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Dr Gordon demonstrates the EM-PROBE to 3 times cancer survivor Gaylynn, Queen voice of Bike Friday
Dr Glen Gordon, sports medicine physician, has been a Bike Friday owner since 1994, as evidenced by the classic diamond frame New World Tourist he brought in for an overhaul.
UPDATE: Dr Gordon was sighted at Cycle Oregon 2003 Wallowa Lake Campsite in eastern Oregon, having pedaled almost all the way from Portland, through the Snake River basin, over the rockies and into Nebraska. Strong winds and rain that froze some of the Cycle Oregon riders caused him to sag himself in a car as well! We got a call from him on September 24" The roads in Nebraska are amazing! Hightway 30 is a dream - 10 foot shoulder, scenic, no traffic... I am doing around 50 miles a day, driving 10, talking to the media about EM-PROBE and the Bike Friday of course!" His email is info@em-probe.com.
One look at the new models and Dr Gordon decided to trade up to a brand new NWT, plus one for his wife. He is about to embark on a 2500-mile bicycle trip across the United States, from to his home town Portland to Iowa (Sep-Oct 2003). He'll be riding his new Bike Friday and carrying an alternative technology he developed (see website below).
"My family was genetically predisposed to heart disease and at age 33, I suffered a heart attack and had to be hospitalized. At age 63, with advanced coronary heart disease, I was told there was nothing further they could do and I would probably need a transplant. That was 3 years ago."
Dr Gordon then started researching alternative healing therapies, in particular, a type called Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) technology. "That is, biologically tuned energy that neutralizes harmful free radicals and stimulates tissue formation." Some will recognize it as originating from the pioneering research into frequency therapy conducted by Dr Royal Rife in the 1930's.
This led to Dr Gordon developing the EM-PROBE, which you can read about at his website below.
"The Russians started using the concept for sports injuries first. Our coaches were coming back from overseas meets saying that there was something the Russians were doing we didn't know about because their athletes were healing so much faster. They said it was some device with a light. That's when I got interested and began my reseatch. It wasn't the light, it was the thing driving the light."
But Dr Gordon really dropped by my desk to tell us just why cyclic, rhythmic activity (ie cycling) is essential to our health...
For the last 50,000 years man scoured the earth for food in a behavior pattern called "grazing-gazing" behaviour. This meant looking for food, reaching for it, eating it, looking for it ... an almost tai-chi like behaviour. For many of our forefathers cyclic activity lasted all day, therefore our body adapted that same behavior to stimulate the cellular structures that give us the ability to use oxygen efficiently and contribute to stamina.
The "grazing-gazing" behavior continued essentially unchanged so long as we remained an agrarian nation. All of that changed after World War II when we began feeding ourselves at the supermarket instead of the family garden.
The result was a loss of the rhythmic behavior associated with "grazing-gazing" and a growing epidemic of "overuse" (the medical profession's classic oxymoron) injuries starting with lower back pain. Every part of our body has its own "overuse" demon today, but ergonomic chairs and keyboards only make it worse by encouraging more inactivity. (The gazing-reaching for one of the 5 remote controls on the coffee table-gazing only works the right arm and shoulder - Ed)
"As Bke Friday owners we are way ahead of the pack IF we use our BF's regularly, preferably daily. Even better if we use them two or three times per day to commute or run errands," says Dr Gordon. Although this is true of any bike, a Bike Friday, being naturally more portable as well as performance-oriented, means you're more able to ride it more often. (Aha! So this is why some folks say "I never ride my titanium xyz now that I have my Bike Friday - Ed).
Rhythmic, cyclic activities stimulate cellular adaption that gives us stamina and healthy tissues. "Fight-flight" or vigorous activity gives us skilled tissues. But, if you try to get skilled tissues and don't first have healthy tissues, the outcome is injured tissue. Que disfute! So the moral to the story is, ride your Bike Friday - before all other activity - to make your tissues healthy.
Dr Gordon's says the PEMF technology is a big reason why he is back on a bike rather than flat on his back today, and his Heart of America ride is a vacation with a message: to encourage people with serious illness to investigate all options. "Oh, and ride a Bike Friday of course!" he enthuses.
You can contact him on the road on cellphone 360-271-6170 or contact him at the website below.
Bike Friday doesn't necessarily endorse his product, but since Dr Gordon claims he has treated over 20,000 patients and lectured extensively to sports bigwigs on the reseach, I bought one for my birthday to give it a shot! I'll let you know if my 2-month nagging ankle injury disappears - Lynette Chiang
MOVIE: Dr Gordon on pulsing and pedaling for life (Movie 2.7 Mb): You'll need something like Quicktime (free download) to see it.
For more information, follow this link http://www.em-probe.com.