Posted on 06/07/2016 12:50:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A new research report appearing in the June 2016 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, opens up the possibility that small electrical currents might activate certain immune cells to jumpstart or speed wound healing. This discovery, made by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom, may be of particular interest to those with illnesses that may cause wounds to heal slowly or not at all.
"In some instances, such as diabetes, the body's ability to heal is compromised and wounds can become infected. In instances where there is a lack of macrophages present, the application of 'synthetic' electric fields using clinical devices would assist the repair process, not only by attracting macrophages to damaged sites to support healing but also by changing their properties to facilitate wound repair and importantly to reduce infection," said Heather M. Wilson from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, U.K.
To make their discovery, scientists exposed macrophages, originating from human blood, to electrical fields of strength similar to that generated in injured skin. When the current was applied, the scientists found that the macrophages moved in a directed manner and from these studies would be predicted to move to the edge of damaged skin to facilitate healing. Not only did the electrical fields coax macrophages into moving directionally, they also significantly enhanced the ability of macrophages to engulf and digest extracellular particles, called "phagocytosis." Phagocytosis is an important process in wound healing whereby macrophages clean the wound site, limit infection and allow the repair process to proceed. Electric fields enhanced the uptake and clearance of a variety of targets known to promote inflammation and impair healing. These targets included latex beads, expended white blood cells, and the opportunist fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. The experiments also showed that electric fields selectively augmented the production of protein modulators associated with the healing process, confirming that macrophages are tuned to respond to naturally generated electrical signals in a manner that boosts their healing ability.
"The field of bioelectromagnetics is beginning to reveal how we might use intentionally directed electrical or magnetic fields to provoke specific biological responses," said John Wherry, Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology. "This new work identifies previously unappreciated opportunities to tune immune system function with electrical fields and has potentially wide-reaching implications for wound repair for a variety of diseases where macrophages play a role, including infectious disease, cancer and even obesity."
Hmm makes me wonder anew about the true potential of ‘hands on healing’ and ‘focused chi’ if they are in some manner related toe the em radiation of the body.
Work harder, macrophages, or I hit the switch again!
My first thought about this was its use by athletes but I am sure it could help those diabetics as well.
I have MS and a few years ago I mentioned to my neuro how during routine MRI brain or brain stem scans I begin to feel really good - as though the weight of this horrible decease has been lifted away. This high generally lasts for a few days.
It’s alive!
Sounds similar to microcurrent therapy.
It’s been known for at least two decades that small electric currents in the micro amp range can speed up the healing of bone fractures. There was some research being done on this at the Houston Medical Center. Along the same lines, weight bearing exercise creates small piezoelectric currents in the bone, stimulating an increase in bone density.
I had a broken neck in 1972 and read quite a bit of research by R.O. Becker way back then on rejuvenation from electrical currents.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Very old news. Read The Body Electric by Becker.
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In 2008 my husband had open heart surgery, all went well until the incision on his inner thigh where they took veins to use in his heart., tore open. He had a wound 6 inches long,3 inches deep and 3 inches wide that had to heal from the inside out, it could not be re stitched.
After about 2 weeks of daily home nurse care, they brought over a “wound vacuum “. It worked 24 hours a day to draw the moisture out of the wound so it would heal faster.
It worked and in a few weeks he was healed.
I wonder if the 5 Tesla static magnetic field is causing an effect similar to low-current Transcranial direct-current stimulation tDCS ?
A pulsing 3 - 5 Tesla magnetic field causes electrical currents to be induced into brain matter... This is called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and is used to treat depression... this is in its infancy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation
Something even more spooky. In one of the BBC’s Reith Lectures 13 years ago, a scientist who is an expert in both neuroscience and quantum mechanics theory described how they now know how to rearrange our nervous systems at will.
Listen to this very well produced lesson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture5.shtml
This has been around a while. I’m glad it’s being researched again.
Exactly.
Makes you think that diabetes impacts the conductive capabilities of the electron transport chain in the cells.
Cells basically convert amino acids to proteins - all kinds of them. No power, no production.
Interesting if you could put more workers on the line and then use more power, more efficiently delivered to create better proteins faster.
Maybe those magnetic ‘healing’ bracelets have something after all.
Maybe relocate to a house under some high voltage lines, eh? Then you can live in a constant EM field someone else is paying for :)
Might give you cancer though, but that’s another bridge to cross...
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