diabetes

GS filters have been placed in homes, offices, and schools. People report having better sleep, more energy, and less pain. They document cognitive improvements in memory and concentration. Symptoms of radio wave sickness or electrical hypersensitivity (Table 1) are often reduced or eliminated in the filtered environment.

These case studies and anecdotal reports suggest that dirty electricity is biologically active. Once dirty electricity is reduced, people's health improves. For some it is reflected in more normal blood sugar levels, for others symptoms of MS are reduced, and for still others tinnitus disappears and behavior resembling ADD/ADHD improves. Since dirty electricity is becoming ubiquitous large fractions of the population are being exposed to this pollutant and some are being adversely affected.

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Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis

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ISSN 1536-8378 print. DOI: 10.1080/15368370601044192

Written By MAGDA HAVAS, Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Poor power quality, also known as dirty electricity, has been a concern for the electric utility for decades. Dirty electricity refers to electromagnetic energy that flows along a conductor and deviates from a pure 60-Hz sine wave (Figure 1). It has both harmonic and non harmonic (transient) components and emerged as a problem

Two case studies are presented. (1) A 51-year old male with Type 2 diabetes who does not take medication and (2) an 80-year old female with Type 1 diabetes who takes insulin twice a day. A 51-year old male with Type 2 diabetes monitored dirty electricity in his environment and his blood sugar levels randomly throughout the day for approximately one month in 2003. The microsurge meter was not yet available to measure dirty electricity

Please note that the author has no vested interest, financial or otherwise, in the commercial devices discussed in this article

This table summerizes symptoms of radio wave sickness, as reported by Firstenberg, 2001

Symptoms of radio wave sickness first documented among radar workers during the Second World War resemble those now associated with electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Neurological: Headaches, dizziness, nausea, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, irritability, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, weakness, tremors, muscle

Most of the research on the biological effects of nonionizing radiation is done at one

of two frequency ranges: extremely low frequency (ELF) associated with electricity

(50/60 Hz) and radio frequency (RF) associated with wireless telecommunication

Research in the Department of Pediatrics College of Human Medicine, involving Biophysicists, and Electrical Engineers at Michigan State University, revealed that 60 Hz ELF- EMF exposure resulted in a dose dependent inhibition of differentiation of  Friend erythroleukemia cells with maximal inhibition peaking at 40% and 40 mG (4 µT). ELF-EMF at 10 mG (1.0 µT) and 25 mG (2.5 µT) inhibited differentiation at 0 and 20% respectively.  EMF at 1.0 (100) and 10 G (1,000 µT) stimulated cell proliferation 50% above the sham-treated cells. Investigators concluded that the