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How does NET/CES work?

For any cell growth to occur there must be an electrical field present. This is usually supplied by the organism but it can be supplemented by an external source such as NET/CES. (NET and CES are the same thing. NET is the name used for the system developed in the UK while in the US the name CES is used) This 'cell growth' includes the physical body. So at a basic level NET stimulates cell growth and that includes repair. It adds to all aspects of cell growth including re balancing the brain and body.

The rational for using NET is that modern society creates all sorts of imbalances and disturbances in the body, brain and nervous system that it was never intended to have to recover from. Alcohol and drug use, continuous flight or fight stress, car accidents and yes, even old age after about 45 years are simply things that our prehistoric ancestors hardly if ever had to deal with. Therefore the use of an additional source of electricity to increase healing become almost necessary, and is certainly welcome in many situations.

N.E.T. is a system that was originally developed in the UK during the mid to late 20th century by Dr. Meg Patterson. The first machine that I developed was similar to Meg Patterson's NET (neuro electric therapy) device which she almost exclusively used to cure drug addiction. Her practice included lots of famous celebrities such as Pete Townsend. It's 80% cure rate far exceeds any other known therapy.

There are a lot of studies of Meg Patterson's and other people's listed on our links page.

How the Brainmax works, in great detail

Until now NET (aka CES) machines were a lot more complicated and much more expensive. In the US CES machines which are essentially the same were almost all limited to using one frequency, 100HZ. They are pretty simple to use. NET machines on the other hand use many frequencies and so they inherently are much more complicated. For instance if you want to stimulate Adrenaline you would have to look up in a table the frequency for it and you would find it to be 2000 Hz. Then you would have to dial that frequency into the machine and maybe adjust other parameters to the optimum. This is beyond the skill of the average lay person. In light of the fact that it has been shown that "1 in 4 women can misread a pregnancy test" (when blue means you are pregnant) it should come as no surprise that some people would find a machine with several dials including amplitude, frequency, pulse duration and pulse shape difficult or impossible to operate.

Stuck with making a machine without a lot of confusing dials most NET/CES manufacturers chose to use the most useful frequency, 100Hz. Or else they made a machine that essentially produced a lot of frequencies at once. Neither of these was really a good alternative to the original variable frequency NET machine that produced the incredible results that Meg Patterson obtained. It turned out that other frequencies were essential.

We did notice that 98 % of the time we only used about 6 frequencies. So then I built machines that had these 6 frequencies pre selected so all you had to do was turn the switch to one of the 6 positions. That worked out well but there was still the problem with it being expensive what with the frequency generating unit and precision components that were necessary to make it accurate to within ~3% of the stated frequency. 3% is needed so it will fall into the range of frequencies for that neurochemical which usually has a range of about 8-12%. For example the frequency range for endorphins is from about 93-105Hz or about 12% (105-93=12).*

Then I recognized that the frequencies were all in the audio range. Instead of calling the frequencies 30, 96, 315 Hz, etc I could just as accurately called them A#0/Bb0, F#2/Gb2 and D#4/Eb4. I also noticed that the the voltage of the NET machines were a lot higher than what a CD player produced (although the current was much lower). I thought of putting the frequencies on a cd and then playing it back in a CD player with an adaptor that raised the voltage and limited the current. This output went to a pair of electrodes mounted on a headset which contacts the skin behind the ear.

A good analogy is that the Brainmax reproduces the effects of a normal NET machine as faithfully as a CD player reproduces an orchestra (without having to play all the instruments). In a way it works exactly the same. It's a faithful recording of the original but it sure is a lot cheaper.

The final results are an easy to operate machine which is laid out in great detail below.

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The Brainmax and how it can permanently end addiction. (Or as I have been told 'this makes more sense than anything I have ever read about drug addiction and it's cure' and also 'it takes the whole process out of the dark'.)

shooting up Stress lessens Endorphins (endogenous opiates) and to a lesser degree dopamine (endogenous cocaine). Pushing oneself (in extreme cases causing adrenal exhaustion) lessens Dopamine and adrenalin (endogenous amphetamine) production. Several things mess with the GABA (endogenous valium) network.

When one of these situations occur it is because the person is not living right and that is probably because they simply don't know how to live right. They usually have learned the wrong way, or right way, to live by observing those around them including parents, siblings and friends.

It's only when a person lessens their production of one or another of the neurochemicals that they really become drawn to use one kind of drug or another as a substitute for their lack of natural neurochemicals.

From here on the addiction process is simple and rapid. The person somehow ends up taking a drug that acts like the neurochemical they are lacking and they immediately feel better. It temporally fixes the imbalance and that is exactly why they call it a 'fix'. They are now addicted.

[ Valium This process is often different when prescribed drugs are involved. The above steps are often skipped when a doctor prescribes a drug that a person becomes addicted to. Often when doctors prescribe Benzodiazapines, sleeping pills, opiates for long term pain, amphetamines for ADHD, etc it is to a person who is not lacking in any of those neurochemicals which I have listed. The patient is not drawn to use any drugs and the prescribed drug usually does not even make them feel very 'high', 'better', 'well' or 'fixed'. In fact about half of these people, at this time, report that they don't even really want to take the drug but their doctor told them to. So they do. However after the patient has taken one of these classes of drugs for a few months, according to a lawful prescription, the corresponding neurochemical system turns off just as surely and completely as it does with the other group of addicts. They are then in the same situation as the other addicts. From this point on the addiction process is very similar for both groups.]

In very fast order the unnatural chemical they are now taking shuts down the production of their own natural neurochemicals even more. That causes them to take even more of the drug. Soon other things often happen like receptors multiply and nerve cells shut down or are killed off. It becomes very complicated issue at this point.

The Brainmax will easily normalize those natural systems. When a person uses the Brainmax when quitting drugs the process is much faster and more complete than natural detoxification. The Brainmax eliminates about 90% of the withdrawals and all the symptoms completely end in about six days. This even includes the elusive normal sleep patterns which often take months or even years to return. It is all over in about six days. Yes, time does heal but the Brainmax heals hundreds of times faster and much more completely.

When they have quit and finished detoxing the patient needs to change their lifestyle in order to prevent those imbalances from reoccurring. Due to the Brainmax they are well enough to easily do this. This is where I differ from Meg Patterson in that I know that ongoing therapy should be provided for the patient so that they can change.

This change usually takes awhile so the person often manages to shut down their endorphin production a second time before it's completed and becomes self sustaining. This is when most addicts use again.

They need to fix their endorphins before they 'fix' something else. They need to use an NET machine for a few hours each day for about a week. This will prevent a relapse. Then will produce endorphins for another couple months or so and then the whole thing happens all over again. They again need to use an NET machine for awhile.

This cycle usually needs to be repeated several times before they learn how to live. When they do their endorphin production becomes self sustaining. Then the person is truly cured of their addiction.

For a 30 year old it usually takes doing this process about four times over a period of a half a year before they fully learn how to live right. Typically the older the person the longer it takes and the more times they need to briefly use the Brainmax.

[Often those who became addicted to prescription drugs need to use the Brainmax less often or even only for the initial period of quitting drug use since they were usually living right before they became addicts. It is not hard for them to re-learn this skill. These people often feel out of place with most types of therapy including 12 step programs. That is because these therapies focus mainly on teaching the skills to live right and they already know how to live right. They just forgot for awhile.]

Acupuncture vs Electro acupuncture vs TENS vs NET vs CES vs Electrosleep vs CMS vs ECT
What is it all about?

Acupuncture stimulates certain nerves then activates certain parts of the brain which does different things such as block pain pathway, stimulate organs, etc.

Electro-Acupunture uses electricity to give an extra jolt to the nerve being stimulated. Stick a needle in someone and it hurts. That is what it is supposed to do and thereby stimulate the brain. Put electricity through that needle and it hurts even more. Thereby it stimulates the brain even more.

Next we have TENS. It is a very low frequency, usually .5-2 Hz. Square wave electrical device. It was developed in order to block pain. It's mostly applied across the spine. Normally when a nerve fires ions are exchanged. Typically sodium goes into the nerve and potassium goes out. Then they must return to where they started before the nerve can fire again. TENS moves the ions all around and out their proper location. (I call it confuse-a-cell.) Without the right ions being in the cells they cannot fire. So the pain simply does not get through to the brain. That is how it works. However, some people seem to insist on using TENS in place of CES and NET. Some even do studies claiming that TENS is the same as CES or NET and then they wonder why it fails to deliver. It is nothing like CES or NET.

NET is the same thing as CES and Electrosleep. NET (Neuro Electric Therapy) is the name used in the UK while CES (Crainail Electrical Stimulation) was a name that was more often used in the US. To add to the confusion the name Electrosleep was used in Russia for this same therapy. CES and NET systems tend to use short pulses of about .25-1 millisecond at 1 or 2 milliamps and frequencies from around 30 up to about 2000 Hz. Electrosleep mainly used only the lower frequencies. Their pulses were around 10 milliseconds long and their machines went from about 10 to 100 Hz.

These pulses are applied through the head and through the brain. CES and NET from ear to ear or to right behind the ears and Electrosleep from the forehead to the neck. These devices mainly stimulate certain neurochemicals to maximize. The most commonly used frequency is 100 Hz. It falls on the upper edge of the frequency range that stimulates endorphins (whose response is around 92-104 Hz). This frequency is useful for treating opiate addiction (but 96 Hz is about three times as effective at this as 100 Hz is). The studies show CES potentates morphine 176- 306% and also increases the levels of Endorphins up to 204% so it is easy to see how it can help people get off of heroin and other drugs as well as kill pain.

Other frequencies such as 30 Hz stimulate the GABA network and is used to treat Benzodiazapine addiction. 315 Hz stimulates mainly the mitochondria of all cells as well as the dopamine network. It is the best frequency for depression but it does much more than that as it seems to often affect many mitochondrial diseases. 2000 Hz corresponds to adrenaline and that frequency is often used for treating cocaine or meth addiction and often allergies.

You might notice that the lower frequencies that Electrosleep machines produced stimulated only the sedating networks such as GABA and Endorphins. It reliably zonked everyone out so that is why they named it Electrosleep. Had they used the higher frequencies that NET and CES use then it would not have bonked everyone out and they would have had to have used a different name.

CMS (Cranial Magnetic Stimulation) uses magnetic fields from large coils of wires to do the same thing as NET and CES does. Magnetic stimulation is almost identical to CES and NET in it's effects, frequencies, time of use and results. When a magnetic field is applied to the brain it produces a flow of electricity identical to that produced by both CES and NET. The main benefit of magnetics is that it does not need electrodes. No electricity is applied to the brain. It is seen as being less invasive. I have written more about magnetic stimulation here for those who are interested.

Electroshock or ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy) is bad news. And they use lots of other names for it to hide the fact that it is dangerous as all hell. ECT uses .8-.9 amp of current to blast apart brain cells, depression, memories and just about anything else that gets in the way. CES/NET typically uses about 1 milliamp or .001 amp but it is only on typically for about 1/10 of the time so the actual average current is about .0001 amp which is a lot less than the brain produces on it's own.

Notice the difference. Electroshock puts 10,000 times as much current through the brain as does CES/NET. That is ten times as much juice as is needed to stop your heart (70 ma) if you put it across your chest and that much electricity can't be good anywhere you put it into a body.

That is the difference between using enough electricity to light up a light bulb or to burn it out. Only it is not a light bulb, it is your brain that either gets lit up (by CES/NET) or burned out (by ECT).

These numbers will mean nothing to you if you don't what the brain is used to. How much is helpful and how much is harmful? For that let's talk about power or watts which is the sum of the voltage and the amps. The brain produces 5- 12 watts of electricity depending on your reference source used. The CD player that produces NET pulses is rated at 15 miliwatts per channel or 30 milliwatts total. That means the maximum that NET can deliver to the brain is an anemic 1/200-1/400 of what the brain even produces on it's own. That is hardly a threat to anyone.

How is the Brainmax actually used?

The person puts the headset on with the electrodes touching behind their ears and goes through the 8 tracks on the CD. When they feel a 'high' or a feeling of well being then they have located a frequency that works for them (and consequently a neurochemical that they are lacking).

Then when they have finished all the tracks they will know which frequencies will work for them. Then they should go back to those tracks one at a time and use them until they feel balanced.

All they need to do is put the CD player on 'repeat track' so that it continues with that frequency for 30 minutes or so..

The feeling of well being, high or strong sense of satisfaction is caused by a rapid increase of the body's neurochemicals to a high normal level from a low level and it is almost always felt as intoxicating to some degree. Each track is labeled with the neurochemical which it stimulates as well as the frequency such as '1. Endorphins (96Hz)'. Note that if you have normal neurochemical levels then the Brainmax is not going to increase them very much. Hence you will not normally feel any effect from the Brainmax on any of the frequencies. The Brainmax was not made for you.

It is as simple as that.

Note: If you bought the Brainmax because you thought that you have an imbalance or lack of neurochemicals and have tried it yet felt nothing then you have no imbalance of the neurochemistry. You should seriously consider returning it under the warrantee and receiving you money back (plus $5 for postage).

However, if you are under the influence of any drug then you will probably not feel a 'high'. As one junkie said about using the Brainmax when she was on a large dose of Heroin 'it is like pissing in the ocean'.

If you are going through withdrawals then the Brainmax will lessen or fully eliminate the withdrawals but most likely it will not give you a 'high' or even a strong feeling of satisfaction.

The normalization and hence the 'high' for a single use of the Brainmax is somewhat permanent. It is usually maximal after about an hour of treatment (except for the stimulant frequencies which require less time). After a few days the person begins to feel less 'high' and just feel that they are normal, often for the first time in many years. It is interesting to watch a person go from thinking they are 'high' to realizing that they are supposed to feel that good all of the time.

Some of the effects wear off after about two days, perhaps half of them, so the treatment should be repeated.
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I have drawn a very crude (I used the mouse) freehand graphical representation of the effects of the Brainmax on a person who is highly deficient in endorphins. This person started out with only about 25% of normal endorphin activity. On first using a NET machine their Endorphins go high, far above normal. Then after the first treatment the level drops off to below normal, to perhaps half way between where they were to begin with and normal. Each time they use the Brainmax their endorphin base level gets closer to 100%.

After about ten treatments of a hour each most people's endorphin level are near normal and their body's balance is fully restored.

In theory they should not need to use the machine ever again but that does not usually hold. If a person reintroduces the same (or other) stressors that caused their endorphins to shut down then the same thing is going to happen again. This type of person will obviously need to use the machine again. People inevitably seem to want to reintroduce stressors back into their life. That is unfortunately but it usually happens at least several times. Usually after a while they realize that they should not be doing that to them selves and stop. The typical person seems to end up using the Brainmax about once a month to once every six months until they have gone through about five cycles..

That is all there is to it. Arguably, using the Brainmax is even simpler than playing a song on a CD player.

The 8 Frequencies that are most commonly used:

The first frequency (30 Hz) corresponds to the neurochemical GABA and is associated with sedation and tranquility. It offsets or reduces withdrawals to minor tranquilizers and sedatives such as Valium and Barbiturates.(1)

49 Hz is also a common frequency that calms many people.

Another low frequency is an endorphin frequency (70 Hz) but this endorphin frequency more often corresponds to THC use than opiates. It's been very useful for eliminating the spacy aftereffects of heavy marijuana use. It seems to remove many of the bad side effects of medical marijuana use and patients even refer to it as causing a 'clearer high'.

96 Hz is the primary endorphin frequency. It takes the place of 100HZ which most other NET manufacturers use because that higher frequency was often found to cause slight headaches. About one third of all the Americans tested on the Brainmax reacted favorably to this frequency with noticeable relaxation and a feeling of well being. Normal day to day stress in our society seems to have suppressed endorphin production in perhaps 100 million Americans! A person who is drawn to opiates or alcohol is lacking in Endorphins and they will inevitably feel a high when they first use this frequency on the Brainmax unless they are under the influence of drug which seems to cloak the effects of NET. Both opiate drugs and the Brainmax compensate for a lack of endorphins, the drugs do it by substituting for them while the Brainmax does it the right way by stimulating the permanent production of endorphins.

Higher frequencies, in the hundreds of Hz range contain several mood elevating frequencies corresponding to Serotonin and probably Adrenaline. About one fifth of all Americans react favorably to one of these frequencies (315 Hz). Often even when they deny it is helping them they have a huge grin on their face that won't go away. About half of Americans over the age of 55 react to this particular frequency and can certainly use it. It speeds up those who are older and have slowed down a bit due to advanced age. It's been called the 'frequency of youth' and is a real fountain of youth. It also helps many people loose weight because it can reset the body's weight-set-point towards normal. It's also useful in quitting smoking. Almost whenever the 96 HZ endorphin frequency is used this frequency is needed afterwards. It seems whenever Endorphins are reduced so are other neurochemicals and when Endorphin production is stimulated the others must also be stimulated.

2000 Hz is a frequency related to adrenaline. It's used mainly for helping people get off of cocaine and amphetamine. Though most of the other frequencies require several sessions to get a great response often a single session of 20 minutes at 2,000 Hz will worked wonders for those addicted to stimulants. This frequency is also often related to allergies. (Though in asthma the greatest effect was seen with the endorphin frequencies using electrodes placed on the front and back of the chest. A threshold seems to be raised in about half of the asthma patients that were experimented on. It highly diminished the number of attacks they had. However, little effect was seen on the severity of their attacks.*)

175 Hz is a new frequency that many people have found useful. It seems to involve both endorphins and serotonin. It is a strange one who no one seems to be able to adequately describe. It seems to help organize thinking and cause an increase in level headed thinking.

In practical usage a person simply uses each frequency until it no longer gives them results and then they move on to another, etc.

1.Cooper IS, Riklan M, Snider RS, eds. The Cerebellum, Epilepsy and Behavior. New York: Plenum Press, 1974.

*Although the range is from 92 to 105 for Endorphins, 100Hz and above causes temporary headaches in many people. We also found that 96Hz was a stronger stimulant of Endorphins than 100Hz so we use that instead. If you have a CES machine and sometimes get headaches when using it then now you know why.

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