After reading a recent publication on ScienceDaily.com, I was inspired to further discuss a topic that many have been asking me about lately. Let’s start with the basics, shall we? (from The Ecologist.org)…

Electromagnetic Wave Frequency (EMF): Electric current flowing through a conductor, i.e. a power cord, a computer, or even celestial bodies, generates a magnetic field known as an EMF.

Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR): Residual and resultant energy produced from the interaction between flowing electricity, and its magnetic field. Such energy is emitted from its source and spreads out in concentric circular patterns, like ripples created in stagnant water when a solid object is dropped into the water – i.e. like radiation from a cell phone. EMR is composed of energy-carrying particles called photons. The shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency and the more photons – and therefore energy – the waves contain. When scientists refer to the “electromagnetic spectrum,” they are referring to the whole range of such EMR wavelengths.

Now that we know what these abbreviations mean, what do they do to the human body?

As the body is exposed to EMF’s and EMR’s, its cells start vibrating at the same frequency, and absorb the energy of the wave, rather than allow the wave to simply pass through. That’s the same concept that makes a glass break when a soprano sings. The molecules of the glass vibrate, and match her tone frequency, which causes their chemical bonds to rip apart. With the body, and EMR and EMF exposure, the process is more subtle, but just as real.

Now, how that affects the human system is largely in debate. There is one camp that believes, after evaluating studies like the one reviewing increased cancer rates (leukemia) in children living near a power center in San Francisco, that EMF’s and EMR’s are an insidious, unseen force that chip away at the body’s system, leaving disease states in their wake after years of exposure. Then, of course, there is the other camp who states that there is no evidence of tissue damage, even when areas of the body are objectively measured as heating up, after direct correlation to prolonged exposure. However, in one study in 1999, these same scientists were baffled when brain tissue that heated from EMR exposure, showed no actual tissue damage, but DID show that subject’s reaction times during the study were altered. They even were quoted in the article saying “technically, that’s impossible. We’re baffled”

My opinion is that waiting for science to completely understand how damage occurs may prove to be too little too late, in preventing subtleties in the body’s cell structure alteration. I would rather take a proactive approach to the EMR / EMF debate and do all I can now, to protect myself as technology encapsulates our world at an exceedingly, and impressively fast pace.

Short of going back to living in a cave, what can be done to enjoy our modern world’s marvels, yet remain healthy? Here are a few good tips:

• Be sure to get a good daily intake of vitamins C and E to help with free radical tissue damage reduction.
• Try and take breaks from computers, cell phones, televisions, anything emitting an EMF or EMR, to help reduce potential risk.
• Get back in touch with nature. The more you can get outside and get your bare feet on the earth, the more you’ll be able to reduce the build up of free radicals, excess heat and cortisol accumulation in the body that leads to cellular damage.
• Buy and wear EMF and EMR scattering magnets and pendants. Every little bit helps. In fact, small battery-operated machines now exist that scatter and eliminate unseen waves in your home or office, as well. I highly recommend those.

Just over 2 months ago I injured my knee skiing. I
have been an athlete my entire life and this was the
first serious injury that I ever had, so I was very
overwhelmed and scared. After much aggrevation,
mis-direction, and insistance, I forced my way into the
sports doctor’s office at Kaiser. I was told that I
had torn my meniscus, and if I were 15, it had an 80%
chance of healing. I am 32, and my doctor told me that
I would more than likely need surgery. He sent me
away with pain killers, and gave me 6 weeks to try
and recover on my own, before he decided whether,
or not, to perform the surgery. I was crushed to say the least,
knowing that surgery could lead to
life-long problems and premature arthritis in my knee.

Not willing to accept this fate, I started looking
around for alternative routes to heal my injury. A
friend of mine referred me to Dr. Grace, singing her
praises and telling me she could work miracles on my
knee. I was looking for a miracle, so I contacted her
immediately. We started treatments right away, using Cold
Laser Therapy for ligament repair and proprioception training,
Cellular Ionic Cleansing to decrease inflammation and help
detoxify my system and restore function, as well as nutritional
support to control inflammation, and accelerate healing.

Not only did she help me physically, but emotionally
and spiritually as well. I was extremely depressed
from pain and lack of mobility and she championed me
daily while relieving my physical symptoms. Each day
the swelling and pain decreased and my ability to
exercise increased. Within 3 weeks I was moving around
with few limitations and she even had me back in high
heels!!!

When I returned to my doctor at Kaiser 6 weeks later,
he was floored. He performed a variety of exams on my
knee and could not wipe the shocked and elated look
from his face. I did not need surgery and he couldn’t
believe it. I basically told him that acting like a
15 year old helped my body heal like one, which he
thought was hilarious, but really I know that this
never could have happened without the amazing help of
Dr. Grace. Thanks to her, I will be headed to South America for a
month-long ski trip later this summer.
Thanks Dr. Grace!!!

By the way:
A couple weeks into my treatments I let Dr. Grace know
that my emotions were also off the charts, because I
was coming off of 10 years of birth control. Always
working miracles, she had a bottle of a Female Hormone
Balancing Panacea: an herbal blend of chinese herbs that had just
arrived in the mail specially formulated by her colleague, and partner,
an MD/Phd from Harvard and MIT.

I began taking them immediately, and within days was
feeling better. My emotions stabilized, and I actually
got my period at 28 days, and with no signs of
irregularity.

You are the New Miracle Worker!!

Lybrel: Birth control pill eliminates periods

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lybrel/DI00086

What happened? The Food and Drug Administration approved Lybrel, a new continuous-use birth control pill designed to eliminate menstrual periods for as long as a woman takes it.

The usual regimen for birth control pills is to take an active hormone pill once a day for 21 days, followed by taking an inactive pill once a day for seven days. During the hormone-free week, you get your period. Lybrel, on the other hand, is designed to be taken continuously, once a day for 365 days, with no break for hormone-free intervals. The pill contains low doses of a synthetic progesterone (levonorgestrel) and estrogen (ethinyl estradiol).

What does this mean to you? Continuous-use birth control pills relieve bothersome signs and symptoms of menstruation for some women, so the pills may be particularly welcome if you often experience severe pain, heavy bleeding or emotional problems during your periods. However, some women did experience irregular vaginal bleeding while taking Lybrel, so know that this might be a possibility for you too. Lybrel doesn’t protect against sexually transmitted diseases.

Stopping menstruation with continuous-use birth control pills doesn’t appear to have any greater risk of side effects than regular birth control

appear to have any greater risk of side effects than regular birth control pills. In a clinical study, Lybrel was found to be as safe and as effective as birth control pills in standard hormone and placebo regimens. In some cases, it took several months for women taking Lybrel to achieve amenorrhea — absence of menstrual periods. The longer a woman took Lybrel, the greater her chances of having no periods. A subset of women had higher incidences of unexpected vaginal bleeding throughout the study, regardless of how long they continued with the birth control regimen.

Many women find the monthly bleeding associated with traditional birth control pills a reassuring sign that they’re not pregnant. If you’re like these women, you might find it troubling not to have periods. The failure rate for all birth control pills is very small, but it’s not zero. If you’re interested in trying a continuous-use birth control pill, ask your doctor if Lybrel might be right for you.

From Dr. Grace:

Stuff like this really concerns me in that nature is never one to be ignored, or denied. The female body is designed for developing and harboring life, and when fertilization does not occur, we bleed. We, as women, also have a very delicate, intricate, and necssary hormonal cycle that is associated with menstruation, that time has shown, is agressive on creating disease states if it is exceedingly messed with, like this drug does.

Twenty years ago, women were given hormone replacement therapy to eliminate pesky menopausal symptoms. Now, multiple studies in accredited, peer-reviewed journals have shown an alarming, exponential increase in breast and uterine cancer as a direct result of the “therapy.” So much so, that medical science has turned it’s back on the thought of doing hormone replacement and even said “Oops, that was kind of a bad idea, let’s not prescribe this to women anymore,” and are now investing in actually learning what hormones are most affected in menopause. In fact, alternative methods now tend to be the most effective aid for menopause symptomatology, so MD’s are being forced to learn how to use herbal remedies to reduce the uncomfortable side effects, without altering a woman’s natural progression through the life cycle, which ultimately prolongs her natural, disease-free state of being, as well.

My advice with taking a drug that makes you stop having a period all together: Think twice, and wait. Wait for research to come out that isn’t subsidized by the company creating the drug (clearly biased), and wait for the social backlash of side effects - they will exist, but to what degree, and extent is yet unknown if time has not passed long enough to tell. For the women close to me in my life, I’d say don’t do it… I’d rather not see you be one of the statistics that makes the medical science community say “Oops, we shouldn’t have done that.”