What Are EMFs, How Do They Work, & Why Do They Matter?
An EMF is an ElectroMagnetic Field.
Electromagnetic waves have both electric and magnetic fields, perpendicular to each other, that travel through space in an invisible wave-like pattern at the speed of light.
Electric fields are created by differences in voltage whenever a positive or negative electrical charge is present. The higher the voltage, the stronger will be the resultant field.
- Electric fields arise from voltage.
- Their strength is measured in Volts per metre (V/m).
- An electric field can be present even when a device is switched off.
- Field strength decreases with distance from the source.
- Most materials shield electric fields to some extent.
Magnetic fields are created when electric current flows: the greater the current, the stronger the magnetic field.
- Magnetic fields arise from the motion of electric charges.
- Their strength is measured in amperes per meter (A/m). Commonly, EMF investigators use a related measure, flux density (in microtesla (µT) or millitesla (mT) instead.
- Magnetic fields exist as soon as a device is switched on and current flows.
- Field strength decreases with distance from the source.
- Magnetic fields are not attenuated by most materials.
A changing magnetic field will induce a changing electric field, and vice-versa - the two are inextricably linked. Fluctuations in these fields form electromagnetic waves.
Electromagnetic waves can travel not only through air and solid materials, but also through space.
Electromagnetic fields are present everywhere in our environment but are invisible to the human eye.
The Earth itself has its own magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic fields are comprised of a variety of sources, including the overall direct current (DC) field of the planet, magnetized rocks under our feet, Schumann resonances, solar flares, tectonic plate movements, telluric currents on the planet’s surface, and cosmic radiation.
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The human body produces complex electrical activity in all cells, including neurons, endocrine, and muscle cells. As with all electricity, this activity also creates a magnetic field.These fields are extremely weak and are only detectable with extremely sensitive equipment, and requires blocking out all other external magnetic fields, including the Earth’s magnetic fields.
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Electronic devices also produce EMFs (as well as radiofrequency energy or RFs, which we will cover in an upcoming post), which can have a significant impact on the human body in our increasingly technologically driven world.
All forms of electromagnetic energy are collectively known as the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Different forms of electromagnetic energy are categorized by and expressed in terms of their frequencies, wavelengths, and total energy. The strength of an EMF depends on its wavelength and frequency: more waves with shorter wavelengths create more energy as you move up the spectrum.
Now that you know what are EMFs and how they work, why do they matter?
More energy (measured in electron volts) poses more threat to human health. In fact, "the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has labeled magnetic fields a class 3 carcinogen." source
Electric fields can affect the electrical communication in your body, such as your brainwaves, or the ability of your neurons to fire and communicate. It can also impede inter-cell communication anywhere in your body. Health problems that can manifest as a result to this type of exposure include neurological- and behavioral changes, altered cell growth, cell mutations, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and even cancer. ~ source
The potential impact of EMFs on human health is worth consideration, so we will go deeper into this topic in another article, including how to shield yourself from their impact.
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How depressing - just five minutes ago read an article about how there's basically micro fibres of plastic EVERYWHERE, and then read this. May as well just surgically insert a cancer tubour inside myself and the rest of my family and be done with it!
Or could perhaps take a half-hearted measure to protect against and try to find on ebay some dilapidated router that only connects by html cable and doesn't have a wifi antenna. Or go all out and make a small hobbit house in the middle of the woods far away from everyone... except for the plastic micro fibres of course...
The world is in a really dysfunctional state, and there is quite a lot stacked against the human for real thrival. However, we embody accessible, sustainable solutions and we're here to inspire others towards full spectrum health because it IS still possible to be happy and healthy in a dysfunctional world!
And of course there are tons of safe ways to go from a cancerous cell to a non-cancerous cell if you do decide to get that implant @kate-m LOL.
It might be that I have a slight flare for melodrama, probably I won't opt for the fatalistic implant option :P I'm actually quite an optimistic person! Planting food, touching earth, walking in the forest, singing songs round campfires... not giving in to the stresses of the modern world, that is the way to walk.
Oh, and maybe a few tin hats and wall paper apparentyl! I should read
mackjez-santo infos on these things.
@kate-m
I go for the last option...😋 ... Let's go back to the days of our great great grand parents... Peaceful...healthy and all natural...
Tomorrow morning I'm going to go visit some land for sale on the edge of a National Park in Brazil, in beside a big territory owned by a Hare Krishna community, way up a mountain valley hugging the Atlantic forest and looking out over the Atlantic down below. An anti-capitalist oriented guy who wants to set up a small eco villa and looking for sound heads to share it with - I reckon that counts! We met for coffee today and there might have been talk of tree houses - that's nearly hobbit!
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wow..a project like @thegardenofeden
nice one and keep us posted here so we can visit... find time to check my natural health tips... regards
We'll see. I won't be making any decisions until next year, but it's interesting to visit some places and swap ideas. I've actually got three different friends with similar ideas. The link to garden of eden didn't seem to work...
Thanks for that heads up - it should be fixed now.
Gardenof Eden, do you have any old posts giving an overview of your project??
sorry check it out @gardenofeden and also check out @quinneaker and @everlove these folks can guide you best...
do also visit my health blog @kenhudoy for some good natural health options and more coming up soon!
Thanks!
Welcome dear and keep steeming hot... I did updated some nice post which may interest you today... More coming soonest
I went to visit that bit of land I mentioned, I thought you'd be interested to see a couple of photos. Really special place at the head of a valley, just above a Hare Krishna community and only 30 minutes from Paraty (beautiful little historical town on the Green coast between Rio and Sao Paulo, an important tourist destination). Definitely food for thought!
One side of the land has a sizable river running along it, interspersed with swimming holes and water chutes.
At one stage the forest opens up to a hillside pasture going up the hill, with great views all the way down the valley to the Atlantic down below.
So quiet! Beautiful. 31 hectares of bliss. The owner has all sorts of cool ideas for a research and volunteer centre, yoga room, a kundalini landscaped garden, agroforestry, vegplots and tree houses.
Maybe if Steem decides to take off I can go for it :)
Wow...such a serene and peaceful place to live near nature...just like Eden... Nice photos...is the owner selling?
It really is serene and peaceful, just the birds and the sound of the waterfall. There's a fantastic Hare Krishna community next door with a beautiful temple where they dance and sing twice a day. The owner changed his mind about living in glorious isolation and has decided that he wants some like-minded neighbours, and so is thinking of selling off some lots of a couple of hectares for people to construct eco-houses on. He has an idea of it being a loose sort of eco-community where if people have cool ideas for projects then they can also, following dialogue, make use of the larger area that he will remain owner of. He's quietly connecting with selected people to see if they are interested. A real nice guy, has had an interesting and varied career and is really keen to settle in to the landscape up there and build something that adheres to his values. Has been involved with the hare krishnas, rainbow meetings, high cuisine, acting, all sorts. I like that he would be selling lots so there would ultimately be a high degree of autonomy and also privacy for whoever buys.
I'm not currently in a position to say yes, but the next 12 months is going to see a lot of changes for me so who knows.
I think I'd like to research a bit also other similar projects, find out what are the pitfalls and what is it that makes these kind of projects work. I suspect it's being very clear as regards expectations and commitments on all sides.
That sounds really exciting!! Best wishes for your success, @kate-m~*~
It 's actually possible to cable all your devises today, so nobody need to get any wifi-radiation at all. If you live to close to your nabough, and his wifi.field is hitting you house you just need to shield, with wall paper or paint, canopies or bed sheets/duvet. Anything is possble, its just the awareness that are missing on this topic.
If you are interested to learn more about this topic and how to shield yourself and your family then check out my latest postings
It's beautiful how opportunities are knocking..at least the window is open already! May you be blessed with a sacred place that provides a healthy environment to expand and thrive. Blessings to you @kate-m from the @gardenofeden. Though we may not have completely escaped the potential dangers of modern life, at least we powerfully stand in this journey together and make the very most of what we have right now. Glad to see you here!
Than you everlove. I really was being a bit melodramatic about the dangers of modern life, as long as I manage to keep up a bit of regular exercise I'm sure I'll be fine. I posted above some photos of the land I mentioned, have a look! A little slice of paradise!
OH yes I figured you were. Sometimes we all feel like hiding under a rock and away from all the crazy potential dangers of our modern existence. Grateful you too have a sweet slice of paradise!!! <3
I'm heading back to gloomy old England in two weeks! But now I feel that Paraty is a second home, even if I don't own land I know I've got loads of friends with whom I can stay. You don't actually need money to have a slice of paradise! (although it may come with discomfort caveats!)
Truly paradise is within and we carry it with us (or not!!!) wherever we go! It is great to have support and people we love to share with in a home away from home. Seems like you're getting a good dose of the awesomeness!
Yep! Doing field work researching wild food plants is awesome! You meets lots of great people!
And get all kinds of healthy!!!
This day in age people don't even think much about this and yet its influencing almost everyone.
This is an important topic and I look forward to all the information and solutions to be shared on this topic!
Looking forward to doing some experiments and sharing our results and continued research! It's important for people to start talking about and considering this, because as you say it is influencing almost everyone yet almost no one is aware.
Agreed!
Thanks for all the valuable contributions!
Absolutely great post, we need more awareness on the topic. I myself have produced posts touching different angles of this topic, Please check it out. We need to be ahead of the coming 5G network which is launced very soon, which will be a big game changer to the human health:-(. The frequency band for the coming 5G will be between 6-100 Ghz, which lies above the frequency band of a micro waves oven:-(
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Wow, that's intense, thanks for sharing @mackjez-santos. There's so much more to say on this topic, and we will continue this series! It is indeed important info!
Great comment and insight @mackjez-santos ... 5g between 6-100 Ghz, which lies above the frequency band of a micro waves oven...hmm so you mean govt can't ensure they come out with safety standards .. we have too many issues of brain tumor and cancer due to EMR... Now this...😑
The Eu-parlament's "wifi-radiation exposure" guideline is 100 micro watt/squaremeter. I have many times measured exposure from an Ipad above 10,000 micro watt/squareemeter and especially the new dual band routers, those are off scale. To be honest there is no safe limit as long as we want healthy women's and future kids. The eggs in a woman's ovary is 10 times more sensitive to exposure than an adult human body. Meaning, those eggs absorbes all the radiation a girl has been exposed to sinse she was born, and even before, because a woman is born with all her eggs, she don't produce them. There is so many layers of danger to this topic, that its almost unbelievable it have ever been created and used for all these years. By the way, the exposure guideline of the US is higher than EU-parlaments, its 10,000 micro watts/squaremeter. And think about the "BioInitiative report's" exposure guideline, made by doctor's and real scientists, it's only 5 microwatt/squaremeter. It is bad...bad....bad
If you want to learn more try google the "BioInitiative Report pdf"
hmmm.. little wonder issues abound wit reproducion these days... i hope this problem gets a better solution and thanks and keep it up creating such awareness... will join you ... in this quest for better health.. do check also my health tips in my blog... thanks
Yes, I will definitely do
thanks and keep steeming
a great primer to an interesting yet complicated topic... I'm curious where you'll take this one.
Yes we have some really GREAT ideas for the next few weeks on this one!
not bad, magnetic fields are also measured in flux
Thanks for that addition. While this is a very basic intro, we are looking forward to continuing a series on energy.
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Learning.... Thanks for sharing this EMF comes with it's radiation bad to the body. Tks
All that I write below, refers only to my personal observations and information received from my acquaintances.
I want to write a little about carcinogenicity, as an effect on our body of many external factors, such as electromagnetic radiation. It so happened that, through the will of fate, I have been closely associating with practicing surgeons and pharmacists all my life. All of them, in one voice, say that 99% of the probability of acquiring cancer in a person depends on his genetics. Examples are given of very wealthy people leading an absolutely healthy lifestyle, paying close attention to their health, but at the same time diagnosed cancer in 40-50 years. There are also examples of people who have worked most of their lives with dangerous objects, such as radiologists, radar operators, miners who extract radioactive elements. And these people, often live many years without knowing the health problems and even more so with cancer.
Doctors say that genetic predisposition is the most powerful factor in the development of health problems, in second place nutrition, and only then external factors. That's why I'm reading your blog. You write about the second most important factor affecting our health. From the first factor, we still can not escape. And the third factor is too insignificant to pay attention to it.
Genetics is not the cause of disease. Genetics may give you a predisposition to be more effected by some things than others but it DOES NOT mean you will get cancer. I can say with 100% certainty that I will never have cancer because of the lifestyle I now lead. And my body was the perfect breeding ground for things such as cancer before I changed. The majority of people know nothing about genetics and it is an easy scapegoat when doctors either don't know the cause of an issue or they refuse to implicate other things that don't fall in line with what they are taught by the corporations that rule the world.
I would really like you to be right. Then people would have a real chance to find a solution to the incidence of cancer. But, unfortunately, the real statistics indicate the opposite.
It seems to everyone that earlier, when people ate healthy food, led a healthier lifestyle, breathed not polluted air, the incidence of cancer was low. But this is not so. Just now the principles of diagnosis have changed. And what was previously diagnosed as a vice or a critical disorder in the work of one of the organs, and perhaps just old age, is now diagnosed as cancer. Technical progress allows you to look a little deeper into the body than before.
Malignant formations have been accompanying the human race since its inception. And it's not about nutrition or air, but about genetic predisposition. In certain code errors of our DNA.
The statistics you are speaking of are created based off a very narrow window of information provided by western medicine. How many oncologist do you know that ask a patient their nutritional and exercise history upon telling them that they have cancer? They don't, they ask about family history because they believe that genetics are the only cause they can wrap their minds around from a scientific base. Which is very ironic and sad since the father of medicine himself, whom supposedly physicians follow at least a few things he says, was the biggest believer in the fact that food was medicine and medicine was food. Ask any of these doctors that you know how much training they have initially and then each following year of their practice that pertains strictly to nutrition of the body and how to use natural methods like food to heal it. Last time I check it was less than 30 HOURS of training for an entire medical career. The thought is beyond disgusting these people should even be allowed to give advise when it comes to diseases like cancer that are based on lifestyle. I'm sure when questioning these people with "healthy" lifestyles that you speak of I could find at least a dozen things that would have contributed to their cancer that had nothing to do with genetics. I would highly suggest you read at least one book to start called Cancer Killers: The cause is the cure. It was written by a doctor who had a giant ball size tumor in his head and forsake the western medical community to actually heal himself by changing his life when he was barely a step away from death. Not only is it possible to cure cancer but it is more than possible to completely prevent it in the first place. Cancer is just your bodies response to carcinogens that built to too high of levels and start to threaten major organs or systems. We all have cancer cells in our body - but not all of us develop cancer. Cancer cell clusters only form tumors because the body is trying to protect itself. Our bodies will always do what they can to protect us - they do not turn against us develop disease to hurt us. Disease can NOT exist in a healthy body - plain and simple. And that is why people that have tumors removed via surgery or radiation most of the time redevelop cancer even more aggressively than the first time is because the body is still trying to warn you that the lifestyle and what you are exposing yourself too is causing issues. Many people don't survive the second time because they have already weakened their body with surgery or radiation. I would honestly love to discuss this further so if you would like to put me in contact with any of those "healthy" people you know with cancer that would be wonderful.
Sorry of course, but the father of medicine Abu Ali Ibn Sino or Avicenna said that any poison is a medicine and any medicine is a poison. The question is only in dosage. He never spoke about food in this way. Believe me, I lived in Central Asia and visited many places connected with his activities.
Despite your arguments, I will remain at my opinion about genetics and genetic predisposition. Otherwise, mankind would have already conquered cancer, as it once won smallpox. Thousands of people would not die and scientists would stop working in the laboratories to create medicines.
What could be easier - advise people to lead a healthy lifestyle, eat the right food and hide from electromagnetic radiation!
But, unfortunately, everything will continue. Because the causes of the disease are much deeper than the apologists of a healthy lifestyle believe. Although they can not accept it. But look at the statistical majority of people on the planet, whether they lead a healthy lifestyle or not. Where will they go in case of a malaise or more serious problems with the body?
Certainly to the hospital, for QUALIFIED medical help.
And after putting on tests for oncology, having received a positive answer, which one of them will go to hide from electromagnetic radiation and eat healthy food while wandering barefoot on the ground? I think that this will be done by 2-3 people out of a thousand. And, surprisingly, their result will be more lamentable than the result of humans in time past chemotherapy or surgical removal of the tumor.
I am always touched by the idealists. It is a pity that the ideal is never achieved.
It is quite alright because eventually it will only be the 2-3 people that choose that lifestyle who will live and the other 998 - 997 will no longer exist and then we won't have the issues we face currently tearing our world apart. :-)
we need more awareness on the topic.
We're doing our part!
Amazing. . I like it. . Thankyou for sharing
It's amazing how many factors there are that play into our health and well-being. I'm grateful that this subject is being examined as there apparently is more to it than meets the eye. We are surrounded by EMFs and there is no better time than now to become aware of how they affect our health. I'm excited about this series and the awareness it will bring.