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By Kyle Grimshaw-Jones N.D., B.App.Sc.(TCM), Dip.App.Sc.(NAT) Boost your immune system and breathe easy naturally Would you like your body to breathe as naturally as if you were standing near a cascading waterfall, in a pine forest, or at the beach? Would you like to know that you were boosting your immune system with every breath you take? Decades of scientific research Have shown a way that we can boost our immunity by changing the quality of the air we breathe to be electrically charged the way that nature intended it to be, with small negative air ions of oxygen A Fortunate Meeting As a Naturopathic Physician and Health Educator, I have searched for years to find how we can comprehend, and copy, nature. With this in mind, and as a born sceptic, I met Joshua Shaw, the Australian inventor of the Elanra Therapeutic Ioniser. I was feeling terrible, walking through a stuffy, crowded health expo, under fluorescent lights, when I suddenly felt a great relaxation in my breathing, and my whole body relaxed. I couldn't understand where this sense of relief came from. On looking around, I noticed I was standing outside the Bionic Products stall that was selling the ELANRA Therapeutic Ioniser. Inside the stall was a friendly, approachable man who I met as Joshua Shaw, the inventor of these magic machines, and founder of Bionic Products. I was very sceptical, and wanted to know everything about them, but I couldn't ignore the fact that I had felt my breathing and my whole body relax before I even noticed the ionisers. During our conversation, Joshua mentioned his "30 years of research from universities all over the world" so I naturally asked if I could read this material. I thought by doing this I was sure to show him up as a phoney or a fake who got lucky. A Sceptic Reformed He invited me to his of office where I spent many hours reading through volumes of research, that day and on several return visits. I think conservatively I only managed to read through about one twentieth of the research he showed me - and that was only the research I selected! Sometime during my first visit, Joshua pulled out the recent section of the testimonial file. He showed me letter after letter he had received in the mail thanking him for the benefits people had received from his ioniser. Some reported benefits include: recovery from infection; improved sleep; cleared blocked sinuses; increased energy; better breathing; increased lung capacity; improved mood; decreased or complete disappearance of allergies; greatly reduced length of migraine headache (one day instead of 3 or 4); increased relaxation; decreased stress; pain records! relief (including burns and some chronic pains nothing else had helped); disappeared anxiety; and improved healing of burns. Many of these benefits were reported by people where drugs had failed. There are definite benefits from following nature's laws! Joshua was very helpful, explaining to me which studies were legitimate; what types of ionisers were used; why a particular study was invalid; why a particular type of testing protocol was necessary to get the truth. He also explained why studies didn't always show the same results and how negative ions were shown to boost the immune system. I was so impressed by his exhaustive knowledge, understanding, and client testimonials, that I bought an Elanra ioniser. Now my sceptical mind was satisfied. In fact, I couldn't believe that there was so little written about negative ions that was really available to the public. We never really heard much about it, but so much information is in the university. All Ions Are Not Necessarily "Good" Ions I learned many things from Joshua and the research. For example, there are many ineffective negative ionisers on the market producing large negative ions our bodies can't absorb. They only help remove dust from the air, and are virtually useless at supplying the body with the small negatively charged air ions of oxygen that nature intended. Joshua realised that none of the other negative ionisers available on the market were good enough. He wanted to copy nature, so he made a machine that could. This explains why many past users of other negative ionisers have been disappointed. Negative ion concentration is measured per cubic centimetre of air. This ranges from almost zero in an air-conditioned city office to 50,000 per c.c. near a large waterfall. Over open land the normal count is between 1,000 and 2,000 per cc. The ELANRA can mimic this natural ideal. 144 Different Settings Joshua explained that people in different circumstances, with different conditions, require different negative ion concentrations, so he designed his ioniser to be adjustable. It has been improved and fine-tuned over the years, and now boasts 144 different settings, and 9 different frequencies including the magical "Schumann Resonance", the Earth's brainwave. Its advanced microprocessor technology is completely YEAR 2000 COMPLIANT, so you won't have to worry about the "Millenium Bug". Safe &, Effective Joshua Shaw"s ELANRA is the product of three decades of painstaking research conducted in universities and laboratories both here and abroad. He discovered the secret of successful ionization and poured thousands of dollars into the development of his safe, effective machine. The ELANRA is covered by six worldwide patents, and as it has been deemed by the government to be a medical device, it is exempt from sales tax. Many Australian health funds will refund part of the cost. The ELANRA is completely silent while running, and is small enough to sit on your work desk or bedside table. This means you can inhale the small negative ions of oxygen, which can then enter your bloodstream and rebalance your body. I bought one because I wanted to comprehend and copy nature. I had already pretty much healed my health problems, but I wanted the breathe-easy feeling that the ioniser gave me that day at the crowded health expo". I knew now, from all I had read and learned, that nature made air a certain way. And I knew that this ELANRA Therapeutic Ioniser returned our polluted air back to the form intended by nature. I knew that these negative ions would boost my immune system, and I had read study after study to prove it. I understood that negative ions: 1) Boost the immune
system Basically increased energy, increased immunity, and decreased stress! Perfect, I'll have some please! Boosting Immunoglobulin How exactly do negative ions "boost immunity" and do all these other things? Scientists really aren't sure of all the "how's" (e.g. how a bumble-bee can fly, for that matter!). However, research from universities all over the world, including Australia's La Trobe University, clearly showed that small negative air ions of oxygen, when breathed in, increase the body's production of Immunoglobulin A (IgA). The study from LaTrobe states that "such a finding is suggestive of an enhancement of the immune response as a result of negative ionisation...IgA guards against viral and bacterial attachment and colonization of mucous membrane." In Australian English that means it helps stop bugs invading your lungs! Research from Australia's National University (ANU), the Pavlov Institute in Russia, and St Bartholomew's Hospital in London showed that improved lung capacity and relief from asthma symptoms are achieved quite rapidly by exposure to small negative air ions. Serotonin the "Mood" Hormone More than 100 outpatients at a mental health clinic were exposed to negative ionisation for just 40 minutes per day, in a 1985 European research project. After only a few sessions, normal sleep returned in 80% of insomnia patients; 75% of headache patients had their pain disappear; over 50% of depressive patients reported a return to normal; and 100% of anxiety sufferers said their symptoms had disappeared. Serotonin is an important brain chemical related to mood and stress. Many antidepressant drugs, including Prozac, alter brain metabolism of Serotonin So do negative ions, without the side-effects. So what's wrong with the air that we're already breathing? Well it's not really a matter of right and wrong, but a matter of whether you believe that we should breathe the air nature intended, or not. Basically, air conditioning, crowds, air pollution (e.g. vehicle exhausts) and dust largely use up the biologically available negative ions in the air, leaving mainly positive ions. Positive ions are known to have an unpleasant effect on many people, producing headaches, anxiety, depression and breathing difficulties, as many hot dry winds that occur around the world are known to do. So too many positive ions and no negative ions means that our stress levels go up, and our immunity goes down. The air's negative ions basically get used up by the first half hour of early morning traffic! The Effects of Pollution It is understandable that our focus is on specific health benefits. We humans often want to know what we can get out of something. We often want scientific evidence to feel reassured that something is legitimate. (For the really hard-to crack science nuts, the reference list that will be in the back of the forthcoming book on negative ions will be handy.) But what is the bigger picture here? The bigger picture is that we, in our high consumption throwaway society, have been polluting the planet. We have polluted our own life-breath, and we've had to breathe it back in. This has resulted in all sorts of physical, emotional, and mental ailments, including immune deficiency. Should we be worrying about all the different disease pattern and symptom names, or should we simply give our bodies their basic biological requirements, among which is good quality air? Gradually we need to clean up the planet, and respect our Mother, Nature. She made the rules our bodies run on. If you live on the earth, these rules are about as flexible as gravity. Anyone care to jump off a cliff? Anyone care to breathe unnatural air? Almost every day, on the television news, and the print media, we hear about the importance of the immune system to our health. We usually also hear that many people are getting sick because their immune system is run-down, or not functioning. We're told about so many negative influences that ruin our immune systems everyday: chlorinated fluoridated water, lack of exercise, poor diet, junk food, artificial sweeteners, pollution, stress, positive ions... Can we really afford not to give our immune systems every chance we can of functioning well? It is time for us all, as a race, to learn respect for nature's values. It is time to comprehend and copy nature. Nature made air a certain way. We changed it and made it damage our immune systems. We can change it back before we have to breathe it in again, and boost our immune systems. Without good air we die, quickly or slowly, depending on how bad it is. The choice is ours. |