PEMF stands for pulsed electromagnetic field. The term covers a wide range of devices that use electromagnetic fields, and it has been studied in research settings for decades.

The Energetic Fitness System is true analog and conduction-based, and that difference is what this page is about.

People have been curious about magnetism and the body since antiquity, and observations linking electricity and bone date back to 1841.

The most promising early work was analog. Nikola Tesla built the first version of this technology, his Human Energy Machine, in 1897. Read the story → In the early 1930s, Georges Lakhovsky developed the Multiple Wave Oscillator, and accounts and photographs show Tesla working with him to refine it.

Serious scientific study of PEMF began in the mid-1950s. In the 1960s, Antoine Prioré built an entirely analog system whose frequency patterns were continually updated as the person’s own field responded.

In 1979 the U.S. FDA cleared the first non-invasive PEMF devices for a specific orthopedic use, non-union bone fractures, and in 2004 a PEMF system was cleared as an adjunct to cervical spine fusion.

Many PEMF manufacturers cite Prioré today, but few mention that his system was analog in every respect. In 2001, Tom Bearden, Ph.D. set out to recreate it with modern, digital equipment; a chronic illness cut his work short before he could complete that vision. Had the analog nature of Prioré’s system come into focus for him sooner, perhaps he would have reached his goal.

This is the history of PEMF devices in general. The Energetic Fitness System is a general wellness device and is not one of the FDA-cleared devices mentioned above.

The body is made of atoms, and each atom carries a very specific set of frequencies that depends on the state it is in. Neutral hydrogen, for example, precesses at 1,420.40575 MHz, the well-known “hydrogen line.” At its core an atom is energy, and its frequencies are precise out to at least five decimal places, such as 23.18735 Hz.

Frequency is measured in hertz: the number of complete waves, peak to peak, in one second. Amplitude is the height of the wave. Think of a stereo: turning up the volume raises the amplitude, but the frequencies stay the same.

When atoms combine into a molecule, their frequencies combine. When molecules form the parts of a cell, they combine again into a resonance of frequencies. Put all the parts of a single cell together and the result is not one tidy frequency like 32.4 Hz, but a resonance spectrum of complex sinusoidal waves, precise to five decimal places.

Chemistry usually describes molecules in terms of bonds and electrical charge. But the First Law of Thermodynamics holds that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, so those frequencies do not simply disappear when atoms bind together. The harmonic resonance of a cell, and of the body as a whole, is analog.

Yes. Most devices sold as PEMF today use pre-set programs from a computer frequency generator, the same programs for everyone, and the body does respond to outside signals like these. But there is a world of difference in precision.

Digital PEMF programs are typically set to two decimal places, such as 7.83 Hz or 32.40 Hz. The body’s natural frequencies are far finer: precise to five or more decimal places, and they must be calculated mathematically to be correct at the atomic level.

And the body never emits just one frequency. What we emit are harmonics: rich, layered combinations of frequencies, changing moment to moment. No other technology available today can calculate and recreate the body’s harmonics at that level of sophistication, or match the robustness of a true analog signal that speaks to the body in its own language.

We believe the body already does this itself. It is the most powerful analog computer on Earth. That is why Energetic Fitness Systems has stayed true analog for more than 25 years: rather than imposing a program, the EFS amplifies what your body is already producing.

Read “The Most Powerful Analog Computer on Earth” →

The Energetic Fitness System is conduction-based and true analog. You hold the PCS bulb and rest your bare feet on the glass charging plates, and your body completes the circuit.

Its harmonic patterns are not programmed or generated by a computer. They come from you, which makes them unique to each person and responsive moment to moment. The body is the source.

See how the circuit works →

Magnetic fields normally weaken quickly with distance, following the inverse-square law. In early measurements around EFS users, readings instead held steady out to a distance and then dropped off sharply.

In the first indoor test, the measured field reached the walls of the lab within minutes, so the testing was moved outdoors. These are the natural fields all living things have; what was observed was their expansion.

In 2005, the Heath Study measured an average field expansion of 840% across nine subjects. See the research →

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