International Scientists Appeal to U.N. to Protect Humans and Wildlife from Electromagnetic Fields and Wireless Technology

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today 190 scientists from 39 nations submitted an appeal to the United Nations, UN member states and the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting they adopt more protective exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields (EMF) and wireless technology in the face of increasing evidence of risk. These exposures are a rapidly growing form of environmental pollution worldwide.

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November 14, 2014

By Steven Bancarz

By Global Research News| Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you.

Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community.

Many scientists have claimed that the wave of mobile communications made popular in the last two decades will result in long-term health implications worldwide. An unprecedented level and frequency of tumor growth inside the human brain may be inevitable. Resonance - Beings of Frequency is a spectacular documentary uncovering for the very first time, the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. And, how every single one of us is reacting to the biggest change in environment this planet has ever seen.

They created the technology knowing the consequences and now we're all addicted. There are more than 1 billion mobile devices circulating around the world and 90 percent of them rely on wireless technologies that are unregulated, untested and unproven in terms of health and safety standards.

Dr Christopher Wild, director of the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, said: ‘Given the potential consequences for public health, it is important that additional research be conducted into the long-term, heavy use of mobile phones.

‘Pending the availability of such information, it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure, such as hands-free devices and texting.’

Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford has conducted many studies on radio frequency radiation and its effects on the brain. Dr. Salford called the potential implications of some of his research "terrifying." Some of the most concerning conclusions result from the fact that the weakest exposure levels to wireless radiation caused the greatest effect in causing the blood brain barrier to leak.

Since he began his line of research in 1988, Dr. Leif Salford and his colleagues at Lund University Hospital in Sweden has exposed over 1,600 experimental animals to low-level radiation. Their results were consistent and worrisome: radiation, including that from cell phones, caused the blood-brain barrier--the brain's first line of defense against infections and toxic chemicals--to leak.

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In June, Sheryl Crow made news when she admitted that she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Though, she was quick to let her fans know it was benign and she was doing just fine, she’s now talking more candidly about what she thinks was the cause of the tumor.

While speaking with Katie Couric, Sheryl said she thought her tumor was caused by cell phone radiation.

“I do have the theory that it’s possible that’s it’s related to that,” she said. “I used to spend hours on the old archaic cell phones.”

She also admitted that there were no doctors who would confirm her suspicions even though she felt she had adequate reasons to back up her claims, explaining that her tumor was in the part of her brain where she often held her phone.

But is there any scientific evidence to show that cell phones could cause cancer?

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today issued a position paper on “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health”, including wireless technologies and smart meters.

Today’s report on electromagnetic fields takes a strong stand that society must acknowledge the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, educate the population about the risks from wireless technologies, and develop safer technologies. The group, AAEM, is an international association of physicians and professionals that has been dedicated to expanding the knowledge of human health in relationship to the environment since 1965. They have been first to recognize many conditions, including Gulf War Syndrome, chemical sensitivity and the role of mold in the development of systemic illness.

In its new report, “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health”, AAEM is calling for:

1. An immediate caution on Smart Meter installation due to potentially harmful RF exposure.

2. Accommodation for health considerations regarding EMF and RF exposure, including exposure to wireless Smart Meter technology.

3. Independent studies to further understand the health effects from EMF and RF exposure.

4. Recognition that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a growing problem worldwide.

5. Understanding and control of this electrical environmental bombardment for the protection of society.

6. Consideration and independent research regarding the quantum effects of EMF and RF on human health.

7. Use of safer technology, including for Smart Meters, such as hard-wiring, fiber optics or other non-harmful methods of data transmission.

Most of the damage done by digital telecommunications is not due to heating but by the electrical effect their pulsating signals have on living tissues, which occurs at much lower energy levels.

The human body can act as an antenna and the signals make electric currents flow through it in time with the pulsations. It is this that does the bulk of the damage by destabilising the delicate membranes that surround each cell and also divide it into internal compartment such as mitochondria (the energy factories of the cell) and the lysosomes (the cell’s recycling factories).

All of these membranes are just two molecules thick and have a similar basic structure. They are liquid crystals, made largely of negatively charged molecules (which repel one another) stabilised by divalent positive ions (mostly calcium) that sit in between them by mutual attraction and hold them together like mortar holds together the bricks in a wall.

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Worldwide, a rapidly increasing number of people are becoming sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by cell phone towers, cell phones, WiFi,

WiMax, TETRA2, Smart Meters, etc. In fact, several European scientists have predicted that by 2017, 50% of the population may be electro-sensitive (ES) 3.

If you experience any of the following "unexplained" symptoms, you may in fact be unknowingly exhibiting the symptoms of ES yourself:

•Headaches •Nausea •Brain Fog •Memory Problems • Fatigue

•Dizziness •Insomnia

•Heart Pain/Palpitations •Swollen Lymph Nodes

•Intestinal Disturbances •Eye Pain •Dry Eyes •Vision Problems

•Night Sweats •Excessive Thirst

•Increased Allergies/Sensitivities

It has been found and scientifically demonstrated that technological radiation disturbs the normal functioning of our cells. One mechanism for this that has been investigated by Dr Andrew Goldsworthy is an imbalance in cellular calcium metabolism.

Goldworthy says that "the human body has evolved to cope with many environmental stresses, but if we change those stresses, as we have done by our exposure to microwave based telecommunications, we are entering uncharted territory. Many things can go wrong in addition to gene damage. We have identified some (see http://mcs-america.org/june2008pg6789101112131415161718192021.pdf ) but there are doubtless many more".

Our cells and their complex interrelated functions can be unbalanced by a wrong type of resonance. It has been suggested that the huge world wide increase, in recent years, in cases of autism, may have something to do with the constant exposure to this radiation that is present practically everywhere in the civilized world today ( see Could Cell Phone Radiation be a Cause of Autism? ).

Digital communications technology is rigged to transmit information in precisely timed "packets". The packet transmission protocol adopted for GSM cell phone technology sets up a frequency of 216.637781 Hertz or approximately 216 cycles per second, while the ever present alternating current that runs our household appliances is pulsed at 50, and in some areas of the planet at 60, cycles per second. Close enough to entrain and thereby disturb frequencies followed by living organisms.

But what then are the natural frequencies that keep our lives and our cells in balance? Faith Dyson says she discovered that living organisms follow a set of frequencies that vary between day and night, and that range from one to 12 cycles per second. Applying what she discovered to her own life, acting on that knowledge, Faith says she has successfully cured her twin sons of autism. She physically moved to an environment where she could eliminate those technological frequencies from her family's lives.

This may not be possible for most of us though. So what to do?

I believe we can find a way to eliminate the damaging component (the lower pulse frequencies) from the technological radiation we use. In the case of telephone technology, this could mean a new protocol that randomizes packet transmission so that no repeating pattern is set up. Without an associated frequency in the lower Hertz band, the microwave radiation emitted by mobile phones and towers could simply melt into the background, no doubt adding to its volume but unable to entrain any living biological tissues.

Then perhaps the current exposure limits could make sense - keep microwave levels well below the heating or ionization threshold. What is missing today is any and all attention to the lower end of frequency modulations. Both government regulators and industry are convinced that all that matters about radiation is its heating effect.

With an impassioned plea, Faith Dyson reminds us how important the question of frequencies is for our overall health, both mental and physical.

We are told that as long as radiation is not ionizing, it is not destructive to cells and can therefore do no harm to human and animal physiology. The whole idea of exposure limits is based on this knowledge and a huge increase in communications related technological radiation in the microwave band has been built up in the last few decades. A period of time that also coincides with a huge increase in autism and related developmental disorders. 

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The connection escapes both industry and the authorities that are supposed to watch that those technological developments are not harmful to human health. What if they are wrong? What if there is a mechanism by which technological radiation, even below the threshold where it becomes ionizing and starts heating up tissues, can influence physiology?

Andrew Goldsworthy believes that there is such a mechanism. Those low intensity, pulsed, electromagnetic emissions that have grown into a veritable crescendo in the last few decades do indeed disturb the communication of cells - and specifically the neurons of a developing brain. 

Is there a solution?

While Goldsworthy, in his excellent article, suggests a plausible mechanism for how the damage is done, what about a solution. Can we do anything - short of turning back the clock of progress in mobile communication - to make the technology compatible with human health? I believe there is.

With high probability, it is not the presence of radiation as such that is damaging. We have been exposed to natural background radiation for millions of years. What is different now is the addition of what I call the AC/DC effect . 

It has been found that the effect of radiation on calcium channels of cells is not only present in mobile phone and other wireless communication technology, but also in technical radiation emanating from power lines and household appliances. 

The common denominator between the two is a low frequency pulsing of the field. I call it the AC/DC effect because it isn't present in direct current, but it is in alternating current, where electricity is pulsed at a constant 50 and in some areas 60 cycles per second. In communications technologies, the effect isn't present in analog (old time radio and TV, and first generation mobile phone) technology, but it is present in digital mobile technologies. The constant pulse rate in digital communications is what's called a "packet frequency". Information is not transmitted in a constant stream but in little packets of data, about 200 every second, which establishes a constant 200 cycles per second on/off frequency, something cells can "feel" and can react to. 

Randomizing the low frequency pulsing

Admittedly this is somewhat speculative, but if the effect on cellular calcium channels is present in radiation that is pulsed at low frequencies, and if it is only effective in certain windows of amplitude (as explained by Goldsworthy below) then it would make sense that the effect could be eliminated if we were to randomize the packet frequency of transmission. Packets of information transmitted at random intervals would not form a low frequency on/off signal recognizable by living cells. The technological radiation would still be present, but it could blend into the background. True, we'd still have the problem of having a much "louder" background noise of electromagnetic frequencies, but at least there would not be a constant low frequency component that is recognizable by cells and that could disturb their working order.

If you are working in mobile communications, I would like to hear from you, whether you think that such randomization of the signal would be technically possible. Also, if you have access to some of the bigwigs in that field ... tell them about the idea of randomized packet frequencies in mobile communication. Let's see if this cannot be turned around before it is too late. We are already losing a whole generation. Let's not lose our future.