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