The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life

Taming Heavenly Fire Wilson L.Thompson, Ph.D. Independence Day fireworks pale in comparison to thunderstorms that regularly rip our skies. Since Benjamin Franklin’s daring kite experiment with lightening, Americans have sought to tame electricity. More recently, Dr. Robert Becker reviews some twenty years of pioneering medical research that drives his electrotherapy in The Body Electric (William Morrow, NY, 1985). Readers learn of research-backed efforts to stimulate bone healing with low-level electric current. Still, advanced surgical skills must be augmented by the body’s healing response. The Body Electric is indexed, well illustrated and has a helpful, technical glossary. Much of Becker’s research addresses regeneration of limbs in salamanders. But, Dr. Becker is concerned, as an orthopedic surgeon, with regenerative growth needed to repair patients’ broken bones that too often fails to take place. Since there are “electrical currents in salamander limb regeneration, it was at least plausible that similar factors controlled the mending of fractures.” (p 137). Indeed, Becker reports using silver electrodes in his experimental electrotherapy to stave off amputation for first a Vietnam vet and then a muskrat trapper. He finds that electrified silver is “especially well suited for use against several kinds of bacteria simultaneously. It kills even antibiotic-resistant strains.” (p 167). His research targets “a cure for two of an orthopedist’s worst nightmares -- nonunion [of fractures] and osteomyelitis (bone infection)” (p 168). Becker’s salamander- regeneration research opens the door for correcting our understanding of cancer. He questions the dogma that a cancer cell cannot be dediffferentated and reprogrammed back into a normal cell. Becker notes Merl Rose’s hypothesis that “regeneration’s guidance system could control cancer, too” (p 217). Further, Austrian cancer researchers have found that induced salamander tumors revert to normal skin after tail amputation. “The salamander ended up with a new tail and no cancer” (p 220). Becker also probes the impact of earth, moon, and sun’s electromagnetic fields upon human life. He finds relationship between sun’s magnetic storms and the rate of psychiatric admissions. In a sample of 28,000 patients in psychiatric state hospitals, “Significantly more persons were signed in to the psychiatric services just after magnetic disturbances than when the field was stable” (p 245). Not surprisingly, Becker is also concerned about hazardous biological effects of electropollution radiating from electromagnetic sources in our wired industrialized society. He cites research of Lester and Moore who found cancer incidence in Wichita, KS “was highest where the residents were exposed to both [airport tower] radar beams ... [with death rates] twice that of the area’s nursing homes. It was lower where only one beam penetrated but lowest where the population was fully shielded behind hills” (p 300). Nevertheless, grants have been restricted for scientific study of dangers noted above, that is needed to refute “the oft repeated claim that these are just coincidences” (p 303). Was it really a coincidence that a “1979 study of Swedish high-voltage substation workers [found] an 8-percent incidence of genetic defects” among employees’ children (p 302)? Was it happenstance that raised birth defect alarms at Sears Dallas headquarters? Among their female staff exposed to emissions from video display terminals (VTDs) in newly computerized offices, “only four of twelve pregnancies ended normally” (p 302). Becker criticizes technological medicine for over-reliance on petri dish experimentation. This fosters a fragmented reductionist understanding of the body’s neural system. Such an “approach ultimately fails in the study of living things – hence the widespread demand for an alternative, holistic medicine – for life is like no machine humans ever built” (p 230). Robert Becker is implicitly at odds with the reigning evolution paradigm in medicine and biology. “There’s no room in technological medicine for any presumed sanctity or uniqueness of life. ... no need for the patient’s own self-healing force nor any strategy for enhancing it” (p 19). He views denigrated placebo effect as “a physiological effect of mind on body, just as real as the effects of wind on a tree” (p 231). For Becker, the advanced research findings recorded in The Body Electric “presage a revolution in biology and medicine ... [in which] whatever we achieve pales before the self-healing power latent in all organisms” (p 21). But, as Thomas Kuhn tellingly observes, “a scientific theory is declared invalid only if an alternate candidate is available to take its place.” (p 77) 1 . Accordingly, support for the failing evolution paradigm in medicine is not driven by scientific research. Rather, non-scientific matters of bureaucratized research and political correctness combine to prop up the theoretical status quo against assault of irreverent facts. In fact, a secular theorist, Carl Becker, has been emboldened to parody Psalm Eight in the Bible. “What is man that the electron should be mindful of him! Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him”(p 15) 2 . Sadly, soaring medical costs, a rise in degenerative diseases, and routinization of medical care have intensified since Becker voiced his concerns (p-19). Medical care is further eroded by an abortion industry that supplies body parts and euthanasia coming online. God’s people are directed to Choose Life. We are committed to the Creation paradigm within which to expand our understanding of the body’s electrical grid. Dr. Becker’s findings are congruent with faith-induced strength that postmenopausal Sarah received to conceive Isaac (Hebrews 11:11) and the Psalmist’s observation that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (139:14). Yes, truly! 1. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1962). 2. Carl Becker, The Heavenly Cities of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers (University of Chicago Press, Chicago,1932).

I had to skip a few pages when the author described the animal experiments - but what a book. they came upon a possible solution for bad healing bone breaks, may be even regrowing limbs or part of limbs! Very interesting and I hope someone picked up their research as they had to stop by lack of funding.

This book is more history than current practice or understandings. Dr. Becker’s curiosity of salamander regeneration in the 1960’s opened the field of human regeneration of damaged bones and limbs. He was not heralded for his experiments and fought the medical establishment for decades to use electric currents to heal human bones. He was allowed to use his techniques to repair bones so damaged beyond normal pins and casting. His electrical stimulation is used only on the most severely damaged limbs. The book describes in much detail the laboratory experiments with salamanders and rats that developed the regeneration techniques. I admired Dr Becker’s spirit to pursue his dream against overwhelming obstacles, no funding, no peer support with little scientific recognition. Only decades of effort yielded success and recognition he deserved and got. The book is easy reading with little jargon or trade words. The diagrams make explicit the experiments discussed. Last chapters (pg 227-326)in the book wonder off into odd subjects like physic phenomenon, ELF fields effects on the body. The first 226 pages was enough for me.

The power of energy is just as profound in humans as in nature. What if the link between electromagnetism and electricity could enable us to heal ourselves through self-regeneration? Such is the premise of this fascinating book by renowned medical researcher Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in regeneration experiments. His books should be required reading for anyone hopeful about our future health and a willingness to think outside the box about our bodies and what we currently know and/or believe about medicine and healing. This book mesmerizes with revolutionary ideas in human biology and medicine -- a theory based on the author’s extensive lab experiments in regeneration that have led to some radical thinking about human healing, health and longevity. As lives are longer and diseases ever rampant, such thought-provoking concepts about the potential for “self-healing” offer an alternative to life and longevity as we know it. Becker makes compelling arguments about the bioelectric nature of humans and the essential nature of “electricity” to human life. Harnessing these elements in targeted ways means the possibility of self-healing. It’s hard to deny the sense this eye-opening information makes, and also the establishment forces opposed to it. For me, it redefined how I look at the treatment for every illness, infection, disease and injury. If a star fish can grow new limbs, or salamander grow two heads where there was only one … why can’t humans harness bioelectricity for basic healing, curing cancer, or regenerating limbs? The experiments are complex, the information detailed but readily understandable, and I came away as a mind-blown convert to the potential of a radically different way to look at human healing and longevity that seems within arm’s reach.

Why is Amazon not capable anymore to ship books like they did back in the beginning??? Now almost all books come damaged, that is infuriating! Don't want to send them back all the time or replace them. JUST GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE! Book itself is great, although it is bend and crooked. I did not want to take away from the greatness of the book! It is informative and a good read for sure!

We can make our own Organic Dietary Silica Powder (as a liquid) by adding a trace amount of silver. I learned this by testing upon my own body some of the knowledge resulting from the research of Dr. Robert O. Becker, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and professor of same, who has a patent for wound care: United States patent # 5814094, and a book: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life . Recipe for making the Fountain of Youth, orthosilicic acid, safely at home. Orthosilicic acid is an inorganic bioavailable silica made by the natural processes of the Earth in the intermediate steps of forming opal gemstone. Orthosilicic acid nourishes the body to stimulate its production of collagen - connective tissue. When trace silver is present, collagen forms stem cells at the skin and pericardial sac surrounding the heart resulting in spontaneous regeneration of whatever is deficient within the body of greatest need. 1. In a Circleware Circle 64 oz Pitcher , add distilled water, low magnesium earth salt (such as extra fine The Spice Lab's Pure Himalayan Salt - 10 Pounds - Finely Ground .5mm - not sea salt), Diatomaceous Earth Food Grade 10 Lb , and optionally a bicarbonate of either 1 lb USP Pure Sodium Bicarbonate Powder Highest Quality Food Grade Pure Baking Soda or Potassium Bicarbonate - 1 lb. or both, in the ratio of two parts salt to one part each of D.E. and bicarb. Don't overdo the D.E.; a little goes a long way. 2. Cut and shape two electrodes out of LifeForce 72" Colloidal Silver Generator Wire 9999 Pure 14 Gauge to overhang into the pitcher along opposite sides all the way to the bottom, and form a tiny curl at the bottom end so as to avoid scratching the inside surface of the glass. Make sure the top end curls over the top lip of the pitcher - downward for a short ways and then horizontally outward - to form a short extension jutting out away from the pitcher. This is where the clip leads from a The Silver Lining Colloidal Silver Generator with Magnetic Stirrer - 32oz Flask will attach. 3. Run the colloidal silver generator on its lowest setting continuously for a few days and make sure your machine is capable of stirring the solution. Set the stirring knob on the machine to a moderate speed. 4. When you want to take a sip, turn off the machine and pour out a few ounces into a small disposable cup and discard any solution that you fail to consume within less than half an hour. Turn the machine back on making sure that the solution continues to stir. 5. Do not turn off the machine unless you're taking a sip or the pitcher is empty. 6. Drink on an empty stomach between meals. 7. Rinse the pitcher clean and scrub the silver wire with a copper scrub pad taking care not to leave behind any copper fibers. 8. Supplement your diet with plenty of Pure Calcium Carbonate 600 mg 100 Tabs along with whatever mineral or electrolyte suits your fancy. EarthWorksHealth.com >> diatomaceous earth, food grade [...] Hanna Instruments HI 770 Checker HC Handheld Colorimeter, For Silica High Range Dr. Becker has a patent for the use of silver in wound care at this location: [...] Also see the photo documentation of Dr. Pramod Vora who has replicated one of Dr. Becker's treatment methods: space-age.com There is also a clinic in Australia which has been successful in treating cancer with Becker's technique: [...] My effort at researching Dr. Becker: [...] Apart from drinking beer, there are very few conventional options in the standard western diet for supplementing ourselves with bioavailable silica for promoting collagen production in the human and animal body. When combined with minute quantities of silver (acting as a catalytic binding agent to collagen), bioavailable silica stimulates the production of non-differentiated (stem) cells at the growth layer of the skin and at the pericardial sac (surrounding the heart) supplementing whatever level of stem cells are already being produced by our bone marrow. Since our production of stem cells declines as we get older, stimulating our production of stem cells greatly enhances our ability to spontaneously heal from stress and injury. The silicon content of beer and its bioavailability in healthy volunteers. - PubMed - NCBI [...] The comparative absorption of silicon from different foods and food supplements. - PubMed - NCBI [...] Silicon deprivation decreases collagen formation in wounds and bone, and ornithine transaminase enzyme activity in liver. - PubMed - NCBI [...] High dietary aluminum affects the response of rats to silicon deprivation. - PubMed - NCBI [...] The only caveat to the regeneration of the body is the tendency for regeneration to drain the body of its alkaline reserve. Thus, is needed: silica to balance the body's pH plus plenty of alkalizing supplements and methods, such as: the magnesium and calcium products cited above or others (such as: Bone Meal Kal 250 Tabs and magnesium malate or citrate), Starwest Botanicals Organic Kelp Powder, 1 Pound Bags , Celtic Sea Salt, Fine Ground, 16 Ounce and electrolyte powder, Sleep Lavender Bath Salts 2 Lbs , etc. So, it's not enough to replicate Dr. Becker's research; we also have to take responsibility for pursuing regeneration of any sort. I take a whole body and a whole karmic approach to this study since my five cats and I were all exposed to anti-freeze poisoning over ten years ago. My first cat died within a month of liver cancer. The second died three months later of connective tissue (collagen) cancer. This latter kitty had skin so brittle and fragile that it could break off in large flakes! I decided to put him down, immediately. A stroke felled the next kitty, then a sudden blood clot felled the fourth, and lastly the fifth died from hypothermia since she was old and feeble and had no one to sleep with anymore during a cold winter in which I chose not to heat my home due to a rise in home heating fuel! {I was severely allergic to her and could not let her sleep with me.} All of them died within two years after the six week poisoning had occurred. We also had been inhaling the transpiration of the anti-freeze erupting from out of the soil of these potted plants in our one room studio apartment. I waited over two years before seeing an oncologist who examined my blood under a microscope and reviewed my blood analysis and declared: "Well, you're not at risk, but nearly borderline." This, after two years of Bitter Raw Apricot Seeds, 8oz. - 1/2lb and Cesium Liquid Ionic & Super Potassium High pH Therapy Minerals (32 oz) and still no complete recovery. Anti-freeze is known to induce any one of the following: late onset type II diabetes, kidney failure, cancers of the liver, pancreas and blood (leukemia), just to name a few. Had I known this ahead of time, I never would have used that darned potting soil from a perforated bag which had been sitting in it for God knows how long to grow ourselves some wheatgrass and garlic shoots as potted house plants for all of us to enjoy! There is no treatment modality known by the medical establishment, but one fellow on the internet used 1 Lb. All Natural FOOD GRADE Activated Charcoal Powder from USA Hardwood Trees. Whitens Teeth, Rejuvenates Skin and Hair, Detoxifies the Body. Helps with Digestion. Treats Accidental Poisoning, Bug Bites and Wounds. FREE scoop included. 100% Carbon. right away and that seemed to help him. There is also no method of testing for the presence of anti-freeze within the body. And both the body and the environment have no quick method for breaking this stuff down to defuse its toxicity, which includes: mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. But wait.... It gets better... I think bioavailable silica plus trace silver (in any form) holds the key to my recovery. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it.

In depth discussion on bone regeneration and healing Extrapolated through years of experiments with salamanders and African bullfrogs. The implications that Becker finds are stunning in both their complexity and scope, that the mammalian body is much more than just a clump of simple cells Ordered around by DNA

Have you ever wondered how the body heals itself? I mean really, exactly, HOW? This book will explain it to you. How does a salamander regenerate a severed limb? It's fascinating. Although the subject matter and the great depth the author goes into is very complex, he presents it in a way that makes it understandable for anyone who has at least some science under their belt. If you understand a battery, you'll understand this. The book details the author's fascination and experiments with these two subjects, over his long career, and the politics of science research. He goes into great detail, and it may take some determination on the reader's part to get thru it, but if you picked this book up, you probably have that sense of curiosity and understanding that'll keep you reading anyway. Ultimately, he discovers the heartbeat of the earth, and how it links all living things, and, if disrupted, the damage that can be caused. The last chapter is a bit scarey. He pulls together all the work he's done over his lifetime, and explains how we have the means to disrupt this heartbeat, and how it can affect the whole planet, nevermind what it can do to us on a cellular level. Did you know, for instance, that airline pilots have a higher incidence of testicular cancer? Why? Because of the radar guidance beams they use to land the plane. Do you use an electric blanket on your bed? After you read this, you won't. It's scientists like Robert Becker who have grown our understanding of the world we live in and how it works. If you are the curious type and really want to know how your body works, this is a fascinating read.

Eccellente documento storico della evoluzione dello studio dei processi rigenerativi che porta l'Aurore ad interessanti conclusioni e prospettive future. Un Must

Absolutely amazing book, it's a must for all to read. It teaches us about the magnificent way out body operates and interacts with our environment in a totally new & extremely interesting perspective! Cannot recommend enough!

i found this book absolutly brilliant i never realised so much information coming from a different angle existed it opened my eyes and it was written in an interesting and easy to follow manner

Excelente

Good book for Physical Therapy students and interns. Inspiring!