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I'd like to lay this conversation to rest.

The actual power that a brain produces is 5- 12 watts depending on the reference source. This is literally 240 times the maximum power that the Brainmax produces which is about 50 mw (.05 watt).

The difference is that the Brainmax produces a single harmonious frequency while the brain doesn't. That small but harmonious single frequency is enough to influence the brain and elicit the phenomenal responses that NET/CES machines have been known to regularly produce.

This is another way of looking at it.

The typical ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy) machine produces .8-.9 amp or 800-900 ma which is ten times the .70 amp it takes to put a heart into fibrillation. It is also at least a thousand times what the brainmax produces. http://www.ect.org/resources/machines.html

I think what people really need to know is that the low level of electricity produced by NET/CES (Neural Electric Therapy/Cranial Electrical Stimulation) is healing and not disruptive or destructive in any manner. 

The big difference is that the small amount of electrical current is healing while a large amount like with ECT is disruptive. But that is true with nearly any beneficial thing isn't it?.

One glass of water will save you from dying of thirst while ten glasses of water can cause intoxication. Two asprin with get rid of a headache while one hundred can kill a person. Yet it takes a 1000 times the amount of healing electricity that the Brainmax produces in order to harm a person (and most authorities still debate as to whether or not ECT is harmful).

I'd like to thank everyone involved in this conversation. This information needs to be on our bestbrainmachines.com web site as it is quite pertinent and I do appreciate your help in bringing it to my attention. It will go on my website almost immediately. Thanks again.

I was asked to clarify a misunderstanding concerning current levels and the NET machine that I produce and sell, the Brainmax. Since I am the manufacturer and wish to refrain from promoting or any other action which may be prohibited by the rules of this forum I will restrict myself to that areas of the debate unless others wish to know additional information.

First the question of whether there is a dangerous level of electricity is pretty moot since the Brainmax s designed to send current to the brain and not to the heart. When figures of 70 ma being a fatal level they are referring to placing at least one electrode right against the heart if not in contact with the heart.

70 ma won't actually destroy a persons heart. It will actually only put a heart into fibrillation. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/JackHsu.shtml Then the person will die lack of oxygen if their heart is not quickly shocked again into proper functioning. To actually outright kill a person with a shock the best figures I can locate are those used in electric chair executions. They use at least 7 amps (7000 ma) to kill a person. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AprilDunetz.shtml

Our current levels are always less than 5 ma. When it is a common frequency like 100 Hz it is only on about 1/10 of the time. So the actual average current is less than .5 ma. And again it is no where the near the heart.

God gave us a safety feature as well. As an electric shock approaches 20 ma it really hurts. That is why electricity is used for torture. So a person will turn off the electricity or do whatever they need to in order to tear off the electrodes long before it gets to 70 ma.

Now there are some devices like EMS Electrical Muscle stimulation which do pass current through the heart a lots of it. NET devices like the Brainmax are very anemic by comparison to these machines. The current on a typical EMS device adjusts from 0 to 80 or from 0 to 90 ma. That even goes above the 70 ma threshold and I have no idea how they get away with it. But if you wish to worry about a machine causing heart attacks then EMS machines are certainly more qualified prospects for your attention than are NET devices.

If you have any other questions then I would be glad to answer them. I have a wealth of information in this field. I'm certainly not limited to discussing this one machine.