EMF/WIFI sensitivity in an increasingly EMF-filled world

Kate, you may want to have some genetic testing to see if you have mutations in any of the genes related to methylation.  That's the process that breaks things down in our bodies for clearing out or recycling.  I have a COMT mutation which makes it difficult to break down stress hormones, toxins, etc.  I wonder if EMF exposure creates more cellular waste that needs to be broken down and cleared.   My gut feeling is that it does, and that could be an explanation for the very real effects.  If you're not able to clear stuff out quicky, it buìlds up and causes symptoms.  For the mutation I have, supplementing with a high quality B vitamin complex helps with methylation.  There are other nutrients that are also needed for the methylation process.  I'll post a link on this subject in case you want to read about it.  When my COMT gene was tested, the doctor also ordered testing for nutrient deficiencies.  I was very deficient in B vitamins as well as C and some others needed for methylation.  Since I've been supplementing, my health has improved, and it even eliminates my post-menopausal hot flashes.  Hope this info will help.  

Oh, and, I read there is a community in Snowflake, Arizona for people with sensitivities.

Here's the link on methylation:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vitamins+and+cofactors+needed+for+methylation&oq=vitamins+and+cofactors+needed+for+methylation&aqs=chrome..69i57.28559j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Suzanne Shaddix wrote: For the mutation I have, supplementing with a high quality B vitamin complex helps with methylation.  There are other nutrients that are also needed for the methylation process.  

I was very deficient in B vitamins as well as C and some others needed for methylation.  Since I've been supplementing, my health has improved, and it even eliminates my post-menopausal hot flashes.  Hope this info will help.  

Do you have a favorite B & C supplement to aid in this?

I have sensitivity to fluorescent lighting and even a lot of LEDs bother me. Maybe enough of us with Paul can bring back the incandescent bulb? The BBIB movement? (A girl can dream!)

As an educator, I did find myself having strange health symptoms in the classrooms (unusual headaches, fatigue, and concentration problems) and I realized one day there was the wifi connector/repeater or whatever in the middle of the classroom above our heads… that plus 30 chrome books in use. ICK! I can hear that low buzz of a TV when it’s on mute…

I think that like most exposure to poison or toxic guck, EMFs and dirty electricity are probably effecting everyone but in different ways: subtle or blatant, all at once or little by little. And as shared in previous responses, combinations of exposures can make a difference too. (I appreciate the commenters who, though skeptical, are validating our fellow permies experiences… anecdotal records are valuable in science… especially when who nowadays would fund, run & publish scientific evidences against major governments & corporations? Few and far between.

The Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) has had several speakers and authors at it’s conferences, on it’s blog, and in it’s magazine that talk about the dangers of EMFs, 5G, and dirty electricity.

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/getting-informed-about-5g/

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/interview-with-theodora-scarato/

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/reducing-electromagnetic-radiation-from-wireless-sources/

Those are a few I found doing a quick search.

One guest speaker at a WAPF conference had a Q&A afterwards where a young mom came up and asked about her electric car… she wanted something safe for her new baby. The speaker said get rid of it, immediately and that she could never in good conscience recommend an electric vehicle. (I wish I had the notes I took handy to share!) Another person asked about solar panels on the house. She said the worse location was above where you’d sleep, and it would be ideal to have them somewhere other than what you were living in.

In my last rental home, we only plugged in the WiFi when we were going to use it and I bought us air tube headsets and phone cases from https://www.defendershield.com/ They were expensive but I made cutbacks in other areas of my budget.

My previous teaching job offered us Apple Bluetooth earbuds and a FitBit and many of my co-workers had Apple Watches (all the rage.) I said no thank you to these gifts not knowing what long term effects they’ll have on us.

I thought about making my own clothing, curtains, and bedding using the fabric embedded with  silver as it seemed like the most cost effective way… several people make almost a tent around and under their bed with it and use their cell phones to test if it blocks cell & wifi service. (On some YouTube videos, it appears to really work for them.)

One of the YouTubing minimalist, homeschooling mamas I used to really enjoy watching, Darci Isabella, did a more recent video about her own experiences with reactions to EMFs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zQKO1wc-wb0

I hope we can find some less expensive solutions for protecting ourselves from harm.

Probably the best book on this subject is:

The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg published by Chelsea Green.

Here's the link:

The Invisible Rainbow

The book covers electricity, EMFs, satellites and lots of other areas relevant to this thread.    

And this is the author bio from the Chelsea Green website:

"Arthur Firstenberg is a scientist and journalist who is at the forefront of a global movement to tear down the taboo surrounding this subject. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics, he attended the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine from 1978 to 1982. Injury by X-ray overdose cut short his medical career. For the past thirty-eight years he has been a researcher, consultant, and lecturer on the health and environmental effects of electromagnetic radiation, as well as a practitioner of several healing arts."

This is a deeply personal subject to me too.  sx  

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Any and all FULLERTON INFORMER VIDEOS OR JOE IMBRIANO..... same guy..

I became aware of severe emf sensitivity about 5 years ago.  I did massive amounts of research at that time.  I saved a lot of articles.  Now, if I go look for those articles, they are wiped out without a trace.  Has anyone else been saving resources with hard data about emf effects on health and biosphere?

Kate Downham wrote:I saw something about this in another post that was a bit off-topic, so I thought it deserved its own thread.

I have trouble finding non-sensationalist news articles about this, but I think it’s important, and it would be great if people could share articles.

One thing I have heard about in passing but haven’t read anything on is about lots of 5g satellites being launched by Elon Musk. Does anyone have any good articles about this to share?

From what I have read, 5g sounds very dangerous compared to 3g and 4g. To escape 3g and 4g, there are still some areas we can move to far away from mobile phone towers, but if a satellite is orbiting the earth, it makes it more difficult to escape.

My own story is that around this time last year we switched to a new internet provider, who assured me that the WIFI dongle they’d given us to access the internet was only emitting WIFI over a couple of feet and was harmless, there was no option for a non-WIFI dongle. My husband and I both use the internet for work purposes as well as news and forums, and were fine at first, but after a week or two we both started getting headaches (which is unusual for us), and we realised it was connected to the WIFI dongle, which was actually emitting WIFI through our entire house, and that when we stopped use of this dongle, the headaches stopped.

Before this happened, we’d never had any issues with using the mobile phone or a non-WIFI dongle too often, but once this had happened we became more sensitive to using these forms of internet as well, and it took us a while to recover, and even now I can notice if I’ve been on the internet or phone for too long, and try to be offline and have my phone on aeroplane mode as much as possible.

The internet company had trouble believing that it caused trouble. Just as people who spray toxic air freshener and perfume everywhere don’t realise that it can make other people very sick. I wonder if this is that some people have lower thresholds for handling toxins? Or are we just being observant and realising that when we are around a type of toxin something happens?

The museum in the nearest city to us started offering free WIFI a few months ago, and now we can’t go there without getting headaches and nausea. I’m not sure if some forms of WIFI are worse than others? Or if it’s the length of time that I’m around them, because I don’t spend much time in WIFI-filled shops (and I do start to feel a bit weird in these places even after a short time) but in the museum we are usually there for a long time.

I’ve contemplated asking the museum if they can have a ‘quiet day’ every so often without WIFI, so that EMF-sensitive people can enjoy the museum too, but I am just not sure how effective it will be, after the disbelief I experienced from the internet company about EMF sensitivity.

We are not in the city much, but our nearest city also wants to become a “smart city” with 5g everywhere, does anyone have any good ideas about how to convince them to stop this? Or ways to get the voices of EMF-sensitive people heard?

Also I wonder if there’s anything I can be doing to shield my family from the damage that EMFs might be causing, for instance, I found a list of foods that protect against radiation a while ago, will these same foods protect our bodies from the damage that EMFs can do?

Do you have any articles, ideas, or stories to share?

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