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SOURCE ARTICLE :Shield Your Body By R Blank

Science has demonstrated a wide range of numerous negative health effects resulting from exposure to EMF radiation, ranging from sleep disruption to cancer. Among those negative health effects are several ways that exposure to EMF radiation can harm your immune system. And that, in turn, makes your body more vulnerable to ill health, disease and allergies.

EMF and Your Immune System

The role of your immune system is to patrol your body, actively seeking foreign microbes (such as bacterias, viruses, parasites, and fungi). If your body’s immune system finds something unrecognizable, the immune system will immediately launch an attack in an attempt to neutralize the foreign objects.

Scientists have found that prolonged exposure to EMF from every day technology like your cell phone and your microwave oven disturbs your immunity pattern. This can make it respond in different ways than it should.

See, a properly functioning immune system is tuned to respond appropriately– not overreacting reacting to threats to your health, or under-reacting and ignoring threats to your health.

EMF exposure can throw your body’s immune system out of tune. The immune system loses its ability to judge between the safe cells and microbes that are harmful. This means it can over-react to some threats, and under-react to others.

If your immune system under-reacts to a threat, we say that is a suppressed immune system. And it will not respond with the appropriate force to threats it should detect and fight. This can lead to, for example, more frequent and severe colds and illnesses, as well as an increased time to recovery.

However, sometimes the body reacts to EMF exposure by over-reacting– responding with more force than is necessary to a threat, and sometimes even responding to something as a threat, when no threat to your health is present. This can make the immune system attack your healthy cells because everything is a threat in its impaired judgment. This leads to increased allergies (reacting to external objects that aren’t actually a threat) and autoimmune problems (when your body attacks itself!).

EMF and Immunosuppression

Immunosuppression is the suppression of your immune system. When it happens, your immune system isn’t as strong as it should be, and your body’s systems do not respond to threats to your health with sufficient vigor or strength.

Now, sometimes we want immunosuppression. For instance, it is part of how we treat cancer. A healthy immune system doesn’t allow certain medicines to work on cancer patients. So doctors give these patients immunosuppressive drugs. Doctors give patients these drugs to weaken their immune systems, so they do not fight the medicine.

Now, that’s a very specific example. And in general, we don’t want our immune system to be suppressed. But I bring up the cancer example, because researchers have found that EMF radiation shows similar traits as these immunosuppressive drugs.

In a healthy person, immunosuppression exposes the body to threats from various diseases. These are diseases that, when your body is working properly, would be able to fight and fend off and heal from. When your body’s immune system is impaired, your body may not have the ability to defeat the disease, or it may take longer to recover.

A simple example of immunosuppression is catching a common cold and not being able to recover for a long time. Similarly, if your immune system is weak, even a small cut on the skin can develop to a state where it requires critical medical attention.

EMF and Autoimmune Function

So that’s what can happen when your immune system is weakened. Another way in which your immune system can malfunction from EMF exposure is when it reacts to stimuli that it should not; a condition we call autoimmunity.

Autoimmunity is a medical condition that makes your body attack its own cells and tissues. And there are several studies in which researchers found a correlation between exposure to EMF radiation and autoimmune diseases.

Obviously, we do not want our immune system fighting your own body. That situation is very self-destructive.

Under normal circumstances, a well-functioning immune system can normally tell the difference between foreign cells and your body’s own cells (that work for your body and are not harmful). And it knows only to attack foreign entities, and not your own body.

However, the exposure to EMF impairs the immune system’s decision-making ability to a point where it may even begin attacking your skin and joints.

Whenever the immune system detects a foreign element, it launches a protein called antibodies. These antibodies are there to destroy the foreign element, and as there is no foreign element to destroy, it ends up attacking your own body.

Here is the list of some common autoimmune diseases include:

• Type 1 diabetes: High blood sugar level
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Redness, warmth, stiffness, and soreness in joints.
• Psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis: Causes multiplication of skin cells, which builds up and form inflamed red patches on the skin.
• Multiple sclerosis: Damage in the protective coating that surrounds the nerve cells in the central nervous system.
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): The immune system attacks the tissues.
• Inflammatory bowel disease: Causes inflammation in the intestinal wall.
• Addison’s disease: Affects the way the body uses carbohydrates and sugar (Glucose).
• Graves’ disease: Attacks the thyroid gland in the neck, causing it to produce too much of its own hormones.
• Sjögren’s syndrome: Attacks the gland that provides lubricant to the eyes and mouth.
• Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: Thyroid hormone production slows to a deficiency.
• Myasthenia gravis: Affects nerve impulses that help the brain control the muscles.
• Autoimmune vasculitis: The immune system attacks the blood vessels.
• Pernicious anemia: Causes deficiency of protein.
• Celiac disease: Causes digestive disorder with an abnormal immune reaction to gluten.

All of these are examples of conditions that can result from autoimmunity. And autoimmunity can result from EMF exposure (and, in fact, science has demonstrated that protecting yourself from EMF can reduce autoimmunity) ….

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While we are in the middle of a serious health crisis with Covid-19, the way is being paved for another.

While we are home from work and school, out of work, self-isolating, cocooning, worrying about our health and the health of our family, our livelihoods and futures, telecom engineers are busy on the streets upgrading and installing thousands of 4G, 5G and wireless antennae outside our homes, schools, hospitals etc.  Once turned on, these transmitters will exponentially increase our exposure to microwave radiation that has been proven harmful to health.

This will make people sick.

The Irish Government are allowing this to happen.   They have ignored decades of warnings from scientists, doctors and experts, from thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing harmful health effects to humans, animals, wildlife and our environment from wireless microwave radiation.

Our government have ignored the plight of people suffering with microwave sickness/EHS for decades, refusing to acknowledge their basic human rights.

They have ignored the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2011 classification of Wireless Radiation as a Group 2B Carcinogen.

They are ignoring recent studies from USA and Italy showing clear evidence of cancer from 2G and 3G radiation and that courts in Italy have ruled that mobile phones cause brain tumours.

They are ignoring the fact that children absorb more radiation and are most at risk of long-term health problems from exposure to wireless radiation, and that older and sick people are also more vulnerable to health effects.

They are ignoring recent calls from scientists and doctors to halt the roll-out of 5G who have warned that there will be a serious health crisis.

They are ignoring pleas and protests from concerned groups, parents, medical and technology professionals and individuals from all over Ireland to halt the roll-out of more 4G and 5G networks, smart meters and wifi in schools.

The Government are not protecting our health.

While we are at home, streaming conference calls and movies using wifi, whatsapping, instagramming, using smart speakers, and making calls from smart devices and smart phones to keep in contact with our friends and family, we are exposing ourselves and our children to extremely high levels of harmful microwave radiation.

This will make people sick.

In the last week, mobile networks have become congested and slow and the telecom companies are solving this issue by boosting their network capacities – this means that the power has been turned up at base stations and the radiation emitted from masts, antennae and transmitters is considerably stronger in our environment.

[Update 27/3/20] Mobile, broadband suppliers to be given extra radio spectrum . ‘Imperative’ that networks can cope during Covid-19 outbreak, says ComReg

This will make people sick.

People suffering with microwave sickness/EHS are already feeling the effects of this.

Much of the mobile service congestion can be reduced by using a landline instead of a mobile.  Ditch the mobile. Reclaim the landline

Slow internet speeds can be improved by hardwiring computers and smart devices.  Using wifi can actually slow down data transmission. 

Wireless Radiation and the Immune System

“Wireless radiation is one of the many types of environmental pollution that can damage the immune system … Wireless microwave radiation increases the chances that cells will lose their capacity to repair damage that occurs every day as a result of the normal processes of oxidation by increasing oxidative stress. Research has found continued oxidative stress can lead to chronic inflammation.”    Dr Devra Davis, Environmental Health Trust

EMF and Your Immune System: How Radiation Exposure Harms Your Health https://www.shieldyourbody.com/2020/03/emf-immune-system

Research on Wireless Radiation Exposure to the Immune System – Joel M. Moskowitz PhD https://www.saferemr.com/2020/03/wireless-radiation-effects-on-immune-system.html

Evidence For Effects On The Immune System – Olle Johansson, PhD https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec08_2007_Evidence_%20Effects_%20Immune_System.pdf

TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH & THE HEALTH OF YOUR FAMILY –                        REDUCE HARMFUL WIRELESS RADIATION AT HOME

Start by using a corded landline phone instead of a mobile phone –  This will solve the problem of congested mobile networks, interference and dropped calls.  It is safer, healthier and the reception is much clearer on a landline.

Hardwired internet access is faster, safer and more secure than using wifi.

Hardwire your computer/device by using an ethernet cable (CAT 7) and turning off wifi at the router and the computer. If you don’t have an ethernet cable you can order one here  https://openlogic.ie     and   https://www.ebay.ie

If you must use wifi, turn it off when not in use and ALWAYS at nighttime.

Keep wireless and smart devices out of the bedroom.

Keep Children safe from harmful wireless radiation by putting devices on airplane mode when using them.  Movies can be downloaded and watched in airplane mode.

Watch normal non-smart televisions, or disable wifi and bluetooth on smart TVs and hardwire using an ethernet cable if possible.

Other devices transmitting harmful wireless radiation in the home: Smart Speakers, anything with Bluetooth, wireless earphones, wireless digital hearing aids, Fitbits & trackers, Smart Watches, anything that is controlled from a Smart Phone.

FULL TEXT OF OPEN ACCESS PAPER https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/6/1915/htm

Abstract

Since 2009, we built up a database which presently includes more than 2000 electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and/or multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) self-reported cases. This database shows that EHS is associated in 30% of the cases with MCS, and that MCS precedes the occurrence of EHS in 37% of these EHS/MCS-associated cases. EHS and MCS can be characterized clinically by a similar symptomatic picture, and biologically by low-grade inflammation and an autoimmune response involving autoantibodies against O-myelin. Moreover, 80% of the patients with EHS present with one, two, or three detectable oxidative stress biomarkers in their peripheral blood, meaning that overall these patients present with a true objective somatic disorder. Moreover, by using ultrasonic cerebral tomosphygmography and transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, we showed that cases have a defect in the middle cerebral artery hemodynamics, and we localized a tissue pulsometric index deficiency in the capsulo-thalamic area of the temporal lobes, suggesting the involvement of the limbic system and the thalamus. Altogether, these data strongly suggest that EHS is a neurologic pathological disorder which can be diagnosed, treated, and prevented. Because EHS is becoming a new insidious worldwide plague involving millions of people, we ask the World Health Organization (WHO) to include EHS as a neurologic disorder in the international classification of diseases.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

SOURCE ARTICLE : https://www.saferemr.com/2019/07/recent-research.html

Professor Olle Johansson –  for the Bioiniative Working Group

https://bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec08_2007_Evidence_%20Effects_%20Immune_System.pdf

VIII. Conclusions

•  Both human and animal studies report large immunological changes with exposure to environmental levels of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Some of these exposure levels are  equivalent to those of e.g. wireless technologies in daily life.

•  Measurable physiological changes (mast cells increases, for example) that are bedrock indicators of allergic response and inflammatory conditions are stimulated by EMF exposures.

•  Chronic exposure to such factors that increase allergic and inflammatory responses on a continuing basis may be harmful to health.

•  It is possible that chronic provocation by exposure to EMF can lead to immune dysfunction, chronic allergic responses, inflammatory responses and ill health if they occur on a continuing basis over time. This is an important area for future research.

•  Specific findings from studies on exposures to various types of modern equipment and/or EMFs report over-reaction of the immune system; morphological alterations of immune cells; profound increases in mast cells in the upper skin layers, increased degranulation of mast cells and larger size of mast cells in electrohypersensitive individuals; presence of biological markers for inflammation that are sensitive to EMF exposure at non-thermal levels; changes in lymphocyte viability;decreased count of NK cells; decreased count of T lymphocytes; negative effects on pregnancy (uteroplacental circulatory disturbances and placental dysfunction with possible risks to pregnancy); suppressed or impaired immune function; and inflammatory responses which can ultimately result in cellular, tissue and organ damage.

•  Electrical hypersensitivity is reported by individuals in the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany. Denmark and many other countries of the world.Estimates range from 3% to perhaps 10% of populations, and appears to be a growing condition of ill-health leading to lost work and productivity.

•  The WHO and IEEE literature surveys do not include all of the relevant papers cited here, leading to the conclusion that evidence has been ignored in the current WHO ELF Health Criteria Monograph; and the proposed new IEEE C95.1 RF public exposure limits (April 2006).

•   The current international public safety limits for EMFs do not appear to be sufficiently protective of public health at all, based on the studies of immune function.New, biologically-based public standards are warranted that take into account low-intensity effects on immune function and health that are reported in the scientific.

SOURCE:  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 

NAREN, ANUBHV ELHENCE, VINAY CHAMOLA, AND MOHSEN GUIZANI
Department of EEE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani 333031, India Department of Computer Science, Qatar University, Qatar.
Corresponding author: Mohsen Guizani.

ABSTRACT:

The electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted out of wireless communication modules in various electronic devices have been identified by researchers as biologically hazardous to humans as well as other living beings. Different countries have different regulations to limit the radiation density levels caused by these devices. The radiation absorbed by an individual depends on various factors such as the device they use, the proximity of use, the type of antenna, the relative orientation of the antenna on the device, and many more. Several standards exist which have tried to quantify the radiation levels and come up with safe limits of EMR absorption to prevent human harm. In this work, we determine the radiation concern levels in several scenarios using a handheld radiation meter by correlating the findings with several international standards, which are determined based on thorough scientific evidence. This study also analyzes the EMR from common devices used in day to day life such as smartphones, laptops, Wi-Fi routers, hot spots, wireless earphones, smartwatches, Bluetooth speakers and other wireless accessories using a handheld radio frequency radiation measurement device. The procedure followed in this paper is so presented that it can also be utilized by the general public as a tutorial to evaluate their own safety with respect to EMR exposure. We present a summary of the most prominent health hazards which have been known to occur due to EMR exposure. We also discuss some individual and collective human-centric protective and preventive measures that can be undertaken to reduce the risk of EMR absorption. This paper analyses radiation safety in pre-5G networks and uses the insight gained to raises valuable concerns regarding EMR safety in the upcoming 5G networks ….  READ FULL PAPER HERE

IX. CONCLUSIONS:

People should be made aware that the EMR from using day to day cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices are harmful to human health. The levels of radiation observed in most cases such as phone calls, internet browsing on laptops and smart phones, using wireless routers and hot spots, Bluetooth smartwatches and smartphones are unsafe when compared with radiations limits determined by medical bodies. According to current medical literature, various adverse health effects from exposure to RF EMR have been well documented.For now, wireless technologies must be avoided as much as possible. New and innovative wired solutions which provide the same level of user-friendliness should be encouraged.Intervention of government and medical bodies with the main purpose of protecting human health is of utmost necessity to ensure good economic development without compromising the health of the population. Countries must adopt the guide-lines suggested by medical bodies which take into account both thermal and non-thermal effects of EMR. At present, all individuals must take preventive and protective measures to protect themselves from harmful EMR exposure ….

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