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Article # : 17652 

Section : BOOK WORLD
Issue Date : 6 / 1990  1,052 Words
Author : Robert Pease
Robert Pease is a foundation officer in Princeton, New Jersey. He has written science-related articles for The Christian Science Monitor, WorldPaper, and other publications.

       CROSS CURRENTS
       The Perils of Electropollution; The Promise of Electromedicine
       Robert O. Becker, MD.
       Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher Publishers, 1990
       326 pp., $19.95
       
        Some three decades ago an ambitious young orthopedic surgeon, intrigued by the mystery of limb regeneration, cut open a salamander and determined low-level electrical current to be the controlling factor in regenerative growth. The finding initiated a trial of experimentation leading to substantial upgrading of energy's role in physiology - as well as growing recognition of the earth's electromagnetic (ELM) field as an environmental variable.
       
        For decades modern science has recognized the importance of electrical energy to normal functioning of the heart, brain, and nervous system. But current research postulates a more systemic role involving regulation of important body functions, including cell growth, as well as immune response. Science has also long known that around every electrical current, no matter how minute, exists both an electrical and magnetic field. Furthermore, any electromagnetic field can be influenced by other such fields. And here lies a controversial, potentially disturbing conclusion about modern civilization. Namely, that all life is electromagnetically sensitive, drawing cues such as cell division from the earth's natural ELM field. But man in the twentieth century has drastically altered the ELM environment to the possible detriment of all life.
       
        In Cross Currents (The ... (1998 of 6991 Characters)
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