The Electromagnetic Environment

It has been experimentally proven that all organisms receive cues from the local EM environment which regulate their metabolic activities.2,3 EMFs have also been shown to alter the morphogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster in the same manner as various other environmental changes (e.g., changes in altitude alter the form of certain plant species).4 In this way, organisms can be considered an expression of the local environment with the genetic structure acting as a stabilizing element.5
Further evidence that all organisms are derived from the environment comes from Andrew Weil who notes that most synthetic pharmacological substances are only semi-synthetic in that they are nearly always based on a natural compound (the ‘active ingredient’ of a plant or part of a plant) with a slight shift in the structure of the molecule. This is because humans do not generally respond well to purely synthetic substances, and in the case of psychoactive substances, the brain lacks the appropriate neurotransmitter to distinguish the substance and respond.6
It may seem like splitting hairs or academic frivolity to argue that life is dependent on the environment, however when dealing with health and disease, disavowing the web-like character of organism and surroundings has lead to many disasters. Few would argue that organisms and machines operate in the same manner, yet very often diagnostic and therapeutic methods are approached in the same manner for both. The notion of the whole within the part has gained acceptance among physicists, and this notion is easily extrapolated to biological systems. In this way, attempting to treat a single component of an organism (cell, tissue, organ, etc.) will likely result in failure as it ignores the effects that the part has had on the whole.
It is one thing to say that EMFs have an effect on organisms, but quite another to distinguish the process enhancing from the process degrading signals. The next section explores the possibilities of healing with EMFs.