Electromagnetic Radiation, Electromagnetic Fields, Pollution, Microwave Radiation, Cell Phone Cancer

The following article was written by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt

In order to understand why electromagnetic pollution is so hazardous to our health, you must first understand that we are energetic beings who radiate an energy field.

In the ancient tradition of Chinese medicine, it is said that we have something called meridians, which are invisible channels of energy that run through our body in an organized and predictable way. Each of these meridians supplies the body with the energy it needs to activate each of our glands and organs. Each meridian is dotted with hundreds of acupuncture points. The points are actually little terminals that allow our spirit to enter into the body. Without spirit (or life force), we are dead. When the spirit leaves the body, it takes it’s life’s force with it. Though mainstream medicine does not utilize the concepts of meridians or acupuncture points, this ancient system of thought has been accepted by everyone in America today who has experienced the positive benefits of acupuncture.

In addition to meridians and acupuncture points, the ancient Sanskrit tradition discusses something called chakras, which can be seen in the picture on the right at the top of the page. In a sense, the chakras are like huge acupuncture points. According to ancient Eastern philosophies, the chakras are electrically charged whirling vortexes that attract specific kinds of energy.

We have 7 physical chakras and 5 spiritual chakras.

The seven physical chakras are located along the spine from tail bone to top of head. The 8th chakra is located under our feet and the 9th through 12th chakras are located above the head. The seven physical chakras have a direct impact on our physical health. The five spiritual centers are directly related to our spiritual life. Because the chakras are ever expanding vortexes that attract thoughts and ideas, they are believed to be the vehicle through which our spiritual growth unfolds.

The body is also surrounded by a field of electromagnetic energy that feed the chakras energy.

This is often called an aura. Many people believe that the body generates the aura, but the truth is that the aura generates the body. When we die, a clairvoyant will observe that the aura disappears several days before we take our last breath. This is true even if we die suddenly of an accident while still in good health. The body cannot remain manifest without this electromagnetic field of energy that keeps it alive. The aura exists in an even more expanded field of energy called the energy field which can extend several feet from the body and has numerous levels.

[Nervous system] When our life force enters our bodies through the chakras and acupuncture points, I imagine that it hits the enzymes that activate the electrical charges that flows along our nerves. Our nerves activate our muscles and all of our organs and glands to do what they do to keep us healthy and functioning in homeostasis. As we grow emotionally and physically, our chakras open, becoming resonant with the beliefs given us by our parents, culture, educational system, and religion. As we evolve, we may or may not outgrow these beliefs so that we can attract something new. Our spiritual growth truly begins when we choose to think outside the box of limited material beliefs given us by others and begin to embrace the unlimited beliefs commensurate with our spiritual nature. The spiral galaxy to the right looks and acts very much like a chakra and acupuncture points within the body. As above, so below. We are cosmic beings with a cosmic origin. Many believe that we are merely a microcosm of the macrocosm, from the tiniest cell to the largest universe.

As you can see, in every way, shape and form, from spiritual to physical, we are bioelectrical beings who cannot exist without electrical energy.

Since this electrically charged energy field can’t be observed, a large part of who we are is invisible to us. Many people recognize the fact that disease states are nothing more than electrical (or energetic) malfunctions. If you have been reading the other pages on this website, you will know that heavy metals and environmental pollutants, which accumulate in your body over a lifetime, destroy the vital enzymes that catalyze the electrical charges that activate our nervous system. Without optimal nerve stimulation, our organs and glands are compromised.

Because we are ignorant of how we are being poisoned, as well as the consequences, we allow this to happen. Once enlightened, we must act upon the information we have received. If we feel that such action is futile, which causes us to do nothing, we will not change the destiny of a “poisoned person” to create a more positive reality. Because “poison” is no respecter of attitude, this will be true even if you maintain a positive attitude.

Everything alive is an electrical construct surrounded by an energy field, as the image of the leaf demonstrates.

Each living thing carries its own electrical matrix which [Leaf aura] interfaces with all other living things.

We can both give each other energy and be robbed of energy. This happens at a mental, emotional and spiritual level and is loosely related to issues of love and power. In the physical dimension it manifests as tangible acts of giving or domination. In general, the more loving and open one is, the more expansive is their field of energy and the more giving they become.

[Tree growing in an electrical vortex] The earth, herself, has her own meridians and acupuncture points that have been well documented.

They are called ley lines, which are currents of energy that flows from point to point. The Hartman Net runs north to south and east to west. The  Curry Grid runs diagonally. When two ley lines of similar polarity cross, there can be a disturbance of energy that create unnatural conditions. There are many such places on our planet. Sedona, Arizona is a well known vortex. In these places trees tend to grow in a spiral, as demonstrated in the picture to the left. Plants may also lean away from ley lines and most animals, with the exception of cats, tend to avoid sleeping where two of them intersect.

For some reason that no one understands, cats actually like to sleep in places where the energy is disturbed. If you look at where the cat sleeps in your home, this might be a place of disturbed vibration. Ants and termites are also attracted to such places.

At the top of the electromagnetic spectrum is ionizing radiation, which comes from cosmic radiation and x-rays. Both can destroy your DNA, which is why people need to limit their exposure to it. Cosmic radiation is only problematic when we fly. When we are inside buildings, which most of us are most of the time, we are somewhat protected. [Ley Lines]

Non-ionizing radiation comes from non-alternating static electrical fields.

Our bodies seek a static electric field to exist with.

One such field is called the Schumann Wave. The Schumann Wave is a frequency of energy that is created by the amount of times lightening strikes the earth each and every second of each and every day. The Schumann Wave is a steady frequency of energy that measures 7.83 Hz, and beats 7 to 10 times per second, fluctuating only slightly at different times of the day. It also varies from pole to equator, but the amount of variance isn’t as important as the fact that it emits a constant frequency of vibration. Our bodies enjoy this uniform field of energy and doesn’t like it when the magnetic field varies.

There are natural phenomena that can cause variances in the magnetic field, such as subterranean water that flows through an underground river several hundred feet under the surface of the earth. Also, geological faults, caverns, and some kinds of metallic ores can cause magnetic disturbances to exist. These geopathic disturbances can cause diseases like cancer, which can be observed in the plant life growing in the area. If you constantly sleep in an environment where there is a geopathic disturbance, it is believed that you could get cancer too.

Man-made structures can also create geopathic disturbances.

The metal springs in our beds can create magnetic anomalies that some people believe are bad for us, because they produce harmful radiation. Also, if you sleep in unnatural materials, you can create a lot of static electricity, which our bodies don’t like. It is far preferable to sleep in natural organic cotton or wool, than polyester, which creates static cling. [Box springs create harmful electrical fields.]

Because the steady rhythm of the Schumann Wave regulates our biological clock, our sleep/dream patterns, and patterns of arousal and hormonal balance, it seems that human beings do best physically when they resonate with this frequency, which is what we have done since time began.

In fact, our optimal brain wave pattern duplicates the Schumann Wave. Earth’s magnetic field is 11.79 Hz. Each cell in our body produces a different frequency of vibration. For example, our brain waves are from 5 to 15 Hz. Our nerve cells vibrate at 2 to 3 Hz. The frequencies that human beings feel the most comfortable in are anywhere between 2 to 25 Hz. Any frequency less than 250 Hz will cause problems with our biological organism, for it will exert a constant pressure on the cells to shift their natural vibration.

It is a well known fact by our government and our scientists that the Schumann Wave is necessary to sustain health. When astronauts first experienced space travel, they would return quite ill and sometimes unable to stand. That is because they traveled far from the Schumann Wave, which no longer kept them stable. Consequently, scientists created an artificial Schumann Wave generating machine, which is installed in all the space craft carrying human beings. This essentially solved the problem.

To understand why our biology is negatively impacted by unnatural electromagnetic fields, you must understand the law of resonance, which is a natural law in physics that affects all living things.

It states that when two or more energies are vibrating at differing rates of speed, either the lower frequency will raise, the higher frequency will descend, or the two will meet in the middle until they are vibrating the same. This natural law effects every area of our lives, from the mundane to the purely spiritual. It operates every second of every day without end. Without exception, it is the most powerful force in the universe.

The Schumann Wave has a constant frequency of vibration but is forever changing in direction and magnitude. Cosmic radiation, however, constantly varies it’s frequency of vibration. This continual variation in frequency, direction and magnitude prevents resonance from happening. In other words, our cells can maintain their own frequency of vibration because, under natural conditions, there isn’t anything that pulls them off of it.

This isn’t true of unnatural fields. The electrical wires running through our walls and all the appliances they [Electrical Wires vibrate at 60 hz.] energize, steadily vibrates at the same frequency, direction and magnitude of 60 Hz.

This is well within the range of frequencies that can stimulate our own cells to vary their frequency from that which is healthy and normal.

Since this kind of vibrational shift is detrimental to the body, in an attempt to maintain homeostasis, our cell membranes lock themselves down, becoming impermeable. This means that they cannot detoxify themselves.

The term “electromagnetic pollution” refers to any electrically charged wire or appliance that  exerts a magnetic pull on our cells that encourages it to move from its natural, healthy vibration.

This is why man-made electrical fields are harmful. All of them emit steady, unvarying frequencies that encourage resonance. Although unknown a century ago, people are now becoming electrically ill. This is called chronic magnetic deficiency syndrome.

Most notably, unnatural electrical fields impact our mental states and our nerves, which some people believe can produce mental illness, nightmares, agitation, poor ability to focus and [Unnatural electrical fields cause mental illness.] concentrate, migraine headaches, explosive behavior, hypervigilence, suicidal behavior, and drug addiction. It seems that our DNA can also be significantly affected by harmful electromagnetic frequencies, for these unnatural electrical fields carry enough energy to break genetic bonds within our cells.

One of the authors I read also believes that our meridians are constricted and rendered less effective when constantly bombarded by man-made electrical fields. If this is true, it means that the channels of energy that run through our body will simply have less energy carrying capacity.

If this is possible, unnatural electrical fields may also be constricting our chakras, which means that less energy will be funneled into the meridians. When a person’s chakras are constricted, he/she is less apt to engage in spiritual growth.

These conditions would not only generate fatigue, the restricted energy flow would reduce the efficiency of all of our organs.

Because of the helplessness spiritual ignorance causes, it might also produce mental agitation and a vague, general feeling of being unwell. Under these circumstances, it does seem plausible to me that these vague, but continuous feelings of unrest could lead to suicidal behavior and/or drug addiction.

Everything alive today responds to subtle changes in the electromagnetic field.

Though most of us are not sensitive enough to consciously pick up changes in vibration, we feel these changes unconsciously. Though the effects of electromagnetic disharmony are subtle, it’s long range impact can be enormous, especially to the electrically sensitive. The people who are the most electromagnetically sensitive are infants, with autistic children being the most sensitive of all. There are some researchers who have speculated that harmful electrical fields are a primary cause of autism today. Because ADHD and bipolar disorder are just another side of the same coin, I suspect that the rise in these diseases are also at least partially caused by EMF pollution.

Psychics, spiritual healers, artists, and anyone who is highly intuitive tends to be more electrically sensitive than others.

Also, anyone who is sick with a chronic disease may be electrically compromised, as well as anyone who is mentally ill. As the purpose of acupuncture is to unblock stagnant energy, any practitioner of this science can attest to the fact that disturbed energy leads to disease.

Given the fact that we are resonating, vibrating, bioelectrical beings, do you think it can be good for us to be bathed in electromagnetic frequencies that encourage an unhealthy resonance?

Who really knows what this is doing to us, but it is like the heavy metals and environmental pollutants I have discussed so many times before on this website. A little bit probably makes very little difference in how we function biologically, but a little bit every day, all day long, for a lifetime can have monumental impact, especially if it prevents our bodies from detoxifying themselves. Because the effect is subtl [Bacteria reproduce 10 times faster when bathed in electromagnetic energy.] e and cumulative, we are like the proverbial lobster in the pot. If you start with cold water and then slowly heat it, the lobster won’t even know it’s being cooked.

In addition, when pathogens are grown in a Petri dish, they are known to reproduce themselves at a predictable rate.

If the Petri dish is bathed in electromagnetic energy, they will reproduce themselves ten times faster.

It is theorized that this is because they feel threatened and the rapid reproduction is a survival strategy. What that means at a practical level is that if those pathogens exist inside you, your disease state will manifest much quicker and be much more virulent if you are continuously bathed in the wrong kind of electromagnetic energy. Depending on the pathogens you are exposed to, this could be fatal.

According to a Dr. Mercola newsletter article entitled Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones, honeybees, which are vital to maintaining the world’s food supply, are also being effected by EMF pollution. When cell phones are placed near a hive, they won’t return to it because the electromagnetic vibration is disturbing to them. This is called colony collapse disorder, which has increased the loss of hives from a normal rate of 5-10% a year to 36%. In addition to harmful microwaves, it is speculated that pestacides, genetically modified crops, and unnatural food fed them by bee keepers also play their part in this disorder. Because a bees ability to navigate is dependent upon earth’s magnetic properties, they are also losing their way home, as are migratory birds. If this is true of birds and bees, it is probably also true of the fish that return to the same place every year to spawn. As we begin to lose these vitally important species, our own survival as a species is growing ever more tenuous.

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, a leader in the field of autism and Lyme disease, believes that all pregnant women and infants should be shielded from unnatural electromagnetic energy.

Because our bodies detoxify themselves at night, he advises creating a clean space in your bedroom where harmful waves cannot touch you.

This can be done by shutting off the electrical current to your bedroom at night, or by shielding your bed or your child’s crib with a specially treated cloth such as the one to the right, that blocks out harmful waves. This produces a Faraday Cage, which blocks out all electromagnetic energy foreign to the human organism. Farady cages have a known track record for helping people heal many different kinds of diseases, including Lyme‘s disease. [A Faraday Cage created out of special fabric.]

Another option is to move your bed at least four feet from the wall so that the electrical current running through the wires in the wall cannot harm you. Since your head and brain are the most vulnerable areas, it should be as far away from electrical sockets as possible. If it is impossible to move your bed away from the wall, and your head is near a socket, you can consider reversing the way you sleep with your head where your feet have been, as your head is the most vulnerable aspect of your anatomy. Also, remove all electrical appliances from your bedroom, or at the very least, unplug them at night before retiring.

Unhealthy magnetic fields occur on anything that has a motor or a pump, such as your refrigerator, dryer, air conditioner, or anything that has a transformer, which is that large, black electrical box that takes up so much room on your outlet.

These are on TV’s, stereos, computers, and printers. They are called point sources, which means that the magnetic field is strong at the box, but quickly diminishes the farther away you get from the source. These fields can penetrate walls. If you are sleeping with your head against a wall that has a refrigerator on the other side, every time it goes on in the middle of the night, you will be bathed in its unnatural magnetic field. It is also harmful to sleep next to the wall that contains your circuit breaker box for your house, as it will have a higher than normal magnetic field. Power transformers near your home or underground power lines can also be very dangerous, as their magnetic fields can extend 70 to 80 feet.

Another area of concern is cell phones and other wireless devices such as cordless phones, as well as cell towers.

Whereas house wire and appliances produce very low frequencies [Wifi sends out harmful waves of energy.] within the biological window, these devices produce very high frequencies, which the body tends to ignore. However, they do have the ability to produce maximum penetration into the body. Because they produce heat, cell phones are notorious for raising the tempera [Cordless phones produce harmful waves of energy.] ture of the brain 4-5 degrees centigrade. This is why they are suspected of causing brain cancer and acoustic neuroma, which is a tumor on the hearing nerve. In fact, it is speculated that cell phone use doubles your risk of brain cancer. This number is increased to five times more likely if you began your cell phone use before the age of 20.  That’s because the skulls of children are much thinner than the skulls of adults. Unfortunately, the brain does not contain sensors that feel temperature like the rest of the body does. If you hold your cell phone near another body part, you can feel the heat which emanates from it.

The problem with wireless devices like Wifi and cordless phones is that they transmit a constant signal whether the phone is in use or not. This forms a secondary wave that is around 200 Hz.

Because this is in the biological window of 250 Hz, Wifi and cordless phones can have a biological impact, especially if these devices are on twenty-four hours a day.

The base of your cordless phone is the problem, not the handset or satellite phones. Their harmful waves of energy can range between one quarter and one half mile, depending on the strength of your particular phone. This means that even if you do not have a cordless phone, your neighbor’s phone at the other end of the block can impact you, as well as every other cordless phone within range of your house. As these waves pass through our windows, but do not pass through walls, they tend to concentrate in rooms with natural lighting. This is why it is said that we are bombarded with more than a 1000 times more electromagnetic energy now than ever before in the history of humankind.

To deal with this onslaught of harmful electromagnetic energy, you can buy RF shielded material like the bed curtain cloth above, and make window curtains out of it, or you can line regular curtains with what is called a [Solar Blanket] solar blanket, which reflects the harmful waves. This material will also deflect the harmful waves that emanate from cell towers. Space blankets are very cheap and can be bought at camping supply stores as survival gear. They are especially good at night, for they block out all the light. However, for daytime use when you want natural lighting, the RF shielded material, though quite expensive, is much better. If you are very sick and want to see if an inexpensive Faraday Cage will help you heal, however, you could make a one out of these inexpensive solar blankets, simply by covering the walls, windows, and ceiling of your bedroom with them. Or, you can do a combination approach, using both curtains and solar blankets creatively to accomplish the goal.

Although I did not like the idea of getting rid of my cordless phone, I chose to replace mine with the old fashioned kind. To create mobility, I bought two 25 foot spiral cords and attached them together with a coupler. This gave me a 50 foot tether. Although its not as convenient as a cordless phone, it does give me peace of mind knowing that I’m doing my best to protect myself from these highly destructive waves.

Wifi also sends out a constant signal. Therefore, it is best to turn it off when not in use, especially at night before you go to bed.

If everyone in your household knows to turn it on before going on the Internet, then off again when they are finished, its damage will be minimized. You can use a power strip for this purpose. If you use the Internet all day long and want to minimize bathing yourself in harmful electromagnetic fields, it is best to connect to the Internet the old fashioned way by using an Ethernet cord attached to your modem. Mine is 30 feet long, so I’m not totally stationary.

Your neighbor’s Wifi can also effect you, which is another good reason to cover your windows with RF shielded material, or solar blankets, especially at night in your bedroom when you detoxify.

The most toxic phones are Smart phones, I phones, and Black Berries, which are harmful even when turned off. These phones are repeaters that act as relay stations.

They put out very strong frequencies that are harmful up to six feet away, whereas normal cell phones are only harmful up to three feet. Therefore, they not only effect you, but everyone around you. It is important to never use them in a confined space, such as an automobile. It is possible to make them harmless by turning them onto airplane mode. Although this will make it so you can’t hear the phone ring, when you want to use the phone, all you have to do is turn it back on. Unfortunately, headsets on all cell phones minimize damage, but they do not eliminate it. They are especially harmful to infants and children. Therefore, parents should be especially aware of turning their phones onto airplane mode when they are with their children.

Most adults are at least weakened by harmful electromagnetic frequencies. Anything that weakens the body or harms the brain can potentially damage our biological system. Because of how these harmful frequencies [Harmful cell phone towers.] damage our brains, it can also change the way we think, the way we feel, and what we do. When you add this kind of pollution to heavy metal poisoning, toxic food, environmental pollutants, and the parasites and pathogens that live off of the resulting cellular damage, electromagnetic pollution becomes a force to be reckoned with. If it does, indeed, shrink our meridians and constrict our chakras as some people believe, it also weakens spiritual growth, which has enormous social consequences. In fact, it could be one of the reasons why there has been such a sharp increase in drug addiction and alcoholism, and why so many of today’s teens become involved in drugs at such a young age.

There are three ways to reduce the harmful effects of electromagnetic pollution.

* You can either block the waves by shielding yourself from them,
* neutralize the waves, or
* ground them into the earth.

There are many devices on the market that claim to do this, though I am not sure how effective they are. I, myself, own something called an EarthPulse, which is a small electrically charged magnetic device I keep under my mattress. It produces an electrical field that pulses all night long to the frequency of the Schuman Wave. In the beginning, its effects were quite subtle, but as time wore on, they became more and more obvious. Its best effect is that I now experience deep and restful sleep for 8 to 9 hours each and every night without waking, much as I did when I was a child. My body seems to thoroughly enjoy the energy.

In addition, I have protected my entire home by using another device from a different company called an EarthCalm Scalar Home Protection System that I plug into an electrical socket. This device is supposed to neutralizes the current that runs through my walls. I also use an EarthCalm Scalar Resonator, which is a small device I wear as a necklace that is supposed to neutralize both the high and low frequencies that I come into contact with throughout the day. The company’s newest device is called an EarthCalm Omega Laptop protector, which you can plug into a USB port on your lap top to neutralize the harmful frequencies emanating from your computer. If you are a cell phone user, there is also a diode you can get that is supposed to neutralize these harmful waves as well. Because these devices are subtle, like the waves they neutralize, it is difficult for me to tell how well they work. Therefore, I cannot advise you on whether or not to buy them. I do, however, feel better knowing I have some protection, but that may be purely psychological.

[Turn off house current to your bedroom at night.] Because the only sure way to protect yourself is to avoid the frequencies all together, it is best to turn off the electricity to your sleeping areas at night, and to cover your windows with RF shielded material and/or solar blankets to keep out the harmful rays of Wifi, cordless phones, and cell towers.

Short of turning off the circuit breakers, you can at least unplug everything that is unplugable in your bedroom and choose not to sleep with your head near an outlet or a cell phone.

There are many, many products on the market that can shield you from EMF pollution. It is even possible to buy clothing made out of RF material. The best website I know of for this is: lessemf.com. Until our government decides to pass laws protecting us from harmful electromagnetic currents, I think protecting yourself from EMF pollution is of paramount importance in any cleansing regime. Because we are addicted to our technology, and because few of us really want to go back to the land to live as our ancestors did, we need to find a way to protect ourselves from this very real form of pollution that prevents us from detoxifying ourselves. Because allopathic physicians may be unaware of the connection between harmful electromagnetic energy and the impact it has on us, they may misdiagnose your mental condition and prescribe toxic drugs to suppress your symptoms instead of dealing with its source. Those who are empowered with knowledge and who are willing to act on what they know, must do what it takes to protect themselves in logical and precise ways.

This is not an issue of fear, but rather is simply an issue of making an informed decision related to manifesting the reality you want.

We have always lived in a dangerous world. In the past, the dangers were related to the lions and tigers and bears that prowled the wilderness. In olden times, you either learned how to protect yourself from predators or you died. Today, the dangers are far more subtle, but the same principle still applies.

Jim’s comments: Electromagnetic Radiation is without a doubt the most subtle and ubiquitous form of toxicity adversely effecting our health. I will be experimenting with some of Dr. Klinghardt’s suggestions and will post my observations and experience in new posts.

EMFs, Pregnancy & Autism

Anyone (not just infants and pregnant women) sleeping and working in high EMF environments and over Geo-pathic Stress will over time experience health problems.  Detrimental energies, such as EMFs, Geopathic Stress, cell phone radiation weaken the immune system opening the door to a host of illnesses.

Why Where You Sleep Matters if You Want a Healthy Baby

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt is well known for his successful treatment of neurological illness, chronic pain, and autistic children with Integrative Medicine.  Dr. Klinghardt explains how electromagnetic fields (EMF) interfere not only with your biology, but with that of your unborn child as well, and how it contributes to the creation of autism.

Rates of autism have increased nearly 60-fold since the late 1970s, with the most significant increases occurring in the past decade. It now affects about one in 150 U.S. children, but some sources claim it may be even higher than that. For example, researchers in Great Britain believe  one in 58 children may have some form of the condition!

Pre-Conception Healthcare may be one of the most important, yet largely ignored aspects of medicine to halt this alarming trend.  According to Dr. Klinghardt, one of the most important preconception health considerations is your level of electromagnetic field exposure, particularly where you sleep and work on a daily basis.

“Why the US Needs Pre-Conception Health care.”

Dr. Klinghardt performed a small study  showing that autism can actually be predicted based on the EMF levels of your sleeping quarters while pregnant! He found that if you sleep in strong electromagnetic fields during pregnancy, your child will likely begin to exhibit neurological abnormalities within the first two years of life, such as:  neurological dysfunction, hyperactivity and learning disorders.

I’ve previously written about the many dangers of EMF’s, and information-carrying radio waves from cell phones in particular, which have been found to:

*Damage your cell membranes

*Decrease your intracellular communication by disrupting micro-tubular connections that allow bio-photons to communicate between cells

*Increase deposits of heavy metals into your cells, which increases intracellular production of free radicals and can radically decrease cellular production of energy — thus making you incredibly fatigued

Getting your bedroom and work space measured for EMF’s and changing the position of your bed may be one of the best things you can do for the future health of your baby. I am absolutely convinced that the explosion in cell phone and Wi-Fi usage is one of the primary contributing factors to the rising autism rates as it further increases the dangers of vaccines and other heavy metal exposure. It also potentiates the production of toxic microbes and endotoxins.

One of Dr. Klinghardt’s European colleagues did an experiment on microbial cultures, comparing the growth and endotoxin production between microbes shielded in faraday cages, compared to cultures subjected to typical EMF exposure without protection. The proliferation and endotoxin went up 600 percent when subjected to ambient EMFs.

Jim’s thoughts:

In my fourteen years of looking at live blood I have seen a dramatic increase in mycoplasma infection and endotoxin proliferation. I have suspected this increase is related to increase exposure to dangerous Electro-magnetic radiation from cell phones, cell towers and other wireless technology. I am researching technologies to reduce damage from these fields. For now I advise people to minimize exposure to cell phone and tower radiation and to eat a high quality seaweed supplement called Modifilan which I carry in my office and is supplied by other health care practitioners.

Adaptogens – Herbs for Stress Relief

An adaptogen energy supplement improves the body’s adrenal and immune function and ability to adapt to stress, trauma, anxiety and fatigue while having an overall normalizing and balancing effect.

Adaptogens are protective and raise an individual’s resistance to physical, chemical, or biological stresses. Over half a million people were given eleuthero (an adoptogen) after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, to help counteract the effects of radiation.

An adaptogen energy supplement boosts recovery and has the power to normalize the physiological functioning of organisms suffering from various physical problems (homeostasis). Although powerful, adaptogen herbal supplements must be harmless to the individual, disturbing natural bodily functions as little as possible.

Adaptogens have the most broad-spectrum healing properties of any herbal medicines. One of their primary values is that they specifically relieve stress. The main effects of adaptogens are an increased availability of energy during the day, a reduction of stress feelings, increased endurance, greater mental alertness, and deep and restful sleep. Adaptogens also significantly accelerate the recovery process after illness and sports activities.

Adaptogenic herbs include eleuthero, ginseng, agaricus blazei, ashwagandha, maca and jiaogulan. Adaptogens reduce stress and boost energy, while correcting hormonal imbalances in the body.

Dr. Hans Selye, (1907-1982), the “father of stress research,” discovered that hormones participate in the development of many degenerative diseases.

In general, the hormonal responses aid adaptation to environmental change or stimuli; but they are sometimes the cause of disease, especially if the state of stress is prolonged or intense.

When this occurs, the body goes through the three stages of what is called the “general adaptation syndrome.”

Stage One: Alarm
It is important for this stage to function normally as it generates a number of critical metabolic responses for any person.

Release of the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, occur in this stage. Valuable in the short term, these hormones become disruptive to effective cellular function over a long period of time. Cortisol is a hormone with wide ranging effects on tissues throughout the body. One of the most widely recognized is its immunosuppressive effect. It also has a negative impact on energy regulation. Cortisol decreases the movement of glucose from the bloodstream into muscle cells (and several other types of cell). This is meant to be a protective response, conserving blood glucose for essential functions, such as brain activity. However, during any prolonged stress, cortisol decreases the availability of this energy.

Stage Two: Resistance
This is the stage where adaptive changes take place. Increased fitness is a perfect example of an adaptive response to physical stress. When the adaptation occurs, the individual returns to “homeostasis” or normal equilibrium. However, each individual’s capacity to adapt is limited and completely unique. Overwhelm the individual’s adaptive capacity, and you risk illness or injury. That’s when you enter the final stage – exhaustion.

Stage Three: Exhaustion
This stage is characterized by the observed onset of symptoms of fatigue, including injury or illness.

With the addition of adaptogens, the first two stages are handled very differently. Adaptogens modify the alarm phase and increase the resistance phase. This is critical, as these benefits provide protection to a stressed person by helping to maintain optimal cellular function as long as possible before the onset of exhaustion.

When adaptogens are added, the person still mounts an appropriate response to a stressful event, but the changes in cell function that result are more moderate and have less of an adverse effect on the entire body. The general action of adaptogens is well demonstrated by looking at the effect of stress on blood glucose levels. Shortly after a person becomes stressed, the stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) cause a rapid increase in blood glucose. Once it peaks, the blood glucose rapidly falls to lower than normal levels. Adaptogens moderate this response.

In other words, adaptogens do not block the stress response; rather, they smooth out the roller coaster highs and lows associated with the stress response. This conserves valuable energy in the alarm phase for use in the resistance phase.

Adaptogens increase the function of healthy immune systems when taken over a period of time. Adaptogens help the adrenal glands which produce hormones to aid us in dealing with stress and help prevent adrenal exhaustion.

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How to Reduce Heavy Metal Toxicity

How to Reduce Heavy Metal Toxicity
James Jordan, Certified Nutritional Consultant

It was in 1974 that Marvin Gaye’s ecologically inspired hit song “Mercy, Mercy Me” helped bring to the public’s awareness the contamination of our environment with the line, “Fish full of mercury, mercy, mercy me”. Unfortunately the news is no better today.

Although tuna and other large fish consistently have mercury levels far above minimum government safety standards, the public is often the last to know how toxic their food supply is. Over one in five women of childbearing age who had their mercury levels tested from hair analysis showed toxic levels of mercury above the minimum federal government standard. Of course this assumes that the federal level of safe is in fact safe. Most independent studies concluded that there is no safe level of toxic mercury in the body.

These high mercury levels are not just caused by mercury in fish.  There are numerous sources for several toxic metals that combine to put you and your family at risk for chronic health problems, low energy and a weak immune system.

Mercury vapors escape from dental amalgams throughout the day and contribute to many symptoms and degenerative health problems including: chronic fatigue, headaches, chronic pain, auto-immune and other chronic conditions such as: MS, ALS, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Parkinsons, Diabetes, Eczema, Urinary and prostate problems, candida over-growth and many more. Mercury is cyto-toxic – toxic to all cells in your body including: brain cells, blood cells, bone cells and poisons your endocrine, immune, digestive and neurological systems. A person with several amalgam dental fillings will excrete as much as 10 times the mercury than a person without amalgam fillings. The mercury does its damage before being excreted by the body.

Having personally suffered from heavy metal poisoning and fortunately recovering I know firsthand the horrible symptoms of this problem, which for me, included: tremendous fatigue, depression, anxiety, pain in the body, constipation and overall horrible digestion, and immune suppression. I also know how it is possible to reduce one’s toxic load of heavy metals and experience a resurgence of energy and health.

One of the reasons for mercury levels going up in our bodies is the lack of proper education as to the sources of toxic metals such as mercury and the lack of responsible regulation and preventive measures by government, the medical and dental professions and industry. For example, according to a Chicago Tribune article from December of 2005, an FDA spokesman said that canned light tuna was arbitrarily labeled low in mercury to “keep market share at a reasonable level”. Industry lobbying often affects official government safety warnings regarding toxic levels of mercury.

In this article you will learn:

• The primary sources of heavy metal toxicity for the general public
  • How heavy metal toxicity effects your health
  • The first steps in reducing your heavy metal toxic load

History of heavy metal exposure

The metals accumulate in your cells and tissues, interrupt cellular function, damage DNA and slowly destroy people’s health if they are not removed from your body.

The most common heavy or toxic metals are: mercury, nickel, lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, platinum and copper (the metal form, not the ionic form required by the body). These metals have no function in the body and are hazardous to your health.

Toxic metals, of course, have been around for many centuries and have even been implicated in the decline of the Roman Empire. It is widely accepted by historians that lead contamination of the wine and grape juice drank by Romans from lead lined jugs resulted in the decline of the physical and mental health of the citizens of Rome. Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically since the end of WWII when toxic metal use increased exponentially in industrial processes and products. We are now suffering the consequences of this exposure.

Adverse health effects of heavy metal toxicity

Numerous studies confirm that toxic metals have damaging effects on all the cells of the body and directly impair neurological, immune, endocrine, digestive, respiratory and detoxification functions of the body. Most of this damage is a result of the oxidative damage done to cells from the toxic metals. Even minute amounts of heavy metal exposure can negatively impact your health, but the following factors determine to what degree you will suffer:

1. Nutritional status, especially anti-oxidant levels such as vitamins C, E and beta carotene, selenium and glutathione levels.
2. Strength of an individual’s detoxification organs: colon, liver, kidneys and lungs.
3. Quantity and duration of the toxic exposure.
4. Immune system strength.
5. Other toxic exposures such as chemicals and radiation levels.

Common sources of metal toxicity and effects
Aluminum

Sources: Aluminum cookware, aluminum foil wraps, antacids, anti-perspirants, baking powder, buffered aspirin, food additives, lipstick, medications, processed cheeses, tap water.
Target organs: Bones, brain, kidneys and stomach
Symptoms and conditions related to aluminum toxicity: Gastroenteritis, kidney damage, liver damage, Neurological damage, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, psychosis, muscle pain.
I have seen high levels of aluminum in most of my clients who get a hair analysis. Along with mercury it is the most common heavy metal toxicity.

Arsenic

Sources: Air pollution, antibiotics given to commercial livestock, coal-fired coal plants, herbicides and insecticides, drinking water.
Target organs: All, especially lungs, skin and gastrointestinal tract.
Symptoms and conditions related to arsenic toxicity: Abdominal pain, burning of mouth and throat, skin and lung cancer, nausea, cardiovascular disease.

Cadmium

Sources: Air pollution, cigarette smoke, art supplies, food grown in cadmium soaked soils, mining, batteries, fungicides, power plant emissions.
Target tissues: brain, hear and blood vessels, kidneys and lungs.
Symptoms and conditions related to cadmium toxicity: Anemia, dry and scaly skin, emphysema, hair loss, depressed immune system, loss of sense of smell, lung cancer, back and leg pain.
Smokers should all switch to natural cigarettes, which although addictive, do not contain the toxic chemicals and heavy metals that commercial cigarettes are laced with. American Spirits are one brand I am aware of that is less toxic.

Lead

Sources of exposure: Air pollution, ammunition, bathtubs (cast-iron, porcelain and steel), batteries, canned foods, ceramics, chemical fertilizers, cosmetics, dust, foods grown around industrial areas, gasoline, hair dyes and rinses, leaded glass, newsprint, paints, pesticides, tobacco smoke, vinyl mini-blinds.

Target tissues: Bones, brain, heart, kidneys, liver, nervous system and pancreas.
Symptoms and conditions related to lead toxicity: Abdominal pain, anemia, anorexia anxiety, bone pain, brain damage, confusion constipation , fatigue, headaches, hypertension, inability to concentrate, indigestion, memory difficulties, loss of appetite, loss of muscle coordination.
A Center for Disease Control study in 1984 concluded that 3-4 million American Children have dangerous levels of toxic lead in their systems.

Mercury

Sources of exposure: Air pollution, batteries, cosmetics, dental amalgams, diuretics, electrical devices and relays, explosives, foods (grains), fungicides, fish, insecticides, pesticides, paint, petroleum products, tap water, vaccines, anti-biotics.

Target tissues: Brain, cell membranes, kidneys, nervous system (central and peripheral).
Symptoms and conditions related to mercury toxicity: Abnormal nervous and physical development (fetal and childhood), anemia, anorexia, anxiety, depression, blindness, dizziness, emotional instability, fatigue, headaches, hypertension, insomnia, kidney damage and failure, loss of appetite and sense of smell, nerve damage, metallic taste in mouth, Multiple Sclerosis.

The biggest doses of mercury you get are from your dental fillings which release mercury vapors into your mouth every time you chew food. Fish contaminated from mercury is a close second and the most damaging is from the vaccines children get which lead to gastrointestinal and neurological damage and has been implicated in autism.

I have had mercury toxicity at high levels two times in my life once from my dental fillings and a second time from eating too much mercury contaminated fish. I can’t recommend highly enough to get your mercury levels checked with a simple, inexpensive hair analysis and take appropriate action.

Nickel

Source of exposure: Appliances, ceramics, cocoa, cooking utensils, cosmetics, coins, dental materials, hair spray, food grown near industrial areas, shampoo, industrial waster, medical implants, orthodontic appliances, water faucets and pipes, tobacco smoke, tap water.
Target tissues: Skin, larynx, lungs, nasal passages.
Symptoms and conditions associated with nickel toxicity: Apathy, Cancer, headaches, fever, dizziness, insomnia, nausea, rapid heart rate, skin rashes, shortness of breath.
Read the above lists over again and notice how the most common human activities expose you to toxic metals. Everything from chewing your food, the foods themselves, drinking water, putting make up on your face and dyeing your hair, breathing the air.

The good news is you can do something about it!

How to Detoxify Heavy Metals

Here are the key steps to reducing your toxic metal load:
1. The first step is to get a baseline hair analysis test. Many health care practitioners are offering these simple, inexpensive tests. I offer this test through my office in Ashland, Oregon. Contact me at (541) 482-2250 to set up an appointment.

Please see more about my detoxification services .

2. Reduce your exposure to toxic metals. See the list I have above and start working on removing the most common exposures. To get your dental amalgams removed go to www.mercuryfree.com ; www.dams.com / 1.800.311.6265 and www.iaomt.org to find a mercury free dentist near you. If you live in or near Ashland, Oregon I recommend Dr. Eugene Robbins, (541) 488-0726.

3. Get an evaluation to determine if you are ready to plunge into a heavy metal detoxification program or maybe start on a colon cleanse and liver cleanse first. An analysis of your health history can help me advise you on where to start, contact my office at (541) 482-2250 and visit my website for a list of my services.

4. Get started on detoxifying heavy metals: A safe place for most to start is with sauna therapy.

5. Start taking chlorella (1-3 tsps/day): chlorella has the most beneficial effect of any food in binding with heavy metals to detoxify them. I carry a colloidal form of chlorella and cilantro combination called Nano-collodial Detox factors (NDF) in my office.
My office number is (541) 482-2250.

6. Reduce your fish consumption to once per week and select low mercury fish such as: tilapia, sardines, Alaskan Salmon and shrimp. MORE…

These few steps will start you in the direction of reducing your toxic metal load. For those of you who have seen me already you know I sound like a broken record when I launch into my underlying causes of illness talk, but I have to emphasize again that all sub-health conditions are caused, primarily, by just three factors:

• Toxins, which are: chemicals, heavy metals and radiation.
• Nutrient deficiencies and imbalances: many possibilities here.
• Unprocessed emotional trauma and chronic stress.

Toxic metals are often the core of one’s deepest toxicities. Once the toxic metal load is reduced chronic infections will abate, digestion and nutrient absorption will improve, memory and brain function will improve and your immune system will get stronger. My clients, as well as myself owe much of our health recovery to addressing underlying heavy metal toxicity.

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