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MANEL BALLESTER-Rodés
Manel Ballester-Rodés, MD, was trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine Universitat Autónoma Barcelona. He was head of Echocardiography Lab at National Heart Hospital, London (1979-1983); medical chief of the Heart Failure and Transplantation Unit at Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (1983-1999); chairman of Cardiology Lleida (1999-2003); co-founder of Molecular Biology Group on Apoptosis; and, worked in cooperation with Francesc Torrent-Guasp, MD, on the anatomy and function of the helical heart (1985-2006). He has been involved in energy medicine clinical activities and research since 2006.
PRESENTATION
HELICAL HEART AND ITS MAGNETIC FIELD
SAT, OCT 18 AT 11:00 AM
One of the principles of quantum physics states that the heart is both a particle (matter) and a wave (field). The Spanish cardiologist Francisco Torrent-Guasp (1931-2005) unveiled, through a forty-year quest, the double helical anatomy of the heart. Unrolling of the ventricles reveals that the pulmonary artery opens up from a tube to become a band with a 180º twist in its middle portion, and eventually closes up at the level of the aorta to recover the shape of a tube. It was James Oschman who, in 2015, suggested that this anatomy is analogous to a Möebius strip, one of the several architectures related to the Aharonov-Bohm effect (1959), that links quantum space with magnetic fields. McCraty and colleagues provided solid evidence that the heart’s energy field is coupled to a field of information not bound by time and space.
ENERGY CARDIOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
SUN, OCT 19 AT 8:45 AM
The origin of cardiovascular disease in the occident had a very low prevalence before 1930 and dramatically increased by 1960. Although cholesterol was blamed for the epidemic, Weston A. Price had described the negative impact of sugar consumption on healthy isolated communities with diverse nutritional habits. In the 1980’s Attilio Massery in Pisa, Italy revealed coronary artery spasm could be a mechanism of cardiovascular disease. Arteries are kept dilated though release of a gas (nitric oxide) by a monolayer of cells, the endothelium, and endothelial dysfunction and subsequent spasm can close a coronary artery. Emotional issues are related to coronary spasm: grief, disappointment, sorrow, bereavement or solitude. Good Nutrition and happiness are at the center of a healthy cardiovascular system.