Development Studies Public Health Electromagnetic Field An invisible killer ???

Dec 21, 2012

Dr Asad

Contents
Introduction 2. EMF and its sources 3. EMF interaction with human cells 4. Ways to protect ourselves from the damaging effects of EMF
1.

Introduction

Today we are born and live in a highly saturated Electrical Environment.

Electromagnetic radiation
Today, there are 250 million times more artificially generated frequencies in the earths atmosphere than there were in 1930.

Health Effect ?

Energy Pollution
This

pollution of our energy environment is even more hazardous to the human system than chemical pollution, and it calls for an entirely new approach to effectively protects the life on Earth from distortion by artificial EMF.

Electric fields are created by differences in voltage: the higher the voltage, the stronger will be the resultant field. Magnetic fields are created when electric current flows: the greater the current, the stronger the magnetic field.

Electromagnetic fields are present everywhere in our environment but are invisible to the human eye. Electric fields are produced by the local buildup of electric charges in the atmosphere associated with thunderstorms. The earth's magnetic field causes a compass needle to orient in a North-South direction and is used by birds and fish for navigation.

What is EMF?

EMF

The strength of EMF EMFs go right through doors and walls.

High Tension wires

Thunderstorm

What EMF Level Is Safe?

Few governments that have made an effort to offer public protection, have adopted the 3 miliGaus cutoff point. The EPA of USA has proposed a safety standard of 1 mG. Sweden has set a maximum safety limit of 1 mG. Continuous exposure to EMFs above 1 mG is probably hazardous and below 0.3 mG is probably safe.

Dose effect in relation cancer

One study (Ahlbom & Feychting, 1993) reported that at 2 mG and above, exposed children were 2.7 times as likely to develop cancer as unexposed children, and at 3 mG and above, the odds rose to 3.8 times as likely!

Miligauss?

If you have a long straight wire on which there is a current of 0.01A (you can use a 1.5V battery and a 150ohm resistor to generate such a current), then at a distance of 0.1m from the wire the strength of the magnetic field is 0.2 milligauss

Distance makes a big difference

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150 mG

50 mG

10 mG

Power lines
A 63 KV power line generates an EMF of 3-4mG at 20-25 meter distance.

Power Line Type kiloVolts 115 kV 115 kV 230 kV Usage Avg Peak Avg

EMF in milligauss at distance 15m 7 14 20 30m 2 4 7 60m 0.4 0.9 1.8 90m 0.2 0.4 0.8

230 kV
500 kV 500 kV

Peak
Avg Peak

40
29 62

15
13 27

3.6
3.2 6.7

1.6
1.4 3.0

EMF in milligauss at distance

15 cm Cell phone (VLF only) Contact:20mG Computer monitor (CRT) 5 14 30 cm 2 5 60 cm 0 2 1.2m 0 0

Computer monitor (LCD flat)

Computer (laptop) Computer (desktop) Hair dryer Microwave Oven (VLF only) Vacuum cleaner TV (with CRT-type screen) Contact:20mG

1
5 3 300 200 300 30

0
1 1 1 40 60 7

0
0 0 0 10 10 2

0
0 0 0 2 1 0

Interaction of EMF with

Human cells

Human cells and EMF

Our cells live in an electro-chemical environment," Our cells communicate with each other via bioelectrical signals and electromagnetic fields. Our cell resonates at about 10Hz. 60hz can stimulate stress response of the cell EMFs disrupts the cellular electrical fields, frequency. Electromagnetic oscillations.

The Human

Human Cell Potential

Normal cell potential = about -90mV Inflammatory condition = about -120mV Degenerative condition= about -30 mV

Calcium [ Ca+] ions

There is a strong evidence that EMFs accelerated aging through alteration of cellular calcium ions and the melatonin/serotonin balance. ~Dr. Neil Cherry of Lincoln University, New Zealand

Health effect of EMF

EMF
Biophysical events around the cell membrane receptors Biochemical changes inside the cell Biological effects in and between cells

Physiological effects in organs and body

Metallic objects that help EMF

Compounding this problem, metallic objects all around us act as antennae. These include electrical circuits, telephone wiring, water and gas pipes, even your keys and jewelry, which collect and re-radiate these disorienting energy waves.

The higher the EMF, the worse

The Higher The EMF Frequency, The More Serious The Health Effect. The fields that appear to be of most concern are those that are very strong, near the body, or of high frequency.

Tissues most affected by EMF

Brain tissue Rapidly developing tissues, such as those in growing children, The EMF effect is worse at night

Health risk of EMF

EMFs and leukemia, (DNA) repair problem Increased risk for spontaneous abortion. Weakens the immune system and thus the risk of infections Affects memory and cognitive functions Causes depression by interfering with serotonin synthesis Affects sleep by its effect on the Pineal

High Risk Groups

Nutritionally Compromised Persons. As with

all biological stresses, EMF-induced stress does not occur in isolation. The cumulative effect of electromagnetic stress combines with other biological stresses and lifestyle factors.

Nutritional status almost certainly has an effect, either for good or otherwise, on the amount of cellular damage caused by electromagnetic radiation and on the extent to which the body can repair it.

High Risk Groups

reasons. They are biologically more vulnerable their skulls are thinner, their tissues - including their brains - are not fully developed. Pregnant women should be especially conservative when evaluating their risk from electromagnetic fields because any cellular damage in a developing embryo may have magnified consequences for the child.

Children are particularly at risk for several

High Risk Groups

People who are already suffering from chronic degenerative conditions. If you are sick then your

body is already using all its available energy to heal itself. It is unlikely to have much energy to spare for repairing the damage done by electromagnetic radiation. Also consider that electromagnetic pollution may have been a contributing factor to your illness. If so, you may be dealing with an actual cause of your illness, not just its symptoms, when you reduce your exposure to electromagnetic pollution.

Mobile Phones
and Health

Prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phone use and behavioral problems in children

New research published in July 2008 in the journal Epidemiology showed that children whose mothers used cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves cell phone users are more likely to have behavior problems. The author of the study and her team looked at a group of 13,159 children whose mothers had been recruited to participate in the Danish National Birth Cohort study early in their pregnancies. When the children reached age 7, mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their childrens behavior and health, as well as the mothers own cell phone use in pregnancy and the childs use of cell phones.

Mobile phones and health

Mobile and car accidents Australian nurses noting of kidney cancers Sleeping with cell phone- sleep problem Right and left hand cancers

Symptoms reported by Cell phone users

dizziness, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, fatigue, and headache, burning headaches and burning sensations are more frequent headaches, blurred vision, dizziness, sleep disturbances. All above may in part be due to: blood brain barrier leakage.

The effect of Mobile-phone towers in Naila, Germany

Installation: 1993 and 1997
Cell phone tower

Five years after For the period installation 1999 to 2004

400 m from the tower >400 m from the tower

No difference in cancer incidence

Cancers of the prostate, pancreas, bowel, skin melanoma, lung and blood cancer were all increased

What can be done?? How Can We Protect ourselves

from EMF?

General rules to observe

Reduce your exposure to electromagnetic radiation by increasing your distance. If you cant avoid the EMF exposure, try to keep it short. If it doesn't need to be turned on, switch it off Try not to sit within 1.5 meters of any major item of electrical equipment, for example, heaters and air conditioners, printers. Keep a similar distance from neon lights or major electrical wiring junction boxes.

Precautionary Measures and health advisories

Use hands-free to decrease the radiation to the head. Keep the mobile phone away from the body. Do not use telephone in a car without an external antenna.

How much to increase your distance depends on the type of EMF hazard.
For example, to halve the field intensity, you might have to move further away by a distance of : 25 meters for power lines and cell towers

30 cm (15 ") for your computer monitor

5 cm (2 ") pillow for the electric clock next to your

2.5 cm (1") for the cell phone pressed to your ear

Erection of mobile towers

Erection of mobile towers shall not be allowed within a radius of 100 meter from residential building, school and hospital.

Specific Absorption Rate SAR

The limit for human exposure from cell phones is a SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram of body tissue (1.6 W/kg). The limit in Europe and some other countries is 2 W/kg.

Children under 8

In England, the National Radiological Protection Board suggested in 2005 that children younger than eight should not be given a cell phone, as it risks exposing their developing brains and bodies to harmful radiation. Recently, Torontos department of public health issued a similar warning, that due to possible side effects from radio frequency radiation, children under

eight should only use a cell phone in emergencies, and teenagers should limit calls to less than 10 minutes.

House plants
Keep a lot of house plants around and try to position them next to technologies that you use often. Plants help clean the air of harmful frequencies. If you have wireless internet, consider switching back to a wired router.

Keep your bedroom as EMF safe as possible for optimal health

Move all unnecessary technologies out of your bedroom at night and replace your electric alarm clock with an old fashioned wind-up. The technologies that you can't move out of your bedroom, make sure to position a good 5 to 6 feet away from your bed at night.

Be aware of high mG equipments

2.5 mG is the generally accepted limit of magnetic field exposure but no one tells you that the average hair

dryer, vacuum cleaner, or can opener you use EMITS AN AMAZING 300 mG or more

Detect EMFs in your home and work environment.

Get a Gauss Meter, share it with your friends, and test the areas where you spend time. Make sure you are not exposed to an EMF greater than 2.5 mG for extended periods.

Gauss meter

Computers
the back of your computer is actually more EMF dangerous than the front? The safe distance from the front of your computer is about 76cm, while safe EMF levels from the back are about 1meter. Think about what this means in schools and offices with rows of terminals. Suggest computer shielding to your employer and school board.

Laptop EMF safety

Use a Magnetic Shielding Foil Or use a remote keyboard and increase the distance from the laptop to your body. Use a remote keyboard (not a wireless type!!)

We need to live with all these useful technologies

We need to know how to use technology safely. We also need to find ways to detoxify our bodies just like we are doing with thousands of chemicals naturally. Grounding is an important way of detoxification.

Human body grounding and EMF

From the beginning of time, except for the past few generations, humans lived their entire lives primarily in direct physical contact with the earth. Humans are no longer naturally grounded.

There is evidence

Investigators have provided evidence that loss of natural ground allows extraneous electricity to interfere with and stress the normal bioelectrical activities of the body, which thereby interferes with natural health and sleep.

The benefits of grounding the body

Grounding the body as often as possible helps to re-balance the body's electrical system and neutralize any excess and potentially damaging radiation. In addition, the body benefits from the Free Electrons of the Earth which are naturally anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant in nature.

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