As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews, elixirs and products on their own, and several existing vendors of nutritional products have expressed an interest in starting to brew and market their own line of such products. 

My background?  I have had a number of careers over my lifetime.  Among many other things, I have a broad and deep Master's degree (IUP, 1992) in health and wellness research (health sciences), and a wide background in "alternative" nutrition and "alternative" healing.  I have an undergraduate degree in Psychology, a strong undergraduate background in electronics engineering and astrophysics as well, a graduate-level background in clinical psychology (psychotherapy), the health sciences, health, well-being and exercise research, and additional graduate background in acupuncture (Five Elements; Worsley method) as well as the Master's degree recounted above.  I have a strong avocational background in nutrition, antioxidant nutrition, heart-centered meditation, esoteric systems of energy healing, spiritual healing, and all kinds of alternative health research.  Despite my well-demonstrated "left brain" or logical/scientific, abilities, I have been a dedicated meditator and mystic since 15 years of age.  I own and operate, funded largely by myself,  a small research laboratory in my home devoted to the following general areas of inquiry: 

• research on nutritional antioxidants known as the primal or primeval hydrogen ion antioxidants (the "negative hydrogen ion" antioxidant class) -- the nutritional supplement marketed as Megahydrin is one example of this class 
• research on generation of negative hydrogen ions, for the purposes of supporting the above inquiries 
• occasional debunking of excessive claims for nutritional supplements made by some vendors (e.g., some claims made for "monatomic minerals or "White Gold"; also those made for some forms of "clustered water" or "structured water") 
• research on the anomalous behaviors of high-temperature gas plasmas in inert gases and in hydrogen 
• research on means of easily transmitting heart rate information without wires (wireless) from an individual to nearby (I have also developed and delivered prototypes for three such devices to researchers at Heartmath Institute) recording and analysis equipment for the purposes of identifying coherent or entrained heart states, indicative of certain "special" inner states 
• detection and analysis of, and research on, the above-mentioned coherent heart rate rhythms 
• investigation of the effects of such coherent states ("generated" by an individual) on nearby electronic monitoring equipment -- these are mostly "subtle" effects, such as decreases in background levels of ionizing radiation, decreased emission of inoizing radiation from nearby radio-isotope sources 
• investigation of the "subtle" effects of healers (mostly myself!) on water and on various types of electronic monitoring equipment 
• development of tiny magnetic field transmitting devices which help to protect the wearer or those nearby from harmful effects of EMF from appliances, etc., and to help to "cohere" the rhythms of the body -- this class of devices is often referred to as "earth resonance generators" or "Schumann resonance generators"
• effects of so-called Rife plasma healing devices, which employ a high-temperature glow discharge in an inert gas in (glowing) plasma tube, excited by radio-frquency (RF) and/or audio-frequency energy 
• some of the above research has also connected neatly with my work as a spiritual healer, which often involves being in those coherent heart states as described above 
• the production of the negative hydrogen (hydride) antioxidant and other higher-order boichemcial antioxidants and other "live" nutrients via anaerobic fermentation by a microbial ionoculant culture known as "Effective Microorganisms", aka EM, EM1 or EM-1.

I also continue to engage in a small amount of Information Systems (IS) consulting and scientific consulting as well, a bit of website design (mostly for healers and coaches) as well as a bit of coaching and consulting on raw foods diets and well-being (so-called "wellness coaching").  I also continue to offer scientific counsulting in several areas, primarily to nutritional researchers.

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My name is Vinny Pinto, and I currently reside in a wilderness area in the mountains west of Frederick, Maryland.  I have, from a very early age, walked through life with one foot in the logical and "linear" realms of the sciences and engineering, and the other foot in the worlds of mysticism, spirituality, and meditation, as well as energy healing and spiritual healing.  Somehow, I have never had much trouble juggling and nurturing both the intuitive/spiritual and the more linear, logical and "scientific" aspects of my nature.  Indeed, as my inquiries have grown more and more in the past 7 years toward energy healing, spiritual healing, mysticism, and cutting-edge areas of the health sciences (raw foods diets, hydrogen-based primeval antioxidants, and heart rhythm coherence detection), I have found my firm background in logic, the sciences, and engineering to be of great benefit, as I am decidedly not at all "New Agey" or "spacy" in my approach to life, but rather grounded, down-to-earth and pragmatic. 

This section will offer some further detail on my background, training and interests.  Feel free to skip it if you wish, and jump ahead to the next section!  As mentioned briefly earler, I have trained academically in the sciences, in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, and the related fields of health, wellness, aging and exercise, at the graduate level, earning a broad and deep Master's degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in Western Pennsylvania in 1992. I have also trained, since 1979, in numerous energy healing systems and in various systems of alternative healing.  I have worked as an electronics design engineer, an engineering manager, as a scientific research consultant and adviser, a psychotherapist, a director of a busy walk-in and telephone crisis center, a health and behavioral health researcher, and a research /software development director in mental health services in the corporate world.  As a sideline, I became certified, via ACE, as a perso nal trainer in 1993, and worked as a personal trainer and exercise/fitness coach in the early 1990's.  I also trained as a pilot in the late 1970's, and passed examinations for my commercial pilot's license in 1980.

I have trained and practiced extensively over the years in the realms of spiritual spiritual healing, inner disciplines, meditation, intuition, heart-centered spirituality, energy healing and alternative healing and raw foods nutrition, and at times I have practiced, taught or coached many of these modalities.  He als

Drawing on my previous training (both practical and academic, including graduate-level studies) over many years in the sciences and electronics, I continue to spend a very small portion of my time in my privately-owned and operated non-profit research laboratory, performing research, much of it in the areas of the effects of deep heart-centered or healing states.  The primary focus of this research work is studying the physical effects of certain states which may be entered by a spiritual healer, heart-centered meditator, or mystic.  In brief, we know that many spiritual and energy healers, heart-centered meditators, and mystics, when they are in that "special" state of connectedness with God and Spirit, which we often call "increased coherence" or "high coherence", emit a "field" or "quality" which affects many physical phenomena around them.  Some of the physical effects of the states which seem to occur near spiritual healers and heart-centered meditators during these inner states, and which Vinny has investigated, include:

• changes in the resistance of water
• changes in properties of water, such as water cluster size, water structure, or other properties
• significant reduction in certain types of background ionizing radiation (alpha, beta and gamma radiation)
• reductions in ionizing radiation from point sources such as radioactive mineral samples
• strong increases in "coherence", and reduction of true chaos (randomness), in nearby electronic circuits, sensors, special sensing devices, and computers
• notable decrease in entropy (noise, decay, chaotic decay of order to disorder) near the healer or meditator.  This is usually manifested as reduced noise or randomness, and this constitutes a violation of some of the "rules" of thermodynamics
• an increase in the "coherence" of the heart rate variability (HRV) of the healer or meditator as well as of any other person within 12 feet. This is basically the appearance of a very rhythmic pattern of heart rate variability (HRV) which has healthful effects thoughout the organism, and also often results in a sense of peace and vastly increased intuition or intuitive access.
• primitive hydrogen-based nutritional antioxidants found in nature in some water sources and in raw plant and animal foods.
• the production of the negative hydrogen (hydride) antioxidant and other higher-order boichemcial antioxidants and other "live" nutrients via anaerobic fermentation by a microbial ionoculant culture known as "Effective Microorganisms", aka EM, EM1 or EM-1.

Shifting the focus a bit more to the personal side of my life: as the 1990s drew to a close, I found I was able to realize very significant positive improvements in my health by shifting my diet to a largely-raw Paleolithic "ancestral" or "caveman" diet which included some raw naimal foods; these diets are often called raw vegetation and animal foods diets, or RVAF diets, and I eventually crated a no-pressure, non-missionary educational website with information about the possible benefits of such diets, called the Raw Paleo Diet website, at http://www.rawpaleodiet.org.

Likewise, I also experienced significant improvements in my health and vitality by incorporating into my diet various sources of the primitive primeval ancient antioxidant known as the negative hydrogen ion (aka hydride species) antioxidant, which I supplemented by ingesting so-called "alkaline ionized water" (the preferred term in the scientific literature is electrolyzed reduced water, or ERW.),and also created an educational, non-proselytizing website on this class of primeval antioxidants called the Negative Hydrogen Ion website, at http://www.h-minus-ion.org

Then, in late 2002, I sensed that there was some additional work to be done... in addition to my research, and in addition to my freely-offered, donation-only spiritual healing work; so I asked, in early November 2002, on an inner level, of God/Being/Spirit and my angels, to be shown "the next step" in my own evolution of health and well-being and in what I could share with others... Shortly, a number of foks in my life, many of them casual callers or visitors, mentioned things which led me first to beneficial soil-based primitive organisms, then to the incredible antioxidant swhich they could produce, including the primeval hydrogen antioxidant, and lastly, I "stumbled" repeatedly upon mentions of a strange and unique soil-derived beneficial micorbial inoculant culture called "Effective Microorganisms" or EM1 (aka EM-1 or EM.). I strongly resisted exploring these organisms at first -- I was very busy with other endeavors, and further, had no desire to start palying amateur microbiologist.  I slowly relented... At first, I played with using these organisms solely for improving the health and waste management of my pet chickens and other outdoor poultry, but I was quickly seduced into ingesting the organisms and studying their fermentative actions in my laboratory, and then... one thing led to another, and I started brewing lots of the stuff, and consuming lots of the stuff... Looking back, I feel that my angels literalyl dragged me into researching the organisms as well as use of their fermentative products for nutritional purposes, and that they also eventually dragged me -- kicking and screaming -- into marketing them as research products for a verly lmited community. I finally realized, in early 2003, when lookgn back, that I had been shown "the next step" in terms of what to bring to the world as a service, and also to further evolve my own level of health and vitality. 

These EM-derived raw food products have turned out, so far at least, to be a powerful adjunct to my diet, and to have had an effect upon my well-being at least as great as when I switched to a largely-raw RVAF Paleo diet 2.5 years ago.  Very strange and unexpected, but very welcome! I am grateful; I remember now with gratitude that I had asked on an inner level, late last year, of God/Being/Spirit, to be shown "the next step" in my own evolution of health and well-being and in what I could share with others... and I realize now that my request was indeed answered!
 
 

As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews and elixirs on their own.

All information is presented for informational and educational purposes only.  Label, flyer and website information have not been reviewed nor approved by the FDA. 

No claims are made for ability of this product to prevent, heal or treat any disease state.
 

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Websites and Web Pages

EM Information Website at http://www.eminfo.info
The EM Information Website is a comprehensive website devoted to bringing to the web timely, useful and accurate information about Effective Microorganisms and the varied used for them in agriculture and many other fields, including the realms of fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements for human and animal health.

EM-health group at Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-health/
This discussion group is devoted to the use of EM in human and animal health, and related topics such as their use in agriculture to produce food of higher quality, sometimes known as "beyond-organic" or "uber-organic".  There are already a number of EM fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements on the market, with more being developed every day.  We welcome beginners, "consumer users" and also serious researchers. This list is moderated by Vinny Pinto, a researcher in fields of EM1 and nutritional antioxidants, and a peak health consultant/coach. Vinny is a scientist and health researcher who has devoted over 1,000 hours to research on EM and it's uses in health and healing, who has developed several human EM-fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements, and who networks with EM researchers around the world.  Vinny also serves as a consultant for several nutritional supplement vendors who are bringing EM-fermented products to the marketplace.
How this group got started:  I have been a researcher in the EM world since late last year, and I have received feedback from a number of folks in the EM world that, while there are already three excellent e-mail list groups devoted to EM and varied uses (agricultural, industrial and waste management [EM-Ag] and white-gold/ormus [EM-ormus]), there is no one list group devoted primarily to EM and its usage in human and animal health, which is a rapidly developing and evolving field.  While the live-foods list does have a number of members and posts devoted to health uses for EM, it still remains primarily a list group devoted to raw or partly-raw diets which include animal foods (aka Paleolithic or cavemen diets).  Hence, a number of folks have asked me over the past few months if there is, or could be, a list group devoted primarily to EM and health uses.  Therefore, I finally decided in August 2003 to start such a group at Yahoo Groups. 

EM-Farm-Ind group on Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-Farm-Ind/
Devoted to any and all uses of EM in agriculture, composting, waste and odor management and industry.

EM-ormus group on Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-ormus/
A very specialized group devoted primarily to the apparent ability of EM organisms to convert elements and trace minerals in various substances (such as clays and rock dust) to a special form called the Ormus or monatomic form (aka m-state, super high spin, deformed nuclei, or manna elements), as discussed in a section above. 
I strongly suggest that you DO NOT join this group unless you know what this is all about, and sincerely want to learn more; this is a very specialized group.

Live-food group at Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/live-food/
This is a list group devoted solely to folks who eat largely raw diets which include raw animal foods (often called RVAF diets or Raw Palelithic Diets) and to fine-tuning and optimizing such diets. A number of members of the list group, including this author, have been experimenting with consuming EM and various EM products for health benefits. Thus, there are some posts regarding EM and it's uses in human nutrition. This group, like the above-mentioned group, is quite specialized; it is strongly recommended that you DO NOT join this group unless you know what this is all about, and sincerely want to learn more .   The list owner of  the Live-food list is the author of this curent page and website.

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