Humanity has been enraptured by electricity for millennia.
The ancient Greeks used electric rays, a type of fish, to treat gout and numb the pain of childbirth and operations.
Equally intrigued, ancient Egyptians stood on electric rays to control pain.
Walt Whitman wrote “I Sing the Body Electric” in 1855.
In 1899, Tesla found that the earth was “literally alive with electrical vibrations."
“If you want to find the secrets of the Universe,” he said, “think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
Now, bioelectronic medicine is treating disease using electricity.
Bioelectronic medicine represents a convergence of molecular medicine, neuroscience, and bioengineering.
Its central idea is that injury and illness can be treated by carefully targeting the nervous system using devices.
Rather than suppressing the immune system with biologics and immunosuppressants, instead, by modulating
the brain’s inflammatory signals traveling through the nervous system to the spleen and other organs,
allowing the body to achieve homeostasis when inflammation goes into overdrive.
And that is what happened to me.
I am no longer working in the field,
but to do so for the many years I did
was the privilege and honor of a lifetime.
I spent a long time telling my story,
but now it’s time for me to go live it.
Please note that I am not available
to personally assist patients.
This website will remain available with the hope that it serves
as a valuable resource for those seeking life
on the other side of disease.
From time to time, you may see me write
about this topic on my Substack or elsewhere.
This should not be confused with a re-entry
into the field, but simply understood as someone who has something to add to the conversation.
If you are exploring options
to access this therapy, please contact
the Feinstein Institutes or SetPoint Medical.
The Feinstein Institutes can be reached by calling
516-562-3467.
To contact SetPoint Medical, please visit
SetPointMedical.com/contact.
For now, I leave you with a ‘watered-down’ version of my ‘Rules of the River.’
As the field continues to revolutionize healthcare, there will be companies
coming out of the woodwork claiming to have developed bioelectronic medicine devices.
Has the device been FDA approved following rigorous clinical trials?
And if so, has the device’s mechanism of action been fully elucidated by independent labs, and validated via peer review?
Attaching the term ‘bioelectronic medicine’ to a device
doesn’t make it bioelectronic medicine any more
than standing in a garage makes you a car.
The mechanism of action for the devices clinically tried by the pioneers at SetPoint Medical has been proved and elucidated
by labs all over the world, from its scientific home at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research,
all the way to the home of the Nobel Prize at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Over time, more devices will emerge that meet the same rigorous standards, and technology will continue to improve.
In the meantime, there will be companies who skip those metrics and will claim that
health is right on the other side of Amazon Prime, but alas, it is not.
On the flip side of the equation, this field is going to transform how medicine is practiced.
Historically, any time the accepted dogma has been disproven,
it is first vehemently denied by those with a stake in the status quo.
However, real progress can't be deterred by the Peanut Gallery.
Bioelectronic medicine is now in the homestretch for FDA approval for RA, and it is my hope that both
the FDA and insurance companies will allow access to other patients with inflammatory diseases,
just as they do with biologics and immunosuppressants.
I encourage you to raise awareness about the field and its proven scientific mechanisms, and call on your doctors,
fellow patients, and legislators to expand access to all patients with inflammatory diseases.
FEEL FREE TO UTILIZE MY PATIENT MANIFESTO AS A ROAD MAP FOR ADVOCACY:
PART FOUR: CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
PART FIVE: METAL CONCERTS FOR MIGRAINES
PART SIX: SHIRKY DOWN ECONOMICS
PART SEVEN: THE BODY ELECTRIC ACT
By ‘many dints of victories’ –
we will, indeed, see the field of bioelectronic medicine through to the other side:
that glorious place where it is practiced every day in clinics and hospitals all over the world,
no longer a revolution to be fought for, but a fact of life to be lived among.
Wishing you an abundance of health and the immense joy and freedom that comes
from having access to safer, more effective treatment options.
It’s a funny thing to experience firsthand that transformation from disabled to thriving, and it may come with side effects --
such as an overwhelming level of excitement over finally being able to chase down your dreams,
and even discovering new ones, and wanting to do it all but not knowing where to start.
...and if I may share a little nudge to help you along, speaking from experience...
Whatever your dream is, you don’t have to know how to do it or where it’s going to just get started doing it.
And I can’t wait to see what you do.
As for me, I'll be out there somewhere, squeezing
every last drop out of what Mary Oliver
called 'my one wild and precious life.'
Maybe I'll bump into you out there one day.