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What is Wireless RF Radiation?
We are influenced by vibration "frequency" at every moment of our lives. Our brains, our hearts, and each of our individual cells all have unique vibration rates to them. Even the earth itself has a frequency that eminates from it. The entire world of matter works on vibration, and Wireless RF technologies works in the same way. Wireless technology works by sending electromagneticenergy waves through the air using a defined set of frequencies. The frequencies that are used in wireless technologies fall around the ranges of 900Mhz, 2.4Ghz, and 5Ghz.
The most common term used for referencing any frequency rate over time is Hertz. A value of 1 Hertz means that the energy waveform cycles only 1 time per second. You could say that the 1hz wave goes up and down 1 time every second. Other common terms used for referencing higher frequency values are of the following.
You can think of frequency as being like the waves of an ocean. The amplitude and wavelength characteristics give the wave its form. The wavelength is the physical gap between the peaks of 2 neighboring waves. The amplitude is how high the peak of each wave is from the middle of the wave. The frequency is the "up and down" rate of the wave, also known as cycles per second or oscillation rate. Shown below is an example of these 3 characteristics.
Example: If the graph above was showing us a 1 second time frame, this image would then be showing a 2 hertz frequency, or 2 cycles per second. The first wave at the left edge starts to go up, it then comes all of the way down , and then the 1st wave completes when it goes up and meets that middle line. At that point we have the start of the 2nd wave.
The various forms of radiation all have different ranges of frequency that they fall within as shown below. For example, our ears function by reacting to frequencies within a certain range and our eyes react to another frequency range.
There are 2 categories of radiation, non-ionizing and ionizing. Ionizing radiation exists at the faster frequencies of the radiation scale, and has enough energy behind it to actually knock electrons out of the orbits of an atom. This can have devastating effects to a biological system. Ionizing radiation would promote dysfunction and disease very rapidly, and the radiation would be systemic.
We can be exposed to Ionizing radiation from a number of sources. These include things like minerals in the ground and radon gas that can accumilate in basements, cosmic sources such as the sun, man-made materials used in medical devices and weapons, and also in consumer type products such as tap water and jewerly. Conditions and diseases that can occur due to ionizing radiation exposure can be found here.
Non-ionizing radiation does not have the power required to knock electrons out of the orbits of an atom. Sources of non-ionizing radiation are power lines, home wiring, light bulbs, radios, cell phones, wireless wifi networks, microwave ovens, televisions, computers, phones, infrared technologies, visible light, laser lights, motors, heater coils, and so many other things. The fields that almost any device produces can have many different types of effects on the cellular processes of the biological body. The effects of this type of radiation cover a wide range of areas including hormone imbalance, sleep disorders, cardiovascular diseases, various pains in the body, fatigue and many more.
Review our health page section to find out more. Take our health survey to let us know how you are affected.
Does Wireless Have an Effect on Biology?
The simple answer is YES. Our cells communicate with each other using not only chemical processes but also bioelectrical signals and also electromagnetic fields "EMFs". These EMF fields help regulate the biochemical processes within the cells and also allow cells to communicate information to eachother. Maintaining balance in the cellular electromagnetic fields is absolutely crucial when it comes to maintaning the physical health of your body.
There are now over 7,000 studies that show in many different types of ways that biological health effects are produced from very low level wireless RF and other types of radiation. The studies show that these effects happen at much lower power levels than our agencies deem safe. This is because our exposure safety standards are based on thermal effects, not biological effects. A few links below include citations to thousands of these studies, and there are also more out there!
Shown below are the areas of action that the NMRI study has concluded for the effects of wireless RF non-ionizing radiation.
Many different types of reactions can be seen when the body is exposed to wireless radiation, and this isn't even ionizing radiation. This is happening because each cell is now having to try to decode what an external field is "telling it". Now we will give just one example of a condition that happens in the body when exposure to wireless radiation occurs.
Stress & Rapid Aging on the Body
Wireless technologies can activate stress proteins, and when your body decides that there is a stress situation then it starts to release stress hormones. This is in preparation to protect your body from a percieved threat. Your body is designed to properly handle stress, but only for quick and acute situations. It is not designed to handle being in a state of stress for extended periods of time. If you do not have adequate periods of rest while no stress is involved then you begin accelerating aging to your body. this is because your body is not able to recuperate.
There are 2 conditions in the human body that cannot peacefully coexist: the growth mechanism, and the protection "fight or flight" mechanism. When your body is in "flight or fight" mode it shuts down growth in order to allocate your energy supplies towards protection. One thing that it does is preferentially allocate the blood flow away from the internal organ systems and frontal portions of the brain and it actually routes that blood flow to the outer limbs of the body and to the back of the brain. The function of this process is to create a situation for reacting very quickly to what is going on around you. If a car or bear is coming at you, you want to be able to react to that situation very quickly! You don't have time to think about it before you take action.
Being stressed and/or in the protection state also can vastly decrease immune response. Your immune system uses a lot of energy while having to constantly handle both the internal threats to the body (such as viruses, bacteria, fungi) and also that bear. If that bear is charging at you where does your body want your priorities to be at? Is it important to first deal with the internal threat of let's say a bacterial infection, or that cold you started getting 2 days ago, or is it important first to deal with the external threat of the bear?
The "fight or flight" protection response of the body will override the internal immune responses and also inhibit the growth mechanism. If you remain in this state for long periods of time you will damage the body. Non-ionizing radiation such as wireless and cellular communications are non-ionizing radiation sources. Smart meters use both of these technologies.
Government & Industry is Still Behind
Despite very strong scientific correlation from many different sources, wireless technology in the U.S. does not have a track record of having very strict standards. However in 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) & the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) finally raised the bar by classifying non-ionizing radiation as a (Class 2B) carcinogen. This means that the official stance of the WHO is that non-ionizing radiation could cause cancer in humans.
“This category includes agents for which, at one extreme, the degree of evidence of carcinogenicity in humans is almost sufficient, as well as those for which, at the other extreme, there are no human data but for which there is evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.
This classification is a step in the right direction in the public's awareness. With the IARC's indication of a potential link for human health and non-ionizing radiation, it can no longer be denied despite the many people, as well as corporations' claims that there are no studies proving that wireless RF radiation has effects on biology. Remember what we said earlier, there are thousands of studies!
Helpful Links
Goldsworthy--Health Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation
RF Color Charts (BioInitiative Report)
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Terms to Know
Advanced meter: smart meter (term used by DTE to hide the fact it is a smart meter).
AMI meter and AMI program: another name for the smart meter and the smart meter program. AMI stands for advanced metering infrastructure.
Blood-brain barrier: EMFs can cause the blood-brain barrier to be breached, allowing toxins to enter the brain. Toxin entry is thought to be partially responsible for Alzheimer’s, dementia, and Parkinson’s.
Dirty electricity: spiky, pulsed electromagnetic field generated by smart meters that rides through building wiring and permeates the building’s rooms. Responsible for many of the health problems seen with smart and digital meters.
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs): consist of an electrical field and a magnetic field. Fields are created by the flow of electrical current through the wire, sunlight, etc.
Electromagnetic frequency: examples are 60 Hz electrical current of your home, RF of a cell phone. Often used interchangeably with electromagnetic field.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS): sensitivity to electromagnetic fields. Symptoms are complex and involve all bodily systems
Hydrogen bonds: Electrostatic bonds that help hold the DNA double helix together. Breakage of hydrogen bonds may cause changes in DNA that can lead to cancer. RF and other EMFs may disrupt the Hydrogen bonds.
Meter upgrade: the installation of an advanced (smart) meter on your home by DTE.
Microwave radiation: the type of radiation emitted by smart meters. Known to cause biological harm.
Non-transmitting meter: another name for the DTE and Consumers opt-out meters.
Opt-out meter: this is a smart meter. The only thing that is different is the radio-transmitter is turned off. It still generates dirty electricity, it still retains the two antennas, and it is only incrementally less harmful to your health. It can still record detailed information about your electrical usage.
Radio-disabled meter: another name for the DTE opt-out meter.
Radio-off meter: another name for the DTE opt-out meter.
Radiofrequency (RF): high-frequency electromagnetic waves in the range of 10 MHz to 300 Ghz. All wireless devices, including smart meters, cell phones, and Wi-Fi emit RF.
Switched mode power supply: contained in all smart meters, it creates dirty electricity.
van der Waals bonds: an extremely weak electromagnetic force that helps hold the DNA double helix together. Breakage of the van der Waals bond may cause changes in DNA that can lead to cancer. RF and other EMFs can disrupt the van der Waals bonds.