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imark3000
03-06-2008, 12:44 PM
"It sounded too good to be true," said Dave Schetter, the UCI administrator who oversees the university's dealings with technology companies.

Hand-held electrical devices that zap away cold sores and genital herpes outbreaks, attacking them through the body's nervous system?

Similar technology to combat pain, depression, tremors, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease?

http://www.ocregister.com/money/neuromed-addiction-herpes-1993058-silverstone-disease




ZucchiniFlower
03-06-2008, 07:17 PM
How did he figure out the "instructions"???.....

"His method, which he called "an ingeniously simple approach," was to send signals from an electrode placed against the skin, through the body's main nerve pathway in the spinal cord, and then to the brain. The signals get through, he said, because the nervous system interprets them as pain signals, even though the patient feels no pain.

Within those carrier signals, Silverstone imbeds additional electrical signals and frequencies that work as instructions to the brain to combat a variety of diseases and to produce neurochemicals such as serotonin and endorphins, which can block pain and promote overall health, he said. "