I have personally been working on multiple different projects in the last few months and that is for financial reasons. This project is never supposed to be very profitable. However, those other projects are in the field of medicine, specifically bioelectrical medicine which most people have probably never looked into before.

In my research for these other projects, I would again come across the research of Dr. Robert O. Becker, whose book “The Body Electric” was a very big eye opener for me. I managed to get a PDF of his book and printed it out at the local copier place close to where I live. I wanted to look at what other people have been able to propose and create who referenced Robert’s Work.

(Note: Back in the 1980s-1990s there were actually TWO different people with similar names doing this type of biomedical research on the therapeutic effects of fringe sciences. There is Robert (Bob) C. Beck Sc. D. ,the physicist who created the Beck Protocol promoting injecting colloidal silver, drinking ozone water, and using magnetic pulsers (like the Soma Pulser) and Robert O. Becker M.D., who is a Medical doctor or surgeon who did his research in almost the exact same area, but focused on the effect of electricity on bone and limb regeneration. Both of the researchers did researchers worked on the effects of iontophoresis.)

Publications by the Physicist Bob Beck –

1. Alternating current supplied electrically conductive method and system for treatment of blood and/or other body fluids and/or synthetic fluids with electric forces – Patent #: US 5188738 – Authors: Steven Kaali, Peter M. Schwolsky

Publications by the Medical Doctor Robert Becker (source) –

1. US Patent # 5,814,094 – Iontopheretic System for Stimulation of Tissue Healing and Regeneration
2. Robert O. Becker – The Discovery of Silver
3. R. O. Becker, et al., “Experience With Low-Current Silver Electrode Treatment of Nonunion,” in Electrical Prop. Bone & Cartilage (ed. C. T. Brighton, et al.), Grune & Stratton (1979), USA.
4. R. O. Becker, et al., “Clinical Exp. With Low Intensity Direct Current Stimulation of Bone Growth,” Clin. Orthop. & Rel. Res., vol. 124, pp. 75-83 (1977) . USA.
5. Silver Helps Regrow Tissues in Hundreds of Patients – Destroyed Cells Regenerate With Silver-Based Procedure

After going through the Google Patents database, and doing all the research, I found what I think is another breakthrough, which is a similar type of technology. This is known as Low Level Laser Therapy. Low Level Laser therapy is believed by its proponents to have benefits benefits (at least temporarily) against the symptoms of arthritis, osteoarthritis, and tendinopathy, and lower back pain.

Note: The therapy is extremely controversial, with quite a few medical professionals who discredit the efficacy of the idea.

This post is just an extension on the post Tyler wrote a while back where he referenced the study Effects of laser acupuncture on longitudinal bone growth in adolescent rats.. He managed to find a PubMed article showing that Laser Acupuncture has an effect on the longitudinal growth rate of long bones in lab rats. That is good news.

Now I have found a few studies which correlate the application of Low Level Lasers to increased cartilage generation in the epiphyseal growth plates as well as decreased degeneration of

I also like to refer to the study Effect of GaAlAs laser irradiation on the epiphyseal cartilage of rats. This study seems to sort of validate the idea that laser irradiation on the developing bones do seem to have some type of positive, stimulating effect.

• Low-level laser on femoral growth plate in rats.
• The effect of low level laser on condylar growth during mandibular advancement in rabbits.
• The effect of 904 nm low level laser on condylar growth in rats.

We do know that there are anti-degenerative properties for Articular Cartilage from studies like “The effect of low-level laser to apoptosis of chondrocyte and caspases expression, including caspase-8 and caspase-3 in rabbit surgery-induced model of knee osteoarthritis.” and “The effect of different treatment time of millimeter wave on chondrocyte apoptosis, caspase-3, caspase-8, and MMP-13 expression in rabbit surgically induced model of knee osteoarthritis.”

However this conclusion and theory on using LLLT to increase bone longitudinal growth seems to be completely negated by the study The effects of low-level laser therapy, 670 nm, on epiphyseal growth in rats.

At this point, the conclusion I can make is that if you manage to emit a specific type of electromagnetic pulse of a certain type of frequency, impulse time, and intensity, there seems to be a lot of evidence in showing that the growth of growth plates can be stimulated, and the degeneration of articular cartilages can be decreased. It can be from a variety of electrical and photo stimuli, including lasers.