted healing of lumbar fusions (Mooney), and improved
the pain of osteoarthritis (Trock) with pulsed electromagnetic
fields.
Along with improving wound healing (Kloth)
and the growth of new blood vessels (Yen-Patton), they have found
that they can even cause regeneration or new growth of nerves
that have been injured (Greenbaum, Sisken, Weintraub, Rusovan,
McDevitt, Wilson, Raji). This has brought a wonderful new lease
on life for those who had given up any hope of healing. Often
these are folks who through surgery, accidents, or metabolic
illness have lost the use of a specific nerve, like the sciatic
nerve. The QRS has caused regeneration and healing of nerves
thought to be irreparably damaged. But once again I must stress
that to expect a miracle from something like the QRS every time
in extremely difficult cases amounts to uneducated optimism.
But what a heightened chance of success you could expect if at
first you corrected body nutrient deficiencies, gut overload,
detox deficiencies, and got rid of a lifetime accumulation of
damaging chemicals. Never lose sight of the total body burden
of stressors that contribute to a problem.
Harmonic Healing and Resonance Rejuvenation
In the QRS a conventional current is changed
to a DC current and pulsed at a field strength of 0.1 gauss to
0.4 gauss, depending upon the setting you choose. The earth's
magnetic field strength is 0.5 gauss, so they are very similar
yet weaker. That's why there have never been any notable side
effects. The World Health Organization has classified anything
under one gauss as very safe. The adjustable frequency of pulsations
(ten choices of settings, more with newer models) ranges from
3 (used for relaxation) to 200 (used for regeneration) cycles
per second with eight other levels in between. An important feature
is that the positivity/ negativity flips three times every eight
minutes so that the body does not become acclimated to it and
it does not lose its effectiveness. The QRS works maximally at
a field strength of 30 microteslas. The World Health Organization
and other technical associations consider a constant load of
100 microteslas (at 50 Hz) as safe. The top setting of 10 is
30 uT, while the lowest setting of 1 is 0.3 uT. The field of
the applicator pen (for small joints, pinpoint pain in bursas,
teeth, etc.) can also replace laser for stimulation of acupuncture
points.
I have personally used it a multitude of
times with all sorts of sports injuries and have been highly
impressed. Just as the voluminous papers that I have cited relate,
others report improvement of tennis elbows, shoulder bursitis
and osteoporosis, painful teeth, and much more. And you can well
imagine that it might be useful for cancers and indeed researchers
found that pulsating magnetic fields can increase the natural
killer cells that the body makes to fight off cancer (Malter).
The sad thing, after I had researched the
QRS extensively, was the thought of all of the folks in nursing
homes who never had the benefit of this to heal their fractured
hips, decubitus ulcers and osteoporosis. Clearly, a QRS mattress
in hospital beds could be therapeutic as well as prophylactic
for disease and osteoporosis (Cruess, Skerry).
Think of people who have damaged nerves
from auto accidents or surgery, for example, who do not know
that they have a chance at regeneration (Rusovan, Raji, McDevitt,
Wilson). Or think about the horrible spinal cord damage from
accidents that have left folks paralyzed, or those with nonhealing
leg ulcers, slow healing burns and much more. Or look at the
people suffering the side effects of osteoporosis (Rubin) medications
when they could have prevented it on the QRS mat. Obviously all
hospital beds should have a QRS built into them to prevent osteoporosis
and bed sores, much less to promote speedier healing and recovery.
Clearly the QRS can be a wonderful component
to your antiaging, accelerated healing, and detoxification program,
as it heals injuries quickly, prevents osteoporosis (Rubin) as
well as heals it, and helps to make the body in general more
disease resistant.
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