- (This article was written for publication in the quarterly
of The American Polarity Therapy Association.)
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- Electrical pollution, invisible, silent, odorless, tasteless,
is the perfect pollutant. We have not evolved any methods of sensing its
presence. A few people, like me, have become "electrically sensitive"
and are able to know when we are being exposed due to immediate symptoms
that we experience, but most people, even if exposed to levels and wave
lengths that are literally killing them, notice nothing. Everyone living
in areas of the world with electricity is being negatively affected. It
is only a question of degree. (Dr. Neil Cherry, Evidence That Electromagnetic
Radiation Is Genotoxic: the implications for the epidemiology of cancer
and cardiac, neurological and reproductive effects. His presentation to
New Zealand Parliament in May 2000, European Parliament in June, 2000.
Look for link at www.electricalpollution.com/ Monumental.)
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- Electricity is termed ãdirtyä or polluted
when the normal 60 cycle sine wave carries with it various high frequencies,
which damage electronics and living beings. Industry and large corporations
spend billions to protect their electronic equipment from this, but nobody
is looking out for humans.
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- The present pollution is created as electricity passes
through anything electronic, which ãchops upä the sine wave
and then dumps these high frequencies into the current as it is passed
on. This RF (radio frequency) energy causes neurological, cardiac, respiratory,
ophthalmological, dermatological and other conditions ranging in severity
from headaches, fatigue and ADD to pneumonia, psychosis and strokes. (ãNo
Place To Hideä Volume 3, Number 1, April 2001, ãSpecial Issue
on Russian and Ukrainian Researchä Editor Arthur Firstenberg lists
all proven RF symptoms. Can be obtained at (718) 434-4499 or see at www.electricalpollution.com/)
Childhood leukemia, a good indicator, is markedly higher in areas with
electrical pollution from ground current. (N. Wertheimer, D. Savitz &
E. Leeper Childhood cancer In relation to indicators of magnetic fields
from ground current sources, Bioelectromagnetics, Vol. 16, pp. 86-96, 1995))
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- In ãthe old daysä before electronics, electrical
power was polluted at the source, by brushes in the generators. A monumental
epidemiological study using childhood leukemia as a marker found an absolutely
correlating increase in this disease in areas of the USA, Africa and Europe
as they sequentially became electrified. (Samuel Milham & E.M. Ossiander,
Historical evidence that residential electrification caused the emergence
of childhood leukemia peak, Medical Hypotheses, vol. 56, #3, 2001, pp.
290-295) Generators now produce clean power but modern pollution levels
are much higher due to electronics.
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- For every electron that leaves a substation, one must
return. As electricity polluted with high frequencies likes to spread out
in what is called the skin effect, the presently inadequate utility wiring
system causes 70% of the return current to flow across the surface of the
earth. Most people think the earth soaks up electricity like a sponge.
It does not. Electricity just flows over the surface, like water over a
brick. This ground current is attracted to, and enters your home on, water
pipes, gas mains and phone lines, greatly increasing the amount of high-frequency
exposure you already have from your own electrical service. Various metal
structures in your home, from wiring and lamp cords to fins in electric
baseboards and the metal springs in your bed actually broadcast these harmful
frequencies right through your body 24 hours a day, whether or not any
electrical appliances in your house are turned on. In many places attempts
to ground bring in more current than they take out!
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- You may have read that strong EMF is created by your
refrigerator, hair dryer, etcetera. This is true, but the electronics in
your house are really quite a small part of the picture as electricity
is already extremely RF-polluted when it enters your home, from everybody
"upstream." It is not commonly known even by those who write
on this subject, nor by many who do professional remediation, that the
RF is the main culprit.
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- Doctors are as unaware of this situation as everyone
else, so the best way to determine whether someone's health problems are
related to RF is to lower the RF levels and see what happens. In schools
and homes where RF remediation has been done, many kids with Attention
Deficit Disorder suddenly don't have it any more, and teachers with mysterious
maladies that kept them from working a full work week now don't miss a
day. Kids who had such severe asthma they needed nebulizer treatments no
longer do and many chronic headaches and complaints of chronic tiredness
have melted away. (Melrose Chronicle, Melrose, WI 2/26/03) Many diabetics
find that their need for insulin drops dramatically or even ends when they
avoid RF, and conversely that it increases when they are exposed. (My friend
and mentor Dave Stetzerâs blood sugar skyrockets within minutes when
he is exposed to RF, which for him has proven to be the sole causative
factor. To date, the blood sugar of every person he has tested is affected
within minutes.) Cows give up to 10 more pounds of milk per day on the
days when the RF in their environment is low (Donald Hillman et al, Relationship
of electric power quality to milk production of dairy herds, Shocking News,
9/11/02 Also avail. at wwww.electricalpollution.com), and 20 pounds more
if power quality is remediated and remains clean (Conversation with power
quality expert Dave Stetzer of Blair, WI). I myself have needed less thyroid
hormone as my electrical environment has been improved, yet notably more
on days with more RF exposure. [Since writing this, I have been able to
discontinue use of thyroid hormone altogether, after spending some tme
away from home in a yet cleaner electrical environment.]
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- My own story illustrates both the effects of RF exposure
and the challenges of dealing with them We live in a Wisconsin Winnie-the-Pooh
three-acre beech and maple woods surrounded by farms and woodland. Not
a place where youâd expect to find dangerous environmental pollution,
so that was not suspected when I began to have "spells." Although
I previously had low blood pressure, I began experiencing spells of a sudden,
sharp rise in blood pressure with skyrocketing pulse rate and wild cardiac
arrhythmia. I was taken to the ER by ambulance twice, but by the time I
got there pronounced normal. $18,000 worth of medical tests, including
a MRI of my brain, as finally a tumor was suspected, found nothing to account
for these and other bizarre, frightening symptoms,. Bewildered doctors
finally pronounced that I was ãjust having panic attacks.ä
They prescribed beta blockers, which block normal stimulation of many bodily
systems including the heart, but these rendered me so zombielike that I
refused them. Insomnia increased to the point where I was sleeping, in
broken bits, from 3-5 hours a night. I felt as if I was made out of paper.
Just breathing and walking felt taxing. My anxiety level was extreme, my
adrenals were exhausted and my thyroid needed help from hormone replacement.
Already slender, I became a shadow. My husband had to care for me, and
I wasn't sure I was going to survive.
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- I had previously read a bit about EMF, and it occurred
to me to try some experiments, such as sleeping in different places in
the house. I noticed immediate symptoms if I went near a TV, a telephone,
a car fan, the water pipes in our house.... (Later I would discover I had
become ãelectrically sensitive,ä a sort of walking EMF meter,
affected by dimmer switches, electric heating systems, computers in banks
and post offices, the chair at the dentistâs office, .... )
- At least now I had a clue. Fortunately, I was put in
touch with a power quality engineer who graciously taught me about power
quality and how to clean up my immediate environment and save my life.
We did experiments and took readings with a variety of meters, indoors
and out. We put in shielded phone lines, moved water pipes, made the first
few feet of incoming water pipe nonconductive (Some RF still jumps onto
the pipes from house wiring.). We gutted old electric baseboards that though
disconnected were broadcasting RF over large areas including our bedroom,
and got all metal out of and away from the bed. We installed RF filters,
removed dimmer switches and fluorescent lights, sold the aquarium, got
me a speaker phone and a laptop computer I use on battery only, and I avoid
the high-field parts of the yard.
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- With each of these steps results were immediate and dramatic.
The cardiac symptoms ceased. I was able to sleep. My anxiety level dropped.
My recovery has been steady and I am much better. Only, however, to the
extent to which I am able to avoid RF. I was exposed to extreme levels
of electrical pollution for many months, and remain electrically sensitive
to date, with quite-circumscribed activities. Even at home, RF is not totally
unavoidable when the power is on. I am markedly better on days spent away
from the house in areas free of ground current, and in warm weather when
the main can be off at night.
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- Though our local power quality was shown by independent
test to be poorer than most, toxic electricity is a chronic, severe stress
affecting virtually everyone, that only increases as the pollution proliferates.
Individuals who have cleaned up their immediate environments universally
notice dramatic improvement in a wide range of conditions and symptoms,
usually of conditions that they had never thought of as related to electrical
pollution.
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- I offer the following points and ideas for your further
consideration. ( Space here allows for only a small portion of the relevant
facts. Please get in touch for more information.)
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- - If you have clients who, in spite of doing "all
the right things" still do not flourish, consider what RF they are
living in.
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- - I gave several Polarity sessions to a woman whose apartment
was by a hefty electric cable, with EMF levels high enough to cause childhood
leukemia. The usual techniques simply did not work there. How does EMF
affect Polarity sessions?
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- - Dr. Robert Becker theorizes that healers sense a disease
site in a patient through radiating an EMF from their hands which induces
EM resonance in the patient, the return signal then being felt by the healer.
A resonant action occurs between the fields given off by the healer and
the intrinsic electrical-control systems within the patient's body. "While
these currents have a vanishingly small flow, they would nonetheless produce
local DC magnetic fields within the tissues. These fields, in combination
with a frequency given off by the healer, could result in resonance with
other charged particles." As the theory rests on complex resonance,
the Earth's magnetic field must be involved. Dr. Becker therefore reasons
that healers have greater diagnostic and healing ability during times of
quiet geomagnetic field conditions and that their abilities are adversely
affected by magnetic storms and locations in which man-made magnetic fields
or extra low frequency (ELF) fields are present. (Becker, Cross Currents,
240-241) An important issue for Polarity therapists to consider and research.
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- - The current induced in the body is a product of field
strength and frequency. A field oscillating at 180 Hz induces three times
the current in you as a 60-cycle field does. In such a field, every cell
in the body will experience a shift in polarity 180 times a second.
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- - Our natural body currents are DC. Earth itself has
a very strong DC field with which we evolved. AC is damaging to living
systems, inducing currents within them which DC does not.
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- - The Earth's field fluctuates with time of day. Different
organ systems of the body are more energized at different times of day.
Sensitivity to the minute fluxes in the Earthâs natural magnetic
field is the most important component of our circadian rhythms. (Levitt,
ibid., 118-120)
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- - Dr. Becker believes "That humans interact so fundamentally
with the earth's magnetic fields...may be the most important biological
discovery of the 20th century." It may also be a hidden variable in
all research.
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- - The belief that only ionizing (heating) radiation can
harm living organisms has been absolutely disproven, yet persists as the
basis for ãofficialä exposure guidelines.
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- - Living organisms are sensitive electromagnetic systems
that run on millivolts. Vanishingly small charges far below the threshold
of awareness affect them. (Exposure guidelines set by utility-supported
"experts" are still based on voltage, to avoid palpable shocks.
The frequency of the field or current is, however, the key factor.)
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- - Safety standards are based on exposures considered
safe for the average adult male, however children are more affected by
EMF than adults. The greater the cell division rate, the more chances for
something to go wrong, and the growth processes themselves are affected
by EMF, babies in utero being most affected. Field-created defects are
permanent and are passed on to succeeding generations, for instance the
inheritance of brain-tumor tendency in children of men with high occupational
exposures. ( Dr. S Nordstrum, "Effects of paternal EMF exposure on
offspring, Bioelectromagnetics, vol. 4, pp. 91-101, 1983) "There may
also be frequency-specific windows for different organ systems, meaning
that certain exposures may be particularly detrimental at fixed times during
fetal growth." (Levitt, ibid.)
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- -Each individual is a unique receiving antenna. For instance,
one' s height affects which wavelengths one receives most easily. ( Polk,
ibid. chapter 9) Weight and fat/water content play roles, as do metals
(teeth, implants) in the body. ( C. Polk & J.H. Song, Electric fields
induced by LF magnetic fields in in homogenous biological structures...
Bioelectromagnetics vol. 11, 235-249, 1990)
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- - Cell polarity is disrupted by EMF and currents, with
profound effects. Healthy cells have: polarized walls with positive charge
outside, negative inside; few and small pores; calcium ions mostly outside
cells; ability to communicate with other cells via molecules; ability to
attract attaching information-bearing molecules. Their ability to choose
what to allow in and out depends on electrical charges on ions like calcium,
sodium, proteins, sugars, hormones, etcetera, as well as pore size and
cell wall polarity. Cells affected by EMF and currents: lose polarity;
have calcium ions equally inside and out; lose ability to manufacture enzymes;
have more and larger pores, allowing waste molecules to penetrate the cell.
If the field or current is of long duration, the cells die. This is called
electroporation. (J.C. Weaver, Molecular basis for cell membrane electroporation,
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 720, pp. 141-152, 1994.
Several more references listed in CURE booklet.)
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- - Melatonin production is decreased by exposure to EMF.
Though most known as the hormone necessary for good sleep, melatonin has
such numerous functions that wellness is not possible when it is insufficient.
It regulates our internal clock, affects gonadal hormones, moods and behavior
and the immune system and exerts direct effects on the growth of breast,
prostate and colon cancers. (R.P. Liburdy et al, ELF magnetic fields, breast
cancer and melatonin, Journal of Pineal Research,vol. 14, p. 89, 1993)
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- - We are particularly sensitive to EMF during sleep,
the time when various healing activities take place in the body. (It is
interesting that the front-to-back polarity of our brains reverses during
this time. Levitt, ibid.133) The effects of spending eight hours asleep
in a toxic electrical field are severe.
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- - Resonance occurs when an aspect of a force, such its
wave length, matches a characteristic of an object receiving the force.
This allows the power inherent in the force to be maximally transferred
to the object, causing it to vibrate. (The crystal goblet when the opera
singer hits high C, for instance.) Within the object, the resonance is
self-perpetuating. You and I are objects being thus affected.
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- - Cyclotron resonance enables very low-strength EM fields,
acting in concert with the Earthâs steady-state magnetic field, to
produce major biological effects by concentrating the energy in the applied
field upon specific particles, such as the biologically important ions
of sodium, calcium, potassium, and lithium.ä This resonance is produced
by frequencies between 1 and 100 hertz. European electricity is 50 hertz
and N. American is 60 hertz! Yet safety standards have been based on power,
not frequency. (Becker, ibid. 235)
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- We need to learn as much as possible about how our highly
sensitive electromagnetic energy systems are affected by external electric
fields entering the body. Presently, both military and utility establishments
exercise undemocratic freedom in ways very harmful to the citizenry and
no one is looking out for individuals regarding EMF. We must educate ourselves
and take protective measures on our own.
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- The literal future of humanity depends on our ability
to live with increasing amounts of high-frequency radiation. Polarity practitioners
have the perfect background to do further research on the effects of EMF
and come up with health-saving remedial measures. Please get in touch with
the author if this interests you, and also for much more information than
could be included here, including numerous household remediation techniques.
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- RESOURCES: Good introduction, info. on RF filters at
www.electricalpollution.com See also http://emfacts.com/, http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EMF.html
and www.emfguru.org. B. Blake Levitt's book, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS includes
much not elsewhere readily available re. the effects of EMF on animals
and plant life. Dr. Robert O. Becker's book, CROSS CURRENTS, is a "must
read." Call C.U.R.E at 715-564-3362 for an information-dense booklet
with 200 references. ( I suggest a $5 donation.) Out of print but still
available is Lucinda Grantâs HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICAL SENSITIVITY.
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