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Laura Giles · Rooted Recovery
The people around you notice before you do.
Laura Giles spends her working life with people carrying trauma. She has heard every version of “I’ve tried everything.” She owns a VIBE. Her clients use one. Here is why.
Before any of this
I work with people with PTSD and complex PTSD. Healing takes time and they want fast relief, natural solutions, and something easy. The VIBE takes care of all those things.
Laura GilesOn how she first heard about it, and what she thought at the time:
I own a different PEMF device and came across an ad for the VIBE. It claimed to be better and was a whole lot cheaper and smaller, so I wanted to know more about it. I contacted Mark Fox. He was very accessible and forthcoming with lots of help. Since the VIBE had a 30 day money back guarantee, I wasn’t risking anything to try it, so I did.
Laura GilesWhat it actually is, without the mysticism
PEMF stands for pulsed electromagnetic field. It sounds like a lot. It is the Earth’s heartbeat — a field you are sitting inside right now, pulsing at 7.83 hertz. You can pull up an app on your phone and watch it.
Energy reaches the body a handful of ways: electrical current, magnetic field, light, sound, vibration. A TENS unit uses current. Sunburn is light — energy transfer that went too far. The same transfer at the right frequency and the right intensity is therapeutic instead of harmful.
People hear “electromagnetic” and think of the lead apron at the dentist. Worth getting the scale straight. Your phone and your Wi-Fi run in the millions and billions of hertz. Therapeutic devices run between 1 and 1,000 hertz. On a logarithmic scale next to an X-ray, that is effectively zero.
Two things happen, and almost nobody in the field argues about them because both have been measured repeatedly. First, your cells hold a charge like a car battery. When that charge drops, the cell struggles to move nutrition in and waste out, and you get sick. PEMF raises it — you can watch the voltage climb at the cell membrane. Second, ATP, the fuel your cells actually run on, can increase up to 500%.
Recharged batteries and a bigger fuel supply. That is it. What the body does with those two things is what the body already knows how to do.
Why gentle beats powerful
This is the part that goes against instinct. More is not more.
A TENS unit puts out at minimum a thousand times the energy these devices do, and it contracts your muscles doing it. For sore muscles that may be what you want. For anxiety, for back pain, for neck pain, it is the wrong tool entirely.
The theory — and it is a theory — is that too much energy passes straight through the cell without doing anything. Low enough energy massages the cell membrane and moves through the fluid between cells. What is not theoretical is the clinical record: the studies that work were run at low energy and low frequency. There is a double-blind study at the pico level, ten to the minus ninth, that still came back therapeutic.
Bigger is better is taught by exactly one person, and he is the one selling the fifteen to thirty thousand dollar machines.
Mark Fox, founder, Resona Health
The protocols are songs
The most common question is what frequency it runs at. It doesn’t run at a frequency. It runs frequency pairs — more like a chord than a note — and the chord changes every one to four minutes.
So each protocol is a song. Every song is different, and every one came out of roughly 8,000 people and 35 years of trial and error. Picture a garage band: add a cowbell, pull the bass back, move a piece in and out until it gets better. Better here means more people got relief.
Some frequencies have been around long enough to give you a head start. If you only got one, it would be 40 hertz, for general inflammation — which is underneath about 80% of everything anyway.
Nothing is cast in stone. When something doesn’t exist, it gets built. The Lyme protocol started because three hundred people asked, and the first attempt was, in Mark’s words, successful and completely unsuccessful at the same time. It made every single person sick, which meant it worked — a Herxheimer reaction, poison released as the organisms die. So the power came down to three to five, the liver protocol went in to clear toxins, and the vagus nerve protocol went in to reset. Rinse and repeat. That version works.
What Laura runs
I don’t have any chronic issues, but travel can disrupt my sleep and bathroom regularity. VIBE is very good for that. I use it in my office with clients during one hour sessions. By the end of the session, I’ve seen lessening or complete relief of neck pain, complete relief of tinnitus, and lessening of anxiety.
Laura GilesAsked what was slower than expected, or didn’t work at all:
Since I work with PTSD and the claim for PTSD relief is very high, I was hoping that it would work better for that. I haven’t had any clients get cured from PTSD, but they may not be using it regularly or the study may not be looking at complex PTSD, which is what most of my clients suffer from. VIBE helps with the symptoms, but it hasn’t been a cure.
Laura GilesHow you find out whether it’s working
Three measures, in order of how scientific they sound and reverse order of how useful they are.
Before and after
A self-reported survey at day zero and day thirty. Write it down at the start, because you will not remember the start.
Biomarkers
A watch or a ring. Sleep first, whatever your complaint is — sleep is where the body repairs. Heart rate variability second.
Ask your people
The least scientific and the most accurate. Ask the people who see you every day whether you are different.
The third one sounds soft. It isn’t. Human beings are built to forget how bad they felt — if women remembered the first birth accurately, most families would stop at one. A chiropractor Mark has known since kindergarten videotapes every new client, because they arrive on a walker, then a cane, then carrying a lap dog, and by then they will tell you they could always do that. They couldn’t.
I’ll have someone say “I don’t know if it really helped that much.” And I say: you self-reported a 72, and now you’re a 12. Then they start crying. They forgot how bad they felt.
Mark Fox, on PCL-5 scores in the PTSD study
One man asked his friend why he’d finally been invited to the Fourth of July picnic after three years of not being invited. The answer was that he’d stopped being difficult to be around. He had no idea.
It is showing up again with BlueVibe. A daughter reports that her mother, who had never used an app in her life, is ordering groceries on her phone and has opened a Spotify account — and the mother’s own assessment is that she feels a little better, maybe. Another said, “I didn’t know I was depressed and now I’m not.”
PTSD
Resona Health has the largest PTSD study in the world using energy therapy, with a 98% success rate, independently reviewed by outside clinical entities. Most of the participants can’t be shown. What they came through is severe enough that they will not attach their faces to it.
One that can be told: a practitioner had a client, a Green Beret, six foot eight, who told her on arrival not to treat him for PTSD because it was nonsense. Thirty days later he came back and asked for her hands. He asked whether she had treated him for it. She said yes.
You need to spend the rest of your life figuring out how to make an affordable device so every soldier in the world has one of these.
What he said next
That is roughly what happened. Thirty units sat at the Pentagon for two years. A two-star general said that if it really worked for PTSD, every soldier should have one as standard issue — and then explained that making that happen requires a twenty-thousand-dollar-a-month lobbyist for three or four years. Somewhere between five hundred and a thousand devices have been given away. The Veterans Administration could not accept free ones, because in the government’s eyes a gift is an endorsement.
Forty-four suicides a day in this country among veterans, first responders and medical workers, not counting civilians. That number is why the VIBE exists.
Why Laura recommends it
Asked when she started recommending it to clients, and what made her comfortable doing that:
Immediately. I talked to Mark, liked him, and trusted him. I trusted the money back guarantee. A few clients have returned it and had no issues, so it seems to be a no brainer to at least try it. Nothing works for everyone, but if you can have relief without drugs or side effects, I don’t know why you wouldn’t try.
I have given one to both my parents. My father has lots of aches and pains and sleep issues. The VIBE helps with both.
Laura GilesAsked whether there was one client where it changed the arc of the work they were doing together:
No, not one in particular. The ones that use it regularly benefit the most. I think that for most issues, effectiveness comes down to whether or not the person uses it, uses the most effective protocol, and uses it correctly (not too much or too little).
Laura GilesWhich one you’d want
Three devices came up in the conversation. They do different jobs, and the differences matter more than the names suggest.
Sixty protocols, listed alphabetically. Scroll to the one you want and press play. Pocket, lanyard, bra, waistband — it works through clothing. About half the size of a phone and 2.4 ounces. This is the versatile one, and it is the same device for people, dogs and horses. Deliberately so: a horse is a thousand-pound person with four feet, and a dog is a lighter one. Building three separate devices so people had to buy three was suggested and refused.
Vagus nerve only, with an on and an off button. Nobody pronounces it right, including the people who work there. Most vagus devices go at the ear or the neck, because that is where the nerve runs closest to the skin — and they get there by shocking you. This one goes over the heart instead, where the nerve clusters as it comes down both sides. No shocking involved. Get vagal tone right and a lot of other things follow.
Dual action: 40 hertz light and 40 hertz PEMF together, for cognitive impairment and memory. It has to touch skin, because the light needs to reach it — inside of the wrist or the back of the neck. It builds on MIT’s accidental finding that a flickering light at 40 hertz reversed amyloid plaque in mice. One button, and it shuts itself off after an hour, which generates a steady trickle of reports that it is broken. Out roughly four months, and it is where most of the ask-your-family stories are coming from right now.
The rest of what came up
The conversation covered more than the three devices. Everything below is in the shop.
For dogs, cats and horses. A bandana with a pocket the VIBE slides into, and a vest for larger dogs. For horses, an elastic neck band — the same over-the-heart logic doesn’t work on a horse, so it targets the vagus nerve at the neck instead. Cats get no accessory at all, because cats. Put it in the bed and they will tell you immediately whether they want it: they lie on it, or they leave.
$328.99Dog Vibe Vest Bundle
Fulvic acid. A recent addition and the only supplement in the line. It occurs naturally in soil and has largely been farmed out of it. The doctor who brought it in has been studying it alongside PEMF for eighteen years. The idea is to put it in the bowl or the glass and run protocols alongside it, so cells move waste out and nutrition in more efficiently.
$44.95FulVic Acid
RejuvaSync. A quad-peptide cream. You set the device against it and run the anti-aging protocol to infuse the frequency into the cream, then use it at night. There is no way to measure frequency held in a cream, so this one is anecdotal — it appears to hold for about thirty days. The same trick works on a glass of water, which holds it around six hours.
$39.95RejuvaSync Cream
The Kario watch. If you are going to track biomarkers over your thirty days, you need something on your wrist. Sleep first, heart rate variability second.
Thirty days is the whole test
Three to four sessions a week, about forty minutes each, for thirty days. If it hasn’t helped by then, it isn’t going to — or the protocol is wrong for what is actually going on, which happens more than you’d think. Plenty of what gets described as a sleep problem is PTSD.
Either way you know inside a month, not inside a year. And if it didn’t work, send it back and get your money back. There is no interest in you keeping something that didn’t help.
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Sixty protocols, three to four sessions a week, thirty days to know. If it doesn’t do anything for you, send it back.
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Questions first? Resona Health is the rare company in this field with a phone number and people who answer it.
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