Are You Allergic to Wireless Internet?

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Miryam — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:50:38 GMT

I came to this article because my head hurts all the time when I put on my glasses while on the computer. I have pain in my temples, ringing in the ears, headaches, pain in my wrist. I have been telling my husband I have this pain and he did not believe me until I found this Article. Thank you so much. Miryam

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AmyAkira — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:26:28 GMT

Dr. Mercola, how does one know if the symptoms are from MCS and CFS/FMS versus EMF? I already suffer these conditions, and I don't have a choice of where I'm living. The symptoms you're describing for EMF are things I've been suffering for years, well before PC's were commonplace and the cellphone towers were put up. If I really had a choice in the matter, I would try to move away from the pollution. The fact remains that even if I chose not to have a cell phone, I would still be living in the vicinity of three cellphone towers that I know of. For all I know, more have been put up since I last checked.

The symptoms listed are pretty much the symptoms for MCS, CFS and FMS. How does one know when EMF has become an additional problem in the equation here? I do know of a case of someone who did start to have problems with EMF in addition to these problems, along with some other illnesses in the same category, but I don't know her to know what problems she experiences with the EMF. I do remember reading her blog, though, and I did read some of the same information that you stated in this article that people with MCS, who usually have CFS and/or FMS as well, will eventually develop problems with EMF.

How will I know the difference?

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themikeb — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:32:31 GMT

Your comments remind me of the doctors and dentists of the 40's telling their patients to smoke camel cigs ...'cause they are soooo good for you.

Or the PigPharma reps that peddled Bextra & Vioxx, etc.

Or gubermint using toxic waste in our water, telling us it's good for our teeth, while the toothpaste package tells us not to ingest any of it.

Or the FDA that will now allow use of radiation on *** covered spinach- to kill 'germs'.(As of last friday)YUM!!!

Lloyd

There is a principle which is a bar against all information,

which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail

to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle

is contempt prior to investigation."

~~ Herbert Spencer

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Olle Johansson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:31:16 GMT

Dear All,

For further reading about the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, I refer you to two recent papers of mine:

Johansson O, "Electrohypersensitivity: State-of-the-art of a functional impairment", Electromag Biol Med 2006; 25: 245-258

Johansson O, ”The functional impairment electrohypersensitivity and health effects of modern-life electromagnetic fields: A neuroscientist’s views”, In: Proceedings of the First Hellenic Congress on the Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation, with International Participation (eds. LH Margaritis, SA Zinelis), Thessalonica, Greece, 2008, pp 13-18

multimedia.biol.uoa.gr/.../thesaloniki-emf-2008-proceedings-12-05-08-TELIKOeng.pdf

With my very best regards

Yours sincerely

Olle Johansson

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.

The Experimental Dermatology Unit

Department of Neuroscience

Karolinska Institute

171 77 Stockholm

Sweden

Professor

The Royal Institute of Technology

100 44 Stockholm

Sweden)

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tcio — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:31:19 GMT

I am a single parent/Home maker with three children. My health has been going down hill for the past year and I have not been able to figure out why. I do total intense cardio 2-4 times a week and work out with weights VERY intensely as well. I eat super clean and take the best supplements I can find. I am constantly updating my dietary intake and food choices yet for the past year I suddenly have terrible allergies, headaches, loss of motivation, loss of goals/pursuing my dreams, and my fingernails have grown terribly thin and bend back very easily if I grab something the wrong way.

My intake on cocoa, Yerbamate, and cacao beans has tripled just in the past few months otherwise I just feel crummy and not motivated enough to get things done. If I get a really good night's sleep I am in a daze for about 4-5 hours, then I finally start waking up and start getting things done. This started last summer and just accelerated over the winter.

I had been telling my brother all last winter that I just haven’t felt like myself lately, like I was fighting off a cold all of the time and constantly taking Echinacea to avoid coming down with one.

After about a year of this I knew it was no cold and that something was not right but just couldn’t figure it out and due to my lack of trust in the choice of local doctors I didn’t waste my time asking for their 2 cents.

After reading this article I unplugged my wireless setup either that day or the next. About 2 weeks later on a Monday right after an intense workout I suddenly felt like myself 100% as I did about a year ago before all of these things started happening to me. Ever since my divorce (4 years ago) I started really getting into exercise and healthy foods and the first three years I felt like I was age 17 again (I’m 46) until about a year ago.

It has been a week now and I have just felt FANTASTIC! I have had two days in the past year that I felt 100% normal and I don’t even think that lasted the full day.

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avotresante — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:18:51 GMT

People who use cell phones must learn this new way of popping corn. It's an experiment anyone can try. Think cell phones don't put out radiation? Watch this short video:

www.koreus.com/.../telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html

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HeatherM — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:03:33 GMT

I wish I never bought the touch light I have next to my bed. I try to remember to turn it off at the wall before going to sleep, but I can't do that to my partner's light on the other side of my bed.A very interesting post awhile back said that red light doesn't turn off melatonin production. That's good news as I like to see the time on my clock radio, (which is not near my bed.) Heard on the radio that fire & candle light don't stop melatonin production.

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Bee E — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:55:58 GMT

Dr Mercola,

I would be interested in knowing if those less fashionable neckalaces which block EMF really work?

Anyone else thoughts as well are welcome?

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Cyberpapillon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:06:37 GMT

I am so glad to have read this article on EMF Sensitivity. I have thought for a while this might be what I am being affected by. I quick run down of the symptoms I have had in the past 2 years are: I developed Crohns, an immune disorder. I have chest pains/heart problems. Insomnia. Tinnitus. Skin itching and memory loss.

Until these symptoms developed I had been a perfectly healthy adult with no such problems in my life ever. No family history either.

2 years ago, the following changes in my life also happened a couple of months before my symptoms started. I bought a house within 50 metres of the largest electricity substation powering our city centre. I worked in our city centre, which had the first free wifi trial hotspots within 1 mile radius of the city. I had installed a wifi at home. I had a cordless phone at home. I used to sleep with my mobile phone next to my bed.

If I am sensitive to all of this stuff, then none of this could be helping. A year ago I moved interstate. Unfortunately my partner found the house, and didn't realise that there was another electricity substation at the end of the street. It isn't as close, maybe 200 metres away now with a few flats and houses in between. My wifi router is in another room. Unfortunately it's almost impossible to avoid wifi hotspots. Most McDonalds have one now, and if anyone has seen Super Size Me, we all know they are every mile in nearly ever capital city in the world.

I still have chest pains, tinnitus, itching and insomnia, but my crohns has been in remission since I moved away from the other large and closer proximity substation.

What can I do to counteract the sensitivity though? I'd love to know!

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weety — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:10:25 GMT

Unless you suffer from EHS yourself, I can understand doubting its existence. Like I used to disbelieve hay fever sufferers! Fact, I am highly sensitive to mobile phones/wi-fi/tetra. I get strong tinnitus approaching a mobile phone mast!! I have 18 amalgam fillings. I live 500 meters from a mobile phone mast. I suffer from tinnitus constantly at home. My wife doesn't. She thinks I am mad! She doesn't have any fillings!!!!!

Also I drink a lot of alcohol could this in conjunction with having 18 amalgam fillings and being swarmed with EMR be the cause of my EHS? LloydChiro your on the wrong website shouldn't you be on the Quack sites? I am 1000% sensitive to EMR and would love to prove it to you! Fact mobile phones give me the same symptoms as mercury poisoning!! Oh by the way I can watch TV and go on the computer and feel ok, good job as I am a computer engineer. Also I can drive cars, walk under power lines, wear watches. EHS is such a rubbish name. I suffer from information carrier wave fever.

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charmus — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:23:53 GMT

There is a simple, NATURAL, protection against all this, including cell phone radiation: It's your own aura shield and you can do it with your thoughts.First pre-requisite is: STOP WORRYING!Worrying causes enervation, which causes cell 2be vulnerable. That is why people get sick.Healthy cells will withstand the radiation. Now I know such protection mechanism may be hard to do, but I know it works. Since I started this protection actively,I don't feel any strange feeling in my hand when I hold a cell phone. Of course you want to still minimize cell phone use and use ferrite beads, etc., because no one is a 100% master of his/her body.I.e. u always have some vulnerable cells, but the less you worry, the less of these cells u will have.

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Paulo C — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:55:49 GMT

This article is extremely thought provoking. It makes us aware of all the electronic gadgets we have around us. I immediately thought of the negative ion generator I installed in my bedroom a year ago. These machines have been very well acclaimed as tools for improving overall health and condition by tilting the balance of ions in the air we breath back from overall positively charged ions caused by pollution, at least in most urban areas.

I wonder, however, after reading this article, might it be doing more harm than good while I slumber through the night?? Any ideas?

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Barbara050505 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:38 GMT

I use a rayometer by Rayonex which is located in Germany and you can find this company on the internet. With this device you can test your body for normally found frequencies which are weak etc. (Not everyone can use this device. The tester has to have a strong, healthy electromagnetic field around them.) Everything in the body vibrates at a specific frequency. They published a book which lists the frequency for body parts. Dr. Mercola mentioned 2.5 and 5 gigahertz for WiFi. The body parts/areas which resonate at 2.5 hertz are: epiphysis, female hormone balance, vagus nerve stimulation, pineal gland, growth control, intervertebral disk degeneration, sympathicus and vagus, female sexual drive control and gland renewal. The body parts which vibrate at 5 hertz include: sleep control, cancer pain, limbic center, and Koch's tuberculin node. Perhaps this information will help someone. Of course everything in the body is interrelated and so there will be other frequencies effected by 2.5 and 5 gigahertz.

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Luc Sala — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:45:15 GMT

Nothwithstanding all these direct effects of radiation (and 2,4 GHz of Wifi is close to that of microwave and therefore very effective in targeting the water in our cells) I beieve the most devastating effect of all radiation is that it keeps us from receiving the natural electromagnetic signals from the earth, the cosmos and other living beings. We now know that exposure sunlight is essential, but the visible light is only a small part of the whole EM spectrum and there might be other forms of energy fields, undetectable by "science" yet. Artificial radiation interferes (distorts) with the natural signals and so we loose the connection with the seasons, the earth, nature and maybe even other living beings.

Is there a solution? I don't know, sleeping on the earth under a faraday cage (metal screen) blanket might restore the connection with the earth, but what about the fields generated by the sky (stars/planets/sun) then? Wearing gold supposedly protects us in a way, but there is little scientific investigation in what gold really does, maybe it's just one of gold's isotopes (there are 17 mostly radioactive, maybe that's where the alchemists were aiming at) or the monoatomic gold that really is the active substance. Some advice gold nuggets as these still have crystalline gold and isotopes inside.

So as there might not be a "hard" protection, one has to resort to symbolic protection, meaning using patterns, designs, symbols that have the right resonance. Radionics deals with it, but there is little scientific "proof" for its effectiveness.

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HenryP_203 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:41:22 GMT

Totally agree with the article, but are you aware the dangers of cordless phones in the home. What most people are unaware of is that their cordless phone is emitting pulsed microwave radiation 24/7 – it is part of the original DECT specification that the base station is communication with all the handsets even if a call is not being made!

Interesting articles on the subject…. Witten by Andrew Goldsworthy BSc PhD who is an Honorary Lecturer in Biology at Imperial College London. http://tinyurl.com/5ru6e6

Also “Cordless Phones and Malignant Brain Tumours” published by the Institute of Science in Society www.i-sis.org.uk/cordlessPhonesBrainTumours.php