One of the most common therapeutic effects of millimeter waves (MW) reported during the treatment of different diseases was the relief of concomitant pain.
Clinical trials have been done with: - Headache - Joint pain - Postoperative pain
Pain-relief effect of MW described was the immediate onset of analgesia / hypoalgesia during the application of MW therapy. Pain relief from MW was already detectable after several minutes of exposure and lasted from several hours to several days.
MW probably influences the immune system: at least it was shown in patients with disorders where the immune system was affected.
The effect of millimeter waves is remote to the site of exposure. Almost all the authors applied MW to acupuncture points.
(Usichenko et al., 2006)
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Pain and electromagnetic framework - professor Sitko
"Eperience of quantum medicine shows that pain is the reaction of organism on the deformation of electromagnetic framework, but not on the pathology of body itself. "
- Professor Sergey Sitko
I have been following several years the work of millimeter wave therapy pioneer, professor Sergey Sitko. What does this Sitko's "deformation of electromagnetic framework" could mean? It most likely refers to biofield of a human being and "holes" in it. Similarly, pain management means correcting the deformation of electromagnetic framework. It also points out that through meridians can the pain be treated and controlled, even far away from the actual painful spot.
It is also good to think what causes this deformation of electromagnetic framework? It is radiation (non-ionising & ionising), chemicals, heavy-metals, negative thoughts etc. When trying to prevent it, quite useful is to avoid RF/IF/ELF-exposure (recommend EUROPAEM 2016 EMF Guideline levels) , especially during night time, but also at the workplace if possible. An example below.
Finally, my personal observations: after using millimeter-wave therapy:
- First my immune system got better (no more 'mini-colds') and thereafter also daily pains got away. I have not had any more (my) typical lower back pains for several months.
- Additionally, my bruises and wounds get healed faster with immediate MW treatments after mini-accidents.
Resources:
Belyaev, I., Dean, A., Eger, H., Hubmann, G., Jandrisovits, R., Kern, M., … Thill, R. (2016). EUROPAEM EMF Guideline 2016 for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of EMF-related health problems and illnesses. Reviews on Environmental Health, 31(3), 363–397. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2016-0011
Usichenko, T. I., Edinger, H., Gizhko, V. V., Lehmann, C., Wendt, M., & Feyerherd, F. (2006). Low-intensity electromagnetic millimeter waves for pain therapy. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: ECAM, 3(2), 201–207. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nel012
Following two reviews provide useful information about 'Millimeter Wave (MW) Therapy' , 'Extremely High Frequency (EHF) Therapy' aka 'Microwave Resonance Therapy':
"With medical MW generators now employed in hospitals and clinics in the former USSR and some European states (some estimates range as high as 50 000 units, thousands of patients undergo treatment with MWs every year. Some authors,claim that there are several hundred thousand patients who have been treated with MWs."
Picture. An example of an early millimeter wave therapy device, «Yav-1» (picture source: Wikipedia)
Pakhomov, A. G., & Murthy, P. R. (2000). Low-intensity millimeter waves as a novel therapeutic modality. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 28(1), 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1109/27.842821
"A brief, low-intensity MMW exposure can change cell growth and proliferation rates, activity of enzymes, state of cell genetic apparatus, function of excitable membranes and peripheral receptors; it can alleviate stress reactions, stimulate tissue repair and regeneration, etc."
Please, note: Both reviews are made already 20 years ago when I write this blog posting. However, as reviews they document quite nicely those (current) effects of millimeter wave (MW) treatments. Worth opening and reading those PDFs!
The Hardell research group has already several years documented the increase of RF radiation levels in Stockholm. The following six research papers will be perhaps useful for other major cities as well, when discussing about health and environmental impacts of mobile phone base stations.
Hardell, L., Koppel, T., Carlberg, M., Ahonen, M., & Hedendahl, L. (2016). Radiofrequency radiation at Stockholm Central Railway Station in Sweden and some medical aspects on public exposure to RF fields. International Journal of Oncology, 49(4), 1315–1324. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3657
Picture. T-Centralen, Stockholm Railway Station. Base stations and their antennas on 'shelves', close to ceiling. Hot-spots on the floor level. (Hardell et al., 2016).
"In conclusion, the aim of the present study was to assess the exposure to RF radiation in a public place in Sweden visited daily by many persons. We compare our results with nonthermal effects in laboratory investigations and also discuss results in animal studies on the carcinogenic risk. In epidemiological studies an increased risk of glioma and acoustic neuroma has been found in persons exposed to RF radiation from wireless phones. In animal studies RF radiation has been shown to promote tumours but also cause glioma and acoustic neuroma. There are also by now mechanistic studies such as oxidative effects from low-intensity RF radiation. We call for upgrading the carcinogenic potential to IARC Group 1, the agent causes cancer in humans.
In this study, real-time band specific exposure measurements at a public place showed comparatively high exposure from all mobile telephone and networking bands. The highest contributors to the exposure were download frequencies from the base stations at GSM+UMTS 900, UMTS 2100, LTE800, LTE 2600 and GSM 1800 bands. However, these RF exposure levels in this study are transient, since people are generally passing through the areas tested, except for subsets of people, i.e., security and police staff, cafe workers, shop workers, janitors, information counter people, who are there for hours each day of work."
Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing was perhaps one of the first pioneers studying heart, brain and central nervous system (CNS) reactions to ELF/RF radiation:
Tuengler, A., & von Klitzing, L. (2013). Hypothesis on how to measure electromagnetic hypersensitivity.Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 32(3), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.3109/15368378.2012.712586
Their conclusion: "Simultaneous recordings of heart rate variability, microcirculation and electric skin potentials are used for classification of EHS."
The interesting point here is that this is an objective method, which reveals also people who react with their heart, but do NOT get any symptoms.EHS (Electrical Hyper-Sensitivity) can therefore be much larger phenomenon than earlier anticipated. The HRV-measurement method is known to many medical doctors and this enables a new way of screening sensitives. However, as von Klitzing and also William (Bill) Rea have pointed out, the testing needs to take place in a chemically and electromagnetically clean environment + there needs to be several hours extra time (flush-out period) for test-subjects to recover from travel/electrosmog before the actual testing begins.
Other researchers have continued heart rate variability (HRV) measurements:
Koppel, T., Vilcane, I., Carlberg, M., Tint, P., Priiman, R., Riisik, K., ... & Visnapuu, L. (2015). The effect of static magnetic field on heart rate variability-an experimental study.Agronomy Research, 13(3), 765-774.
(Exposing with 150 µT DC magnetic field, 2 minute long phases. When the (normal) earth magnetic field is about 50 µT, in non-exposure phases)
Koppel, T., Vilcane, I., & Ahonen, M. (2018). 50 Hz magnetic field affects heart rate variability – an experimental study.2018 EMF-Med 1st World Conference on Biomedical Applications of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF-Med), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.23919/EMF-MED.2018.8526072
(Exposing with 4 µT AC magnetic field, 2 minutes long phases. I was also involved in this study.)
Misek, J., Belyaev, I., Jakusova, V., Tonhajzerova, I., Barabas, J., & Jakus, J. (2018). Heart rate variability affected by radiofrequency electromagnetic field in adolescent students. Bioelectromagnetics, 39(4), 277–288. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.22115
What is interesting in this Misek et al. (2018) paper, HRV-readings and reactions could be recorded, when the test subject was in laying in a horisontal position. Exposure was from a mobile phone, in call/listen-mode.
A WISH: Hopefully these HRV-measurements, perhaps with microcirculation and electric skin potential measurements, will r-e-p-l-a-c-e badly constructed provocation studies ála Rubin. Similar suggestion about better research methods has been provided Dr. Dariusz Leszczynski (to the WHO), who has wisely proposedsensitivity research based on proteomics. I find it very counter-productive to do/finance provocation studies, since often those studies have A) sensitives in control-groups B) immediate symptom expectations after exposure C) poorly shielded test laboratories D) no flush-out periods possible.
I am curious to hear more comments about HRV-testing.
We looked at the growth of thyroid cancers based on Swedish statistics. There is already some evidence that radiofrequency (RF) radiation is one co-factor in the increase of thyroid cancer and other thyroid-related health problems.
A specific risk-group is visible in statistics and the risk has increased especially from year 2005:
Picture: Joinpoint regression analysis, age-standardised incidence of thyroid cancer, women 20–39 years 1970–2013 (Carlberg et al., 2016, 4)
We also looked at how mobile phones have 'developed', where the antenna is and how RF radiation effects thyroid gland. Based on that the following picture was illustrated.
Smart phones have (commonly) antennas in the lower part of the mobile phone, close to thyroid gland.
CONCLUSIONS: We postulate that the whole increase (of thyroid cancer) cannot be attributed to better diagnostic procedures. Increasing exposure to ionizing radiation, e.g. medical computed tomography (CT) scans, and to RF-EMF (non-ionizing radiation) should be further studied. The design of our study does not permit conclusions regarding causality.
- Thomas Gervais is behind a project call "Urban-Electro Brigade" which will offer free measurements in people's homes and to test objects that emit radio frequencies, based on ICNIRP guidelines :-/. The brigade, whose creation was made possible by a grant from philanthropist, risk-denialist L.Trottier, will consist of six students of the Ecole Polytechnique, "independent scholars" who will be there "to collect questions, comments and concerns of people and to provide tools, references and arguments to help them see more clearly". Cervais has been active in showing that there are absolute no health risks in smart meters.
Wow, impressive "impartiality" and "sound science" viewpoints from the WCSJ 2013 workshop's like-minded presenters!
Why is there nobody providing an alternative, biology-originating, risks-acknowledging viewpoint?
I am asking this, because the workshop was advertised: "All panelists have been selected for their impartiality (no affiliation to either activist or industrial advocacy groups".
[Surprise, now this sentence has been removed from the program].
I thought journalists should be critical and simultaneously open-minded ?!? I hope the WCSJ 2013 organising committee will discuss about ethical issues related to this workshop.
Update 28th June 2015:
- I never received any answers to my questions from conference organisers.
- I found out during Autumn 2013 that the original idea of the workshop came from a Nordic mobile industry representative. Please, ask Mr Gervais details about this!
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EXTRA: A chemical viewpoint: If you look at this Helsinki WCSJ conference, it is was heavily sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies.
I am seeing a symbiotic relationship between mobile and pharmaceutical industries.
Please, let me provide an example:
"Interestingly, the expansion of wireless networks corresponds with the increase in prescription expenses for Methylphenidate, a drug whose chemical structure is related to Phenylethylamine (PEA) and which is indicated in cases of attention deficit disorder (ADD) "
Simply put: Best-sellers in drugs seem to be those which control hormon (& alkaloid) levels which in turn have been (perhaps) imbalanced by pulsed microwave (radiofrequency) radiation.
Similar studies measuring chronic exposure effects in real-life conditions: [1],[2].
No wonder chemical, pharmateucical and mobile&power -industries have mutual interests to protect :-?
If you happen to be a real, critical science journalist, here might be an interesting starting point for your investigations.
In our presentation (p.89) in the Kuopio Alzheimer Symposium 2012 we talked about prevention. Therefore I will discuss in this blog posting about Statistics related to neurological illnesses + Mechanisms behind (especially) alzheimer + Prevention strategies.
Update 19th July 2019: In their recent publication, Pritchard, Silk & Hansen point out the rapid increase of neurological mortality:
Pritchard, C., Silk, A., & Hansen, L. (2019). Are rises in Electro-Magnetic Field in the human environment, interacting with multiple environmental pollutions, the tripping point for increases in neurological deaths in the Western World?Medical Hypotheses, 127, 76–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2019.03.018
Especially Total Neurological Deaths (TND) have greatly increased, starting from year 2013 and they suggest that the exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation is one of major reasons for it.
Prevention in mind, I will next look at risk groups . Thereafter, I will list some suggested mechanisms which operate in the radiofrequency (RF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) range.
A. RISK GROUPS
In certain occupations, there is an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease , this has been shown by epidemiological studies and meta-analysis. (Garcia et al. 2008).
People who live close to power lines have an increased AD risk (Huss et al., 2009), though there is a small number of epidemiological studies focusing on AD. Memory problems close to cell towers (Khurana et al., 2010 ; Chronic Exposure, 2013) come up in epidemiological studies. However, there is not a single AD-study directly related to cell towers / mobile phone base stations . Similarly, there seems to be only 1 cohort study focused on long-term mobile phone use, with strange results, since it is based on the dubious Danish cohort study.
B. MECHANISMS
Several mechanisms of actions are discussed in the literature:
MECHANISM 1 . Amyloid beta (Aβ) increases in brain cells because of Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) -leakage and nerve cell damage.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF), especially pulsed and heavily modulated microwave radiation affect BBB, but this effect is not linear and the greatest power densities do not make the BBB leak (Frey, 1975 ; Frey, 1998; Nittby et al., 2008).
In the following, edited video professor Leif Salford goes through BBB-studies and research challenges.
In a more recent presentation, adjunct professor Dariusz Leszczynski describes the importance of proteomics research and how it is related to blood-brain barrier leakage.
MECHANISM 2.Increased peripheral or brain production of Aβ as a result of magnetic field exposurecause voltage-gated calcium ion channels to be open longer than normal.
This results in abnormally high intracellular levels of calcium ions, which in turn results in the production of Aβ and that is quickly secreted into the blood and is then transported through the BBB perhaps best chaperoned by the 4 isoform of apolipoprotein E (apoE). (Davanipour and Sobel, 2009; BioIniatiative, 2013)
MECHANISM 3. Positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of cerebral glucose metabolism have shown high diagnostic specificity in distinguishing among the degenerative dementias and differentiating between AD and normal aging (Smith et al., 1992).
Volkow et al. (2011) have showed through a PET study that 50-minute mobile phone call increases glucose metabolism in the brain. This finding is similar toHuber et al. (2002), while Kwon et al. (2012) showed decrease in glucose metabolism.
MECHANISM 4. A substantial body of literature has suggested that the memory and learning deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease and aging are attributable to degeneration of the cholinergic magnocellular neurons of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) (Muir, 1997). EMF exposures decrease acetylcholine levels in brain in animal studies (Modak et al., 1981, Kunwiljar & Behari, 1993). Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzymatic activity increased of 1.4-fold in PC12 cells exposed to 217-GSM signal for 24 h (Valbonesi et al., 2016). These results provide the first evidence of effects on AChE activity, related to in vitro exposure to the RF-EMF generated by GSM mobile phones, at the time-averaged SAR value (2 W/kg) recommended by ICNIRP as the safety limit for mobile phone emissions (ICNIRP 2009). Human studies are still missing, as far I know.
MECHANISM 5. EMFs affect pineal gland and decrease its melatonin production (which may increase the risk of AD) (Srinivasan et al., 2006). Blood tests provide valuable risk-indicators (Noonan et al., 2002).
Summa summarum, the EMF exposure seem to have a link to Alzheimer's Disease. This exposure extends from mobile workplace to living environments. However, the mechanism(s) are not clear and need to be researched further.
After-thought: While attending the Kuopio Alzheimer Symposium, I noticed a very small focus on preventation. These events are heavily sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and the main focus in the symposium was on drug pilots & related presentations.
Update: During 2013 the discussion internationally has been about digital dementia. Perhaps those neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and psychiatrist could look at EMF-exposure closer?
Video: Professor in psychiatry, Manfred Spitzer discussing about digital dementia (in German).
Video: Profesor Manfred Spitzer about addiction and digital dementia (in English)
By focusing on prevention (minimizing EMF exposure of children, educating about safer ways of using mobile devices) would make enormous cost savings and avoid individual tragedy in later life.
As far as I know, only the Russian National Committee of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP) has clearly indicated Alzheimer and Dementia risk of children , pages 3-4, link updated). Other nations should perhaps follow their example?
Every comment on Alzheimer's disease and related topics is welcome.
- A lot of emphasis in the Brisbane conference is put on "risk communication". When you look at this area closer, you can translate risk communication as "systematic and heavily-funded down-playing of risks".
- Several Brisbane (keynote) speakers have worked as consultants for mobile&power industry [1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ].
[Yes, I can/will work as a consultant as well but at least I protect the rights of injured workers and cancer victims! The mobile&power industry is important globally/economically, but we need more fair play. ]
Anecdote: "If you can't win, change the rules". This is happening with Bioelectromagnetics Society under heavy industry influence.
Please, tell me: As a BEMS member candidate, why should I pay a full membership fee? How can I be sure that my membership would support independent research?
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