As you all know by now, a wide range of biological effects have been induced by applying magnetic fields in both laboratory and clinical experiments. Back in 1982 a large of researchers discovered the effects of magnetic fields on ion flux through cell membranes. For example, the increased flow or movement of calcium ions within a magnetic field led doctors to place magnets above and below bone fractures in order to speed up calcium accumulation at the break thus causing the bone to heal faster. Experiments in 1985 confirmed that other bodily elements such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc., were also effected by this process.

In addition, we know now that molecular alignment will occur within intense magnetic fields. Experimental results have shown that muscle fiber, membranes, chloroplast, retinal elements of the eyes, and other fibers and macro molecules including nucleic acids have been aligned in an intense magnetic field. Highly oriented structures can result from this which may interact with other biomaterials in your body. Cell membranes, for example, are liquid crystals which are very close to change depending only upon bodily temperatures. Thus magnetic fields could effect the membrane's fluidity or other properties. It only takes a very low intensity magnetic field to effect chemical reactions and these reactions have a definite biological effect on your body. Consider any one of your blood cells for a moment. It is composed of a membrane which separates two bioelectrical charges caused by the action between the potassium ion (positive charge) and the sodium ion (negative charge). This bioelectric action exists in all of your body's cells, in nerve transmissions, in the red blood cells and even in whole blood.

We could take a sample of your blood and spin off the fluids to leave only red blood cells, then place these cells under a microscope. If we then brought a magnet close to the cells you'd see the cells all spin around and point in one direction. The magnet 'lines up' or polarizes the ions and iron in the cells. (An ion is an atom with one electron too many or too few). When the cells spin around, which way they spin is extremely important. The north pole causes the blood to spin in a counter clockwise direction and decreases hydrogen concentrations. The south pole cause the fluids to spin in a clockwise direction and increase hydrogen production. The south pole offers a positive form of energy and speeds up activity. The north pole provides a negative form of energy and slows down cellular activity. If you can understand that the principal effect of magnetism is to control the hydrogen ion you'll have a better understanding of pH. The control of the hydrogen ion is the single most important chemical action taking place in your body! All disease and health depends upon how your body handles the hydrogen ion.

Every single organ and all of your tissues have a set hydrogen concentration known as potential hydrogen (pH). The hydrogen ion controls the acidity or alkalinity of your organs and tissues. When you know how to measure and control this hydrogen potential you have the answer to solving all of your health problems by getting into a disease immune energy field. Your body normally controls the pH through your nervous system (which is why stress is so damaging to you). Medics describe your nervous system as consisting of two parts; the para sympathetic system and the sympathetic system. Though it may sound confusing understanding this will definitely help you in your self healing efforts, so read on.

The sympathetic nervous system activates the adrenals, pituitary, heart, thyroid, ovaries and gonads by increasing the hydrogen ions. It inhibits the stomach, liver, intestinal tract, pancreas and bronchial muscles by decreasing the hydrogen ion.

The para sympathetic nervous system does exactly the opposite, ie; it activates the stomach, liver, intestines etc. and inhibits the adrenals, pituitary, heart etc. by increasing or decreasing the hydrogen ions. Thus, this change of energy acts to speed up or slow down the function of the organs and tissues. If the heart is too slow the sympathetic system speeds it up. If it is going too fast, its the para sympathetic system that slows it down. In order for the entire nervous system to operate properly in this way it must have the proper concentration of pH!

Therefore, if your body can keep your energy fields in correct balance you can attain a disease immune condition. Degenerative diseases then start going back to a normal state and normal health returns. According to Dr. Richard Broeringmeyer magnetic energy and proper placement of that energy to the areas involved is an easy and fast way to bring the body back to this important balance. [The Dr. uses medium strength magnets for 1-3 hours daily for most of his treatments but normally, if continuous treatment is desired he substitutes 'bio bandage' type magnets. In other words for long treatment times, such as overnight, he prefers a weaker magnet than is used for short treatment periods. This is where a bio bandage and magnetic bed pad would prove invaluable].

In view of the deprivation of magnetic energy in most areas of the country, coupled with electro magnetic pollution by power lines and numerous household and industrial devices, it isn't surprising that the bio-electric field surrounding and permeating your body is not what nature originally intended it to be. Any departure from the same kind of electro magnetic environment under which life evolved on this planet may be responsible for a variety of physical and emotional ailments. This problem is what one leading Japanese Doctor, Kyoichi Nakagawa, is now calling "magnetic deficiency syndrome". Nakagawa published an influential study in the Medical Journal in which he described this syndrome and its remedy - magnetic treatment.

The doctor first noted that the strength of the earth's electromagnetic field (EMF) has decreased 50% in the last 500 years and continues to do so at about .05% yearly. He pointed out that modern living conditions with its steel buildings, cars, trains, buses, airplanes and subways, all deprive humans of the necessary, beneficial and regular exposure to EMF. The average person, he concluded, is therefore deficient in low level EMF intake, and as the human biofield is strongly linked with that of the earth, various vague but chronic forms of disease have set in.

Nakagawa's remedy for magnetic deficiency syndrome is extremely simple. He recommends that distressed people wear a magnetic necklace, bracelet or ring, or use 'magnetic buttons or sleep on a magnetic mattress pad. (These should all range from a few hundred to 1300 gauss). "Generally, these magneto therapeutic devices apply a stationary magnetic field to the human body," Nakagawa writes, "the various discomfort symptoms can be improved within a week in most cases. Regarding side effects, we could not detect anything serious but did have occasional reports of people feeling a 'rush of blood to the head' or a 'dull headed feeling.'

The concepts of balance between Yin and Yang come to mind, although it appears that most illnesses are caused by deprivation of adequate north pole energy, which seems to be the condition of our age. South pole magnets can be helpful when applied to chakras and glands which require stimulation.

Most of the experts agree that sleeping in an electro magnetically "low volume" environment, may be bene- ficial to almost everyone - especially patients suffering from what is now being termed as Electro Magnetic Syndrome (EMS).

American researchers have determined that bedpads with alternating magnetic fields, side by side, do not provide the most beneficial energy. It was learned that blood vessels aligned properly with a pole (North/Negative Energy) magnetic strips caused the blood vessels to open, allowing a greater low-pressure flow of oxygenated blood throughout the body while at the same time inducing most of the benefits that we outlined earlier.