(This page received regular updates, as I continue to both utilize and practice biomagnetic pair therapy. It was originally written in Feb 2022, and the most recent update was Sept 2024.)

If you thought my breathwork practice sounded wild, wait until you hear this. Biomagnetic pair therapy is a not well-known complementary healing method, and luckily enough, when I was sick I was living in our nation’s hotspot of biomagnetic therapists. The therapy is based on a combination of energy healing and use of magnets to manipulate the pH of parts of the body, and it goes like this:

I relax on the table while my practitioner sits at my feet and asks my body questions, using muscle-testing (a way of reading the body’s reflexive knowledge) to discern the answers. In this way, the practitioner can learn about pathogens, toxins, emotions, and energetic blocks within the body that may be causing dis-ease or exacerbating symptoms. The practitioner then places magnets on the body in accordance with the locations of pathogens or with the energy meridians (like those used in acupuncture) to support the body in healing in various ways. Magnet placement is meant to support the body’s healing mechanisms and overall functioning.

In my case, my body began by informing us that it was suffering from mold toxicity, nearly a dozen tick-borne viruses and bacteria (including Borellia, the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease,) various heavy metal toxicities, Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) (the virus that causes Mononucleosis), and a handful of other pathogens, and at subsequent appointments continued to report serious emotional distress, dysregulation of sleep, nervous system distress, lymphatic overload, and liver and kidney distress*.

As I have written about, my medical doctor refused to treat or even test me for Lyme Disease and EBV, because I had had both of these in the past, and recovered from them. It is accepted within western medicine that EBV lives (usually dormant) in the body forever after infection, but for some reason, many doctors did not believe that EBV, once identified by the immune system, could ever cause infection again, even after an immunocompromising event. Chronic Lyme is one of the least understood diseases within the field of epidemiology. Many doctors, including the few that were working with me at the time, are insufficiently educated or experienced to effectively treat cases like mine. I am frustrated by my doctor’s lack of interest in sending me to a Lyme specialist. Though I eventually found answers outside the doctor’s office, many are not so lucky, and we deserve better answers, or at least doctors who are willing to look beyond their preconceptions. (Check out this excellent interview from a fellow Chronic Lyme sufferer, who speaks about this issue.)

In another MD’s hands, I may well have been diagnosed with both Mono and Chronic Lyme. (So you can see why many different diagnoses among different individuals may all be pointing toward similar forms of dis-ease.)

Because the body cannot heal from, or “clear,” (as we call it in the world of biomagnetics,) all these toxicities at once, it takes several appointments to fully heal. My treatment lasted about a year, and was a rollercoaster. True to form, my body usually requested extremely high loads of pathogens to clear, which often meant I left sessions feeling totally exhausted, sometimes nauseous or dizzy. For the first few months, I would generally feel hard-core sick for a few days after treatment, and feel pretty good by the time I went in for the next session (my body tells us how long it needs between each session…and it’s pretty darn accurate!) By the later months I felt pretty good across the board, and my remaining symptoms didn’t always align so clearly with treatments. (As my body cleared layers of pathogens and trauma, new things were unearthed, which led to new symptoms cropping up.)

As you can read about here, I think of the symptoms I experienced as falling into two categories: nervous system and immune symptoms. I began treatment in March of 2021. By October 2021, I was no longer experiencing most nervous system symptoms, and by February 2022 my immune symptoms were almost fully resolved. I completed my primary round of biomagnetic pair therapy in Feb 2022. Later than year I returned for more treatments due to an EBV flare up, and in subsequent years I began using biomagnetics to address post-covid complications. As of the end of 2024, when this page was most recently updated, I’m primarily using biomagnetics to fend off further covid infections.

You may still have about a hundred questions about how this works, and the simple answer may well be that we don’t know. We don’t know exactly how it works, though I explain what we do know here, and you can read a pilot study on using biomagnetics to treat Typhoid here. I found biomagnetic pair therapy at the suggestion of a dear friend to whom I will be grateful for the rest of my life. I have known since my first session that I would become a practitioner. I began training in muscle testing and biomagnetic pair therapy in November of 2021 and began seeing practice clients on a volunteer basis as part of my training in September 2023. I opened my practice in 2024, and as of this writing am certified at Level 2, as well as in the Post-Covid Protocol, which is a separate and evolving field.

To find a practitioner who has undergone the rigorous training taken by the practitioners who treated me, and that I myself have now taken, you can begin here.

*It is important to note that biomagnetics does not provide a medical diagnosis. Muscle testing, or applied kinesiology, is an accepted diagnostic method in this country, though it is used worldwide by many types of doctors and healers. Some of the pathogens my body told us it was harboring were indeed found in medical testing, but for me, the reason I’m so confident in biomagnetics is that I’ve experienced it working.