As I write this, our country is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. With stay-at-home orders in place and quarantines being initiated, the use and need for technology is seemingly at an all-time high! Please understand that the purpose of this writing is not to encourage the elimination of technology, but rather to urge you to take precautions and protect yourself the best that you can.
We know that the human body is composed of ions, minerals, and water and is a strong conductor of electrical energy. This also makes the body an effective “antenna,” able to absorb strong fields from surrounding environmental factors such as power lines and Wi-Fi.
There are two main types of fields/radiation that can affect us:
Ionizing radiation has enough energy to enter our cells and break chemical bonds. Gamma rays, x-rays and ultraviolet rays are examples of this.
Non-ionizing radiation has enough energy to “agitate” atoms but does not actually destroy them. Radio frequency radiation (RFR) and extremely low frequency radiation (ELF) fall into this category.
RFR became problematic around WWII with the use of radar, and ELF has become the most intense and widespread electromagnetic radiation produced by man. These are the categories into which cellphones, computers, routers, wifi, radio signals and fields emanating from appliances fall.
According to Frontiers in Public Health, August 2019,“32 countries, or governmental bodies within these countries, have issued policies and health recommendations concerning exposure to RFR. Three U.S. states have issued advisories limiting exposure to RFR, and the Worcester Massachusetts Public Schools voted to post precautionary Wi-Fi radiation guidelines on its website. In France, Wi-Fi has been removed from pre-schools, ordered to be shut off in elementary schools when not in use, and children age 16 years or under are banned from bringing cell phones to school. Because the national test agency found that 9 out of 10 phones exceeded permissible radiation limits, France is also recalling several million phones.” THE WORLD IS TAKING NOTICE!!
Your degree of exposure is based on the source of the radiation, your distance from it, and the duration of time spent in its field. Thus, some of the simplest solutions for lowering your risk to health-related issues associated to EMF’s is limiting screen time, turning off devices at night (including Wi-fi routers) and walking away from your computer at regular intervals.
To take this to another level, there are a number of companies that make products designed to help counteract the negative effects of EMF fields. We currently utilize Safe Space Products in our office and have them available for purchase. We’ve found these products to be very helpful! As technology changes and more of these protective measures hit the market, we continue to research so we can provide the most effective solutions available to this ever-growing challenge.
5G is getting a lot of press lately as well. Scientific American published an article in October 2019, entitled “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe.” Strong words.
In this article, written by Dr. Joel Moskowitz it states that, “The latest cellular technology, 5G, will employ millimeter waves for the first time. These are in addition to microwaves that have been in use with older 2G through 4G cellular technologies. Given limited reach, 5G will require cell antennas every 100 to 200 meters, exposing many people to millimeter wave radiation.” This means that the source of the radiation has increased and the distance from it will become shorter, thus exponentially increasing our overall exposure to harmful radiation.
With this technology being new, there is very little research to show its potentially harmful effects. In fact, there was very little done to determine potential harm from 4G. You’d have to go back and research the potential harm of 2G and 3G and, unfortunately, make assumptions that bigger, faster, more intense electrical fields will be even more harmful than their predecessors. Time will tell if governments are willing to go down this road.
According to research done by Dr. Martin Pall at Washington State University, EMFs have the ability to:
1. Attack our nervous systems, including our brains, leading to widespread neurological and neuropsychiatric effects and possibly many others.
2. Attack our endocrine (hormonal) systems.
3. Produce oxidative stress and free radical damage, which have central roles in essentially all chronic diseases.
4. Attack the DNA of our cells, producing single and double strand breaks and oxidized bases in our cellular DNA. These, in turn, produce cancer and mutations in germ line cells, producing mutations in future generations.
5. Produce elevated levels of apoptosis (programmed cell death), events especially important in causing both neurodegenerative diseases and infertility.
6. Lower male and female fertility, lower sex hormones, lower libido, increase levels of spontaneous abortion and, as already stated, attack the DNA in sperm cells.
7. Produce excessive intracellular calcium [Ca2+]i and excessive calcium signaling.
8. Attack the cells of our bodies, promoting cancer. Such attacks are thought to act via fifteen different mechanisms during cancer causation. Number 7 stands out at the moment. It was found in 2015 that the SARS-CoV E protein forms Ca2+ permeable ion channels. So, for the sake of argument, could there be a possible correlation between excessive intracellular calcium caused by ELFs (5G) and viral issues?
I’m not saying that 5G, or ELFs, cause viruses, I’m just saying that maybe the high intensity stress to our cells could present a possible risk factor, allowing viruses to take hold and replicate.
I’m sure that many, if not all of you, are currently taking measures to support your immune system, distance yourself from others, eat healthy, and exercise. I would also urge you to consider any and all methods of protection than you can put in place to protect your body, mind, and spirit from ELFs and environmental stresses as well.
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