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Latest SCENIHR report adds Alzheimer's Disease to the risks associated with powerfrequency EFMs.

2009-11-16T22:55:00.000-08:00

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Posted 13th February 2009.

People with Alzheimer's disease typically show signs of memory loss, confusion, and impaired judgment. Other symptoms can include restlessness, a deterioration of language skills, and mood swings.

Adverse health effects associated with exposure to ELF electric and magnetic fields - assembly to scientific evidence and discussion of possible public health impact. Professors M. J. O'Carroll and D. L. Henshaw. DRAFT - WORK IN PROGRESS - Version 1 29/6/06.

6. Summary of the epidemiological and mechanistic evidence
6.1 Childhood Leukaemia
6.2 Adult leukaemia
6.3 Adult brain cancer
6.4 Miscarriage
6.5 ALS/motor neurone disease
6.6 Childhood brain cancer
6.7 Female breast cancer
6.8 Male breast cancer
6.9 Alzheimer’s Disease
6.10 Suicide
6.11 Heart disease
6.12 Depression
6.13 Direct epidemiological evidence or Electro-sensitivity
6.14 Universal carcinogen
6.15 Other reproductive
PhD to Present Research Demonstrating Increased Heart Rate from Wireless Radiation Exposure at the EMR Policy Institute’s Conference in Golden, CO, Sunday, November 8th

The Melatonin Story

2009-11-16T22:54:00.000-08:00

http://www.electric-fields.bris.ac.uk/melatoninstory.html

Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal gland, which is situated at the base of the brain. Melatonin is known to act as a natural anti-cancer agent and reduced levels in the body have also been linked to increased risk of depression.
At night the absence of light is registered by the eye, which triggers the pineal gland to increase melatonin production. The nocturnal level is about 70 time higher than that during the day.
Compared with 100 years ago, we are exposed to considerable Light at Night (LAN) - in the evening from indoor lighting and at night-time from street lighting.
The presence of LAN is postulated to reduce nocturnal melatonin levels in the body which may in part be responsible for the significant increase in the incidence of certain cancers seen in recent decades.
Significantly, the presence of elevated magnetic fields has been shown to act in a similar way. There are now at least 9 studies showing that magnetic fields as low as 0.2 µT suppress melatonin production, especially at night.
Click for more detailed information on melatonin.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) suppress the activity of the pineal gland and reduce melatonin production. EMF activity therefore disrupts the bodies circadian rhythms
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_o_022.pdf
There is some evidence that RF fields can influence EEG patterns and sleep in humans.

Magnetic Fields and Health Effects

2009-11-16T22:53:00.000-08:00

A Review of Selected Studies
In 1998, a National Institute on Environmental Health and Safety (NIEHS) panel classified electromagnetic fields (EMFs) as a "possible" human carcinogenic the same class as chloroform, lead, carbon tetrachloride, and DDT.

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE and EMFs

1996 Drs. Eugene Sobel and Zoreh Davanipour of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles. Medium-to-high occupational exposures result in a four-fold increase in the rate of Alzheimer's.

1996 Dr. Maria Feychting of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Five-times increased rate of Alzheimer's is reported with occupational exposures.

1996 An occupational study of the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety and Johns Hopkins University finds higher death rates from Alzheimer's with medium-to-high occupation exposures (2 mG and higher).

BREAST CANCER

1987 Dr. Richard Stevens, Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, Richmond, WA. EMFs reduce levels of the cancer-fighting hormone, melatonin. Lower levels are associated with breast cancer.

1989-1992 Epidemiological studies show an increase in male breast cancer among exposed workers, especially for those under 30 years of age. Drs. Genevieve Matanoski of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Paul Demers of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, and Tore Tynes and Aage Andersen of the Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo.

1992 Dr. Sabine John of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. EMFs increase the rate of breast cancer mitochondrial activity.

1992 Dr. Robert Liburdy of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Low levels of EMFs decrease the amount of melatonin.

1993 Dr. Wolfgang Loscher of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany. EMFs increase the number of mammary tumors in laboratory animals in a dose-response relationship.

1993 Drs. Dana Loomis and David Savitz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Female electrical workers have twice the expected number of deaths from breast cancer.

1996- 1998 The Stevens and Liburdy melatonin studies are replicated. For the first time, a mechanism is demonstrated linking EMFs and cancer, i.e., that EMF reduce the amount of the cancer-fighting hormone, melatonin. Dr. Carl Blackman of the Environment Protection Agency, Dr. Richard Luben of the University of California, Riverside, CA, Dr. Larry Anderson of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richmond, WA, and Drs. Scott Davis of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, and Dr. Richard Stevens of the Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs in Richland, WA.

1996 Dr. Patricia Coogan of Boston University School of public Health, Boston, MA. Another occupational study links female breast cancer and EMFs.

1997 Dr. Maria Feychting of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Woman who are under 50 exposed to EMFs above 2 mG have 80% increased incidence of breast cancer. When limited to estrogen-receptor-positive women, the incidence is 7.4 times the risk of breast cancer above 1 mG.

CANCER, ADULT - OTHER THAN BREAST CANCER

1989 Drs. Genevieve Matanoski, Patrick Breysse, and Elizabeth Elliott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. An occupational study shows increased rates of prostate, colon and lung cancers, leukemia and lymphoma.

1992 Dr. Birgitta Floderus of the National Institute of Occupational Health, Solna, Sweden. Men exposed to 3 mG at work have three times the expected rate of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

1992 Dr. Richard Lovely of the Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab, Richmond, WA. Men using electric razors have twice the rate of leukemia.

1994 Dr. Gilles Theriault of McGill University, Montreal. Hydro-Quebec workers exposed to magnetic fields have more brain tumors and leukemia. A second study shows that workers exposed to transients (intense pulses of high frequency radiation) have ten times the incidence of lung cancer compared to 1.6 increase for those exposed to magnetic fields alone.

1995 Drs. David Savitz and Dana Loomis of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Utility workers with the highest EMF exposures have more than twice the expected rate of brain cancer than the least exposed workers.

1995 Dr. Birgitta Floderus of the National Institute for Working Life, Solna, Sweden. Individuals exposed to EMFs on the job are found to have a small, but significant, elevation in risk for many types of cancer.

1995 Dr. Nancy Wertheimer, Dr. David Savitz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hills, and Ed Leeper find quadrupled rates of leukemia in houses where ground currents at the plumbing are present.

1997 Drs. Carin Stenlung and Birgitta Floderus, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Rates of testicular cancer are doubled for the 25% of male workers with the highest EMF exposures.

1997 Drs. Ching-Yi Li of Ju-Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, Gilles Theriault of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Ruey Lin of National Taiwan University in Taipei. A 40% greater risk of leukemia and a 70% higher risk of ALL (acute lymphocytic leukemia) are found when the exposure is 2 mG or greater. A dose-response relationship is noted.

1996 Dr. Anthony Miller of the University of Toronto, Canada. The leukemia risk is 11 times as high for workers exposed to both electric and magnetic fields compared to 1.6 times for workers exposed to magnetic fields alone.

CELLULAR STUDIES

Dr. Ross Adey, formerly of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Loma Linda, CA. EMFs disrupt communication between healthy adjacent cells, with potential implication for Alzheimer's. Similar findings were reported by Drs. Carl Blackman of the Environmental Protection Agency, Robert Liburdy of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Ewa Lindstrom of the University of Umea, Sweden, and the National Institute of Occupational Health in Umea, Sweden.

1987 Drs. Craig Byus of the University of California, Riverside, and Ross Adey, formerly of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Loma Linda, CA. Weak EMFs increase the action of an enzyme linked to cell growth in tumors.

1995 Drs. Reba Goodman of Columbia University and Ann Henderson of Hunter College, New York City. Magnetic fields induce changes in gene expression.

1998 Dr. Faith Uckun of Wayne Hughes Institute, St. Paul, MN. EMFs alter the activity of protein kinases, enzymes involved in both normal cell function and cancer promotion.

1997-1998 Four laboratories report increased DNA breaks from power frequency EMFs, with implication for cancer. The hypothesis is that EMF-induced free radicals may lead to an increase in DNA breaks or to a disruption of an enzyme repair mechanism. Drs. Henry Lai and Narendra Singh of the University of Washington, Seattle, Jerry Phillips of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA, Yog Raj Ahuga of Mahavir Medical Research Center, Hyderabad, India, and Britt-Marie Svendenstal of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS PROMOTED BY EMFs

1991 Dr. Chris Cain of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Lima Linda, CA. EMFs act with a known chemical carcinogen to promote tumor development.

1992 The incidence of breast tumors increases form both static and AC magnetic fields interacting with a known chemical carcinogen in Russian animal studies.

1995 Dr. Craig Byus of the University of California, Riverside. Laboratory animals treated with a chemical carcinogen develop more tumors in the presence of elevated EMFs.

CHILDHOOD CANCER STUDIES

1979 Dr. Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper. For the first time, an increase in childhood cancer is linked with power line EMFs. This study is replicated in 1986 by Dr. David Savitz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1990 The Environmental Protection Agency drafts a report concluding that EMFs are a possible potential carcinogen.

1991 Drs. Stephanie London and John Peters of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. An increased risk of childhood leukemia is found with use of electric hair dryers.

1992 Drs. Anders Ahlbom and Maria Feychting of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Children exposed to 3 mG magnetic fields in their homes have three times the expected rate of leukemia.

1994 Dr. Allen Kraut of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. A direct correlation is found in an epidemiology study comparing electricity usage in the provinces with the rates of childhood leukemia and brain cancers.

1996 Combined studies by Drs. Anders Ahlbom and Maria Feychting of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and Dr. Jorgen Olsen of the Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, show two times the rate of leukemia at exposures of 2 mG or more and five times the rate for exposures of 5 mG or higher.

1996 Dr. Daniel Wartenberg of the National Academy of Sciences finds consistency in eleven childhood cancer studies showing elevated risk of cancer for children living near power lines.

1997 Drs. Tore Tynes and Tor Haldorsen of the Institute of Epidemiological Cancer Research at the Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo. Children exposed to magnetic fields 0.5 mG or higher for three or more years during the first four years of life have an increased risk of leukemia.

1997 Drs. Jorg Michaelis and Joachim Schuz of the University of Mainz, Germany. Children living in magnetic fields above 2 mG have twice the risk of leukemia. Children under 4 years old have a seven times increased risk.

1998 Dr. Chung-Yi Li of the College of Medicine at the Pu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, and Drs. Wei-Chin Lee and Ruey Shiung Lin of National Taiwan University, Taipei. A 2.7 times risk of childhood leukemia is found near power lines in magnetic fields 2 mG or higher.

1998 The National Cancer Institute studies appliance use by children and finds increased childhood leukemia rates with all 25 appliances. Appliances include video games, curling irons, microwave ovens, sound systems with headsets, electric blankets, hair dryers and TVs (sitting closer than 6 feet). There was no increased risk for use of stereos without headphones.

HEART EFFECTS

1998 Dr. Antonio Sastre, Midwest Research Institute (MRI), Kansas City, MO. EMFs reduce the extent of heart-rate variability (HRV) and are linked to increased risk of death from arrhythmia and heart attacks among utility workers.

1999 Dr. David Savitz publishes "Magnetic Field Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Electrical Utility Workers," in the American Journal of Epidemiology, 149, pp.135-142, January 15, 1999.

LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE (ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

1997 Drs. Zoreh Davanipour and Eugene Sobel of the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles. The most exposed workers have seven times the risk for ALS as those least exposed.

1997 Dr. David Savitz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. An occupational study finds two or three times the risk for ALS.

1998 Drs. Christoffer Johansen and Jorgen Olsen of the Danish Cancer Society. A Danish study finds two times the rate of ALS among utility workers.

NERVOUS AND IMMUNE SYSTEM ILLS

1998 Dr. Laurence Bonhomme-Faivre of Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris. EMF occupational exposure is linked to fatigue, depression, irritability, and diminished libido, as well as a significant reduction in white blood cells.

19998 Short-term memory effects are seen with power frequency exposure. A.W. Preece, K.A. Wesnes and G.R. Iwi. "The Effect of a 50 Hz Magnetic Field on Cognitive Function in Humans," International Journal of Radiation Biology, 74, pp.463-470, 1998.

1999 Dr. Ross Adey is to receive the 1999 Hans Selye Award from the American Institute of Stress for his work on biological effects of weak EMFs.

PREGNANCY-RELATED PROBLEMS

1988 Epidemiologists at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA. Women using VDTs for twenty or more hours weekly during the early months of pregnancy have more than double the rate of miscarriage.

1990 Dr. David Savitz of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prenatal exposures to electric blankets result in higher risk for leukemia, brain tumors and other cancers.

1992 Dr. Mail Hietznen of the Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. Women exposed to 3 mG magnetic fields from VDTs have close to three and a half times the expected rate of miscarriage.

1992 Dr. Jukka Juutilainen, University of Kuopio, Finland. Women in residences where magnetic fields at the front door are 6.3 mG or greater have a five fold increase in the rate of miscarriage.

1995 Dr. Claire Infante-Rivard, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Children whose mothers used sewing machines during pregnancy have up to a sevenfold increase in rates of leukemia.

1995 Dr. De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanents, Oakland, CA, and Drs. Harvey Checkoway and Beth Mueller of the University of Washington, Seattle. Electric blanket usage is associated in low-fertility women with four times the rate of congenital urinary tract anomalies in their newborns.

1995 Dr. Jan Harry of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. In neonates, EMFs are associated with an increase in gene expression and subtle changes in the neural network of the brain.

1998 Dr. Kathleen Belanger of Yale University, New Haven, CT. A 5-year study shows twice the miscarriage rate for women using electric blankets.

1998 Dr. Jukka Juutilainen of the University of Kuopio, Finland. This study designed to detect early fetal loss shows five times the miscarriage rate for women using electric blankets.

1998 The National Cancer Institute's childhood leukemia study shows elevated rates of leukemia in children whose mothers use electric blankets, heating pads, or humidifiers during pregnancy.

SELECTED QUOTATIONS

"The only thing that stands in the way of general acceptance [of EMF cancer connection] is for someone to demonstrate a plausible biological mechanism, because everything else is there. And this is not a requirement for the standard methods of epidemiology. In fact, we still don't have a biological mechanism for asbestos." Dr. David Ozonoff, Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University's School of Public Health. Microwave News, Vol. XVI No. 2, January/February 1996, p.5.

Dr. Russel Reiter of the University of Texas, San Antonio. "The wide variety of tumors represented [in the Floderus data] suggests the mechanism is a basic one - for example, involving free radicals and melatonin." Microwave News, Vol. XV No. 5, September/October 1995, p.8.

Dr. Gilles Theriault, McGill University: "We keep seeing smoke, but we have not identified the fire. And there is a fire out there. One day we will put our finger on it." Microwave News, Vol. XV No. 1, January/February 1995, p.8.

"The significance of the epidemiological studies is not that they point to a cancer epidemic. But they raise the question: If EMFs can cause even a small change in cancer rates, what other biological effects could they have?" Commentary, Microwave News, Vol. XV No. 4, July/August 1995, p.9.

Michael Herz of Pacific Gas & Electric, San Francisco, CA: "It's incredibly important to follow up and to answer the questions [relating to EMFs and heart rhythms] that have been raised." Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 5, September/October 1998, p.4.

Dr. Imre Gyuk of the Department of Energy in Washington: "It's getting harder and harder for skeptics to deny low-levels effects." Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 4, July/August 1998, p.3.

"...we need to look at the combined risk of EMFs with both chemicals and ionizing radiation," Dr. Genevieve Matanoski, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Microwave News, Vol. XII No. 4, July/August 1992, p.8.

"The NAS-NRC report may mislead the public into a false sense of security - for a while. But the real link between power lines and cancer must still be addressed, as must the evidence that points to EMFs." Commentary, Microwave News, Vol. XVI No. 6, November/December 1996, p.8.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences panel finds that EMFs are "possible" human carcinogens. "Now the public will know what the members of the EMF research community have known for years," said Dr. Michael Marron of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA. Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 4, July/August 1998, p.5.

Dr. Nancy Wertheimer: "The most important aspect of our paper was that in looking at ground currents, we identified a type of EMF measurement that is significantly associated with the incidence of both childhood and adult cancer." Microwave News, Vol. XV No. 5, September/October 1995, p.2.

Dr. Robert McGaughy of the Environmental Protection Agency: "If this were a chemical and we had some mechanistic data, there is no doubt that we would have classified EMFs as a B1 carcinogen - a probable human carcinogen." Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 5, September/October 1998, p.2.

In a draft under review, the National Council on Radiation Protection reviewed the scientific literature and concluded that 2 mG would be a prudent limit not to be exceeded for prolonged exposure. Microwave News, Vol. XV No. 4, July/August 1995, p.12.

Dr. David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the NYS Department of Health in Albany, said in a talk to the New York City Bar Association on March 14th: "'In my judgment, we are 90-95% certain that there is a link between EMFs and cancer....' Setting standards can be a contentious process, but the 'logical number is 1 mG.'" Microwave News, Vol. XIV No. 2, March/April 1994, p.2.

Dr. Indira Nair of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA: "Inaction is not an option." She "would err on the side of caution...because children are implicated." Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 5, September/October 1998, p.2.

Shirley Linde of the National EMF Advisory Committee: "It is reprehensible that research is stopping in the U.S. at a time when the NIEHS panel has pointed to a possible cancer risk." "How can we walk away when children are at risk?" Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 5, September/October 1998, p.3.

Barbara Balaban, West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition: "If EMFs may present a risk, then what is the harm in educating people about those measures they can take to avoid unnecessary exposure?" Microwave News, Vol. XVIII No. 5, September/October 1998, p.2.

The source of material for this review is Microwave News, available from 212-517-2800, for $325/year. In the New York area, this publication may be read at the NY Public Library, Library of Science and Industry, 188 Madison Avenue, NYC, and at the library of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 631-344-3483

Expressions of Concern from Scientists, Physicians, Health Policy Experts & Others

2009-11-16T22:47:00.000-08:00

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http://electromagnetichealth.org/quotes-from-experts/

William Rea, MD

Founder & Director of the Environmental Health Center, Dallas
Past President, American Academy of Environmental Medicine

“Sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation is the emerging health problem of the 21st century. It is imperative health practitioners, governments, schools and parents learn more about it. The human health stakes are significant”.

Martin Blank, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics,
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Researcher in Bioelectromagnetics; Author of the BioInitiative Report’s section on Stress Proteins.

“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 power lines, cell phones and the like, or risk the known consequences. The science is very strong and we should sit up and pay attention.”

Olle Johansson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Author of the BioInitiative Report’s section on the Immune System.

“It is evident that various biological alterations, including immune system modulation, are present in electrohypersensitive persons. There must be an end to the pervasive nonchalance, indifference and lack of heartfelt respect for the plight of these persons. It is clear something serious has happened and is happening. Every aspect of electrohypersensitive peoples’ lives, including the ability to work productively in society, have healthy relations and find safe, permanent housing, is at stake. The basics of life are becoming increasingly inaccessible to a growing percentage of the world’s population. I strongly advise all governments to take the issue of electromagnetic health hazards seriously and to take action while there is still time. There is too great a risk that the ever increasing RF-based communications technologies represent a real danger to humans, especially because of their exponential, ongoing and unchecked growth. Governments should act decisively to protect public health by changing the exposure standards to be biologically-based, communicating the results of the independent science on this topic and aggressively researching links with a multitude of associated medical conditions.”

David Carpenter, MD

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, and Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, School of Public Health, University of Albany, SUNY
Co-Editor, The BioInitiative Report (www.BioInitiative.org)

Electromagnetic fields are packets of energy that does not have any mass, and visible light is what we know best. X-rays are also electromagnetic fields, but they are more energetic than visible light. Our concern is for those electromagnetic fields that are less energetic than visible light, including those that are associated with electricity and those used for communications and in microwave ovens. The fields associated with electricity are commonly called “extremely low frequency” fields (ELF), while those used in communication and microwave ovens are called “radiofrequency” (RF) fields. Studies of people have shown that both ELF and RF exposures result in an increased risk of cancer, and that this occurs at intensities that are too low to cause tissue heating. Unfortunately, all of our exposure standards are based on the false assumption that there are no hazardous effects at intensities that do not cause tissue heating. Based on the existing science, many public health experts believe it is possible we will face an epidemic of cancers in the future resulting from uncontrolled use of cell phones and increased population exposure to WiFi and other wireless devices. Thus it is important that all of us, and especially children, restrict our use of cell phones, limit exposure to background levels of Wi-Fi, and that government and industry discover ways in which to allow use of wireless devices without such elevated risk of serious disease. We need to educate decision-makers that ‘business as usual’ is unacceptable. The importance of this public health issue can not be underestimated.”

Magda Havas, PhD

Associate Professor, Environment & Resource Studies, Trent University, Canada.
Expert in radiofrequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current.

“Radio frequency radiation and other forms of electromagnetic pollution are harmful at orders of magnitude well below existing guidelines. Science is one of the tools society uses to decide health policy. In the case of telecommunications equipment, such as cell phones, wireless networks, cell phone antennas, PDAs, and portable phones, the science is being ignored. Current guidelines urgently need to be re-examined by government and reduced to reflect the state of the science. There is an emerging public health crisis at hand and time is of the essence.”

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., Esq.

Retired Attorney; Former New York State Senator & United States Attorney, Southern District of NY
Co-Founder, Natural Resources Defense Council

“Electromagnetic radiation is a very serious human and environmental health issue that needs immediate attention by Congress. The BioInitiative Report is a major milestone in understanding the health risks from wireless technology. Every responsible elected official owes it to his or her constituents to learn and act on its finding and policy recommendations.”

B. Blake Levitt

Former New York Times journalist and author of Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves, and Editor of Cell Towers, Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental Hazard?

Ambient man-made electromagnetic fields (EMFs), across a range of frequencies, are a serious environmental issue. Yet most environmentalists know little about it, perhaps because the subject has been the purview of physicists and engineers for so long that biologists have lost touch with electromagnetism’s fundamental inclusion in the biological paradigm. All living cells and indeed whole living beings, no matter what genus or species, are dynamic coherent electrical systems utterly reliant on bioelectricity for life’s most basic metabolic processes. It turns out that most living things are fantastically sensitive to vanishingly small EMF exposures. Living cells interpret such exposures as part of our normal cellular activities (think heartbeats, brainwaves, cell division itself, etc.) The problem is, man-made electromagnetic exposures aren’t “normal.” They are artificial artifacts, with unusual intensities, signaling characteristics, pulsing patterns, and wave forms, that don’t exist in nature. And they can misdirect cells in myriad ways. Every aspect of the ecosystem may be affected, including all living species from animals, humans, plants and even microorganisms in water and soil. We are already seeing problems in sentinel species like birds, bats, and bees. Wildlife is known to abandon areas when cell towers are placed. Radiofrequency radiation (RF)—the part of the electromagnetic spectrum used in all-things-wireless today—is a known immune system suppressor, among other things. RF is a form of energetic air pollution and we need to understand it as such. Humans are not the only species being affected. The health of our planet may be in jeopardy from this newest environmental concern—added to all the others. Citizens need to call upon government to fund appropriate research and to get industry influence out of the dialogue. We ignore this at our own peril now.”

Eric Braverman, MD

Brain researcher, Author of The Edge Effect, and Director of Path Medical in New York City and The PATH Foundation. Expert in the brain’s global impact on illness and health.

“There is no question EMFs have a major effect on neurological functioning. They slow our brain waves and affect our long-term mental clarity. We should minimize exposures as much as possible to optimize neurotransmitter levels and prevent deterioration of health”.

Abraham R. Liboff, PhD

Research Professor
Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Co-Editor, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

“The key point about electromagnetic pollution that the public has to realize is that it is not necessary that the intensity be large for a biological interaction to occur. There is now considerable evidence that extremely weak signals can have physiological consequences. These interactive intensities are about 1000 times smaller than the threshold values formerly estimated by otherwise knowledgeable theoreticians, who, in their vainglorious approach to science, rejected all evidence to the contrary as inconsistent with their magnificent calculations. These faulty estimated thresholds are yet to be corrected by both regulators and the media.

The overall problem with environmental electromagnetism is much deeper, not only of concern at power line frequencies, but also in the radiofrequency range encompassing mobile phones. Here the public’s continuing exposure to electromagnetic radiation is largely connected to money. Indeed the tens of billions of dollars in sales one finds in the cell phone industry makes it mandatory to corporate leaders that they deny, in knee-jerk fashion, any indication of hazard.

There may be hope for the future in knowing that weakly intense electromagnetic interactions can be used for good as well as harm. The fact that such fields are biologically effective also implies the likelihood of medical applications, something that is now taking place. As this happens, I think it will make us more aware about how our bodies react to electromagnetism, and it should become even clearer to everyone concerned that there is reason to be very, very careful about ambient electromagnetic fields.”

Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD

Professor at University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden.
World-renowned expert on cell phones, cordless phones, brain tumors, and the safety of wireless radiofrequency and microwave radiation.
Co-authored the BioInitiative Report’s section on Brain Tumors by Dr. Hardell

“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. 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.”

Samuel Milham MD, MPH

Medical epidemiologist in occupational epidemiology.
First scientist to report increased leukemia and other cancers in electrical workers and to demonstrate that the childhood age peak in leukemia emerged in conjunction with the spread of residential electrification.

“Very recently, new research is suggesting that nearly all the human plagues which emerged in the twentieth century, like common acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, female breast cancer, malignant melanoma and asthma, can be tied to some facet of our use of electricity. There is an urgent need for governments and individuals to take steps to minimize community and personal EMF exposures.”

Libby Kelley, MA

Managing Secretariat International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety; Founder, Council on Wireless Technology Impacts; Co-Producer of documentary, “Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution”; EMF environmental consultant and leading appellant in challenging the FCC Radio Frequency Radiation human exposure guidelines, 1997-2000. (www.icems.eu)

“Radiofrequency radiation human exposure standards for personal wireless communications devices and for environmental exposure to wireless transmitters are set by national governments to guide the use of wireless communications devices and for wireless transmitters. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission set these standards. The Council on Wireless Technology Impacts considers these exposure standards to be inadequate as they are based on heating effects and do not accommodate the low level, cumulative exposure conditions in which the public now lives. These standards are also designed for acute, short term exposure conditions and do not acknowledge the medical evidence pointing to increased risks and actual harm that results from chronic, intermittent exposure. Federal and State public heath agencies are not officially addressing what many concerned scientists and medical doctors now see as an emerging public health problem. There are no health surveillance or remedial response systems in place to advise citizens about electromagnetic radiation exposure (EMR). As wireless technology evolves, ambient background levels increase, creating electrical pollution conditions which are becoming ubiquitous and more invasive. We strongly encourage consumers, manufacturers, utility providers and policymakers to reduce, eliminate and mitigate EMR exposure conditions and to support biologically based standards.”

James S. Turner, Esq.

Chairman of the Board, Citizens for Health
Co-author, Voice of the People: The Transpartisan Imperative in American Life
Attorney, Swankin-Turner, Washington, DC

“According to the BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-Based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields—from electrical and electronic appliances, power lines and wireless devices such as cell phones, cordless phones, cellular antennas, towers, and broadcast transmission towers—we live in an invisible fog of EMF which thirty years of science, including over 2,000 peer reviewed studies, shows exposes us to serious health risks such as increased Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, Lou Gehrig disease, EMF immune system hypersensitivity and disruption of brain function and DNA. The public needs to wake up politicians and public officials to the need for updating the decades old EMF public health standards. This report tells how.”

Camilla Rees, MBA

CEO, Wide Angle Health, LLC
Patient education and advocacy

“The U.S. spends over $2 trillion dollars on health care each year, of which about 78% is from people with chronic illnesses, without adequately exploring and understanding what factors—including EMF/RF—contribute to imbalances in peoples’ bodies’ in the first place. After reading The BioInitiative Report, it should come as no surprise to policymakers, given the continually increasing levels of EMF/RF exposures in our environment, that close to 50% of Americans now live with a chronic illness. I grieve for people who needlessly suffer these illnesses and hold out the hope that our government leaders will become more cognizant of the role electromagnetic factors are playing in disease, health care costs and the erosion of quality of life and productivity in America.”

L. Lloyd Morgan, BS Electronic Engineering

Director Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, Member Bioelectromagnetics Society, Member Brain Tumor Epidemiological Consortium *

“There is every indication that cell phones cause brain tumors, salivary gland tumors and eye cancer. Yet, because the cell phone industry provides a substantial proportion of research funding, this reality is hidden from the general public. The Interphone Study, a 13-country research project, substantially funded by the cell phone industry has consistently shown that use of a cell phone protects the user from risk of a brain tumor! Does anything more need to be said? It is time that fully independent studies be funded by those governmental agencies whose charter is to protect its citizens so that the truth about the very damaging health hazards of microwave radiation becomes clear and well known.”

*For identification purposes only: All statements are mine and mine alone and do not represent positions or opinions of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, the Bioelectromagnetics Society or the Brain Tumor Epidemiological Consortia.

Janet Newton

President, The EMR Policy Institute
www.EMRPolicy.org

“The radiofrequency radiation safety policy in force in the United States fails to protect the public. Currently in the US there are more than 260 million wireless subscribers, the demand that drives the continuing build-out of antenna sites in residential and commercial neighborhoods, including near schools, daycare centers, and senior living centers and in the workplace. The January 2008 report issued by the National Academy of Sciences committee whose task was to examine the needs and gaps in the research on the biological effects of exposure to these antennas points out that the research studies to date do not adequately represent exposure realities. Specifically, the studies 1) assume a single antenna rather than the typical arrangements of a minimum of four to six antennas per site, thereby underestimating exposure intensities, 2) do not pertain to the commonly used multiple-element base station antennas, thereby not taking into account exposures to multiple frequencies, 3) lack models of several heights for men, women, and children of various ages for use in the characterization of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) distributions for exposures from cell phones, wireless PCs, and base stations and 4) do not take into consideration absorption effects of exposures from the many different radio frequency emitting devices to which the public is often simultaneously exposed. A federal research strategy to address these very serious inadequacies in the science on which our government is basing health policy is sorely needed now.”

Prof. Livio Giuliani, PhD

Spokesperson, International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (www.icems.eu)
Deputy Director, Italian National Institute for Worker Protection and Safety, East Venice and South Tyrol; Professor, School of Biochemistry of Camerino University, Italy

The Venice Resolution, initiated by the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS) on June 6, 2008, and now signed by nearly 50 peer reviewed scientists worldwide, states in part, “We are compelled to confirm the existence of non-thermal effects of electromagnetic fields on living matter, which seem to occur at every level of investigation from molecular to epidemiological. Recent epidemiological evidence is stronger than before. We recognize the growing public health problem known as electrohypersensitivity. We strongly advise limited use of cell phones, and other similar devices, by young children and teenagers, and we call upon governments to apply the Precautionary Principle as an interim measure while more biologically relevant exposure standards are developed.”

Professor Jacqueline McGlade

Executive Director, European Environmental Agency
Advisor to European Union countries under the European Commission

“There are many examples of the failure to use the precautionary principle in the past, which have resulted in serious and often irreversible damage to health and environments. Appropriate, precautionary and proportionate actions taken now to avoid plausible and potentially serious threats to health from EMF are likely to be seen as prudent and wise from future perspectives.”

Paul J. Rosch, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College; Honorary Vice President International Stress Management Association; Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners; Full Member, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences; Fellow, The Royal Society of Medicine; Emeritus Member, The Bioelectromagnetics Society

Claims that cell phones pose no health hazards are supported solely by Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) limits safety standards written by the telecommunications industry decades ago based on studies they funded. These have made the erroneous assumption that the only harm that could come from cell phone radiofrequency emissions would be from a thermal or heating action, since such non thermal fields can have no biological effects. The late Dr. Ross Adey disproved this three decades ago by demonstrating that very similar radiofrequency fields with certain carrier and modulation frequencies that had insufficient energy to produce any heating could cause the release of calcium ions from cells. Since then, numerous research reports have confirmed that non thermal fields from cell phones, tower transmitters, power lines, and other man made sources can significantly affect various tissues and physiologic functions.

We are constantly being bathed in an increasing sea of radiation from exposure to the above, as well as electrical appliances, computers, Bluetooth devices, Wi-Fi installations and over 2,000 communications satellites in outer space that shower us with signals to GPS receivers. New WiMax transmitters on cell phone towers that have a range of up to two square miles compared to Wi-Fi’s 300 feet will soon turn the core of North America into one huge electromagnetic hot spot. Children are more severely affected because their brains are developing and their skulls are thinner. A two-minute call can alter brain function in a child for an hour, which is why other countries ban their sale or discourage their use under the age of 18. In contrast, this is the segment of the population now being targeted here in a $2 billion U.S. advertising campaign that views “tweens” (children between 8 and 12 years old) as the next big cell phone market. Firefly and Barbie cell phones are also being promoted for 6 to 8-year-olds.

It is not generally appreciated that there is a cumulative effect and that talking on a cell phone for just an hour a day for ten years can add up to 10,000 watts of radiation. That’s ten times more than from putting your head in a microwave oven. Pregnant women may also be at increased risk based on a study showing that children born to mothers who used a cell phone just two or three times a day during pregnancy showed a dramatic increase in hyperactivity and other behavioral and emotional problems. And for the 30% of children who had also used a cell phone by age 7, the incidence of behavioral problems was 80% higher! Whether ontogeny (embryonic development) recapitulates phylogeny is debatable, but it is clear that lower forms of life are also much more sensitive. If you put the positive electrode of a 1.5 volt battery in the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and the negative one off San Diego, sharks in the in between these cities can detect the few billionths of a volt electrical field. EMF fields have also been implicated in the recent massive but mysterious disappearance of honeybee colonies essential for pollinating over 90 commercial crops. As Albert Einstein warned, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”

Finally, all life on earth evolved under the influence of solar radiation and geomagnetic forces that we have learned to adapt to and in some instances even utilize. The health of all living systems (ranging upward from a cell, tissue, organ or person, to a family, organization or nation) depends on good communication – good communication within, as well as with the external environment. All communication in the body eventually takes place via very subtle electromagnetic signaling between cells that is now being disrupted by artificial electropollution we have not had time to adapt to. As Alvin Toffler emphasized in Future Shock, too much change in too short a time produces severe stress due to adaptational failure. The adverse effects of electrosmog may take decades to be appreciated, although some, like carcinogenicity, are already starting to surface. This gigantic experiment on our children and grandchildren could result in massive damage to mind and body with the potential to produce a disaster of unprecedented proportions, unless proper precautions are immediately implemented. At the same time, we must acknowledge that novel electromagnetic therapies have been shown to benefit stress related disorders ranging from anxiety, depression and insomnia, to arthritis, migraine and tension headaches. As demonstrated in Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, they may also be much safer and more effective than drugs, so we need to avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”

Medical Miracles: The brain that heals itself

2009-10-14T17:45:00.000-07:00

Breastfeeding may lower risk of cancer

2009-08-10T14:43:00.000-07:00

Those who have known me, have known this for years that I was always advocating women to breast feed their babies and stating that Breast Cancer is also related to not breast feeding.

Imagine, all the milk the breast produces, and without it being excreted, it has a new unwanted chemistry in the breast cells, which the nature did not factor in.

What would happen to those unwanted chemicals and is it not logical and natural to think they producing toxicity in the body? Does not toxicity relate to Cancer?

For me it was so obvious but strange is the way of Modern Medicine that these obvious things need research by experts, whose domain paths also cross with the artificial products they need to push for their employers.

Courtesy
Time Magazine

Breastfeeding may lower risk of cancer
Posted by Laura Blue Monday, August 10, 2009 at 4:01 pm
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Women who breastfeed appear to have lower risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer than those who don't, according to a new study released today in in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The stats are especially compelling for women with a family history of the disease. Among that group, women in the study who'd breastfed had just 41% the disease risk of women who did not breastfeed.

The results come from researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. They used data from 60,075 women who'd had at least one baby, and who were monitored between 1997 and 2005 as part of the Nurses' Health Study II. The researchers wanted to see what kind of an effect breastfeeding had on cancer risk, once they'd controlled for other known risk factors, including body weight, age at first period, oral-contraceptive use and alcohol consumption.

The breastfeeding effect was strong, at least among those women with a family history of breast cancer. But it's still not clear why or how, exactly, giving milk might prevent cancers from forming. Breastfeeding is of course correlated with oodles of other lifestyle factors, so it's always possible that one of those is responsible for the observed effect. (Remember, too, that breast-cancer risk increases with age until women are well into their 70s, so pre-menopausal breast cancer should not be your only concern.) And yet the researchers behind this new study do have one good reason to think that the link they've found could be causal. It seems that women who used drugs to suppress lactation got the very same benefit. The researchers hypothesize, therefore, that something in the breast really does respond badly when milk goes unused. In particular, they write, "if a woman does not breastfeed, she experiences abrupt engorgement [of the breast right after childbirth], and mammary tissue may become progressively inflamed." They believe this inflammation could play some role in cancer formation.

A Letter to Friend Trying To Help Her Child

2009-03-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

Hi Vxxxxx.

What I wanted to share with you was following:

a. RF Modulated EMF can cause RNA/DNA Replication and mess with Cellular Division, including Metabolism. This can causes all kinds of Health issues. Reducing it and Eliminating can help body help to some extent. It has shown to cause Autism. This is besides the Slow Frequency EMF causing Cancer, and High Frequency like Microwaves causing Ionization, breaking of water molecule into H2 and O2 as the Resonant Frequency of Water is the same as Microwave and WiFi/802.11g as well as some Chordless Phones.

b. Loud Noises can mess with children growth, specially when they are developing, and very true for child in the womb. The reaction of the brain cells is confusion, and shutting off themselves. Then resonating sound frequencies (remember soldiers walking in sync can bring down a bridge) can also severe the neural synapses.

I think in case of Txxxxx, the "b" happened, with brain cells getting confused. Remember X-Files experience, which I once watched with you folks together, but I was still not on this path of seeking the Truth. So removing those factors should also help Txxxxx in the long run.

There could be other combination, and one hint is you should get her Pituitary checked, and associated Harmones. There is nothing much can be done except for Hormone Treatment.

I know some folks may laugh at it but I can defend a lot scientifically.

BTW, I have been blessed with some Yogic Powers, like suspension of mechanical breath for 2-3 hours (metabolically I still breath but with minimum), can shut my nostrils at will without using my hands, and churn my alimentary canals inside without moving much of the stomach, grow my hand/fingers and feet/toes, which ever you want, by 1cms in 15 to 30 seconds, temporarily, and children have said this about height, and also feel the index finger of one hand writing the other hand's palm away from 4 inches, as part of my experiment to transfer EMF (Pranic) energy. Most of this tricks some of my friends have seen, including my PCP and Cardio. A and his family have seen the one form of Telekinesis.

All I am saying not to show off, but to convince you to help the Bitya Txxxxx. I know the pain of a parent when the child has to struggle. Sometimes not all parents feel the pain, as it was in the cae of Jxxxxxx (we all grow at different rates from self centric *fun* view to an egalitarian *pain sensitive* view).

Knowing Ixxxx, I know he would not be convinced easily, as he is a different part of life, and nothing is wrong, as we all are there once. Could you believe me I would be here, if you had seen me in IIT or even Bombay?

BTW, the seeking of Truth is part of my scientific query as well, and I have written a paper on Gravity, as part of my quest searching for an answer since 1991, and then now I am trying to close on a Unified Theory of Everything. I have the empirical and philosophical summary and details, but busy doing sanity check with Modern Mathematical Developments which Modern Physics (which is still having disparity between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity) heavily relies on.

The Standard Atomic Model is breaking, and my theory predicts that, and you can check all the world's Linear Accelerators would keep finding new Atomic Particles, and breaking the Standard Model, developed by the likes of Feynman.

I sharing this so that you know I am not just BS'ing. The one form of Telekinesis is part of the General Relativity Experiment I have to show. ;-)

Take care.

Love and Regards,
Sunil.

Electromagnetichealth Audio Archives And More

2009-03-04T21:42:00.000-08:00

Electromagnetichealth Audio Archives And More

What is Happening to Patients?

Click to listen 28:26

Thomas M. Rau, MD
Medical Director
Paracelsus Clinic, Switzerland.

Click to listen 45:08

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD
Director, Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology
Expert in the health consequences of electromagnetic fields and leading
educator of physicians.

How Serious is This Problem?

Click to listen 56:40

Olle Johansson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden;
Professor, Royal Institute of Technology; Authored Bioinitiative Report’s section on EMF and the immune system.

The DNA & Cancer Connection

Click to listen 36:50

Henry Lai, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington.

Public Health in Jeopardy

Click to listen 35:55

David Carpenter, MD
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, and Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, School of Public Health, University of Albany, SUNY
Co-Editor, The BioInitiative Report (www.BioInitiative.org)

What’s Happening in Nature?

Click to listen 49:30

B. Blake Levitt
Award-winning science journalist and Author, Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer’s Guide To The Issues And How To Protect Ourselves, the classic book in this field.
Member, Bioelectromagnetics Society.

Deceptions With Science

Click to listen 25:58

Magda Havas, PhD
Associate Professor, Environment & Resource Studies, Trent University, Canada.
Expert in radiofrequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current.

The Call to Action!

Click to listen 28:40

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., Esq.
Retired Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP;
Former New York State Senator & United States Attorney, Southern District of NY
Co-Founder, Natural Resources Defense Council

Wisdom Traditions Perspective

Click to listen 40:48

Robert A. F. Thurman, PhD
Jey Tsong Kappa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies
Department of Religion Columbia University
President, Tibet House
Author of Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the
Solution for China, Tibet and the World, and many others.

Medical Director of Switzerland's Paracelsus Clinic: "Electromagnetic Load" a hidden Factor in Many illness

2009-03-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

EMF Research Reports:

February 10th, 2009. Dr. Thomas Rau, Medical Director of the world renowned Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, Switzerland says he is convinced ‘electromagnetic loads’ lead to cancer, concentration problems, ADD, tinnitus, migraines, insomnia, arrhythmia, Parkinson’s and even back pain. At Paracelsus (www.paracelsus.ch), cancer patients are now routinely educated in electromagnetic field remediation strategies and inspectors are sent to patients’ homes to assess electromagnetic field exposures…

Electrical sensitivity—originally known as radio wave sickness—is a sometimes debilitating experience created by these and other disregulating effects of electromagnetic fields. Linked to many acute and chronic illness conditions, electrical sensitivity is a serious emerging public health issue globally and a subject in which most doctors have no training…

It is estimated that 3-8% of populations in developed countries experience serious electrohypersensitivity symptoms today, and 35% experience mild symptoms. With increasing electromagnetic field exposures, these numbers, along with the suffering involved for people who are impacted, and the health care costs involved, are bound to go up.

DOCUMENTED EMF CAUSED HEALTH ISSUES BY AUSTRALIA

2009-03-04T11:40:00.001-08:00

Emf and Health Effects

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Electromagnetic Fields

2009-02-27T21:46:00.000-08:00

Courtsey: Tuberose.com

Electromagnetic Fields

The Earth is a huge magnetic sphere. Living things have been tied to the Earth's natural magnetic field from the time that life began. This magnetic field permeates and contributes to all life on the planet by the generation of what we call the atmosphere. This field varies in strength and consistency through the ages and, with this variance, so too does life on the planet change. Our bodies own magnetic frequencies and bio-field patterns react to this variance of the Earth's field. All matter on Earth assists in creating this field and so becomes charged with this magnetic resonance, displaying different results, dependant on the substance. Each individual cell--as well as entire organisms--senses and derives timing information from the natural cycles of the geomagnetic field. As all matter is made up of magnetic resonant field patterns, of varying strength and frequencies, applying a magnetic device of any configuration will produce an effect one way or another.

The healers-of-old knew the benefits and curative powers fo magnetic lodestones when properly placed along the meridian lines of energy and not necessarily at the area of pain. Lodestones, being basically iron oxide, have the capacity to retain and exhibit a magnetic field. These lodestones have been charged by the Earth, and thus are harmoniously in tune with the human bodies' frequencies as well, they have for thousands of years been successfully used in the healing arts. These healers continued their practice through the ages, since the patients could see the results and then utilized the methodology themselves. Although this same methodology is still practiced with desired results in some cultures today, twenty-first century man is destroying the healing effects with modern materials.

Modern magnetic therapy is based on traditional ideas, but uses stronger and "out of phase" magnetic materials. Most everyone considers magnetism a basic and natural force similar to the magnetic field exhibited by the field of an artificial permanent or electromagnet has a distinct man-made flavor within the internal structure or matrix of the field itself. The frequency of the field is the governing factor as to whether the field is beneficial or harmful. The field of a permanent magnet receives its frequency when energized, depending on the energizing process and the composition of the magnet itself, resulting in the frequency of the final product. Powerful permanent magnets have their matrix altered by the artificial energizing processes used, and do not conform to the natural complex magnetic field structure of the human bio-organism, or that of the planet. These processes use artificial electrical energy, which has within its structure a frequency composition different to that of nature. This is why lodestones work well in healing situations since they have the required field strength and attenuation to the life force of the planet.

Human use of electromagnetism for power and communications has produced an abnormal electromagnetic environment unlike anything that existed before. More than a thousand scientific papers on this topic are published each year. Both epidemiological and laboratory studies exist, indicating that abnormal frequencies, regardless of their frequencies, produce increased health risks.

What is an Electromagnetic Field?

All electromagnetic fields are force fields, carrying energy and capable of producing an action at a distance. These fields have characteristics of both waves and particles. An electric current flowing in a wire or coil produces its own magnetic field. A compass needle will swing at right angles to the wire. What is the difference between an electric field and a magnetic field? Actually both are usually all around us, since they are present wherever there is electricity. Both an electric and a magnetic field exist around power lines, appliances, light fixtures, and electric wiring; but electromagnetic fields are generated only when current is flowing through a wire. The voltage on a wire produces electric fields.

If you plug in a lamp or an appliance, even though it is not turned on, it will produce an electric field. When the light is lit or the appliance is running, both an electric and electromagnetic field will be present. A permanent magnetic field is stationary or still, unless you are moving the magnet. Permanent magnets are completely safe, and are not involved in this controversy. Magnetic fields are produced by moving electrical currents, and the field of a bar magnet is produced by the spinning electrons around the atomic nuclei in the iron material of the magnet itself. In order to act as a "magnet," these atoms must be lined up in the same direction so that the individual magnetic fields combine to produce one big field. If a magnet is dropped on a hard floor, the magnetic field is destroyed because the atoms are "shaken up" and their direction is changed, resulting in a random pattern.

When an electrical current flows in a wire, the movement of the electrons produces a similar field in space, but one that is oriented around the wire. If the current is a DC (direct current), the magnetic field is steady, like that form a permanent magnet. The strength of the magnetic field depends upon the amount of current flowing in the wire--the more current there is, the stronger the magnetic field will be. If the current in the wire is fluctuating, the magnetic field will have the same fluctuations. We characterize the field in this case on the basis of the rate, or frequency of fluctuation. All of the possible frequencies of electromagnetic waves or fields can be put onto an electromagnetic spectrum, starting with the slowest frequencies and going to the highest. The electromagnetic spectrum is usually pictured as a line that increases from zero, to trillions of cycles per second. About three-fourths up the frequency spectrum is something we are very familiar with--light. Sunlight, as well as the light from electric lights, is the same thing as the magnetic field. It is produced by the movement of electrons and has the same characteristics as the Earth's magnetic field, radio waves, and X-rays. It is an electromagnetic field, but one for which we have developed specific anatomical detectors--our eyes. Electrical currents flow in living organisms and they produce magnetic fields that extend outside of the body and can be influenced by external magnetic fields as well. The magnetic field produced by the brain is easily detected using a special magnetometer.

Extra low frequency magnetic fields, such as those from 50 & 60 Hz systems, penetrate even a cast iron bath tub with little attenuation. They freely intrude our homes and our bodies. They are biologically active at intensities of a milligauss (mG) or less.

The flow of the electrical currents in the brain produce a magnetic field that can be measured and analyzed several feet away from the head. We, and all other living things, are surrounded by a magnetic field extending out into space from our bodies, and the fields from the brain reflect what is happening in the brain. Living organisms have the ability to somehow sense these minute daily cycles in the Earth's magnetic field and to use them to time their biological cycles.

Electronics 101

If two electrons are separated by one centimeter, each electron will experience a repulsive force of 2.3X10^-24 gram equivalents. Doubling the separation will reduce the force to one quarter. Doubling the number of electrons on one side will double the repulsive force acting on the lone electron on the other side. Most matter is neutral, so it contains an equal number of protons and electrons. However, sometimes electrons are deliberately or accidentally removed from one object, and deposited onto another object. If a proton is placed near these two charged objects, the proton will be attracted to the negative object, which has excess electrons, and simultaneously repelled from the positive one, which is missing some electrons. The total force acting on the proton is a measure of the electric field that the proton is exposed to. The direction of the force that acts on the proton is the same as the direction of the electric field and the strength of the force is proportional to the strength of the electric field. If an electron were substituted for the proton, the force would be of the same strength, but in the opposite direction of the electric field. If two protons "tied" together were substituted for the single proton, they would experience twice as much total force.

If the terminals of a battery are connected to two large metal plates, the + plate will lose some electrons, which will flow through the battery to the - plate. A battery acts as an electron pump, establishing an electric field between the plates. A proton would be attracted toward the - plate and repelled from the + plate. The strength of this electric field equals the battery voltage divided by the distance between the plates (usually measured in meters). For example, if the battery is 1.5 volts and the spacing is one meter, the electric field is 1.5 volts per meter (V/m), but if the spacing is reduced to ½ meter, the electric field increases to 3V/m, which doubles the force that a single proton, if placed in the center, would experience. Any charged particle placed between the plates would experience a force downward if the particle were positive, or upward if negative.

All conductive bodies contain charged particles that can freely move around. In metals these particles are the electrons from the outer part of the atom. In conductive liquids such as salt water, the conductive particles are called ions: positively charged sodium atoms and negatively charged chlorine atoms, which can move through the water. If a conductive body is placed between the plates, the charged particles inside the conductor will quickly shift position a little. The charged particles shift position simply because they are responding to the electric field from the battery and metal plates. Because no electric field now exists within the conductive body, the internal charged particles have stopped moving and the configuration is stable. If the battery is subsequently reconnected to the plates in reverse, all charges will reorient so that - and + ultimately interchange after a small fraction of a second. The movement of charges is defined as an electric current, so that during that brief time the charges in the conductive body are reorienting themselves, a current is flowing. At all other times (when charges are stable), no current flows. Therefore, inside a conductive body, no current flows and no internal electric field exists except during the periods when the outside electric field is changing.

A changing electric field can produce a magnetic field. The electric field is fundamental; the magnetic force arises directly from the electric force. In two parallel wires each 40" (100 cm) long and are one cm apart and carry one amp of current will attract each other with a force of 0.002-gram equivalents due to the magnetic force. The force will double if the current in either wire is doubled or if the separation is reduced to ½ cm. If the direction of current in one of the wires is reversed, the force will become repulsive, but will remain the same strength. The current in the first wire creates a magnetic field that acts on the current in the second wire. In a similar way, the second wire also acts on the first. The attraction is mutual; the first wire attracts the second with the same amount of force that the second attracts the first. No charge will actually flow through the air gap between them, yet a magnetic field will be created in that gap as if the charge were flowing. The amount of magnetic force a wire experiences is proportional to the product of magnetic field strength that the wire is subjected to, times the length of the wire, times the amount of current (in amps) the wire is carrying. The direction of the force is at right angles both to the direction of the magnetic field and the direction of the current.

Besides being influenced by a magnetic field, a wire that is carrying a current also produces a magnetic field. If the wire is long, the field strength is double at half the distance from the wire and is four times as much at a quarter the distance. Milligauss is a unit of flux density, not magnetic field strength, but the difference is not important. A wire that carries one amp will have a magnetic field of 200 milligauss (mG), a distance of one cm away. At two cm the field will be one-half as much. Certain types of metal--iron, steel, nickel, and vanadium--internally produce this circulating current without the help of a battery or wires. These metals are called ferromagnetic and their single outer electrons each produce a tiny, circulating current due to the electron orbits. All electrons in a Ferro magnet (if fully magnetized) spin in the same direction. If two such magnets are brought close together with the North of one facing the South of the other, they will attract. This attraction is because the electron currents spin in the same direction around the edge of the magnets. If the North of a magnet is brought close to the North of another magnet, they will repel, because the electron currents are circulating in opposite directions.

A changing magnetic field can create an electric field. This is the basis of power transformers and electric power generation. One coil of wire is placed close to another. An increasing current flow is established in the first coil, which creates an increasing magnetic field. The increasing magnetic field causes electrons to circulate (current) around the second coil in such a way as to oppose the increasing magnetic field that the first coil is trying to establish. The changing magnetic field creates an electric field directly in the wire, which causes electrons in the wire to move. The amount of voltage generated is proportional to the total length of wire in all the loops. A changing magnetic field will also create an electric field in the human body, which causes a current to flow. The current is at right angles to the direction of the changing magnetic field, and is strongest near the extremities of a person. Current tends to flow along the outer surface of the body. Its strength is proportional to the rate at which the field changes.

For a 60 Hz (60 oscillations per second) field with strength of three milligauss, a current is created in an adult, which is on average, one-billionth amp per square centimeter of cross-sectional area. For these currents induced by magnetic fields, the current per area increases proportional to the linear size of the organism. An animal only 1/10 the size of an adult human would average 1/10 as much current per area. An AC electric field will also create a current in the body. This current usually flows in the same direction as the electric field and is fairly uniform throughout the body. As with the magnetic field current, the current from an AC electric field is proportional to the frequency multiplied by the strength. For an adult, a 2000 V/m electric field at 60 Hz will create, on average, one-billionth amp per square cm. Unlike the case of magnetic current, the electric current per square centimeter does not scale down for a small animal.

The changing electric and magnetic effects make possible electromagnetic waves (radio waves). These waves are usually emitted from a wire (antenna) connected to an oscillator (in essence, a battery changing polarity very fast). The antenna rapidly oscillates between + and -, creating a rapidly changing electric field. Most radio waves are in the frequency range from half a million to several billion oscillations per second. That rapidly changing electric field creates a rapidly changing magnetic field. The magnetic field, in turn, creates an electric field, which reinforces the existing electric field. Because of this reinforcement, the strength of the electric field far from the antenna is much greater than it would be without the reinforcement. For example, if a one-foot antenna is connected to one volt DC (electric field is not oscillating), the electric field one mile away will be 1/100 billion V/m.

However, if that same one volt is continuously reversed 200 million times per second (proper frequency for a one foot antenna), the peak electric field one mile away will be 1/3000 V/m, or 33 million times higher. By using radio waves, the fields can be carried a long distance. For the AC frequencies typically encountered in the home (60, 180, and 300 oscillations per second are typical from power line current, and up to 17,000-35,000 oscillations from the horizontal scan of TV and computer monitors), antennas and coils would have to be at least several miles long to emit true radio waves. Because the devices that emit these fields (vacuum cleaners, fluorescent lights, etc.) are much smaller than that, household sources of fields are often pure magnetic (from wires or coils that carry AC current), pure electric (from metal plates or wires that are connected to the electric "hot" wire, regardless of whether any current is present), or some mix of magnetic and electric. Unlike radio waves, household field sources tend to weaken quickly in strength when you're more than a few feet away.

Natural Electromagnetic Fields

The spinning core of molten iron miles beneath the surface of the Earth creates a dipole magnetic field, like a bar magnet. The energy of the sun distorts and perturbs this simple field into a unique structure known as the magnetosphere. The strength of the Earth's magnetic field averages about half a gauss. Its daily change in strength is less than 0.1 gauss. Compared with the 200-gauss strength of the magnet that holds a refrigerator door closed, this seems miniscule. The sun constantly gives off a solar wind, composed of high-energy atomic particles. These particles travel through space at great speed and crash into the outer layers of the Earth's magnetic field, compressing it until its energy matches that of the solar wind. The area of interaction between these two forces is called the bow-shock region. The sun's magnetic field is organized into sectors, much like the segments of an orange. Alternate sectors have their fields directed inward and outward, so that as the sun rotates, a slight change is produced as each sector boundary crosses the line connecting the sun with the Earth. On the side away from the sun, the magnetic field is drawn out into a long magneto tail, which stretches away from the Earth far into space. It contains vast stores of energy and demonstrates reliable daily fluctuations in strength, as well as longer periodic changes. It is subject to sudden, massive storms produced by energetic events on the sun. Over geologic time, it exhibits strange reversals of polarity.

The Earth rotates on a day-night cycle within this complex field. The magnetosphere does not rotate but remains fixed in space, with one side always facing the sun. Because of this, any given spot on the surface of the Earth is in a constantly changing magnetic field. The daily rise and fall in the strength of this field causes biological rhythms. Magnetic storms appear to have a direct effect on the operations of the human brain. This interaction results in the generation of enormous electrical currents with billions of watts. It also results in the production of ionizing radiation and various electromagnetic waves. The EMF energy of the earth is usually absorbed through the feet. There is a point on the sole near the upper center of the foot, through which it is specifically drawn up. Lying on the ground is also a way of recharging. The earthly forces rebalance the heavenly forces.

Water can be energized with specific magnetic fields that aid life compared to untreated water. Water that comes up out of the earth, or is brought up out of the earth, looses it's charge after ninety-two hours and thus any water having magnetic healing properties, such as the water from Lourdes, must be used soon after taking the sample from its source. Any water brought up from an underground source and used to energize a treatment device, looses all effectiveness in ninety-two hours as well. If the treatment device also contains magnets or a mechanism to spiral the water (clockwise in Northern hemisphere), then a small helpful effect is imparted to the water for a limited time. Magnetic field generators are available that impart a magnetic field to the water, designed purposefully for bio-magnetic field patterns based on the frequencies of the human bio-field. This water is then used in the treatment of ailments, with positive results. With life on Earth being water-based, magnetizing water before use, whether on plants or humans, will give better health and vitality.

The Magnetic Organ

In 1975, a researcher noticed that the bacteria he was studying always clustered at the north side of their culture dish. Even if he turned the dish so that they were at the south end and left it overnight, the next morning the bacteria were back at the north side. Each bacterium contained a chain of tiny magnets! The magnets were actually crystals of the natural magnetic mineral magnetite, the original lodestone of preliterate peoples. Somehow, the bacteria absorbed the soluble components from the water and put them together in their bodies as the insoluble crystalline chain. In 1971, another researcher reported on a lengthy series of experiments with pigeons. He found the same crystals of magnetite, as a submicroscopic mass located on the surface of the pigeon's brain. He found that the mass of crystals was full of nerve fibers that seemed to go into the brain. The magnetite crystals "tell" the pigeon's brain the exact direction of the Earth's magnetic field, and the pigeon uses this information to navigate with its amazing precision. The salamander has two separate magnetic navigational systems. One provides a simple compass, so that when traveling "cross country," it will go in a straight line. The other system enables it to return to the exact spot where it was hatched from its egg in order to mate and lay more eggs. The human "magnetic organ" has been found in the posterior wall of the ethmoid sinus, just in front of the pituitary gland. Humans have an innate ability to sense the direction of magnetic north, and this ability can be blocked by placing a bar magnet against a person's forehead for only fifteen minutes! The directional sense is disturbed for as long as two hours after application of the magnet. It is a sense organ that informs the organism of the direction of the Earth's magnetic field. Nature has provided us with yet another organ that also senses the field and extracts even more significant information from it.

The Pineal Gland's Magnetic Sense

The pineal gland is the "clock" that controls biological cycles. The cyclic pattern of sleep-wakefulness is dependent upon the level of melatonin secretion by the pineal. The pineal gland is the principal structure in the brain that is directly sensitive to the Earth's magnetic field. As a result, it functions abnormally when exposed to abnormal fields. Because the pineal produces a host of psychoactive chemicals (such as melatonin, dopamine, serotonin, and others), its abnormal functioning may result in a variety of neurological and behavioral abnormalities. It was first determined that a part of the output of the retina is diverted to the pineal, where it senses the day-night cycle and melatonin secretion is adjusted accordingly. The pineal is also sensitive to the daily cyclic pattern in the Earth's magnetic field. Abnormal secretion of hormones by the pineal is linked to many behavioral abnormalities. The primary effect of a chronically abnormal biocycle is the production of chronic stress syndrome a condition that produces a wide variety of health problems, including a marked decline in competency of the immune system. Nature intended the pineal to simultaneously receive the same signals from the daily pattern of day-night and the same rise and fall in strength of the geomagnetic field. Obviously, when one or both signals are abnormal, the pineal does not respond in the normal fashion, and the body's biological cycles become disturbed--with important health results. Over two billion years of evolution, living things have taken advantage of the two portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that could be depended upon to always be present: the geomagnetic field and visible light. Life developed specific organs to sense the geomagnetic field and to derive timing information from it just as it developed specific organs to sense and derive information from light.

The Human Crystal

The key to understanding the assimilation of energy into our physical structure is through the awareness of our bodies as a series of synchronous, interacting crystal structures. The body on this level is linked by oscillating solid and liquid crystals that form an overall energy pattern for the total body. Each organ, gland, nerve system, cell and protein structure--even the tissue salts in the body--shows a level of organization with some degree of crystalline-like function. Marcel Vogel, the world-renowned crystal expert, has pointed out that the human energy field exists as an array of oscillating energy points which have a layered structure and a definite symmetry. He points out that these properties fulfill the definition of a normal crystal in material form. Our bone structure has long been recognized as a solid crystal structure with piezoelectric properties. A piezoelectric effect is the creation of an electromagnetic field pulse when a crystalline structure is physically stressed or pushed out of its normal shape. As a solid crystal, it has the ability to convert vibrational energy, such as sound or light, into magnetic and electric energy. Crystals can absorb, store, convert, amplify, transduce and transmit vibrational energies, which have biological effects. Psychic healing energies alter the measurable electromagnetic pattern of a crystal, suggesting that subtle energies can alter the physical structure of a crystal. When physical stress or an electromagnetic field (EMF) is applied to a piezoelectric crystal, the crystal will change shape and generate an EMF. Bone, quartz crystal and tourmaline are among the few crystal forms with piezoelectric properties.

Studies suggest that the crystalline-like components of the extra cellular matrix of bone, such as collagen and proteoglycans, possess piezoelectric qualities. Mineralized tissue such as cartilage, dentin, teeth in general and relatively non-mineralized tissues such as keratin in skin, elastin, artery tissue, connective tissue (tendons and ligaments), and even some amino acid crystals (glysine, proline and hydroxyproline) all have piezoelectric properties. The main forces which create pulsed piezoelectric EMFs in bone are the anti-gravity muscles, the cardiovascular system, voluntary muscles and impact with the environment. Projected EMFs have the ability to create a piezoelectric response in bone. These fields have biological activity affecting: cell nutrition, local pH control, enzyme activation and suppression, orientation of intra and extra cellular macromolecules, migratory and reproductive activity of cells, synthetic capacity and specialized function of cells, contractility and permeability of cell membranes, and energy transfer. Another type of electric or electromagnetic field response is also found in bone structure, called streaming potentials, an electrical field created by the flow of ions, charged solutes and cells such as red blood cells through the tissues, carried by extra cellular fluids such as blood through the extra cellular matrix. When the bone is even subtly bent from pressure by such events as walking or even by the pulse of our arteries, the extra cellular fluids are pumped through the bone. A charge is created by the electrostatic interaction of the charged fluids moving past the fixed charge in the crystalline bone structure. These fluids interact with the piezo fields of bone.

Liquid Crystals

There are other forms of crystalline-like systems in the body, and one of the most important is the liquid crystal. A liquid crystal is technically defined as having form, liquid properties, stored information and a measurable electromagnetic field. A liquid crystal can act simultaneously as liquid and crystal. The larger liquid crystal systems include fatty tissue, muscle and nerve tissue, the lymphatic system, white blood cells, and the various pleural and peritoneal linings. Muscle and nerve tissue exist as liquid crystal systems held in shape by bone and skin systems. The muscles have also been shown to have some piezoelectric properties. On a cell level, all cells and cell membranes are considered liquid crystals. These include the plasma membrane, mitochondrial membrane, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, nuclear membranes and chloroplast membranes. Bodily fluids also have crystal qualities. A water molecule contains the potential forms of all crystals in its primary form of a tetrahedron. Water can bring all different forms of ions into a crystalline state an hold them in solution. The more structured the water is, the higher concentration of ions it can hold. One of the most important ion solutions is the dissolved cell salts. When the body cells and tissues become diseased or cancerous, the crystalline protein structures no longer have the proper configuration to maintain the water in a structured state.

Ions and other solutes in the cell consequently become redistributed by the new pattern of unstructured water. If the water in the cell, extra cellular fluid or blood plasma becomes structured, it will then be able to attract and hold more ions by virtue of its hydration shell patterns. Identical crystal resonant fields emanated by micronutrients are attracted to larger resonant fields emanated by the organism's larger crystalline and liquid crystalline patterns. This explains how micronutrients, homeopathic remedies, etc., through vibrating crystalline fields, are drawn to the appropriate resonating crystalline sites. In An Atlas of Cellular Oscillators by P.R. Rapp, research in over 450 papers is cited in cataloging an atlas of biological and biochemical oscillators with a periodicity of one hour or less. This includes oscillations in enzyme-catalyzed reactions such as photosynthesis, oscillations in protein synthesis, and oscillations in cell membranes, secretory cells, neuronal cells, skeletal cells, smooth cells, heart muscle cells and cell movement. In a healthy state, the body's structures are a multi-leveled series of interacting systems and subsystems that resonate harmoniously. From this perspective, disease occurs when this synchronicity is thrown into disharmony. Each organ system or subsystem gives off a specific measurable electromagnetic field. The EMFs are measurable, subtle fields that can have great effect on the behavior of an organism.

Man-made Electromagnetic Fields

Life on earth evolved under geomagnetic fields and electromagnetic forces that have been constant for hundreds of millions of years. All that changed a little over 100 years ago, when Thomas Edison built the first power station in New York City. Before 1900, the Earth's electromagnetic field was composed simply of the field and its associated micro pulsations, visible light, and random discharges of lightning. We swim in a sea of energy that is almost totally man-made. Silicon sensors are already calling to each other. Soon, countless communicating microchips, embedded everywhere, will be sending streams of encoded electrical energy through glass, steel, concrete, bone and flesh. The exposure of living organisms to abnormal electromagnetic fields results in significant abnormalities in physiology and function. The cells of the brain and central nervous system are particularly sensitive to abnormal fields. The developing central nervous system of the fetus or the newborn is particularly sensitive. These abnormal fields arise primarily from external sources. Most are unaware of the substantial risks associated with the use of many devices in their own homes. 60-Hz fields of only 3 milligauss have been shown to be significantly related to increase in cancer rates.

Microwaves

Microwaves are very short waves of electromagnetic energy that travel at the speed of light. Microwave ovens contain a magnetron, a tube in which electrons are affected by magnetic and electric fields in such a way as to produce micro wavelength radiation at about 2450 Megahertz (MHz) or 2.45 Gigahertz (GHz). This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. In microwaves, these polarity changes happen millions of times a second. Food molecules--especially the molecules of water--have a positive and negative end in the same way a magnet has a north and a south polarity.

As the microwaves generated from the magnetron bombard the food, they cause the polar molecules to rotate at the same frequency, millions of times a second. All this agitation creates molecular friction, which heats up the food. The friction also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name for this deformation is structural isomerism. By comparison, microwaves from the sun are based on principles of pulsed direct current (DC) that don't create frictional heat; microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional heat. A microwave oven produces a spiked wavelength of energy with all the power going into only one narrow frequency of the energy spectrum. In addition to violent frictional heat effects (called thermic effects), there are also athermic effects, which have hardly ever been taken into account. These athermic effects also deform the structures of molecules and have qualitative consequences. For example, the weakening of cell membranes by microwaves is used in the field of gene-altering technology. Because of the force involved, the cells are actually broken, thereby neutralizing the electrical potentials--the very life of the cells--between the outer and inner sides of cell membranes. Impaired cells become easy prey for microorganisms. Natural repair mechanisms are suppressed, and cells are forced to adapt to a state of energy emergency--they switch from aerobic to anaerobic respiration. Instead of water and carbon dioxide, hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide are produced. Any reversal of healthy cell processes may occur because of a number of reasons, and our cells then revert from a robust oxidation to an unhealthy fermentation. The same violent friction and athermic deformations, that can occur in our bodies when we are subjected to radar or microwaves, happens to the molecules in the food cooked in a microwave oven.

Microwave Sickness

The Russians did research on thousands of workers who had been exposed to microwaves during the development of radar in the 1950's. Their research showed a breakdown of the human life-energy field, so serious that the Russians set strict limits of 10 microwatts exposure for workers and one microwatt for civilians. The first signs of microwave sickness are low blood pressure and slow pulse. The later and most common manifestations are chronic excitation of the sympathetic nervous system (stress syndrome) and high blood pressure. This phase also often includes headache, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension, inability to concentrate, hair loss, plus an increased incidence of appendicitis, cataracts, reproductive problems, and cancer. The chronic symptoms are eventually succeeded by crisis of adrenal exhaustion and ischemic heart disease. Changes are observed in the blood chemistries and the rates of certain diseases among consumers of microwaved foods. Lymphatic disorders were observed, leading to decreased ability to prevent certain types of cancers.

An increased rate of cancer cell formation was observed in the blood. Increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers were observed. Higher rates of digestive disorders and gradual breakdown of the systems of elimination were observed. There is degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism and of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic processes into the blood serum from the digestive process. There is a degeneration and breakdown of nerve electrical circuits and loss of energy field symmetry in the neuroplexuses both in the front and the rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems, along with a loss of balance and circuiting of the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system (controls the function of consciousness). There is long-term cumulative loss of vital energies within humans, animals and plants that are located within a 500-meter radius of operational equipment. There is long-lasting residual effects of magnetic "deposits" located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system.

There is destabilization and interruption in the production and maintence of hormones in males and females by continually eating microwaved foods. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven, or using cell phones, causes permanent brain damage by shorting out electrical impulses in the brain (depolarizing or demagnetizing the brain tissue). There is markedly higher levels of brainwave disturbance in the alpha, theta, and delta wave signal patterns of persons exposed to microwave emission fields, with a resultant negative psychological effects, including loss of memory, loss of ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes, and interruptive sleep episodes. Microwaves cause long-term depolarization of tissue neuroelectric circuits with irreversible damage to the neuroelectrical integrity of various components of the nervous system, in individuals subjected to continual range emissive field effects of microwave apparatus, either in cooking apparatus, in transmission stations, and PCS cell phones. The body cannot metabolize unknown byproducts created in microwaved food.

Electric Power Systems

Our electric-power systems operate at fifty or sixty cycles per second, just above the highest naturally occurring frequency of 30 Hertz (Hz.)the frequency in cycles per second. Our microwave beams operate at billions of times per second and are getting ever closer to the trillion-cycle frequencies of visible light. We have filled the previously empty electromagnetic spectrum between these two extremes with man-made radiation that never existed on Earth, and we did it in less than 80 years. Because our society runs on electromagnetic (EM) energy, there really is no place to hide. We are living in a "radio-frequency soup." Microwave and low-frequency radiation is all around us--emitted by television and radio towers, satellites, high-voltage electric lines, personal computers, police radios, paging systems, microwave ovens and electronic games, CB radios, alarm systems, telecommunications systems, garage door controls, signal generators, etc. Even in the remotest mountain valleys, you're exposed to some level of the ubiquitous power frequencies of 50 or 60 Hz., short-wave radio waves reflected back from the ionosphere, as well as microwaves being beamed from satellites. It is not ionizing--it doesn't displace electrons and start biochemical reactions in our cells like ionizing radiation--but it does affect human health.

Televisions & Computers

There have been "clusters" of miscarriages among female computer operators. Most people know that the television or computer screen gives off a small amount of ionizing radiation as X-rays, but few are aware of the amount and distribution of the electromagnetic radiation from the entire unit. Actually, the electromagnetic fields are generated within the circuitry of the entire device. The TV set is what is called a broadband radiating source, meaning that it gives off a variety of frequencies, from the 60-Hz power frequency to radio frequencies in the MHz (mega hertz) range. The radiation is given off in all directions from the TV set and computer screen. The fly-back circuit operates in the VLF (very low frequency) range, generally around 17 kHz, and this frequency is a major part of the total frequencies given off. When you sit in front of the set, you are being irradiated with a wide range of frequencies, with the strongest components probably being the 60-Hz power frequency and the 17-kHz fly-back frequency. In general, the larger the size of the screen, the stronger the fields, and the further out from the unit they will extend.

Electromagnetic radiation goes through wood and other usual building materials. If the TV set or computer is placed with its back against an inside wall, radiation will be present in the adjoining room just as if there were no wall present. Consequently, an infant's or child's bed should not be placed against a wall opposite a television set, or computer, regardless of the device's field strength. If you live in an apartment or condominium, you probably don't know what's on the opposite side of the walls or above or below you. Because the strength of the field drops off with the square of the distance, the closer one's head to the machine, the stronger the field. A TV viewer usually sits back at least 6-8 feet from the screen. But with computers, the keyboards are attached to the rest of the device and the operator's head is only about fifteen to eighteen inches from the screen. There is a trend of introducing school children to computers at earlier and earlier grade levels. Many schools are using computers and people who have upgraded their own machines and given their older, unshielded, high-radiation models to a local school donated many to them. Schoolchildren are still growing and have a constant level of cell multiplication within their bodies, which leaves them even more susceptible to the harmful effects of electromagnetic field bombardment.

Fluorescent Lights

The incandescent lamp simply causes a resistive filament to glow when current at 120 volts and very small amperage is forced through it. The fluorescent lamp has no filament. Instead, a coating of chemical on the interior of the tube is excited to glow when a high-voltage discharge is produced within the tube. This requires that the 120 volts of house current be raised to several thousand volts by means of a transformer. The fluorescent light produces much different magnetic fields compared with the incandescent bulb. Two inches from a 60-watt incandescent bulb, the 60-Hz field is 0.3 milligauss; and at one foot, the field is lost in the ambient field. A 10-watt fluorescent tube produces a magnetic field at least twenty times greater than a 60-watt incandescent bulb. The ceiling fluorescent fixtures, with several 20-watt tubes, produce a field greater than 1 milligauss near the heads of the office workers below. Considering the average time of exposure, the fields produced by fluorescent lights can reach dangerous levels.

Electric Clocks

An electric motorized clock, plugged into a wall socket, produces an amazingly high magnetic field because of the small electric motor that runs it. A small bedside alarm clock of this type will produce a field of as much as 5 to 10 milligauss two feet away. If the bedside table is placed close to the sleeper's head, or if a clock or radio is placed on the headboard shelf near the head, it is within this range. The dose rate is considerable for the average eight hours per night (one-third of your life).

Razors & Hairdryers

The electric razor and hair dryer produce an extremely high-strength magnetic field (200 to 400 milligauss for the razor and 50 milligauss at six inches for the hair dryer) if it is a line-operated device--that is, if it is plugged into a wall socket rather than battery operated. These devices are used for just a few minutes once a day, so the total exposure, or dose, to the user is minimal.

Electric Blankets, Heating Pads & Water Beds

Electric-blanket and heating pad field strengths are somewhat lower (50-100 milligauss) but are still within the danger zone. The electric blanket or heating pad is applied as close to the body surface as the electric razor. Even the water bed heater, being farther away from the body, because it is used for several hours at a time, the total administered dose is much higher. The incidence of miscarriage is much higher among pregnant women who use electric blankets or heating pads than among those who do not.

Electric Heaters

A four-foot-long baseboard heater produces 23 milligauss at a distance of six inches; at one foot, the field is 8 milligauss; at two feet, it is about 3 milligauss; and it falls to 1 milligauss at three feet. The small portable electric heaters that plug into the wall socket produce about the same field intensities, but they are even more dangerous because they may be placed much closer to the body. In recent years, electric heat cables have been installed in ceilings as a more efficient means of heating an entire room. This produces an average field of about 10 milligauss throughout the entire room. Any device that electrically produces heat will have a major field strength at short distances from the device. The electric stove produces 50 milligauss at eighteen inches above a twelve-inch burner.

Microwave Ovens

Today, more than 90% of American homes have a microwave oven, used for meal preparation. The Nazis originally developed microwave radiomissor cooking ovens for use in their mobile support operations, to be used for the invasion of Russia. Microwaves are very short waves of electromagnetic energy that travel at the speed of light. Microwave ovens contain a magnetron, a tube in which electrons are affected by magnetic and electric fields in such a way as to produce micro-wavelength radiation at about 2450 Megahertz (MHz) or 2.45 Gigahertz (GHz). This microwave radiation interacts with the molecules in food. All wave energy changes polarity from positive to negative with each cycle of the wave. In microwaves, these polarity changes happen millions of times every second. Food molecules--especially the molecules of water--have a positive and negative end in the same way a magnet has a north and a south polarity. As the microwaves generated from the magnetron bombard the food, they cause the polar molecules to rotate at the same frequency, millions of times a second. All this agitation creates molecular friction, which heats up the food. The friction also causes substantial damage to the surrounding molecules, often tearing them apart or forcefully deforming them. The scientific name for this deformation is structural isomerism. By comparison, microwaves from the sun are based on principles of pulsed direct current (DC) that don't create frictional heat; microwave ovens use alternating current (AC) creating frictional heat. A microwave oven produces a spiked wavelength of energy with all the power going into only one narrow frequency of the energy spectrum.

The toxic effects of microwave cooking are another in a long list of unnatural additives in our daily diets. Artificially produced microwaves are based on the principle of alternating current. Atoms, molecules and cells hit by this hard electromagnetic radiation are forced to reverse polarity 1 to 100 billion times a second. Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring amino acids undergo isomeric changes (changes in shape morphing), as well as transformation into toxic forms, under the impact of microwaves produced in ovens. There are no atoms, molecules or cells of any organic system able to withstand such a violent, destructive power for any extended period of time, not even in the low energy range of milliwatts. Current regulations allow leakage of 1 milliwatt per centimeter squared. Damage to the gasket material around the door will markedly increase the level of microwave radiation that leaks from the device when it is in use. Of all the natural substances, which are polar, the oxygen of water molecules reacts most sensitively. This is contrary to the conventional heating of food, in which heat transfers convectionally from without to within. Cooking by microwaves begins within the cells and molecules where water is present and where the energy is transformed into frictional heat.

Effects on Cells

In addition to violent frictional heat effects (called thermic effects), there are also athermic effects, which have hardly ever been taken into account. These athermic effects also deform the structures of molecules and have qualitative consequences. For example, the weakening of cell membranes by microwaves is used in the field of gene-altering technology. Because of the force involved, the cells are actually broken, thereby neutralizing the electrical potentials--the very life of the cells--between the outer and inner sides of the cell membranes. Impaired cells become easy prey for microorganisms. Natural repair mechanisms are suppressed, and cells are forced to adapt to a state of energy emergency--they switch from aerobic to anaerobic respiration. Instead of water and carbon dioxide, hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide are produced. Any reversal of healthy cell processes may occur because of a number of reasons, and our cells then revert from a robust oxidation to an unhealthy fermentation. The same violent friction and athermic deformations, that can occur in our bodies when we are subjected to radar or microwaves, happens to the molecules in the food cooked in a microwave oven.

A microwave oven decays and changes the molecular structure of the food by the process of radiation. We've all been told that microwaving food is not the same as irradiating it. The two processes are supposed to use completely different waves of energy and at different intensities. In fact, when food is microwaved, the oven exerts a power input of about 1,000 watts or more. This radiation results in destruction and deformation of molecules of food, and in the formation of new compounds (called radiolytic compounds) unknown to man and nature. Microwave cooking changes the nutrients so that significant unhealthy changes take place in the blood of the participants who consume microwaved food--changes that cause deterioration in the human systems.

Cell Phones

The number of people using cellular telephones has risen dramatically during the past decade, and is expected to continue increasing. According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), there are currently (2002) over 110 million wireless telephone users in the United States. This number is increasing at a rate of about 46,000 new subscribers per day. Experts estimate that by 2005 there will be over 1.26 billion wireless telephone users worldwide. A study by scientists in Finland has found that mobile phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain. The study at Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that exposure to radiation from mobile phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells grown in a laboratory. Nonetheless the study, the initial findings of which were published June 2002, in the scientific journal Differentiation, raises new questions about whether mobile phone radiation can weaken the brain's protective shield against harmful substances. The study focused on changes in cells that line blood vessels and on whether such changes could weaken the functioning of the blood-brain barrier, which prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream.

They also found that one hour of exposure to mobile phone radiation caused cultured human cells to shrink. The researchers believe this is triggered by a response that normally only happens when a cell is damaged. In a person, such changes could disable safety mechanisms that prevent harmful substances from entering the brain from the bloodstream. Radiation-induced changes in the cells could also interfere with the normal death process of apoptosis. If cells that are "marked" to die do not, tumors can form. The study found that a protein called hsp27 linked to the functioning of the blood-brain barrier showed increased activity due to irradiation and pointed to a possibility that such activity could make the shield more permeable, he said. Increased protein activity might cause cells to shrink--not the blood vessels but the cells themselves--and then tiny gaps could appear between those cells through which some molecules could pass.

The number of people using cellular telephones has risen dramatically during the past decade, and is expected to continue increasing. According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), there are currently over 110 million wireless telephone users in the United States. This number is increasing at a rate of about 46,000 new subscribers per day. Experts estimate that by 2005 there will be over 1.26 billion wireless telephone users worldwide. The concern about an increased risk of cancer with cellular telephone use is related to the radiation that the device produces. Like televisions, alarm systems, computers, and all other electrical devices, cellular telephones emit electromagnetic radiation. In the United States, cellular telephones operate in a frequency ranging from about 800 to 2400 megahertz (MHz). In that range, the radiation produced is in the form of non-ionizing radiofrequency (RF) radiation. AM/FM radios, VHF/UHF televisions, and cordless telephones operate at lower radio frequencies than cellular phones; microwave ovens, radar, and satellite-stations operate at slightly higher radio frequencies. RF radiation is different from ionizing radiation, which can present a health risk at certain doses. Ionizing radiation is produced by devices such as x-ray machines and television and computer monitors that use cathode ray tubes. Because so many people use cellular telephones, it is important to learn whether RF radiation affects human health, and to provide reassurance if it does not.

A cellular telephone user's level of exposure to RF radiation depends on several factors. These factors include the: amount of cellular telephone traffic, quality of the transmission, how far the antenna is extended, and size of the handset. A cellular telephone's main source of RF energy is its antenna. Therefore, the closer the antenna is to the head, the greater a person's expected exposure to RF radiation. The amount of RF radiation absorbed decreases rapidly with increasing distance between the antenna and the user. The antenna of hand-held cellular telephones is in the handset, which is typically held against the side of the head while the phone is in use. The antenna of a car cellular telephone is mounted on the outside of the car, some distance from the user. Transportable cellular telephones or "bag phones" have an antenna in a portable unit separate from the handset. Most of the studies conducted on cellular telephone use and cancer risk have focused on hand-held models, since they deliver the most RF radiation to the user. RF radiation can be harmful at high levels because it produces heat. The emitted microwaves heat the metals in the head, such as amalgam fillings braces, crowns bridges, etc. This increases the galvanic electricity generated as well as the emission of mercury vapor that's inhaled from amalgam fillings. Some people have speculated that the heat produced by RF radiation from hand-held cellular telephones may be associated with brain tumors, because the antenna is held close to the user's head.

Cell phones are becoming increasingly popular, yet most of us are unaware of the damage they are doing to our brains by exposing us to this radiation. Today, there is more and more compelling evidence showing low intensity, pulsed radiation can exert subtle influences that have serious health problems. Your body is an electrochemical instrument of exquisite sensitivity. Its orderly functioning and control are determined by oscillatory electrical processes of various kinds, each characterized by a specific frequency, some of which happen to be close to those used in GSM. Thus, some of your biological electrical activities can be interfered with via oscillatory aspects of the incoming radiation, in much the same way as can the reception on a radio. Your biological electrical activities that are vulnerable to interference from GSM radiation include highly organized electrical activities at a cellular level, whose frequency happens to lie in the microwave region, can interfere with processes as fundamental as cell division. This radiation also seems to affect a variety of brain functions including the neuroendocrine system. Additionally, cell phones have been associated with a 200-300% increase neuroepithelial tumours that occur on the same side of the brain that the cell phone was being used on. People should limit their exposures to these potential dangerous devices that cause irreversible brain damage and cancer. We only have to look less than a hundred years back to learn from similar mistakes our forefathers made in this area. Early in the 20th century radon and radium-enriched spa waters were "recommended" for a wide range of aches and minor ailments. Today, no reputable scientist would disagree with the dangers that ionizing radiation has to our health.

Unfortunately it is nearly technically impossible to design a study to prove that a device or procedure is safe. That is one of the reasons that cell phones health hazards have not received more attention than they have. Cell phones have been one of the fastest growing industries in modern history. 300 million Americans now use cell phones, and this technology is predicted to have over 1.3 billion worldwide users by the year 2005. Every day some 300 million cell phone users are "reaching out and touching someone" they love with the new 1.9 gigahertz (nineteen-hundred-million) broadcasting frequency. Yourself, and anyone else within range of the microwaves emitted by your phone. The uses of electronic communications for average people began with the introduction of personal paging systems in the 1970's--expanding into remote telephones and cell phones by the end of the century. Most people today have either portable phones in the home, cell phones for away-from-home use or both. As entire nations reach for pocket communicators, the explosively emergent $40 billion a year mobile phone industry is poised to deliver a "Wireless Revolution" that over the next five years is expected to double the one-billion people connected by telephone lines over the past century.

The Health Effects Mount

Exquisitely sensitive to subtle electromagnetic harmonies, human brains and bodies as intricate as galaxies depend on tiny electrical impulses to conduct complex life-processes - including the ability to read, recall and respond to these words. Much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head, rapidly pulsing cell phones signal permanent brain damage. Acting as antennas, our anatomies just as easily tune into spurious signals from radio and microwave transmissions. When it comes to cell phones, a worse frequency could not have been chosen for the human anatomy. The brain reaches peak absorption in the UHF bands, right where cellular telecommunications operate. A study by Dr. Peter Franch found unequivocally that "cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone frequencies." This cellular damage, Franch noted, is maximized at low dosage, and "inherited unchanged, from generation to generation." Franch found that the production of histamine, which triggers bronchial spasms, is nearly doubled after exposure to mobile phone transmissions. Cell phones also reduce the effectiveness of anti-asthmatic drugs, and retard recovery from illness. British military scientists have discovered that cell phone transmissions disrupt the brain sites for memory and learning, causing forgetfulness and sudden confusion. Other studies show that electromagnetic signals from cellular phones reduce the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate complicated activities such as driving a car.

Mobile telephones are arguably the most radiative appliance we have ever invented apart from the microwave oven and people are putting them by their heads--arguably the most sensitive part of the body. The pegged needle of a shrieking electromagnetic radiation (EMR) meter placed beside a connected cell phone still shows significant exposure 100 feet away. Cell phones emanate microwave radiation, and human brains may absorb up to 60 percent of that energy. Already there are at least 15,000 scientific reports on the subject. It has been discovered that small amounts of energy, when delivered in the right way, can have the same effects as a massive dose of chemicals. The most delicate fields of electromagnetic energy influence the complexity of living creatures. There are 66 epidemiological studies showing that electromagnetic radiation across the spectrum increase brain tumors in human populations. Two of those studies are for particular brain tumors from cell phones. Because cancer takes decades to develop, it will be another 10 or 20 years before "mobiles" manifest a bonanza in brain tumors. We're already seeing acute effects that are noticed within minutes of using a cell phone.

After two minutes' conversation, a cell phone's digitized impulses disable the safety barrier (blood-brain-barrier) that isolates the brain from destructive proteins and poisons in the blood. Professor Leif Salford, the neurologist who carried out the research for this finding, said "It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimer's are linked to proteins being found in the brain." Startled by $4 billion a year in extra claims among cell phone-wielding drivers, North American insurers did a double-take that found simply juggling phones is not causing a 600% increase in accidents over other drivers busy shaving, applying makeup, tuning radios, taming pets, making out, pouring coffee, retrieving dropped cigarettes, talking and gesturing to passengers, or actually steering the vehicle. Instead of just another dangerous distraction, tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy found that using a cell phone severely impairs memory and reaction times. Hands-free mobile speakerphones cause even more crashes because they typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units. For all drivers dialing out, University of Toronto investigators report that the heightened probability of cracking up your car persists for up to 15-minutes after completing a call.

That's comparable to the risk of crashing while driving dead drunk exclaims Dr. Chris Runball, chairman of the B.C. Medical Association's emergency medical services committee. Reeling from "dial-a-collision" costs, the government of British Columbia may join England, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and Brazil in restricting or banning the use of cell phones by drivers. In New Zealand, cell phone towers are prohibited on school property because of possible health effects. But Health Canada regulations ignore the hidden hazards of cell-wrenching cell phones, which send pulsed signals through the skull in a process one expert likens to "jackhammers on the brain." "Safety Code 6" looks only at microwaves burning skin. Basically, Health Canada claims if it can't cook you, it can't hurt you, its like saying cigarettes aren't dangerous unless they burn you. Carrying similar risks of long-term lethality, and strangely just as legal, cell phone addiction mirrors the prestigious early allure of smoking - as well as an immensely profitable industry's steadfast denial of risk and responsibility. As poisonous as cigarette smoke and even harder to corral, the cell phone's second-hand microwave and radio-frequency (RF) pollution pose invisible but significant risks to bystanders--particularly children riding in cars that transmit amplified cell phone signals through their steel structure. Cell phone transmissions damage the ability of white blood cells to ward off infectious disease by disrupting the immune system's electromagnetic communications. Dr. Neil Cherry has measured accelerated aging, increased cell death and cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves from cell phones and their relay towers.

With the brain's electro-chemical communications repeatedly zapped by lightning-like cell phone pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis and even Alzheimer's can result from frequent or prolonged calls. "There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems," Cherry comments, "in terms of the timing function in hearts. You get more heart attacks and more heart disease - it has now been shown in many studies." The biophysicist from Lincoln University in Christ Church, New Zealand has also found that cell phones can murderously modify moods. In brains and bodies seriously derailed by tiny imbalances in trace minerals and hormones, depression, suicide, anger, rage and violence can result when calcium and serotonin levels are disrupted by cell phone transmissions.

In 1995, mobile phone sales in North America exceeded the birth rate. Hired by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to condone cell phones, public health scientist George Carlo found that rare tumors on the outside of the brain are more than doubled among cell phone callers--particularly on the right side of the head where phones are usually held. Carlo told ABC's "20/20" that cell phone causes genetic damage that leads to cancer. Warning of "the potential for a global health disaster," ABC recommended "prudent avoidance" of cell phones after finding that every cell phone they lab-tested exceeded the Federal Communication Commission's standards for EMF absorption rates. EMF researcher Dave Ashton cautioned 20/20 viewers that because cell phones constantly search for the nearest repeating tower, "long-term damage comes from cell phones in the stand-by mode." Cell phone "shields" and headsets cannot adequately address these problems. Dr. Carlo later told London's Express newspaper that cell phones cause genetic damage following a dose-response curve. That is, the more a person uses a cell phone, the more cellular destruction and health risks they incur.

Cell phone-confused cells can go crazy, Carlo cautioned. Experiments on captive animals show that this cumulative DNA damage is passed on to succeeding generations. Addicted as we are to a culture of convenience, we forget how inconvenient it is to contract cancer. As magazine-size "cellular" relay antennas hidden in church steeples and rooflines keep popping up just about everywhere, more and more communities are declaring their airspace a "No Fry Zone." Cellular relay towers in Kansas and Oklahoma have been shut down because they interfered with passing aircraft. These same transmissions pluck our electrical circuitry, inflicting a "chronic edginess" that "twangs human nerves." Sleep disorders are common among people exposed to high levels of electromagnetic pollution. These energy fields can affect the central nervous system and immune system in man. Chronic exposure to EMFs is associated with significant changes in some physiological parameters. The impact on Calcium ions, which are important in maintaining normal health functions in brain tissues, was found in experiments. This may affect nervous system function. Amplitude-modulated (AM) radio frequency radiation can induce responses in cells of nervous tissue origin from widely different animal species, including humans. Another area of concern is in prenatal development in mammals. Australian research has found one of the strongest links between cell phones and cancer. Over periods of 9 to 18 months, exposed mice had twice the tumor rate as unexposed mice. The mice were exposed to cell phone radiation.

As reports linking cell phone use to adverse health conditions have been published, attempts have been made by industry to hose down the findings with what is called "The Hockett Defense" (named after the chief Tobacco Institute scientist) who advise his executives to repeat endlessly, "men aren't rodents." But, DNA is DNA. At the level of normal cell growth processes, human and animal cells act very similar. The body is not a closed system but, rather, an open one, which exchanges energy with all of the forces around it. The human body seeks equilibrium or its own balance. Energy interaction requires a corresponding action from the body. On an energetic level this results in chemical changes, system stress and other interactions, which can be either healthy or not so healthy. EEG-data of man sampled under the influence of these electromagnetic fields are altered extremely in the range of alpha-activity during as well as after exposure for some hours. This biological effect is induced by field intensities lower than the given international limiting values. Regarding these results there is the very important question of possible influences, injurious to health for people exposed to pulsating electromagnetic fields, especially by operating the new type of digital telecommunication networks.

Even fairly low levels of electromagnetic radiation can change the human body's sleep rhythms, affect the body's cancer-fighting capacity by harming the immune system, and change the nature of the electrical and chemical signals communicating between cells. Reports continue to amplify the same results, which are being replicated now around the world. At the same time the industry is shifting the standards, changing cell phone designs and altering other factors that make evaluation of the effects even more difficult. Existing data indicate that RFR of relatively low intensity can affect the nervous system. Changes in blood-brain-barrier, morphology, electrophysiology, neurotransmitter functions, cellular metabolism, and calcium efflux, and genetic effects have been reported in the brain of animals after exposure to RFR. These changes can lead to functional changes in the nervous system. Behavioral changes in animals after exposure to RFR have been reported. New research indicates that exposure to cell phones' radiation causes red blood cells to leak hemoglobin, the build up of which can cause heart disease and kidney stones. Even at lower levels than those emitted by cell phones, the blood cells leaked hemoglobin. Two minutes of exposure to emissions from mobile phones can disable a safety barrier (blood/brain barrier) causing proteins and toxins to leak into the brain. This can cause the chances of developing diseases such as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's. Symptoms reported by mobile phone users include fatigue, dizzy spells and memory loss.

Amid an explosive growth of mobile communications, concerns are mounting about cellular telephones' potential links to health problems ranging from headaches to brain tumors. British scientists are demanding that mobile telephones carry a health warning. The National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) recommends a limit of 10 milliwatts per gram, though proposed European guidelines are five times more restrictive. There have been reports of headaches caused by cell and portable phone use. Evidence from the 1960s and 70s supports the conclusion that cell phones cause headaches among some users. Cell phone transmitting frequencies fall in the most sensitive band for the microwave hearing effect. The transmitting frequencies are also in the band that has maximal penetration into the head. The area of the head that needs to be exposed to the microwaves in order for people to perceive the effect is in proximity to the antenna of present day cellular telephones. 30 years ago Dr. Frey encountered and reported headaches from microwave energy exposure at approximately the same frequencies, modulations and incident energies that present day cellular telephones emit.

Low intensity microwave exposure opens up the blood/brain barrier, a biological effect that can allow the release of dangerous chemicals into the brain. The radiation from mobile phones makes it easier for poisons to penetrate into the brain. Data in the literature now indicates that the dopamine/opiate system may be involved in headaches and suggest that headaches may be due to cellular emissions...the energy used was approximately the same in frequencies, modulations, and incident energies as those emitted by present day cellular telephones. These current reports of headaches may be the canary-in-the-coal mine, warning of biologically significant effects. The early research by Dr. Frey was most revealing in that it was conducted before the advent of the cell phone. As a result, the research was done with limited, if any, economic impact on industry and the results were unchallenged. Exposure to electromagnetic fields during mobile phone use may increase resting blood pressure. Exposure of the right hemisphere to a radio-frequency electromagnetic field for 35 minutes causes an increase in sympathetic efferent activity with increases in resting blood pressure between 5 and 10 mm Hg, most likely due to more pronounced vasoconstriction.

Mobile phones can cause sudden confusion and short-term memory loss, according to worrying research by British military scientists. Signals from the phones disrupt part of the brain, which controls memory and learning. Frequent mobile users had significantly depressed melatonin - a vital cancer-preventing hormone. An Australian study has linked the phones to a higher rate of brain cancer while a Swedish survey suggested that using a mobile phone for more than 15 minutes could lead to headaches and fatigue. Exposure to RFR does produce various effects on the central nervous system. Other parameters of RFR exposure, such as frequency, duration, waveform, frequency- and amplitude modulation, etc, are important determinants of biological responses and affect the shape of the dose (intensity)-response relationship. As we have increased our exposure to both chemicals and EMFs in the last three decades we have seen certain brain cancers increase in all age groups by 1% a year. Since 1980 those 65 and older have increased 2.5% a year. Among those over 85 the increase has been as much as 500% since 1973.

If you must pack a cell phone, treat it like a loaded pistol. Keep it turned off. Don't carry it near ovaries, testicles, or the heart. For partial protection, buy an antenna shield. Limit calls to one-minute, six to 10 minutes a month. Never fire off a cell phone with children anywhere in sight. A better bet is to facilitate the growth of organic telephone networks with lots of fiber. Instead of more microwave towers, we should be wiring up our cities with fiber-optic cables to provide Internet, fax, telephone, radio and television at very high quality, rather than saturating our cities with the microwave, radio wave and low frequency signals all the time. When it comes to cells, consciousness and cell phones, every call is collect. How can convenience count more than cancer? What is gained by being in constant contact with disembodied voices, while being "out of touch" with the friends and neighbors around us? Are we comfortable having our location traced by monitoring authorities? Unless we start voting with our wallets, consumer complacency could prove as species-limiting as corporate cynicism. Microwave frequencies are the same as those used in radar and your microwave oven. You wouldn't think of sticking your head in the microwave oven, but there is no hesitation to putting the cell phone to your ear.

Remote Home Portable Phones

Cell phones are not the only phones to cause concern about health problems. Today's high-frequency cordless phones may emit a level of EM radiation similar to cell phones. For reasons of health and privacy, a growing number of scientists and other experts are dead set against these phones. They say a cancer risk is associated with signals that have a strong wattage and high frequency (short wavelength). First generation cordless phones operate at about 60 megahertz and the next ones ran at 900 megahertz--higher than 835MHz cell phones. The new 2.4 GHz is higher still and can transmit for several kilometers without fading. Microwave ovens operate at 2.45 GHz.

Brain Tumors

Two new studies have shown links between mobile phone usage and brain tumors. They found a correlation between phone use and cancer. The studies showed that mobile phone use, regardless which side of the head it was held against, increased the risk of a brain tumor by almost two and a half times. Some of the leading researchers were contracted by Motorola to carry out some experiments. Two of the world's leading radiation experts reported to The Express that multinational companies tried to influence the results of their research. Professor Ross Adey, a biologist, had his funding withdrawn by Motorola before completing research which showed that mobiles affected the number of brain tumors in animals. Dr. Henry Lai, who has been studying the biological effects of electromagnetic fields for 20 years, was asked three times to change findings on how they caused DNA breaks in rats. Both of these scientists have been involved in academic, military and other research projects throughout their lives.

Jerry Phillips, who has a doctorate in biochemistry, worked with U.C. Riverside's [Ross] Adey on Motorola-funded research beginning in 1991. He describes a pleasant relationship with them until studies linked exposure to changes in the incidence of brain tumors in rats. "Motorola was adamant that Adey never mention DNA damage and RF radiation in the same breath," Phillips said. "Motorola has been manipulative of research that we and others have reported to them," said Adey. "Essentially they cut us off because we were too inquisitive." Phillips, Adey, and others said they see a strong parallel between what's happening now and the decades of denial by the tobacco industry. Though the head absorbs 60% of the energy radiated from cell phones, the amount is not significant enough to cause heating. Evidence points to DNA damage as a source of the health problems associated with cell phone use. It is suggested that RFR may hinder the ability of DNA to repair itself. For the first time in history, we are holding a high-powered microwave transmitter against the head.

When you talk on your mobile phone, your voice is transmitted from the antenna as radio frequency radiation (RFR) between 800MHz and 1,990MHz at a range that's right in the middle of microwave territory. Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones affect long-term memory, according to a new study by a University of Washington researcher, Henry Lai. Public exposure to electromagnetic radiation (radio frequency and microwave) is growing exponentially worldwide with the introduction and use of cordless phones, cellular phones, pagers and antennas in communities designed to transmit their RF signals.

The virtual revolution in science taking place now is based on a growing recognition that non-thermal or low intensity RF exposure can be detected in living tissues and result in well defined bioeffects, including changes in cell membrane function, metabolism, cellular signal communication, activation of proto-oncogenes, and cell death. Resulting effects which are reported in the scientific literature include DNA breaks and chromosome aberrations, increased free radical production, cell stress and premature aging, changes in cell membrane function including memory loss, learning impairment, headaches and fatigue, sleep disorders, neurodegenerative conditions, reductions in melatonin secretion, and cancer. The United States has a de-facto policy of "post-sales surveillance" with respect to cell phones. That means cell phones can be sold to the public, and only after years of use will there be studies to characterize what health consequences, if any, have arisen as a result. Some scientists are even warning that constant cell phone use causes premature aging. Low level radiation from the phone "heats up" body cells, damaging skin and making the user look lined and haggard. Gradually, cells don't work properly, so the life process becomes less efficient. Heavy mobile phone users are just like heavy smokers who constantly inhale cell-damaging toxins without allowing the body time to repair the harm.

The Effect on Children

The fastest growing group of mobile phone users are children and young people. This growth is actively encouraged by professional advertising campaigns from the mobile phone industry, extolling how indispensable the phones are to their lifestyles. They have really gone out after the young people with prepay cards and colored handsets. Phone makers often present their products in adverts as essential "back to school" items for children. This advertising blitz was produced by the same transnational public relations corporations that previously gave us such delightful cartoon characters as "Joe Camel" for the tobacco industry, and no words of warning are heard. However, within the scientific community, there is a growing chorus of expert voices that are urging caution because, if there are adverse health effects from mobile phone use, it will be the children who will be in the front line and who may pay the highest price. For the sake of the future of our children's health, we need to heed these voices seriously and limit children's unnecessary use of mobile phones. Children may be more vulnerable because of their developing nervous systems, the greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the head, and a longer lifetime of exposure. Children are more sensitive to microwaves than adults; they absorb microwaves at 3.3 times the rate of adults. While some manufacturers target children for cell phone sales, cell phone radiation penetrates the skulls and brains of kids more deeply than adults, and this radiation might cause tumors or otherwise affect a developing brain.

Children are more vulnerable because of their developing nervous system, the greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the head, and a longer lifetime of exposure. Absorption of microwaves of the frequency used in mobile telephony is greatest in an object about the size of a child's head, the so-called head resonance, while in consequence of the thinner skull of a child, the penetration of the radiation into the brain is greater than in an adult. Children's brain wave patterns are abnormal and stay like that for a long period. This could affect their mood and ability to learn in the classroom if they have been using a phone during break time, for instance, leading to things like a lack of concentration, memory loss, inability to learn and aggressive behaviour. The still-developing nervous system and associated brainwave activity in a child are more vulnerable to aggression by the pulses of microwaves used in these devices than is the case with a mature adult. This is because the multi-frame repetition frequency of 8.34 Hz and the 2 Hz pulsing that characterizes the signal from a phone equipped with discontinuous transmission (DTX) lie in the range of the alpha and delta brainwave activities, respectively.

The fact that these two particular electrical activities are constantly changing in a child until the age of about 12 years, when the delta waves disappear and the alpha rhythm is finally stabilized, means that they must both be anticipated to be particularly vulnerable to interference from the pulsations. The increased mitotic activity (cell division) in the cells of developing children makes them more susceptible to genetic damage. A child's immune system, whose efficiency is, in any case, degraded by radiation of the kind used in mobile telephony, is generally less integrous than that of an adult, so the child is less able to cope with any adverse health effect provoked by chronic exposure to such radiation. Scientists have discovered that a call lasting just two minutes can alter the natural electrical activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterwards. They also found for the first time how radio waves from mobile phones penetrate deep into the brain and not just around the ear.

Doctors fear that disturbed brain activity in children could lead to psychiatric and behavioural problems or imair learning ability. Several brands of cell phones exceed the radiation limits specified in FCC guidelines, ABC News show 20/20 reported. The widespread use of mobile phones by children for non-essential calls should be discouraged. The mobile phone industry should refrain from promoting the use of mobile phones by children. Dr. Ross Adey, a widely published RF researcher stated that "Children categorically should not, be encouraged or allowed to use" cell phones. Epidemiology has seen a large number of examples where health hazards were initially described with unconvincing and sometimes inadequate experiments that demonstrated a weak association with a given environmental influence. Such associations were found between cholera and drinking water containing fecal contaminants, between smoking and lung cancer or between exposure to vinyl chloride and certain forms of liver cancer. All these associations were highly questioned in the past and are now well recognized.

Current Research on Cell Phones

Though 85 million Americans now use cell phones, Europeans began widespread use of them much earlier with many now reporting side effects from their use. At least one of the symptoms noted, which include dizziness, concentration difficulties, memory loss, and a burning sensation, showed up in 47 percent of people who reported using these wireless devices an hour or more daily. The China Consumers Association (CCA) issued a "worrisome" warning about Chinese cell phones' electromagnetic radiation and how this might affect phone users. According to the CCA, tests have found that some cell phones' radiation was as high as 10,000 microwatts per square centimeter (1,550 mw per square inch). Half of cell phone's radiation is absorbed by the human body and another quarter by the brain. The strongest link yet shows a high cancer death rate among soldiers exposed to microwave radiation, the same as that emitted by the phones. Using a mobile phone could drastically reduce your sex drive, new research shows. Exposed rats had far less testosterone in their blood stream than those that remained unexposed. The higher the dose of radiation, the less testosterone was released by the body's glands, resulting in diminished sexual activity." The test results are being studied in Britain, where scientists are conducting similar research.

Current safety guidelines for cell phones assume no harmful effects, as long as the microwave radiation they emit does not cause heating of body tissue. Exposure limits are intended to protect us only from excessive temperatures caused by absorption of energy, a known danger linked to the intensity of radio frequency microwaves. But living cells respond in non-thermal ways to the fields produced by cell phones, and at intensities below the established safety threshold. Ionizing radiation is a well-established risk factor for brain tumors. Exposure to ionizing radiation, work in laboratories, and work in the chemical industry increased the risk of brain tumors. Use of a cellular telephone is associated with an increased risk in the anatomic area with highest exposure. In addition to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric power fields, many millions of mobile phone users worldwide are now also exposed daily to radio frequency fields under near-field conditions. We may expect that these newly evolved behavioral patterns will be lifelong, with intermittent exposures at the phone user's head making yet one more contribution to an already complex daily EMF exposure arising in an aggregate of multiple and disparate sources. The cell phone industry continues to downplay the risk and defer to more research. The precautionary principle is a good one for an age in which technology is doubling every few months and the impact of that technology may not be known for years after. We need to open the doors in this area and in the mean time, find ways to reduce risk and exposures for EMFs--particularly those created by home remote and cell phones.

Independent Research Funded by Industry

The industry has been involved in attempting to influence the research and has been required to pay for independent research. The companies involved have attempted to control the data flow to the public as information has become available. As far back as 1996 the issues began to surface with the following report. Motorola Inc. planned how to collaborate with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. to downplay potentially damaging scientific findings on possible health risks from portable telephones, according to a Dec. 1994 internal Motorola memo. The company the industry sought to collaborate with was the firm, which eventually used over $27,000,000 industry dollars to research the risks of cell phones. In the body of that research several issues emerged creating additional studies.

The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an effort to create a worldwide information-sharing network to counter negative publicity. The Wireless Industry Global Information Network, or WIN, held its first meeting Dec. 10, 1998 in London. Dr. George Carlo's initial reports were framed in the standard conservative approach at finding the facts which science demonstrates. In an attack on the industry for which he once acted as a spokesman, he accused firms of not taking safety seriously. "The companies are now spending millions trying to discredit me because, basically, they didn't like what I told them. I feel angry and let down." After presenting its results to the phone companies in February, he claims they failed to take "the appropriate steps to protect consumers". They have shown total disregard for the users.

Dr. George Carlo, in his capacity as director of Wireless Technology Research wrote a letter to the CEO of AT&T, which has serious legal implications for mobile phone manufacturers who have claimed that there is no evidence for adverse health effects from mobile phone use. With the letter widely circulated in the industry, making that claim now could possibly expose them to litigation in much the same way as what happened to the tobacco industry, where it was shown that industry assurances of no evidence of hazards from smoking was a complete fabrication. The rate of death from brain cancer among handheld phone users is higher than the rate of brain cancer death among those who used non-handheld phones that are away from their head. The risk of acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor of the auditory nerve that is well in the range of the radiation coming from a phone's antenna, was fifty percent higher in people who reported using cell phones for six years or more, moreover, that relationship between the amount of cell phone use and this tumor appeared to follow a dose-response curve.

The risk of rare neuro epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled, a statistically significant risk increase, in cell phone users as compared to people who did not use cell phones. There appeared to be some correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head. Laboratory studies looking at the ability of radiation from a phone's antenna to cause functional genetic damage were definitely positive, and were following a dose-response relationship. The cell phone transmits a microwave signal from an antenna to a base station or tower, often miles away. The farther from the tower, or if the phone is inside a building or a car, the more power this phone is told by the tower to send out to make or keep the connection.

Depending on how close the cell phone antenna is, as much as 60 percent of the microwave radiation is absorbed by and actually penetrates the area around the head, some reaching an inch to an and a half into the brain. The $200-billion-a-year cell phone industry maintains the devices are safe. The question of cell phone safety recently led Metrocall of Alexandria, Va., the nation's third-largest pager company and a major seller of AT&T cellular phones to warn its sales staff that parents buying for a child or young adult should consider a pager instead of a cell phone due to potential health risks.

Liability and Possible Claims

The industry has largely put forth studies that looked at the effects of radio waves outside the cellular frequency, or at exposure levels that are different from those experienced by cellular phone users. The industry hasn't told the public the full story about how there has been very little research on biological effects at low-level exposures, similar to those of handheld phones. Very limited information has been available to the public about the risks of cell phones or various electromagnetic fields outside of some obscure research and academic circles. The fact is that increasing evidence has been mounting and the true risks of these energy fields are becoming well known. The possibility of another tobacco-type of health scandal was perhaps in the offing when a closed Congressional hearing was held to develop regulations and recommend further studies of electromagnetic field (EMF) health effects.

They suggested moderation in phone use until more is known, while an FDA paper, dated Feb. 4, 1992, suggested: those who spend long periods of time on their hand-held cellular phones could consider holding lengthy conversations on conventional phones and reserving the hand-held cellular models for shorter conversations. Many studies have been sponsored by industry, academic institutions, and government laboratories and by military research organizations into the effects of low levels of electromagnetic radiation. The constant problem in the debate of risks is the limited knowledge about very specific fields, interacting with our bodies, having significant health effects. These effects vary throughout populations with some effected to a greater degree than others. This is related to our physical and biochemical differences. The research that is being conducted by the industry is ignoring much of what has already appeared in the literature regarding risk factors.

The FDA concluded in a February 8, 2000 report that; There is currently insufficient scientific basis for concluding that wireless communication technologies are safe or that they pose a risk to millions of users. A significant research effort, including well-planned animal experiments, is needed to provide the basis to assess the risk to human health of wireless communications devices. The FDA began a three to five year study to look at some of these effects. This came at the conclusion of the industry sponsored study which, along with other recent studies, show increasing risk to human health related to cell phone emissions. Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, P.L. 101-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996). Section 704 of the act amends the Communications Act by providing federal preemption of state and local regulation of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of RF environmental effects. In other words states and local communities may not adopt more stringent protections if the federal regulatory authorities fail to protect the public. This limitation on the rights of states or local governments essentially leaves any risk assessment and solution to the federal level regulatory authorities. The FDA approach and the reluctance of the United States government to move on this issue is directly related to lobby efforts, public relations gimmicks and the manipulation of the facts behind what is a major concern to many. Other governments are taking a different approach.

The risks associated with cell phones are being considered too risky even by the biggest risk takers in the insurance industry. Concern about the safety of mobile phones has prompted a leading Lloyd's underwriter to refuse to insure phone manufacturers against the risk of damage to users' health. Fears that mobile phones will be linked to illnesses such as cancer and Alzheimer's have prompted John Fenn, of underwriting group Stirling, to refuse to cover manufacturers against the risk of being sued if mobiles turn out to cause long-term damage. Risk management and the kinds of legal concerns arising out of the tobacco lawsuit has turned insurers of product liability claims on their heads. A number of employers expect their employees to carry out their duties and responsibilities using mobile phones for hours at a time. It could well turn out to be a non-safe system of work for which substantial damages may be awarded as a result of adverse health conditions. A number of cases have already been settled out of Court but again subject to confidentiality clauses. Companies recognizing potential third party litigation have also been attempting to reduce their risk. Employers who require cell phone use in the course of employee work are putting forward reasonable technological advances, which could decrease risk. The risk of future litigation increases if the precaution is not taken to provide a safe workplace. The removal of the cell phone from the head is helpful to reducing exposure to the head but it can still expose the body to the effects of its radiation.

Base-stations or cell phone towers also pose risks. The installation of base stations for mobile telephone systems has been delayed or has met opposition from the public because of concerns that the RF emissions from these base stations might cause cancer in children. In the United States, for example, 85% of the total number of base stations needed have yet to be constructed. The significant increase in these systems and their interactions with other energy fields in our homes, cars and work places will in fact be significantly increasing health risks. International organizations are also looking at the risks because of increasing public concern, scientific evidence and industry concerns. In May 1996, in response to growing public health concerns in many member states over possible health effects from exposure to an ever-increasing number and diversity of EMF sources, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an international project to assess health and environmental effects of exposure to electric and magnetic fields, which became known as the International EMF Project. Other studies are already producing the evidence of biological effects. The research continues and the health effects mount. With over 1.3 billion people projected to be using these devices in the year 2005 the risks must be understood and addressed.

The FDA advises persons concerned about exposure to cell phone radiation to take some simple steps to avoid exposure. Those persons who spend long periods of time on their hand-held mobile phones could consider holding lengthy conversations on conventional phones and reserving the hand-held models for shorter conversations. People who must conduct extended conversations in their cars every day could switch to a type of mobile phone that places more distance between their bodies and the source of RF, since the exposure level drops off dramatically with distance. How cell phones might effect our health is compelling people to take heed of the warnings and find ways to reduce exposure without giving up the device. Some have resorted to earpieces and belt level phones. This may in fact prove to be even worse than head exposure because of the way in which the phone then operates. More power is required and exposure to softer tissue allows more energy to transfer into the body. Cars and other vehicles screen the microwave emissions from the mobile phone when in use and so act as a Faraday cage. GSM phones compensate for this by increasing the power output resulting in greater microwave absorption in the user.

Cell Phones Making Honeybees Disappear

A small study from Landau University in Germany suggests that the navigational capabilities of honeybees may be adversely affected by radiation from GSM cell phones. The findings could provide an answer to the mystery of disappearing bee colonies across the Western world. Scientists are having a difficult time explaining the rapid decline of the honeybee population in the United States and Canada, known as colony collapse disorder, that could affect crops depending on these insects for pollination. Research presented some four years ago speculates the radiation emitted from cellular phones may contribute to the problem. When cellular phones were placed near hives, the radiation generated by them (900-1,800 MHz) was enough to prevent bees from returning to them, according to a study conducted at Landau University.

Scientists believe the radiation produced by cellular phones may be enough to interfere with the way bees “communicate” with their hives. Cellular phones may create a resonance effect that interferes with the movement patterns bees use as a kind of language.

The cell phone study, conducted by Landau’s Jochen Kuhn, was originally presented at a German Informatics and Cybernetics conference back in 2003. It focused on the effects of cell phone radiation on the neurological mechanisms that control learning and memory. Placing handsets near hives, Kuhn observed that GSM cell phone radiation in the frequency range 900 MHz - 1800 MHz caused the bees to avoid the hive. Kuhn speculates that the “waggle” dance that bees perform on the honeycomb to communicate with others could be influenced by the radiation.

Although another study blamed the ongoing spread of genetically modified crops

for the disappearance, cellular phones may also very well be contributing to the problem. This comes as no surprise, considering all the harm mobile phones can do to male sperm, for example, as well as to your head.

Not all scientists agree that the dance is the primary means of communication between bees, but past studies have shown that it can fundamentally affect bee movement patterns. Kuhn suggests that the 200-300 cycles/second oscillations that dancing bees produce through honeycomb may be interrupted by a resonance effect caused by the telephone handsets.

Hands-free Kits

Hands-free kits are also discussed, revealing the hidden risks. It turns out that "hands-free" cell phones may not save you from the Grim Reaper after all. Currently, the cellular industry is encouraging the use of hands-free kits, but cite their only advantage as being to offer greater freedom of use to the user, nothing else. The fact is, they know the real reason users are buying them is because they think these kits protect them from radiation exposure. But, hands-free kits are no guarantee of lowering radiation emissions from mobile phones, and, in some cases, they actually increase it. Recent tests have shown that while direct exposure to the head is reduced by around 70 percent, all that is happening is the radiation is being transferred to another part of the body, which is potentially more vulnerable because it does not have the thickness of the skull to protect itself, such as the waist or chest areas. Earpieces serve as antennae that direct more electromagnetic radiation into the ears. Phone models may differ in the degree to which their internal wires conduct electricity.

Not only are many hands-free devices useless in protecting wireless phone users from radiation that might cause tumors, these products may actually raise the amount of radiation being directed into the head by three times. Using a mobile phone clipped to your waist results in a hotspot of radiation being pumped into the liver and kidneys, prostate, uterus, and ovaries. There is concern that they may intensify radiation exposure to the ear canal. Using a hands-free kit and making a call with a mobile phone clipped to your belt also means the phone will generally be working at a higher power level. That's because it is generally harder to transmit from waist-height than head height. But there's a lot of body tissue in that area which has good conductivity and absorbs radiation more quickly than the head. People think hands-free kits are safer, so tend to spend more time on the phone. Ii works harder to pick up a signal if it is down at waist, where more radiation is absorbed, than at the head.

Non-thermal verses Thermal Effects

The literature is full of published papers showing damage and biological effects at power levels that were set deliberately well below thermal thresholds and therefore by definition could not have been caused by thermal damage. Even if we assume the thermal only argument to be correct, there are circumstances that the group should be aware of, where exposure exceeds even the thermal limits. Mobile users who wear metal-rimmed glasses are intensifying the exposure to their eyes by 20 per cent and into the head by 6.3 per cent. Using a mobile in a vehicle can accelerate radiation levels by up to 10-fold due to resonance effect. These risks associated with remote telephone use cannot be ignored. Intelligence documents show that Western governments have known about Soviet experiments using mobile phone-type radiation to cause brain damage for more than 20 years.

The uncensored documents reveal that Soviet military scientists had successfully used microwaves of the type used by mobile phones to weaken the blood brain barrier. US Army scientists had succeeded in duplicating the Soviet experiments by 1977--eight years before mobile phones became generally available in Britain. This work was done as a result of microwave bombardments of the United States Embassy in Moscow as well as reports about research by the Soviets. At that particular time the safety standards for exposure to radio frequency radiation in the Soviet Union was significantly more stringent than United States standards by almost 1000 times. Russian and other East European countries' exposure standards for radio frequency and microwave radiation are much stricter that in the U.S or Western Europe.

Western standard setting organizations have emphasized protection from RF/MW thermal effects...while Russia's more restrictive standard also reflects a concern over non-thermal effects and subjective symptoms. Biological studies of enzymes and human cells exposed in vitro to radio frequency/microwave fields have shown a number of effects which cannot be explained simply by the heating effects of radiation on which our current standards are based. These include changes in cell membrane permeability to potassium, sodium and calcium; changes in the composition or behavior of blood-forming and immunological cells; alteration of calcium ion exchange in nerve tissue; changes in the firing patterns of neurons; and changes in levels of cancer related enzymes. Very close range exposure to microwaves from a cellular phone base station increases the effect of a chemical mutagen on human blood cells, leading to increased chromosomal aberrations.

Microwave radiation such as that emitted by cell phones can heat objects in its path. The heat generated causes the body to begin to expend energy to cool the area and otherwise return to its state of equilibrium before it was irradiated by the device. One study, by the American Health Foundation, in New York, found that mobile phone users had double the risk of developing a certain type of brain tumor than people who did not use them. A second study found that DNA in human blood cells broke down when exposed to large doses of mobile-phone radiation, possibly laying the genetic groundwork for cancer. Most studies have examined the results of short-term, whole body exposure to RF fields at levels far higher than those normally associated with wireless communications. With the advent of such devices as walkie-talkies and mobile phones, it has become apparent that few studies address the consequences of localized exposures to RF fields to the head.

Scientists have reported other effects of using mobile phones including changes in brain activity, reaction times, and sleep patterns. When mobile phones are used close to some medical devices (including pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, and certain hearing aids) there is a possibility of causing interference. There is also the potential of interference between mobile phones and aircraft electronics. Interference with electronic circuits is acknowledged, but many vigorously fight discussion of the effects on the more sensitive human body.

Reducing the Risk

As the EMF/EMR health effects issue becomes more widely known, especially in relation to mobile phone use, there is a corresponding increasing number of so called EMF protective devices being advertised in health and alternative magazines as "cure-alls" which apparently claim to provide complete protection from exposure to all forms of man made electromagnetic fields (EMF). There is a wide range of devices being offered that make all kinds of unsubstantiated claims.

1. Reducing use is universally regarded as the best step. Use by children should be eliminated. Indoor use increases exposure significantly because the signal strength requires creating a connection from inside a car or building is much greater. Home portable phones should be replaced with the old style hard-wired phones and cell phone use significantly reduced.

2. If still using a cell phone or portable home phone keep the phone away from the body when in standby mode. When in use hold the phone as far away from the head as possible. Even three or four inches can significantly reduce the exposure because the energy density drops very rapidly with distance from the body. Keep the antenna away from the head and pointing away from the body. Radiation from all sources obeys the inverse square law. That is, the further you are from the source the less intense your exposure to the radiation. In fact, it drops off with the square of your distance from the source. If you are twice as far from a fire you feel 1/4 of the radiant heat, but if you move four times as far away you only feel one-sixteenth of the heat.

3. None of the devices claiming to eliminate all emissions have any science behind them. Researchers were able to find two systems, which are supported by science and United States Patents. One of these devices is being marketed under Cell/Wave Guard. They found that up to 61% of radio frequency emissions could be prevented from entering the body. While this represents a significant reduction it is not known if it is enough to guard against all potential effects. However, it is the best technology easily available today.

Detection Meter

The Cell Sensor measures the ELF 60 cycle fields as well as emissions from cellular phones and can be used to select low emission units. It can also be used to evaluate headsets (some headsets carry a signal like an antenna).

With the Cell Sensor, one can walk the house and in 5 minutes find these hot spots that measure over 2 and avoid placing beds and furniture there. Simple to use, the meter shows the hot spots with needle, light and sound! The meter is normally quiet...showing 0 reading. When you walk by a hot spot, the needle goes up over 2, the light glows, the sound beeps! Without the meter, it is impossible to know where the hot spots are! A hot spot could be created by sleeping with a TV on the other side of the wall, or by faulty wiring, typical after renovation projects, or by proximity to visible or hidden underground powerlines!

While the reason for the creation of hot spots can be simple or complex, avoiding the hot spots is always very simple. Most hot spots are small, so moving a bed or furniture just a couple of feet usually does the trick! Most hot spots are dealt with that way, just avoid placing furniture there by moving it a little bit! Simply plug the included probe into the meter, turn it on, place the setting on H for high sensitivity, and the meter needle now is reading 0 to 5 in its display. Readings over 2 are high. Those are the hot spots to avoid. In this same way the meter shows safe distances from appliances such as TVs and microwaves!

Physical Effects

Our ability to generate the entire spectrum of electromagnetic fields is a double-edged sword. With no understanding of the relationship of these fields to living organisms, we have produced a global environmental alteration that has profound implications for human health. This has exposed all living organisms, from microorganisms to humans to novel energetic fields that never before existed. Complex electronic-resonance effects operate at the level of individual ions or molecules and can occur even in the absence of cells. If a charged particle or ion is exposed to a steady magnetic field, it will begin to go into a circular, or orbital motion at right angles to the applied magnetic field. The speed with which it orbits will be determined by the ratio between the charge and the mass of the particle and by the strength of the magnetic field. While the effects of complex electronic-resonance phenomena at the level of ions and molecules are significant, the resultant change in the function or structure of cells is far more important. The effects of field exposure at the level of the total organism are the sum of the effects at the molecular level, the cellular level, and the level of the specific organs designed to be sensitive to the Earth's normal EMF environment. Field effects on entire functioning organisms are, therefore, a cascade of changes that finally result in many different structural, functional, and behavioral alterations, such as the new diseases that are emerging today. All abnormal, man-made electromagnetic fields, regardless of their frequencies, produce the same biological effects. Some of them are:

Effects on growing cells, such as increases in the rate of cancer-cell division.

Increases in the incidence of certain cancers

Developmental abnormalities in embryos

Alterations in neurochemicals, resulting in behavioral abnormalities such as suicide

Alterations in biological cycles

Stress responses in exposed animals that, if prolonged, lead to declines in immune-system efficiency

Alterations in learning ability

These bioeffects interact to weaken the health status of a human being who is chronically exposed to any abnormal field. The stress effect results in many stress-related diseases. If prolonged, this weakens the immune system, resulting in more inflammatory disease and cancer. The simultaneous effect of enhanced cancer-cell growth and the increase in the malignant changes of these cells leads to more cancer with faster-than normal rates of growth, especially in tissues with continuous rates of cell division. The effect of field exposure on the human fetus is particularly important. Exposure to electromagnetic fields will result in the combined alterations of the speed and timing of fetal cell division, impairment of the genetic apparatus of dividing fetal cells, and the production of chromosomal abnormalities in the germ cells of the parents, all contribute to imbalance of normal development. Research has found a mechanism by which a very weak electrical signal can trigger a series of reactions that promote cancer by leading to unregulated cell growth.

The cell membrane has a huge electrical gradient across it. A very, very weak signal at some point along the membrane can trigger a tremendous increase in the amount of energy released at the surface of the cell, he says. The result could be a disruption in communication within and between cells causing them to begin growing out of control. This means that EMFs so weak that they were long believed not to have any physiological significance undoubtedly can influence the behavior of cells through this amplification of energy mechanism. The cell membranes can detect a signal so weak that it would compare to your taking a 1.5 volt flashlight battery, putting a wire from one end of it in the Pacific Ocean at San Diego and putting a wire from the other end in Puget Sound to make a circuit including the ocean. Over that 1,200 mile wire, you'd get about one ten-millionth of a volt per centimeter. This is a very powerful mechanism for amplifying energy at the cell level. Exposure of human T-cell lymphocytes in culture to a low-strength 60-Hz electric field for forty-eight hours significantly reduces their cytotoxic ability against foreign cells.

New Kind of Illness

Reports from cities throughout the world indicate a new kind of illness that coincides in every case with the activation of a Personal Communication Services network. The symptoms are striking: pressure behind the eyes; dry, puffy lips; swollen thyroid; sudden rise in pulse rate and blood pressure; pressure or pain in the chest; insomnia; dizziness; headache; nausea; loss of appetite; coughing or wheezing; sinus problems; testicular or pelvic pain; muscle spasms; tremors; irritability; memory loss; pain in the legs or the soles of the feet; pains that move around the body; varying degrees of dehydration; and occasionally fever, rash or nosebleeds. The illness appears to be confined to geographical areas served by new PCS and other digital systems. Despite well-documented exposes, the industry continues to deny that this radiation has any effect on life forms. Much as the asbestos and tobacco industries have done, the telecommunications industry has suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927, it was discovered that red blood cells exposed to radio frequency waves (at levels far less powerful than permitted today) are forced to line up in chains resembling strings of pearls. A small group of scientists control the setting of health hazard standards, controlling what research bearing on that standard gets funded or published, while providing testimony for various companies and government agencies to the effect that substantial microwave energy exposure is safe. This small group of scientists is made up of engineers and veterinarians, not doctors, biologists, or epidemiologists. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was and still is setting microwave exposure standards. It is a private organization funded and controlled by industry.

Avoiding Exposure

AC Electric Fields

Electric fields are not very strong in most parts of a house. High electric-field areas are found near TVs, computer monitors (including laptops), fluorescent lights, light dimmer controls, and improperly grounded equipment. field strength drops off rapidly if at least 3 feet away. Electric fields are high near high-voltage power lines.

Polarization and Grounding

In household wiring, the wall outlet usually has a slot for a large prong and one for a small prong. This type of outlet is called polarized. The small slot is electrically hot; in a typical 115 volt system it oscillates 60 times a second between about +170 volts and -170 volts, compared to ground. To get a shock, it is necessary to touch this "hot" slot (or to touch something electrically connected to it), while also touching something that connects to ground. things that are connected to ground include the larger neutral slot, the round grounding slot in a 3-prong wall outlet, plumbing pipes, and any metal that is part of a sink or bathtub. Besides being a shock hazard, an improperly grounded appliance produces AC electric fields, which creates currents in your body by proximity, even if you are not touching the appliance. You can sometmes detect improper grounding by lightly sliding a fingertip across the surface using very little pressure. You will usually feel a weak vibration if the surface is "hot." You can also use an AC voltmeter (connected between a known ground and the appliance case) or an AC electric field meter to determine if the case is hot.

Shielding Electric Fields

Shielding strong electrical fields can be done by using any type of conductive sheet material, such as aluminum window screen, in front of an indoor appliance. The shield should be connected to electrical ground for maximum efficiency.

AC Magnetic Fields

Magnetic fields are much more common in the home than are electric fields. They don't represent a shock hazard, but, like electric fields, they produce current in the body. Any wire that carries an AC electrical current produces magnetic fields.

Magnetic Field Sources

The main sources of AC magnetic fields in a home are transformers, motorized equipment, sloppy wiring inside the house walls, excess current carried by plumbing, and power lines or underground power cables. Running cars have a strong AC magnetic field especially nearest the front floorboard, even theough the system is classified as DC. Commercial aircraft also have a strong field inside. The fields in cars and aircraft oscillate faster than the 60 times per second typical of household AC power. Wall outlets generally produce no magnetic fields. Any piece of electronic equipment that plugs into the wall, such as a clock radio or answering machine, will have a transformer.

Transformers and Motors

This transformer either plugs directly into the wall (AC adapter), or is built inside the equipment. The magnetic field is strong up to three feet from this transformer, whenever the power cord or AC adapter is plugged in. This field exists even if the appliance is not turned on, or even if the adapter is not connected. If an electronic device uses an AC adapter, to avoid high field you should stay three feet away from the adapter, but you need not avoid the electronic device itself. However, if the device has an internal AC adapter and a plain power cord, stay three feet away from the device itself, whenever the cord is plugged in. Microwave ovens also have a large transformer built in, but they emit a magnetic field only while cooking. Ordinary incandescent light bulbs (and electric blankets made since 1992) produce very little magnetic field. However, high-intensity halogen desk and floor lamps have a large 12-volt transformer built into their bases and usually produce a strong field up to three feet away. Fluorescent lights use a smaller transformer and usually have little magnetic field past three feet so they are not a field source unless the light is used in close quarters. Motorized equipment also produces strong magnetic fields. Generally speaking, the higher the power, the stronger the field. The field is low when you're at least three feet away from vacuum cleaners, motorized alarm clocks, and electric can openers, six feet from washing machines and furnace motors; and 18 inches form electric razors, hairdryers, and battery-powered motorized equipment.

Non-Localized Magnetic Fields

Non-localized magnetic fields are harder to avoid than the limited fields from appliances. Occasionally a nearby power line will produce this type of field. More often, household plumbing, carrying current, causes it. This situation is more likely to occur when the cold water pipe enters the opposite side of the building from the power line connection. Safety codes require that the indoor plumbing be connected to the neutral wire of the power line. This can result in current flow. A plumber can reduce magnetic fields which result from this situation by installing a non-conductive coupling on the cold water pipe just ouside the building. Non-localized fields due to household wiring are usually highest in the room next to where the power line connects or where there is a circuit breaker panel.

Detecting Magnetic Fields

A reliable way to detect the presence of strong fields is by holding a small magnet. When held lightly, it can be felt to vibrate when held in a 500 milligauss or higher field. Transformers and motors produce this much field a few inches away. A TV or computer monitor will start to jiggle or lose sharpness in a 30 milligauss or higher field, so this can be a more sensitive indicator of strong fields. A better indicator is a large coil of wire connected to an AC voltmeter. For the highest degree of accuracy, use an AC gaussmeter, specifically designed to detect and quantify magnetic fields.

Shielding Magnetic Fields

Shielding magnetic fields is more difficult than shielding electric fields. Sheets of galvanized mild steel work fairly well and are available in any hardware store. Use a sheet that is thin enough to cut with scissors, and note that two thin layers shield more than one thicker layer. Shielding should be placed so it is between you and the high-field source. Simply staying away from high-field areas is easier and more convenient.

Microwaves and Radiowaves

The strongest source of microwaves in a home is a microwave oven with a damaged door seal, or a cellular telephone. The new 2.2 gigahertz cordless phones also emit microwaves in the house. You should periodically check the microwave oven door to make sure it is not dented and that it latches shut fully parallel to the oven body. Correctly functioning microwave ovens emit somewhat less microwave power. Cellular phones and other radio sources sometimes produce interference, which can cause sensitive equipment, such as computers, to malfunction.

Shielding and Detecting Microwaves

Ordinary screen-door aluminum wire mesh (not plastic) can shield computers, etc. quite well if the screen is placed between the radio source and the computer. The screen should be electrically connected to ground. The more of the computer's area that's covered, the better the shielding. Also, the use of a power-conditioning outlet strip (specifying reduced electromagnetic interference) is recommended to avoid radio waves being picked up from the power line by the computer.

Electro Sensitivitity

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Electro Sensitivitity

Free Energy John Hutchison

Another Article on RNA-DNA Messaging Inteferrence by Radio Modulated Signalling

Article on RNA-DNA Messaging Inteferrence by Radio Modulated Signalling

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Dangers of the wireless cell phone, wi-fi and emf age

"..the Genitic material has changed ...and we have something that is called Electro Sensitivity...that Electro Sensitivity is Environmentally Induced Genetic Change...and when a person is Electro Sensitive, they will react in an Allergic Manner to any exposure to an Electro Magnetic Field, that's why we have people who are Electro Sensitive, who can sense a cell phone call before the phone rings, and that's we have some people who are Electro Sensitive, when walk into a room, and have a such a Splitting Headache, because there is WiFi in the room, that they can not stay there.."

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Increased frequency of micronucleated exfoliated cells among humans exposed in vivo to mobile telephone radiations.

Abhay Singh Yadav^,^a^, and Manoj Kumar Sharma^a

^aHuman Genetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Kurukshetra University, University Campus, Kurukshetra 136119, Haryana, India

Received 21 August 2007;

revised 7 November 2007;

accepted 25 November 2007.

Available online 29 November 2007.

Abstract

The health concerns have been raised following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephones throughout the world. This investigation had been taken, with the motive to find out whether mobile phone radiations cause any in vivo effects on the frequency of micronucleated exfoliated cells in the exposed subjects. A total of 109 subjects including 85 regular mobile phone users (exposed) and 24 non-users (controls) had participated in this study. Exfoliated cells were obtained by swabbing the buccal-mucosa from exposed as well as sex–age-matched controls. One thousand exfoliated cells were screened from each individual for nuclear anomalies including micronuclei (MN), karyolysis (KL), karyorrhexis (KH), broken egg (BE) and binucleated (BN) cells. The average daily duration of exposure to mobile phone radiations is 61.26 min with an overall average duration of exposure in term of years is 2.35 years in exposed subjects along with the 9.84 ± 0.745 micronucleated cells (MNCs) and 10.72 ± 0.889 total micronuclei (TMN) as compared to zero duration of exposure along with average 3.75 ± 0.774 MNC and 4.00 ± 0.808 TMN in controls. The means are significantly different in case of MNC and TMN at 0.01% level of significance. The mean of KL in controls is 13.17 ± 2.750 and in exposed subjects is 13.06 ± 1.793. The value of means of KH in exposed subjects (1.84 ± 0.432) is slightly higher than in controls (1.42 ± 0.737). Mean frequency of broken egg is found to be more in exposed subjects (0.65 ± 0.276) as compared to controls (0.50 ± 0.217). Frequency of presence of more than one nucleus in a cell (binucleated) is also higher in exposed (2.72 ± 0.374) in comparison to controls (0.67 ± 0.231). Although there is a slight increase in mean frequency of KH, BE and BN in exposed subjects but the difference is not found statistically significant. Correlation between 0–1, 1–2, 2–3 and 3–4 years of exposure and the frequency of MNC and TMN has been calculated and found to be positively correlated.

Keywords: RF; Mobile telephone; Micronuclei; Micronucleated exfoliated cells

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References

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Absence of a synergistic effect between moderate-power radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation and adriamycin on cell-cycle progression and sister-chromatid exchange

Victor Ciaravino¹, Martin L. Meltz, Ph.D.^{1 *}, David N. Erwin²

¹University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
²U.S. Air Force Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

^*Correspondence to Martin L. Meltz, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284-7800

Funded by:
USAF; Grant Number: #F33615-84-C-0604
The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base

Keywords

microwaves • CHO Cells • genotoxicity

Abstract

In our laboratories we are conducting investigations of potential interactions between radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RFR) and chemicals that are toxic by different mechanisms to mammalian cells. The RFR is being tested at frequencies in the microwave range and at different power levels. We report here on the I) ability of simultaneous RFR exposures to alter the distribution of cells in first and second mitoses from that after treatment by adriamycin alone, and 2) on the ability of simultaneous RFR exposure to alter the extent of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) induced by adriamycin alone. This chemical was selected because of its reported mechanism of action and because it is of interest in the treatment of cancer. In our studies, Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were exposed for 2 h simultaneously to adriamycin and pulsed RFR at a frequency of 2,450 MHz and a specific absorption rate of 33.8 W/Kg. The maximal temperature (in the tissue-culture medium) was 39.7 ± 0.2 °C. The experiments were controlled for chemical and RFR exposures, as well as for temperature. Verified statistically, the data indicate that the RFR did not affect changes in cell progression caused by adriamycin, and the RFR did not change the number of SCEs that were induced by the adriamycin, which adriamycin is known to affect cells by damaging their membranes and DNA.

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Sign The Petition

2009-02-17T18:14:00.002-08:00

http://petition.next-up.org/email-a-friend-uk.html

http://videos.next-up.org/SWR/ReportMainz/Uk/BioInitiativeAeeBrainTumourWithMobilePhoneUse29102007.html

Electromagnetic radiation: a ticking time bomb?

2009-02-17T18:06:00.000-08:00

Electromagnetic radiation: a ticking time bomb?

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EMF Radiation Can Screw Your Health

2009-02-17T17:57:00.000-08:00

Reference

Electromagnetic radiation

Microwave heating

Electromagnetic radiation and health

Electrical sensitivity

Background Postings - Relevant Subject Matters

Passenger Airplane Defense - Airborne Antimissile Laser

HAARP - NASA, WATER SPRAYING TO CAUSE EMF VORTEX IONIZATION

Mind Control - HAARP

HARP - Instrument to Warp Nature

Many Suns - Holographic Inteferrence in 3D

Giant Humans from the Past

HAARP and NASA UFO VIDEO - Is it Vortex Caused EMF in Ionized Layer

Prevent The Female Infanticide - Kill Female Fetus, Risk Having Defective Boy

Quantum Reality

THIS IS NOT TO SCARE YOU OFF BUT BECOME AN EDUCATED EMF WORLD CITIZEN. EMF IS A DUAL EDGE TECHNOLOGY. CHECK ON US HARP IN THE BLOG.

Many European Nations are revising the EMF Limits by lowering it and the USA FCC and EPA are far behind the rest of European Bodies in this matter. This is also a concern for a correct decisions and policies by the US Govt, without affecting the US Economy.

I am facing a medical crisis, and my research shows Defective IBM T60/T61 can do this, and more so and one being prone to when one is under Body and Mind Stress, Working Long House on Laptop/Computer/Switches/Routers, and/or some spell of Diseases or Medical Issues, and badly needing Body and Mind Rest, but getting exposed to the bad dosage of EMF Radiation instead.

Part of your brain can get “fried and shrunk or excited more”, as in my case, and recorded in two MRIs, and also admitted by IBM Lenevo Site by IBM itself and some users, of the symptoms I had and have post effects, and the July 2008 and Jul 2009 MRI readings also confirming it.

This MRI reading was missed till Jan 30, 2009, and when I was getting organized with my medical records and wondering why my case has become so complex, I saw this finding. Then researching on Internet, the papers explained the symptoms I had have.

There are also reports that in Labs Pregnant Rats getting Cancer Cells from T61 (T60 is related to it). You can get blinding headaches and migraines, and some of you may hear popping sounds in your head (like a pea in a microwave bursting). You may hear Very High Pitch Buzzing Sound on one side of your ear, and in my case it was on the left side, which IBM has also reported. This is different from Tinnitus, those of you may have it before. You may also feel your Head Exploding, which I reported to my colleagues between March last 2 weeks and April 20, 2008, as we tried having a meeting in one Large Lab, with many Switching Equipments.

Then it is a well known fact, that the heat from laptops and its radiation, can raise the temperature of your Scrotum by 2 Degree Centigrade and reduce Sperm Count by many factors and make you an Impotent. Same thing is applicable to a woman’s ovaries and Baby’s development in the Womb.

IBM T60 had heating issues are well known and my last case was of laptop freezing when it heated up on the left back side. It was also burning my left knee, but that was a minor issue, considering all other issues I am facing.

You should also know Chinese Government ***recently*** reduced the EMF Radiation Levels Standards for Cell Phones, Laptops, and other Electronic Devices for some reasons. Some say this was a marketing market capturing ploy, but the lab results were from China too. So you may connect the dots, How old is this “”recent” I do not know and I merely read the reporting on a Laptop Review Posting for Thinkpad T61/T60.

So specially anyone in Cisco, (1) who has had the laptop history of T60/t61 crashes and repairs especially, and (2) having Blinding Headache and Migraines like me, specially just after working for a small short duration on the laptop, please get a new Laptop ASAP. Please be considerate to Cisco and Cisco IT, and make sure you are not creating a FALSE TRIGGER. Please qualify yourself by the above Two Conditions,

Not sure how Cisco or you would get the Laptop EMF Radiations verified, as I had suspected 2008 beginning the cause of my Symptoms, including Migraines, after narrowing down the problem to the Laptop being the source, and to do with something with Brain, and eliminating other sources. Then not to discount all the Networking gear en-masse, and some in development and repairs, without any proper shielding, may affect your health. I see in lab, sometimes machines lay bare open, and there are 1000s of them, and sometimes with patched cables, etc. So Employers doing monitoring this would also help you.

I had seen various doctors and optometrist, change glasses, changed lighting, body posture, taken breaks, done meditation, and then concluded, the lap top was the only source. When the case was opened in May 2008, I had mentioned this in the case and also mentioned to some managers over emails over months. Wanted Cisco IT and Compuserve to check the EMF Radiation Levels and they did not have any ability to do so.

May 05, 2008 Blood Work also confirms Health Complications. April 10, June 10/11 and Sep 28, 2008, are other three dates when I had a Heart Attack / Stroke-Ischemia /Heart Attack issues. Now-a-days my left side is “partially paralyzed and numb”, and both hands for 15 to 30 seconds also get paralyzed and frozen. Then when I have Heart Pains, my hands are cold and numb, besides the left side of the face.

So I am not sure how I will go on for the coming months, but wanted to share this news of mine with public in the interest of a larger Public Goods.

Somehow everyone should have an ability to keep track of his or her Total Accumulative EMF Exposure Levels, like they do in the Nuclear Plants – as over life time, this becomes a high number. Even Madame Curie and her husband Pierre Curie, were unaware when she was trying to discover Polonium, and both she and her husband died of Cancer. You can substitute Radiation Intensity with Accumulative Time Factor over your life span, and then think of it.

Other Sites

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/elfradiation/hazards.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9383244

http://www.icnirp.de/documents/emfgdl.pdf

http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/05_3.cfm

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/76509952/?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://www.eetimes.com/conf/3gsm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005857

I will post more updates later on in my blog with more references to the IBM Laptop T60/T61p issues how it affected me, with more proofs and dates.

Cancer and Mobile Cell Phone EMR EMF Radiation in Children

2009-02-17T16:09:00.000-08:00

Cell Phone Dangers on Larry King 29 July 2008

2009-02-17T16:08:00.000-08:00

Dangers of the wireless cell phone, wi-fi and emf age

2009-02-17T15:51:00.000-08:00

Are EMFs Hazardous to Our Health?

2009-02-14T11:20:00.001-08:00

Courtesy:
http://www.mercola.com/article/emf/emf_dangers.htm

Are EMFs Hazardous to Our Health?

Can electromagnetic fields (EMF) from power lines, home wiring, airport and military radar, substations, transformers, computers and appliances cause brain tumors, leukemia, birth defects, miscarriages, chronic fatigue, headaches, cataracts, heart problems, stress. nausea, chest pain, forgetfulness, cancer and other health problems?

Numerous studies have produced contradictory results, yet some experts are convinced that the threat is real.

Dr. David Carpenter, Dean at the School of Public Health, State University of New York believes it is likely that up to 30% of all childhood cancers come from exposure to EMFs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns "There is reason for concern" and advises prudent avoidance".

Martin Halper, the EPA's Director of Analysis and Support says "I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of evidence that we're seeing with EMFs. Clearly there is something here."

Concern over EMFs exploded after Paul Brodeur wrote a series of articles in the New Yorker Magazine in June 1989. Because of Paul Brodeur's reputation. his articles had a catalytic effect on scientists, reporters and concerned people throughout the world.

In November 1989, the Department of Energy reported that "It has now become generally accepted that there are, indeed, biological effects due to field exposure."

The EMF issue gained more publicity in 1990 when alarming reports appeared in Time, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and popular computer publications. ABC's Ted Koppel and CBS's Dan Rather both aired special segments on EMFs.

In addition to the long-term health concerns, buying a house with high fields will be an economic disaster. In a few years, when power line radiation is as well known as asbestos and radon, a house with high fields will be practically impossible to sell. Already there are hundreds of lawsuits regarding EMFs and property devaluation.

EPA Says the Threat Is Real

By 1990, over one hundred studies had been conducted worldwide. Of these, at least two dozen epidemiological studies on humans indicated a link between EMFs and serious health problems. In response to public pressure, the Environmental Protection Agency IEPA) began reviewing and evaluating the available literature.

In a draft report issued in March 1990, the EPA recommended that EMFs be classified as a Class B carcinogen -- -a "probable human carcinogen and joined the ranks of formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins and PCBs.

After the EPA draft report was released, utility, military and computer lobbyists came down hard on the EPA. The EPA's final revision did NOT classify EMFs as a Class B carcinogen Rather, the following explanation was added:"

At this time such a characterization regarding the link between cancer and exposure to EMFs is not appropriate because the basic nature of the interaction between EMFs and biological processes leading to cancer is not understood."

Curiously, this rather unusual logic appears on the same page as the following: "In conclusion, several studies showing leukemia, Iymphoma and cancer of the nervous system in children exposed to supported by similar findings in adults in several/ occupational studies also involving electrical power frequency exposures, show a consistent pattern of response that suggest a causal link. "

When questioned about the contradictory nature of these statements, the EPA responded that it was "not appropriate" to use the probable carcinogen label until it could demonstrate how EMFs caused cancer and exactly how much EMF is harmful.

This explanation does not satisfy many critics who claim that the EPAs upper management was influenced by political and economic considerations exerted by utility, computer and military lobbyists.

How Do I Measure EMFs?

A Gauss is a common unit of measurement of magnetic field strength. A Gauss meter is an instrument which measures the strength of magnetic fields. Inside a Gauss meter there is a coil of thin wire, typically with hundreds of turns. As a magnetic field radiates through the coil, it induces a current, which is amplified by the circuitry inside the Gauss meter.

Gauss meters may vary in the strength of the magnetic field they are capable of measuring. A meter used for measuring EMFs from power lines, transformers, substations and appliances around the home, for example, should be able to measure as low as .1 mg.

Gauss meters vary widely in price and accuracy. Meters have either a single axis coil or a triple axis coil. Single axis meters are much simpler than triple axis meters to manufacture and thus, are less expensive.

To use a single axis meter you must point the meter's one sensor in three directions -- -the x, y and z axis. Then, you combine the three readings in a mathematical equation to calculate the combined field strength. Obviously, its far easier and more accurate to use a 3-axis meter. Triple axis Gauss meters are quite accurate, but they are also more expensive.

Another thing to watch out for when purchasing or renting a Gauss meter is whether or not it is frequency weighted. Most meters will read the same EMF strength no mater what the frequency.

As the human body appears to be sensitive to both the field strength AND the frequency, Gauss meters used for biological purposes should be "frequency weighted".

This means that if the field is different than 60 Hz the meter will consider the frequency and use it in calculating and displaying the EMF's strength. This feature is why frequency weighted meters will show a higher EMF reading than those meters typically used by electricians and engineers.

Power Lines

An enormous amount of electricity is created at power generating stations and sent across the country through wires that carry high voltages. All power lines radiate electromagnetic fields. The question is: how much are the

power lines near YOUR home radiating? The amount of EMFs coming from a power line depends on its particular configuration. Power companies know which power line configurations are best for reducing EMFs but most don't feel the evidence supports costly changes in the way they deliver electricity.

Substations

A substation is an assemblage of circuit breakers, disconnecting switches and transformers designed to substations have been blamed for causing cancer clusters among nearby residents. Paul Brodeur wrote about several such cancer clusters in the July 9, 1990 issue of the New Yorker Magazine.

Transformers

A key component of a utility's electrical distribution network depends upon numerous, small transformers mounted on power poles. A transformer looks like a small metal trash can, usually cylindrical.

Even when the electrical service is underground, you will often see a metal box (usually square} located on the ground near the street. Many people don't realize that when they see a transformer, the power line feeding the transformer is 4000 to 13,800 volts.

The transformer then reduces the voltage to the 120/240 volts needed by nearby homes. Since these transformers can be seen in almost every neighborhood, they are a source of concern.

EMFs near a transformer can be quite high, but due to its small structure, the field strength diminishes rapidly with distance, as it does from any point source. For this reason, having a transformer located near your home is usually not a major source of concern, although just to make sure, everyone should measure the field strength around it.

Home Wiring

If your home has high EMF readings, it is important to determine the sources of the EMF so that remedial action can be taken, if possible. Many times a particular room will have a higher EMF reading. Check to see if the electricity is coming into the house on the wall outside that room. When this is the case, it is usually a good idea to block off that room and only use it for storage purposes.

Sometimes, the source of a high magnetic field is incorrect wiring. If you suspect that your home is wired improperly, obtain the services of a licensed electrician. Warning: Do not touch electric wires, even if you think the current is turned off. If you need to disconnect electrical circuits to determine the source of magnetic fields, you should call a licensed electrician.

Computers

Computers are a complicated subject. Know this: EMFs radiate from all sides of the computer. Thus, you must not only be concerned with sitting in front of the monitor but also if you are sitting near a computer or if a computer is operating in a nearby room.

The Swedish safety standard, effective 711/90, specifies a maximum of 0.25 mG at 50 cm from the display. Many US manufactured computers have EMFs of 5 - 100 mG at this distance. And know this too: the screens placed over monitors do NOT block EMFs. Not even a lead screen will block ELF and VLF magnetic fields.

Space does not permit a more thorough discussion of computers. If you use a computer, it is important that you

measure your EMF exposure with a Gauss meter and review the literature concerning the health impacts of computer use.

Electric Blankets and Waterbeds

Electric blankets create a magnetic field that penetrates about 6-7 inches into the body. Thus it is not surprising that an epidemiological study has linked electric blankets with miscarriages and childhood leukemia.

This pioneering work was performed by Dr. Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper, who originally discovered that magnetic fields were linked to childhood leukemia. Similar health effects have been noted with users of many electric blankets and waterbed heaters will emit EMFs even when turned off.

The devices must be unplugged to delete the EMF exposure Additionally, there is the issue regarding the vibrations that are generated by sleeping on standing water. There is less hard data in this area but some experts are concerned about the consequences.

Electric Clocks

Electric clocks have a very high magnetic field, as much as 5 to 10 mG up to three feet away. If you are using a bedside clock, you are probably sleeping in an EMF equivalent to that of a powerline Studies have linked high rates of brain tumors with chronic exposure to magnetic fields, so it is wise to place all clocks and other electrical devices (such as telephones and answering devices) at least 6 feet from your bed.

Fluorescent Lights

Fluorescent lights produce much more EMFs than incandescent bulbs. A typical fluorescent lamp of a office

ceiling have readings of 160 to 200 mg 1 inch away.

Microwave Ovens and Radar

Microwave ovens and radar from military installations and airports emit two types of radiation -- microwave and ELF. Microwaves are measured in milliwatt per centimeter squared (mW/cm2) As of 1/1/93, the U.S. safety limit for microwave exposure is 1 mW/cm2, down from a previous 10 mW/cm2. The Russian safety limit is .01 mW/cm2. All microwave ovens leak and exceed the Russian safety limit. In addition, recent Russian studies have shown that normal microwave cooking coverts food protein molecules into carcinogenic substances.

When measuring microwaves from military and airport radar sources, 100% accurate readings can only be found with extremely expensive digital peak-hold meters. Why? Because analog devices begin to drop their reading immediately after the radar sweep passes. Thus, while an analog meter can show whether or not you are being exposed to radar EMFs, analog meters can't show your true exposure. Although thousands of dollars to purchase, digital-hold meters capable of accurately detecting radar EMFs can be rented for several hundred to over a thousand dollars per month.

Telephones and Answering Machines

Telephones can emit surprisingly strong EMFs, especially from the handset. This is a problem because we hold the telephone so close to our head. Place the Gauss meter right against the ear piece and the mouth piece before buying a phone.

Some brands emit no measurable fields and others emit strong fields that travel several inches....right into your brain. Answering machines, particular those with adapter plugs (mini-transformers), give off high levels of EMFs.

Electric Razors and Hair Dryers

Electric razors and hair dryers emit EMFs as high as 200 to 400 mG. This seems alarming, but we don't know if this is worse (or better) than a chronic exposure to a 2-3 mG field. Some EMF consultants recommend that hair dryers not be used on children as the high fields are held close to their rapidly developing brain and nervous system.

Prudent Avoidance

Electricity is an inseparable part of our modern day society. This means that EMFs will continue to be all around us. But as Discover Magazine postulated, aside from making our life easier, is electricity also making our lives shorter?

Most experts agree that limited, non-chronic exposure to EMFs is not a threat. For example, it is probably acceptable for a person to be near a toaster in the morning.

BUT, it is not advisable for a person to sleep under an electric blanket, up close, live near a powerline/substation, and sleep in a room where the power enters the home. This person is under an extreme case of chronic exposure. This condition, unfortunately, applies to millions of Americans.

If you wish to follows the EPA's advice and practice "prudent avoidance" then the following advice is offered:

Measure your home, work and school environments with a Gauss meter Measure EMFs both inside and outside your home. Don't let your children play near power lines, transformers, radar domes and microwave towers.

Avoid areas where the field is above 1 mG. Measure the EMFs from appliances both when they are operating and when they are turned off. Some appliances (like TVs) are still drawing current even when they are off.

Don't sleep under an electric blanket or on a waterbed. If you insist on using these, unplug them before going to bed (don't just turn it off). Even though there is no magnetic field when they are turned off, there may still be a high electric field.

Don't sit too close to your TV set. Distance yourself at least 6 feet away. Use a Gauss meter to help you decide where it is safe to sit.

Rearrange your office and home area so that you are not exposed to EMFs from the sides/backs of electric appliances and computers. In the home, it is best that all major electrical appliances, such as computers, TVs, refrigerators etc, be placed up against outside walls. That way you are not creating an EMF field in the adjoining room.

Don't sit too close to your computer. Computer monitors vary greatly in the strength of their EMFs, so you should check yours with a meter. Don't stand close to your microwave oven. Move all electrical appliances at least 6 feet from your bed. Eliminate wires running under your bed. Eliminate dimmers and 3-way switches.

Be wary of cordless appliances such as electric toothbrushes and razors. You may choose not to wear a quartz-analog watch because it radiates pulsating EMFs along your acupuncture meridians.

An older mechanical windup watch would be an acceptable alternative. It is also recommended to wear as little jewelry as possible and to take it off at night. Many people have metal sensitivity which can be aggravated by placing it right on the skin. Measure with a gauss meter to be sure.

And last, but not least, always always always remember that EMFs pass right through walls. The EMF you are reading on your Gauss meter could be radiating from the next room...or from outside your home.

Additional Radiation Info:

Eyeglass frames should ideally be made from plastic with no wires in them, otherwise they can serve as an antenna to focus the radio and cellular phone waves directly into your brain.

What EMF Level Is Safe?

There's a heated debate as to what electromagnetic field (EMF) level is considered safe. Since the experts have not come to an consensus, you'll have to decide for yourself... Many government and utility documents report the usual ambient level of 60-Hz magnetic field to be 0.5 mG.

Thus, any reading higher than 0.5 mG is above the "usual" ambient exposure. Many experts and public officials, as well as the few governments that have made an effort to offer public protection, have adopted the 3 mG cutoff point. The EPA has proposed a safety standard of 1 mG. Sweden has set a maximum safety limit of 1 mG.

Dr. Robert Becker, an MD who has been studying the effects of EMFs for 20 years, states a lmG safety limit in his book Cross Currents. When electricians try to solve a magnetic field problem they do their best to drop the level to 1 mG or below.

Dr. Nancy Wertheimer, a Ph.D. epidemiologist who has been studying EMFs for 20 years, has been looking at the epidemiological data in a different way -- she is trying to associate EMF levels with

health rather than disease. The level she is coming up with is a cut off of 1 mG. Russian researchers claim that 1/1000ths of a mG should be the standard.

The BioElectric Body believes that there are several stages of health between "optimum wellness", "degenerative disease" and "Cancer". Thus, we maintain our own living and sleeping quarters at 0.5mG and below.

Recommended Reading

Cross Currents The Perils of Electropollution. The Promise of Electromedicine Robert 0. Becker, M.D. Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1990

Currents of Death The Attempt to Cover Up the Threat to Your Health Paul Brodeur Simon and Schuster, 1989

Electromagnetic Man Health & Hazard in the Electrical Environment Cyril W. Smith & Simon Best St. Martin's Press. Inc. 1989

Happy Valentine's Day - Spread The Word, Spread The Love, Serve The World

2009-02-13T09:04:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Creative Writing happy valentines day

The Nature's Smile Is Like Yours

2009-02-10T14:45:00.000-08:00

This one is how the Quantum Mechanical Oscillator Smiles in one of the States! I did not try looking for that combination of constants, while playing with one Quantum Oscillator Applet, it just came by itself.

Please read the Postings on Quantum Consciousness, Vedanta, Total Mind, Universal Mind Articles, and on 100 Monkey Theory.

Early Caesareans Pose Risks to Newborns

2009-01-08T20:35:00.000-08:00

Courtesy New York Times.

By RONI CARYN RABIN

Published: January 8, 2009

More than one third of mothers who chose to undergo a repeat Caesarean section had their babies earlier than medical guidelines recommend, and the earlier the babies were born, the more likely they were to experience a medical complication like respiratory distress, a large study has found.

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Although babies born by Caesarean section after just 37 weeks of pregnancy are considered full-term, the study found they were twice as likely to suffer complications as those born by Caesarean after 39 weeks. Infants born by Caesarean at 38 weeks were 50 percent more likely to have a medical problem than those born at 39 weeks. The complications included respiratory distress, infections, hypoglycemia, being admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, or being hospitalized for five or more days.

The study, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, was published on Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

It is being released amid concern over the rising numbers of preterm births in the United States and the trend of many women and their physicians to schedule Caesarean deliveries, or C-sections, well in advance of the expected due date. Some 30 percent of deliveries were done by Caesarean section in 2006, up from 20.7 percent in 1996. About 40 percent of the 1.3 million Caesareans performed in the United States each year are repeat procedures, though not all are elective.

“There is an understanding that for a baby born at [full] term, the risks are really very low, and many people may just assume that outcomes at 37 weeks may be the same as at 39 weeks,” said Dr. Alan T.N. Tita, the paper’s lead author and an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “We know that is not true.”

He noted that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends elective Caesareans not be performed before the 39th week of pregnancy.

Medical problems also occurred more frequently in the small group of babies delivered by Caesarean at 41 weeks and 42 weeks, the study found.

Researchers reviewed a registry containing detailed information about repeat Caesarean births to mothers who had previously had the procedure at 19 medical centers, all part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. Of 24,077 Caesarean deliveries performed at term, 13,258 were elective, meaning there was no medical indication for the surgery, the researchers found. Of those, 6.3 percent were performed at 37 weeks and 29.5 percent at 38 weeks.

Overall, 15.3 percent of babies delivered at 37 weeks suffered a complication of some kind, compared with 11 percent of those born at 38 weeks and only 7.3 percent of those born at 40 weeks. One infant, delivered at 39 weeks, died. Doctors noted that even when babies born by Caesarean are delivered at the same week of pregnancy as babies delivered vaginally, they are at higher risk of respiratory difficulties because the process of labor and delivery primes the fetal lungs for breathing air.

Babies delivered by Caesarean section at 37 weeks were 4.2 times more likely than those delivered at 39 weeks to suffer from respiratory distress syndrome, and 3.3 times more likely to be treated for hypoglycemia, 2.9 times more likely to develop an infection or to be suspected of having an infection, and more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for five or more days or to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Babies delivered by Caesarean section at 38 weeks were 2.1 times more likely than those delivered at 39 weeks to suffer respiratory distress syndrome, 1.8 times more likely to be hospitalized for five or more days, and 1.7 times more likely to have an infection or be suspected of having an infection. Babies delivered by Caesarean at 38 weeks had a 30 percent increased risk of hypoglycemia and a 50 percent increased risk of being admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, compared to those delivered at 39 weeks.

“Faced with the likelihood that there is no other problem, I think it’s prudent to wait until 39 weeks to avoid subjecting these babies to adverse outcomes,” Dr. Tita said. He added that he did not think the results would be different for women undergoing a first elective Caesarean section, versus the repeat Caesareans looked at in this study.

Reactions to the study were mixed. Dr. Michael Greene, director of obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, who wrote an editorial that accompanied the article, said the paper quantifies differences in risk that many physicians may not be aware of.

“I would bet if you ask the first 10 obstetricians on the street if they thought it would make a difference to deliver a baby in the second half of the 38th week and the first half of the 39th week, they’d say, ’Nah, it’s not a big difference,’ ” he said. “This study, because of its size and numbers, is able to say, Yeah, it does make a difference.’ ”

At the same time, he said the study only reviewed live births and did not weigh the risk of a potential stillbirth that could occur with a longer pregnancy against the risk of a complication resulting from an earlier Caesarean.

“The apparent simple message from this study is too simplistic,” he said. “There is a tiny, small but real increase in stillbirths late in pregnancy for women who had a prior Caesarean section, as opposed to women with no scar in their uterus” from a previous Caesarean section.

But Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes, said the findings should reinforce the message that “every week counts” in a pregnancy. The women who were more likely to deliver early were white women with private health insurance, and the medical centers were all top-notch hospitals, he noted.

“These are not preterm babies, and these are pregnancies that should have good outcomes,” he said.

100 Monkey Theory

2008-12-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

Background Postings

HARP

Total Mind

Universal Mind

Historical Literary Background

Shanti Mantras

Personal Background Story

I owe this to an old American Gentleman who is in our neighborhood and over a dinner party, when we were talking about the philosophy I received during my flight to India from the US in 1996 March to save my son who had lost 1/3 brain from 3 places, with total blood loss, and gone to a coma, in an open Head Injury and Compound Fracture from a fall from 2nd floor in India, in my deepest and profound desperate moments seeking of answers in my prayers.

The same theory was later confirmed by Harvard Studies in the later part of the year, and later I found that Princeton also did some studies in this, as well as there is some scientific basis to this.

Basically the brain-waves have a range from 3 Hz to 15 Hz, which is the same as Earth Magnetosphere (and who knows what else in the Universe), and the US HARP Program and CIA's Mind Control Experiments in 70's had the same basis. This was also realized by Tesla.

The same theory is the basis for the Vedas and the Vedic Seers called it the "Akaashic Mind". BTW in Russian, the Space is called Akaashic as well, which means something that can not be destroyed - both as a Space and as the Total Mind Recording.

Spread the Word

Say a Prayer for the well-being of the Universe, the Earth, the Nations, the People and the Flora and Fauna of the Earth. Cast away the evil and negative inside each of us.

Let us pray that the Good of the God prevails over the Evil of the Devil, and the world becomes a better and safe place.

Let us fight the terrorists against our wishes and positive thoughts:

That We Shall Overcome One Day, Deep In Our Thoughts, That We Do Believe, We Shall Over Come One Day..

100 Monkey Theory

From: http://www.wowzone.com/monkey.htm

The 100th Monkey

A story about social change.

By Ken Keyes Jr.

The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known. Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea...Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

From the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, Jr.
The book is not copyrighted and the material may be reproduced in whole or in part.

Read the whole book.

Please Note:

The 100th Monkey Theory has been on the WOW site since 1996, and we occasionally receive letters claiming that it was a hoax or fake.

We contacted Penny Gillespie, who was married to Ken Keyes and participated in his work and writing. Here is her response:

I'm not sure what you mean by "fake." The Hundredth Monkey is a real book and hundreds of thousands of copies were printed and circulated, often through university courses. People bought them by the case and gave them away.

The story of the hundredth monkey came from a writing by Rupert Sheldrake.

After our book was printed, there was some question about whether the study was authentic. Ken presented the story as a legend, or phenomenon; the concepts of morphogenetic fields and critical mass are very true and the story serves to illustrate them.

Hope that answers your question.

All the best,

Penny Gillespie
President's Club, Platinum Wellness Consultant
www.5Pillars.com/pennygillespie

We were also forwarded the following article that "puts a new light on this popular story"

The Hundredth Monkey Revisited

by Elaine Myers

Going back to the original sources
puts a new light on this popular story

Is there some magic key that provides a short cut to cultural transformation?

THE STORY OF "The Hundredth Monkey" has recently become popular in our culture as a strategy for social change. Lyall Watson first told it in Lifetide (pp147- 148), but its most widely known version is the opening to the book The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes. (See below.) The story is based on research with monkeys on a northern Japanese Island, and its central idea is that when enough individuals in a population adopt a new idea or behavior, there occurs an ideological breakthrough that allows this new awareness to be communicated directly from mind to mind without the connection of external experience and then all individuals in the population spontaneously adopt it. "It may be that when enough of us hold something to be true, it becomes true for everyone." (Watson, p148)

I found this to be a very appealing and believable idea. The concept of Jung's collective unconscious, and the biologists' morphogenetic fields (IN CONTEXT #6} offer parallel stories that help strengthen this strand of our imaginations. Archetypes, patterns, or fields that are themselves without mass or energy, could shape the individual manifestations of mass and energy. The more widespread these fields are, the greater their influence on the physical level of reality. We sometimes mention the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon when we need supporting evidence of the possibility of an optimistic scenario for the future, especially a future based on peace instead of war. If enough of us will just think the right thoughts, then suddenly, almost magically, such ideas will become reality.

However, when I went back to the original research reports cited by Watson, I did not find the same story that he tells. Where he claims to have had to improvise details, the research reports are quite precise, and they do not support the "ideological breakthrough" phenomenon. At first I was disappointed; but as I delved deeper into the research I found a growing appreciation for the lessons the real story of these monkeys has for us. Based on what I have learned from the Japan Monkey Center reports in Primates, vol. 2, vol. 5 and vol. 6, here is how the real story seems to have gone.

Up until 1958, Keyes' description follows the research quite closely, although not all the young monkeys in the troop learned to wash the potatoes. By March, 1958, 15 of the 19 young monkeys (aged two to seven years} and 2 of the 11 adults were washing sweet potatoes. Up to this time, the propagation of the innovative behavior was on an individual basis, along family lines and playmate relationships. Most of the young monkeys began to wash the potatoes when they were one to two and a half years old. Males older than 4 years, who had little contact with the young monkeys, did not acquire the behavior.

By 1959, the sweet potato washing was no longer a new behavior to the group. Monkeys that had acquired the behavior as juveniles were growing up and having their own babies. This new generation of babies learned sweet potato washing behavior through the normal cultural pattern of the young imitating their mothers. By January, 1962, almost all the monkeys in the Koshima troop, excepting those adults born before 1950, were observed to be washing their sweet potatoes. If an individual monkey had not started to wash sweet potatoes by the time he was an adult, he was unlikely to learn it later, regardless of how widespread it became among the younger members of the troop.

In the original reports, there was no mention of the group passing a critical threshold that would impart the idea to the entire troop. The older monkeys remained steadfastly ignorant of the new behavior. Likewise, there was no mention of widespread sweet potato washing in other monkey troops. There was mention of occasional sweet potato washing by individual monkeys in other troops, but I think there are other simpler explanations for such occurrences. If there was an Imo in one troop, there could be other Imo-like monkeys in other troops.

Instead of an example of the spontaneous transmission of ideas, I think the story of the Japanese monkeys is a good example of the propagation of a paradigm shift, as in Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The truly innovative points of view tend to come from those on the edge between youth and adulthood. The older generation continues to cling to the world view they grew up with. The new idea does not become universal until the older generation withdraws from power, and a younger generation matures within the new point of view.

It is also an example of the way that simple innovations can lead to extensive cultural change. By using the water in connection with their food, the Koshima monkeys began to exploit the sea as a resource in their environment. Sweet potato washing led to wheat washing, and then to bathing behavior and swimming, and the utilization of sea plants and animals for food. "Therefore, provisioned monkeys suffered changes in their attitude and value system and were given foundations on which pre-cultural phenomena developed." (M Kawai, Primates, Vol 6, #1, 1965).

What does this say about morphogenetic fields, and the collective unconscious? Not very much, but the "ideological breakthrough" idea is not what Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields would predict anyway. That theory would recognize that the behavior of the older monkeys (not washing) also is a well-established pattern. There may well be a "critical mass" required to shift a new behavior from being a fragile personal idiosyncrasy to being a well-established alternative, but creating a new alternative does not automatically displace older alternatives. It just provides more choices. It is possible that the washing alternative established by the monkeys on Koshima Island did create a morphogenetic field that made it easier for monkeys on other islands to "discover" the same technique, but the actual research neither supports nor denies that idea. It remains for other cultural experiments and experiences to illuminate this question.

What the research does suggest, however, is that holding positive ideas (as important a step as this is) is not sufficient by itself to change the world. We still need direct communication between individuals, we need to translate our ideas into action, and we need to recognize the freedom of choice of those who choose alternatives different from our own.

from: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC09/Myers.htm

Hiarspray/Plastics With Phthalate Can Cause Birth Defects

2008-11-21T11:06:00.000-08:00

Hairspray exposure was linked to a condition called hypospadias

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Phthalates are also frequently used in soft plastic fishing lures, nail polish, adhesives, caulk, paint pigments, and toys made of so-called "jelly rubber." Phthalates are used in a variety of household applications (shower curtains, adhesives, perfume), modern pop-culture electronics and medical applications such as catheters. The most widely-used phthalates are the di-2-ethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP), the diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) and the diisononyl phthalate (DINP). DEHP is the dominant plasticizer used in PVC, due to its low cost. Benzylbutylphthalate (BBzP) is used in the manufacture of foamed PVC, which is mostly used as a flooring material. Phthalates with small R and R' groups are used as solvents in perfumes and pesticides.

From BBC Site

Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.

Imperial College London scientists talked to women who had babies with hypospadias, where the urinary tract is found away from the penis.

They reported that hairspray exposure more than doubled the risk.

The study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, said it was too early to say for certain that hairspray was the cause.

Pregnant women will need to make their own choices about whether or not to avoid these kind of exposures

Professor Paul Elliott
Imperial College London

The incidence of hypospadias has risen sharply in recent decades, and some experts have pointed the finger of suspicion at chemicals called phthalates, found in some plastics, including those found in hairspray.

Phthalates have the ability to disrupt hormones, and have been banned in toys in the EU for some years.

Certain phthalates have also been banned from hairsprays and other cosmetic products since January 2005.

However, no study has found a convincing link between women exposed to them and problems in their children.

The latest study looks not at personal use of hairsprays, but at their use, potentially in higher doses, by workers such as hairdressers and beauty therapists.

A total of 471 women whose babies had been born with hypospadias were interviewed, as were a similar number of women with unaffected children.

The women gave birth in 1997 and 1998 and were interviewed between 2000 and 2003.

Roughly double the number of women in the "hypospadias" group revealed that they had been exposed to hairspray through their job compared with those with unaffected babies.

No proof

However, Professor Paul Elliott, who led the study, said that the finding did not prove that hairspray - or any phthalates it contained - was the cause of this.

He said: "Women shouldn't be alarmed. This study adds a bit more evidence to the general picture about these chemicals, but more research will be needed to demonstrate that the link exists.

"Pregnant women will need to make their own choices about whether or not to avoid these kind of exposures."

Professor Andreas Kortenkamp, the head of the Centre for Toxicology at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, said that it was "important research"

He said that the UK government should consider taking the approach used by the Danish authorities, which has issued advice to women about the evidence linking phthalates to health problems.

He said: "I don't think we can continue to leave women alone to make decisions about these things - they need a bit of guidance, to know where these chemicals are.

"Certainly, if this was the mother of my children who was pregnant, I would strongly advise her to stay away from these."

Leap of faith

Professor Richard Sharpe, from Edinburgh University, said it was a "big leap of faith" to conclude phthalates were to blame for birth defects.

He said research had shown phthalates could suppress production of the male sex hormone testosterone - which plays a role in penis development - in some animals, but evidence that it had the same effect in humans was inconclusive.

"My advice has long been that women who are planning a pregnancy should avoid (or at least minimise) use of cosmetics, body creams/lotions etc, especially in the first three months of pregnancy.

"This is not because we know that the ingredients can do harm to the baby, but because it can only do good for the baby to avoid unnecessary chemical exposures."

Another finding of the study provides further backing of the government's recommendation that pregnant women should take extra folate to prevent similar defects to hypospadias, which arise early in pregnancy.

Women who took folic acid in the first three months of pregnancy were a third less likely to have a baby with hypospadias, according to the study.

Universal Mind - Quantum Conciousness, Mind Control, Ionosphere, Tesla Coil

2008-09-08T23:52:00.000-07:00

Princeton has done a lot of research in this area

Please see my postings on Mind Control, Total Mind and Universal Mind.

Mind Control

The Message From Higher Dimensions

Total Mind

Universal Mind

According a 1997 Science Within Consciousness web article by Henry Swift:

"... The experiment conducted by neuro physiologist Grinberg-Zylberbaum ... The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain; The Transferred Potential, Physics Essays 7,(4), 1994. ... demonstrate[s] the existence of a macroscopic quantum system in the human brain through the demonstration of ... non-local correlation between brains ... In this experiment two subjects ... meditated together for twenty minutes. A total of seven pairs of subjects of both sexes, with ages from 20-44 years participated in the study. After meditation and while maintaining their "direct communication" (without speech), they were placed in semi-silent, electro-magnetically shielded chambers separated by 45 feet. ... Both subjects were connected to EEG instruments and 100 random flashes of light were presented to subject A, while both remained reclined with semi-closed eyes. Subject B was not told when the light was flashed for subject A, and control correlation checks were also made at random times with no light flashes. The results indicated that, "after a meditative interaction between two people who were instructed to maintain direct communication (i.e. to feel each other's presence even at a distance), in about one out of four cases when one of the subjects was stimulated in such a way that his/her brain responded clearly (with a distinct evoked potential), the brain of the non stimulated subject also reacted and showed a transferred potential of a similar morphology....

... The striking similarity of the transferred and evoked potentials and the total absence of transferred potentials in the control experiments leave no room for doubt about the existence of an unusual phenomenon, namely, propagation of influence without local signals. ... It is also extremely significant that the occurrence of transferred potential is always associated with the participants' feeling that their interaction is successfully completed (in contrast to the lack of transferred potential, when there is no such feeling). The interaction that correlates the subjects under study is entirely an interaction via non-local consciousness. ... none of the subjects B ever reported realizing any type of conscious experience related to the appearance of the transferred potential ...".

According to a 1996 DynaPsych article by Ervin Laszlo:

"... A particularly poignant example was furnished by a young couple, deeply in love. Their EEG patterns remained closely synchronized throughout the experiment, testifying to their report of feeling a deep oneness. ... In a limited way, Grinberg-Zylberbaum could also replicate his results. When a subject exhibited the transferred potentials in one experiment, he or she usually exhibited them in subsequent experiments as well. ...".

What has Grinberg-Zylberbaum done since 1994? That is unknown. According to an article by Sam Quinones, in the July/August 1997 New Age Journal, as shown on a Sustained Action web page:

"... In 1977 Grinberg returned to Mexico City ... A deeply spiritual man, Grinberg had moved from houses where he felt bad energy, believed he once had flown, and kept a meditation room lined with books and pictures of gurus. A semi-observant Jew, he sought out great thinkers on the Kabbalah. ... at UNAM ... he ... met the person who, he wrote later, would influence him more than any other: Barbara Guerrero, a former cabaret singer and lottery ticket seller who had fought with Pancho Villa as a young girl. Doña Pachita, as Guerrero was known, was a curandera.

... Pachita could go into a trance state during which the spirit of Cuauhtémoc, the nephew of the great Aztec ruler Moctezuma, occupied her consciousness. ... Grinberg ... believed that experience and perception were created as a result of this interaction, and that the curative powers of shamans and *curanderas* like

Pachita came from their ability to gain access to the informational matrix and change it,
thereby affecting reality. ... Grinberg designed an experiment . . . using two people instead
of one. Both subjects, with electrodes attached to their skulls, were put in a dark room and told to try to achieve a sort of meditative union. After twenty minutes, one was sent to a separate room. The remaining person was stimulated with a series of light flashes or sounds while his or her brain waves were measured. The brain waves of the isolated person were also measured. In 1987 Grinberg recorded for the first time a simultaneous reaction to the stimuli on the part of the isolated, non-stimulated person, a phenomenon he called 'transferred potential.' Over the years, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, he documented transferred potential 25 percent of the time, he wrote. It was a remarkable finding, totally contrary to the tenets of mainstream science. Grinberg believed it supported his theory of a neuronal field connecting all human minds. ...

In 1991, Grinberg, his wife, and Tony Karam visited Castaneda at the latter's invitation in Los Angeles. There, Karam says, Castaneda proposed that Grinberg leave his UNAM lab to live in his community. Grinberg declined. Their relationship disintegrated during a trip Castaneda took to Mexico City two years later. Grinberg's friends and family remember him frequently calling Castaneda an egomaniac, more interested in power than truth. They also recall that Tere [Grinberg's wife] remained enamored with Castaneda and his group. ... For Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum, 1994 was a pretty good year. ... At his laboratory in the psychology department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, he recorded the brain waves of a shaman, Don Rodolfo from Veracruz, in a trance state. ... Grinberg's book on his seminal influence, Barbara Guerrero, the blind witch doctor known as Dona Pachita, was finally about to be published in English. ... Then in December, Grinberg missed some appointments with students. Two days before his long-awaited trip to Nepal on December 14, he failed to attend his own birthday party. ... When Grinberg did not return from Nepal as planned, still no one thought much of it. ... But the weeks became months. Calls were made ... Nothing. No record of Grinberg or his wife ... Tere ... even leaving Mexico. ... In the two-and-a-half years since he disappeared, no trace of him, dead or alive, has been found. All that remain are his books, his theories ... The theory for which Grinberg came to be known reflected his personality. Relying on physics and his experiences with witch doctors, or *curanderos*--a bit of Einstein, a bit of Dona Pachita-its essential message was warm and hopeful: All humankind is interconnected. ...".

National Geographic - Light At The Edge Of The World: Himalayas - Science Of The Mind

2008-08-07T15:23:00.000-07:00

Compassion and respect to the Nature, the Flora and Fauna, as well as towards Fellow Beings, shall be returned with compassion towards you and nurturing of your core existence.

Pregnancy & Infancy in Peace Deficiency

2008-06-23T23:06:00.000-07:00

Coming into life and exiting from life, biologically is a very energy consuming effort of a living being.

An invasion of alien parameters set against nature or crossing the thresholds of constraints set by nature interferes this process.

Imagine when you are recuperating in a hospital from a critical operation, and some inconsiderate living beings next to your surrounding are making a lot of noise to the point that you are not left in peace for your system to focus on the recovery.

Similarly when a Fetus is in the mother womb and developing, and if parents are putting loud music to the point of scaring the new arrival to the world, there are chances that child may have issues with his hearing or even the brain or mind development.

I know of two cases where the newly born had ear development issues. Then I know a family where the daughter has some mental development issues and the father is an electronic buff and when watching certain movie and TV shows, I have personally seen him blasting the sound system. The child remains undiagnosed with the real cause of the under development. Such incidents I did not ever see in our generations when such annoying luxuries were not there to out disposals.

In the old days, when a woman was pregnant, a lot of precautions used to be taken, to make sure that the mother and the child is in safe environment, and happy. So the mother was made to have a complete bed rest and not allowed to go outside for lot of social and physical activities.

Blasting the Fetus with all kinds of rock and psychedelic sounds, junk food and drinks, and sure the child is going to affected. When we start taking things for granted, and in imitation of the wild world of peer pressure, loose our sense of common sensibility and land up doing wild things, without realizing what harm we may be doing ourselves.

I have seen many preganant women joining the late nights and socials where often loud music is played and they fail to realize from the Fetus point of view. This is the result of years of training of the world where "Me First, Me First" training goes on and one is not sensitive to one's own blood!

Prevent The Female Infanticide - Kill Female Fetus, Risk Having Defective Boy

2008-06-18T00:57:00.000-07:00

Imagine this your "special boy" you desire and want to avoid "a unwanted girl child". One will then go to a doctor in India, China, or some other country, and use the Ultrasound technology to have a selective pregnancy, which is a positive outcome, or an implicit selective abortion, which is a negative outcome. You think that you would have a health boy by this step? Think again and read it on.

What happens if an Ultrasound Machine is not working to the specs, what if the voltage is fluctuating, what if the heat, dust and humidity is changing the characteristics of the machine, what if the fetus is a vulnerable position in the womb, what if the fetus is in a vulnerable growth phase of the body, specially heart, kidney, eyes, brain, mind, ear, etc.

I am sure modern scientists and commercial entities will justify that the machines are safe for public use, as they did for the tobacco consumption, as well as collagen based breast implants for many years.

Imagine rocking the "unseen baby" with the sound waves and resonance frequencies which can convert solid into pieces. If you want some empathy towards the fetus and embryo, take a look at the above picture, and read more on Prenatal_development and Human_embryogenesis.

I am sure, the modern science community can not answer the questions and doubts raised over all the above parameters. We may claim to have mastered nature, and understood its secrets, but it is a fact, that we are still its children and controlled by it. We still do not know all about the brain, mind, why there is rising birth defects, like congenital Ear, Eye and Heart Defects, retardations among children like Down Syndrome and Autism, birth defects like Cerebral Palsy. Sure the delivery is a team effort of the mother, the baby and the medical team, where the child has to invert its posture, swim and dive out of the mothers canal. There are some genetic programming of the neurons which fire the sequence of sensory and motor commands to help the baby follow the genetic code to perform such a wonderful, acrobatic and gymnastic feat. If you think this an exaggeration, please ask yourself why does the baby goes around kicking and swimming in the mother's womb? Still, please see the rising statistics of birth defects (do not confuse with self-abortion - which may be related and child infanticide).

Female Infanticide is a serious and cruel crime against an unborn female fetus, depriving her the right to 'live, prosper and multiply', and hence a crime against the mankind (literally) and the humanity as it also deprives the men and the human race to prosper. It has a serious consequence of promoting deviant sexual behavior in the society when the balance of man to woman ratio is a skewed beyond the normal average range.

This is very relevant in countries such as India, China, and other Developing and Third Word Countries, where social economic realities and cultural taboos place a boy more desirable for parents than a girl, who is only considered a liability, as daughters in the society laden with dowry system are an expensive and a loosing proposal, as they leave the parents house to live with their husbands, and only sons stay back and look after the aging parents. The myopic vision of these parents fail to see the long term consequence to the humanity, and not to mention their moral obligation to a girl fetus they created together, and the inethical treatment of a life.

While watching some science experiments, I got this idea, what if the rise of Birth Defects is also related to the over abuse of the Ultrasound Imaging during a child's stay in the mother's womb. The reason you will see "why" is in the following videos, so please spread the message. Perhaps with the sole reason of having a liable idiotic boy, the parents will have a sense to not go for a sex determination and kill female babies.

Body has upto 80% Body Water, specially in soft tissues such as the Brain. Also Neuron and Maeylin is made of a lot of Fat Tissues as well. Remember water is life, and peace and tranquility of the mother's womb is equally important for the growth of a healthy embryo, fetus, baby at different stages. So sound waves shaking a living tissue definitely has some implication.

The next videos confirm that most part of the space in the brain is surrounded by cerebral fluid, which is mainly made of water. When my son had a head injury, his head was 5 times swollen, besides loosing 1/3 brain from 3 places, he had suffered compound fracture and concussion to even the good and opposite side of the brain. The skull has natural fused "fissures" which then become disjoint, as they are in the case of newly born babies as "soft plate", and for next few weeks the fluid was dripping like water from all over his head, for next few months, the edema as swelling was there in the brain and the swelling could be seen.

So use your common sense to determine if we should over abuse the use a modern invention that was meant to safe life, to kill a life, at the risk of jeopardizing the quality of life of a baby, and if that is acceptable? What is the cost of a society of invalids? What is the cost of society where the male-female ratio is not near 1 to 1, and what are the social economic and the long term costs to the society, the Mankind (I literally mean it), and the Humanity.

The folowing videos show the effect of water because of sound, specially ultrasound is used to break water into thin spraying and pressurized water spay, as well as cleaning - as you would recall Dentists using it as a Scalpel to clean your teeth.

The same principle is used to degrease, remove dirt and paint from any surfaces.

See this video showing molecules of water shearing.

This video shows coalescing and breaking of particles as motion caused by the induced waves.

A more crude example is this video, where sound breaks a wine glass.

Now everyone knows that when an earth-quake happens, for those seconds, the earth soil turns loose like a powder or liquid, this is because of the resonance effect.

For those of you who do Kapalabhati of Yoga, and do it very fast, you may have experienced that there comes a moment, when the stomach muscles all collapse together and one can not exert any pressure on the stomach walls. This is also one reason why the digestive tracts get a cleaning.