INTRODUCTION
Why might electromagnetic fields caused by electrical wiring in your walls or EMF from a nearby cell tower do harm to your body? Those EMF fields are invisible to us and cause no noticeable pain. Pain is the body’s alert system that something is wrong. Surely things that are not painful (or even sensed by our five senses!) can cause us no damage, right?
THE FUEL QUESTION
Let’s back up. If we’re talking about fuel – it is common nutritional wisdom in the modern world to say that humans run on 3 types of fuel that your bedside lamp emphatically does NOT: namely, fats, carbohydrates, and protein.
But do we really run on fats, carbs, and proteins?
It turns out that our mitochondria, the small engines within most cells of our body which are widely regarded as our energy producers, do not run on fats, carbohydrates, and protein. At a fundamental level, they run on electrons.
Our bodies take those yummy paleo or vegan dishes we savor – and strip out those foods’ electrons, which then become the fundamental fuel used by our energy-producing mitochondria. And that makes electrons the fundamental fuel for us.
If you are skeptical, know that the core cellular process every med school study learns inside out is called “electron chain transport.” Not ‘fat chain transport” or “carbohydrate chain transport.”
Interestingly – your lamp runs on a flow of electrons too. Electrical current is by definition a flow of electrons.
(So yes – we run on the same fundamental power source as our bedside lamp!)
“I AM SKEPTICAL” THAT I AM ELECTRICAL, YOU SAY – TELL ME MORE
When the electrons stop flowing in your mitochondria, guess what happens? You are no longer alive. The electrical currents that EKGs and other life-monitoring devices graph for hospital staff stop showing a current (yes an electrical current) flowing through your brain or heart. In words that our medical establishment rarely uses – “out of electricity” is a synonym for “deceased.”
Ok, so if you’re like me (a former history major) this talk of electrons brings you back to the high school physics class whose memory you’ve repressed. It was rarely mentioned in that class that human beings too – like all inert or living matter in the world as we know it – are made of protons, electrons, and neutrons.
And surely if electrons and physics were actually relevant to health – our doctors would discuss them with us at our annual checkup. But they don’t. Most of our medical world has remained quite silent on this “electrical” aspect of our nature, despite great research advances in the burgeoning science called biophysics.
Bill Bryson, the renowned English author and researcher with a knack for making complex things simple, published The Body: A Guide for Occupants in 2019. As usual for him, Bryson doesn’t bring readers to the controversial or conjectural edges of our scientific understanding – but instead just brilliantly summarizes what is solidly known by science circa 2019 in an engaging, clear, readable manner. Here was part of his discussion of our electrical nature:
“We now know that inside and outside the cell are charged particles called “ions.” Between them, in the cell membrane, is a kind of tiny air lock known as an ion channel. When the airlock is opened, the ions flow through. And that generates a little buzz of electricity. Though “little” here is entirely a matter of perspective.
Although each electrical twitch at a cellular level produces just 100 millivolts of energy, that translates to 30 million volts per meter – about the same as in a bolt of lighting.
Put another way, the amount of electricity going on within your cells is 1000 times greater than the electricity within your house.”
SO IF BOTH WE AND OUR BEDSIDE LAMPS RUN ON THE SAME THING – ELECTRONS – WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
The problem with manmade EMF from your bedroom wiring, cell phone, or a wifi router (as opposed, say, to the natural EMF from the sun) is that our bodies’ electrical systems were simply not built to cope with it. All of us are familiar with the term “electrical interference.” It is why we have to turn off our cell phones before our airplane takes off – because it is thought their signals might negatively affect the electrical systems of the plane.
If humans are fundamentally electrical in nature – it becomes easier to understand why electrical fields from the wires in our bedroom walls or the pulsing baby monitor might harm the function of our own internal electrical systems, throwing our mitochondria and cells off-kilter.
LATE 20th CENTURY RESEARCH PIONEER EXPANDS OUR KNOWLEDGE OF OUR ELECTRICAL NATURE – AND THE RISKS OF MANMADE EMF TO OUR HEALTH
Dr Robert E Becker, MD, a late 20th century physician, researcher, and author in upstate New York, proved through careful and brilliant research that when humans are low on proper electrical current levels – we don’t heal as well. His work led him to innovate a now widely used orthopedic protocol for healing stubborn bone fractures – the application of electrical current to speed the creation of new bone between broken bones that aren’t making healing progress.
In the 1990’s, Dr. Becker was a leading critic of the plan to build very high-power transmissions lines across New York State from the northeast to populated areas like New York City. After decades of studying the electrical nature of animals and humans, he felt strongly that these lines’ intense magnetic and electric fields would harm nearby forms of life, including humans. But the wheels of government and industry forces plowed forward.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S “CARCINOGEN CLASSIFICATION” OF EMF
The World Health Organization designated manmade EMF a “possible carcinogen” in 2011. And now, with an accumulating number of peer-reviewed EMF scientific studies since then showing harm to health (over 2,000 of which can be found on websites like Bioinitiative) the WHO is gearing up for another review to consider an upgrade of the label to “probable carcinogen.”
Over 200 of the world’s top EMF health researchers have petitioned the UN, the World Health Organization, the EU, and all governments to stop 5G wireless rollout until more is known about its effects on human health.
WE JUST HAVEN’T HAD TIME TO ADAPT
Why if manmade electromagnetic forces (EMFs) are harming us – do we not feel pain signals from them?
Unfortunately, our bodies take hundreds of thousands or millions of years to adapt to new aspects of our environments. The oldest manmade EMFs are only about 150 years old, at most. So are many concentrated new chemical substances like cyanide or highly processed sugars that look and taste harmless… but which ALSO can damage our health.
Eventually those of us who have mutations that can survive or thrive on large amounts of manmade EMFs, sugars, or even common poisons in our environment will predominate in the world (“survival of the fittest”) and those who don’t will suffer and/or not pass on their genes.
And in the meantime, genetically successful humans will probably develop early warning systems (i.e. pain) that convince us to stay away from electromagnetic fields. Once upon a time, humankind’s ancestors clearly developed pain signals to fire and high temperatures…essential to surviving those dangers.
IF WE ARE ELECTRICAL AND OUR MANMADE ELECTROMAGNETIC WORLD IS INTERFERING WITH THE SMOOTH FUNCTIONING OF OUR BODIES – WHERE FROM HERE?
For now – with governments not eager to broadcast the seriousness of the damning EMF research (and who can blame them – think of the damage to our high-tech industry, real estate, military, economy and much?!) it is each person for him- or herself. You’ve got to read and decide for yourself how to move forward.
In the eyes of many experts (and on GEOVITAL’S own 35 years’ of experience mitigating EMF for over 300,000 patients and clients around the world) the most crucial part of every 24 hours for your cells and mitochondria to function in a natural and low-EMF environment is when your cells rest and repair at night.
Our bodies are built to take some abuse and handle chemical, emotional, and electrical stresses by day – but if we don’t repair through deep, restful sleep each night – our cellular function and “electrical levels” at a mitochondrial level start to flag.
This is why GEOVITAL and Red Serenity EMF Consulting take mitigating the EMF levels of your bedroom very, very seriously. With the right shielding paint, fabrics, and other tools, the “body voltage” (in millivolts) that our instruments can measure on your body as you lie in bed can be reduced by 95% or more. Even if you’re in a neighborhood with small cell 5G towers.
This kind of mitigation offers you a measurable “before” and “after” phenomenon we encourage you to explore if you wish to maximally support your family’s health, healing, and future. Call Red Serenity today to book a 2-4 hour in-home consultation and assessment to learn more.
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