Brain/Gut - Caltech. How-To Videos - ipads/routers. Fine Print Warnings. Congrats to Berkeley!
Hope you will find these tips and the how-to videos below useful. The videos show how high the RF radiation levels are from ipads and routers and how to mitigate. Feel free to forward, just remove my email address. Thanks!
- Angela
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Ever think about what's keeping you alive right now, why your heart is beating, why your brain is able to think? It is because of electricity, our life force. Your cells, tissues, and organs communicate with each other via electrical signals. Your brain wave (alpha, beta, delta, gamma, theta) frequencies are in the range 0.5Hz-100Hz http://mentalhealthdaily.com/
Interference happens when there is an outside source broadcasting at about the same frequency - it explains why if your microwave oven is running and you happen to be talking on your 2.4 GHz cordless phone, you hear static. Given that we are saturated chronically with wireless radiation now from smart phones and other wireless devices, Wi-Fi in our school/work/home environments, smart meters, DECT cordless phones, and cell towers, it would be a miracle not to be affected biologically from this interference by external radiofrequency radiation on intracellular communication within our bodies - most people don't feel any obvious effects, but given the fact that we are all electrical beings, to not be impacted at all is impossible. (3% of the population are electrohypersensitive - these people including children feel immediate and obvious effects from EMF exposure.)
And we are seeing it's effects in the statistics - recall what I sent in an email last week.
in the last 20 years: 412% increase in deaths by dementia in Americans, 64% increase in early onset dementia death in Americans, 600% increase in autism (now 1% of children are autistic)
in the last 10 years: 53% increase in ADHD (19% of teen boys, 10% of teen girls in US have ADHD), 28% increase in asthma, 23% increase in type 1 diabetes (an automimmune disease)
After accidents, cancer is the next highest cause of death in children, and now 1 in 2 people will get cancer
- Increase in Malignant Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors in American children. For ages 0-14 an annual increase of 0.6%/yr. In ages 15-19, an annual percentage increase of 1.0%/yr.
These increases are all caused by changes in the environment. Read Dr. Goldsworthy's work that explains wireless radiation's effect on autism, ADHD, autoimmune disease, early-onset dementia, asthma, cancer here http://www.
June 2015: Here's a study showed that 3G cell phone significantly changes brain wave EEG activity in alpha, slowbeta, fastbeta, and gamma frequencies. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Dr. Martin Pall identified a mechanism where microwave radiation caused VGCCs (voltage gated calcium channels) in nerve cells to open,which increases calcium levels inside the nerve cell. VGCCs control the flow of calcium into nerve cells which regulates the release of neurotransmitters such as serotonin. The increase of intracellular calcium forces neurons to release their neurotransmitters sooner, which makes the brain hyperactive and less able to concentrate (Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy) Microwave activation of VGCC and increasing intracellular calcium can cause autism by disrupting synapse formation and leads to degradation of proteins in the tight barrier junctions needed to maintain the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, which leads to many neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's and dementia). With enough exposure to increasing intracellular calcium, spines can actually disappear, and end up with neurons that are missing synapses completely, so neurons are not connected to each other anymore. Read more about Dr. Pall's work here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Proof of neurological damage caused by cell phone radiation can be seen here in this video by Dr. Devra Davis, where she presents research and pictures of brain and spine damage in brains of mice exposed to cell phone radiation prenatally. https://www.youtube.com/
Wireless devices (e.g. wireless phones, ipads, laptops, Wi-Fi) have NEVER been tested for long-term effects on human beings.
Instead, they were presumed to be "safe" by the FCC as long as there is not enough microwave radiation from a device to cause tissue heating.
So if your exposure to wireless radiation is less than the FCC's thermal limit of 1000uW/cm2 for 30 minutes, FCC limits say you have nothing to be concerned about because you will not get microwave cooked below this level.
However, peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that there are negative biological effects at levels well below the thermal limit - see all the effects below 1000uW/cm2 given in the 2012 Bioinitiative Report here http://www.bioinitiative.
Ipads, wireless laptops, and smart phones emit HIGHER RF radiation levels than a voice only cell phone - because most people hold ipads, laptops and often smart phones in their laps, the abdominal/GI and reproductive areas will get a lot of RF radiation in this way. 90% of your body's serotonin is actually produced in the GI tract by enterochromaffin (EC) cells, particular types of immune cells, and neurons (your GI tract contains a lot of neurons) - Altered levels of this peripheral serotonin have been linked to diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis. "More and more studies are showing that mice or other model organisms with changes in their gut microbes exhibit altered behaviors" - Read more here in this April 2015 article from Caltech: https://www.caltech.
If you haven't seen this video by the government of Cyprus telling parents how to protect their children, please watch https://www.youtube.com/
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Steve Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer, didn't let his kids play with ipads http://www.nytimes.com/
Here's a story of a 10 year old boy who dies from 2 brain tumors, diagnosed after sleeping with an internet connected ipod under his pillow http://www.pcmag.com/
Jan. 2015: Taiwan fines parents £1000 (US$1400) if their children under 2 plays w/ ipads or cell phones
(In 2007: 1500 cell towers
Video showing degradation in blood cell membranes and other changes in blood in a person with 2 minute exposure to smart meter radiation at a distance of 1ft. Former Apple executive says safety of wireless devices has not been proven https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Even if there is no wi-fi router on in the room, the ipad is emitting RF signals every few seconds (it sends out RF signals regularly in search of a Wi-Fi router unless you turn on airplane mode)
Turning ON airplane mode stops RF radiation (airplane mode on = RF antennas off)
Therefore:
1) use ipad in airplane mode if you are not using the internet
2) do NOT hold the ipad in your lap - use it on a table
Video showing RF radiation around a home Wi-Fi router and how to reduce your wireless exposure. https://www.youtube.com/
RF levels are highest around a modem and drop off with distance. Even if you hardwire connect your computer to the modem, you still have to disable the Wi-Fi feature in order to shut off the RF signals from the router (if there is no button to shut off Wi-Fi, contact your internet provider for instructions on how to disable - they will tell you a website address to log on to where you will be able to deactivate wireless feature on your router)
Therefore:
1) do not sit close to your Wi-Fi router
2) turn off your Wi-Fi router at night (you're not using it anyway when you're sleeping) - if you are within 10 ft of a Wi-Fi router, your exposure levels will be very high.
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Even though cell phone instructions say use a hands free device and do not carry next to the body, the US government (FCC) does not publicize this information nor mandates advertising to demonstrate this, leaving most people unaware of potential hazards, unwittingly allowing their young children to play with them like toys.
The city of Berkeley had passed an ordinance in May 2015 that requires retailers to sell cell phones with warning labels. But then the CTIA (Wireless lobbying industry that FCC chairman Tom Wheeler was former president of) sued City of Berkeley for this, despite the fact that cell phone safety manuals already say that phones should not be held against the skin. However in January 2016 Berkeley's ordinance was upheld by US District court, so Berkeley retailers are now selling phones with the following warning: "To assure safety, the Federal Government requires that cell phones meet radio frequency (RF) exposure guidelines. If you carry or use your phone in a pants or shirt pocket or tucked into a bra when the phone is ON and connected to a wireless network, you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure to RF radiation. Refer to the instructions in your phone or user manual for information about how to use your phone safely." Congratulations to Berkeley and all involved for winning one against the CTIA! http://www.dailycal.
Federal Regulations and Mobile Devices
“...Mobile devices are transmitters designed to be used in such a way that a separation distance of at least 20 centimeters (8 inches) is normally maintained between the transmitter's radiating structure(s) and the body of the user or nearby persons.” FCC, BULLETIN 65, 1997
The following are fine print warnings found in manufacturer's manuals - they are from Environmental Health Trust's website http://ehtrust.org/
Why are these important? If these distances are not maintained, people can be exposed to radiation at levels that exceed the current FCC (thermal) standard, potentially exposing them to thermal (heating) exposures. The SAR for laptops, printers, routers and tablets should be less than 1.6 W/kg for any 1 gram of tissue, as measured 20 cm (~8 inches) from the device. Because of the inverse square law if devices are used closer than 8 inches to the body, exposures grow exponentially. Thus, at 5 inches it could increase 16fold, and at less than one inch ( i.e. on your lap ) it could increase 100fold.
Most people, especially children and young adults, carry and use their wireless devices directly against their bodies. Consumers do not know that using a laptop on your lap, clutching an ipad to your chest or tucking a cell phone in your pocket or bra is potentially unsafe and could result in the user getting radiation exposures that exceed the standard. Since warnings are deep in the legal fine print of manuals and on manufacturer websites, they are often overlooked. This was confirmed in the 2012 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, which stated, “Some consumers may use mobile phones against the body, which FCC does not currently test, and could result in RF energy exposure higher than the FCC limit .” For example, cell phones are NOT tested touching the ear, but with a space between the ear and the phone.
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