Showing posts with label EMF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EMF. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Electromagnetic Fields And How They Affect Our Health

I recently watched a documentary called ‘Resonance,’ this is the inspiration for this article. This documentary was a well-researched informational documentary about how having cell phone towers and radio frequencies are actually affecting our health on a greater level than you might imagine. I recommend you check out this documentary, there will be a link provided at the end of this article.


What are EMF’s?
Electromagnetic Fields or EMF’s are the radio waves that are emitted appliances and wireless devices such as cell phones and computers.  Household appliances are considered to be part of the lower frequency range and cell phones, cell phone towers and wireless devices are a part of the high frequency range. We cannot see or feel these frequencies, so I think this is why this matter is greatly overlooked.
 So, what is the problem with EMF’s?
This is where it gets tricky, cell phones have only been around for the past 20 years or so and have only become THIS popular within the last 10 years; with now more than 5 billion cell phone users across the globe. There are many studies that show that cell phone use can in fact, cause cancer. There have been studies that show that this is more predominant in children, with excessive EMF exposure causing Leukemia, among other things. However this is proving to be a difficult thing to PROVE because most cancer causing agents take at least 10 or more years to develop.
In ‘Resonance,’ it is pointed out that the way the pineal gland reacts to EMF frequencies is the same way it reacts to microwave and light frequencies. This is an issue because when we sleep, our eyes send a signal to our pineal gland when it is dark, to start producing melatonin. However, if you are next to your cell phone when you are sleeping, your eyes may be interpreting the high frequencies as light frequencies so your brain will not receive this message and therefore no melatonin will be produced. Melatonin is extremely important to your health because along with a sleep-aid it is also a powerful free radical fighting anti-oxidant. So, if the EMFs are causing free radicals to form in your body, and then they are stopping your body from being able to combat them, you have a problem.
Another key point that the documentary ‘Resonance’ pointed out is that it is difficult to test the health of a person exposed to EMF’s vs. the health of the person who isn’t because virtually all humans are now exposed to these frequencies. This movie also interviews some people who have gotten cancer most likely from living in a subdivision that was built around a cell phone tower.
The disappearance of Honeybees is no secret either; it would only make sense that the increase of cell phone usage is a contributing factor to this ‘phenomena.’ This is not a matter to be ignored as the majority of our food production depends on the pollination of Honeybees.
 What can we do?
There are a few options. To point out the obvious, you could stop using a cell-phone, but I know in this day and age that is nearly impossible. You can limit your cell phone usage and try not to keep it on you when it is not in use and be sure to keep it out of your room while you sleep. Text when you can and if you can’t use the speaker phone option. Also, headset devices are a great choice. It is also very important to make sure that you don’t move to an area that is remotely close to a cell phone tower. Because Cell phone towers are virtually everywhere, it is tough to avoid them, but it would be best to not live directly beside one or under power lines. There are a few different products you can try as well that are designed to reduce the harmful affects of EMFs. I posted the following on the CE Facebook page a little while ago, and it didn’t get a very good response. I don’t understand why, yes, sure it seems to easy maybe, but it’s free! What do you have to lose? It’s better than nothing… I actually had kinesiology done to me with my cell phone with and without the ‘Freeshield,’ and this proved that this technology does in fact work. So try it! It’s worth a shot.
 http://www.freeshield.com/
There are also some devices that you can purchase, on this site they claim to work by enhancing a persons connection to the Earths Electro-Magnetic Field.
http://www.blushield.info/
I think that it is very important to raise awareness on the topic of EMFs and at least open peoples eyes to what they are and what damage they can cause. I encourage everyone to do his or her own research on the matter, and look into this. You may be surprised with what you find!
And the link for ‘Resonance.’ Enjoy!



Article from:
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/01/06/electromagnetic-fields-and-how-they-affect-our-health/

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Serious Public Health Concerns Raised Over Exposure to Electromagnetic

Dr. George Carlo was the scientist funded with $25 million by the cell phone industry to research cell phone radiation and to prove through scientific studies that the phones are safe.

After six years of study Dr. Carlo determined that cell phone radiation disrupted heart pacemakers, damaged the blood-brain barrier, penetrates the skulls of children and does genetic damage that can result in cancer.

Dr. Carlo presented these findings to the cell phone industry and when he refused to recant the findings his research funds were cut-off and a publicity campaign to discredit him was put in effect.

Dr. Carlo is extremely concerned about public health and has gone public with his information in the book:
Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age


Serious Public Health Concerns Raised Over Exposure to Electromagnetic

Fields (EMF) from Power
Lines and Cell Phones

University of Albany, New York– August 31/2007

An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. It raises serious concern about the safety of existing public limits that regulate how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.

Electromagnetic radiation from such sources as electric power lines, interior wiring and grounding of buildings and appliances are linked to increased risks for childhood leukemia and may set the stage for adult cancers later in life. A report from the BioInitiative Working Group (www.bioinitiative.org
) released on Friday, August 31st documents the scientific evidence that power line EMF exposure is responsible for hundreds of new cases of childhood leukemia every year in the United States and around the world.

The report provides detailed scientific information on health impacts when people are exposed to electromagnetic radiation hundreds or even thousands of times below limits currently established by the Federal Communications Commission (US FCC) and International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection in Europe (ICNIRP). The authors reviewed more than 2000 scientific studies and reviews, and concluded that the existing public safety limits are inadequate to protect public health. From a public health policy standpoint, new public safety limits, and limits on further deployment of risky technologies are warranted based on the total weigh of evidence.

The report documents scientific evidence raising worries about childhood leukemia (from power lines and other electrical exposures), brain tumors and acoustic neuromas (from cell and cordless phones) and Alzheimer’s disease. There is evidence that EMF is a risk factor for both childhood and adult cancers.

Public health expert and co-editor of the Report Dr. David Carpenter, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, New York says “this report stands as a wake-up call that long-term exposure to some kinds of EMF may cause serious health effects. Good public health planning is needed now to prevent cancers and neurological diseases linked to exposure to power lines and other sources of EMF. We need to educate people and our decisionmakers that “business as usual” is unacceptable.”

Health questions about power line EMFs were initially raised by Nancy Wertheimer, a Colorado public health expert and Ed Leeper, an electrical engineer in 1979. Wertheimer noticed that children were twice or three times as likely to have leukemia tended to live in homes in the Denver, CO area close to power lines and transformers. Now, there are dozens of studies confirming the link, but public health response has been slow in coming, and new standards to protect the public are necessary.

Brain tumor specialist Dr. Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD and Professor at University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden is a member of the BioInitiative Working Group. His work on cell phones, cordless phones and brain tumors is widely recognized to be pivotal in the debate about the safety of wireless radiofrequency and microwave radiation. “The evidence for risks from prolonged cell phone and cordless phone use is quite strong when you look at people who have used these devices for 10 years or longer, and when they are used mainly on one side of the head.

Brain tumors normally take a long time to develop, on the order of 15 to 20 years. Use of a cell or cordless phone is linked to brain tumors and acoustic neuromas (tumor of the auditory nerve in the brain) and are showing up after only 10 years (a shorter time period than for most other known carcinogens). “This indicates we need research on more long-term users to understand the full risks” says Dr. Hardell.

Dr. Hardell’s work has been confirmed in other studies on long-term users. A summary estimate of all studies on brain tumors shows overall a 20% increased risk of brain tumor (malignant glioma) with ten years of use. But the risk increases to 200% (a doubling of risk) for tumors on the same side of the brainas mainly used during cell phone calls. “Recent studies that do not report increased risk of brain tumors and acoustic neuromas have not looked at heavy users, use over ten years or longer, and do not look at the part of the brain which would reasonably have exposure to produce a tumor.”

Wireless technologies that rely on microwave radiation to send emails and voice communication are thousands of times stronger than levels reported to cause some health impacts. Prolonged exposure to radiofrequency and microwave radiation from cell phones, cordless phones, cell towers, WI-FI and other wireless technologies have linked to physical symptoms including headache, fatigue, sleeplessness, dizziness, changes in brainwave activity, and impairment of concentration and memory. Scientists report that these effects can occur with even very small levels of exposure, if it occurs on a daily basis. Children in particular are vulnerable to harm from environmental exposures of all kinds.

Co-editor of the report, Cindy Sage of Sage Associates says “public health and EMF policy experts have now given their opinion of the weight of evidence. The existing FCC and international limits for public and occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation are not protective of public health. New biologically-based public and occupational exposure are recommended to address bioeffects and potential adverse health effects of chronic exposure. These effects are now widely reported to occur at exposure levels significantly below most current national and international limits.”

Biologically-based exposure standards are needed to prevent disruption of normal body processes. Effects are reported for DNA damage (genotoxicity that is directly linked to integrity of the human genome), cellular communication, cellular metabolism and repair, cancer surveillance within the body; and forprotection against cancer and neurological diseases. Also reported are neurological effects including changes in brainwave activity during cell phone calls, impairment of memory, attention and cognitive function; sleep disorders, cardiac effects; and changes in immune function (allergic and inflammatory responses).

Sage says “the Working Group recommends a biologically-based exposure limit that is protective against extremely-low frequency (power line) and radiofrequency fields which, with chronic exposure, can reasonably be presumed to result in significant impacts to health and well-being”.

Contributing author Dr. Martin Blank, Columbia University professor and researcher in bioelectromagnetics says “cells in the body react to EMFs as potentially harmful, just like to other environmental toxins, including heavy metals and toxic chemicals. The DNA in living cells recognizes electromagnetic fields at very low levels of exposure; and produces a biochemical stress response. The scientific evidence tells us that our safety standards are inadequate, and that we must protect ourselves from exposure to EMF due to powerlines, cell phones and the like.” He wrote the section on stress proteins for the BioInitiative Report.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

United front helped villagers fight off plan to build 49ft phone mast

 

Mast battle
Kev Stopper, third right, and other Waddington residents, who objected to a proposed phoned mast in their village.
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a 49ft mobile phone mast near a village nursery and houses have been rejected.
Scores of Brant Road residents, in Waddington, signed petitions and sent a deluge of comments to North Kesteven District Council after learning of the proposal for the village.
As reported in the Echo, applicant Telefonica O2 UK limited was hopeful of having the mast near the Brant Road Social Club.
But residents told the Echo last week they received very little information just days before the public consultation closed, with only ten letters sent out notifying people. The application was submitted in September.
Parents had also threatened to take their children out of the nearby Rainbow Day Nursery.
But North Kesteven District Council confirmed the mast plan was rejected as it would have been "detrimental" to the appearance of the area.
Brant Road resident Kev Stopper, who lives next door to the planned site, said he was delighted by the strong response from the community against the phone mast.
The 53-year-old tiler said: "The application was so hush-hush. I think the council got a shock when it saw all the petitions and comments – and this was all within 38 hours.
"That shows the solidarity of the people and the feelings against the plan.
"I would like to thank the Echo for the coverage. It has worked and the outcome was successful for us."
North Kesteven District Council development control manager Andrew McDonough said consideration needed to be given to the positioning and appearance of the structure.
He said: "Following careful consideration of the proposal, the district council concluded prior approval was required for the mast.
"It refused to grant approval on the basis the operator had failed to robustly explore all opportunities for mast sharing and that the citing and appearance was considered to be detrimental to the visual amenity of the area."
During the consultation, Brant Road resident Terry Searby told North Kesteven District Council he wanted to protest against the application.
He said: "There is never an issue with signals in this area, so why is there a need for another mast?"
Valley Road resident Stephen Willans said: "I am against the planning of a phone mast as I live very close to this site with two young children."
Telefonica O2 UK limited was yesterday unavailable for comment.

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Villagers-celebrate-proposals-build-49ft-phone-mast-relegated/article-2790711-detail/article.html

The Importance of Grounding Yourself Using David Wolf's Grounding Technologies

What Does Grounding Technology Do?


First of all, what does “being grounded” mean?

Being grounded means being electrically connected to the earth.
barefoot technologyMost of us is not aware that the earth is mobilised with free anti-oxidant electrons.  Those electrons pour into our body at the speed of light, the minute we touch the earth barefoot.

This discovery was made during the telegraph days when they were first putting telegraph wires into the earth and they found out that the earth was completely covered by electrons that were negatively charged and that prevented oxidation.

When we are disconnected from that natural negative charge then we are more subject to oxidation and we develop more inflammatory problems.

A group of scientists and a team of doctors have been looking at every biological marker known to man, the major ones in medicine - they include cortisol levels, bilirubin levels, heart rate levels, heart rate variability, respiration levels, white blood cell levels etc. - then they tried determining if there is a difference between being grounded (meaning standing directly on the earth barefoot or touching the earth someway with our bare skin) and not being grounded (meaning wearing rubber soled sneakers, or something).  The answer is yes.  There is a massive difference in ALL biological markers between being grounded and being ungrounded.

This has got to be the most significant descovery in health in the last 10 years.  This is perhaps the most significant discovery in health, period.  What it is indicating is that the assumption that it’s okay to wear shoes all the time, the assumption that it’s okay to walk in houses that are carpeted, that are insulated with linoleum, that are insulated with dry wood floors, is just an assumption, it is not upheld by the scientific research.

grounding technologyThe earth itself is negatively charged and the atmosphere around us is positively charged.  Most of the conditions that we know of today, whatever that condition is, is associated with having an excess of positive charge in our body.  What that really means is a lack of electrons.
When we have an excess positive charge, there is too much oxidation, there’s free radical damage and there’s a stealing of electrons.  That means we lack electrons when we are oxidised.
By being insulated from the earth through the rubber soles of our shoes, what ends up happening is that we become more subject to free radical damage and we age faster.

So what can we do to stop it?
The more that you can be connected, directly via the skin, to the earth, the longer you will live and the less inflammation you will suffer from.  One minute is better than zero minutes.  15 minutes is better than nothing, an hour is better than 15 minutes, 5 hours is better than 1 hour, 10 hours is better than 5 hours etc.  You get the idea, the more you can be grounded, the better.

When we are touching the ground we are actually grounded, but it has to be an electrical connection to the earth. If you know anything about electricity you will know that electricity does not conduct through certain mediums, like rubber, and rubber stops the electrical impulses coming up through the earth.

This entire idea of the way we have developed shoes, and the advance of shoe technology since at least the 1960’s, has had a catastrophic effect on the human physiology and a catastrophic effect on our health, and it appears, based on the latest research, to be the fundamental cause of advanced chronic inflammation.
This discovery is so profound.

There has been quite a lot of research done on athletes, and what they have found is that the best athletes in the world are surfers.  Whenever you are in a body of water, like the ocean, you are instantly grounded.
grounded by oceanMaybe you’ve found out for yourself this effect.  Maybe sometime when you’ve had a lot of emotional turmoil going on, or a bunch of erratic thoughts going on, and suddenly you’ve jumped in the ocean and boom, it’s all gone.  That’s grounding.  Whenever we jump into a body of water, like a river or a stream or a lake, the same thing happens, we are instantly grounded.

If we walk barefoot on sand, we’re instantly grounded.  When someone goes to the beach and they lay out their towels and lie on the beach, they usually feel like falling asleep.  This is because the grounding effect changes our respiration rate and immediately detoxifies us and normalises our pH, making us relax.  The effects of body pH’s by being grounded is substantial.  It normalises our pH.

If you are unaware what pH means, it is the acid/alkaline balance.  Hyperacidity has been associated with a number of disorders.  Hyperacidity IMPROVES, meaning alkalinity is restored once we begin to ground ourselves.

If you walk barefoot on the soil, if you walk barefoot in the rain, if you walk barefoot on the sand, walk barefoot through puddles etc., you are grounded.  Some cement is grounded, but some isn’t, this is because of the polymers in new cement and that may be acting as an insulator, but in general, especially old cement is grounded.  It is conducting energies through itself from the inner earth, up into you.  Once again, these energies are free mobile anti-oxidant electrons that help your body resist oxidation, keeping you younger.



If you touch a tree, you are grounded, because the tree is a living wood, it has electrolytes and water in it and therefore it is
conducting electricity and yes it can make you grounded.  If you touch a metal pole that is stuck in the earth, you are grounded.
These are effects that you begin to notice and they have important side effects and that is they can actually protect you from free radical damage as already mentioned AND excessive EMF exposure.  They drop the EMF field that is hitting your body, when you are grounded.  When you are grounded, you are more resistant to EMF fields, because the EMF hits you and goes right into the ground.
The earth itself is an infinite reservoir for EMF fields, that’s why
it’s called “ground”.  The earth can absorb an infinite amount of EMF.  If we are in a rubber soled shoe, and we’re on a cell phone, we are oxidizing ourselves and damaging ourselves with very high frequency EMF’s.  But if we’re on our cell phone and we are barefoot, we are not completely protected, but we are DRAMATICALLY more protected.  That’s important to understand.

It is believed that a huge body of our neurological disturbances are caused by being isolated from the earth’s EMF field, from being ungrounded and wearing rubber soles.
david wolfe and grounding technology
The rubber sole, because it isolates us from the earth, actually may be the cause of our philosophical lonliness - once we get our shoes off and connect back with the earth as much as possible, whether it’s just 5 minutes a day in the park, or just walking on the grass, or walking on the beach every day, or going swimming in a lake or ocean.
The more you are grounded, the better you will feel, and very likely the longer you will live, based on the research, and the lower your inflammation and pain will be.

Pain, of the chronic sort, is associated with excess POSITIVE charge. The earth, again, is NEGATIVELY charged.  When we stand on it barefoot we absorb that negative charge, and it immediately begins to wash away the positive charge.  It starts to add electrons to that positive charge and within 50 minutes our pain can dissipate.  What a dramatic discovery.

Being grounded immediately alters our pulse rate, our respiratory rate, blood oxygenation, changes our skin to conductants within 40 minutes.  Improvements are seen all over those areas. Most of us like to spend our vacation time on the beach for a reason and the reason is because we are reconnecting back to the earth itself.

Our direct skin connection to the earth is one of the most important “foods” that we can take in.  It may be more important than food.  Because if we get far enough away from the earth’s EMF field, up in outer space, we immediately start demineralising.  Research now is indicating that connection to the earth helps re-mineralise.

Problems with mineralisation, problems with bones, with teeth, are related to not being grounded.
When you want to elecroplate a substance, for example you want to put copper onto another metal, you want to electroplate it, you have to remove electrons so that they stick together, so that the 2 metals SHARE electrons.  That’s kind of what happens when we become oxidozed - we no longer have ENOUGH electrons and therefore our tissues have to share electrons and then we become easily oxidized.

barefoot grounding technology
Our teeth, if they lack electrons, will then begin to share electrons with plaque and the plaque electroplates itself to our teeth.  Immediate improvements have been seen with dental health, simply by being grounded.
The earth itself is a reference point for all circadian rhythms in our body. For example, when we get in a car, the car is not grounded - it is on rubber tyres, so it is not connected to the earth and hence we are ungrounded.  We drive to some other location and we get out of the car, well there’s a little bit of a jet lag even from driving around in a car.  If we stand barefoot for 15 minutes wherever we have arrived, we re-calibrate to the circadian rhythms of the earth where we are and the jetlag goes away.

A similar phenomenon has been noted when you fly an aeroplane.  If you get out of the aeroplane and take off your shoes and your socks and you directly connect your skin to the earth, within 15 minutes you can dissipate the EMF fields you have picked up, the radiation you have picked up, from being up in the upper atmosphere, (you are in a giant metal cylinder that’s attracting gamma rays and UV radiation - we can get 10 to 100 times the radiation up there than we do down here)and you come back into the electrical potential if the earth and you absorb frequencies out of the earth that tells your body where you are and what’s going on.
The circadian rhythm piece of this puzzle is profound because it affects cortisol levels - this has been proven, it has been scientifically and medically documented.

Within 8 weeks of being grounded, cortisol levels are improved.  The ryhthm of cortisol in the body is improved.  Disturbances in cortisol levels are eradicated. The same can be said with hormone levels.  Erratic fluctuations in hormone levels.  This is because these 2 things respond to circadian rhythms.  Circadian rhythms being biological clocks, rhythms that we have inside ourselves.

When we are in rubber soled shoes, when we are ungrounded, our body has no ability to access the referenced circadian rhythms, the frequencies that are coming out of the earth.  Our body attunes to those like Greenwich Mean Time, it’s kind of like a clock on the wall, it goes out of balance after a while, it goes a bit faster or a bit slower and every now and then we have to actually bring it back to the Greenwich Mean Time, so we know exactly what time it is.

When we’re dealing with going back onto the earth, that’s really what’s happening.  Our body resets itself.  Make sure you take the time this summer to do that.  Get reset by getting grounded.  Get barefoot and get your hands into the earth.  Get to the beach, get in the ocean or jump in a lake, and immediately you will notice these benefits.

There’s a really good  grounding technology video that explains all this in detail.  It’s not long, less than 20 minutes.  It’s made by David Wolfe, our planet’s leading nutritionist and health guru.  It is something we all need to know about to protect our health and to eradicate pain and inflammation from our lives. Be sure to check it out and remember, start going barefoot as much as you can, another plus is that it feels great too!
David Wolfe has created a brand new program called  Longevity Now where he covers not only technologies and tools for grounding yourself, but also how to ramp up your immune system, how to turn back the clock on aging and how to put no only the years back in your life, but also put the life back in your years by reducing pain and inflammation in  your body, so you can feel younger and be able to do all the things you used to do years ago.  It really is possible, to find out more, visit the Longevity Now Program.

Barefoot Technology Exposed
This grounding information is consistent with the techniques in Qi Gong exercises. The Chinese will stand at the base of a tree for it’s grounding effect on the body.

This one on a new grounding technology that the US team in the. Tour de France used the three years they won (the one year they didn’t, they lost!). You gotta see this.
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