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Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems Volume 4

This volume presents basic, applied, and clinical information ranging from extremely low to super high frequencies. In general, the interaction of electromagnetic fields and waves with biological systems is frequency-dependent. Moreover, the mechanisms of interaction for fields at low frequencies are very different from those at high frequencies. While signifi- cant advances are being made on many fronts, a particular emphasis of this volume has been placed on the recent developments of our understanding in the very low and extremely low frequencies. They have led to some exciting new applications in the clinical management of tissue injury from exposure to extremely low frequency electric fields, and in the therapeutic treatment of the musculoskeletal systems, such as the repair of soft tissue wounds and bone fractures using low frequency fields (see chapters three and four). These low frequency fields also are emitted by circuitry within video display terminals (VDTs) and video display units (VDUs). Recently, considerable concern has been expressed by the public and some professionals about the possible health effects resulting from extended use of these devices. Chapter five examines, in detail, the possible effects of electric and magnetic fields from VDTs and VDUs on human health.

Does electromagnetic therapy meet an equivalent counterpart within the organism?

Journal of Translational Science, 2017

This review bundles all available new information about intrinsic electrical phenomena in many types of cells (also non-neural) and tissues and shows that exogenously applied electric fields (as DC-EF, EMF or pulsed electromagnetic fields PEMF) can couple to the endogenous electrical phenomena of the body. These endogenous fields are generated ubiquitously in all tissues via cellular ion pumps and transporters and these ion gradients can be transferred by gap junctions. Such electric phenomena can now be monitored in living cells and tissues by electro-sensitive markers. Observations are now available from early embryonic development on to wound healing and regeneration within the adult organism. Based on these grounds we demonstrate that endogenous electric fields act directly on classical pathways of molecular and cell biology. Adequately applied frequencies and pulsing from outside can couple to these endogenous fields or to the receptors of classical biochemical pathways and manifest in positive "reprogramming" of tissue functions. In sum, this new analytical approach to the bodies´ own electrical information processes opens up new avenues for adequate EMF and PEMF therapy.

Toward an Electromagnetic Paradigm for Biology and Medicine

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2004

Work by Lund, Burr, Becker, and others leads to the inescapable conclusion that organisms tend to express quasisystemic electric changes when perturbed, and, conversely, will tend toward wellness either through endogenous repair currents or the application of equivalent external currents. We show that an all-inclusive electromagnetic field representation for living systems is fully consistent with this extensive body of work. This electrogenomic field may provide the basis for a new paradigm in biology and medicine that is radically different from the present emphasis on molecular biology and biochemistry. An electromagnetic field description also enables a more rational transformation from the genome than the present endpoint, universally stated in terms of the so-called visible characteristics. Furthermore, once the organism is described as an electromagnetic entity, this strongly suggests the reason for the efficacy of the various electromagnetic therapies, namely as the most direct means of restoring the body's impacted electromagnetic field to its normal state.

Electric and Magnetic Energies in the Human Body

International Journal of Applied Energy Systems

The human body is actuated by electric and magnetic energies where the neural systems are found to transfer their instructions by nerve impulses in the form of electric signals or as waves of electric potential. However; the absence of a clear definition of electric charge misled the neuroscientists in recognizing the nerve impulses as electric charges and they defined them as chemical ions which contradicts their observation as waves of electric potential. According to a found definition of the electric charge as electromagnetic waves of electric potential that deletes confusions in electromagnetism, this innovative definition is found to be consistent with the neurologist's observations of the nerve impulses and its found nature as electric signals. Similarly; the neurologists succeeded in stimulating the neural system by magnetic flux through the scull without clear explanation due to the unclear definitions of the magnetic flux as electromagnetic waves of magnetic potential. However; we succeed in this article in finding plausible explanation of this stimulation by the innovative definitions of the electric charge and magnetic flux as electromagnetic waves of electric and magnetic potentials. We show the truth of these definitions by amble evidences.

Exposure of Living Organism to Electromagnetic Fields – Inevitable Part of Medical Curriculum

Educational Alternatives, 2019

The topic of electromagnetic fields in the Earth´s biosphere is now especially important in connection with massive contribution of artificial sources of electromagnetic radiation. From an ethical point of view, it is important that information on the impact of electromagnetic fields on the human health have to be based on scientifically proven facts. The aim of medical higher education is to provide students with specific professional competences in the informed use of electromagnetic fields in medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices with minimal risk to the health-care professionals and patients.

Electromagnetic fields and radio frequency identification and their effects in our bodies

In the last decades on the last century, applications of electromagnetic fields have increased both in number of them and in number of persons that use them. At the same time, a social worry regarding the use of these applications has spread. Some studies maintain that there is not any direct relation between electromagnetic field applications that are used normally by people and diseases such as cancer, and other studies assert that the use of these applications is the main cause of these diseases. The interaction of the electromagnetic fields with human beings depends on many parameters. Generally, occupational exposure concerns healthy adults working under controlled conditions. These conditions include the opportunity to apply engineering and administrative measures and, where necessary and practical, to provide personal protection. The basic restrictions are expressed in terms of limits on induced electric current and specific absorption rates.