October, 2008 Newsletter
from Bio-Magnetic Therapy
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is a practice that dates back thousands of years. There are many types of massage therapy; all involve manipulating the muscles and other soft tissues of the body. In the United States, massage therapy is sometimes part of conventional medicine.
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Introduction to Massage Therapy
The term massage therapy (also called massage, for short; massage also refers to an individual treatment session) covers a group of practices and techniques. There are over 80 types of massage therapy. In all of them, therapists press, rub, and otherwise manipulate the muscles and other soft tissues of the body, often varying pressure and movement. They most often use their hands and fingers, but may use their forearms, elbows, or feet. Typically, the intent is to relax the soft tissues, increase delivery of blood and oxygen to the massaged areas, warm them, and decrease pain.
A few popular examples of this therapy are as follows:
History of Massage Therapy
Massage therapy (and, in general, the laying on of hands for health purposes) dates back thousands of years. References to massage have been found in ancient writings from many cultures, including those of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Japan, China, Egypt, and the Indian subcontinent.
In the United States, massage therapy first became popular and was promoted for a variety of health purposes starting in the mid-1800s. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, massage fell out of favor, mostly because of scientific and technological advances in medical treatments. Interest in massage revived in the 1970s, especially among athletes.
More recently, a 2002 national survey on Americans' (published in 2004) found that 5 percent of the 31,000 participants had used massage therapy in the preceding 12 months, and 9.3 percent had ever used it. According to recent reviews, people use massage for a wide variety of health-related intents: for example, to relieve pain (often from musculoskeletal conditions, but from other conditions as well); rehabilitate sports injuries; reduce stress; increase relaxation; address feelings of anxiety and depression; and aid general wellness.
Water is vital for good health and a long life. Although you can live for days without food, your survival depends on drinking water. Each and every cell needs water to perform its essential functions. Read on to learn how water factors into your health and longevity plans.
Benefits of a good "drinking habit"
You should be drinking at least 60 ounces of water - about 8 glasses - a day.
To develop a good water-drinking habit, get two large, rigid thermos bottles with a 20-ounce capacity and fill them with water. Take one along with you during the day to drink at work, and drink the other one at home.
Water: You Are What You Drink
Everything that goes down the drain from our lawns, our agricultural fields, or anywhere else in our environment inevitably ends up in our drinking water. The president of the Environmental Working Group, Ken Cook, states that "approximately 45 million Americans in thousands of communities drink water that is polluted with fecal matter, parasites, disease-causing microbes, and pesticides at levels that violate Safe Drinking Water Act standards."
And a recent report showed that pharmaceutical drugs are showing up in tap water across the nation. People taking pharmaceutical drugs pass them through their bodies and into the sewage plants, which remove the usual pollutants - but not drug chemicals from waster water, and some ends up in your drinking water. Even a small amount of drug chemicals and pollutants taken in by your body continuously over a long period of time can trigger genetic changes, cause allergies, or even lead to cancer.
Of the many filtration processes that remove contaminants, the kinds that use activated charcoal is recognized by the EPA as the best available technology for filtering out volatile organic compound (VOCs) and other dangerous chemicals. The most convenient and affordable way to have safe, healthy water for you and your family is to use a Magnetic Pad or Strap. To learn about a high-performance system that I recommend, you can find it at: Bio-Magnetic Therapy
Health in a Bottle?
Bottled water has gained tremendous popularity, as word about the hazards of tap water is getting out. However, many bottled waters were found to be simply processed water using distillation, reverse osmosis, de-ionization or filtration. So, is bottled water safer than tap water? Tests have discovered that some bottled waters contained more chlorine by-products than surface and ground waters. And the pesticides, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals that are found in household tap water are appearing in bottled water with alarming frequency.
The Natural Resources Defense Council report on the subject concluded that, "there is no assurance that bottled water is any safer than tap water." Throw into that mix that plastic containers contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which leach into your water. Skip the plastic bottles for storing. Instead store in glass bottles, and for water-on-the-go, get a reusable thermos.
I hope you will take these tips and keep yourself well watered. I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
-Dr. Mao
Over 98% of us are drinking water in the USA that is NOT BENEFICIAL to your family’s health!
Let’s do something about this crisis before our health is affected more than it is now!
I can remember when we had much fewer ailments and we were healthier than we are now. WHY ? Is it the water???
600 years ago water ran free over the rocks and down canyons. In the process of running over racks, sand, dirt, and numerous things it picked up the earth’s magnetism. This same magnetism is what is holding us on this fantastic planet. Our bodies are 70% water, would it not stand to reason that drinking magnetized water would behoove us?
Lets go back in time about 90 years ago would be about right, when people drank water from a spring (not a well) the water was so cold and actually tasted like water. Some wells had sulfa, iron etc. and all of those had bad tasting things. Now you have the picture. Now let’s see what has happened to our drinking water. WHY did it get so bad ?
600 years ago water ran free over the rocks and down canyons. In the process of running over racks, sand, dirt, and numerous things it picked up the earth’s magnetism. This same magnetism is what is holding us on this fantastic planet. If our bodies are 70% water, would it not stand to reason that drinking magnetized water would behoove us?
We now collect water in reserves, rivers and alike and pipe it to a distribution place close to you home where it is treated with chemicals, and then sent back in a pipe to your house. It might be clean BUT IT SURE SMELL FUNKY in some areas, and it has lost all of the good things it originally had like magnetism. Through the pipes on the way to either the chemical plant or your house all the magnetism went away because of the pipes it flowed through. You can put softeners in your home, but the bad smell of some water will actually gag you. All Doctors say to drink 7 to 10 glasses full of water per day. If you can’t stand the smell, who is going to drink that much from our taps? Now you could buy bottled water and that is pure water, BUT it does NOT have the magnetism in it for your health. The cost of the bottled water will be about $456.00 a year. If you take bottled water to work to drink you are spending about $236.00. That’s a total of $692.00 just to have water that is drinkable. NOW that is not helping your health too awful much. It is cleaning out you digestive track, and keeping you hydrated but what about your overall health?
Everyone needs to drink good healthy water even you in those places like Seattle Washington, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, Denver, Colorado, where the water is good and you don’t have the smelly stuff, you are missing out on the benefits of magnetized water.
Let’s save you between $200 - $400 per year and give you good health.
Here is how !
THE MIRACLE OF BIO-MAGNETIC WATER
What is Bio-Magnetic Water?
Water is paramagnetic – meaning that it will hold a magnetic charge. In nature, the earth’s magnetic field naturally charges water in lakes, wells, and running streams. However, as water passes through treatment plants and is transported through pipes to your home or work place, it loses its magnetic charge. Treating water with magnetic fields simple restores the natural energy and balance that nature intended. Magnetized water has more hydroxyl (OH-) ions that form alkaline molecules which reduces the acidity. Normal tap water has a pH of about 7. Magnetized water is more alkaline and can have a pH as high as 9.2. Magnetizing water reduces the surface tension of the water making it feel softer. It is thinner, wetter, and more absorbable, so it is better able to penetrate cell walls and deliver the nutrients that it carries.
Your body is over 70% water. All biological functions including circulation, digestion, absorption, and excretion depend on water. Water is required for blood, the lymphatic system, and healthy skin and muscles. It is well known among health professionals that when you are sick, the pH of your body is more acidic. Magnetized water, which is more alkaline, raises the pH of your body, which allows the body to get rid of the toxins. Bio-magnetized water is believed to be energy-building, activating, cleansing, and detoxifying. People have reported resolving bladder problems, recovering quickly from a stroke, alleviating arthritis pain, reducing blood pressure, and breaking up kidney and gall stones by drinking magnetic water. Scientific studies have proven that magnetized water has health benefits for animals. Therefore it seems reasonable that it should also be beneficial for humans. Reported health benefits of drinking magnetic water include:
Your pets will enjoy many of the same benefits from bio-magnetic water that you do. They will drink more water, have more energy, and feel younger and healthier. A friend was giving her dogs magnetic water. When she moved, she temporarily had to give them tap water. After a few days, they began scratching all the time. When she started them back on bio-magnetic water, the scratching stopped almost completely.
Bio-Magnetized water will help your plants grow stronger, greener, and larger. In one study seedlings’ germination rates were 68 % with bio-magnetized water, while with non-magnetized water only 8% germinated. In another study, Texas A&M researchers found that squash weighed 24% more when it was grown with magnetized water vs. non-magnetized water. Bio-magnetic water is more solvent and has a lower surface tension, so nutrients in the water are absorbed more readily. Thus you get a healthier plant while using less fertilizer.
Almost any fluid can be magnetized. Using Bio-Magnetic Water will drastically improve the taste of coffee, tea, and foods. Foods and beverages made using magnetic water will acquire the same healing powers as bio-magnetic water. Cosmetics, facial and skin products function a lot better when magnetized. Magnetized milk will give vigor and vitality to the weak and exhausted person. Magnetized milk has been proven useful for recuperating. When fruit juices are treated with bio-magnets, they become more refreshing and give more nourishment. Beer can be magnetized to give better effect. Magnetized olive oil can be very rewarding in the treatment of gout and rheumatism.
Use bio-magnetic water to make your coffee and after a month or two the inside of your coffee maker will look like new. The bio-magnetic water will remove the scale build-up in your coffee maker.
Making Bio-magnetic water is quite simple: just place a glass or container (empty 1 gallon plastic milk container) filled with tap water, and place it on a bio-magnetic pad. Never use a metal container. You want to use a container that has a flat bottom without any raised edges. You want the bottom of the container touching the magnet pad. How long you need to leave the water on the magnet will depend on how much water you have. I usually use a gallon milk container and leave it on the pad for 1 hour per gallon. It won’t hurt to leave it there longer; you can even just leave the container on the pad and refill it as you use the water. The water will stay magnetized for several days after you take it off the magnet. If you choose to leave it on the pad it will always be magnifier and ready for use. This pad will NEVER loose its magnetic elements. Save those bottled water jugs you have been buying and simply refill them with you new Bio-Magnetic water to take to the office with you.
There is a long history of the use of magnets to improve the quality and health benefits of water. Many countries have been using magnetic water for patients with digestive, urinary, and nervous problems, for pain, swelling, and many other ailments. Whether all of the claims are true or false remains to be tested by science. However, Magnetic Therapy has been accepted by many for the relief of pain. It is now accepted that each of our cells possess a small magnetic field and that water can be magnetized. Then, the logical conclusion is that magnetic water has the ability to affect our cells and help our body perform as it was meant. There is much evidence that bio-magnetic water is beneficial and none that it can be harmful.
Visit our website at www.bio-magnetictherapy.com for more information on Magnetic Water and Bio-Magnetic Therapy.
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The Use of Magnets for Pain
Magnets have been used for health purposes for centuries. Static, or permanent, magnets are widely marketed for pain control. This fact sheet provides an overview of static magnets and summarizes current scientific knowledge about their effects on pain.
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About Magnets
A magnet produces a measurable force called a magnetic field. Static magnets have magnetic fields that do not change (unlike another type called electromagnets, which generate magnetic fields only when electrical current flows through them). Magnets are usually made from metals (such as iron) or alloys (mixtures of metals, or of a metal and a nonmetal).
Magnets come in different strengths, often measured in units called gauss (G) or, alternatively, units called tesla (1 tesla = 10,000 G). Magnets marketed for pain usually claim strengths of 300 to 5,000 G — many times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field (about 0.5 G) and much weaker than the magnets used for MRI machines (approximately 15,000 G or higher).
Various products with magnets in them are marketed for health purposes, including shoe insoles, bracelets and other jewelry, mattress pads, bandages Dots , headbands, and belts. These products are often placed in contact with painful areas of the body with the goal of providing relief.
History of Magnets for Health Uses
Magnets have been used for many centuries for a variety of health purposes. By various accounts, magnets were discovered when people first noticed the presence of naturally magnetized stones, also called lodestones. By the third century A.D., Greek physicians were using magnetic rings to treat arthritis and magnetized pills made of amber to stop bleeding. In the Middle Ages, doctors used magnets to treat gout, arthritis, poisoning, and baldness; to clean wounds; and to retrieve arrowheads and other iron-containing objects from the body.
In the United States, magnetic devices (such as hairbrushes and insoles), magnetic ointments, and clothes with magnets attached came into wide use after the Civil War, especially in some rural areas where few doctors were available. Healers claimed that magnetic fields existed in the blood, and that people became ill when their magnetic fields were depleted. Thus, healers marketed magnets as a means of replenishing these magnetic fields. Magnets were promoted as cures for a wide range of health conditions, including paralysis, headache, backache, sleeplessness, upset stomach, and liver and kidney problems.
The use of magnets to treat medical problems remained popular well into the 20th century. Today, magnets are used for many different types of pain, including foot pain and back pain from conditions such as arthritis and fibromyalgia.
What the Science Says: What Studies Have Shown
Overall, the scientific evidence does not support the use of magnets for pain relief. Preliminary studies looking at different types of pain — such as knee, hip, wrist, foot, back, and pelvic pain — have had mixed results. Some of these studies, including a recent NIH-sponsored clinical trial that looked at back pain in a small group of people, have suggested a benefit from using magnets. The majority of rigorous trials, however, have found no effect on pain.
Some research results suggest that effects may depend on the type of pain treated. For example, results from a few studies suggest that magnets might provide some relief specifically from osteoarthritis pain. Effects may also depend on the type and strength of the magnets used, the frequency of use, and the length of time the magnet was applied during the study.
Many studies were not high-quality because they included a small number of participants, were too short, and/or were poorly designed. More rigorous research is needed before reaching any firm conclusions about the effectiveness of magnets for pain.
Challenges Facing Researchers
Researchers face challenges when studying magnets in clinical trials:
How Magnets Might Work
No scientific theory or manufacturer claim about how magnets might work has been conclusively proven. Although some preliminary research has been conducted in animals and in small clinical trials, the mechanisms by which magnets might affect the human body are not yet known.
Scientific researchers and magnet manufacturers have proposed that magnets might work by:
Findings from preliminary studies in healthy people — including one study funded by NIH — suggest that magnets may not affect blood flow or nerve function.
Side Effects and Risks
Magnets may not be safe for some people to use, including those who:
Otherwise, magnets are generally considered safe when applied to the skin. Reports of side effects or complications have been rare.
It is important not to use magnets in place of proven treatments for serious medical conditions. Tell your health care providers about any complementary and alternative practices you use. Give them a full picture of what you do to manage your health. This will help ensure coordinated and safe care.
Magnetic DOTS are a great reliever of spot pain. You can find these on http://www.bio-magnetictherapy.com/page8.html You can even stack them for more penetration and relief.