PEMFs And EMFs For Healing

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Thank you very much, Heather. I really appreciate and look forward to our chat today and hearing about your adventures.

Heather Sandison, ND

Oh, thank you. So tell me, PEMFs get confused with EMFs. So there is pulsed electromagnetic frequency, and then there is electromagnetic frequency. Can you help us understand what the difference is and if we should be nervous about either of them?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

I would generally say we should probably not be nervous anyway. All right. Who needs that state?

Heather Sandison, ND

Right. Agreed.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

We do not want to worry about it. But you know, if you do PEMF therapy, then you do not need to worry about it.

Heather Sandison, ND

Nice.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

All right. Unless you happen to stand right in front of the microwave tower that is transmitting a huge wattage. You are right there, right in front of it. Well, okay, maybe, but the point is that they are different and they are confusing. So EMF stands for electromagnetic field and a lot of people do what you just did. It is not frequencies. They just assume it is frequencies because you know, frequencies, because that is what 5G is frequencies. So most people will say frequencies but it is electromagnetic fields. And I do not call them electromagnetic fields. I call them environmental magnetic fields. They are designed for a whole lot of different purposes than pulsed magnetic fields. So EMFs are designed for communication. Right. They are not designed for therapy. So as a result, what happens is we get confused then. Now, PEMFs are very different. EMFs are broadcast into the environment. They are sent out like light waves, like radar, like television signals, and radio signals that broadcast 360 all over the place. And that means that they are basically what we call an open loop. They go out into space. They are distributed. I’m sorry about this.

Heather Sandison, ND

Are you having electromagnetic fields coming at you?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

These are. I do not worry about it. I’m going to put it on airplane mode so you may have to chop this section out. So basically then EMFs are broadcast. And there is one important characteristic about EMFs, too. They tend to be high frequency. So I thought I had to silence this. So what is going on here? I’m through.

Heather Sandison, ND

I can not hear them. Bill.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You can not hear them?

Heather Sandison, ND

Nope. But I know it is distracting for you.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, if you can not hear them, then I hope that nobody else can hear them. Anyway. Okay, so, EMFs then basically are high frequency. High frequency is not good. We use high frequency in medicine to burn tissue, to coagulate tissue. Right. To get rid of warts, to destroy nerves in the back. That is called radio frequency. And EMFs are basically like radio frequencies, extremely high frequencies. What that means is those wavelengths are extremely short and they are absorbed by the body. That is the principle behind a microwave oven. We are cooking stuff. So EMF is basically microwave cooking. 

So when you take a cell phone and you put it in your ear, you are cooking. And you notice when people take the cell phone away from their ears, their ears are often bright red, especially the longer it is been there. The other ear turns a little more red because of reflex vascular changes in the body. But this one is very red. And if you do this all day long with the cell phone to your ear that is broadcasting and receiving, then you are essentially cooking that side of your head. We now know that there is an increased risk of acoustic neuroma in people who have a cell phone on the side of their head for long periods of time, not over a day or week. You know, you are talking about months usually. And there are people who go around with cell phones attached to their heads all day long. 

So we should never be doing cell phones to our heads unless they are on those air tubes. Earbuds are better. Bluetooth is better but it is still a broadcast being broadcast. So what happens then is that is cooking as well. You know, it is not good for you. Now, PEMFs are not designed for communication. They are designed for healing. They are designed to help the body and the major difference is that one is broadcast in the environment, as we call it, an open loop. The other one is, this is my thumb is the wire that carries the current that produces a magnetic field. This is called the right-hand rule. So that is the wire and every time the current goes through that wire it can pulse,  a pulse of the magnetic field. So that is that is why it is called pulsed electromagnetic. So every time there is a pulse, there is an increase in the magnetic field perpendicular to the flow of the current. 

And what happens is that current, it goes out and comes right back. Goes out and comes right back. Yes, it goes out into the environment, but it collapses right back on itself with every single pulse. It is not going out into space. Right. It is a closed loop, that current in that wire that controls that magnetic field, pulsing. So it is designed then to pulse into the body and then when it pulses into the body, it creates charge in the body. So that electric is the magnetic field, it is a principle of physics called Faraday’s law and Maxwell’s equations, and so there is physics associated with all this. And according to Faraday’s law, Faraday discovered this himself in the 1800s. When you pass a pulsing magnetic current pass a coil wire with a light bulb attached to it. You pass the current through it the light bulb lights up. That’s it.

You do not need to plug it into the wall. You do not need to have current coming into that light bulb. It is just a magnetic field that causes current to flow in that wire, which then causes the light bulb. So what does that do in the body? It causes a charge in the body. And then that charge in the body is used by the body. That extra energy is now used by the body for all the things it wants to do with it, what it wants to do with it. Now, what the magnetic field wants to do with it, what it wants to do it. So the body is in control. And we know that Magnetic Fields. In my books, I talk about the actions of magnetic fields physiological. Increase circulation, decrease inflammation, and stimulate stem cells, basically helping the acupuncture points in the meridians in the body. It balances the acupuncture points in meridians automatically.

That is why these very low-intensity magnetic fields work because they are working on the acupuncture system. They are not strong enough to heal deep in the body. We will get into intensity shortly. So the magnetic field pulses into the body, like the wind flowing through the trees. You know the wind’s there because the leaves are moving. It could be a weak wind, it could be a breeze or it could be a very powerful wind, and the same thing with magnetic fields. It can be very powerful and create a lot of charge in the body. Fortunately, magnetic fields are generally extraordinarily safe. And so why are they helpful against EMFs?

Because they do all this stuff to help the body be healthier and to be able to react to the environment in a very safe way. So that means that basically magnetic fields are making the body resistant to the effects of these external magnetic fields, environmental magnetic fields. Again, when you are standing in front of a microwave tower right in front of it, then you better be blasting yourself with PEMFs at the same time. All right. But generally speaking, we are surrounded by EMFs, but they are relatively weak. So if we are doing magnetic field therapy on a regular basis, we are basically just, our body’s brushing it off. It is just not a big deal at all.

Heather Sandison, ND

So what about when it comes to the brain? You mentioned the benefits of increased circulation, of reduced inflammation. These are things that come up a lot when we are talking about the causes of Alzheimer’s. Is it safe to have a PEMF pointed at your brain?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Very good question. So there are FDA-approved machines. I do not know if you care about the FDA or not, but there is a process that you go through to prove that what you are claiming is truly happening. So, in other words, I can not make a claim with the FDA. I have to prove that it is actually doing what you are saying it is going to do. So the FDA has approved magnetic therapy devices to treat the brain. It is called RTMs or TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation. And these are high-powered machines. And how do they work? You actually put a coil up against the head over the motor cortex. So right here is what we call the motor strip.

Heather Sandison, ND

Above the ear.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Above the ear. So that motor strip basically is what controls our hand movements and our body movements. So the brain tells the body to move. It tells the body which part of the body to move, how much to move, and so on. So the brain is doing that. So what happens is that if you put a coil over that area and you turn up the intensity really high, you can actually cause contractions of the opposite hand and they actually do that on purpose. They stimulate the brain, and that is called the motor threshold. So the branch is stimulated now and then the hand moves like that is called the motor threshold. So now what we do is move that coil to the front of the head to treat for depression and we actually increase the intensity by another 20%.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wow. So this is significant.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

It is huge. And PEMFs were developed to basically undo the need for convulsive therapies. ECT, Electroconvulsive therapy, right? For treatment-resistant depression, for psychosis, and for other needs. So magnetic therapy undoes that horrific way of treating people, which causes muscle spasms and contractions. It is actually causing a major seizure. So magnetic field therapy has replaced it and now you have a tool that you can fine-tune a contraction in a part of the body. But you are not going to continue to do that. You are not going to keep going back to the motor cortex to do that. You go to other parts of the brain that you are treating for specific purposes, like treating depression. But then you can use it for Alzheimer’s, you can use it for Parkinson’s and M.S. and neurodegenerative brain injuries. Basically, anything that is going on in the brain that is not healthy. But even a healthy brain wants to be even more healthy, and more active you can use PEMF to do that, too.

Heather Sandison, ND

So at a cellular level, what’s happening here?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Okay. In the books, both books, the Power Tools for Health and Super Charge Your Health book, I outlined the different actions of the magnetic field, so we mentioned some of them. Improved circulation, reduced inflammation, increased oxygenation to the brain, increased oxygen delivery to the brain, and increased electrical responsiveness of the brain controlling the brain frequencies. So if all of a sudden the brain has more juice in it if you will then the brain can function better. You can control frequencies, you can stimulate stem cells, so you can actually stimulate brand repair, and then there is this wonderful term called plasticity. So PEMF increases brain plasticity. 

They increase the ability of the brain to take in new information, process it, and then produce a value from it, producing some kind of action that you might want memory for example, or mood changes for example, or focus, or concentration, or sleep for that matter. So you can do all of these different things just by stimulating the brain in the right way. And so there are 27 actions, there is no point in going through all the different actions of them but circulation is a big one. Inflammation is a big one. Increased plasticity is a big one. Gene changes are a big one, stemcell is the big one. All of these are done by the PEMFs. All should be done by the brain and all the PEMFs doing is stimulating the brain and the brain is like, okay, I need more stem cells or I need more circulation or I need more anti-inflammatory action or I need more calcium movement in the brain, whatever. So the brain decides what it is going to do with it.

Heather Sandison, ND

And I  hope our listeners understand what’s the difference between this and like neurofeedback, for example. What effect does PEMF have on brain waves?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So I’ve been trained in neurofeedback. I have a lot of neurofeedback equipment sitting there gathering dust. I was intrigued by neurofeedback. I thought, well, with neurofeedback I could really make a difference but I discovered that neurofeedback typically is very relatively passive and it is very slow. Takes a lot of sessions most of the time it takes a lot of sessions. It could take anywhere between 20 to 50 to 70 sessions of neurofeedback.

Heather Sandison, ND

I’ve had patients who had 90 sessions of neurofeedback and did not have any benefit.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

And not any benefit because what the neurofeedback has to do is it has to reposition parts of the brain and the brain’s functions. But then that repositioning of brain functions is in an environment of a brain that is fighting against it, is trying to do something else. So what I realized is with the frequency changes with PEMF, I can fight with the EEG, quantitative EEG, so I can do a brain mapping. Say, well, this part of the brain has too much beta, this part of the brain has too much alpha. This part of the brain is too much delta and so on. So say those parts of the brain that have too much or too little, we can in tune the brain with PEMF therapies into those frequencies that relate to those brainwave patterns. So you can restore the brain like that, and you may only need five or ten treatments. Now, if you combine therapy with neurofeedback or other neuroplasticity, work, it’ll work much faster, much better, much faster.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wow. Okay. And I’m sure if you combine it with enough nutrients and enough sleep and some of those.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, you can not build a house without bricks and mortar. Right. You have to have the nutrients. You can not fix something that needs calcium or that needs proteins or that needs fats if you do not have those basic substrates in place then the body, the brain in this case does not have the equipment or the tools that it needs to be able to do the fixing. And then so you have to fix the basic function. They are basic supplies to the brain. Then you have the functional parts of the brain, but then you also need to stimulate the brain. You need to activate and that is where neuroplasticity comes in. You have to activate the brain. So if I want to build memory, what do I do? If I just sit there, okay, I’m going to build memory. Where’s the memory coming from? Here? I cannot see memory. Where is the memory? So you have to do something to produce the memory in the brain. 

You have to give the brain the memory that it needs, but you need the plasticity and you need the circulation, and you need a healthier functioning brain that would take that memory, consolidate it, put it into place, and then be able to allow the brain to pull it back out when needed. So PEMFs work along that whole spectrum, that whole process. So magnetic field therapy activates the nutrients. Activates and amplifies the anti-inflammatories, it improves the neuroplasticity of the brain. The brain now wakes up. So, okay, now I have okay, I have energy. Now I can do my job. I can learn. I’ll give you an example of brain stimulation. We have a machine called the Flex Pulse. It has a bunch of, I have to design the Felx Pusle based on my training and their feedback. I say, okay, I want alpha, I want beta, I want delta, I want gamma, and I want all these different frequencies but individually I do not want it to be jumbled.

Heather Sandison, ND

Can you describe the brainwaves and what they kind of like, beta? I think of beta as being a little bit more excitatory, a little bit more stressed maybe. And then theta is a very creative, very relaxed state. Can you just kind of break them down for us real quick so that people know what you are talking about there?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Sure. I think it’s very important actually. And then when it comes to Alzheimer’s, again, that is even more important in many ways. So let’s start with Gamma. Gamma is a more recently discovered brainwave pattern. So Gamma is where the frequencies of the brain are moving from the back to the front. Gamma is a high frequency, 40 hertz, around 40 hertz, 40 to maybe around 100 hertz cycles per second. So the brainwaves are in patterns, they are in waves. I like PEMFs, the brain is in waves, but PEMFs coming into the brain at a specific pulse rate begin to move those frequencies in the brain into whatever direction you try to coax it. You can not control it, but you can coax it. So what happens then is beta. Gamma is very high alertness, very high awareness, and it is integrative. It is taking all these inputs, the sensory inputs typically that we have into the body, whether it is sound, light, color, heat, whatever, any kind of sensory inputs, and it is integrating those sensory inputs and distributing them into different parts of the brain. 

So people who do a lot of meditation are often in 40 hertz, they are often in gamma frequency. Professional meditators, people who do a lot of meditation often have their brains cycling at 40. So their brains are optimized in a sense. The next level down, if you want to call it down, but the next level in frequency is beta. So beta goes from something like 13 hertz to 23 hertz approximately, or let’s say up to up to 40. So that is alertness. You are in beta and hopefully, the people in the audience who are listening are in beta. They are integrating, listening, learning, processing, understanding, and they are trying to memorize. That is beta, that is alert consciousness. Doing arithmetic, doing your QuickBooks, doing your analysis, and reading and integrating and writing a paper that is beta. Then essentially we have alpha. Alpha is basically what I call a neutral state or I watch a dog or a cat just sitting there. Eyes are open and they are sitting there and they are looking and they may be scanning their eyes, maybe moving back and forth. You know they are just taking it in. They are not planning anything. They are not hungry. They are not going somewhere to eat. They are just watching. That is the observer state. 

So when we are an alpha, we are relaxed. It is a relaxed state. It is not asleep and it is not alert. It is waiting for input, essentially. And we go from that and down. So Alpha then basically is from about eight hertz up to about ten or 13 hertz below that is theta. So theta is the primary frequency for us to fall asleep. And a lot of people who are doing meditation are often in theta. We have to talk about doing meditation and gamma. That is very interesting. I mean in Delta, meditation at Delta. That is very interesting. So theta is a meditation state in your head. When your head hits the pillow and lights out. The next thing you know you are awake to go to the bathroom but you sleep for three hours, that is theta. 

Now below theta is delta. So theta is from like five hertz to eight hertz. Delta is from one hertz of zero is dead. So it can not be zero. It has got to be more than that. So Delta basically is like, let’s say one hertz up to about five hertz, four to five hertz. So those are the different brainwave patterns and different parts of the brain are in different brainwave patterns. Our whole brain is not always in beta or is it always in delta or in theta, etc. We have different parts of the brain that have different frequency sets and they are designed to be that way. The brain has been designed to do that kind of integration with different frequency patterns.

Heather Sandison, ND

And this is what we would measure on, say like an EEG.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

A quantitative EEG where we do the brain mapping. And yes, that is what we measure with the EEG. There are 12 leads, three leads, or whatever number of leads you have. Correct.

Heather Sandison, ND

Okay. And then in Alzheimer’s, what are the typical patterns that show up?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

I think it depends on severity. So in like ADD or autism. An agitated Alzheimer’s patient is going to be in beta. Probably not in gamma because they are agitated, agitation sort of undoes a whole lot of other stuff. So if they are agitated they are in beta, if they are sitting there just like a dog or a cat looking into the environment that basically, you know blurry-eyed while they are probably going on alpha maybe even in high beta. So Alzheimer’s, depending on how badly they are affected. They can be across a whole range of frequencies and they are more likely to have more dominant amounts of frequencies for longer periods of time. 

Early Alzheimer’s is not. It is a memory problem mostly but in severe Alzheimer’s or severe dementia, the brain is sort of taken over. When we have somebody with a brain injury or somebody with encephalitis and they are basically in a coma there is a good chance that most of the brain function is going to be in the delta. When you see a normal person, when you do an EEG and they are almost all delta, their brain is essentially shut down.

Heather Sandison, ND

Okay. And what would cause that?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

And again, what could be severe head injuries, it could be infections, it could be toxins or toxicities. Where you have so much cellular damage in the brain that the brain is just shutting down its functions. This is not that common. We do not really see it that commonly but obviously in the hospital settings, you are going to see these kinds of people very frequently you’ll see that kind of level of brain function in Alzheimer’s units and in dementia units. They are nearing the end so the brain is beginning to just sort of shut itself down.

Heather Sandison, ND

And so applying PEMF to this sort of dysregulation, if you will what can we expect to see?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Well, again, there is a spectrum. For mild, so you can say mild cognitive impairment is an early component of the progression potentially of Alzheimer’s. Now cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment is a pretty common stage for 50-year-olds or 60-year-olds. You go to a room and you forget why you went there. You are distracted by something and all of a sudden the memory is gone. The memory did not lock in so that is at the very earliest stages of it. But if you do a therapy with mild cognitive impairment, a certain percentage of those individuals are going to end up having Alzheimer’s. They progressed. That is a progressive disorder. If they have the APOE4 gene, if they have a bad diet and have a lot of inflammation in their body, if they are not getting enough rest, if they are not getting enough activity or exercise, and are not getting enough stimulation, all of these things tend to cause depression of memory and contribute to mild cognitive impairment. So if you are doing brain stimulation with PEMF therapy, you can stimulate the brain to specific frequencies, but you can also just produce like an RTM. You can produce a specific brain stimulation that just wakes the brain up. In general, PEMF therapy can also make the brain sleepy. A lot of people who do PEMF therapy at bedtime just zonk out. When I do whole-body PEMF therapy, I get very relaxed. I can not read. I do not want to read. I do not really care. I started producing a lot of endorphins, catalyns, and serotonin, and I just do not really care anymore. So that is a good place to be now and then.

Heather Sandison, ND

But you want to go to sleep.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Especially when you want to go to sleep or if you want to have a nap in the afternoon or you want to veg out, you want to go into a just a very relaxed state, just tune out for a little while to recharge and regenerate. So in the earlier stages of dementia, then you start to have more significant memory changes and you may have behavioral changes as well. Then you start to have problems with anger. You have problems with reactivity to environmental stimuli. You can overreact. So there is a progression. So the sooner you start with PEMF therapy in this process the more you can slow down that progression. So not only can help with memory because the medications for Alzheimer’s disease only help you with memory, right? They basically do not help you with repair or to stop the progression. They basically just help the memory process temporarily and partially. 

Heather Sandison, ND

Unfortunately. Yeah.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So PEMF therapy combined with nutrition, combined with brain exercises, all of these things work together, PEMF therapy enhances everything you do and makes everything you do work better.

Heather Sandison, ND

Got it. Well, that is exciting and very hopeful. And so how did people find out about getting the right PEMF device for them? Because there is a spectrum of these devices as well.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

There’s a huge spectrum and it is very confusing. So actually, if you go to drpawluk.com, to my website, DRPAWLUK dot COM, you’ll find a huge number of resources about what PEMFs could do. We mentioned the two books, so if you want to geek out a bit, there are 500 references you can find out the science of it with Power Tools for Health. It got practical information too but not as practical as the new book, Supercharge Your Health, which describes the mechanisms of action. But we now get into the Supercharge Health book, I get more into what kind of device should you consider for different kinds of problems. So I should review 80 different health conditions and make a recommendation for the kind of advice, it is going to work best for that condition. So you can have local magnetic field therapy that just treats tennis elbow or carpal tunnel problem, etc., or lower back. And they are very inexpensive, typically, much less expensive. 

Now, when you want to do more in-depth treatment like a brain, you need higher intensity. So why do you need higher intensity? Because magnetic field therapy drops off in intensity just like light, cold, heat, and sound. The farther you are away from that stimulus and the more rapidly it drops off, it drops off extraordinarily fast. So if you want to treat the brain and we want to reduce inflammation. So to reduce inflammation in the brain which is a common cause of Alzheimer’s, right? If you want to reduce inflammation, you want to treat it across the brain. So 4000 Gauss magnetic field on one side of the brain will drop off the 15 on the other side of the brain. So 15 Gauss is the optimal level of magnetic field stimulation to reduce inflammation through the adenosine receptor, and that is covered in the Supercharge Your Health book. There’s an appendix about that. It is also on the website if you want to do a search on that.  

You can do a search on adenosine, inflammation, and pain. It gives you a table on what kind of magnetic device you need for the intensity or where you are trying to treat. So you have to figure out where you are treating. You have to know where you are treated. And then you pick the right machine that has the intensity that you need to start with. If you are treating again, an elbow for a tennis elbow, all you need is about 15. Gauss. You may get by with 40 Gauss or 50 Gauss, but you may need something stronger. So if you are concerned about Alzheimer’s disease, then you need a more high-powered machine. You can do something to stimulate the frequencies that we talked about. So one of the stories that could tell you is I had a machine that was only about 200 Gauss and I had to pick up my daughter at the airport at 2:00 in the morning. She was supposed to come at 830 but her flight got delayed because of the weather and try to pick her up at 2:00 in the morning. And I need to do my job the next morning. 

And so at 2:00 in the morning do I drink coffee? Or do I get road drowsiness and I start to nod off? Because I had to drive 50 miles each way. So I said, okay, well, I have the right tool PEMF therapy. So the Flex Pulse has a 23-hertz frequency, has a 23-hertz program. So I put one coil of flex part at the back of my neck behind what we call the reticular activating system, which is one of the alertness control systems in the brain. And it was like, okay, I’m awake. I was not but I was not jazzed up like you would with coffee. And as soon as you stop it, the brain reverts back to where it wants to go. So I was alert the whole time. I went to get my daughter and drove back. No problem, no nodding off at a stimulating conversation with my daughter. And then as soon as I got home, I took it off and within 10 minutes, I was in bed.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wow. Oh, and did you feel okay the next day?

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

All great.

Heather Sandison, ND

But magic, it sounds like complete magic to be able to be awake when you want to. And then jetlag. I want to take it with me on my trip.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So for jetlag I have a frequency I call flying delta, so fresh for flying across the country. And you, especially if flying back east, you are going to go with the wrong way through the time zone. But yes, the Flex Pulse allows you to pick the frequency that you want to do what you want with the brain. So if you want to be asleep you should be using Delta. If you want to be alert you should be using beta. If you want to just be relaxed and tuned out then use alpha. If you are a very anxious person, I had a patient who saw me who was very, very anxious and she had a one-hour visit schedule. She walked in, she sat down and literally within two or three minutes, she started pacing. Got up and started pacing. 

Heather Sandison, ND

Poor thing.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Really. She was extraordinarily anxious. So I said, okay, I’m going to treat her with Magnetic field. I pulled out my Flex Pulse. Put it on the back of her neck like I did for waking. In this case, I put her on theta. I wanted to decompress here, I wanted to crash her quickly.  So she put on the back of her neck, continued pacing, and literally within two or three minutes sat down on the chair. I could see the elevator going down.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wow. She did not have to swallow a pill, take a drug, or take anything with side effects.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Exactly. So I asked her at the end, what was your stress level when you first sat down out of 10 and she said seven. If somebody asked me, I would have said 13.

Heather Sandison, ND

About her.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

About her, exactly. You know, so at the end of the visit I asked her, well, what are you now? She said three, She was delirious. She was really happy. So she bought a machine so she could deal with her anxiety.

Heather Sandison, ND

Get some relief. Yeah.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So that is how quickly you can change the status of the brain in terms of brainwave. Very safe.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wow. How incredible. And we know anxiety has a lot to do with Alzheimer’s as well. That really sets us up. If we are in a high-stress state all the time, our brain doesn’t get a chance to recuperate, recover, or get all of the benefits of a more relaxed, a rest, digesting, or healed state.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

You are overstimulated by adrenaline. You are not producing enough parasympathetic balance to your brain and the adrenaline then over time, because it is a major stressor, it causes increases in cortisol and changes basically the brain frequencies and patterns. It tires out the brain, essentially.

Heather Sandison, ND

Yeah. And there are direct implications for the hippocampus structurally as well as the amygdala and the limbic system.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So when you are stressed, you do not remember.

Heather Sandison, ND

Right. I mean, we have all had that experience of stage fright, that classic example. But there are a lot of others and many of us can recall that time that we felt stressed and couldn’t recall our words, couldn’t recall somebody’s name, and then that over time.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Entering into memory impairment, if you are entering into early Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment, then reducing stress is a major tool to help you maintain memory.

Heather Sandison, ND

Wonderful. Well, that is so hopeful and so exciting. So drpawluk.com is where people can find out more and then your two books, so you share the names of those again.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

So the one I would recommend the most is the Supercharge Your Health with PEMF Therapy.

Heather Sandison, ND

Fantastic.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

That got the tables and the protocols and it got a lot more practical information. If you want to be geeky in order to really read the science, I would suggest you get the other book, which is Power Tools for Health. The combination is very helpful because you do not have the protocols in the Power Tools for Health book.

Heather Sandison, ND

Okay, great. So get them both and geek out with Dr. Pawluk and get your brain healing with PEMF. I love it. Thank you so much, Dr. Pawluk. It is a pleasure to connect with you every time. I so appreciate your wisdom and enthusiasm for this. It is infectious. Thank you.

William Pawluk, MD, MSc

Thank you. I need to be infected as well with memory.