A living cell, though microscopic in size, contains a vast array of molecules engaged in constant dynamic interactions. These interactions give rise to countless electron transitions, which in turn generate multiple fields oscillating at different frequencies. From this perspective, the cell can also be viewed as an electromagnetic system that both emits radiation and is influenced by electromagnetic signals from its surroundings. This is a perspective that, according to the text, should be incorporated into medicine to improve our understanding of various biological phenomena—and, not least, to help treat disease by identifying the appropriate resonance frequencies.
Modern medicine = biochemistry
When we talk about medicine, we almost always think of a pharmaceutical drug—a physical substance that we introduce into the body to carry out specific chemical functions. The idea is that it will bind to other chemical substances and produce a reaction that, hopefully, alleviates the condition for which the medicine was taken. A biochemist studying the body’s chemical interactions focuses on a substance’s molecular structure, shape, and charge distribution. The substance is like a puzzle piece that must fit precisely with another piece to produce a particular effect.
Modern biochemistry has made enormous advances in designing and tailoring medicines to interact with the body’s chemical sensing systems, particularly the receptors located on cell membranes. By creating compounds that bind to these receptors, scientists can either trigger signals that are transmitted into the cell or occupy the receptor without activating it, thereby preventing other substances from binding—a so-called blocking effect.
In this way, chemistry can be used to alter normal physiological functions and direct them toward a desired outcome. Many pharmaceuticals are therefore designed to resemble the body’s own signaling molecules, such as hormones or neurotransmitters, often with the purpose of modifying or blocking natural signaling pathways.
It should also be noted that the human body is an extremely complex system in which each naturally occurring signaling molecule typically interacts with many different receptors and biological processes. As a result, a synthetic compound intended to influence one specific function may also affect several others that were not the primary target. This is one of the reasons why medications can produce side effects.
Herbal medicine is also chemically oriented
Herbal medicine also operates according to the same chemical principles, and nutritional physiology is based on the same approach. The focus is on the chemical reactions that can be achieved. Orthomolecular medicine shares this perspective as well, but it seeks to restore imbalances using substances naturally found in the body or in nature, while placing great emphasis on appropriate dosing. Once again, the underlying framework is biochemical.
The overwhelming majority of medical research is directed toward these fields, and the accumulated knowledge of the body’s metabolic and catabolic processes—particularly those occurring within cells—has expanded dramatically over the past four to five decades. At the same time, this explosion of detailed knowledge about proteins, amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and countless other substances has made the field so vast that true expertise often requires specialization. As a result, there is a risk that the broader, holistic perspective may be lost because the subject has become so complex.
Knowledge on multiple levels
To achieve a truly deep understanding, one should ideally be able to follow what happens across multiple levels of organization: from changes in the behavior of electrons within the molecular complexes they occupy, to changes in macromolecules, to the way these molecules bind to one another, then to organelles, the entire cell, tissues, organs, the whole organism—in this case, the human being—and finally to the environment in which that person exists. In practice, however, each specialist must be content to work primarily at their own level while maintaining a general understanding of the others.
Medicine from the perspective of the electron
There is an entirely different point of departure: to view biological processes and interactions as fundamentally physical phenomena, in which the behavior of electrons and their relationship to nearby atomic nuclei are of primary importance. From this perspective, the focus is on the interactions that occur when electrons exchange energy with their surroundings as they transition between energy states. This would be to view the subject from the perspective of quantum medicine.
We also know that every electron orbital corresponds to a specific energy level. When an electron falls from a higher-energy orbital to a lower one, it loses part of its potential energy, and these transitions occur in discrete steps. The energy difference between the two levels is not lost; instead, it is released as a quantum of energy, which can be emitted in the form of a photon—that is, electromagnetic radiation.
The interaction between matter and energy
Conversely, absorbing a specific amount of energy can cause an electron to move to a higher orbital with greater potential energy. This perspective views the interaction between electrons and their orbitals in terms of discrete quantities of energy. From this standpoint, the correct incoming frequency—often referred to as a resonance frequency—could induce changes in the electron shells of atoms significant enough to initiate chemical reactions between substances.
At this microscopic level of biological molecules, it is also important to recognize that everything is dynamic. Electrons move at extremely high speeds as they orbit their atomic nuclei within their respective orbitals. This is a well-established concept in atomic physics. It is equally well known that, because the electron carries a negative elementary charge, its motion generates both a magnetic field and an electric field around its path.
The electron has spin
In atomic physics, electrons are also assigned a property known as spin. One way to visualize this is to imagine that, in addition to moving in orbital paths around the nucleus, an electron also possesses an intrinsic angular momentum, which can have one of two opposite orientations. Depending on its spin state, two electrons occupying the same orbital have a slight—but nevertheless significant—difference in energy.
According to the text, this small energy difference may help explain why naturally occurring amino acids all possess the same stereochemical orientation, causing polarized light passing through an amino acid solution to rotate to the left. In this sense, the author suggests that life is ”left-handed.”
Laboratory experiments designed to simulate conditions relevant to the origin of life have produced amino acids by applying energy to simple chemical compounds. These experiments typically generate both left-handed and right-handed amino acids in roughly equal proportions. The text argues that even very small differences in energy levels—such as those associated with electron spin—may therefore have had profound consequences for the course of evolution.
As elementary particles, electrons, protons, and neutrons possess mass (although neutrons are electrically neutral, while electrons and protons carry opposite electric charges). They are also extraordinarily small. In fact, a single atom can be compared to our own solar system: the planets are tiny relative to the vast distances between them, and the same is true within an atom. Most of an atom consists of empty space.
According to the text, this helps explain why certain forms of radiation, such as X-rays, can pass through our bodies without our noticing them. Thus, although we commonly think of matter as something solid and compact, it is, in reality, composed mostly of empty space.
Photons transfer energy
The fact that the molecules within our cells are constantly engaged in complex interactions implies that electrons are continually transitioning between different energy levels. According to the text, the electromagnetic consequence of these transitions should be the continuous emission of large numbers of photons in the form of electromagnetic radiation—very weak, but nevertheless present.
Likewise, each electron is surrounded by both an electric field and a magnetic field, which, according to the text, should influence its surroundings. The reverse should also be true: externally applied electric or magnetic fields can influence the electrons within the body. Similarly, discrete amounts of externally supplied energy may cause electrons bound to specific orbitals to jump to higher energy levels. These are well-established physical phenomena.
The central question, however, is whether they play a decisive role in biological systems. If the answer is yes, the text argues, then it should be possible to influence living organisms—without pharmaceutical drugs—by applying electromagnetic radiation of the appropriate frequencies, together with suitable electric and magnetic fields, ideally in ways that promote health.
We have receptors for photons
The fact that we have receptors for certain frequencies is self-evident. In the retina, the visual pigment contains receptors that respond specifically to a small number of defined frequencies within the visible spectrum of light. When these receptors are struck by the appropriate photons, they send impulses to the brain, allowing us to perceive an image. The number of cone cells activated, and which ones are stimulated, determines the color and intensity that we perceive.
Conversely, we know that both glowworms and fireflies are capable of exciting their luciferin molecules. As the electrons return to their ground-state energy levels, they emit photons that fall within the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. These luminous insects demonstrate that living organisms unquestionably interact with electromagnetic radiation.
The same principle applies to other types of waves or oscillations that are measured in terms of frequency and wavelength. Rapid compressions and rarefactions of air within the frequency range of approximately 20 to 20,000 hertz are perceived as sound. It is remarkable how much information can be conveyed within this range of frequencies. We can hear everything from a baby’s babbling and birdsong to engaging speeches and loud rock concerts. And, of course, these sounds affect us—even at amplitudes far below the high decibel levels considered harmful to hearing.
The author cites this as a reminder of what he considers the illogical position of experts at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSI), who have argued that the electromagnetic frequencies used in wireless telephony are harmless. According to the text, their assessment is based solely on the energy content of the radiation and assumes that radiation incapable of producing thermal heating effects is harmless. The author argues that this overlooks the possibility that certain frequencies may interact with biological systems, particularly magnetic fields that can penetrate cells.
The text concludes that a more reasonable scientific position is to acknowledge that we currently know very little about how biological material may utilize weak electromagnetic interactions between cells and their receptors, while maintaining that such interactions clearly exist. The visual system is presented as one example of this.
Photosynthesis: Evidence of the reception of electromagnetic radiation
There is another form of interaction that is fundamental to nearly all multicellular life: the ability of plants to capture specific frequencies of sunlight with the help of chlorophyll. When resonance occurs, chlorophyll—assisted by its central magnesium ion—captures and absorbs light, initiating a cascade of reactions. The chemical end products of this process are well known: photosynthesis produces sugars and oxygen from the simple molecules carbon dioxide and water.
The principal reactive molecules involved in this process, particularly chlorophyll and cytochromes, have been mapped in considerable detail. According to the text, this provides an excellent starting point for searching for biological molecules that may systematically utilize specific energy levels by oscillating between two different energetic states.
Both chlorophyll and cytochromes are proteins, and in the search for mechanisms that enable proteins to switch between two energy states, the text points to an interesting feature of the protein model proposed by Jakob Segal. According to this model, known as the ”Segal barrel,” there is a logical explanation for the energy mechanism involved: the transition between the keto and enol forms.
Can electromagnetic radiation explain biological phenomena?
In any case, the interaction between matter—particularly electrons—and electromagnetic radiation is a fundamental phenomenon in the natural sciences, although, according to the text, it remains only minimally explored within biological systems. With more refined measurement techniques, the author argues that it may become possible to use electromagnetic signals both to influence health directly and to gain a better understanding of various intriguing phenomena in nature.
One example is the highly coordinated behavior of schools of fish in an aquarium, where all the fish can change direction almost instantaneously, as though responding to a single signal. The author asks what that signal might be and suggests the possibility that fish communicate through electromagnetic frequencies, with the first fish to detect danger not only signaling its own nervous system but also transmitting electromagnetic signals to others in the school.
The same type of coordinated behavior can be observed in the enormous flocks of starlings that perform spectacular aerial displays over reed beds during autumn migration. According to the text, conventional senses such as sight and hearing, with their relatively long reaction times, may not be sufficient to explain the remarkable synchronization of the birds’ movements in flight.
Is the sense of smell an electromagnetic sense?
Another sense that has long puzzled researchers is the sense of smell, particularly the extraordinary olfactory abilities of dogs and moths. Could it simply be that this is an electromagnetic resonance phenomenon between the odorant molecule or pheromone and the moth’s antennae—or between a dog’s nose and substances such as drugs sealed in plastic packaging or mercury enclosed in a glass thermometer—that underlies these animals’ remarkable detection abilities?
With regard to olfaction, this idea has been proposed by the Finnish electrotherapist Reijo Mäkelä, who, according to the text, was in many respects ahead of his time and whose work will be discussed further.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: A jogical consequence of artificial frequencies
Based on the reasoning above, it is not difficult to understand why many of the new frequencies introduced into our environment through radio and telecommunications technology might interact with the human body. After all, these frequencies are intentionally used to communicate with the receiving systems built into mobile phones and other electronic devices, even when they operate within established exposure limits.
According to the text, this phenomenon is reflected in the rapidly growing number of people in Sweden who report experiencing electromagnetic hypersensitivity. The author argues that the condition would more accurately be described as frequency sensitivity.
Frequency Medicine – An Introduction
