Ive read that a university in Iowa has had success with emf frequencies in regards to controlling diabetes. Was interested to know if the same could be be accomplished using Pemf. What say ye?
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More detailed answer:
Diabetes is at least two entirely different diseases that are caused by entirely different biological mechanisms, therefore, what may work for one may not work for the other.
PEMF can be any one of about 1,000,000,000,000,000 different things:
So, is it possible that one of the quadrillion possible forms of PEMF might have clinical benefits for one of the (at least) two different kinds of diabetes?
I don’t know, maybe. I hope so. Currently this is unknown.
Our lack of knowledge is not from a lack of trying. In about 2017-2018 I collaborated with a university laboratory to test the effects on type 1 diabetes (T1D, used to be called “juvenile diabetes”) in an animal model (mice, chemically-induced T1D, so it was not really T1D, and it was not really very similar to human T1D, but university researchers need something they can work on to justify their paychecks). We won some NIH research funding, I designed and built the PEMF systems specifically for this experiment, and the actual data was collected for several trials over a period of about 2 years.
And the results were:
unclear. some times it worked, some times it did not.
The university lab I was working with was successfully able to spend a lot of your taxpayer money though, so it’s not exactly like the did nothing. But the experiment was not run carefully enough to be able to get consistent, repeatable results. But this too is typical of academic research:
If you want to know my thoughts on published results from other laboratories, I would suggest to you that you not believe anything from any academic research paper until the results have been replicated independently several times, by research groups unrelated to the group that published the original findings or other research groups that are independently replicating their results. Replications do not need to be “exact”, but they need to be careful, should probably even be an improvement over prior experiments using refined and improved methods, and of course they need to point towards substantially similar conclusions.
My thoughts on the matter:
I think it is possible that some types of PEMF may have some level of a beneficial clinical effect on some forms of diabetes during or prior to some stages of the disease progression. But sadly this remains unknown.