What are Free Radicals and what do they have to do with Magnetism?

 

 The expression ‘Free Radical’ is being used frequently in health circles today. But what really are Free Radicals, what do they do to us and how is magnetism connected with these Free Radicals?

Simply said Free Radicals are classed as atoms having unpaired electrons. Since Free Radicals are so important for health and disease processes you will find many references to these ‘atomic fragments’ in previous articles.

Electrons always want to be in pairs. That is true especially for electrons in the outer orbit. When an atom looses one electron in that outer orbit, for example, it becomes a Free Radical, trying desperately to steal an electron from somewhere in order to pair its single electron.

When it takes away an electron from a molecular compound, for example, then that molecule (molecules are made up of a number of atoms) can fall apart creating more ‘unhappy’, unbalanced atoms (called Free Radicals) in the process. In this way a chain reaction can occur.

When atoms loose electrons they do not only change their electric properties (become electrically charged), but they also can change their magnetic properties.

Here is an abstract from an article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

 The magnetic properties of free radicals provide a powerful tool for their detection and study. Molecules with even numbers of paired electrons are diamagnetic; i.e., they are slightly repelled by a magnet. Free radicals, however, are paramagnetic (attracted by a magnet) because of the spin of the odd electron…..

http://original.britannica.com/eb/article-6040/radical

 This now leads to the following question: ‘in how far can this explain the reported health benefits of magnets?

Very similar to the influence of light (vibrations) on the behaviour of electrons and hence atoms (the frequencies of light can ‘pump’ up an electron and ‘transport’ it to a more energetic orbit), the influence of magnets on atoms and their electrons (and hence their ‘behaviour’) should be observable as well.

 Since electrons have a magnetic orientation (spin up = north and spin down  = south) it stands to reason that this orientation may be influenced or even changed trough a magnet. It is interesting to note that in electron pairs one electron is always spin up and the other spin down. Hence when one of the electrons is ‘lost’ there will be an imbalance in magnetism AND electrical charge (positive electric charge).

 As humans beings we really know very little. YES, we claim that we are very clever but when it comes to the crunch we have to admit that our knowledge is extremely limited and fragmented. It has been the idea of some people for a very long time that all energy which creates matter (E=mc²) is flowing in a kind of vortical or spiral form. We can see that ‘flow form’ in everything from milky ways or galaxies to spiral forms in rivers, storms, DNA and many other things.

Magnets have very strong spiral or vortical fields. These fields can be superimposed on the vortical field of an electron. This action may be similar (in a way) to the action of a ‘chelation agent’ in that it changes the electromagnetic behaviour of an atom. For example, we can use either EDTA or a magnet to prevent the build up of calcium carbonate in a water pipe. In a similar way EDTA and/or a magnet can prevent the build up of ‘plaque’ in our arteries. Calcium, of course, is a metal and both EDTA and magnets can change the ‘electric charge’ of the calcium atom or any other metal atom as such.

If a metal does not have an electric charge it does not get ‘stuck’ in tissues either. Such a metal will not build up to ‘toxic’ levels and since it is not a ‘free radical’ (remember they are always electrically or magnetically unbalanced) will not create avalanches of free radicals either. That in turn means a healthier and longer life!

 Here are two articles which you may find interesting:

 Cancer and Treatment Program Using Powerful Magnet Field Therapy http://www.worldofmagnets.co.uk/articles/Magnets%20and%20Cancer.htm

 Control of chemical Reactions with Magnetic Fields

http://www.uottawa.ca/publications/interscientia/inter.1/magnetic.html

Hope you all are happy and well.

Hans       14.09.2008