Modern technology faces us with a paradox we don't at first notice - but once we do, it's a troubling one. While it creates endless things we need, that help us, that we even depend on, we also learn constantly that it has downsides - in some cases, life threatening ones.
The long list of environmental toxic substances that find their way into our air and water, are included in consumer products, even added to foods we eat, are a perfect example. The powerful electromagnetic fields (EMF) produced by our electronic devices - which otherwise so faithfully serve us - are another (resource) (resource) (resource). How can we understand these conflicting factors - and how do we best and effectively deal with them ?
I'm a retired RN of 35 years, and not a scientific expert - but we too work with science, in our own unique way. To review facts, clarify, give patients an overview in language they understand, belong to a nurse's role, and are part of every day's work. We help people orient themselves in complex and anxiety provoking circumstances concerning their health, help them find their way in seeming maze of measures and treatments. I've done this in the past with environmental toxic substances , and will attempt it here also with EMF.
Overview
Environmental toxins work most harmfully by blocking nutrient receptor sites in multiple organs and body systems, disrupting vital body processes. Electronic devices and networks, for their part, project overwhelming electromatic frequencies into the comparitely low and gentle electromagnetic fields of our bodies - again disruptive, in invisible but critical ways. Whether especially intense, sustained or both, these effects can be debilitating, even to the point of chronic illness.
The Problem
Science, as noted, invents things all the time - but all too often without noticing or doing full due diligence on their downsides. Once we do begin to notice, it's soon clear that environmental toxins and EMF are particularly large issues, true sleeper issues of our times. For economic reasons, science - and especially those who market and make use of it - often vigorously resist admitting problems ; or when red flags are raised, doing something about them. Corrections would be quite possible, even in the present, with the right scientific and technological attention. Technologies could be redesigned with new knowledge of risks incorporated, or fitted with protective, corrective features - as an example, virtually all current EMF protection devices belong to this category. This would absolutely be the best approach to these problems - but it's extremely slow to happen, and in the meantime, consumers are on their own.
EMF Overload : Protect Yourself !
No matter the kind of health challenge, I've learned that the best results and outcomes are achieved by giving the best care, as soon as possible. This is also true for protecting yourself and your loved ones from harmful effects of EMF. I've spent a lot of time during the past ten years writing articles and gathering resources on EMF and health, and our page Living Waters Wellness Resources : EMF and Your Health includes resources to learn more about the problem, plus measures you can take to protect yourself - many inexpensive or free.
Pace Yourself
EMF sources in our home and workplace environments are not only powerful and many, but constantly increasing. This can be overwhelming at first, so my recommendation is to be thorough and comprehensive - but at a pace that lets you breathe. Explore the measures just referenced, and do first what's closest at hand - then add more one by one as you can.
What You Can Do NOW .....
As noted there are things you can do to reduce your EMF exposures, and strengthen yourself against their worst effects. But there are also EMF sources and effects not to be avoided by other means. For these exposures, EMF protection technologies are available, and are a key part in any EMF protection strategy. We've investigated, use and can recommend two excellent ones here :
The Aulterra WHOLE HOUSE and WHOLE CAR USB