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An increasingly alarmed army of international scientists

have reached a controversial conclusion:

 

The " electrosmog " that first began developing with the rollout of the

electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is

responsible for many of the diseases that impair or kill them.

During the past 100 years, we have methodically filled in

the electromagnetic spectrum far beyond what occurs in nature.

Recently, several developments have highlighted the growing

hazards of EMF pollution and the crucial need to address them.

In 2007, the Bioinitiative Working Group released a 650-page

report citing more than 2,000 studies (many very recent) that detail the toxic

effects of EMFs from all sources. Chronic exposure to even low-level radiation

(like that from cell phones), can cause a variety of cancers, impair immunity,

and contribute to Alzheimer's disease and dementia, heart disease, and many

other ailments.

Additionally, every single study of brain tumors that looks

at 10 or more years of use shows an increased risk of brain cancer.

A recent study from Sweden is particularly frightening,

suggesting that if you started using a cell phone as a teen, you have a 5 times

greater risk of brain cancer than those who started as an adult.

A recent study showed that exposure to very-low-frequency

voltage signals (1-100kHz), or " dirty electricity,” can greatly

increase your risk of melanoma, thyroid cancer, and uterine cancer. These

signals are largely by-products of electronics, such as modern energy-efficient

appliances, televisions, stereos and other entertainment devices.

These electronic devices use a lower voltage than other

appliances, and this manipulation of current creates a complex electromagnetic

field. This field not only radiates into the immediate environment but also can

travel along home or office wiring throughout the neighborhood.

" For the first time in our evolutionary history, we

have generated an entire secondary, virtual, densely complex environment

— an electromagnetic soup — that essentially overlaps the human

nervous system, " says Michael Persinger, PhD, a neuroscientist at Laurentian

University who has studied the effects of EMFs on cancer cells.

And it appears that, more than a century after Thomas Edison

switched on his first light bulb, the health consequences of that continual

overlap are just now beginning to be documented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New scientific evidence is continually emerging that nearly

all the twentieth century human plagues can be tied to some aspect of our use

of electricity, including:

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

Brain

tumors

Malignant melanoma

Asthma

Cardiovascular disease

Immune

system dysfunction

Hormone disturbance

Brittle diabetes

Sleep

disorders, headaches, Alzheimer’s disease and ADHD

And this is just a partial list.

EMFs and Your DNA

Cells in your body can react to EMFs as a harmful invader,

just like they do to other environmental toxins.

Remember that you are an electrical being.

Your body is a complex communication device where cells

“talk”, tissues “talk,” organs “talk,” and

organisms “talk[1].”

At each of these levels, the communication includes finely tuned bio-electrical

transmitters and receivers, which are tuned like tuning into a radio station.

What happens when you expose a radio antenna to a significant amount of

external noise? You get static from the noise – and that is what is

happening to your body in today’s electrosmog environment.

Two of the more well-known biologicals impacts from

electrosmog are the interruption of the brain wave pattern[2]

leading to behavior issues[3]

and the interference to your body’s entire communication system

(cytoskeleton)[4]

leading to abnormal neurological function, such as dementia, chronic fatigue

syndrome, and fibromyalgia.

At a cellular level, your cell membrane receptors (the brain

of the cell) recognize electromagnetic fields at very low levels of exposure

producing a stress response similar to that produced by exposure to heavy

metals or toxic chemicals.[5]

 

This can cause the cell membrane to go from an

“active” or permeable state where it allows nutrients in and toxins

out, to an “inactive” state where the cell membrane is impermeable.

During a normal day, your cells will change states thousands of time, but when

under constant environmental stress, the membranes can be locked in the inactive

state. This is often referred to as “oxidative stress” as nutrients

are able to enter into the cell, while toxins (free radicals) are not allowed

to leave.

There is also real evidence that this inactive state can

even have geno-toxic effects, meaning electrosmog is toxic by both damaging DNA

and preventing your body from repairing DNA, which can be the first step to

cancer.

We are not really sure what the “trigger” is

that causes health problems, but we know that the electrosmog is definitely a

contributing factor. For health, your body must be able to communicate within

itself, that is, to be in harmony with the natural rhythm of the earth and all

life.

The chaotic and unpredictable patterns from electrosmog can

create noise in your body and force your body out of harmony. These damaging

biological effects have been found at levels far below the so-called industrial

and governmental safety limits—1,000,000 times lower than those limits,

in some cases.

Why do things such as MTT, acupuncture, TENS

units, pacemakers, and many other bioelectrical treatments work? Most likely a

major reason why they work is because they focus on getting your body back into

its natural rhythm or resonance. Just as you breathe in oxygen from an

atmosphere you can’t see, your cells are suspended in a sea of

vibrational energy that you can’t see or feel—that is, until it

makes you sick.

As the MSNBC article states:

“Remember, these positive-negative shifts are

occurring many thousands of times per second, so the electrons in your body are

oscillating to that tune. Your body becomes charged up because you're basically

coupled to the transient's electric field. "

Keep in mind that all the cells in your body, whether

islets in the pancreas awaiting a signal to manufacture insulin or white blood

cells speeding to the site of an injury, use electricity—or

" electron change”— to communicate with each other.

By overlapping the body's signaling mechanisms, could

transients [electrosmog] interfere with the secretion of insulin, drown out the

call-and-response of the immune system, and cause other physical havoc?”

Yes, absolutely.

And the really frightening aspect about electrosmog is how

little control you have over it.

How You Can Protect

Yourself

Fortunately, you are not completely helpless. There are

strategies that can help reduce your exposure and protect you from the constant

onslaught of radiation.

For over 20 years, Building Biologists (www.buildingbiology.net) have been

studying and educating the general public regarding the negative impact of

electromagnetic fields (EMF). On their website are multiple videos and

information on the why, what and how for dealing with EMFs.

First and foremost, you’ll want to reduce your

exposure to as many sources as you can.

For my latest list of safety tips and guidelines on how to

reduce your exposure, please see my previous article.

In addition to these recommendations, Camilla

Rees mentions a few more in her video, including:

 

Intestinal care: Make sure you’re getting

plenty of healthy probiotics. The Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland

discovered that symptoms of electrosensitivity can be reduced by providing

gut barrier support. For more information, listen

to the interview with Dr. Rau, medical director of the Paracelsus

Clinic, available at this link.

Regular detoxification

programs: Not only are you dealing with increasing amounts

of toxic chemicals in your environment, your body is full of

microorganisms that respond to EMFs by generating increased levels of

their own toxins, according to a course for physicians on this subject,

taught by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, MD.

Beware of mold: Mold, just like other

microorganisms, can also react in high EMF environments. One study showed

600 times more neurotoxins generated from mold in a high EMF environment.

According to Rees, there are also mold legal cases being reviewed,

questioning whether problems in buildings infested with mold may have

actually been related to nearby antenna infrastructure.

 

Controlling the environment in which you sleep is especially

important, given you spend a third of your life there. Review how to create

a sleep sanctuary in five easy steps.

More Electrical

Pollution Solutions

Electrical

Pollution Solution has an extensive list of steps you can take to combat

electrosmog in your home and work environments. Their suggestions include the

following:

Have an electrician remove dimmer switches, halogen

lights, and variable speed frequency drives (VSFD) where possible—like on

your energy-efficient washing machine.

Remove touch lamps, plasma TVs, most compact

fluorescent bulbs, fluorescent lights with electronic ballasts, some

full-spectrum lights, and wireless plug-in phone jacks, which are all sources

of high frequency EMF.

Remove flashers from decorative lighting.

Remove your microwave oven.

Besides dangerous EMF radiation, microwave ovens have other negatives impacts

on your health.

Only use laptops on battery; recharge them when you

aren’t around since the transformer on the charging cord emits a very

large field.

Have your electrician make sure the wire between the

meter and your electrical box is large enough and in good condition.

Have a plumber install a PVC pipe between the house

pipes and the water/sewer system.

Have the phone company install a Radio Frequency (RF)

Filter on your phone line; some people also install shielded phone wire.

Only buy new electronics that have appropriate

harmonic noise filters already installed.

Avoid using electric

blankets and electric heating pads.

Use rubber gloves when washing dishes or working at

the sink, and stand on a non-conductive mat. Both increase the resistance of

the path through your body.

Put aluminum flashing on your desktop computer, and

connect that to aluminum flashing under your chair with another strip of

aluminum flashing.

You can even buy conductive socks or copper insoles!

More specifics on these can be found at http://www.electricalpollution.com.

For additional EMF information, please see EMF.mercola.com for the

latest news and updates.

Be a Live Wire for

Change

The last thing that you can do, and perhaps the most

important, is to help spread awareness about this ever-increasing problem.

If you believe that one or more transmitting products is

making you ill, please report it/them to the following agencies (be prepared

with the manufacturer, model and/or serial number, and a list of your

symptoms):

 

FDA

1-800-FDA-1088 The same FDA program that regulates medical devices also

regulates consumer products that emit radiation.

Consumer

Product Safety Commission 1-800-638-2772

EMR Policy

Institute

 

It’s unfortunate, but the

government is not likely to step up and do the right thing to protect your

health without a lot of pressure from the public.

Power companies have successfully beaten back attempts to

modify exposure standards. The cell phone industry, which has funded at least

87% of the research on the subject, has effectively resisted regulation.

Please get involved at any level you can, to help increase

the pressure on industry and industry regulators, which is the only way to

create a safer future for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Oschman, James L. Energy Medicine:

The Scientific Basis. Churchill Livingstone, 2006. P. 189.

[2] Oschman, James L. Energy Medicine:

The Scientific Basis. Churchill Livingstone, 2006. P. 96

[3] Becker, Robert. MD. Cross Current.

Penguin Group. 1990. P. 215.

[4] Oschman, James L. Energy Medicine:

The Scientific Basis. Churchill Livingstone, 2006. P. 131.

[5] Lipton, Bruce, PhD. " The

Biology of Belief. " Mountain of Love/Elite Books, Santa Rosa, CA. 2005. P. 83

 

Sources:

 

MSNBC January 18,

2010