Electrosmog! The Next Reason to Escape The City And Rethink That Newest Phone. The reason for the epidemic of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that comes along with so many other health effects.

If you don’t yet know what electrosmog is, simply put, it’s the electromagnetic waves surrounding us in our environment. Here’s what NASA had to say about these:

“As you sit watching TV, not only are there visible light waves from the TV striking your eyes, but also radio waves, transmitting from a nearby station, and microwaves carrying cellphone calls and text messages, and waves from your neighbor’s WiFi, and GPS units in the cars driving by. There is a chaos of waves from all across the spectrum passing through your room right now.” [1].

And guess what? Turns out that this “chaos of waves” is not benign at all. In fact, it turns out it’s bad for us in all kinds of ways. Most acutely, it’s bad for our central nervous system and intestinal walls, which is what the French researcher and oncologist, Dr. Dominique Belpomme, and his colleagues (see the previous blog post) found to be the most damaged organs in people with EHS (Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity). And as with the deleterious effects of everyday chemicals, many people who begin by being only intolerant to some electromagnetic radiation end up with disabling hypersensitivity to many kinds, a disability that forces them to withdraw from society.

But EHS – which turns people into refugees from modern life – is only one of the many damaging effects of electrosomog. There is mounting evidence that electrosmog is also a major contributor to the spread of autoimmune diseases more generally, to the rise of brain and other cancers, and many other health conditions, including chemical sensitivity, heart disease and even diabetes.

Environmental oncologist and epidemiologist Devra Davis has worked tirelessly to publicize authoritative but suppressed evidence in the United States and Canada on links between electrosmog and various cancers.

Professor Olle Johansson, in Sweden, has been an activist on electrosmog for years, is a world-renowned authority and published numerous papers on its dangers and harms – find these listed below.

These leading researchers are only two of many distinguished experts who have been warning humanity against this most invasive and insidious form of pollution – so far, with little overall effect. Magda Havas, Ph.D. is a Canadian expert with an international reputation who has a very informative website and important research to share.

All electrosmog researchers are 100% opposed to the next level of mobile networks: the 5G system. They cite countless dangers to human health, but also include as dangers pollinator extinctions, nervous system damage in animals of allkins, and therefore a wider impact on the ecosystem in which we, as humans, must survive. Martin Pall, Ph.D., a leading EMF researcher, as well as a major contributor to understanding the neurochemistry of chemical sensitivity, has declared that” 5G is the most dangerous human technology ever invented,” and he is in good company. See his list of dangers in the sidebar.

Yet, like chemical sensitivity, doctors are not taught about the harms of electrosmog, or how to recognize intolerance or full-blown hypersensitivity, and are therefore encouraged to wrongly psychiatrize patients and treat them in harmful ways.

Please note the definition of EHS via the EHS-MCS European Treatment Research Group:

“EHS is defined (1) first and foremost by the lowering of the clinico-biological tolerance threshold of the body to electromagnetic fields, i.e. by the occurrence of intolerance at low or very low EMF intensity, possibly even at the limit of the detection threshold by the most sensitive measurement equipment; and (2) by the progressive extension of intolerance to other or all frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum (extremely low, low, radio, and high frequencies). Sensitivity can develop to such a point that some patients with very advanced hypersensitivity may become intolerant to ultraviolet rays and even to visible light, whether natural or artificial. Thus in the case of such an extreme photosensitivity, as we have observed in the ARTAC series of so-called EHS patients, several of them must wear permanently a patch on the eyes or may even become blind.”

ELECTROMANETIC HYPERSENSITIITY – PSYCHIATRIC OR OTHER TYPE OF PATHOLOGY?

From the EHS & MCS RESEARCH AND TREATMENT EUROPEAN GROUPE SITE

From the EHS & MCS Research and Treatment European Group site

The short answer to that question is “other”. Here is the detailed text:

Patients claiming to be EHS are in fact suffering from a new pathology which is unknown to most practitioners yet, causing them often to be incorrectly investigated and treated. That physical symptoms are not easily detectable clinically and that routine brain imaging (CT scan, MRI, carotid ultrasound) are usually normal. This led to the belief that patients were inventing or simulating disease. At the same time, functional neurologic or psycho-pathologic clinical symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, emotivism are prominent, further misleading physicians towards a psychiatric cause diagnosis.

Such a diagnosis does not withstand analysis. If patients are extensively interviewed and correctly examined and investigated before irreversible EMFIS (ie during the prodromic stage or even later), patients are lucid and conscious of their condition. Neurological symptoms such as headache, tinnitus, dysesthesia, dizziness and / or equilibrium loss; although functional, and fleeting (as they are triggered by electromagnetic sources), fail to meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder, whose diagnosis actually relies on subjective criteria, especially on the psychiatrist’s beliefs over the patient’s statements and behaviour.

Thorough interviews and especially complete clinical examination are therefore essential, searching for any objective physical sign of a somatic pathology. One may recall here that many physical neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, lateral amyotrophic sclerosis, small epilepsies, temporal-type epilepsy, etc. most often start with purely functional thus subjective symptoms, and that the search for purely functional symptoms is part of a neurological examination along with objective biological and/or imaging tests. This lesson should be applied to EHS and EMFIS patients.

So before referring such patients to a psychiatric consultation, a physician must ensure that EMFIS has been excluded; and if such patients unfortunately come to a psychiatrist, then before prescribing risky psychotropic, anxiolytic and / or antidepressants, he or she also should first exclude EMFIS. [emphasis in original]

Fortunately today, the above approach is advocated by a growing number of psychiatrists who acknowledge that the vast majority of EHS patients were mis-referred to them through mistake or ignorance, and are actually not suffering from a psychiatric disease. Thus, in most cases, they re-refer such patients to neurologists and / or to specialists in Environmental Medicine.

But this means that for some patients claiming to be EHS, their disorder can over time progress into a truly neuro-psychiatric condition. Indeed, as indicated above, in the absence of early treatment and precautionary measures to protect the organism from electromagnetic sources, patients are at risk of confusion syndrome or even early dementia resembling Alzheimer’s disease. This is suggested by the several epidemiological studies which showed that long-term, low or extremely low frequency EMF exposure is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease occurrence. Indeed several of our patients who had been intensively exposed to radio frequency or microwave, exhibited a type of dementia similar to Alzheimer’s disease, probably because of the absence of early treatment and electromagnetic weaning. Thus, it clearly appears that in the absence of treatment and preventive measures, EHS may evolve into such forms of psychiatric disorders but it is not the case in common EHS patients when early treatment is implemented and preventive measures are taken.

Articles by Olle Johansson

“MYSTERY IN THE SKIN. Screen dermatitis, the effect of computer work on human skin.” An interview with Olle Johansson, 2001
http://www.feb.se/ARTICLES/OlleJ.html

COMMENTARY: MOBILE PHONES -WILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE BECOME THE MAD COW? 2001
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13878/20021116-0000/www.acnem.org/journal/pdf_files/20-2_commentary-mobile_phones.pdf

CUTANEOUS MAST CELLS ARE ALTERED IN NORMAL HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS SITTING IN FRONT OF ORDINARY TVS/PCS – RESULTS FROM OPEN-FIELD PROVOCATION EXPERIMENTS, 2001
http://www.foodsmatter.com/es/computers_wifi_bluetooth/articles/johansson_tv_healthy_volunteers.pdf

CANCER TRENDS DURING THE 20TH CENTURY
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2002
http://iddd.de/umtsno/cancertrends.pdf

MELANOMA INCIDENCE AND FREQUENCY MODULATION (FM) BROADCASTING, 2002
http://schermatura.com/news/aehcorrection2002.pdf

DOES GSM 1800 AFFECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN SWEDEN? 2004
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/KosPaper.pdf

MALIGNANT MELANOMA OF THE SKIN – NOT A SUNSHINE STORY!
http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/fm_melanoma_sweden_4321.pdf

LONG-TERM SICKNESS AND MOBILE PHONE USE
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2004
http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/lthhallberg.pdf

FM BROADCASTING EXPOSURE TIME AND MALIGNANT MELANOMA INCIDENCE, 2005
http://avaate.org/IMG/pdf/melanoma_electromagneticbiologyandmedicine_2005.pdf

HOW SHALL WE COPE WITH THE INCREASING AMOUNTS OF AIRBORNE RADIATION? 2006
http://ww.stopumts.nl/pdf/paper_johansson_airborne_radiation.pdf

ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY: STATE-OF-THE-ART OF A FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT
Olle Johansson, 2006
http://adante.vingar.se/electrohypersensitivity1.pdf

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: WILL WE ALL BECOME ELECTROSENSITIVE?
Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, 2006
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/EHS2006_HallbergOberfeld.pdf

DISTURBANCE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM BY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS – A potentially underlying cause for cellular damage and tissue repair reduction which could lead to disease and impairment, 2009
http://www.milieuziektes.nl/Rapporten/PATPHY_621.pdf

From the Center for Electrosmog Prevention

Dr. Martin Pall & The Dangers of 5G

Dr. Martin Pall, a leading EMF / RF researcher, Emeritus Biochemistry and Medical Sciences Professor (Washington State U.) spells out the dangers of 5G technology in detail: “5G: Great risk for EU, U.S. and International Health! Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them“. CEP encourages reading this entire, detailed, and compelling document, as posted on the EH Trust website.

We know that there is a massive literature, providing a high level of scientific certainty, for each of eight pathophysiological effects caused by non-thermal microwave frequency EMF exposures. This is shown in from 12 to 35 reviews on each specific effect, with each review listed in Chapter 1, providing a substantial body of evidence on the existence of each effect. Such EMFs:

Attack our nervous systems including our brains leading to widespread neurological/neuropsychiatric effects and possibly many other effects. This nervous system attack is of great concern.
Attack our endocrine (that is hormonal) systems. In this context, the main things that make us functionally different from single celled creatures are our nervous system and our endocrine systems – even a simple planaria worm needs both of these. Thus the consequences of the disruption of these two regulatory systems is immense, such that it is a travesty to ignore these findings.
Produce oxidative stress and free radical damage, which have central roles in essentially all chronic diseases.
Attack the DNA of our cells, producing single strand and double strand breaks in cellular DNA and oxidized bases in our cellular DNA. These in turn produce cancer and also mutations in germ line cells which produce mutations in future generations.
Produce elevated levels of apoptosis (programmed cell death), events especially important in causing both neurodegenerative diseases and infertility.
Lower male and female fertility, lower sex hormones, lower libido and increased levels of spontaneous abortion and, as already stated, attack the DNA in sperm cells.
Produce excessive intracellular calcium [Ca2+]i and excessive calcium signaling.
Attack the cells of our bodies to cause cancer. Such attacks are thought to act via 15 different mechanisms during cancer causation.

There is also a substantial literature showing that EMFs also cause other effects including life threatening cardiac effects (Chapter 3). In addition substantial evidence suggests EMF causation of very early onset dementias, including Alzheimer’s, digital and other types of dementias (Chapter 3); and there is evidence that EMF exposures in utero and shortly after birth can cause ADHD and autism (Chapter 5).

Each of these effects is produced via the main mechanism of action of microwave/lower frequency EMFs, activation of voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) (Chapter 2). Each of them is produced via what are called downstream effects of VGCC activation. It follows from this that we have a good understanding not only that these effects occur, but also how they can occur. The extraordinary sensitivity of the VGCC voltage sensor to the forces of the EMFs tells us that the current safety guidelines allow us to be exposed to EMF levels that are something like 7.2 million times too high. That sensitivity is predicted by the physics. Therefore, the physics and the biology are each pointing to the same mechanism of action of non-thermal EMFs.

The different effects produced are obviously very deep concerns. They become much deeper and become existential threats when one considers that several of these effects are both cumulative and eventually irreversible. There is substantial evidence for the cumulative nature and eventual irreversibility of the neurological/neuropsychiatric effects, of the reproductive effects, the mutational DNA effects, the cardiac effects, of some but not other of the hormonal effects (Chapter 3); any causation of ADHD and autism may add additional concerns (here the cumulative nature is probably limited to the perinatal period). When we know that sperm counts have dropped by more than 50% throughout the technologically advanced countries on earth, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the vast majority of the population in those countries is already substantially impacted. The same conclusion can be made based on the widespread nature of the neuropsychiatric effects in those countries. Both of those effects will get much much worse even with no increase in current exposures, due to the cumulative nature and irreversibility of these effects.

I expect we will see crash in human reproduction almost to zero as happened in the Magras and Xenos mouse study which I estimate to occur within about 5 years, without any increases in our exposures. Obviously 4G and 5G will make the situation much worse. Similarly I expect that the deterioration in brain function that we are already seeing will seal our fate if we fail to act rapidly and vigorously. Our collective brain function may become completely incapable of dealing with such a mega-crisis situation.

Now it can be argued that some of these may not develop as I expect, although those expectations are based on the best available evidence. One may even be able to argue this for all of those expectations. However, when we have substantial risk of multiple existential threats to every single technologically advanced country on earth, failure to act vigorously means there is a very high probability of complete destruction of these societies. And the chaos which would inevitably ensue, in a world that still has nuclear weapons, may well lead to extinction. In the face of these types or risk, the only reasonable course is to move with great vigor to stop new exposures and lower current exposures. One can still access the internet, using wired connections. And we can lower cell phone tower and cell phone radiation substantially. Smart meters, if needed, can work via wired connections.

Over 60% of this document (Chapters 5 & 6), is focused on the failures of statements from SCENIHR, the telecommunications industry, the U.S. FCC and the U.S. FDA to reflect the science. Their statements repeatedly omit much, often all of the most important science. Their statements are rife not only with omissions, but also with easily demonstrable falsehoods and with false logic. These have often occurred at times where we know that they knew better. These have occurred along with vigorous efforts by the telecommunications industry to corrupt the science by attacking individual scientists whose only fault is that they have obtained important findings that the industry does not like. These attacks have occurred along with vigorous efforts to corrupt two agencies that have important regulatory roles.

There are also possible concerns about individual industry-linked research studies. All wireless communication devices put out polarized EMFs that carry information via pulsations. Both the pulsations and the polarization make these EMFs much more biologically active. There are three other factors that also influence the production of effects. Several industry-linked studies may have used these factors, along with using very tiny numbers of individual animals in their studies, to produce studies which may have been designed to fail (Chapter 5). It is not clear at this point whether this type of concern is quite limited or whether it is very broad.

The European Commission has done nothing to protect European citizens from any of these very serious health hazards and the U.S. FDA, EPA and National Cancer Institute have done nothing to protect American citizens. The U.S. FCC has been much worse than that, acting vigorously with wanton disregard for our health. ”

Electrosmog! The Next Reason to Escape The City And Rethink That Newest Phone. The reason for the epidemic of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that comes along with so many other health effects.

ELECTROMANETIC HYPERSENSITIITY – PSYCHIATRIC OR OTHER TYPE OF PATHOLOGY?

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