PEMF Therapy Explained: A Natural Solution To Inflammation

William Pawluk, MD, MSc 

Thank you very much, Laura. You are also one of my favorite people, too. It is always fun discussing with you. We can range far and wide.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

We sure can. I enjoy all the talks we have on the side, too, even when we are not teaching. But I want to introduce you to our audience in case they do not know you as well as I do. But you are an authority, among many things. You are the go-to person for information on Pulse Electro Magnetic Fields, PEMF in North America, I should say. Especially for holistic pain management, healing, and regeneration. You have authored the most comprehensive book on healing with PEMFs. It is called Power Tools for Health. Also, Supercharge Your Health with PEMF Therapy, which I have a signed copy of. By now, you have probably done close to 100 radio podcasts, magazine interviews, and TV interviews, including Dr. Oz. 

You have been on a lot of summits and podcasts, and you received the ACM Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 for your work with magnetic field therapy. You are an authority, and that is why we have you here. Tonight we are going to get into EMF and why this is good for lowering inflammation in the body. But probably the first thing you should do is break some myths down and help our audience understand how PEMF is not EMF because we have got a special talk on EMFs, which are dangerous for our health. But this is not what we are talking about tonight.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

We are not. I do not use anything other than my cell phone. I do not use EMFs, and I try to restrict EMFs as much as possible. EMFs—that is the elephant in the room. Everybody says, Well, that is EMF, PEMF. No, EMFs, the difference is basically that EMFs are broadcast into the environment as radio waves, television waves, radar, and microwaves; they are broadcast in the environment, and they go forever. They are designed for other purposes. But yes, we get in the way that our bodies get in the way. What happens then is the risk from those EMFs to the body and our bodies because our bodies are in motion when we are lying still, completely still, and we are getting bombarded by EMFs. 

That is when we are more likely to have a problem while we are in motion.

It is not so much of an issue because we are glancing off and there are various levels of intensity, angles to the body, and so on. EMFs are broadcast to the environment, and the problem with EMFs is that they get absorbed by the body’s microwaves. That is why we use a microwave oven if you do, and most of us do. The microwave oven causes whatever is in that oven to be absorbed because the wavelengths are so short that they get absorbed and do not pass all the way through. They glance at us. But if they hit us more straight on, then they are absorbed and cause heating, just like a microwave oven does.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

You should not stand in front of your microwave, everybody.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, there is a way to find out whether you should not or should. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

What is that?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You call and put your cell phone in your microwave oven. Do not turn it on, put the cell phone in your microwave then call it. If it answers, it is leaking. That means you definitely should not be standing in front of your microwave oven.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Because then those bad EMFs will come out. You have a little problem. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Come and get you. Correct. That is the way to tell whether the microwave is faulty and whether you are safe to stand in front of it.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

That is so cool. I am going to do that when I get off.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

I have done that myself to my microwave, and it is fine.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Oh, well, very good.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

These are the maps that are completely designed in a very, very different way. You have got a machine; you have a little one there. You have a machine that produces a magnetic field.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

This is just a tiny one. This is a tiny PEMF machine. It is like a portable travel ticket to the hotel and on the airplane.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

There you go. What that little machine does is produce a current that flows down the wire, so the coils, show the coil. That is called a coil.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes, these are coils. I will stand.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

The current flows into the coils. As the current flows into the coils, it goes round and round and produces a magnetic field. The driver, the machine, produces the magnetic field, produces the electric current flowing down the coil, and that produces the magnetic field. The bigger machines, the therapeutic machines that we are going to talk about in terms of inflammation, are bigger and produce a lot more current. But the same principle applies current flows down a wire, and then as it flows down the wire, it goes into the coil and produces a magnetic field that is perpendicular to the flow of the current. That is a classic description of magnetic fields and how they are produced. PEMFs and how they are produced. They are not broadcast in the environment. 

As the current flows into that wire, it is called the hand rule. It flows into that wire. My hand is the hand rule, so the current flows into the wire, and the current is the magnetic field perpendicular to the flow of the current, the fingers. It pulses and comes back. Pulses and comes back. EMFs are open-loop, and PEMFs are closed-loop. They are contained essentially by the car flowing through the wire. So the magnetic field goes out, comes back out, and comes back. As the outgoing magnetic field is produced by that current that then acts on the body, it goes into the body, depending on what part of the body you are aiming it at, if you will. if you take one of those little coils and put it on an elbow.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

So I keep saying it. Here we go. You have a coil.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You put on an elbow, hand, or wrist, and then that quadrant is going into the elbow and coming back out into the elbow, coming out, going back out, and back. It is contained within that coil and is not being broadcast. What happens then is that it does the job locally, where you put it. If you happen to be lying on a whole body pad, the same thing happens: the current goes out, the magnetic field goes out, and it collapses back down on itself. It is pulsing into the body, essentially. That is the principle behind it. It is pulsing into the body.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

It is a cool feeling when you are lying on one of those big.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Whole body pads.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

That is how I first met you. We were at a conference together, and it was a come here, lay down on your back. When I did. Boy, I felt so much better after I got up from that. What did it do when I was lying on that pad? We were at this big conference, expending lots of energy under fluorescent lights. It was this huge medical conference. We have been awake all day. We are on our feet; we are tired. There is a lot of other people’s energy coming at us. We are traveling. We have flown on airplanes, and we have stayed in hotels. You are off your game when you are traveling like that. You said, Come on in and lay on my PEMF. What happened to my body when you did that?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Think of it this way. A magnetic field is like the wind in the trees. You cannot see it. You only know it is there because the leaves are moving or the branches are moving. The stronger the wind, the more emotion there is going to be in our bodies. That magnetic field is invisible, but the body is transparent to a magnetic field as if there is nobody there. There is nobody there.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Nobody.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

There is nobody there. It is going in and out as if it were. It did not matter whether there was a body there or not. It goes through the body completely as it passes through. It is like the wind and the trees. It is activating. It started to turn things on. The book, Supercharge Your Health, that you showed describes the 27 different actions of magnetic fields in the body. As that magnetic field passes through the body, it increases charge or energy production in the tissues. It is called an induced charge. That magnetic field induces a charge in the body by interaction with the ions, the electrolytes in the body, and the charges in the tissues. 

All molecules in the body have a charge. It is stimulating that charge, like the leaves and the branches. It is stimulating that charge, and by stimulating the charge, it is activating and wicking things up. It induces charges and increases the amount of energy in the tissue. When you increase the energy in the tissue now, what does the tissue do with that energy? What if you have an extra supply of 20% or 50% of energy?

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Well, you can do a lot more. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Lot more.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

You can do a lot better. Your brain works better, your muscles work better, your energy is higher, and you heal faster.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

The body does not care what you want to do with it. It does not matter what you want to do with it. The body is going to say, Oh, I have all this increased energy, and what am I going to do with it now? I can do all the things I should be doing because I am tired. As you said, at the end of the day, I am tired of becoming depleted and worn out. My muscles are sore, my back is sore, and my brain is sore. My brain is tired. All of a sudden, things wake up.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

You start digesting better. You start making hormones. Your neurotransmitters, or better enzymes, are produced. Pathways work better; everything gets better.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Everything is better. This conference is all about inflammation. When you are tired, you are inflamed. When you are high, oxygen levels decrease because your muscles are starting to tense up and you are inflamed. The magnetic field therapy then goes deep into the body to increase circulation, increase oxidative stress reduction, and increase ATP production. All of these things begin to happen, and all of a sudden, the inflammation starts to decrease. When you are awake, you increase ATP. Bing!

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Your brain turns on. You can get more done with your.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Your brain turns on, your muscles turn on, your heart turns on, and your lungs turn on. Everything starts to turn on.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

I think we have just established that PMS is good for your body and is nothing like EMF. There is an important topic that we need to cover as we go through this, which is oxygen in the body. Let us talk about PEMF as it relates to oxygenating in the body. But I think even before we talk about that, you have to talk about what it means to not have oxygen in the body, and that is called hypoxia. Let us explain what that is and why PEMF is important.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Hypo means low, and hyper means high. We all know what hyper is. Most of us do not talk about hypo. Hypoxia means hypo-low oxygen, and low is relative. We have a slide. You want to talk about the slide.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Let us share.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

They slide and dispense with that science very quickly.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Okay.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

We will do the advanced portion of the screen, and we will share. Can you see it now? 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

I can.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

This slide is absolutely important. When air comes into our lungs, that is about 100 millimeters of mercury. That is the pressure of the oxygen. It is called the partial pressure of oxygen. 160 millimeters. Let us say 98% is what we think about in terms of percentages. But in terms of what happens inside the tissues now, we have to talk about partial pressure, and pressure then becomes this term, millimeter oxygen. That is the pressure. Well, when you measure your blood pressure; what you are doing is measuring millimeters of mercury. Same principle, same measure; we use millimeters of mercury. HP is mercury. The amount of air coming into the lungs is 160 mm mercury. 

In the trachea, it drops down to 150 millimeters. The trachea is just in the throat before it hits the bronchi, and then it goes down into the alveoli. It spreads out to the lungs into the alveoli. It goes through the branches of the broken bronchioles and bronchi and gets down into the alveoli. That is where the oxygen exchange happens. It is just air going down. But then, once it hits the alveoli, it has to be transferred from the air into the alveoli and then transferred into the blood. 

Now this venous blood is very important; it now becomes full of oxygen, and then that oxygen gets transferred into the body. On the right side here, we can see that the air is 160 as we have up here; the inspired air is 150, which we have here; and then the arterial blood is going out into the body. Now this is going out into the body. That is the arterial blood going out of the body is a 100. 

Then, when that goes out into the body and gets distributed into all the tissues, at the end of the time, when it comes back to the heart, it is offloading all the oxygen, or as much as a lot of the oxygen. It is now 40 millimeters of mercury. More than double the amount of oxygen is distributed in the body and then comes back into the blood. 

But that oxygen then has to be distributed into all the tissues. In the cells of the body, the individual cell only has between 9.9 and 19 millimeters of mercury. That is a tiny amount of that 100 that was sent out into the body. The mitochondria in the body that make the ATP are only less than 9.9. The brain is about 34, so 34 millimeters of mercury ends up going into the brain, and the lung tissue itself is about 42. The superficial skin is only eight. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Wow. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

It has to go from the veins and the capillaries, and so on, into the skin. At the superficial levels of the skin, there are only eight; the intestine is about 58; the liver is about 40; and the kidneys are about 72. Kidneys, because of the blood supply, the kidneys deliver a lot more oxygen into the kidneys. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Try to see how important each of these organs is depending on the blood flow.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

On the blood flow, the muscle is about 29 muscles, only about 29. The bone marrow is about 49. Bone marrow gets a lot more blood than muscle does. What is interesting is that the femur itself is about 34. Now, this is important for a discussion that I have about cancer how important hypoxia is in cancer, and how hypoxia drives cancer. Again, you are talking about skin. You are talking about tissues at the tissue level. At the cell level, it is like 9.9 to 19. That is where the cancer growth is at the cell level.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Where there is low oxygen.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Where there is a very, very low oxygen. You can see in this slide that muscle has about 26, but skin melanoma at the skin is about 1.8.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Very low oxygen again.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Oxygen drives the development of cancer.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Now bring us back to PEMF and how this supports oxygenation of the body.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Shall we end with this? Can we stop this slide now? 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Let us stop sharing. Magnetic field therapy improves oxygenation in the lungs. It improves the delivery of the option that is on the hemoglobin into the tissues, and then it improves the dilatation of the blood vessels. It decreases the thickness and the stickiness of the blood, which improves circulation. Not only opens up blood vessels but also helps the flow.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

If the flow is better, the vessels are opened up, and oxygen is flowing better, all kinds of good things are going to happen. Your body is going to be less hospitable to cancer cells. Your body is going to function better. But what are some of the huge benefits here that people are going to notice when they have PEMF therapy and the oxygenation improves? What are they going to feel?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

But let us go back to your experience when you were lying on that bed.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

I was at the time that I laid down there, towards the end of the day, on my feet in high heels all day long, networking and talking to people, and tired. I lay down there, and when I got up, nothing hurt anymore in my body. Like I said, I was wearing those high heels all day. My feet felt good, my hips felt good, and my lower back felt good. I had a spark of energy. We went out to dinner that night, I remember. I did not feel like I had to go back to my hotel room and sleep. It is just like, I had the energy to keep going because then when we are at these events, it is like all day, all day, and all night.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

The muscles get tight. What happens when muscles get tight?

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Great question.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You do not get oxygen.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

No, you do not. Because they already have low oxygen. Your muscles are one of those areas already low.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

They were already low like what we showed you. They were already low. Then what happens is that when they are tightened, they are even lower because the blood is not flowing in tight muscles. You have to relax the muscles to have blood flow into them. Then the body begins to ache because the muscles are deprived of oxygen. What happens when you have a heart attack? You have heart pain. What is heart pain? It is called ischemia. It means you have a lack of oxygen supply to the muscles of the heart. Well, the same thing happens to the muscles in the whole body. The more those muscles are tight, the longer they stay tight, and the less oxygen you have delivered. This means that you start to have aches and pains because of the lack of oxygen delivery.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

We have established that PEMF is amazing for pain, and it is amazing at lowering inflammation in the body. When you have lower inflammation in the body, your body’s processes are going to work better, and you are going to be less likely to develop chronic disease because inflammation is just part of the cascade leading to chronic disease. Can you give us some real-life examples?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Hold on a second. Sorry, hold that thought. Let us go back to the inflammation because that is critical. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. Okay. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Inflammation causes hypoxia. Why?

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Why? Vasoconstriction?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

I will tell you why. It is all related to something called a cell injury.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Cell injury. You guys, dear listeners, Will always quizzes me when we do these topics. I am always on the edge of my seat. What? He is going to ask me a question.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, it is key. Hypoxia and inflammation go together. Inflammation causes hypoxia, and hypoxia causes inflammation. They revolve around each other. But inflammation is associated with swelling. It is associated with pain, as you mentioned. Inflammation by itself decreases blood supply to the tissues, and it builds up lactic acid, which then gets into a vicious cycle with lactic acid, the lack of oxygen, reactive oxygen species, and so on. Inflammation and hypoxia are hand-in-glove. You cannot separate one from the other. You can decrease inflammation, you can decrease hypoxia. Chronic inflammation is the root cause of cancer. Those cells and tissues are already relatively low-oxygen tissues. Now that those tissues are there, cancer cells begin to grow because you have inflammation initiating them. Then all kinds of genetic processes begin to happen, and all kinds of other processes can happen, which then eventually lead to cancer. However, it is caused by chronic inflammation, not acute inflammation.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Acute inflammation has a good purpose in our body.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Important? Yes. Hypoxia and inflammation are hand-in-glove, and they cause all kinds of havoc. That is one of those silent killers. Now, I do not know if you are aware. There is something called hypoxia-inducible factor. What happens is that when the body does not have enough oxygen, hypoxia produces something called hypoxia-inducible factors and hypoxia-inducible factors cause a whole cascade of other events. There are a lot of them. But what is interesting is they have found that in atheroma plaque. In atheroma plaque, there are high levels of hypoxia-inducible factor. What does that mean? That means that those tissues were oxygen-deprived. They were hypoxic. Antheroma plaque, and endothelium in their blood vessels. The lining of the blood vessel walls is hypoxic. Even though there is blood flowing in the blood vessels, the blood vessel wall does not have enough oxygen.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

No.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Then that leads to atheroma plaque developing. Hypoxia and inflammation—there is a perfect example of how hypoxia leads to plaque development.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Those are you who are worried about heart and vascular disease. This could be a solution to help lower that risk, which is what I am hearing.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Absolutely. Research has shown that when people with PAD Peripheral arterial disease. When you do magnetic field therapy, they can walk much farther. It is opening up the blood vessels and increasing the blood supply. Even though they have these blockages in those blood vessels now, all of a sudden they can walk farther. If you are doing this regularly, what does that do to your blood vessels?

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Make them work better.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You have more oxygen, and you have more blood supply. Your brain is going to work better. Your muscles are going to work better. Your heart is going to work better. Your kidneys are going to work better. Everything is going to work better.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Everything works better. Okay, Will, in this first part of our talk here, we are going to go for about five more minutes on this first part of our talk, and then we are going to do part two of this. 

Could you share with me, that there are other ways to get oxygen into the body, but they are not attainable for everyone? For example, HBOT. You can explain what that is quickly, and then any other way that people are getting oxygen in the body, and why a preferred way would be PEMF.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

They all work together. HBOT, that is H-B-O-T is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. That means that you are driving oxygen into the tissues under pressure. It is hyperbaric. It is high pressure. What happens then is that if your oxygen levels are relatively low and you are doing hyperbaric, you are taking the option that is available in the blood, and then you are driving it under pressure into the tissues. The tissues now have a better oxygen supply. HBOT has oxygen in the chambers. HBOT chambers have oxygen in them so that you can breathe more oxygen in. But then, once you breathe it in, it still has all this inflammation in the tissues that is blocking that oxygen from going into the tissues where you want it to go. When you drive it under pressure, you are now pressing it into the tissues. How long does that benefit last?

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Not long.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Not very long. People who need support need daily treatments, often for weeks.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Which is difficult because?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

If you want to go to a facility, you have to go to a chamber. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Forget it. Or you could have your machine. If you own your machine at home, it is usually a soft machine. The pressure is a lot lower. You are still getting better oxygen than you would otherwise. But so, here is where we go to Part 2.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Driving oxygen is important, but decreasing inflammation is even more important. Magnetic therapy does both. It does not deliver oxygen under pressure, but it helps deliver more oxygen to the tissues. It does it by opening blood vessels, then the oxygen transfer processes, and so on, but at the same time, it decreases inflammation.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Got it. Dr. Pawluk, I am going to pause this right here for one moment. Can you tell us where our audience can find you and find more information on PEMF?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

DrPawluk.com. That is DRPAWLUK.com. There are a ton of videos as blogs. There are lot of information on drpawluk.com.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Perfect. Great. Also, you help people fit themselves into the type of PEMF device for them and their condition. You have you; that is what you guys do over there at drpawluk.com. Our audience has a way where they can get in contact with your team and talk more about PEMF and what will work for them.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Yes, that is very important. I am glad you mentioned that because it is very confusing, and there are a lot of people selling PEMF devices in the community, and they are painting a glorious picture for you of all the good things that are going to happen to you. But they are not giving you the science. They are not giving you the full picture. All they are doing is selling you a machine. One size does not fit all.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

There are different kinds. We have even talked about it for me, and I am going to be investing in a PEMF. We were talking about what would work best for me. I invite everybody to go over to drpawluk.com and learn more. We are going to continue this conversation. But first, I just want to say, Dr. Pawluk, thank you so much for joining us today for this talk on PEMF therapy for our audience. I hope you are finding this conversation insightful and helpful. If you are a summit purchaser, stay right here. Because we are about to dive even deeper into this discussion with Dr. Pawluk. If you are not, click on the button on this page to get access to a continuation of this conversation and many others, and get the tools you need to reclaim your health. 

If you are watching this continuation of my talk with Dr. Pawluk, thank you for being a valuable member of our community, and we are going to dive back in. Dr. Pawluk, we have done a good job here of explaining what PEMF is, how important oxygenation is to the body, and that there are different types of PEMF, and not all are created equally. I think it would be good at this point to go through some case studies. Let us help our audience understand the different uses so they can imagine themselves as invasions themselves. We used me as an example: a tired girl in high heels on the showroom floor of a big medical convention. But that is not the majority of the people watching. They have got some real-life serious health issues going on, and they are looking for solutions and answers. Let us go into that. What conditions are you seeing people get the best benefit from this and what they are recovering from?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

What are the key aspects or elements of this? As I mentioned, oxygen and inflammation. Pulse magnetic fields do 27 different things in the body, at least. I do not spend enough time talking about oxygen. But because of those 27 different actions in the body, they have a lot of commonality with all kinds of health conditions and diseases. All kinds of diseases. Diseases have certain restrictions in terms of what they can do in the body. The body responds to most diseases in very comparable ways, and there are about three or four common elements. It almost does not matter what disease you have; PEMF therapy is going to help that. It can help with symptoms if you find yourself with aches and pains.It has a natural painkilling effect by itself like ibuprofen does or Tylenol does, but it does more than that. It is more important than that because Tylenol and ibuprofen do not help you with the cause. In other words, if you stop, if you have a cause, and you stop the Tylenol and the ibuprofen, the pain comes back. 

What we want to do is heal the cause. You had an enduring response to pain management, which is absolutely one of the most common causes. But it is not just the pain management; it is dealing with the causes of the pain, whether it is a fracture, whether it is inflammation, whether it is an autoimmune disease, whether it is infections, whether it is a blow to the head, whether it is, the list goes on and on. It is almost endless. In some examples, it does spectacular healing. That little machine that you have there. I have something like that machine, just like that. I had a little girl cut off the end of a thumb, and we regrow the thumb, basically just using the machine, nothing else, just using the machine. She cut off the end of a thumb like this, then, in a sharp doorjamb, put it back on again. Then, 12 weeks later, she is regrowing her nail to regrow the end of her thumb.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

That is unbelievable.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

That is regeneration and wound healing. I had a guy who was diabetic who was gangrene from the knees down. The surgeons were going to cut off his legs because, as gangrene, he could die if you did not have that happen. His boss dragged him in to see me, and I did not want to deal with this because I thought it might knock out his kidneys because of the infection. We work together. Long story short, three months later, he goes back to the surgeon. The surgeon says I guess we do not need to cut off your legs. You do not need to amputate. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Oxygenation. Healing oxygenation.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Blood flow, oxygenation, anti-inflammatory, and all the things that PEMFs do. He did it. He changed his diet. He got on magnetic field therapy. He stopped smoking. He stopped drinking. Then, well, three months later, I do not know what happened in six months or a year, but at least in three months, he did not have to have an amputation. 

I hear these stories all the time. People with back pain, have a problem with a disc. You have pain radiating down your legs. You put a magnet—a strong enough magnetic field—on your back, and it relieves the pain, decreases the swelling, and relaxes the tissues and nerves. It decreases the spasticity of the muscles that are reflexively spastic because of the pain. Bingo you got, you have a benefit. Now, is it going to come back? It could come back, but now you have a tool that you can keep using as you need to at home on your own time. To help you with your chronic pain problem.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

It is not just about solving chronic pain. It is creating a healing environment for your body to repair the tissues. There is so much more happening than just pain relief. I am so glad we talked about oxygenation first because that gives you a visual. Oxygen is life. Your body needs oxygen to repair itself. Your body needs oxygen for your mitochondria to work. You are not going to last long without mitochondria, without oxygen, and your mitochondria. 

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

That is right. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. You are not going to heal.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Sports, and I do not know about you. I had to once or twice take down a tree in my backyard, and the next morning I would wake up with pain in places I did not know I had places.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

When I decided to paint a room or do something I do not normally do, I was going to be the painter today and paint the whole house. Then every muscle hurts that you are not used to using.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

If you do magnetic field therapy after you do the painting if you did magnetic therapy before you did the painting, your body would have more energy, more vitality, more blood flow, and so on, to be able to do the job. Muscles work harder, they work better, and they recover faster with magnetic field stimulation. When you are using those muscles. Then, if you do the magnetic therapy after you have finished your work, you wake up the next morning with zero aching.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

I can see, from an athlete’s perspective, that athletes who use their bodies to make a living are going to have an edge if they go into their game.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Absolutely.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

With magnetic, PEMF before they go do their job and then when they get done and recover faster. But imagine if you are not a professional athlete. Imagine, I would take my husband, for example. He is a professional landscape contractor. He owns a construction company. He uses his body very hard. If his body does not work, he does not make money. You do not have to be a professional athlete to benefit from this. You can work in construction. You can stand on your feet all day long. Let us talk about the brain for a second. As I am thinking about all the applications here, people who need to think for a living. if their thinking is not working, they are not going to make good decisions in their jobs. What does it do for the brain? Because I know there is a setting for brain health as well.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, that little machine is designed for that purpose, but not all PEMFs are designed for that purpose. But no matter what, you are improving circulation to the brain and decreasing inflammation. If you have more toxicity or have an autoimmune disease, if you have other head injuries, if you have M.S. or Parkinson’s. All of these things are neurodegenerative because they are degenerative. That means they are inflammatory. If you increase ATP, you increase oxygenation, and you increase nutrient supply to the tissues. You get past the blood-brain barrier. Magnetic field therapy helps nutrients get into the blood-brain barrier much better and much faster. The brain gets better, and you can be more alert. 

One of the key things that magnetic fields do for people is that most people who lie on their whole body pad get relaxed. They feel very relaxed because you stimulate the acetylcholine, endorphins, serotonin, and GABA—all these things are being stimulated by the magnetic fields. The brain is waking up, so it is great for Alzheimer’s. It was an interesting study done on people with mild cognitive impairment. If you follow people with mild cognitive impairment for a long enough period, some of them will develop dementia. What they did was take a group of people, and part of that group got magnetic field therapy, and part of it was a control group. Then they looked at how many of them, over time, developed dementia; the ones that did the magnetic field therapy had 25–40% fewer dementias in that group.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Wow, that is remarkable. I do not think there is a condition, a disease, or a process in the body that cannot benefit from this. What I am hearing.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

If it is a tissue, it is going to be helped.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. Well, last time I checked, they were all made of tissue.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Yes, that is right.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

If it will help everything, it is okay.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

As much as we do not want to be made of tissue, we are, unfortunately.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

In the last five minutes that I have with you here, could you? I am going to give you the floor to say whatever you would like to this audience to inspire them, give them hope, and let them know that there are answers out there and ways to support their health that maybe they were not aware of. Go for it. What would you say to our audience?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, being a holistic physician, that is what I did. 20 years of practice in the Baltimore area, being a holistic doctor, and I have been a family doctor for, I hate to say, how many years, but 2 to 3 times that. I have learned a lot along the way. Magnetic fields can solve a lot of problems, and people go fishing. They hear the latest stories, and they hear the latest claims. This is good. That is good, and that is good. But I found out over time, after practicing with magnetic fields or working with magnetic fields for 30 years, that was the best value. I started doing my work with acupuncture, and I stopped doing acupuncture because I could do a lot more with magnetic field therapy. I cannot heal a thumb with acupuncture. I cannot stop my legs from becoming gangrenous with acupuncture. It is just not adequate. Magnetic field therapy can heal, but it does it with more value. Now, it may be expensive, from my perspective. From an investment perspective. You have to invest. But with that investment, you have control over the treatment.

When you do hyperbaric oxygen therapy, you do not have control over the treatment. When you leave a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, do stem cell therapies, or do a lot of these other therapies, you walk out the door owning nothing, and you cross your fingers that it is going to work. You spend a lot of money, and it is going to work. Well, the good thing about PEMF is that they do so many things. This is an investment. You are going to make a big lump-sum investment, but you are going to own it, and you are going to be able to use it every single day. I tell people that when they buy an adequate PEMF system, and that is my next point, they do not own it.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

It owns them.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

No, the house owns it. 

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Everybody in the house.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Everybody in the house can use it. The husband, the wife, the kids, and the pets.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

The pets.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Yes. They will go sit on it because they like how it feels.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

They come. They come and play with you to get the treatment because they like you lying on it, and they like to get the experience as well. The other big mistake that people make is that they base their decisions on money and affordability. They make their decisions based on what somebody’s selling them. If you do not, the analogy is that you do not know. You have to know the horsepower of your car, and you do not know the horsepower of your car. You do not know what it can do. You always have to know what the intensity of the magnetic field is. How powerful is this machine that you are buying? They are not willing to tell you what the power of that machine is. Then what? What are they hiding? Usually, it is because it is not enough, and therefore you are going to be disappointed. You may feel better. You can feel better with acupuncture, too, but it is not going to do the healing that you need. The best value for your money is going to be an adequate PEMF system. A big lesson that I learned over the years.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

This is important to know, and this is what I love about you, your team, and your company: that you educate people before anything, so they understand. Again, they can get more information at DrPawluk.com. I invite you to go over there, browse around, read articles, watch videos, and think about this as an important investment in your health.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Their health investment. I think if you are going to make a $4,000, $6,000, or $12,000 investment in a piece of equipment, depending on what you need, why not spend $29 on Supercharge Your Health? Then you will get a much better sense of all the things that magnetic therapy can do to help you.

Laura Frontiero, FNP-BC

Go get a book and read about it. Thank you so much. So much, you know how much I love you. Thank you for coming here and educating again, and thank you for the work that you have done in the world and all your dedication to health. You have done so much in your career, and I am just so glad that I got to know you and a little part of it. Yes, I know. I would give you a big hug if I were with you in person. Well, thank you so much, Will. Until next time, everyone. Take good good care.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Thank you so much, Laura.