Over the past fifteen or twenty years, a quiet medical revolution has been brewing in the area called “energy medicine.” Research has been going on in medical schools and research establishments (mostly government-run) in the US and around the world, especially Japan, Germany and Australia.

While at first a lot of the energy medicine data seems very “woo woo” – to put in mildly – in fact, the studies have been done by sober scientists at prestigious institutions, and seem to have stood the test of time. Data is data.

In a nutshell, what scientists are doing is discovering that the chemistry of life is organized and operated by coherent energy transmissions, at the cellular level and at the molecular level. As a Catholic, I think scientists are rediscovering the soul, or at least the role of the spirit in sustaining life. Others of different religious bents interpret these discoveries to mean scientists are describing the energy forces which underlie all of life. Whichever of our interpretations is correct, there is a lot of science behind the “woo woo” stuff, and it is becoming clinically useful. It will become even more useful in the future.

Medical progress has been impeded for a long time by two philosophical errors: the Newtonian idea that we are just a collection of chemicals bouncing randomly about, and the Cartesian idea that body and soul are separate. Neither is tenable in the 21st century.

I first had an inkling of this back in medical school, when I was taking embryology. I noticed that the developing embryo very quickly organized into areas which would become skin and nervous tissue, areas that would become gut, and other areas which would become muscle or bone. I asked my professor why and he said “genetics” to which I replied “not so. The genes are the same in every cell.” He got mad at me for saying that, but I was right. The genes are the same in every cell, but experiments on salamanders and tree embryos suggest there is an energy field that turns some genes on and others off, which is how specialization apparently occurs in other species as well, possibly including humans.

So much for Newton and his randomly bouncing chemicals.

As to Descartes, a recent experiment reported by Dr James Oschman found that the movement of the index finger began in the energy field around the head, spread to the motor cortex, and from there to the muscles running the finger. Two implications: a) the brain supplies the accelerator and the brake, but is not the driver; b) the measurable energy field around the body – soul or whatever you want to call it – seems to be calling the shots.

Call Energy Medicine Specialist Robin A. Bernhoft, M.D. at (805) 640-0180 and schedule an Ondamed or Frequency Specific Movement appointment today.

This is revolutionary stuff, and opens up a lot of future possibilities for therapy, if moment-to-moment cellular “decisions” are determined by energy messages. The future of medicine may lie in unscrambling these messages, and manipulating them towards health.

Considerable work has already been done in this direction. We have two machines in our office which work in this area, the Ondamed and Frequency Specific Microcurrent.

FSM is registered with FDA as a TENS unit, chiefly for treating pain, but has many other uses which are investigational. FSM is applied by focusing on a specific problem in a specific area of the body. Ondamed, on the other hand, begins with the whole body and focuses on specific areas as suggested by patient response.

Although it is too early to make any solid claims for either, both modalities, Ondamed and FSM, appear to have considerable potential for ameliorating a wide range of conditions.

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Robin A. Bernhoft, M.D. has years of experience treating Ventura County patients with Ondamed and Frequency Specific Movement.

Call (805) 640-0180 to speak with local Ojai, California Energy Medicine specialist, Robin A. Bernhoft, M.D. and schedule a consultation today.