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• June 22-25 Workshop is Open
• May 4-7 Workshop – One seat became available
• April 20 Online Meetup
• Indirectly Measuring Cell Voltage

Greetings,

A summer Health Foundations and Microscope workshop is on the calendar for June 22-25.

With medical catastrophes waking up the masses, a movement is afoot to find sanity and answers to health care that stands outside of medicine’s deceptions.

Where many have questions, we have answers. We’ll share them and more at our June program where you'll have more fun learning about health in new ways that will excite your neurons beyond anything you might imagine.

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June Workshop Info

Also Coming Up...

For EDU platform VIP members:

April 20 at 7pm CDT online meetup. This will be a Q&A discussion on the ins and outs of government regulation concerning health facilities doing microscopy, urine and saliva testing, etc.

Questions have popped up along these lines recently so this is a good time to dig deeper into what you need to know.

See your Learning Channel Live Streams Tab on your EDU platform at edu.biomedx.com for the session link.

I received this query in a recent email…

“Ok,... here's a good one. What is the best way you know to get an indirect measurement of cell voltage. I ask because we use electrical quadrant analysis but like a battery, folks would like to know if they're all charged up... you get it.”

My first thought on this question was maybe getting a phase angle measurement from bio impedance analysis (referred to as BIA). The phase angle measure of BIA is a quick way to ascertain the ability of one’s cells to store energy.

Upon querying the doc, he said “we use BIA which is fine but also do bio resonance testing with quadrant analysis. It’s a little clumsy so I though you may have some indirect way to measure voltage in urine or something.”

Okay, this leads me to a number of thoughts.

First, if you are not familiar with BIA, it is used in body composition analysis wherein an electrical frequency is passed through the body, often from wrist to ankle, and various electrical measures are made of that applied electrical frequency regarding voltage, current, resistance and impedance.

When looking at a 360 degree plot of the time delay of the wave forms of voltage and then current, how much delay exists between the two provides the number of degrees, or angle, of difference.

A low phase angle is consistent with the body’s inability to store energy in its cells, and further, indicates a breakdown of the selective permeability of cellular membranes. This could denote a high level of catabolism reflecting dysaerobic metabolism.

A high phase angle is the opposite, good intact cell membranes and body cell mass. Generally, it is noted that athletes have the highest phase angles.

Whether this is good or not may depend on a number of things, suffice to say, the opposite of catabolic metabolic processes is anabolic metabolic processes.

One side pushed to an extreme leads to pathological disintegration in the way of dysaerobic metabolism, the other pathological hyperplasia in the way of anaerobic metabolism.

This is a teeter-tauter we cannot escape in our physical, diphasic, yin and yang world, and its rhythm is reflected in body chemistry and cellular activity.

What does the Microscope Say...

From a visual, qualitative perspective, turning to a microscope picture of living blood cells, if erythrocytes are sticky, their charge is not so good, and if they are highly separated, their charge is good.

But I will state here unequivocally, that it is often the case that too much of a good thing can indeed be too much, so to delve a bit deeper into the picture, we can add some simple quantitative measures to sort through some things.

In BIA, reference to low phase angle being of a catabolic nature with low cellular membrane permeability has some simple correlating urine reference points.

Key constituents of cell membranes are two forms of lipids, one being a chain of carbon atoms with fatty acid negatively charged end, the other a chain of carbons with a sterol positively charged end.

The carbon chain lengths and charge differences provide alterations in how they are ordered in membrane structure and their order determines membrane permeability.

Cells can be too permeable, not permeable enough, or right where they need to be.

Right where they need to be is what we want, and this would be reflective of the optimum place to be ‘all charged up.’

In terms of a singular urine measurement to describe where we want to be, we’ll turn to the work of Emanual Revici who gives us

A Urine Measure that is More than you Thought.

Revici’s work is very instructive as to providing understanding that if there are too many fatty acids vs sterols in a cell’s membrane structure, the cell will be too permeable and subject to oxygen over-utilization (leading to pathological disintegration), and if too many sterols vs fatty acids, too impermeable and subject to oxygen under-utilization (leading to pathological hyperplasia).

If there are too many fatty acids, cell membranes fall apart easier and the resulting debris lowers the surface tension of urine. Just the opposite for sterols.

Now most folks don’t have an expensive tensiometer sitting around to measure urine surface tension, but something else happens in the body with the way water binds to cell structure under the influence of fatty acids or sterols.

There is more water bound to cells under the influence of excess fatty acids, but under the influence of sterols, more unbound water. This bound/unbound water state is reflected in urine specific gravity.

Specific gravity can easily be read with a refractometer.

Revici would say that a balanced specific gravity value, reflective of a balanced cell membrane (where we want it to be), is 1.016. 

And there we go, one tool to provide a quick look at urine that is reflective of a balanced place where cells can be optimally ‘all charged up’.

If I would add one more tool, it would be pH. Since we easily have the urine to place a drop on the refractometer, I’d place a drop on some litmus paper as well.

Revici would say that in a healthy, balanced state, urine pH will oscillate around a value of 6.2pH. Oscillating too low is a reflection of dysaerobic metabolism, too high, anaerobic metabolism. (However, vegetarians and self-medicating natural health-oriented folks can push their urine pH too high as a matter of course, but that is a different story.)

If saliva were added to the equation, we always want to see a split between urine and saliva pH with saliva around 6.8-6.9 (rising to 7.4 or more right before eating with a salivating mouth), and urine oscillating around 6.2, although in many cases it can go lower and be perfectly okay.

What we don’t ever like to see is low saliva pH and high urine pH.

What About Zeta Potential…

When some folks think about cell charge, they may ponder elements of zeta potential.

Blood, being a colloidal suspension, is under the control of zeta potential.

Zeta potential is a measure of the force and distance over which colloids can repel each other and thus prevent flocculation.

Flocculation, when it happens in the blood, is never a good thing. Imagine a big hair ball down in your kitchen drain, yeah, that can block the flow all right. You might not have a hair ball in your blood, but when blood colloids flock together, it is a clot building experience.

Thomas Riddick was the colloid chemist that brought the practical aspects of zeta potential home to understanding cardiological events.

For Riddick, he measured urine’s electrical conductivity to infer where zeta potential (of the blood) might be sitting, and consequently, whether good flow in the blood was occurring or not. A conductivity measure is read with a specific conductance meter reflected in a value called siemens.

Zeta potential as a measure itself is not reflective of overall cellular charge, as in, “is my cellular battery all charged up?”, but that cellular battery cannot be sufficiently charged unless zeta potential is where it needs to be.

Blood has 19 major and minor anionic and cationic minerals. When in their proper amount, ratio and proportion to each other, urine, being filtered blood by the kidneys, will show an optimum electrical conductivity of 12 millisiemens.

Osteopathic physician, T.C. McDaniel, built a thriving cardiovascular and renal practice using the concepts of Riddick and one single urine measurement tool; the conductivity meter.

Is there a parallel between the conductivity meter and refractometer?

Yes indeed.

While there are some differences, in general, high specific gravity often correlates to high specific conductance, and low specific gravity low conductance.

Riddick in his work makes an interesting reference to albumin, one of the negatively charged proteins in the blood. Albumin is the biggest contributor to colloidal stability in the blood helping it to maintain healthy dispersion of colloids.

With continual assaults by various chemicals, drugs, processed foods and more looking to continually flock our blood to our demise, it is albumin with its negative charge that continually saves us. Ergo, keeping albumin levels high is life promoting and enhancing, and to do that effectively, there is only one course of action.

I seem to be running out of time, but if you’re itching for the answer as to what that course of action is, I’m going to leave you hanging for a bit and simply say, come to a workshop and get the whole story.

If you can’t do that, or you want to get a jump on things, become a VIP at edu.biomedx.com and start learning about all of these critically important elements of health that virtually no one else is teaching and mainstream medicine is totally clueless.

From Thomas Riddick;

We heard of a Chinese citizen who subsisted solely on processed foods, and eventually expired from coronary occlusion. One of his chemist friends (who deals with zeta potential) engraved on his headstone: “Flocked for the Last Time – Rest In Peace.”

Gotta love a chemist with a sense of humor.

Until next time, I’m off to take a shower. Oh, and there’s a clue to the answer of how to live a life that is not all flocked up.

Steve

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