Porphyrins: Oxygen and Electrons

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“Porphyrins are light sensitive pigments” bound into molecules we know as heme and chlorophyll. Heme and iron together make up the core of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in red blood cells; oxygen metabolism being our most basic function of life. Ten minutes of oxygen deprivation can lead to a rapid death. The porphyrins have special ‘electron transport’ qualities that make them ‘electrosensitive’ and interesting to industry. They also have chemical cousins called pyrroles which are similar and will be the subject of another descriptive blog-post because of the commercial value of the pyrrole group. But first, the porphyrins –particularly where an excess of circulating porphyrins caused by environmental poisons and electrical overload leads to dire malfunctions including the paralyzing, fatiguing, immune- deficient and ‘flu-like’ spectrum of ills.

 “Porphyrins are central to our story” writes Arthur Firstenberg in The Invisible Rainbow, “ not only because of a disease named porphyria [**see more below] but…because of the part porphyrins play in the modern epidemics of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes which affect half the world, and because their very existence is a reminder of the role of electricity in life itself.” –pp139-140, The Invisible Rainbow, 2017.

 “Adding thin films of porphyrins to commercially available photovoltaic [solar] cells increases the voltage, current, and total power output…  The properties that make porphyrins suitable in electronics are the same properties that make us alive… The secret lies in the highly pigmented, fluorescent molecule called porphyrin. Strong pigments are always efficient energy absorbers, and if they are also fluorescent, they are also good energy transmitters… Porphyrins are more efficient energy transmitters than any other of life’s components… [And] one more place these surprising molecules are found [is] in the nervous system, the organ where electrons flow. In fact, in mammals, the central nervous system is the only organ that shines with the red fluorescent glow of porphyrins when examined under ultraviolet light. These porphyrins…occur, however, in a location where one might least expect to find them –not in the neurons themselves, the cells that carry messages from our five senses to our brains—but in the myelin sheaths that envelop them, the sheaths whose…breakdown causes one of the most common and least understood neurological diseases of our time: multiple sclerosis. It was orthopedic surgeon Robert O. Becker who, in the 1970s, discovered that the myelin sheaths are really electrical transmission lines.” –pp145-147  …”The cells that biologists had considered merely insulation turned out to be the real wires. It was the Schwann cells, Becker concluded –the myelin-containing glial cells—and not the neurons they surrounded that carried the currents that determined growth and healing… The myelin sheaths –the liquid crystalline sleeve surrounding our nerves—contain semiconducting porphyrins doped with heavy metal atoms, probably zinc…   Toxic chemicals and EMF [the same combo of nuclear fallout, for example]…disrupts the porphyrin pathway… According to more recent research, a large excess of porphyrin precursors can prevent the synthesis of myelin and break apart the myelin sheaths, leaving the neurons exposed… [An] Italian team confirmed in 2009…that as much as ninety percent of the oxygen [used by the brain] is consumed…by the myelin sheaths.” pp152-153

“Porphyrins are light sensitive pigments that play pivotal roles in the [metabolic] economy of both plants and animals… In plants a porphyrin bound to magnesium is the pigment called chlorophyll… responsible for photosynthesis. In animals an almost identical molecule bound to iron is the pigment called heme, the essential part of hemoglobin that makes blood red and enables it to carry oxygen… Heme is also the central component of cytochrome c and cytochrome oxidase, enzymes [found] in every cell of every plant, animal and bacterium, that transport electrons from nutrients to oxygen so that our cells can extract energy. And heme is the main component of the cytochrome P450 enzymes in our liver that detoxify environmental chemicals for us by oxidizing them [for breakdown and clearance]… In other words, porphyrins are the very special molecules that interface between oxygen and life. They are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and recycling of all the oxygen in our atmosphere.” –136

“Piezoelectricity, a property of crystals that makes them useful in electronic products, transforms mechanical stress into electrical voltages [restated as turning a frequency into a current] and vice-versa, [and] has been found in cellulose, collagen, horn, bone, wool, wood, tendon, blood vessel walls, muscle, nerve, fibrin, DNA, [cell membranes] and every type of protein examined. …It was Otto Lehmann, already in 1908, who noticing the close resemblance between the shapes of known liquid crystals and many biological structures, proposed that the very basis of life was the liquid crystalline state. Liquid crystals, like organisms, had the ability to grow; to heal wounds; to consume other substances or other crystals; to be poisoned; to form membranes, spheres, rods, filaments and helical structures; to divide; to ‘mate’;…to transform chemical energy into mechanical motion.” –p143, The Invisible Rainbow.

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‘Accelerating Electrosensitivity’ and  ‘Accelerating Biology’ are two recent blog posts from May dealing with this subject:

Accelerating Biology

From ‘Accelerating Biology,’ which offers a description from Dr. Bruce Lipton about the flowing nature of liquid crystals as well as the bodily health implications of a ‘growth’ state versus ‘protection’ state:    “In multicellular organisms, growth/protection behaviors are controlled by the nervous system. It is the nervous system’s job to monitor environmental signals, interpret them, and organize appropriate behavioral responses… the nervous system acts like the government in organizing the activities of its cellular citizens… The body is actually endowed with two separate protection systems, each vital to the maintenance of life. The first…mobilizes protection against external threats. It is called the HPA axis which stands for the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis. [p147] When there are no threats, the HPA axis is inactive and growth [cell renewal, respiration, digestion, etc.] flourishes… Once the adrenal alarm is sounded… [the] visceral organs stop doing their life-sustaining work of digestion, absorption, excretion and…production of the body’s energy reserves. Hence the stress response inhibits growth processes and further compromises the body’s survival by interfering with the generation of vital energy reserves. [p148]

“ The body’s second protection system is the immune system which protects us from threats originating under the skin such as those caused by bacteria and viruses… it can consume much of the body’s energy supply. [p149] The HPA system is a brilliant mechanism for handling acute stresses. However…not designed to be continuously activated.[p151] The HPA axis’ effect on the cellular community mirrors the effect of stress on a human population. [p153] [It shifts] the members of the community from a state of growth to a state of protection. [p154] …[S]tress hormones are so effective at curtailing immune system function that doctors provide them to recipients of transplants so that their immune systems wouldn’t reject the foreign tissues…. Activating the HPA axis also interferes with our ability to think clearly… Adrenal stress hormones constrict the blood vessels in the forebrain…[and] repress activity in the…prefrontal cortex…the center of conscious volitional activity… and reasoning. [p150]

“Inhibiting growth processes [which includes natural immunity] is also debilitating in that growth…is required to produce energy. Consequently, a sustained protection response inhibits the creation of life-sustaining energy. The longer you stay in protection, the more you compromise your growth…To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes.” [p147] Biology of Belief, by Bruce H. Lipton, PhD

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CytochromeP450 from Wikipedia: “Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) are a superfamily of enzymes containing heme as a cofactor that function as monooxygenases.^[1][2][3] In mammals, these proteins oxidize steroids, fatty acids, and xenobiotics, and are important for the clearance of various compounds, as well as for hormone synthesis and breakdown. In plants, these proteins are important for the biosynthesis of defensive compounds, fatty acids, and hormones.^[2]

CYP enzymes have been identified in all kingdoms of life: animals, plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and archaea, as well as in viruses.^[4] However, they are not omnipresent; for example, they have not been found in Escherichia coli.^[3][5] More than 50,000 distinct CYP proteins are known.^[6]

CYPs are, in general, the terminal oxidase enzymes in electron transfer chains, broadly categorized as P450-containing systems. The term “P450” is derived from the spectrophotometric peak at the wavelength of the absorption maximum of the enzyme (450 nm) when it is in the reduced state and complexed with carbon monoxide. Most CYPs require a protein partner to deliver one or more electrons to reduce the iron (and eventually molecular oxygen).”

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** “Porphyrias are a group of inherited or acquired metabolic disorders of heme biosynthesis, due to a specific decrease in the activity of one of the enzymes of the heme pathway. Clinical signs and symptoms of porphyrias are frequently associated with exposure to precipitating agents, including clinically approved drugs…  The cytochrome P-450 (CYP) isoenzymes are… heme proteins which are the terminal oxidases of the mixed-function oxidase system (1). The 1 to 3 families of CYP are responsible for 70% to 80% of all phase I–dependent metabolism of clinically used drugs (2)…  The clinical consequences of genetic polymorphisms [mutations] in drug metabolism depend on…the activity of the drug… as well as the extent to which the affected pathway contributes to the overall elimination of the drug…” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770015/

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Redox

“The uptake of an electron (as well as a positively charged hydrogen ion aka proton) by a receiving molecule is called reduction. Conversely, the donation of an electron (as well as a hydrogen ion) is called oxidation. In living cells, the effective proportion of reduced substances to oxidized substances is called the redox balance. The redox potential is measured in millivolts. A distinguishing feature of living cells is the dynamic maintenance of energy flows away from thermodynamic equilibrium. This is accomplished by constant electron transfer, which, at the same time, produces proton gradients to decrease or increase the electromotive force. The movement of these electrons and protons creates energy in the form of light emissions (photons) that are reabsorbed in the healthy cell. While normal cells emit less light, cancer cells [for example] are decoupled from this photon field and show an exponential increase in light emission (energy loss) with increasing cell density. This correlates with the observation that cancer cells have a diminished capacity for intercommunication. A fundamental principle of evolutionary biology states that the more complex an organism’s evolution, the more reduced it must be. In the reduced state, there are more electrons available for energy production. In order to insure the necessary predominance of the reduction status, any oxidation of a molecule or atom must be quickly reduced again. In living cells this takes place particularly by means of sulfur containing amino acids, sulfurous peptides with low molecular weights and other sulfurous molecules. Mounting evidence from recent research has confirmed [Otto] Warburg’s findings [about chronic oxygen deficiency in cancer] and has further shown that chronic deficits in the more efficient mitochondrial oxidative metabolism are factors in the development of many chronic diseases.”  –p57, AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire, by Nancy T. Banks, 2010

“The common factor linking the diverse stressors that were overpowering the immune and energy systems of…AIDS patients was that they are all strong oxidizing agents or had that effect at the cellular level. Oxidizing agents are substances that have a deficit of electrons and because of their reactivity are known as free radicals. Free radicals alter the redox status of the cellular milieu and…over time create tissue damage that results in disease. Such damage, if caught early, can be neutralized and reversed by…appropriate reducing agents, such as vitamins and other nutritional compounds…[antioxidants]…along with detoxification and…compensatory therapy.” –p77, AIDS, Opium, etc.

COVID: Going to the Dogs

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Pet dogs, pet cats, lions and tigers at the zoo—all testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. Wuhan reported that 15% of the housecats tested were positive for COVID-19 antibodies, but no case of illness was reported in Chinese kitty-cats. The first COVID-19 dog case in China, a 17-yr-old Pomeranian, was held in quarantine longer than its CoV-positive owner, and died 2 days after being released, at which time it was negative, never having shown any symptoms. The second COVID-positive dog in China, a pet German shepherd, showed no signs or symptoms and was still remanded to quarantine. The United States, however, is reporting illness; the first U.S. dog case is a pug named Winston who developed a cough –and he’s doing fine now. His owners are a COVID-positive family of three with other pets, and part of the medical community in North Carolina.

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Five tigers and three lions at the Bronx Zoo are all presumed to have contracted COVID-19 from a single human handler. But this is where the story gets interesting because zoo animals have been subject to long-term observation with scientific analyses –a situation reviewed in my current ‘go-to’ resource for electrosensitivity diseases—The Invisible Rainbow.  The startling awareness at the moment is that Arthur Firstenberg’s 2017 book is a virtual guide to the COVID pandemic.

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Hang on, because this is an intricate endeavor. I don’t want to bombard you with technicalities as I go through a COVID series of posts. The epidemiology and ‘underlying condition’ causes are essential to know and what it’s all about, including the social, cultural, unconstitutional and likewise. The genetic, biomedical, and biotechnology information about coronavirus and its sequelae correlates in full.  At the same time, on the technical front, I’m just a few steps ahead of my posts in this maze – a-maze-ing. Yeah. That said, Mr. Firstenberg, no doubt a principled 4-year medical student, vegetarian, and activist who dedicated his book to a beloved friend beset with porphyria, has filled a void left derelict by our public health policy professionals. I bought Firstenberg’s book in the first place to help me fill out the composited health effects in my research on influenza and polio, diseases of radiation exposure –he doesn’t at all deal with polio, nuclear industry, or radioactive materials and fallout. Rather sticking scrupulously to electrification and microwaves as we know them, The Invisible Rainbow drops you right in the memory hole.  A memory hole, a very old expression coined from the native Americans, is not where information goes to die of neglect, but where it goes to be found and cherished.

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In chapter 11, “Irritable Heart”, Arthur Firstenberg writes, “Whatever environmental factor was affecting human beings in America during the 1930s and 1940s was also affecting all the animals in the Philadelphia Zoo. The Laboratory of Comparative Pathology was a unique facility founded at the zoo in 1901. And from 1916 to 1964 [they] kept complete records of autopsies performed on over thirteen thousand animals that had died in the zoo. During this period, arteriosclerosis increased an astonishing ten-to-twenty-fold among all species of mammals and birds. In 1923, [Herbert] Fox had written that such lesions were ‘exceedingly rare,’ occurring in less than two percent of animals as a…finding at autopsy. The incidence rose rapidly during the 1930s, and by the 1950s arteriosclerosis was not only occurring in young animals, but was often the cause of their death… Coronary heart disease appeared even more suddenly. In fact. Before 1945 the disease did not exist at the zoo. And the first heart attacks ever recorded in zoo animals occurred ten years later, in 1955… [By] 1963, over 90 percent of all mammals and 72 percent of all birds that died in the zoo had coronary disease, while 24 percent of the mammals and 10 percent of the birds had had heart attacks. And the majority of heart attacks were occurring in young animals in the first half of their expected life spans… Diet had nothing to do with these changes… [D]iets were the same at all times between 1935 and 1964… [T]housands of miles away, researchers were finding arteriosclerosis in 22 percent of the animals in the London Zoo in 1960, and a similar number in the Zoo of Antwerp Belgium in 1962. The element that increased most spectacularly in the environment during the 1950s when coronary disease was exploding among humans and animals was radio frequency (RF) radiation.” –pp171-172, The Invisible Rainbow

“Trained as a biologist, Allan H. Frey became interested in microwave research in 1960 by following his curiosity… He left his job at General Electric and began doing full-time research into the biological effects of microwave radiation. In 1961, he published his first paper on ‘microwave hearing’ [which Frey himself could hear]… He spent the next two decades experimenting on animals…to clarify [RF] effects on the auditory system, the eyes, the brain, the nervous system, and the heart. He discovered the blood-brain barrier effect, an alarming damage to the protective shield that keeps bacteria, viruses, and toxic chemicals out of the brain –damage that occurs at levels of radiation that are much lower than what is emitted by cells phones today… The effects Frey demonstrated occur because the heart is an electrical organ and microwave pulses interfere with the heart’s pacemaker. But in addition to these direct effects, there is a more basic problem: microwave radiation, and electricity in general, starves the heart of oxygen because of effects at the cellular level.” –pp176-177, ibid. “The fundamental defect…is that although enough oxygen and nutrients reach the cells, the mitochondria –the powerhouse of the cells—cannot efficiently use that oxygen and those nutrients, and not enough energy is produced to satisfy the requirements of heart, brain, muscles, and organs. This effectively starves the entire body, including the heart, of oxygen, and can eventually damage the heart.” –p187, ibid.

–oxidative stress, a cause in AIDS we learn from Dr. Nancy Banks’ book AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire

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Because of homology across species and ‘receptors,’ we sink or swim, crawl, leap and fly together. One Medicine. One World. “One level of Health for all…” (NIH lobbyist Florence S. Mahoney)

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The Chapel Hill, North Carolina family, owners of Winston the pug, are enrolled in a special study called MESSI –for Molecular and Epidemiological Study of Suspected Infection –messy, got it?—a DoD-funded project headed by Dr. Christopher W. Woods. “Woods is a principal investigator [PI] in a $3.8 million DARPA project to help develop genetic test[s] for exposure to weapons of mass destruction.” https://precisionmedicine.duke.edu/MESSI-study

 “His research focuses on the development of novel diagnostic approaches to infectious disease and the potential for interspecies transmission of pathogens. His genomic approach to harnessing the host response for diagnosis of infectious diseases has been called a paradigm shift in the field. Dr. Woods is a partner in the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biological Threats, core PI of the Southeastern Research Center for Excellence on Emerging Infections and Biodefense, and a leader in the NIH-funded Vaccine and Therapeutics Evaluation Unit at Duke.” https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/woods-chris

If you are COVID positive, have a pet, and would like to enroll in a study, there are multiple “One Health” initiatives underway. University of Washington One Health Research asks not to include birds or reptiles, and if you have one, no pangolins.

*pangolin*

“Pangolin CoV and one type of bat CoV are likely to be able to use both human and other animal ACE2 to gain entry into the host cells. Moreover, the SARS-CoV-2 virus can bind to multiple animal ACE2s even if the furin cleavage site is deleted. Thus, many of these wild animals can be natural hosts or intermediate hosts for the novel coronavirus and its progenitor.” https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200420/ACE2-receptor-expression-by-SARS-CoV-2-across-different-animal-species.aspx

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COVID: Accelerating Electrosensitivity

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I don’t have a TV but I do listen to the radio –NPR precisely– for 2 or 3 hours in the day. It’s the only station I can reliably tune-in, and ever since Sandy Hook when I learned that NPR was the principal partner in that media event, I listen. It’s the EAS (Emergency Alert System) mouthpiece of The Agenda. Our national radio theater is obsessed with the ‘changing world’ scenario of COVID. Radio guest Richard N. Haass, consultant to Bush I, Bush II, and president of the CFR, told the audience that COVID is “accelerating  history” (globalization) and is “not a choice.” Indeed. The “Rockefeller Model” of bottom-up transition is to “make the peaks higher,” or in this case the spikes, as we slide ahead — by the head–  into the Internet of Things.

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Here’s a biology and health lesson from The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg. Everything below is quotation except [bracketts]:

“Porphyrins are light sensitive pigments that play pivotal roles in the economy of both plants and animals…  In plants a porphyrin bound to magnesium is the pigment called chlorophyll…responsible for photosynthesis. In animals an almost identical molecule bound to iron is the pigment called heme, the essential part of hemoglobin that makes blood red and enables it to carry oxygen… Heme is also the central component of…enzymes…in every cell of every plant, animal and bacterium, that transport electrons from nutrients to oxygen so that our cells can extract energy. And heme is the main component of the cytochrome P-450 enzymes in our liver that detoxify environmental chemicals for us by oxidizing them.

“In other words, porphyrins are the very special molecules that interface between oxygen and life. They are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and recycling of all the oxygen in our atmosphere… The high reactivity of these molecules, which makes them the transformers of energy and their affinity for heavy metals, also makes them toxic when they accumulate in excess in the body, as happens in the disease called porphyria… (p136)   The enzymes of the heme pathway are among the most sensitive elements of the body to environmental toxins. (p137).  [In] a world in which toxic chemicals are inescapable, the porphyrin pathway is to some degree always stressed, and only those with high enough enzyme levels tolerate the pollution.

…[In] the early 1990s…Dr. William E. Morton, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University…proposed that the controversial disease called multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) was in most cases identical with one or more forms of porphyria. And when he began testing his MCS patients he found that, indeed, 90 percent of them were deficient in one or more porphyrin enzymes… Morton also found that most people with electrical sensitivity had porphyrin enzyme deficiencies, and that electrical and chemical sensitivities appeared to be manifestations of the same disease. Porphyria, Morton showed, is not the extremely rare [and misdiagnosed] illness it is currently thought to be, but has to affect at least five to ten percent of the world’s population. (p138).

“Porphyrins are central to our story not only because of a disease named porphyria, which affects a few percent of the population [perhaps 40-75 million people] but because of the part porphyrins play in the modern epidemics of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes which affect half the world, and because their very existence is a reminder of the role of electricity in life itself… (p139-140)

“Piezoelectricity, a property of crystals that makes them useful in electronic products that transforms mechanical stress into electrical voltages and vice versa, has been found in cellulose, collagen, horn, bone, wool, wood, tendon, blood vessel walls, muscle, nerve, fibrin, DNA, and every type of protein examined. In other words –something most biologists have been denying for two centuries—electricity is essential to biology… It was Otto Lehmann, already in 1908, who noticing the close resemblance between the shapes of known liquid crystals and many biological structures, proposed that the very basis of life was the liquid crystalline state. Liquid crystals, like organisms, had the ability to grow..; to heal wounds; to consume other substances or other crystals; to be poisoned; to form membranes; spheres, rods filaments and helical structures; to divide; to ‘mate’;..to transform chemical energy into mechanical motion.

…”In 1959, Daniel Eley, at Nottingham University, proved that dried proteins, amino acids, and porphyrins are…semiconductors. In 1962, Roderock Clayton…at Oak Ridge [Nat’l Lab] found that photosynthetic tissues in living plants behave like semiconducters. In 1970 Alan Adler, at the New England Institute, showed that thin films of porphyrin do also. (p143-144).

…”Adding thin films of porphyrins to commercially available photovoltaic cells increases the voltage, current, and total power output. (p145). The properties that make porphyrins suitable in electronics are the same properties that make us alive… The secret lies in the highly pigments, fluorescent molecule called porphyrin. Strong pigments are always efficient energy absorbers, and if they are also fluorescent, they are also good energy transmitters… Porphyrins are more efficient energy transmitters than any other of life’s components.

“There is one more place these surprising molecules are found: in the nervous system, the organ where electrons flow. In fact, in mammals, the central nervous system is the only organ that shines with the red fluorescent glow of porphyrins…under ultraviolet light. These porphyrins…occur, however, …not in the neurons themselves, the cells that carry messages from our five senses to our brains, but in the myelin sheaths that envelop them—the sheaths whose…breakdown causes one of most common and least understood neurological diseases of our time: multiple sclerosis. It was orthopedic surgeon Robert O. Becker [‘The Body Electric’] who, in the 1970s, discovered that myelin sheaths are really the electrical transmission lines.

“In a state of health the myelin sheaths contain primarily two types of porphyrins…complexed with zinc. The exact composition is crucial. When environmental chemicals poison the porphyrin pathway, excess porphyrins bound to heavy metals, buildup in the nervous system as in the rest of the body [where illness like polio (acute flaccid paralysis) or skin lesions occur]. This disrupts the myelin sheaths and changes their conductivity which, in turn, alters the excitability of the nerves they surround. The entire nervous system becomes hyperreactive to stimuli of all kinds, including electromagnetic fields.

“In the nineteenth century, anatomists…supposed that [myelin] must have only a…’supportive’ role, protecting the ‘real’ nerves… They named them glial cells after the Greek word for ‘glue’ [as in gliadin and gluten so-named]… From then on, glial cells were thought to be little more than packing material. Most biologists ignored the [finding] by German physicist Rudolph Virchow in 1854, that myelin is a liquid crystal.

…”However…Becker found quite another function for the myelin-containing cells and took another step toward restoring electricity to its proper role in the function of living things. (p146-147) Becker began to pursue the ideas of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, thinking that if proteins were semiconductors, maybe bones were too, and maybe electron flow was the secret to the healing of fractures… (p148)

“Once having established that the signals that trigger regeneration are electrical and not chemical in nature, these scientists were in for another surprise. For the DC potentials of the body…[that] are necessary…for regeneration…growth, healing, pain perception and even consciousness, seemed to be generated not in the ‘real’ nerves but in the myelin-containing cells that surround them—the cells that also contain porphyrins. (p151)  …The cells that biologists had considered merely insulation turned out to be the real wires. (p152).

“Everyone knows that the brain consumes more oxygen than any other organ…  [An] Italian team confirmed in 2009…that as much as ninety percent of that oxygen is consumed…by the myelin sheaths… (p153)

“In France, liver cancer has been found to be 36 times as frequent in people carrying a gene for porphyria as in the general population. In Sweden and Denmark the rate was 39 times as high, and the lung cancer rate triple the general rate. Chest pain, heart failure, high blood pressure, and EKGs suggestive of oxygen starvation are well-known in porphyria. (p156) …Insulin levels are usually abnormal… The protean manifestations of this disease, capable of affecting almost any organ, are widely blamed on…a deficiency of heme. Indeed, no porphyrin expert has offered a better explanation.” (p157), The Invisible Rainbow, by Arthur Firstenberg, 2017.

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“Under natural conditions, as they existed before 1889, intense VLF activity, leading to electron rain and the shifting of the Schumann resonances, occurred only during geomagnetic storms. Today, the magnetic storm never ends.” –A.F.

 

COVID: Sunspots and Corona Holes

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If  global pandemic ‘drills’ are staged for safest timing, there is/was no better time than the present.  Embracing the highly credible evidence of Arthur Firstenberg who claims “Influenza is an electrical disease” and proceeds to prove it in his book, The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg gives us several hundred years of review on recorded  influenza pandemics. Natural pandemics, he points out, including illnesses other than flu, correlate to active sun cycles in times of solar maximum. We are at this moment in a solar minimum on par with an historic Maunder Minimum that ended nearly 300 years ago.

NASA and NOAA scientists “concurred that solar minimum between [the 11-year] Cycles 24 and 25 will occur in April 2020 (+/- 6 months)” https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/solar-cycle-25-forecast-update

The peak of cycle 25 is predicted to arrive in 2024 and continue for 2 years—right on time—but the activity level assessed by the number of sunspots will be less than average, in fact less than half of the 2001 sunspot peak of 250 during cycle 23. Overall, scientists appear to be generalizing a long period of global cooling punctuated by electromagnetic weather disturbances from flares and solar winds emanating from “corona holes.”  Other predictions suggest unstable weather from flares and holes will play havoc with mass telecommunication systems, disrupting Smart grids, navigation, near-earth orbital equipment, etc., but also enthuse about better space travel in our solar system.

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“A periodic solar event called a “grand minimum” could overtake the sun perhaps as soon as 2020 and lasting through 2070, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth — all bringing a cooler period to the planet that may span 50 years.The last grand-minimum event — a disruption of the sun’s 11-year cycle of variable sunspot activity — happened in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold that the period was called the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.” https://www.livescience.com/61716-sun-cooling-global-warming.html

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Taking a cue from The Invisible Rainbow and the solar cycle, it seems as if all recent (2005-2009) ‘plandemics’ were set in timeframes of  general safety when natural pandemics would not occur. The geography and timing of modern influenza and polio, so-called contagions for which we are vaccinated, are an essential match for high-energy technology overload– and COVID, too, is lining up with radiation and chemical pollution factors.

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“In the early 1970s, atmospheric physicists finally woke up to the fact that the earth’s magnetic field was highly disturbed… It had been discovered accidentally in 1958 that VLF [very low frequency] transmissions originating on earth interact with particles in the magnetosphere, stimulating them to emit new VLF waves, which can then be received at the opposite end of the earth. The purpose of the [HAARP] project was to do this deliberately –to inject sufficient quantities of very low frequency energy into the magnetosphere so that it would not only trigger new waves, but that these triggered waves might in turn cause electrons to rain out of the earth’s radiation belts into the atmosphere, altering the properties of the ionosphere for military purposes…  The data…were surprising. First, the signal[s]…were being amplified more than a thousandfold in the magnetosphere before returning to earth… The second surprise was… frequencies that originated [from the broadcast signal returned in] multiples of 60 Hz. The…signal had been altered on its journey through outer space to bear the imprint of the electric power grid…   It appears that harmonics from all of the world’s power grids leak continuously into the magnetosphere, where they are greatly amplified as they bounce back and forth between the northern and southern hemisphere.” –p128, The Invisible Rainbow.

“We live today with a number of devastating diseases that do not belong here… ‘Anxiety disorder’ [neurasthenia], afflicting one-sixth of humanity, did not exist before the 1860s, when telegraph wires first encircled the earth. No hint of it appears in the medical literature before 1866. Influenza, in its present form, was invented in 1889, along with alternating current…  Prior to the 1860s, diabetes was so rare that few doctors saw more than one or two cases during their lifetime… Heart disease…was an illness of infants and old people… Cancer was also exceedingly rare… These are the diseases of civilization that we have also inflicted on our animal and plant neighbors, diseases that we live with because of a refusal to recognize the force that we have harnessed for what it is… [causing] distortions of the invisible rainbow that runs through our veins and makes us alive. It is time that we remember.” –p2, The Invisible Rainbow, by Arthur Firstenberg, 2017