Hosts Ellen Kamhi PhD RN, The Natural Nurse® interviews Jamie Banks.

Who is Jamie Banks?

She is the Executive Director of Quiet Communities, Inc located in Lincoln, MA. Quiet Communities is a 501c3 organization that conducts research, and provides education and outreach to help communities transition to clean, quiet, sustainable, and healthy landscape maintenance practices.

After many years working in health care economics and health outcomes research, she shifted her activities to the area of environmental health and science.

In 2007, she founded Planet Rewards. In 2013, she founded Quiet Communities. She earned her PhD at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK), in Social Policy (Health Economics/Outcomes) and holds Masters degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In today’s topic, Jamie Banks talks about the risks of noise pollution, especially to our overall well-being and alternative solutions for a healthy and responsible landscape maintenance.

Contact: https://www.quietcommunitiesinc.org/, www.agza.net

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestion, please use the  comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

Studies have shown that soothing music can have a positive effect on heart rate, and can be very beneficial to patients in reducing anxiety. Music therapy is a wonderful addition to everyone’s routine. Ellen Kamhi PhD RN ( article author), did an experiment using the healing sounds created by Steven Halpern, which measured an increase in immune activity following listening to specific music.

Live blood cell analysis is a technique that offers a real time perspective on the health of our blood. A drop of blood is extracted from the fingertip, and placed under a darkfield microscope.

If the blood is stagnant or sluggish, with lots of red cells clumped together, it can be a result of just eating a heavy meal (which is why you feel sluggish), or a more chronic condition needing to be addressed.

You can see this in the ‘before’ imagery; when the music (CHAKRA SUITE) is played, and a second drop of blood extracted, you can see the remarkable difference almost immediately. Dr. Ellen Kamhi, “the Natural Nurse”, points out how much more movement (motility) there is as well in the white blood cells (neutrophils) which is an indication that they are better able to do their job as scavenger of toxins and as a key component of our immune system.

The video thus demonstrates the healing powers of music. For more information on Steven Halpern‘s sound healing music, visit his website