Just Follow Your Nose
Magnetite means the difference between life and extinction
How did Lewis and Clark get anywhere without a GPS or at least the latest copy of Rand McNally?
How do trackers track?
How do swallows find Capistrano every year on time?
How do salmon swim thousands of miles to spawn?
How do homing pigeons come home?
How do lost pets find their way, sometimes hundreds of miles, back home?
How do sharks and rays find their food and notice their enemy?
The list could go on, but I think you get the point.
The nose knows!
Although there are historical records of Magnetite being used for over 6,000 years, it appears for the most part that this was done instinctually rather than what we would consider scientifically.
When I started Magnets and More in 1999, there was literally no information on the internet about Magnetite. Today Google will bring you about 2,140,000 articles.
Although, there are deposits of Magnetite located in several areas of your body, the Magnetite in your nose evidentially allows the ability to not only track, but send information to the brain for processing.
Some of the first research was done on sharks. In 1678, Italian anatomist Stefano Lorenzini described pores that speckled the snout of sharks and rays. He noted that each opening led to a long transparent tube that was filled with a gel like substance.
Improved microscopes in the late 19 th Century showed a thin nerve running through each of these tubes called ampullae of Lorenzini. This nerve emerged from the ampulla joining other nerves, which were then traced to the base of the skull, where they enter the brain through the dorsal surface of the medulla, a destination characteristic of nerves that carry sensory information into the brain.
In 1935, Sven Dijkgraaf, a Marine Biologist, noticed a shark’s sensitivity to a steel wire. He then blindfolded the shark and approached the shark with the steel wire. When the wire was closer than several centimeters from its head the shark escaped. When the experiment was repeated with a glass rod, the shark did not react in any way. (Dijkgraaf & Kalmijn, 1962)
In 1958. Hans Werner Lissmann, a British Zoologist specializing in animal behavior, confirmed that the ampullae of Lorenzini aids in the detection and analysis of electric fields in the marine environment of fish. In plain English that means sharks find their food and are warned of their enemies by tiny nerves or electro-receptors made of Magnetite This information is sent to the brain, processed, and then acted upon.
In the early 1960’s, R. W. Murray, Marine Biologist at the University of Birmingham in England, confirmed responses to temperature changes, pressure differences and touch. When he happened to switch on an electric field near the opening of a tube connected to an ampulla, the firing pattern changed, altered accordingly to intensity and was sensitive to polarity. When the field's positive pole neared the opening of an ampulla, the firing rate declined; when the negative pole came near, firing increased.
Incredibly, Murray found that the sharks could respond to fields as weak as one millionth of a volt applied across a centimeter of seawater.
“This effect is equivalent to the intensity of the voltage gradient that would be produced in the sea by connecting up a 1.5 volt AA battery with one pole dipped in the Long Island Sound and the other pole in the waters off Jacksonville, Fl. Theoretically, a shark swimming between these points could tell when the battery was switched on or off."
The question I am asked the most is:
How soon after wearing Magnetite Jewelry will I feel the effects?
And the answer is IMMEDIATELY!
Because of centuries of desensitizing we may or may not be aware of it, but just like the nose knows, the body does, too.
However, in moments of fear or stress have YOU ever noticed your nostrils flare and the hairs in your nose bristle?
The nose knows!
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