Tinnitus: Information and Technology Update

Here is an update on current events in tinnitus information and technology:

ATA Article
This month the American Tinnitus Association published an article on Mapping the Brain. Fatima Husain, a neurologist at University of Illinois presents a map showing areas of the human brain that are involved in tinnitus. Three of the five pinpoints are in the mid-brain. That is important because it explains why mood can change quickly in response to tinnitus.

Link to article (once the magazine opens on your screen  right arrow click to page 18): http://content.yudu.com/A30pgg/Summer2014TinnitusTo/resources/index.htm

Novacure
Novacure is a new brain tumor treatment. The company has had some great success. They have treated an olympic athlete and the man's brain tumor shrunk smaller and smaller until it vanished. Skeptical? Don't be. It makes perfect scientific sense.

Prior to the 1970s, human beings were born into the ideal electromagnetic environment, 7-10Hz, emanating from the Earth. Now human beings are born into an artificial electromagnetic environment that is 1 Tesla, which is 20,000 times beyond the Earth's natural electromagnetic source. In short, the human body is confused, because it does not know what planet it is on. Novacure may be recalibrating the brain back to the ideal electrical environment giving the human brain the ability to rid itself of abnormal brain matter and regenerating new nerves. This is not outside of the realm of scientific possibility.

The only concern that I would have with Novacure in relation to tinnitus is that the electrical source may be pulling negative ions from dental fillings like a circuit board up into the mid-brain. This could cause albumin to leak out of the mid-brain and cause tinnitus or even make existing tinnitus worse. On the other hand, Novacure (if operating in the ideal human electrical environment) may actually restore leaked albumin to its rightful place and possibly cure some tinnitus sufferers (the ones with brain damage and not cochlear damage or auditory nerve damage).

Link to Novacure video: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_doyle_treating_cancer_with_electric_fields

Univ. of Washington
Dr. Gerald Pollack, Physics Professor of the University of Washington, has been doing some great research on gel. Gerald noted that the cells in the human body are actually a gel which is a different state (or phase) of water than ice or tap water. The auditory nerve contains a high viscosity gel that acts like a coaxial cable to the brain. Dr. Pollack and I have been discussing the possibility that the auditory nerve may act like a pump when exposed to artificial electromagnetic field sources. He explained to me that the brain, auditory nerve, and even the cochlear cilia cells are all gel. In fact, to him our entire body is made up of various gels. He and I both agree that the human body is likely more sensate to electromagnetic fields than originally thought.

You can find and purchase Gerald Pollack's books:
Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life
The Fourth Phase of Water