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Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Field Therapy
Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF) can boost cellular energy and improve the body's natural ability to perform and recover. PEMF generates a magnetic field that is passed through the body creating movement within the body and providing energy to each cell known as cellular exercise. This therapy can have several benefits including, but not limited to, assisting in the regeneration of damaged tissues, helping to heal injured tendons, ligaments and bones, enhancing the synthesis of protein in the cells, and much more. PEMF is a drug-free alternative that is able to increase blood circulation and oxygenation, and can decrease inflammation and pain in humans, horses, small animals and livestock. Oxygen absorption of cells can be increased up to 200% and minimize the buildup of lactic acid.
Basics of How PEMF Works
Our bodies are electromagnetic, with our nervous system being the core of our electrical system. Every cell in our body requires energy to perform at optimum levels. Each cell is like a cell phone battery holding an electrical charge, but as the cells are used their charge decreases. Cells with low voltage are unhealthy and allow for disease and infection to set in, as well as retain fluid and toxins, creating swelling and inflammation. The earth puts off a natural magnetic field which assists in energizing our cells, however, with industrialization the effects of the earths magnetic field have been greatly decreased. When the cell energy is not high enough you can experience pain, disease or chronic illness.
Figure 1. Studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between the voltage across a cell membrane and the health of that cell.
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So how can the energy of our cells be increased? PEMF pulses a magnetic field through the cells, providing cellular exercise for the body, which assists in re-energizing the cells and can improve overall health. Recharging the cells allows them to operate more efficiently in evacuating toxins and carbon dioxide from the body and delivering nutrients and oxygen throughout all bodily systems. This increased oxygenation of the cells improves the body's natural ability to heal itself and perform better.
PEMF machines pulse a magnetic field into the body, assisting in energizing the cell potential. Energy flows like water. If there is water flowing across a parking lot, the water fills the deepest pot holes first, and then flow over into other potholes, eventually flooding the whole parking lot. Similarly, cellular exercise first energizes the most damaged cells within the body, affecting the areas of the body that need it most, then flowing to other areas of the body and charging other cells, eventually charging the whole body.
PEMF machines pulse a magnetic field into the body, assisting in energizing the cell potential. Energy flows like water. If there is water flowing across a parking lot, the water fills the deepest pot holes first, and then flow over into other potholes, eventually flooding the whole parking lot. Similarly, cellular exercise first energizes the most damaged cells within the body, affecting the areas of the body that need it most, then flowing to other areas of the body and charging other cells, eventually charging the whole body.
Overall Cell Health
Cell membrane permeability is dependent upon an electrical potential across the membrane. This membrane potential causes a steady flow of ions through the cell walls, allowing nutrients, oxygen and vitamins into the cell, and enabling water, waste and carbon dioxide to exit the cell. When the charge across this membrane is decreased within a damaged or unhealthy cell, fluid is attracted to the inner cellular space, resulting in swelling and edema. PEMF can assist in re-energizing these cell's membrane potential which allows water to escape to decrease swelling, which improves and maintains cell health.
FIGURE 2a. Healthy cells have soft and permeable membrane with a voltage potential that allows nutrients and oxygen to enter the cell and waste products to evacuate the cell.
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FIGURE 2b. Unhealthy cells have hard and rigid membrane, caused by a low cell potential, which traps water and waste, and nutrients and oxygen are unable enter the cell.
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Cellular Level
One of the main functions of blood cells is to transport oxygen and nutrients throughout the body and help evacuate carbon dioxide and toxins. Oxygen, nutrients, CO2 and toxins permeate the large surface area of the cell to be transported within the cell body, however, when multiple cells are stacked together the usable surface area to absorb oxygen is greatly diminished, thereby minimizing the efficiency of the cells. When cells are stacked this is known as the Rouleaux effect, this can be minimized by PEMF treatments. With the blood cells operating as they should, blood circulation is increased, specifically micro-circulation through the capillaries improving the health of organs and the body as a whole. PEMF can also dilate the arteries, which assists with reduction of swelling and inflammation without increasing heart rate or blood pressure.
FIGURE 3a. The Rouleaux effect on six blood cells. These stacked cells yield less surface area for absorbing and delivering oxygen and nutrients.
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FIGURE 3b. More positively charged blood cells remain separated and have increased surface area to absorb oxygen and nutrients to distribute throughout the body, and to absorb carbon dioxide and toxins to expel from the body.
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FIGURE 4. Blood cells that are more positively charged act like two north poles of a magnet, repelling each other. As the positive charge (+) in the cell decreases the repelling force decreases, allowing cells to clump together and minimizing the cell's capability to perform its function.
Organs like the lungs, liver and small intestine are supplied by small pathways called capillaries, which can only fit a single blood cell at a time, and thus stacked cells create "traffic jams". The groups of blood cells that cannot enter the capillaries just circulate back to the heart without serving their purpose. This limited transportation of blood cells restricts the amount of oxygen delivered, creating an anaerobic environment where disease thrives.
FIGURE 5a. Low cell potential creates clumping, limiting the amount of cells that are able to travel through the capillaries and into the organ to deliver oxygen and nutrients.
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FIGURE 5b. Increased cell potential allows for a higher concentration of cells within the organs to transport oxygen in and expel toxins and carbon dioxide.
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Organs absorb the oxygen and nutrients from the incoming cells and evacuate carbon dioxide and toxins on the outgoing cells. PEMF therapy's ability to reduce the Rouleaux effect ultimately allows higher levels of oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to the organs and better discharge of carbon dioxide and toxins, minimizing anaerobic environments in the body.
