| I would like to describe why I am optimistic | | | | because it is extremely successful, sometimes |
| about the future of medicine in general and | | | | resolving conditions that have previously |
| anti-aging medicine in particular. My | | | | been considered incurable. The main side |
| optimism is due to the growing popularity and | | | | effect of these methods is an enhancement of |
| effectiveness of energetic approaches to | | | | the functioning of the immune system, and |
| medicine. Western biomedicine has held back | | | | this is obviously the best thing that we can |
| in looking at life from the energetic | | | | do to improve health and increase longevity |
| perspective because the predominant focus has | | | | |
| been on chemistry, biochemistry and | | | | Let me explain this. If the body is injured |
| pharmacology. From my perspective, chemistry | | | | or if there is an infection, a set of |
| is one of many successful approaches to life | | | | energetic reactions takes place to alert the |
| and health. Energy medicine is filling in | | | | whole body that something has happened, and |
| many of the previously unexplored or unknown | | | | to regulate the healing process. For example, |
| areas in the puzzle of life and healing, and | | | | if I get an injury to my arm, a wave of |
| thereby increasing our understandings of how | | | | electrical energy called the injury potential |
| to help patients live longer and happier | | | | spreads away from the site of injury. An |
| lives. | | | | orthopedic surgeon, Robert O. Becker, MD, |
| | | | documented this process in papers published |
| Recent medical research is showing that one | | | | in the early 1990's. Ideally, the injury |
| of the main obstacles to longevity is best | | | | potential spreads throughout the body and |
| described in terms of energy. And the best | | | | informs every cell of the size and location |
| approach to treatment is energetic. This is | | | | of the injury. In this way, cells a distance |
| exciting to someone who has spent 25 years | | | | from an injury can participate in the repair |
| studying energetics and written two medical | | | | process if necessary. For example, in a |
| texts on energy medicine. | | | | serious injury, cells from the bone marrow or |
| | | | liver may be recruited to assist in the |
| Energy medicine is growing in popularity | | | | repair process. |