Reward Yourself

 

We all want to be healthier. We all want to eat well, exercise more, take care of our bodies and our minds. We want these things but the reality of daily life is that it’s difficult to do. It takes discipline and knowledge and when we don’t do it we have guilt instead. Hmmmm, guilt well that’s not hard to attain. But why is that, feeling guilty is certainly not fitting with our goal of wanting to be healthier and happier.

 

So let us consider what Dr. David Burns has to say;

Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. Interestingly, pride is the most powerful of these emotions at triggering activity in these regions — except in the nucleus accumbens, where guilt and shame win out. This explains why it can be so appealing to heap guilt and shame on ourselves — they’re activating the brain’s reward center.

David Burns, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School and author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

 

I think it’s time to activate our Reward Center in a new and simpler way. I think every time we feel guilty for failing at our diet, our exercise program or because we didn’t make the doctor’s appointment that we know we should have we should reward ourselves with a joy activity. What a joy activity means for each person is obviously very different.

For me it’s gardening and some form of artistically creative outlet so I plant lettuce, tomatoes, herbs and spices in my deck containers and then I paint my containers with beautiful colors, patterns and images that please me every time I see them. I involved my loved ones if I can. I take pictures of my progress and post them on my Facebook or my blog, I share my harvest with my neighbors family and friends. Now I am definitely activating the pride center of my brain and instead of feeling bad I feel more joy because not only did I combat my guilt but I accomplished something that actually helps me accomplish my original goal. You know that one that I failed at but I no longer see it as a failure I see it as a success. So the next time you’re feeling guilty for something you did wrong reward yourself..

Protective Effects of PEMF

Novel protective effects of pulsed electromagnetic field ischemia/reperfusion injury rats

*Department of Pharmacy, Shanghai Pudong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 201399, China

†Shanghai Institute of Immunology & Department of Immunobiology and Microbiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China

This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence 4.0 (CC BY).

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Abstract

Extracorporeal pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) has shown the ability to regenerate tissue by promoting cell proliferation. In the present study, we investigated for the first time whether PEMF treatment could improve the myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and uncovered its underlying mechanisms.

In conclusion, this is the first study suggesting that PEMF treatment could improve cardiac dysfunction through inhibiting cell apoptosis. Furthermore, in vitro, we first clarified PEMF still plays a profound effect on improving cell death and removing excess ROS via regulating apoptosis-related proteins and Akt/eNOS pathway. All these findings highlight that PEMF would be applied as a potentially powerful therapy for I/R injury cure.

PEMF In Oncology Study

Mechanisms and therapeutic effectiveness of pulsed electromagnetic field therapy in oncology

AMaria Vadalà, 1 Julio Cesar Morales‐Medina, 2 Annamaria Vallelunga, 3 Beniamino Palmieri, 1 Carmen Laurino, 1 and Tommaso Iannitti 4

1Department of General Surgery and Surgical Specialties, Surgical Clinic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Medical School, Modena, Italy3Department of Medicine and Surgery, Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (CEMAND), University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

4Department of Neuroscience, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Tommaso Iannitti, Email: moc.liamg@ittinnai.osammot.

Tommaso Iannitti, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, 385A Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2HQ, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 7521471447; E‐mail: moc.liamg@ittinnai.osammot,

Author information ▼ Copyright and License information ▼Received 2016 May 23; Revised 2016 Jul 18; Accepted 2016 Jul 19.Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Cancer Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Available treatments are associated with numerous side effects and only a low percentage of patients achieve complete remission. Therefore, there is a strong need for new therapeutic strategies. In this regard, pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy presents several potential advantages including non‐invasiveness, safety, lack of toxicity for non‐cancerous cells, and the possibility of being combined with other available therapies. Indeed, PEMF stimulation has already been used in the context of various cancer types including skin, breast, prostate, hepatocellular, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, bladder, thyroid, and colon cancer in vitro and in vivo. At present, only limited application of PEMF in cancer has been documented in humans. In this article, we review the experimental and clinical evidence of PEMF therapy discussing future perspectives in its use in oncology

 

In conclusion, only two clinical studies have used PEMF therapy for cancer treatment. These studies show that PEMF therapy is safe and promising compared to other available cancer therapies. In the future, PEMFs could be used not only as primary therapy but also in combination with other common antineoplastic therapies. Given that new portable and affordable PEMF devices are increasingly available on the market, future controlled clinical studies are expected to further determine the potential of PEMF therapy in oncology.

 

PEMF is a biophysical therapeutic modality

Effect of pulsed electromagnetic field treatment on programmed resolution of inflammation pathway markers in human cells in culture

Published online 2015 Feb 23. doi:  10.2147/JIR.S78631

PMCID: PMC4346366

Nicole J Kubat,1 John Moffett,2 and Linley M Fray2

1Nicole Kubat Consulting, Pasadena, CA, USA

2Life Science Department, Regenesis Biomedical, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Correspondence: John Moffett, Regenesis Biomedical, Inc., 5301 North Pima Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85250-3773 USA, Tel +1 480 970 4970, Fax +1 866 857 8792, Email moc.oibsiseneger@tteffom

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Copyright © 2015 Kubat et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License

The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.

 

Abstract

Inflammation is a complex process involving distinct but overlapping biochemical and molecular events that are highly regulated. Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy is increasingly used to treat pain and edema associated with inflammation following surgery involving soft tissue. However, the molecular and cellular effects of PEMF therapy on pathways involved in the resolution of inflammation are poorly understood. Using cell culture lines relevant to trauma-induced inflammation of the skin (human dermal fibroblasts, human epidermal keratinocytes, and human mononuclear cells), we investigated the effect of PEMF on gene expression involved in the acute and resolution phases of inflammation. We found that PEMF treatment was followed by changes in the relative amount of messenger (m)RNAs encoding enzymes involved in heme catabolism and removal of reactive oxygen species, including an increase in heme oxygenase 1 and superoxide dismutase 3 mRNAs, in all cell types examined 2 hours after PEMF treatment. A relative increase in mRNAs encoding enzymes involved in lipid mediator biosynthesis was also observed, including an increase in arachidonate 12- and 15-lipoxygenase mRNAs in dermal fibroblasts and epidermal keratinocytes, respectively. The relative amount of both of these lipoxygenase mRNAs was elevated in mononuclear cells following PEMF treatment relative to nontreated cells. PEMF treatment was also followed by changes in the mRNA levels of several cytokines. A decrease in the relative amount of interleukin 1 beta mRNA was observed in mononuclear cells, similar to that previously reported for epidermal keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts. Based on our results, we propose a model in which PEMF therapy may promote chronic inflammation resolution by mediating gene expression changes important for inhibiting and resolving inflammation.

 

Conclusion

Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of inflammation is important for the development of new therapies to treat important health conditions such as inflammatory pain and chronic inflammation. PEMF is a biophysical therapeutic modality based on the delivery of pulsed electromagnetic fields. Although it has been in use for over several decades for the treatment of inflammation, little is known about its biological mechanism of action. Findings from the current study support previously reported data, suggesting PEMF treatment leads to gene expression changes of the factors involved in regulating inflammation, including inflammation resolution. Based on these results, we hypothesize that PEMF-associated analgesia reported in clinical studies may be due to such gene expression changes. Further studies are warranted to further test this hypothesis and to gain additional insight into the mechanisms of action of this novel analgesic modality.

 

What is the right PEMF machine for me?

 

There are a few factors you need to keep in mind when choosing the PEMF machine that is right for you.  When considering different machines, you need to look at it as a complete system; the chassis or electronic part that creates the signal, and the coil or mat that reproduces the magnetic field from the signal the chassis is sending to it.

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Another factor to keep in mind is that “disease” breaks down into two basic categories; those arising from pathogens coming from outside the body, and those from deficiencies arising from within the body.  This is important to understand because the frequencies needed to assist with each type of disease are in completely different areas of the total range of helpful frequencies.

Because disease breaks down into two basic categories, so does the frequency range in order to deal with them most effectively.  There are two types of PEMF sessions; frequency ranges that decimate pathogens (disease arising from outside the body) and frequency ranges that signal our cells to accomplish tasks they would naturally do but help them to it better or faster (disease arising from within the body). 

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So, when choosing a PEMF system, the first and foremost consideration is the frequency range the system is capable of producing.  Since there are no pathogen decimating frequencies below 50hz, it’s important to choose a machine that has a much higher range if this is the purpose you are getting a machine.  Even if you currently only need the cell signaling frequencies (generally below 50hz), you should consider the use you might need it for in the future, should you acquire a pathogen you need to deal with.

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The second thing you should consider is whether the system uses a coil or a mat. 

                                      

Coils will generally have a wider range of frequencies they can reproduce, while mats will spread out the magnetic field over a wider area of your body.  Coils, provided the chassis is powerful enough, will penetrate deeper into your body which is very helpful for decimating pathogens.  Mats, by spreading out the magnetic field, deliver cell signaling frequencies to a wider area of the body with each session.  Coils are the best of both worlds simply because they will reproduce a wider range of frequencies with a wider range of intensities for delivering those frequencies.

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 Third, consider the power of the chassis.  As we have explained in other posts, decimating pathogens is like a singer breaking a wine glass.  Often, no matter how loud they sing, natural voice alone cannot break the wine glass.  But when that same singer uses an amplifier they easily break the glass.  With a PEMF system, you need the power like the singer needs the amplifier.  Power also is needed to penetrate deeper into the body, with a strong enough magnetic field, where the pathogens can be causing their harm.

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And finally, you should consider the “form factor”, or how the chassis is packaged.  Large bulky cases mean you have to store the machine away between sessions.  This takes time to set up before a session and put away after a session.  This can lead to inconvenience, which in turn leads to it being too much trouble to go through for a session, which then leads to missing sessions.  A small chassis can be setup all the time, making it very easy and convenient to have a session without having to plan ahead or spend time before and after a session putting the chassis away.

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Choosing a system with these things in mind will give you the best possible PEMF experience.

            

Subtle Wisdom

Don’t push the river, it flows on its own.   ~Chinese proverb

Sometimes we just can’t wait.  We feel we must make things happen…now!  It’s OK to be a driving force to get things done.  But too often we don’t stop to realize there are many things in life that shouldn’t be rushed…can’t be rushed if you truly want the best outcome.  Part of having good balance in life is knowing when we must let the course of events unfold as they should, at their own pace and time.  Learn to step back and enjoy the flow of the river, and of life.

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PEMF wellness in two ways.

Using PEMF, wellness is achieved in two ways:  Removing pathogens that cause disease originating from outside the body, and assisting optimum body cell function so disease originating from within the body can be alleviated.

PEMF can work to facilitate both of these — if the magnetic field is in the proper frequency range.

The pathogen killing frequencies are generally in the triple digit range, while the “cell signaling” frequencies, the ones that assist the body to perform optimally, are generally found below 50 Hz.

Pathogen killing frequencies are like antibiotics, cell signaling frequencies are like multi-vitamins.

When choosing a PEMF devise, be aware that the brands that will only produce frequencies between 1 Hz and 50 Hz (actually most brands out there) will only help with one of the ways to achieved wellness using PEMF.  Choose wisely.  Don’t be fooled into thinking a multi-vitamin will cure an infection.

“Modified Tesla coil”?

Really?? Seriously? Hey AmpCoil – how gullible do you think people are?

This is a Tesla coil!  And that is Nikola Tesla.

We started by asking, “Really? Seriously?”, so really, let’s get serious…

We believe the consumer nor the general PEFM industry is served by sales baloney, and this is about as good of an example as we’ve seen of just that…sales baloney.  Just because a Tesla coil and a PEMF coil are both coils does not mean that one is a derivative of the other, any more than a tire is a derivative of a steering while just because they’re both “wheels” and both can be used to steer a car.  Also, AmpCoil uses “modified Tesla coil” to imply their coil is somehow unique in the PEMF world.  Their coil is simply a coil of copper wire.  Other brands are coils of copper wire.  If AmpCoil’s coil is somehow a “modified Tesla coil”, then so are all the other brands of coils!

So let’s take a look at what a Tesla coil really is and see if there is any relationship between that and a PEMF coil.

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From Wikipedia, we find, “The Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891.  It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity.①

Tesla used these circuits to conduct innovative experiments in electrical lighting, phosphorescence, X-ray generation, high frequency alternating current phenomena, electrotherapy, and the transmission of electrical energy without wires.②  Tesla coil circuits were used commercially in spark gap radio transmitters for wireless telegraphy③ until the 1920s, and in medical equipment such as electrotherapy④ and violet ray devices⑤.  A Tesla coil is a radio frequency⑥ oscillator that drives an air-core double-tuned resonant transformer to produce high voltages⑦ at low currents.  

Tesla coils can produce output voltages from 50 kilovolts to several million volts for large coils⑧.  The alternating current output is in the low radio frequency range, usually between 50 kHz and 1 MHz⑨. Although some oscillator-driven coils generate a continuous alternating current, most Tesla coils have a pulsed output; the high voltage consists of a rapid string of pulses of radio frequency⑩ alternating current.”

① A Tesla coil is used to produce electricity, a PEMF coil is used to produce a magnetic field.

② A Tesla coil is used for all of these things (none of which you would ever want your PEMF coil to do) wirelessly…but you connected your AmpCoil coil to the AmpCoil case with what?  A wire?

③ Radio transmitters, telegraphs…both wireless.  How does that have anything to do with a PEMF coil.

④ PEMF is NOT electrotherapy!  It is frequency therapy delivered via a magnetic field.  Big difference!

⑤ Violet rays are in the light spectrum.  PEMF is about as far away from that spectrum as you can get.

⑥ Radio frequencies are, like the light spectrum, are about as far away from PEMF frequencies as you can get.

⑦ A Tesla coil is a high voltage and high frequency device, a PEMF coil is a low voltage and low frequency device.

⑧ Like we said, Tesla coils produce HIGH voltage.  50 kilovolts and up.  That’s 50,000 volts!  If that’s what would work, we can all give up our PEMF machines and just go sit under electrical transmission lines!

⑨ Tesla coils produce radio frequencies.  50 kHz and up.  That’s 50,000 Hz!  If that’s what would work, we can all give up our PEMF machines and just go sit next to a radio broadcast tower near the electrical transmission lines we’re under!

⑩ Just because it’s pulsed does not mean it’s PEMF.

If you modify a circle by giving it corners your have created a square, now its no longer a circle…  its a square. AmpCoil apparently thinks they can bamboozle you into believing their squares are better than anyone else’s squares by calling them “modified circles”.  We think you’re starter than that.

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One more thing to understand about AmpCoil’s use of “modified Tesla coil” to pull one over on you…

What’s in a name?

There are two accepted methods for measuring magnetic field strength, gauss (G) and tesla (T).  Gauss is named after Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (born 1777) and telsa is named after Nikola Telsa (born 1856).

It is a little like measuring in inches or centimeters, Celsius or Fahrenheit.  Each has areas where they work better or easier.  Each can be converted into the other.

1T=10,000G

To say that a coil is a “modified Tesla coil”, just because magnetic fields can be measured in tesla (T), is like saying an amplifier is a “modified voltage circuit” just because power is measured in Volts (V).

Just for fun, here’s a list of other scientific measurements named after famous scientists:

André-Marie Ampère	1775–1836	French	Electric current	ampere (A) (Base unit)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	1824–1907	British (Irish)	Thermodynamic temperature	kelvin (K) (Base unit)
Blaise Pascal	1623–1662	French	Pressure	pascal (Pa)
Isaac Newton	1643–1727	British (English)	Force	newton (N)
Anders Celsius	1701–1744	Swedish	Temperature	degree Celsius (°C)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	1736–1806	French	Electric charge	coulomb (C)
James Watt	1736–1819	British (Scottish)	Power	watt
Alessandro Volta	1745–1827	Italian	Electric potential	volt (V)
Georg Simon Ohm	1789–1855	German	Electrical resistance	ohm (Ω)
Michael Faraday	1791–1867	British (English)	Capacitance	farad (F)
Joseph Henry	1797–1878	American	Inductance	henry (H)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber	1804–1891	German	Magnetic flux	weber (Wb)
Ernst Werner von Siemens	1816–1892	German	Conductance	siemens (S)
James Prescott Joule	1818–1889	British (English)	Energy	joule (J)
Antoine Henri Becquerel	1852–1908	French	Radioactivity	becquerel (Bq)
Nikola Tesla	1856–1943	Serbian American	Magnetic flux density	tesla (T)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	1857–1894	German	Frequency	hertz (Hz)
Rolf Maximilian Sievert	1896–1966	Swedish	Dose equivalent of radiation	sievert (Sv)

Really, you should have an apple a day!

Literally an apple a day has tremendous health benefits. We have all heard an apple a day keeps the doctor away’, and often those old adages from our grandparents day have real and practical value. Over time though some of the meaning gets lost and maybe the thought behind ‘an apple a day’ in modern day society might mean an apple a day keeps the dentist away. Most of my young students will tell me that they see the logic in chewing an apple might be good for their teeth, or they might even have some knowledge about how fruit is nutritious. But rarely are they aware of the actual type and kinds of vitamins that are in an apple. And most especially they do not know that the seeds and fibrous center of the apple has nutrients that could be preventative of some increased modern day killers like cancer and diabetes. The seeds of an apple contain the little known vitamin B17 and the fibrous center is an excellent colon cleanser.

 

Based on a daily value per 100g one apple provides; 8% vitamin C, 3%Vitamin K, 2% vitamin B6, 2% riboflavin, 3% potassium, 2%manganese, 1% calcium, 1% iron, 1%protein, and 10% dietary fiber. An apple helps in weight loss, facilitates digestion, improves eyesight, lowers cholesterol levels, controls blood sugar levels, helps to prevent cancer, is useful in treating anemia and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The real value of an apple lies in it’s organic compounds. It is packed with phytonutrients and flavonoids like querctin, epicatechin, phioridzin, and various other polyphenolic compounds. It is important to know at this point that unless it is freshly pressed apple juice loses most of its nutritional value in the bottling process,

 

Armed with this knowledge one might think everyone would be eating an apple or two a day. But it seems that we Americans tend to put our preventative healthcare on the back burner until it’s too late, I for one am guilty of this. Now that I am older, wiser (hopefully) and more balanced in my knowledge of care for my health and the health of those that I love, with a desire to find the most natural, non-invasive, and effective methods for maintaining good health, I would like to share with others the things that I have learned. This is why I have gotten involved with the general promotion of PEMF technology and specifically the production of the ELEMENT as a truly affordable way to bring this technology to everyone.