

What does this mean on a cellular level? It means that if at night your cells and organs are not able to performs these processes and our cell membranes are subjected to constant stress, then healthy cells can be damaged while unhealthy cells, that’s to say infections, mutations and neural disorders, can proliferate.


Studies show that exposure to power frequency EMFs and radio frequency radiation impede the production of melatonin and adversely affect the bodies circadian rhythm.

One of the most important parts of your sleep cycle is the deep sleep phase. It’s important because it’s the most restful part of  your night’s sleep.



  • irritation of allergies,
  • tiredness upon awakening,
  • heart palpitations,
  • muscle pain and weakness,
  • and daytime irritability

as well as generally weakening your immune system.

10 Tips For Creating A Low EMF Bedroom

1. Cellular Phones In Your Bedroom

Cell phones in the bedroom, even switched off, are a definite no-no. Why? There are several reasons:

  • you might forget to switch it off! In which case it will be emitting and receiving RF radiation while you sleep
  • you will be tempted to use it, thereby exposing yourself to radio frequency radiation and artificial light at the worst possible moment in your day

These exposures can play havoc with your sleep pattern and immune system. Don’t bring your cell phone anywhere near your bedroom.

2.  Cordless Phones In Your Bedroom

Cordless phones are also a no-no. A cordless phone is like a mini cell phone tower in your home. You definitely don’t want this anywhere near to your head when you’re sleeping. Remove cordless telephones from your bedroom. Use a regular wired phone if you need to stay in touch with the outside world during sleeping hours. Same goes for wireless baby monitors, wireless speakers and any kind of wireless device – get rid of them.

3. Lighting In Your Bedroom

Avoid exposing yourself to bright lights in the two hours before you sleep, exposures of this kind will disturb your natural sleep pattern and can create long term harm.

Several studies have suggested that keeping our bodies exposed to artificial light at night increases cancer risk. Especially for cancers such as breast and prostate cancers.

If you use CFLs (compact fluorescent lights – those curly wurly type bulbs) get rid of them. CFLs emit electromagnetic radiation as a byproduct of the energy saving mechanism used to reduce voltage. Just hold an AM radio close to a lit CFL bulb and listen to the radiation. Instead of CFLs use incandescent bulbs.

4. Electrical Devices In Your Bedroom

Unplug all electronics during sleeping hours. Use a battery-powered alarm clock and never sleep under an electric blanket.

One of the most important but overlooked elements in sleep disturbance is the placement of wired, electrical devices or AC (transformers used to charge or power devices) sources in your bedroom. These devices emit surprisingly strong electrical fields, even if the appliance is turned off –  above 1 mG is considered dangerous.

There are countless sources within your home that can contribute to the constant radiation of erratic electrical fields, so for sure you don’t want any of these devices in your bedroom. Keep things like TVs, stereos, air con units, refrigerators, at least 6 feet away, that means 6 feet in the vertical sense too. Make sure your fuse box is not within this distance.

Also recommended: go to your electrical panel and cut the power supply on the circuit breaker for your bedroom (and surrounding circuits) before you retire for the night. If you’re unsure which circuit breaker controls your bedroom power, just switch off the circuits one by one until you find which one switches off the power in your bedroom.

5. Dirty Electricity In Your Home

You might have everything switched off and unplugged but if you’ve got dirty electricity running through your household wiring, your bedroom and your home will be electrically polluted and your health is going to take a toll.

Dirty electricity is a term used to describe a form of  EMF pollution found on house wiring which studies show can cause adverse biological effects.  You can buy or hire testers (a Graham Stetzer meter) to take readings and then filter out the dirty power by using GS filters.

6. Wi-Fi In Your Home

If you use a wireless router in your home you are transmitting radio frequency radiation that adds to the toxic load that your body has to deal with, further interfering with your ability to sleep. Instead use a wired internet connection and disable the WIFi.

Careful because some routers have the WiFi setting on auto reset. That means if you unplug your router at night and switch it back on in the morning it will switch the WIFi on again. In which case you need to be very vigilant. Make sure that your WiFi is not being automatically re-activated via system updates. Power failures can also cause the settings to go back to default and re-activate the WiFi.

If you live near a cell phone tower you may want to investigate your radio frequency radiation exposure levels by taking readings with an EMF meter. Depending on your exposure levels it may be necessary to shield. There are special shielding materials that reflect radiation so you can reduce your exposure.

7. Neighbor Generated Electrical Pollution

Don’t ignore neighbor generated electrical pollution. If they have a WiFi router pumping out radiation 24/7 and you are only the thickness of the wall away you need to take action. Go and see them, explain to them the problem. You might have everything switched off in your home, your own electrical supply may be clean and your internal electrical pollution may be negligible. But if your neighbor has a flat screen TV which every time they turn it on is making their electric supply dirty, and by the same token yours, then something needs to be done.

8. Blackout Your Bedroom


The part of your brain that controls your biological clock is a group of cells in the hypothalamus called the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN).  The optic nerves in our eyes sense light and transmit a signal to the SCN telling the brain to wake up. This also starts other processes like raising body temperature and producing hormones, like cortisol.

We are biologically programmed to function optimally with daylight in the day and moonlight/stars at night. But any artificial light at night unnaturally elevates cortisol levels at night, which disrupts sleep and introduces a host of other problems

You could take tablets to help you sleep. Personally I stay away from them. Sleeping tablets will inevitably be chemical based, they will thus contain toxins and long term they may have an adverse effect on your health.

Remove any devices that create artificial light at night from your bedroom and use heavy curtains, even blackout curtains if you need to.

9. High Levels Of EMFs from Nearby Cell Phone Towers

If in doubt about this, hire or buy an EMF meter to check the levels of EM pollution in your home generally and your bedroom particularly. If this is a problem then your best solution, assuming moving house is not an alternative (I joke not) is special protective paints and protective netting.

If the electromagnetic pollution in your bedroom is high you could just hang an EMF Faraday canopy net above the bed, like mosquito netting this is a canopy made from RF reflective material. As with any form of shielding it will be most effective when its grounded. A more complete solution is to paint an undercoat on the walls and ceiling with EMF paint and hang EMF netting over the windows.

10. Static Magnetic Fields In Your Mattress

There are 2 issues here; metal bed-springs can have residual magnetism and also spring mattresses can actually act as a giant antenna!

The magazine Scientific American states:


Solution: buy a chemical-free organic mattress that does not contain metal coils and prefer wood over metal for the frames and headboards.

Safe Radiation Levels For Your Bedroom

The international guidelines are extremely confusing about what can be considered a “safe” level of radiation.

The Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines, widely recognized as being among the most prudent, have the following four basic categories of concern for sleeping areas; nil, slight, severe and extreme anomaly. The guidelines give suggested safe levels of radiation for electric, magnetic and RF radiation. Its important to test your environment for at least these three categories of EMFs.

These guidelines are stringent but attaining even the lowest EMF exposure levels recommended by Building Biology means you are still exposing yourself to higher levels of EMFs than those which are naturally occurring in nature.

Michael Bevington in his book “Electromagnetic sensitivity and Hypersensitivity” notes that the EMF exposure levels in nature are:

• Magnetic Field: 0.000002mG (or 0.0002 nT)

• Electric Field: 0.0001 V/M

• Radiofrequency Radiation:<0.00002 V/M

When we compare even the lowest, strictest levels of Building Biology magnetic field Guidelines (<0.2mG) to those found in nature (0.000002mG) there is a difference of many orders of magnitude.

The same goes for radio frequency radiation as for electric fields.

A beneficial EMF environment for sleep is where the man-made EMFs and the natural direct current EMFs of the earth are as close as possible to those found in nature. Reducing exposure to man-made EMFs can be achieved by following the steps outlined above and increasing exposure to the natural EMFs of the earth can be achieved by grounding (there are some caveats).

This might not be easy to attain but if you are suffering from electrosensitivity, sleeping in such an environment is the fastest route to regain your health and vitality.

Your Bedroom – Healing Sanctuary Or Mission Control?

What I’ve found time and time again is that exposures from indoor sources of EMFs are much higher than the external EMF sources.  So you might think that the cell phone tower which you can see from your window is the cause of all your woes but 99 times out of 100 this is NOT the case.

The problem is EMFs from sources/devices WITHIN your home.

Some careful analysis of your use of electronics will help you eliminate electrical and electromagnetic-frequency-energy sleep-disturbing irritants, making your dreams peaceful and your rest healing and restorative.