Excessive Microwave Radiation Poses an Issue
for Health and Health Freedom
By Leo Cashman and Diane Miller JD
It is an important fact of our time that microwave radiation is being used in multiple forms of communication systems in order to transport data and accomplish our insatiable desire to be connected and to perform digitized tasks. It is also an important fact of our time that excessive exposure to microwave radiation adversely impacts the health of large parts of our population and poses a public health issue that is being largely ignored or suppressed by large corporations, government regulatory agencies, and a complicit media. The alternative solution to “wireless” communication, which is high speed fiber optic cables that move larger amounts of data faster but are less convenient because of the need for cables, is not being promoted or demanded. In this article we pick apart the nature of the problem, looking at why it seems to be getting worse, and we offer some direction for protecting yourself and your communities from harm and making the situation better.
Microwave Radiation
In one of the greatest discoveries of science, James Maxwell developed four equations that described all that was known about the relationship between electricity and magnetism; “electromagnetism”. From his equations, he found that an electric field should be able to travel as a wave, through empty space, and that light is an electromagnetic wave. Incredible!
Light, of course, is part of the environment on our planet, and it is so much a part of our biology that we have evolved light receptors known as eyes so that we can see things. But there are forms of light that are not visible to our eyes. For example, infrared waves, of a longer wavelength than red, are not visible to our eyes, but these “heat waves” provide warmth and also provide important health benefits at the cellular level. Ultraviolet light, of a wavelength shorter than violet and hence invisible, also produces health benefits such as giving us the energy to make vitamin D through our skin. The health’s atmosphere, energized by lightning strikes, resonates at a low frequency of 7.83 cycles per second (“Hertz”) and this is the very beneficial “Schumann” frequency; our bodies thrive on EMF radiation of this frequency and it is one of the reasons that we like to go outside and go for a walk.
But there is a realm of frequencies in the electromagnetic field (EMF) spectrum that modern technology has introduced that was unknown to our ancestors just a few generations back: the band of frequencies and wavelengths call “radio waves,” which became widely used with AM and FM radio, television, and radar. Then, later on, there was a surge of microwave devices. The term “microwave” was used because the wavelengths were shorter (hence “micro”) and the frequencies higher than were used in the earlier radio waves of AM, FM and television.
Exposure to Microwave Radiation Today
Today we live in an increasing barrage of microwave radiation exposure. This is a major departure from the planet we were evolved to live upon. The best quick measure of the impact of radiation’s biological impact on us is what is called the “intensity” which is the radiation’s energy per second per unit area.
The intensity of the microwave radiation that we are being exposed to today is much, much greater than our grandparents were being exposed to a few generations ago. How much greater? Ten to the 18th power!! That’s a one, followed by 18 zeros. So, with the cell towers, the cell phones, the Wi-Fi and the smart meters, we are being exposed to intensities of this man-made EMF radiation that is a billion billion times more than what we were evolved to live in on earth.
Surrounded by these exposures, it is nearly unavoidable that everyone is being exposed to microwave radiation that is not good for us. Because it is invisible unlike the appearance of smokestacks or other visible toxins, the insidious harmful effects of microwave radiation are going unchecked by public health authorities and unnoticed by the consumer. We are exposed to microwave radiation during all of our communications on cell phone calls and from our Wi-Fi internet connections. The fact that microwaves are “modulated,” i.e., modified so as to carry the information being conveyed, sharply increases the negative biological effects that radiation has on humans and other living things.
The Science
In people’s minds, what is taken as evidence of safety is that the vast majority of people use iPhones and smart phones freely, use Wi-Fi (a wireless internet connection) as the default way to arrange for internet instead of using fiber optic cables, and accept smart meter utility meters. This is done without question and is taken as “proof” that the microwave exposures are safe. Further, the exposures are within FCC guidelines and are heavily advertised in the media, so that is the clincher – proof that the technology is safe. But none of that is science.
The facts of science are to be found in published scientific papers, especially those done by independent scientists, ones who are not industry funded. And there you find the dire warnings cited in the resources listed below such as the following:
- Findings that microwave radiation can cause calcium ions that flood into a cell causing too much nitric oxide and superoxide, and the production of peroxynitrite. This, in turn, can harm cell membranes, proteins, mitochondria and DNA.
- Research has shown that insects, plants and animals are subject to damage by the toxic un-natural EMFs and that children’s brains are more easily damaged than adult brains.
- EMF exposure to pregnant moms is linked to increased ADHD in children and also to an increased incidence of autism.
- Tinnitus is commonly associated with EMF exposures, as well as cataracts.
- Production of melatonin, the sleep hormone is impaired and sleep itself is impaired.
- Toxins such as mercury coming from mercury amalgam fillings more easily cross the blood brain barrier and get into the brain because of exposure to microwave radiation.
- Cancer, particularly brain cancer, is also caused by toxic EMFs.
- Heart disease, the leading cause of death, is strongly linked to EMF exposure. So is depression and mood disorders.
- Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders are rampant, and EMF exposures play a major role in causing them.
- Infertility is also promoted by toxic EMFs.
The disability known as EMS, electromagnetic sensitivity, is widespread and growing and it is little recognized, scoffed at, but is a disability that makes finding a safe place to live and to work a challenge for millions of Americans.
Who Is Promoting Microwave Radiation Rollouts?
Verizon and other giant telecom corporations are making the microwave radiation problem notably worse by installing “small cell, 5G” antennas throughout larger cities around the country. Indeed, the new cell antennas are smaller, and are mounted on poles at a typical height of 28 feet, but they are expected to be 20 times more common than the cell towers and rooftop cell antennas are. With the rationale that their higher frequencies, shorter wavelength (“millimeter”) waves are less penetrating than the lower frequency microwaves are, they (supposedly) need to be everywhere and (supposedly) two of them per city block. This would include residential
areas in those cities and towns. The marketing hype is that they will be used to communicate with everything in your house, every appliance, and not just with people, and for checking for a baby’s poopy diaper. How can we live without this? Its beam forming technology can point at the recipient target and strongly hit the 5G smart phone that someone is carrying. Critics say that the small cell antenna, using millimeter waves, will expose the target to more damaging radiation than ever before, inflicting more health injury and disability. Further, they have the potential to be used the way that the military has used them, at 90 GHz which is usable as painful crowd control; or it can be used at 60 GHz, a frequency that interferes with the uptake of oxygen into a person’s hemoglobin, hence is suffocating. Other concerns are that they will be used for surveillance and for thought control.
What to do?
1) An excellent book that goes into more detail is Dr. Joseph Mercola’s book “EMF*D”. It offers more detailed explanations and scientific references.
2) Get a test meter for measuring the intensities of microwave radiation so you can see for yourself when and where you are safe and where you are not. Alternately, you can hire a building biologist or an EMF radiation specialist, to test your home or other space for the different kinds of EMF problems and for help in remediating problems that are there.
3) Use wired internet connections in your home or other workspace and avoid the “wireless mistake” in your computer gear, such as keyboard, mouse and printer and telephone. Keep your land line telephone and convert to fiber optics for phone and internet connections, while avoiding Wi-Fi and other wireless mistakes. Mercola’s book gives some detailed guidance on this.
4) Americans for Responsible Technology is a national non-profit that gives an overview of the current efforts to stop small cell 5G and other EMF problems. It can also help you find a group in your own state. Go to AmericansForResponsibleTech.org. Other good web sites are Scientists4WiredTech.com, Zero5G.com, Electromagnetichealth.org, and Massachusetts for Safe Technology.
In order to stop the permitting of small cell antennas in your city or state, it is necessary to organize at the city level, educating city officials and getting them to adopt and enforce local ordinances that protect the people they represent. Educating your friends and fellow citizens is an important part of reducing the EMF exposures we are surrounded by, but it is also part of protecting our health freedom, our bodily autonomy.
Leo Cashman and Diane Miller JD are two of the co-founders of
National Health Freedom Coalition and National Health Freedom Action.