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First Pulse : A Personal Journey in Cancer Research

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today i finished the book First Pulse, A Personal Journey in Cancer Research, by Dr. Merrill Garnett, kindly sent to me from Joy Garnett, whose paintings inhabit the pages of the book, bringing the abstract microscopic world of cell research into visibility.

first, i must name my preconceptions of First Pulse, in what may be due to my own issues of mortality. upon receiving the book, i immediately looked at every of the book's numerous paintings by Joy Garnett. they are images at once ghostly and haunting, and beautiful and sublime, of various stages of cell growth and decay, in vibrant yet subdued colors, as if viewed through a microscope.

this visualization of various stages of cancerous growth and subsequent images of treatment in painted form has the quality of a Francis Bacon painting. the horror of Bacon's Study of Pope Innocent X or Figure with Meat, are somehow aestheticized within the scraping lines of paint which at once blur and etherealize the subject. these same streaking lines are present in Joy Garnett's paintings, and my first reaction was an association of cancer with this Baconian visualization of horror. but, the paintings somehow made the disturbing mystery of cancer into something tangible, aesthetic, and even neutral. somehow, the beautiful painted light which visualizes scientific exploration and understanding portrays that journey itself as an artistic venture.

the paintings illuminate the cancerous cell, and bring the science of an esoteric and highly specialized field of research into a public domain, where it should be.

i would not have thought this to be true, but after reading the words of Dr. Garnett alongside the painted images of his daughter, i am left with a sense of awe at what First Pulse could represent- a new model of treating cancerous cells, based on electrical knowledge.

Dr. Garnett took a different path for his research and experimentation. his dedication to understanding cancer centered around a belief that the model of killing off cancerous cells with toxic treatment was one model, and that there could be another model, based on the metabolism of energy in a cell. instead of destroying the cell, the treatment could restore the vitality of the cancerous cell.

Dr. Garnett's search was on for finding such a treatment...

only another electrochemical scientist could say what kind of personal journey it would be to have created and tested 30,000 chemical compounds in this search. but somehow, the quest for truth allows for such determination and belief. and it was the belief about this new 'electrogenetic' model of medicine which would ultimately prove rewarding.

Dr. Garnett knew intuitively that there was a vital "pulse" in the cell, which was absent when the cell died away. to explore this dimension was to explore the question of life itself: that is, what makes something alive. in the technical language of medicine, the conclusion centered around the concept of electron transfer, which is another specialized name for general electrical phenomenon that exists in between the microcosm and macrocosm of the universe.

in fact, this electronic interaction _is_ the First Pulse that Dr. Garnett believes constitutes life. that is, along with the structural information in a chain of molecules, say, making up DNA, is a flow of energy which keeps the cell, and thus the body, healthy. this pulse is a vibration, the result of a frequency of shaking molecules, a literal 'music of the spheres' to be heard by those listening to its signal.

ultimately, this electronic First Pulse is metabolic: ~the cell's food is electrical~ which in turn the DNA utilizes to create an electrical field. filling in a piece of the mysterious puzzle of electrical evolution, Dr. Garnett states: "The schematic is complete. The cell has its first pulse, which makes an active energy exchange between the internal and external... And this first pulse resonates with many other cells, and the packed cells carry on their pulsations with the environment. They resonate with each other and set each other off by inductive influence so that their pulses increase. And the tissue pulses appear, and the heart beats and the brain discharges and the muscles evolve. The organelles modulate and use this in contractile structures, converting the pulse to organic phosphates and other high-energy bonds. But the cell pulse is first and provides the raw electrical energy for all the physiologic pulses."

thus, the cosmologists belief that the universe evolved out of electromagnetic radiation and the birth of electrically charged particles, creating matter in the void, now, there is an electrical theory of life, constituted on the knowledge of electricity at the molecular level up to the human being. it is an important accomplishment for this field of electrical research, and specifically so for the medical field.

this is because Dr. Garnett's research work, grounded in the pragmatics of trial and error scientific (and artistic) experimentation, led to a treatment called the palladium complex (LAPd), based on this new electrogenetic understanding of cancer, restoring the cells energy instead of killing the cancerous cells off, as in traditional chemotherapy treatment. this unique approach to cancer treatment was the result of an investigation into corrosion engineering and the electrical properties of metals. in the end, Dr. Garnett's hard work and vision have produced a new model for cancer research, and the LAPd complex is in the testing stage, after having restored laboratory mice from full-blown cancer to full health.

in all, the work of Dr. Garnett, and the visualization of this miraculous revitalization of a cell's energy flow via the LAPd complex by his daughter Joy Garnett, is a victory for the fields of both the science and art of living. my congratulations go to them in their vital and public journey.

Could this discovery be the magic bullet cancer research has been searchinf for? Quite possibly. All I have to say is that anyone who has had cancer has cancer, or has it and has been told not to expect much from conventional therapy simply must read this book and they check out the PolyMVA website. The long review up front at Amazon says it all but how the Doc arrived at this discovery is very interesting and not too far out scientifically to be understood by the mainstream.

Merrill Garnett is a humble genius. In this book, he carries us in his pocket as he reviews his decades-long search for a non-toxic metabolic tool to reverse cancer without interfering with the body's natural mechanisms; essentially he sought, and found, a form of jumper cables for metabolically-challenged cellular respiration found in cancer cells. It is a personal, anecdotal, and sometimes poetic trip trip through biochemistry, electrical chemistry, genetics, and the new field he proposes, electrogenetics.

Dr. Garnett writes clearly and simply, without fanfare or emotionalism. He invites the lay reader into an amazing world without dumbing down the material. His style is wonderfully conversational and inspiring, with just enough detail of the various technical aspects of the material, not so much as to overwhelm the lay reader, but enough to provide the trained scientist an overview of the route he traveled and the never-wavering inspiration for his research.

Of course what makes this book so exciting is the clinical results from his initial supplement, polyMVA, which has been approved by the FDA and is in distribution. The results from clinical applications by licensed practitioners are impressive if still in the first stages. While it is certainly a first step, to be followed by further refinements, and especially to be studied as used in combination with other therapies, both conventional and integrative, Garnett has taken a bold and innovative step beyond the standard scientific approach to treating metabolic diseases and cancer.

Interesting and informative. This book book gives the author's personal experience in searching for a compound that would strengthen cancer cells enough so that they revert to normal cells instead of poisoning them. The logic behind why he searched in the direction he did gives credence to his results even though even with the compound he discovered the cancer cells were too degraded to come back to normal so that they died. The book would have earned five stars if it had more information concerning his experiences with the product that worked. (I assume that that information is available in more recent books by the same author.) I recommend this book to anyone interested in PolyMVA to acquire a background knowledge of the research that Dr. M. Garnett went through before he found such a life-giving product.

Thank you, Dr. Garnett, for your many years of research, and for writing this magical account of those years. This book provides insight into cancer from the perspective of a researcher, rather than from the perspective of a doctor or patient - a perspective that offers a new vision of the disease. As a cancer survivor who has used the product created by Dr. Garnett, I believe it is well worth the time to read this book for anyone who has been touched by cancer.

First Pulse is the story of Dr Garnett's forty-year search for a non toxic chemotherapy cure for cancer. The end result is his synthesis of Poly-MVA which is currently undergoing clinical trials. While the animal results look very good and personal reports from cancer patients using Poly-MVA (especially for brain tumors) are very encouraging the final verdict is not yet in.

Dr. Garnett's theories about cancer cells especially his theory that they are essentially like embryonic cells that divide rapidly and are undifferentiated are intriguing.

While Dr. Garnett is clearly a uniquely gifted and tireless researcher - testing over 20,000 compounds in forty years - the book is a bit premature as Poly-MVA is still an experimental compound. The book lacks focus and is more about his vision, philosophy and trials and tribulations than actual science.

None the less there is possibility that his unique approach to treating cancer will prove to be a useful contribution for treating cancer and in the next five to ten years his treatment protocol utilizing non toxic palladium compounds to restore the electrical charge of the DNA molecules in cancer cells will be used in clinical practice.

First Pulse is the story of Dr. Garnett's forty-year search for a non toxic chemotherapy cure for cancer. The end result is his synthesis of Poly-MVA, which according to Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. (noted alternative cancer treatment expert) will be undergoing clinical trials in India some time in 2004. While the animal results look very good and personal reports from cancer patients using Poly-MVA (especially for brain tumors, as Poly-MVA crosses the blood brain barrier) are very encouraging, the final verdict is by no means in.

Dr. Garnett's theories about cancer cells, especially his theory that they are essentially like embryonic cells that divide rapidly and are undifferentiated, are intriguing.

While Dr. Garnett is clearly a uniquely gifted and tireless researcher - testing over 20,000 compounds in forty years - the book is a bit premature as Poly-MVA is still an experimental compound. The book lacks focus and is more about his vision, philosophy and trials and tribulations than actual science.

Surprisingly, according to Dr. Moss, neither Dr. Garnett nor anyone else has published any peer reviewed journal articles on Poly-MVA. Given that the U.S. government funds alternative medicine research to the tune of about $100 million a year, this is perhaps evidence that the compound may not be living up to its initial promise.

None the less there is a chance that his unique approach to treating cancer will ultimately prove useful in the next two to ten years. His treatment protocol consists of utilizing non toxic palladium compounds to restore the electrical charge of the DNA molecules in cancer cells.

The problem is faulty enzyme systems lead to cancer because our cells have separate compartments which separate water soluble from oil(p43). A metal that transfers energy but doesnt bind would be like an enzyme (p45). Metals share electrons on a very extended lease, which not only overlap each other, but extend into solvents and interact with organic molecules (p45). He used lipic acid because our DNA takes energy from fat (p81) and combined it with palladium because it could transfer electrons over the longest distance (p53). He started out by creating molecules and testing them with voltammetry to see how the molecule absorbs and releases charges to find the perfect molecule to transfer charges to the DNA without binding to it (p75-77). He bypassed the faulty enzyme pathways and shuttled energy to the DNA which allowed it to evolve from sugar to oxygen metabolism. Furthermore, once charge is restored, the DNA restructured its liquid crystal state (p106). Future developments will be taken to determine how electromagnetic fields and toxins alter this crystal state.