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Ta k e 5 a n d t r y A B M P F i v e - M i n u t e M u s c l e s a t w w w. a b m p . c o m / f i v e - m i n u t e - m u s c l e s . 61 For more information about Eastern Vibration and Christine Clinton Cancer Care, as well as their sound healing programs, visit www.easternvibration.com and www.christineclinton.com. "but most people who understand health will recognize the value of our treatments once they experience them firsthand." For example, cancer centers are beginning to utilize sound as a vital part of the healing process and are showing astounding results; mainstream medical schools, like Duke University and the University of North Carolina, have added programs that link body, mind, and spirit to cancer treatment; and neurologist David Simon found that sound makes chemical changes in the body that create endorphins, which act as internal painkillers/healing agents. 4 Other studies and advancements in sound healing for cancer include: Grimal and Maman In 1981, biologist Helene Grimal partnered with composer Fabien Maman to study the relationship of sound waves to living cells. With a camera mounted on a microscope, the researchers observed uterine cancer cells exposed to different acoustic instruments (guitar, gong, xylophone) and the human voice. Using the nine note Ionian Scale (C-D-E-F-G- A-B-C-D), they observed that cancer cells lost structural integrity when exposed to sound until they exploded at the 14-minute mark. Far more dramatic was finding that the sound of a human voice destroyed cancer cells at the 9-minute mark. 5 Dr. Mitchell Gaynor Mitchell Gaynor, MD, founder of Gaynor Integrative Oncology, board certified medical oncologist, former director of medical oncology at the Weill Cornell Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, and author of The Healing Power of Sound (Shambhala, 2002), began using sound as a complementary therapy for cancer patients in 1991 with "remarkable results." 6 According to Gaynor, "After either chanting or listening to certain forms of music, immunoglobulin—an index of your immune system—goes up. There's no part of our body not affected." Even our heart rate and blood pressure are lowered with certain forms of music, according to Gaynor. "It affects not only our soul and our spirit," Gaynor says, "but it affects us on literally a cellular and subcellular level." Anthony Holland Anthony Holland, associate professor and director of music at Skidmore College in New York, uses sound frequency to attack cancer cells. According to Holland, destroying cancer cells using sound vibration is based on the same principle that a piece of glass shatters when it's exposed to a noise at the right pitch. Using this principle, Holland and his team wondered if they could recreate the same effect in a living cell. During their 15-month study, the team discovered a particular combination of two related frequencies that could completely shatter cells. The frequencies consisted of one high and one low. The high frequency had to be 11 times higher than the low, which in music is known as the 11th harmonic. At this frequency, cells start shattering like crystal glass. Using this sound therapy method, they found that pancreatic cancer cells shattered at frequencies of 100,000–300,000 hertz. They then tested the frequencies on leukemia cells and were able to shatter them before they could even divide. Not only were cancer cells killed in the process, but cancer cell growth rates slowed by over 65 percent. 7 They also had success in attacking ovarian cancer cells. Notes 1. Stephanie Rosenbloom, "What's the Buzz? Sound Therapy," New York Times, November 24, 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/fashion/ thursdaystyles/whats-the-buzz-sound-therapy.html. 2. T. L. Huang and C. Charyton, "A Comprehensive Review of the Psychological Effects of Brainwave Entrainment," Journal of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 14, no. 5 (2008): 38–50. 3. Mindvalley, "Everything You Need to Know About Sound Healing," January 10, 2019, https://blog.mindvalley.com/sound-healing. 4. Jevon Dangeli, "Tibetan Singing Bowls— The Ancient Brain Entrainment Methodology for Healing and Meditation," Accessed May 29, 2019, https://jevondangeli.com/tibetan- singing-bowls-the-ancient-brain-entrainment- methodology-for-healing-and-meditation. 5. Gaia, "Healing with Sound, Frequency, and Vibration," November 21, 2018, www.gaia.com/article/ healing-with-sound-frequency-and-vibration. 6. Integrative Cancer Review, "Sound Healing," Accessed May 2019, www.integrativecancer. org/integrative-care/sound-healing. 7. Carly Fraser, "Researchers Prove That Sound Frequencies Can Kill Cancer," Live Love Fruit, December 13, 2017, www.livelovefruit.com/ researchers-prove-sound-frequencies-can-kill-cancer. Lisa Bakewell is a full-time freelance writer, editor, perpetual learner, and lover of life in Chicagoland. Her areas of writing expertise span a multitude of topics that include health and wellness, travel, parenting, personal/ company profiles, a plethora of "how-to" articles (her favorite!), and technology. She can be reached at lbakewell@att.net.