Mind your phone

Sham radiation can cause real pain

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Microwaves induce energy at around 22 GHz in water, far away from the 0,4 to 0,9 GHz used for cell phones. Furthermore microwaves are not abel to induce energy in larger molecules. In case of DNA bounding: the DNA strings are formed due to H coheasion, not real water bridges. Microwaves do not interact with protons, or change pH etc. The discussion may have started with microwave ovens used in the US, where they use a huge access of microwave energy at 0,9 GHz to heat water. Very inefficient method.To me such studies show how lifestyle affects health. People who need several hours of mobile calls per day have a definitly stressfull life. And locations of mobile phone antennas are usually at places with lot of traffic. Maybe messuring cancer there has nothing to do with microwaves but with traffic pollution. Fine dust deffinitly is a cause of cancer.


It is hard for me to see how this study is fatally flawed. If the cause of discomfort experienced by the subjects was truly the scanner, then they should have also reported similar symptoms when exposed to the heat device. This did not happen. The most reasonable conclusion about electrosensitivity is that expressed by the article.

ES aware

Three weeks ago 100 electrosensitive people attended an event in the UK. What was special is that all of these individuals were of varied background, educational status, earning capacity and where they live. What they all had in common was that each and every person was affected by electro magnetic radiation. That means that despite a tremendous variation in personal make up and medical history that each of these 100 people could feel when they were close to mobile phones, DECT cordless phones, WiFi internet connections, CRT monitors, cordless baby listeners, microwave emitting burglar alarms, microwave ovens etc. Symptoms while varied include, headaches, dizziness, heart palpitations, short term memory loss, skin rashes, skin lessions, insomnia, digestive disturbances and food allergies, anger and depression, unexplained blood loss, neck aches, and muscle weakness. How can so many people have similar symptoms when compared with other documented groups of electro sensitives in California, Holland, France, Italy, Ireland and Spain? Once sensitised symptoms worsen over time and become disabling and render those with ES unable to work and live in built up areas. The end result is a large number of people unable to function in this techno society. Many are forced to move away from homes and towns of choice and to live in remote areas without income.ES is recognise as a functional impairment in Sweden where individuals are provided with EMR shielded accommodation, electricity free environments with safe carriages in trains and buses. Without this support the right of the individual to function in society is eroded and basic human rights are removed.Imagine someone you live with unable to work, shop, travel, socialise, use computers and mobile phones. Life becomes extremely challenging. Even worse if that person is you or your child, unable to finish their education or even to find work ever.So many electrosensitives cannot be wrong. As a developed nation we need to consider how we repsond to this growing challenge around ubiquitous EMR.check out: www.es-uk.info or call the helpline to find out more about ES.


you have obviously been conned by the mobile phone industry. Sadly experiments like these are designed to fail from the start. People need to be in a microwave free environment for a day or 2 before the experiements start. As others have said in the comments the MRI scan itself inevitably exposes the patient to microwave, so how can you have a sham radiation session?
Anyway the psychosomatic explanation is not new; allergies were psychosomatic for 50 years before they were accepted as real illnesses, and there were no big businesses who were to benefit from this belief.
So the mobile phone companies will continue to pay researchers to find that microwave emmissions are safe.
Those of us who get ill know how we feel and we don't have to be in sight of any mast or phone to feel the effects. Sadly there are plenty of people out there who get ill and don't know the reasons- evidence: headaches, depression and bad temper have become endemic! Even the BBC in 'Losing It' has admitted that anger is become more common.


I was at the Radiation Research Trust conference where this paper was presented.The conclusions were not that EHS was in the mind but that more research was needed to investigate the meaning of the findings.Some patients experience visual flashes (magnetophosphenes) produced by stimulation of the optic nerve during an MRI scan. Could these or other similar effects be responsible for the study results?The MRI scanner subjects people to magnetic fields 10,000 times higher than the Earth's magnetic field, hardly an EMR free environment in which to study patients.MRI scanners also emit RF in the 1 to 100MHz range, also not good for EMR suffersSome people have become sensitised to microwave radiation after an MRI scan .I would have thought experiments on people with EHS should be performed in a more sensitive way and by people with some understanding of the physiological changes involved (such as a change in the mast cells in the skin, Johansson)

Joe Scientist Ph.D.

This is a perfect example of a bad study of electrical hyper-sensitivity: functional MRI uses an extremely strong magnetic field and strong radio frequency radiation to measure brain activity. It's no wonder that the sensitive subjects "thought" they were being exposed by the sham phone--they were being bombarded by intense non-ionizing radiation.The recent experiments by Leitgeb et al. show that a statistically significant number of these people are an order of magnitude more sensitive to weak electric current than most people. Earlier experiments by Rea showed that different people are affected by different frequencies of pulsed (square wave) fields, both consciously and based on autonomous response. In his experiments, after finding which patients were reliable, they had no false positive responses to sham exposure in subsequent tests.There have been many experiments that claim to see no effect, or only a slight effect... yet many of these do not even report the background fields in the laboratory or waiting room. In Rea's tests some subjects were affected for hours or days. For many such people, the RF emissions of fluorescent lights is enough to trigger them.The only appropriate way to the experiment reported here would be using MEG, not f-MRI. In an MEG you can measure the brain's magnetic fields, but of course it is always done in a shielded room, so that the machine is not swamped by all the electrosmog in a normal building.


Articles like this really crack me up! I mean "really." Are you serious? Who is paying you to write these articles and mislead the public? In my case, I developed a host of bizarre symptoms (e.g. brain fog, memory and concentration problems, swollen lymph nodes, ungoing fever, insomnia and sleep disturbances, extreme fatigue, sore throat, intestinal disturbances, testicular and groin pain, nausea, heart pain and palpitations, extreme thirst, frequent urination, loss of appetite, loss of libido, rapid weight loss, anxiety attacks, night sweats, the chills, and so on! The symptoms fell right in with what is known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) in the UK and Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) in the USA and what they diagnose at Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction in Japan. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the symptoms are also exactly the same as were described by the Russians as "Microwave Sickness" in the early 70s. (The Russians have done extensive research on how microwave radiation affects the human body.) I was sick for over six months before it even occurred to me that my cell phone at the time (I no longer own one of these miniture WMDs), the two 3G cell-phone towers within 300 meters of my apartment, or the WiFi bleading into my apartment from adjacent apartments might have something to do with my symptoms. I eventually found a log house up in the mountains with no cell phone coverage and within 24 hours of staying there, I would say 50% of my symptoms disappeared. It took another 2 months for me to finally get off the sleeping pills, and another 4 months before I would say I was 85% better. However, during this time, as my body started to heal I also started to become extremely sensitive to microwave - and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. There are numerous studies which show that microwave radiation adversely affects human and animal biology in numerous ways! What we should really be asking ourselves is why the majority of people out there don't feel it. This has to do with the fact that our bodies are trying to adapt to this insidious radiation and also the fact that it is difficult for people to attribute their symptoms to something that they cannot usually sense with their five senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste! If you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it up, it will not notice it is being cooked. In the same way, people aren't noticing that they are being cooked by this ambient radiation permeating there environments. However, if one goes into any big city these days, and they look, they will notice that they are now for the most part devoid of almost all insects. The question we seriously need to be asking ourselves, is "Are we next?"


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