Betreff: Osteoporosis and EMR, a possible link?
Von: Martin Weatherall
Datum: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:54:54 -0400

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----- Original Message -----
From: ANDREW GOLDSWORTHY
To: Martin Weatherall 
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Calcium depletion

Hi Martin,
 
I agree, it could also be an effect on membranes as you say. There could well be more than one mechanism involved here. It's ironic; we have been struggling for years to find a mechanism by which weak electromagnetic signals can affect living things, but now we have so many that we do not know what to with them.
 
With regards to passing on the information, please feel free to do so. That's the only way we make progress. Every time an idea gets passed on it mingles with others to generated new ones that may be even better.
 
Best wishes
 
Andrew

Martin Weatherall wrote:
Hi Andrew
 
Thanks for your thoughts and your water conditioning research paper. [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3705478/ ] I was thinking along the line that the calcium was being removed from the cell membranes before it even got to the bones, so the bones are unable to regenerate calcium properly and very gradually begin to decline.
 
Do you have any objections if I distribute this information to others concerned about EMR.
 
Regards  Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDREW GOLDSWORTHY
To: Martin Weatherall 
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: Calcium depletion

Hi Don and Martin,
 
Thanks for copying me in on this one. I have also forwarded it to one of my daughters who is a vet (small animals and exotics) to see if she has anything to add.
 
There are some fascinating ideas here. The idea that at least some forms of osteoporosis may be caused or exacerbated by electromagnetic exposure seems plausible; if it can remove calcium from call membranes, why can't it remove it from bones?
 
There is also another possible mechanism (probably additional rather than an alternative), that being that the blood-stream can be "conditioned" by weak electromagnetic fields in the same way as tap water can be conditioned to remove and prevent limescale in boilers and plumbing.
 
The mechanism of the water conditioning process is still controversial, but it appears to depend on colloidal impurities. I suspect that electromagnetic treatment removes calcium from colloidal particles in the much same way as it does from membranes. The resulting calcium-deficient particles act as more efficient nuclei for the formation of limescale (so it forms on these rather than on the boiler surface) and over a long time (weeks to months) can even remove existing scale provided there is a rapid flow to carry it away.
 
Still, whatever the mechanism, water (with the right colloidal and ionic composition) treated in this way can remove calcium salts from limescale, so perhaps blood treated in a similar way may be able to remove them from bone. It would certainly be worth checking out.
 
I am attaching a paper that I wrote some years ago that may fill you in on the background to this [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3552381/  ]. The biological effects of electromagnetically treated water seem very similar to those of direct electromagnetic exposure and can also be explained in terms of its removing calcium from cell membranes. So the two processes may be complementary or even synergistic and the possibility that electromagnetic exposure may be a factor in the etiology of osteoporosis is certainly worth investigating.
 
Best wishes
 
Andrew

Martin Weatherall wrote:
Hi Don
 
Thank you for all this information. After reading Andrew Goldsworthy's research I have been thinking about another problem which may be related, in humans. Several people that I know suffer from osteoporosis or the pre-courser condition. Their bones are becoming brittle because of a lack of calcium and many are taking medical supplements to stop the problem getting worse.
 
This seems to be a medical problem which is becoming more widespread. It makes me wonder if it is caused by electrical and electromagnetic pollution.
 
Martin.

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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:47 AM
Subject:  Andrew Goldsworthy

Dear Martin:
 
As you will note from the attached description from Merck Veterinary Manual: Milk fever, is a metabolic disease that usually occurs within a few hours after calving (parturition). Because it is associated with acute low blood calcium it is technically known as post-parturient hypocalcium and post-parturient paresis (post-calving paralysis). It is believed to result from the rapid increase in milk secretion, with its drain on blood calcium and inadequate release of bone calcium. It is a metabolic disease related to nutrition, but also the cows physiological response to the stress of calving.    
 
My observation is that the stress of calving can be exacerbated by electrical exposure (EMF) as demonstrated by “increased cortisol in blood, increased heart rate and blood pressure, delay in oxytocin hormone release from the pituitary gland which result in failure of cows to let-down their milk, resulting in incomplete milking as published by Gorewit et al. (1984), (adrenal stress syndrome)  and many other physiological effects also associated with increased cortisol in blood. I have an article about to go to publishers re: Electropathic Stress Syndrome.
 
The exacerbation is a synergistic action, meaning two stress-producing factors have more effect on health than one alone. The changes in blood calcium flux due to different electrical potentials on each side of a membrane and calcium release as described by Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy from the work of Ross Adey, Bawin, Blackman et al., etc. may give us some clues about why some herds exposed to excessive EMF commonly called stray voltage or tingle voltage (in Canada) have a high incidence of milk fever (hypocalcemia), displaced abomasum (true stomach loses its tone and gets shifted to the left side and stuck there also after calving). This is another stress syndrome that has not been adequately explained but also related to hypocalcemia— common in cows with milk fever.
 
The low water intake from cows refusing to stick their noses into a charged water bowl may be true, but it does not account for cows producing less milk when exposed to overhead induced currents as at McGill University (Burchard et al., 2003). Cows and humans cannot feel the high frequency currents that changed HR and BP while I was sitting on the living room sofa.

Of course, my theories about EMF and increased milk fever and displaced abomasums need to be proved under controlled conditions but most University herds will not have enough cattle to show statistical significance, so they will claim no effect. I will propose the question to Dr. Don Beitz, at Iowa State University, who has been studying milk fever for many years, while he has learned much, no one has yet solved the possible environmental influence–true for many diseases whose causes are unknown.
 
Best regards, I hope this helps!
Don