Abstract Liboff/McGrath

NEW FRONTIERS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC MEDICINE
A R Liboff
T S McGrath

Our goal is to establish a New Theory of Wellness. The future will see pharmaceutical solutions to medical problems largely replaced by electromagnetic medicine, representing a more fundamental approach to living things. Although applications of biochemistry to wellness are not without value, this discipline is inherently reductionist, unable to frame questions in terms that might lead to proper holistic answers. This is understandable: Molecular interactions, the language of biology, is merely a subset of physics. One needs electromagnetics and quantum theory to find larger explanations. Our research, consistent with the long line of scientific inquiry starting with Matteucci, and extended by Burr and Becker, continues to reveal the governing role played by electricity and magnetism in biology. Medicine has yet to recognize this, continuing to regard electromagnetism as only of importance diagnostically, with little or no therapeutic significance. Nevertheless, electromagnetic medicine has made important advances in recent years, with widely disparate clinical applications to bone repair, cardiac stem cell differentiation, aggressive glioblastoma, bipolar disease, and chemotherapeutic depression. There are also strong indications for future success in electromagnetically treating MS, Alzheimer's, cancer, and arthritis. Remarkably, with all of this, there has yet to emerge any reasonable explanations based in molecular biology for the efficacy of such electromagnetic therapies other than to characterize the observed responses as possibly epigenetic. Our approach to this new medicine has largely focused on ion resonance-connected cell signaling. More recently we have developed two new concepts, first that cellular homeostasis is tied to the geomagnetic field, and second, that the immune response includes a low-frequency electromagnetic component.