December, 2007 NEWSLETTER from Bio-Magnetic Therapy

Hoping you had a great Thanksgiving. Now that all the turkey has settled, it is time to get back to the basics of your health.

Bio-Magnet Water

The Gift of Health: No Batteries Needed

We’re in the midst of the holiday season. For some it is a quiet celebration. For others it is a season of incredible stress brought on by the interminable shopping. Malls are jam packed. Stores are a nightmare. Why not think about giving an inexpensive gift of health to your loved ones? A gift that will last forever.

The HydroMag™ Charger is one of those gifts that is both inexpensive, effective and, thank goodness, it doesn’t require batteries and is literally simple enough that “even a six-year-old can set it up.” All he does is put up to a gallon of water on the charger and, in a matter of minutes, a low-gauss charge has been imparted to the water.

What that HydroMag Charger may do is raise the body’s pH, make nutrients absorb faster by lowering the surface tension of drinking water, and may give you a needed “lift” from the stress of the season (with the attendant stress of credit card bills).

One happy customer called our office and commented that she “…tried everything to raise my pH from green drinks to every imaginable form of water I could buy. The only thing that works is the HydroMag Charger.”

HydroMags have enjoyed incredible success over the last few years as more and more health food stores stock the item. We have literally sold thousands and many continue to buy additional chargers. One customer in Japan followed up his initial order of four chargers with another order for six a few months later, and another order for six more later on. Why? Because a) they actually work, and b) he had difficulty keeping up with family gifts.

Over the years, we have received more letters from satisfied customers than we can count. The consensus is that the HydroMag Charger “does all (and more)” than they expected. “The water tastes better smoother; plants grow more luxuriant when I water them with charged water; I have more energy; my pH is now normally 7; my knees don’t hurt…” and so on.

The science of bi-polar charged water is really nothing new, perhaps going back as far as the ancient Egyptians and, more recently to Dr. Linus Pauling in 1954.

It is a fact that water is di-polar. It is a fact that when water is subjected to a low-gauss magnetic field the molecular structure is re-oriented (de-clustered) giving the water a more “natural” taste as well.

So why not give a gift of health this Christmas…a gift that truly goes on giving…HydroMag water chargers.

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Chronic Back Pain from The Mayo Clinic

A new treatment option

It seems like you’ve tried everything to relieve the pain caused by the arthritis in your lower back---but with only minimal success.

You wonder: Can anything besides surgery be done?

Perhaps. For arthritis---related back pain, radiofrequency ablation is a developing therapy that involves stunning or destroying with heat energy the nerves of a painful joint. In the right situation, this may bring welcome---though not usually permanent---relief.

Pinpoint The Cause

The foundation of pain relief with radiofrequency ablation is determining if arthritis is the cause of some or all of your back pain. Radiofrequency ablation only produces relief of the back pain from arthritis---and not other common causes such as muscle or ligaments, bone fractures or a disk rupture.

The most common type of arthritis (osteoarthritis) involves wearing away of the cartilage that lines each of the 24 pairs of facet joints that help stabilize your spine. When this happens, bone ends touch and rub causing pain, stiffness and a loss of spine flexibility.

The best candidates for the procedure are those who have arthritis pain that’s primarily confined to the spine area and possibly the upper buttock region---as opposed to pain that travels down the legs. The best results are often achieved in the joints of the neck and lower back.

Normally, it’s best to have first tried more-conservative therapies, including physical, occupational, or chiropractic therapies, using heat and cold, reducing stress, correcting bad posture, or the judicious use of pain medications. These options can be effective at providing pain relief, often without the cost and risk of more advanced procedures.

Radiofrequency ablation of spine joint nerves is an outpatient procedure, often requiring only local anesthesia. Special X-ray imaging is used to place a needle where the nerve typically runs. Tests to help ensure results and limit risk may include placing a drop of anesthetic on the nerves to one or more of your spine joints. If your pain is coming from one of those joints, it’s likely you’ll feel immediate, through temporary, pain relief.

If testing fails to produce acceptable results, your doctor may avoid the procedure because ablation probably won’t provide much pain relief and any risk related to the procedure would be unnecessary.

Applying The Heat

Applying radiofrequency energy to the facet joint nerve involves placing an insulated wire near the nerve tissue. This can be done in two main ways, including using:

Continuous radiofrequency---This involves heating tissue of the facet nerve to destroy it and sustaining that heat for about one to two minutes. This deadens a length of nerve tissue, preventing it from transmitting pain signals to the brain. The majority of people properly selected for the procedure are likely to experience a greater than 50 % pain reduction. Unfortunately, relief only lasts on average, 6 to nine months. It’s not clear why pain often returns, but it’s suspected that the nerve reconnect over time. The procedure can be repeated indefinitely. However, you may experience diminishing returns with each successive application.
Pulsed radiofrequency---With this same amount of energy is delivered to the nerve as with the continuous method, but it’s delivered intermittently so that the tissue is “stunned” rather than destroyed.

Pulsed radiofrequency may be initially as effective as the continuous method. However, relief is generally of shorter duration, lasting on average three to six months. Since no tissue is damaged, the procedure is theoretically safer than continuous radiofrequency, and not expected to offer diminishing returns with repeated applications.

Minimal Complications

Mayo Clinic doctors have seen good results using radiofrequency procedures. However, definitive research has yet to accurately quantify success rates. In addition, technique may vary among practitioners, leading to varying success rates.

However, research indicates that the procedure results in an extremely small number of serious complications, although you may experience some soreness or nerve irritation that typically goes away in a week or two.

If you have spine arthritis pain that hasn’t responded to more-conservative pain options, talk with your doctor about whether you might benefit from radiofrequency ablation treatment.

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News and Our Views

Nuts & Popcorn don’t cause diverticulitis !

If you’ve been forsaking popcorn to avoid a diverticulitis flare-up, it mat be time to close the curtain on some inaccurate advice.

In the past, many doctors recommended that people with colon diverticulitis --- in which small, bulging pouches (diverticula) form in the wall of the large intestine --- avoid seeds and nuts, including popcorn and foods with small seeds, such as tomatoes and strawberries. It was through that time, hard-to-digest particles could lodge in the diverticula and cause inflammation (diverticulitis).

Scientific evidence to prove this cause-and-effect relationship has always been scant. Now, a study by the University of Washington involving 47,000 men has found no association between eating these foods and risk of diverticulitis.

The study found that men who ate popcorn or nuts two or more times a week had no increase in diverticula bleeding and about a 20 % decrease in risk of diverticulitis over men who ate those foods once a month or less.

Mayo Clinic experts say that this study is a welcome piece of evidence to support their belief that eating popcorn and seeds doesn’t increase diverticulitis risk. In fact, it’s long been known that eating a high-fiber diet -- Which may include these foods---reduces the risk of diverticulitis. Still, if you believe that these foods have triggered an attack of diverticulitis, it won’t hurt to avoid them, so long as you get adequate fiber intake from other dietary sources.

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Sorry for the short Newsletter this month. We know you have many things to do before the holidays and so do we. We will give you a bigger Newsletter next month. In the mean time, if we see something that will help you , we will e-mail you whenever during the month.

Have a GREAT HOLIDAY, and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL !

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