Hello Pepper,
Thanks for the note and the questions.
Let me throw out a couple of ideas that can carry some weight in looking at whether these technologies are in fact effective, whether they can be considered for use together and some strategies for maximizing health and prevention models, while addressing your sister's concerns about the applications and physiological potential for the body correcting some of its own short falls.
1. In order for a company to have this much success, to be a multi-billion dollar company with over 35 years of continuous success, and to hold the record for the fastest growing direct sales company in Japanese history, and all this without any advertising, it has to remain, relevant, effective and honest or it could not have survived. Bad news travels fast and if there was a problem with efficacy, it would have died very rapidly, over 35 years, 50 million customers in 43 countries, now that's something!
In regard to her comment about using the products one at a time to see which ones work and which one doesn't. This has a certain validity, but there may be some other considerations to weigh when making a decision in that regard.
1. Remember that Dr. Pederson, in relating his collaborative study at the NIH on "fatal virus" given to lab animals, found the concept of biological synergy as follows. A group of mice were given a "fatal virus". The group was then split into two groups; one given exercise and the other, strong nutritional supplements. There was an 18% increase in the survivability of the animals with exercise alone. In the second cohort, there was a 15% increase in survivability for those treated only with nutritional supplements. These are both exciting findings in helping to improve survivability and we might hope that similar results could be true for humans in case of a dangerous viral outbreak. Now here's the the big discovery, when exercise and nutrition were combined in a third trial, there was a 255% increase in the survivability. This powerful
Think of the Greenhouse analogy. If we want a plant to flourish, we can add pure water, but if we place it in a corner with out sunlight, is in too hot or too cold an environment, has poor air quality or environmental and chemical toxicity, or nutrient poor soil, it cannot thrive. We need to consider many things in providing the optimal environment for living things to thrive, thus the greenhouse for plants and the Wellness Home environment for humans.
I also refer you to the attached dog tumor story. In this story the dog had an inoperable, fast growing, tumors. Its owners were using the magnetic sleep pad and some nutritional supplements on the dog, but was well past the hope of a cure. Notice what happened when they added the negative ions and air filtration. Was this purely the result of the one application or was it the result of this application becoming the multiplier for the synergy?
Here are some possible reasons to consider using the cream and the infrared wrap. (Did you tell me your sister was well studied in medical physiology and experimental environmental biology? l can't remember if it was her or not. If so, she may have better or more , compelling arguments concerning this, and if so I would love to hear what she has to offer as alternative thoughts.)
When doing a physical therapy assessment of a "tennis elbow" we find it is inflammation, and micro tears of the tendon attachment of the muscles that flex and extend the wrist. The closest end of the tendon of the wrist extensor muscles (Extensor Carpi Radialis, Extensor Carpi Ulnaris, and all of the extensor digitorum groups) start at the outside of the elbow, but their job is to stabilize, control and/or move the wrist. To take (or apply) an anti infamatory modality to the elbow, (where it hurts) without splinting the wrist would be too little treatment and would almost never work, because the patient would re-injure the wound faster than the body can correct the problem, therefore I need them to splint the wrist and hold it out of harms way to stop the constant yanking on the tendon and tearing out what we just corrected. In this way we can only get the one to work with the assist of the other.
In the case of the far infrared wrap, it controls the ''essentric" Muscle contractions that cause most of the damage in the first place. The far infrared has the ability to increase the nerve conduction velocity for information going both to and from the brain to the damaged area. It also has the ability to enhance inter-cellular communication for the best control of histamine and bradykinin (pain causing waste chemicals) and to determine which damaged cells need to be assisted and which ones need to be eliminated. This modifies the control. A secondary response of the far infrared is to work at reducing the oxydative stress of the acid waste products in the injured area (reduce acid or acid-like deterioration). This is critically important in partial regard to her second comment. That is the nature of degenerative arthritis.
Isn't it interesting that we in the United States are far more sedentary than most of people in the world, and yet we rank #1 in the world in degenerative diseases of EVERY kind, including degenerative joint disease? Our Health care professionals, and old wives tales tell is it is because we wore the joints out. Other countries are moving and stressing the joints many more times than those of us in the USA and yet we have FAR more degenerative joint disease (bone on bone). Could it be that another factor is at work here?.
Here is one opinion. Acidic joints. We know that our daily, pervasive stress of all kinds, and the components of the Standard American Diet with processed foods, chemical additives, massive quantities of sugar, and particularly our heavy insistence that Animal Proteins are essential, are causing excessively acid joint environments, particularly in individuals who may have differential enzyme capabilities. It is not common knowledge however, that the joints usually do not wear out at the weight or pressure bearing part of the joint first. They wear out at the point away from the weight bearing part first, thus implying that it is inflammation and acid that are causing the deterioration, not the weight bearing of the bone ends. In fact the weight or force bearing cartilage is bathed in the most nutrient rich bath (cartilage has no blood supply and thus needs to take in and expel the nutrient rich synovial fluid) and the pressure of the compression of the cartilage, plus the un-weighting of the joint will work like a sponge to draw in nutrients and squeeze out the waste products on compression. It is therefore tantamount that we maintain the best quality mix of nutrients to the synovial fluid, this is where we work with products like OsteoDenx, InfraRed wraps, Jade Greenzymes, Pi-water, Magnets etc. Once the deterioration finally gets to the weight or pressure bearing areas, they become quickly over burdened and healing (cartilage regeneration) can not take place fast enough, and more cartilage is worn away than can be replaced, yielding a net result of lost cartilage, inflammation, increased acidity, poor nutrient supply and a cycle of progressive joint deterioration.
Notice that I mentioned that the cartilage is worn away faster than it can be replaced. It is a common misconception in our world that cartilage can't rebuild itself, but in fact if it could not, none of us would have any at the weight bearing surfaces after the age of about 3. Cartilage like all living tissue is made of cells that reproduce to keep functional, viable, parts working in the body. The factor of just overwhelming the system with gravity, body weight, mechanical stress, lack of nutrients, inflammatory responses, dehydration and degenerative forces make it impossible for cartilage to rebuild, even if it could.
I am not allowed to imply, nor do I have the experimental studies to even conjecture that cartilage is rebuilt after being completely worn away in adults, whether using these products or not. What I do know is that with the application specifically of an infrared/magnetic sleeve to the knee (Elastomag, biaxial rotation magnetic Power Mag, and Cetyl Myristoliate (Kenzen Joint) I have had several cases of "bone on bone" sufferers who have been symptom free for multiple years. Remember that the current alopathic model states that there is no hope for a joint with out natural healthy cartilage and it will eventually need to be replaced. So if in the following and similar cases, are we causing a better quality of life/ symptom reducing scenario, without evidence of further destruction, are we not helping to reduce the load on the overburdened health care system at least in part? All of this has benefit whether or not there is rebuilding of the cartilage itself.
This is the case of a 35 year old male friend of mine with a severe genu varum bilaterally (both legs are extremely bow legged since birth). In both knees this fellow had lost the cartilage on the inside of both joints, was painful, swollen, had very low mobility and could only walk with crutches and even then only for about 20 min at a time. His doctor had prepared him for knee replacement surgery when he finally couldn't stand life without the correction. My friend was looking into the surgery because the situation had become intolerable. The xray and MRI confirmed that there was no hope for the knees and that surgery was the only answer. At this point the knees were obviously worn out and wearing out more was the only option. There is a life expectancy for artificial knees, they eventually fail, and because you can only replace them a certain number of times in a person's lifetime, you want to wait as long as possible... at 35 years old, it is way too early to be doing replacement because you will run out of options at a young 50 or 60 years of age.
In this fellows case we used the Elastomag Knee wrap, shoe inserts and the Kenzen Joint. The Kenzen joint is nothing but a series of fatty acids that happen to be a part of the metabolism of white mice who strangely enough can not be induced into degenerative joint disease, nor do they get it naturally. We know this compound (fatty acid series) works on at least 2 fronts: 1. A non-drug anti-inflammatory 2. as a supreme surfactant style lubricant in the synovial fluid at the ends of the joints. The magnetic and infrared had at least the function of better functional control, balance, muscle strength, coordination and proprioception. All of this qualities will allow less frequent re-injuring the joint from overdoing, stepping wrong, etc.
Whatever the mechanism, and whatever the recovery, on a tissue level, I do not know because I have not seen X-rays and I certainly have not opened up the knee but what I can measure is that his muscular strength, gait, proprioception, balance, and walking distance and knee range of motion are all well within normal limits and more importantly, when I saw my friend after about 6 years, he reported when he is religious with the use of the mentioned devices and supplement, there is a complete lack of symptoms. No swelling, redness, loss of motion, or irritation whether in weight bearing, sitting, or sleeping. In essence if it all went back to the pain and immobility today, we still bought symptom free quality of life and a much better chance of having quality knee function for years because we are able to "put-off" the knee replacements longer and longer.
Please remember that we are allowing people to experiment with some interesting knew options. We in no way, or at any time challenge anything with the established medical profession and their skills, tests, studies, concepts and procedures. We do not imply ANY healing, no curative claims, or anything to potentially align ourselves with a potential link with the possibility of medical improvement. These areas are solely the discretion of the patient and their qualified and appropriately licensed health care professional and we, as always. recommend that these health care professionals be at the forefront of ALL medical decisions.
We just invite people to read, think, apply, try and take charge of their own health and wellness.
Finally, if you can get a zip code for your friend, and go to Nikken.com and click on "find a consultant" or "find a distributor" and type in the zip, choose a radius and then search.
As always I am very excited to answer questions for the user, their healthcare professionals or interested spouses, parents, etc. Please don't hesitate to call or drop a line.
Hope this helps.
Jerry White PT