Get ready to enter a world in the jungle of Sri Lanka where their physical bodies are without disease. Their people are shiny and healthy at 91 years of age. What I especially like about this document is the clear description of what the body needs have healthy cells.
Protect your health!!! Build yourself to feed your cells and keep your body from damage, specifically your heart, blood vessels, dementia, blood sugar, and so many body issues that may go unnoticed until its too late. This plan can melt away the issues and keep you safe over time with a diet rich in foods from the Sri Lanka jungle.
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Apparently chlorine, Florine, bromine and iodine are all halogens on the periodic table. Iodine will often get over-ridden by the heavier atomy of the heavier halogens. (1) thus blocking the absorption of iodine. Iodine deficiency causes many problems, which I will get into, but what is important at first is that we can use iodine instead of chlorine and thus create a positive condition for the body as well as eliminate a chlorine bath which will clog the receptor cites for its less dense, much needed counter part.
In the spirit of story telling, for me, if I want to clear my consciousness, I don’t pollute it by going to a cowboy bar. In the morning, the denser energy wins. My subtle energies loose. It is like that with halogens. The denser ones need to be avoided, the lighter subtle ones need to be protected and absorbed properly.
Therefore, I have started my journey to transform my small swimming pool to an iodine sanitizer instead of chlorine.
This education is a long process for me, so I want to document it well. Here are the following premises:
Iodine is recognized as an adequate sanitizer (1) but has been “forgotten”.
It is charged by Ozone from potassium iodide into iodine and potassium, both are needed in the body.
Chlorine is actually detrimental to the body.
There are ways to remove the heavy halogens from the body.
I will make it a point to publish all the info below because I have that ability and it will preserve the articles that I am reading should someone take down a link.
I will be doing this research over time, so if something on the above list is not yet flushed out, it will be. It is my current research project so I will be building this article and keeping it published in case I refer to it.
Articles:
Iodine from Trouble Free Pools (chem geek)
References: It used to be that we couldn’t copy and paste articles! Now we can so I have included each reference because a broken or missing link is useless. Mimi
(1) This paper compares the efectivenesof chlorine and iodine for the disinfection of swimming pool water.
Often more frequent hydroxocobalamin is a good solution, as is the case in very serious metabolism disorders. In a few cases we try methylcobalamin. In the methylation process, other co-factors (like folate) are very important too. There could also be other underlying factors causing remaining symptoms such as: thyroid problems, Lyme disease, copper deficiency and an excess of B6 supplementation.
One of its uses is as an astringent for wounds and bug bites. Simply chewing plantain leaf or crushing and grinding it makes an effective poultice to draw out poisons from the skin and prevent infections and scarring.
“Because it draws toxins from the body with its astringent nature, plantain may be crushed (or chewed) and placed as a poultice directly over the site of bee stings, bug bites, acne, slivers, glass splinters, or rashes,” explains Life Advancer.
Plantain aids in healthy digestion
If you suffer from constant digestive problems due to antibiotics, food allergies or genetically modified organisms (GMOs), plantain might be a simple cure. Many have reported that the leaves and seeds of the plant aid in reducing inflammation and help repair damage to the gut lining.
The seeds of plantain are also useful in maintaining a clean digestive tract, acting similarly to psyllium husk in absorbing toxins and creating firmer stools. When steeped, plantain leaves can be turned into an extract for use as a gut healer.
Since it is rich in the mineral silica, plantain also makes an excellent expectorant. This means that it helps clear up congestion and mucus, effectively treating coughs, colds and various other respiratory ailments.
“Plantain acts as a gentle expectorant while soothing inflamed and sore membranes, making it ideal for coughs and mild bronchitis,” wrote David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG, in his book Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine.
Plantain helps treat hemorrhoids
The same astringent properties that make plantain an effective wound-healer also make it an effective remedy for hemorrhoids. When processed and turned into a lotion or ointment, plantain can be applied to hemorrhoids to stop the flow of blood, which is also useful in the treatment of cystitis accompanied by bleeding.
“Plantain is one of Western herbalism’s primary topical healing agents, used as a lotion, ointment, compress, or poultice for cuts and bruises,” adds Hoffmann in his book. “It may be applied topically for hemorrhoids and skin ulcerations.”
Plantain treats all blood diseases, and nearly all other diseases
Truth be told, there seems to be very few health conditions that plantain can’t treat. According to The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, written by Dr. Finley Ellingwood, MD, in 1919, plantain is effective against virtually all blood diseases, many glandular diseases, mercury poisoning, diarrheal conditions, female disorders, and injuries, bites and rashes on the skin.
“Plantain is almost a panacea for the human body, treating everything from all menstrual difficulties, all digestive issues, to nearly all skin complaints, and even arthritis,” adds Life Advancer about the amazing healing potential of plantain.
“Add to salads, chew to ease thirst, or enjoy in stir fries. This versatile wild vegetable will keep you in good health for years to come!”
To learn more, be sure to read Dr. Ellingworth’s plantain entry as it was published in his 1919 book: Henriettes-Herb.com.
Until recently, we in allopathic medicine have largely viewed bone health as a product of primarily calcium and vitamin D absorption, as well as healthy hormone levels contributing to proper functioning of the cells that build bone (osteoblasts) and break down bone (osteoclasts). But we are slowly appreciating bone health as a complex interplay between many nutrients including vitamin K, magnesium, and others, in addition to calcium.
Ayurveda couldn’t agree more. It is said in Ayurveda that the membrane of the colon (purisha dhara kala) is intimately connected to the membrane of the bone (asthi dhara kala). This is why basti (enema) is widely used in Ayurveda to help support healthy bone tissue (asthi dhatu). Supporting a healthy colon will support healthy bone.
There is genius in this insight. Here is a quick summary of the science behind Ayurveda’s ancient wisdom.
Important micronutrients for the bone are calcium, phosphorous, fluoride, magnesium, sodium, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6, folate, and vitamin B12 (a lot more than just calcium and vitamin D!).1
The colon is largely responsible for water absorption and the absorption of vitamins that the gut flora produces (vitamin K, vitamin B12, thiamine, riboflavin).2
Vitamin K1 (from leafy green vegetables) is what we normally hear about (usually vitamin K is mentioned in relation to proper blood clotting). But vitamin K2 (produced by our gut flora) travels to the bone tissue and helps activate osteoblasts.3
While most calcium and magnesium is absorbed by the small intestine, when absorption in the small intestine is compromised, the large intestine can increase its absorption of these and other vital minerals.4
A healthy colon proves to be important for bones. Those individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (like Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis) commonly also have osteoporosis5, and these individuals also tend to have a poor microbiome.6
From an Ayurvedic point of view, it is quite simple: the nutrients, or proper rasa, fail to make their way to the bone tissue when the dhara kala cannot do its job of absorption because it is either dried out (due to poor hydration or poor flora) or if the channels are clogged with toxins (ama). While science is rapidly catching up to the former factor, it still has a way to go to understand the latter factor of ama. Thankfully, we have Ayurveda.
Signs of Poor Asthi Dhatu
This tissue is the fifth tissue layer. Its function is to provide support (dharana), giving a sense of confidence, stability, security, and stamina. By understanding that the wastes (mala) of asthi dhatu are the nails and hair, and the refined byproduct (upadhatu) of bone tissue is the teeth, you can identify these signs of poor asthi dhatu.7
Joint pain
Osteoporosis
Arthritis
Hair loss
Brittle hair
Split hair ends
Cracked teeth
Frequent cavities despite good oral hygiene
Joint pain
Dry, brittle nails
Spinal misalignment (scoliosis)
Lordosis, hunch back
Fractures
Thus, caring for the bones takes more than calcium supplements, a little sunshine, and balancing hormones. It requires us to view the whole human being as one integral unit, looking at the nutrients (rasa), the central digestive tract (colon), toxins (ama), and the energetic aspect of this important tissue (having a sense of stability and confidence). We will look at all of these factors and how to optimize their functionality in the next part of this series.
About The Author
Vrinda Devani, MD
As an Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Vrinda Devani, M.D. has a passion for women’s health and empowering women towards vibrant health and living. She is a believer in unfolding the human body’s potential through a blend of complementary and allopathic medicine. She has studied Ayurveda extensively under Dr. Vasant Lad and furthered her studies in Ayurvedic women’s health with travels in Nepal with Dr. Sarita Shrestha. In addition to being a physician and certified Ayurvedic practitioner, she also has a love for yoga and is a certified AyurYoga teacher.
4 Shiga K, Hara H, Kasai T, “The large intestine compensates for insufficient calcium absorption in the small intestine in rats,” Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, 44, no 6 (Dec 1998): 737-44.
5 Ali T, et al, “Osteoporosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” The American Journal of Medicine. 122, no 7 (July 2009):599-604.
6 Ilseung Cho and Martin Blaser, “The Human Microbiome: at the interface of health and disease,” Nature Reviews Genetics, 13, no 4: 260-270.
7 Lad, Vasant. Textbook of Ayurveda, Volume 2: A Complete Guide to Clinical Assessment. (Albuquerque: The Ayurvedic Press, 2006), pp. 263.
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Story at-a-glance
The smart grid is part of a clandestine surveillance network that violates privacy rights. Following the installation of smart meters, many also report devastating health problems, and there have been numerous fires and explosions
“InPower Episode #1: A Mass Action of Liability” reveals a new method of how you can take back your power, “balance the scales” and prevent or reverse the installation of a smart meter in your home
Phase 1 involved 200 homeowners in three cities. Having achieved strong results, phase 2 is a call to mass action, with the goal of stopping the smart meter agenda and ensuring safe, noninvasive technology
By Dr. Mercola
Last month I published an article discussing the documentary “Take Back Your Power,” directed by Josh del Sol Beaulieu, in which he investigated some of the many problems associated with smart meters — including the devastating health effects they’re having on some people, and how these meters are part of a much larger covert surveillance system designed to spy on and track users, and to profit from the sale of user data.
“InPower Episode 1: A Mass Action of Liability” is the follow-up to that film, released August 26. In this film, del Sol Beaulieu reveals how people are using commerce to leverage their power against politicians and corporations to ensure the right and ability to refuse smart meters.
As revealed in “Take Back Your Power,” many feel powerless in the face of government and large corporations that seem to dictate the rules without regard for an individual’s safety. But there are a wide variety of actions you can take to protect yourself and your family. This strategy, used in three communities in the United States and Canada, has already produced results indicative of a huge potential.
Smart Meters Linked to Chronic Health Problems
I’ve warned about the hazards of microwave radiation from cellphones, routers, portable phones, smart meters and other wireless technology for decades. Now, armed with the mechanism of harm presented by Martin Pall, Ph.D., in a series of papers1,2,3,4 I’m more convinced than ever that excessive exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are a significant health hazard that needs to be addressed — especially if you struggle with heart, brain or reproductive issues.
In a nutshell, nonionizing microwave exposures are a major source of mitochondrial dysfunction, and we’ve now come to appreciate that this is at the heart of virtually all chronic disease. It’s no wonder, really, that so many are reporting serious health problems after having a smart meter installed in their home.
What Pall discovered is that microwaves emitted from devices such as cellphones, Wi-Fi routers, computers and tablets — when not in airplane mode — increase intracellular calcium through voltage gated calcium channels (VGCCs), and the tissues with the highest density of VGCCs are your brain, the pacemaker in your heart and male testes.
Once these VGCCs are stimulated they trigger the release of neurotransmitters, neuroendocrine hormones and highly damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) that significantly raise your risk for health problems such as anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s, brain cancer, arrhythmias and infertility, just to name a few. Anyone struggling with any of these conditions would be wise to take EMF exposure very seriously, and take steps to limit exposure to wireless technology.
Simple measures include eliminating Wi-Fi in your home or at least turning it off at night. It is also helpful to keep your phone in airplane mode most of the time. This will radically increase your battery life and keep you safe.
My phone is in airplane mode nearly the entire day as I discovered that it provided high levels of radiation up to 30 feet away, even though it was not on a call — especially when the signal strength is only one or two “bars.” Obviously keep your phone in airplane mode when you are carrying it on your body. I actually take another step and put my phone in a Faraday bag.
When it comes to smart meters, many find they’re not given a choice in the matter. As shown in “Take Back Your Power,” utility company employees have literally broken into homes to forcibly install the meters. So, what can you do? That’s the focus of the InPower Movement, a new Indiegogo-funded project from Beaulieu and his team.
The Power of Liability
According to Beaulieu, social justice can be obtained by exercising the power within the body of rules and principles codified in modern commerce, which is a descendant of what’s known as “Law Merchant.” This can offer a highly effective lawful strategy to prevent and reverse the installation of a smart meter in your home and community.
It involves holding corporate executives and government agents financially accountable for their decisions. Cal Washington, co-founder of the InPower Movement, is an “empowerment advocate” who has spent several years fighting for justice for people who have been abused by corruption within the justice system.
Is it possible to hold corporate individuals accountable for their actions? Yes, it is, “and this has the potential to change everything,” del Sol Beaulieu notes, within his Episode 1. “The next 40 minutes is an overview of how this works.” Washington summarizes the Notice of Liability action he’s developed, which del Sol Beaulieu is sharing with the world through their film and website, as follows:
“It’s basically a counter-offer [to the] contract that is being implemented to put a device on everybody’s house. They’ve got us into a tacit agreement. This [Notice of Liability document] clarifies and expresses the counter-offer in such a way that those who don’t want the meter can say ‘I don’t want a meter,’ and if [the power company] does put a meter on the house it’s going to cost [them] X amount of dollars per day … in order for you to carry out this contract.”
In other words, you are currently in a contract with your power company. By changing your analog meter to a smart meter, they are changing the contract and you have to agree to this change in terms. However, codified in commerce there’s something known as tacit agreement — an agreement that is implied or understood without being directly expressed. Unless you object, you have tacitly agreed to this change in terms. As noted by Washington, “If you don’t say no, you’ve said yes.”
By understanding that the installation of smart meters is a commercial contract issued to you by your utility company, you level the playing field. All you’re doing is entering into a contract negotiation. “All the tricks they use against you, we use against them,” Washington says.
Notice of Liability
According to Washington, anyone can issue a Notice of Liability at any time, whether you still have an analog meter or have already received a smart meter and/or have tacitly agreed to the new meter. The “Notice of Liability” generally applies worldwide, as it is based on the system of commerce that governs corporate commerce everywhere. This is a system that virtually none of the general public is aware of, “and now you can actually use it,” Washington says. “You’re now playing the proper game in the proper court.”
Importantly, the Notice of Liability lays accountability at the feet of an individual. Corporate employees and agents can no longer hide behind their corporate post where they have no personal accountability. This includes government employees as well, because the U.S. government is actually run as and functions as a corporation. As noted in the film, the U.S. code defines the United States as a federal corporation, and Canada is listed as a company located in Washington D.C. on the U.S. securities and exchange.
Understanding Corporate Jurisdiction
In the film, Washington explains a key misunderstanding relating to jurisdiction. To explain the crux of the problem, he offers the following analogy: You’re hired as an employee in the auto department at Walmart. When hired, you agree to a basic contract that stipulates that you will work a certain number of hours for a certain pay. One day, your manager asks you to come in to work at 2 a.m. — a time when the store is closed.
While the auto department manager has jurisdiction over you, he’s under the jurisdiction of the store manager. Hence, you can file a complaint with the store manager, notifying her that what you’re being asked to do goes against company policy.
Walmart, in turn, has to obey the rules of the city in which it is located. In this example, the store is in Detroit, and must therefore follow employment rules and regulations of the city. Detroit, in turn, is under the jurisdiction of Michigan, and all businesses in Detroit must obey state laws. Next you have the United States, and this is what most people don’t know — the United States is functioning as a corporation UNDER the jurisdiction of The United States of America, the country. While they sound the same, they are not identical.
Courts operate under the corporation of the United States. In other words, according to Washington, the court system can be likened to a corporation within a corporation. Importantly, Americans believe they’re under the jurisdiction of the country called the United States of America, but in reality, you’re operating your day-to-day life under the jurisdiction of a corporation called the United States (or U.S.), and you’ve tacitly agreed to this, whether you realize it or not.
Lastly, the corporate United States is under the jurisdiction of Law Merchant, which governs commercial law, which in turn is under the jurisdiction of Common Law — which is where you find the Constitution of the United States of America (the republic). Both the United States of America and Canada were founded on the Common Law — the highest laws of the land — and still operate under their jurisdiction, “but you have to know how to invoke them,” Washington says.
There will no doubt be some who are resistant to what Washington and InPower are revealing. But I find it highly interesting that even before addressing the smart meter problem, he produces evidence of an extraordinary long list of people in high-level positions resigning from office, shortly after he sent them certain documentation.
Invocation of Personal Liability Is a Powerful Tool
The above example illustrates corporate jurisdiction. Even if a company allows their employees to work around the clock, they cannot force you to do so if it violates the laws of the city, state or the corporation of the U.S. In this case, the notice of liability action takes advantage of the fact that the corporation of the U.S. is under the jurisdiction of merchant and common law. Hence, by invoking these laws you supersede all others.
How does this make government officials personally liable, though? Government officials swear an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. Their oath is a contract. So, if they do not honor your constitutional rights, then they are not protected by their position within the corporation of the United States — they are personally liable because they’ve overstepped their role, just like the Walmart auto department manager did in the hypothetical illustration.
He did not have jurisdiction to tell you to clock in for work at 2 a.m., and a government official does not have the authority or jurisdiction to negate or violate the Constitution, merchant or common law. The only way they can practically get away with it is by your tacit agreement — you must actually waive your rights. The notice of liability that Washington created explicitly invokes your rights.
Phase 1 Results
Phase 1 of the InPower project involved three “seed” groups with a total of 200 participants who sent out liability notices. Similar to Washington’s previous experiences, a number of officials who received liability notices resigned from their posts. del Sol Beaulieu clarifies that, “while there’s no saying for certain what factors are involved in each resignation,” respondents are indeed resigning.
For example, on January 30, 2015, Brett Hodson, CEO of Corix Group, which installs smart meters, received more than 100 notices from residents in Kelowna, BC, Canada. On February 4, he received a separate Notice of Default from Washington. Hodson announced his resignation that same day.
Kelowna was one of the three seed groups. Groups in Seattle and Detroit also launched Notice of Liability actions. In Seattle, after receiving 21 Notices of Liability, three of the nine City Council members announced they would not seek reelection, including one who resigned before the end of her term.
“In Detroit, it is all-out war,” del Sol Beaulieu says. “The utility DTE has cut electricity to several homeowners who have refused smart meters.” However, after receiving 21 default notices (a later stage of the liability action), the Michigan attorney general suddenly began calling for free opt-out. Four of the eight officers in the Michigan Public Service Commission who are being held liable appear to have resigned — though it is yet unconfirmed by the utility.
Phase 2 Plan of Action and Summary
While del Sol Beaulieu states the focus of Phase 1 was to prove that the concept works, Phase 2 is a call to mass action across North America and Canada, with the goal of stopping the smart meter agenda completely and reversing back to safe, noninvasive technology. In summary, the Notice of Liability is part of a contractual negotiation process between you and your utility company. A contract has four basic components:
1. An offer. In this case, your utility may mail you a notice or post a notice on its website, telling you they are upgrading your meter. Unless you say no, you’re saying yes (tacit acceptance)
2. Negotiation/meeting of the minds. Whenever you present a contract to someone, they have the right and ability to negotiate the terms. (On a side note, to be valid, a contract must include full disclosure of relevant facts and terms, or else the contract is null and void. One could argue that since utility companies are not providing full disclosures about the potential health effects of the meters, they’ve voided the contract)
3. Unconditional acceptance. In this case, by sending out a notice of liability, you are issuing a counter-offer to their initial offer. You’re giving conditional acceptance, and to be valid, a contract must be unconditional. This means your conditions must either be met or removed.
As above, consent to conditions can be gained tacitly. This means if they do not reply to your notice of liability, and ratify the contract by installing the meter, they’ve accepted your terms — including the financial liability spelled out in your counter-offer.
For example, your notice may state that “If you put a meter on my house, I shall charge you $10,000 per week.” If they install a smart meter, or fail to remove the smart meter, your terms are deemed accepted, and the individual to whom you sent the notice is personally liable for this financial obligation. Within your legal rights are the use of liens, collection agencies and more.
They cannot fight you in court, because your notice restricts the jurisdiction — it’s part of the negotiation process of a personal agreement or contract between you and the individual. It’s no different than purchasing their house. Since they put the offer out, they cannot back out of the deal — your notice is part of the negotiation and these are your terms to their contract
4. Money exchange or performance ratifies the contract. “Performance” is the action of doing something based on the contract, which in this case is the installation or non-removal of the smart meter. By performing the act, the contract — entered into with your conditional acceptance — goes into effect and the individual is financially liable per your counter-offer
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I am extremely excited about this project as it can serve as a template for not only removing smart meters, but wireless technology in schools. It is important to understand that children are at much higher risk of EMF damage. As noted in the InPower trailer,5 this strategy may also be used to stop deployment of 5G, forced vaccinations and other problems of “profits before people.”
On a call with del Sol Beaulieu and Washington last week, they explained to me how this process differs from others because it comprehensively lays the groundwork for the actual enforcement of the liability. “This isn’t the only possible solution,” del Sol Beaulieu said. “But we feel strongly about addressing the problem at its root, which is how money has corrupted social governance.”
“Those who get it, get it — and they will be enough,” Washington said. “There’s a certain percentage of people who have been waiting for this, and who can see through propaganda — for example from the utilities and lawyers, who will try to convince you that using commerce is bunk, even though it’s THEIR system.”
“This is about correcting the system which has become extremely out of balance. It’s to the point where the imbalance will threaten life as we know it, if allowed to continue. We can actually help to restore balance, and make big changes, when enough people catch onto this.”
To learn more and participate, go to InPowerMovement.com and sign up free. Once you’re signed up, you’ll receive Episode 2, which has step-by-step instructions on how to proceed, and additional support.
Shocking Admission Reveals How Smart Meters Are Used for Clandestine Surveillance
Last but not least, even if you do not believe smart meters have any ill health effects, I urge you to join the movement to eliminate them, if for no other reason than to block the global rollout of these clandestine surveillance devices. There can be little doubt that they are infringing on personal privacy, and indeed were designed with that in mind.
Rights advocate Jerry Day came across the following video, which del Sol Beaulieu calls “the most startling admission I have seen regarding in-home surveillance as the real focus of smart meters.” The video is a marketing video for Onzo, a large data aggregator that works with over 100 utilities globally. In this video, they explain what your power usage data is really used for:
“We then use this characterized profile to give the utility… the ability to monetize their customer data by providing a direct link to appropriate third-party organizations based on the customer’s identified character.”
In 2015, the director of grants and research at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners also stated that, “I think the data [harvested by ‘smart’ meters] is going to be worth a lot more than the commodity that’s being consumed to generate the data.”6
About the Directors
I believe in bringing quality to my readers, which is why I wanted to share some information about the directors, Josh del Sol Beaulieu and Cal Washington, from the InPower Docuseries and movement. We sat down with del Sol Beaulieu and Washington to learn a little more about what goes in to making these films. Thank you both for sharing with us.
What was your inspiration for launching the InPower Movement?
Washington: Through a long process of learning the hard way, I had managed to go from a life tormented by the “system” to total freedom, and was left alone to live my life, which I was doing. Josh knew of my journey, and asked if anything I had learned could be used to stop the “smart” meter implementation. Based on my experiences over a 10- to 12-year period, we then put together the liability action, used it in three different cities, and got some results.
We have since become inspired to make it as simple as possible for people to do together. So our Phase 2 plan is to offer a website with semiautomated document completion, print and video resources, and a hub to create a community experience.
del Sol Beaulieu: Seeing how so many well-intentioned people trying to preserve their rights and keep their families safe were getting just steamrolled by their utilities. I wanted to provide another option to restore accountability within the utilities and commissions — a process to which I am fully committed.
And I believe that it’s going to happen, as more people get connected with tools like what Cal’s bringing forward, because relatively it’s really only a few people who want a lawless corporatocracy.
What was your favorite part of creating this video series and solution?
Washington: I would have to say watching eyes light up when something was said. I saw many people have epiphanies and heads nodding, when things were explained from a different point of view. “It all makes sense now,” was a comment I heard a lot.
del Sol Beaulieu: Watching how people respond at live presentations and group meetings. I believe at our core we all recognize truth. And for better or worse, we are actually now forced to go deeper in order to access a tangible solution.
I really enjoyed the process of people walking through these shifts in groups, because as we take a stand it brings out the best in us. When I did the first liability action document with a group in Seattle, it felt like a new energy was created amongst us.
Where do the proceeds of your Indiegogo campaign and DVD go?
del Sol Beaulieu: Expanding the InPower Movement, and making it super easy for people to participate in community. Phase 2 will simplify, add support and expand the Liability Action with a feature-rich community website which makes it easy to do and manage your own process.
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“Dirty” Electricity is a National Problem Affecting Everyone’s Health in the United States
Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
Electricity is a part of all of our lives today, and we seldom give much thought to it unless it is not there when we expect it to be.
Like many stories regarding diseases and potential cures that are not widely known, I stumbled upon this one due to a friend who had a health condition, cancer, and his search for what was causing it. He was not finding answers from the standard medical community and their treatments for cancer, which seldom, if ever, look for the underlying causes.
My friend is Amish, and he is part of a community in Wisconsin that raises healthy food that Tropical Traditions sells on the GrassfedTraditions.com website.
This Amish community lives “off the grid” and seldom uses electricity. But in my friend’s search for causes as to why he was struggling to overcome cancer, he contacted a local resident in their area of western Wisconsin who was an expert on the harmful effects of electricity. This person came to his farm, and determined that his farm had large concentrations of electrical current passing through it, something those in the power industry describe as “stray voltage.” With the help of this local electrician, he was able to install some some copper wiring as a “shield” around his living quarters. He reported:
“Headaches, stomach aches, and inflammation which were common before are now much improved.”
So this intrigued me. How could a local “electrician” in rural Wisconsin have such knowledge, I wondered. I decided to look him up, and found that his name is Dave Stetzer. Here is Dave Stetzer’s bio, from his website:
Dave Stetzer has been an electrician by training, education and experience for over 30 years. He joined the United States Air Force in December 1970 and began his career in electricity when he attended electronics school at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi from February through November 1971. At that time, Keesler AFB was known as the world’s #1 electronics school.
During this training Dave was given top-secret military clearance, as much of the electronic equipment he worked on was, and still remains, highly classified. Dave completed training as a ground radio communications electronics technician and was assigned to the 676 Radar Squadron, Antigo Air Force Station, Antigo, Wisconsin. There he diagnosed and repaired a variety of electronic equipment, including PC boards, Klystron tubes and integrated circuits, as well as highly classified military electronic equipment, employing among other things, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and digital frequency counters.
In February 1972, Dave received an assignment to go to Vietnam and was sent to KY8-38 Crypto School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas where his top-secret military clearance was upgraded to include crypto access. Upon completion of this training, Dave returned to the 676 Radar Squadron at Antigo Air Force Station pending his November port call to Vietnam; his assignment was subsequently changed due to the official ending of the Vietnam War in September 1972. Dave’s duties continued as before, with the additional tasks of diagnosing, maintaining, and repairing highly classified crypto electronic equipment. Upon completion of his tour of duty, Dave received an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force.
There is much literature in the alternative health field regarding the dangers of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from items such as cell phones, but Dave Stetzer explains that the hazards of electrical current generated by power companies are greater than most of us realize, and that electromagnetic pollution is not strictly a wireless device problem. Mr. Stetzer has been called as an expert witness in lawsuits against electrical power companies due to his vast expertise on this subject.
I seriously doubt there is anyone in the U.S. today more knowledgeable than Dave Setzer on this topic, so I had Health Impact News’ own health writer John Thomas investigate this very important topic that affects each one of us. Much of the research presented here is based on the years of knowledge accumulated by Dave Setzer. Much of how this “dirty electricity” affects our health is based on the research of Dr. Magda Havas, who will be introduced below.
High Frequency Voltage Transients in the Power Grid may be Causing Life Threatening Health Problems for You and Your Family
by John P. Thomas Health Impact News
In New York City, Jodie Lane was walking her dog when she stepped on a metal plate in the sidewalk and was killed by electricity. [1]
This was not a one-in-a-billion occurrence. Ground current is pulsing through concrete sidewalks, metal grates in sidewalks, manhole covers, metal street light poles, fire hydrants, and even bus stop signs throughout North America.
In Seattle, Lisa McKibbin was walking her 68-pound German shorthaired pointer Sam through a neighborhood when the dog stepped on a metal plate by a lamppost and was electrocuted. Ms. McKibbin indicated that she thought her dog was having a heart attack or having a seizure. She said,
“I opened up his mouth, stuck my hand in his mouth and I received a jolt … I received a jolt of electricity in my hand.” [2]
In a Baltimore public park, 14-year-old Deanna Green was about to go to bat in a church softball game when she touched a metal safety fence. She was killed by 280 volts of electricity that had leaked out of the ground into the fence. [3]
The problem of ground current or stray voltage is so bad that warnings have been issued to residents of New York City, Toronto and other major cities. Pet owners are being warned to take precautions when they walk their animals on city sidewalks to avoid having their pets electrocuted. The problem of ground current is also a greater threat to young children, because of their smaller physical size.
The Today Show recently featured the problem of stray voltage:
Public Warnings about Ground Current or “Stray Voltage”
The Toronto Star recommends that people watch their step. Pedestrians should walk closer to storefronts and away from street lights. Pet owners should also walk their dogs before dark, using leashes made from non-conductive material such as nylon. [4]
The New York Daily News warns that if pet owners suspect that a dog is receiving a shock, then do not touch the dog or the ground with your bare hands. It is best to use the leash or other non-conductive object to move the pet back away from the area. Voltage may increase if you keep going forward, so it is best to go back to a spot that you know was safe. [5] You should do this before you examine your dog for injuries.
Ground Current Dangers are NOT Rare, and Affect Everyone Living on the Grid
Electric utility companies want us to believe that ground current and the electrical shocks that occur to people and animals are a rare occurrence caused by old faulty wiring that has been buried in the ground. It is true that there are cases when damaged wiring leaks electric current into the ground and it electrifies metal pipes, sewer lines, and even concrete.
However that is not the whole story. The problem of ground current is not limited to this single cause and it is not limited to major cities. It actually is a threat to all people who live near electrical lines or have electricity in their homes.
To help us get the full picture of the ground current problem in North America, I spoke with Dave Stetzer, one of the leading researchers in the field of electrical power quality and high frequency voltage transients. [6]
Ground Current Dangers Are a Recent Problem in the U.S. – Not Present in Europe
Dave Setzer explained that ground current has become a major problem in North America since 1992 when the electric utility companies started using the physical earth as if it was an electric wire. The single neutral wire that utility companies have been using to return unused electricity to their substations for redistribution to the electrical grid is now too small to carry the flow of electricity.
Thus, instead of taking down the small wires and replacing them with larger wires or just adding an additional neutral wire to the power poles, they decided to just run wires down the side of electrical poles into the ground. Electrical current then can flow through the earth back to the electric substation. Electricity that is put into the earth spreads out for miles in all directions as it meanders back to the electrical substation.
Dr. Sam Milham, MD, MPH, estimates that 80% of the current that is returned to electrical substations actually travels through the ground. [7] This practice is not done in most of Europe, where they have adequate capacity in their distribution lines.
This means that the ground we walk on in North America, regardless of whether it is in a city or in the country, is electrified. When conditions are right, the ground current can become a serious threat for us and our animals. The levels of ground current will vary during the day with local electrical usage rates and can spike as certain types of equipment is turned on and off. Moisture also affects the possibility of experiencing shocks from ground current.
Dairy Cows Harmed by Ground Current
Dave Stetzer was contacted by dairy farmers in the 1990s when the farmers suspected that the health and productivity of their herds of milk cows were being harmed by electricity. He monitored the electrical current in the soil and in the barns over an entire period of cow gestation. He measured currents, milk production and the occurrence of illness and miscarriages. It soon became clear that rapidly fluctuating ground currents were disturbing the cows, cutting down on milk production, and leading to disability and early death.
Dr. Magda Havas, PhD, provides more details about the problems that dairy cows are facing. Dr. Havas is a Canadian researcher who has conducted research on the health effects of ground current, high frequency voltage transients, and radio frequency radiation. She described the situation that cows are facing:
Cows exposed to ground current have swollen joints, open sores that fail to heal, and they “dance” (lift their feet) as they try to break the flow of electricity through their body coming from the ground. Milk production is reduced and many have difficulty conceiving. Once they are unable to stand they are no longer useful to the farmer. [8]
The following video clip shows how cows lift their feet in a hopeless attempt to escape the ground current that is pulsing through their bodies.
How the Electrical Grid Causes Illness
In the late 1990s, Dave Stetzer was also approached by people from rural areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota who believed that they were being made sick by their exposure to electricity. He saw the relationship between their symptoms and symptoms of radio wave sickness that had been identified by the military many decades earlier.
The problem was that these people were not in the military and they were not living near military installations or even large airports where radar and similar equipment were located. At that time, there were very few cell phone towers in these rural areas, and that type of radio wave activity didn’t seem to be a likely cause of what he was observing.
He began to suspect that the human illnesses and animal illnesses were coming from the same source – the electrical grid.
Measuring High Frequency Wave Forms Generated by Electricity
In 1998, Dave Stetzer began to look more deeply into the electrical activity that is present in the wiring of homes and barns. He knew that in addition to the normal 60 Hz electrical frequency that was in electrical wiring, there were many other high frequency wave forms that he could see with an oscilloscope.
He set out to determine which frequencies in the electrical system were the most biologically active. In other words, he wanted to know if these high frequencies were harmful, and if they were, then which frequencies were the most dangerous for human life and for animal life.
Researching Russian Electrical Frequency Weapons: HFVT
To answer these questions, Dave Stetzer travelled to Russia and Kazakhstan to consult with scientists who had been researching this question for the purpose of developing weapons. He learned that frequencies between 2 kilohertz and 100 kilohertz were the most harmful to human health. He took many measurements of the electrical frequencies found in North American homes and realized that there are a large number of these harmful electrical frequencies in our wiring.
The normal electrical frequency that is in North American electrical systems is 60 hertz. This is the frequency that is used to operate our refrigerators, our washing machines, and lights.
However, it was the high frequencies that were causing serious health problems. These harmful electrical frequencies are called High Frequency Voltage Transients (HFVT).
High Frequency Voltage Transients are Created in Our Homes
HFVTs are actually produced from electrical equipment that we have in our homes. HFVTs are sometimes called “dirty electricity.” They are found in ground current and in the wiring of our homes and businesses. They are also created by certain types of electronic devices that are in our homes and in the homes of our neighbors.
Dave Stetzer and other scientists have determined that these high frequency voltages come from our computers, televisions, game boxes, printers, copiers, tube fluorescent lights, compact florescent light bulbs, dimmer light switches, variable speed motors, treadmills, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, solar energy inverters, wind turbines, smart meters, and other electronic devices. All of these modern electronic devices add high frequency transients to the electrical wiring in our homes.
It is our own electronic devices that are harming our health, the health of cows, and our pets.
High frequency voltage transients can also be caused by arcing on power lines during storms when lines touch trees. HFVTs can also be created from unfiltered cell phone and broadcast frequencies from nearby antennas.
High frequency voltage transients in our electrical wiring have been linked to many modern diseases and health conditions. As will be explained, symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis, elevated blood sugar, obesity, migraine headaches, Attention Deficit Disorder, asthma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, miscarriages, infertility, depression, suicide, and cancer have been shown to increase with long-term exposure to high frequency voltage transients.
How Do High Frequency Voltage Transients get Created in Our Homes?
Dave Stetzer explained that most modern electronic devices use DC (Direct Current) power. These electronic devices have a power switch mode converter that converts the AC electrical current from wall outlets into DC current.
These AC to DC power mode converters create high frequency transients, which are then added to our electrical wires. These converters are the plastic cubes and rectangular boxes that fill up our surge protector strips or plug directly into our wall outlets. On larger electronic devices, the converters may be built into the equipment.
Compact Florescent Light Bulbs Worst Contributors to HFVTs
Compact florescent light bulbs are among the worst contributors to high frequency voltage transients. They are pulsed electronic technology.
The standard incandescent light bulb that everyone once used, were linear load devices. The AC power went into the light bulb, light was produced, and unused current was simply returned to the electrical system. High frequency transients were not added to the current. 60 Hz went into the linear devices and unused 60 Hz was passed back into the electrical system.
Compact florescent light bulbs add large amounts of high frequency voltage transients to the wires. HFVTs come from the pulsing of the electrical current as it goes through the light bulb. This means that there is an electronic switch that rapidly turns the current off and on again many times per second.
In the case of a compact florescent light bulb, the switch is activated 20,000 times per second. It is the switching activity, which breaks up the normal 60 hertz sine wave of electrical power into fragments and returns the unused electrical fragments to the electrical system. These fragments are high frequency voltage transients.
Compact florescent light bulbs add energy to wiring at the 50 KHZ to 100 KHZ level. One compact florescent light bulb can contaminate the electrical system of an entire house when it is in use.
(60 kilohertz has a frequency that is 1,000 times higher than 60 hertz.)
High Frequency Voltage Transients Cause Disease
Dr. Magda Havas, PhD, has been studying the biological effects of high frequency voltage transients and other forms of electromagnetic pollution since the early 1990s. She has conducted research on the health effects of ground current, high frequency voltage transients, and radio frequency radiation from wireless technology and cell phones. She works with diabetics as well as with individuals who have Multiple Sclerosis, tinnitus, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and those who are electrically hypersensitive. She also conducts research on sick building syndrome as it relates to power quality in schools. She described the situation that we are facing today:
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 devices (800 MHz to 2.5 GHz range).
An intermediate frequency range [high frequency voltage transients], at the low end of the RF spectrum (kHz), flows along and radiates from wires and thus has characteristics of the two major types of electromagnetic pollution mentioned above.
Scientists doing research on the biological effects of power line frequencies seldom measure this frequency range and thus ignore the effects it might have on health. [9]
How Does Electrical Power in a Wire become a Health Risk?
This question has several answers. First, as has been discussed, ground current is a health risk regardless of whether we live in the city or the country. Ground current is everywhere; however, its dangers become even more hazardous in the presence of large amounts of high frequency voltage transients, which flow through the ground and our electrical wiring.
High frequency voltage transients pose an even greater risk to our health, because they are in our homes. These high frequency voltages behave differently than regular 60 Hz current that we use for our electrical devices.
HFVT does not like to travel through electrical wiring along with the 60 Hz current. It exhibits the skin effect. It prefers to travel on the outer skin of electrical wiring. It travels on the surface of the wire and easily radiates through the walls into our living spaces.
These high voltage frequencies are invisible and undetectable with normal human senses. Fortunately, high frequency voltage transients can be easily seen with an oscilloscope and measured with electronic meters designed for that purpose. Such equipment can measure the amount of high frequency voltage transients in our electrical system and identify the sources that produce it.
Technically speaking, human exposure to high frequency voltage transients harms health by capacitive coupling. These high frequency electrical fields pass into our bodies and the bodies of our animals, and are a source of exogenous electrical currents that exist outside of cells.
Such currents were never intended to be in the human body. Researchers are able to measure the high frequency voltage transients that are in electrical wiring. They can measure these same frequencies in the electrical fields that pass out of our walls into our living spaces, and the same frequencies can be measured in our bodies when we spend time in our homes.
High frequency voltage transients easily pass through walls and enter our bodies, and then couple with the human energy system and alter its normal functioning. The result is weakness, depression, and numerous illnesses. [10, 11]
Even though our five senses cannot detect HFVT, some people know that it is present, because they experience the symptoms of radio wave sickness.
Radio Wave Sickness is Well Documented
Radio wave sickness was first documented among radar workers during the Second World War. People with radio wave sickness had constant exposure to high frequency radio waves while they worked, and would also have lived near the radar installations.
The list of these symptoms resembles those now experienced by people who have electrohypersensitivity. It is no longer necessary to live near a radar installation, military base, major airport, or weather station to experience symptoms of electrohypersensitivity.
Many people feel as if they are living in a World War II radar installation, because of the combined effects of high frequency voltage transients, radio waves used for digital cordless phones, microwave radiation used for wireless internet devices (Wi-Fi and WiMAX), and even higher frequency microwave radiation used for cell phones and cellular communication towers.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is experienced by people in most areas of the United States. Rural areas are no longer exempt from exposure.
According to Philips and Philips (2006) 3% of the US population has electrohypersensitivity and 35% have symptoms of electrohypersensitivity. [12] This means that people are made sick by the high frequency voltage transients in their homes and by radio wave radiation from cell phones, cell towers, and wireless computer equipment and phones.
Common Symptoms of Radio Wave Sickness and Electrohypersensitivity
Symptoms of radio wave sickness were summarized by Arthur Firstenberg in a 2001 article. These symptoms are similar to the symptoms of electrohypersensitivity, which people experience today. He identified the following symptoms:
Neurological: Headaches, dizziness, nausea, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, irritability, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, weakness, tremors, muscle spasms, numbness, tingling, altered reflexes, muscle and joint paint, leg/foot pain, “flu-like” symptoms, fever. More severe reactions can include seizures, paralysis, psychosis, and stroke.
Cardiac: Palpitations, arrhythmias, pain or pressure in the chest, low or high blood pressure, slow or fast heart rate, shortness of breath.
Ophthalmologic: Pain or burning in the eyes, pressure in/behind the eyes, deteriorating vision, floaters, cataracts.
Other: Digestive problems, abdominal pain, enlarged thyroid, testicular/ovarian pain, dryness of lips, tongue, mouth, eyes, great thirst, dehydration, nosebleeds, internal bleeding, altered sugar metabolism, immune abnormalities, redistribution of metals within the body, hair loss, pain in the teeth, deteriorating fillings, impaired sense of smell, ringing in the ears. [13]
Of course, the symptoms vary from person to person. Some people experience debilitating levels of symptoms, while other people experience mild or no symptoms when exposed to the same frequencies.
Sometimes people experience certain symptoms and then assume that their symptoms are caused by a specific disease. They do not look for environmental causes. They might think that they just have bad luck or were genetically predisposed to certain diseases, when the truth is that their illnesses could be caused by high frequency voltage transients or by devices such as wireless routers, cordless phones, cell phones, and cell towers.
High Frequency Voltage Transients Can Come From Neighboring Homes
High frequency voltage transients are created by our own electronic devices, but they also come into our homes from the electronic devices in other homes or businesses that share the same electrical transformer with us.
Transformers are the large metal cylinders that are located on electric poles. In a residential area, many homes will be connected to the same transformer. The homes share the same power source and they share the high frequency voltage transients that are created by everyone else that is connected to the same transformer. [14, 15]
Dave Stetzer described how HFVT created in neighboring homes effects the level of HFVT in our homes.
This can be demonstrated with the use of the microvoltage meter that was developed by Dr. Martin Graham, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. This meter measures high frequency voltage transients. The test will require the use of a dimmer switch used for a light fixture. Dimmer switches produce large amounts of high frequency voltage transients. Begin by inserting a microvoltage meter into a wall outlet of your home. Write down the measurement. Then ask your next door neighbor to vary the dimmer switch on a light fixture in his home while you watch the meter in your home. You will literally see the reading for high frequency voltage transients on your meter go up and down as your neighbor changes the current that is flowing to his light.
HFVT and Ground Current are Entering Homes
We might assume that the ground current that we have previously discussed simply stays in the soil and is not a problem for us in our homes.
Unfortunately, this is not true.
It is easy for ground current and the high frequency voltage transients that it contains to enter our homes. These high frequency voltages can enter our homes by way of metal water pipes and metal gas pipes, and by way of metal grounding rods.
If a home has a forced hot air heating/cooling system, for example, and it is grounded to the earth, then high frequency voltage transients can travel up the ground wire and enter the metal of the central heating/air conditioning system. HFVT then can travel along the metal ducts throughout a home. [16]
Case Studies and Research Findings
At this point, I will share some case studies and research results to illustrate how high frequency voltage transients affect human health. I will begin by looking at a select group of people who do not use electricity from the power grid and who do not have devices that produce high frequency voltage transients.
Old Order Amish
The religious communities of the Old Order Amish in the United States and Canada continue to live without electrical power. There are several important observations that can be made from their health and disease status.
Dr. Milham reports the following information about the health of the Amish who still live with very little electrical exposure:
By way of contrast, the Amish in the United States and Canada, who live without electricity, have a current pattern of morbidity and mortality remarkably similar to that of United States rural residents in the early part of the twentieth century. Their type 2 diabetes prevalence rates are about half those of the non-Amish, even though their obesity rates are comparable.
Also like the early rural residents, the Amish have lower rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and suicide. The life expectancy of the Amish is above seventy years and has been stable since 1890. At the turn of the twentieth century, when almost all United States cities were electrified, urban residents had an average life expectancy below fifty years. [17]
Dr. Milham continued his discussion of the Amish:
A recent study, “Low cancer incidence rates in Ohio Amish,” by an Ohio State University Medical Center group (Westman, et al. 2010), showed that the low cancer incidence in the Amish cannot be explained solely on the basis of their tobacco abstinence or other factors. I’d postulate that another major factor in their low cancer incidence is that many Amish, especially the Old Order Amish (OOA), live without exposure to electricity.
Alzheimer’s disease has also been reported to have a low prevalence in the Amish. A pediatric group practice, in Jasper, Indiana which cares for more than 800 Amish families, has not diagnosed a single child in this group with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Childhood obesity is also virtually nonexistent in this population (Ruff 2005). [18]
Multiple Sclerosis and Electrohypersensitivity
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disorder. Many of the symptoms of MS overlap with electrohypersensitivity. Sometimes people with electrohypersensitivity may be misdiagnosed with MS and some may have both conditions.
Dr. Magda Havas explains this situation in more detail:
In a study we conducted a few years ago, we found that some people diagnosed with MS improved when power quality was improved in their home environment. Subjects documented better sleep, more energy, clarity of thought, improved balance and motor coordination, better mood among other symptoms. Changes were documented within a matter of days and weeks. However, not everyone who participated in this study noticed benefits.
One might expect that people who have a compromised nervous system and an impaired immune system may be particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic energy. MS patients have both. The myelin sheath around nerves cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged and this is believed to be an autoimmune response. [19]
Dr. Havas concluded that people with MS may be able to get relief from their symptoms and some may be able to delay, halt, or reverse the progression of this disease by reducing exposure to high frequency voltage transients and radio wave radiation from cell phones and wireless technology. The steps that can be taken will be presented below.
Diabetes and Electrosensitivity
Dr. Magda Havas described the relationship between high frequency voltage transients and elevated blood sugar:
If you have difficulty regulating your blood sugar and you are electrically sensitive you may have type 3 diabetes according to research published in the Journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine in 2008.
Unlike Type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) that is largely genetically controlled, and Type 2 diabetes (adult onset) that increases with obesity, Type 3 diabetes is influenced by environmental exposure to electromagnetic pollutants. [20]
The research of Dr. Havas was published in a peer-reviewed article. She presented 4 case studies that showed marked changes in blood sugar associated with exposure to high frequency voltage transients. She converted her research paper into a short video called “Diabetes and Electrosensitivity.” If you have diabetes or know someone who does, please watch this video. Dr. Havas advises those with diabetes to watch this video, and to share the information with their doctor. She advises diabetics to clean up their electromagnetic environment. Steps for doing this will be presented below.
Attention Deficit Disorders and Asthma in Schools Related to Electric Power Quality
In other research, Dr. Havas evaluated the effects of electric power quality on teacher well-being and student behavior in public schools. I will summarize her research in this area.
High levels of high frequency voltage transients are common in schools with fluorescent lights and computers. Nearby high voltage transmission lines and antennas for wireless communication add to power quality concerns. Previous studies have shown a relationship between the presence of HFVT and student behavior problems. HFVT was also shown to be associated with the occurrence of health issues in the teachers.
In this study, researchers evaluated the use of HFVT power line filters to reduce high frequency voltage transients in three Minnesota schools. This research was done prior to the use of wireless internet routers in the school. They documented changes in health and behavior among teachers and students when HFVT was minimized.
Researchers either installed Graham Stetzer HFVT filters or installed dummy filters in schools. The Graham Stetzer filters reduced high frequency voltage transients by 90%. The dummy filters did not alter HFVT levels. Teachers completed a daily questionnaire regarding their health and the behavior of their students for an 8-week period. Teachers were unaware of which filters were installed at any one time.
Researchers found that teacher health improved during the period of the study. Headaches, general weakness, dry eyes/mouth, facial flushing, asthma, skin irritations, overall mood including depression and anxiety improved significantly among staff. Of the 44 teachers who participated 64% were better, 30% were worse, and 6% did not change. Behavior of high school students did not improve but elementary/middle school students were more active in class; more responsive, more focused; had fewer health complaints; and had a better overall learning experience. In another case, in a Wisconsin school that was experiencing sick building syndrome, children with asthma no longer needed daily use of their inhalers after HFVT filters were installed. This was documented by the school nurse. [21]
Tips for improving the learning environment in homes and schools are presented below.
Other Dangers from HFVTs for Children Documented
I want to provide a warning to parents who have provided cell phones to their children. High frequency voltage transients, wireless internet routers at home and in schools, and cell phone radiation can work together to cause a large number of developmental problems for children such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, and learning disabilities. These exposures may also set the stage for the development of cancer later in life. [22]
A new study published in December of 2014, indicates that children absorb more microwave radiation from cell phones than adults because their brain tissues are more absorbent, their skulls are thinner and their relative size is smaller.
Radiation from cell phones and other devices that use microwave technology has been declared a possible human carcinogen. Children are at greater risk than adults when exposed to any carcinogen. Because the average latency time between first exposure and diagnosis of a tumor can be decades, tumors induced in children may not be diagnosed until well into adulthood.
Babies in utero are particularly vulnerable to negative health effects from microwave radiation. Exposure to this form of radiation can result in degeneration of the protective myelin sheath that surrounds brain neurons. Microwave-emitting toys are being sold for use by young infants and toddlers. Digital dementia has been reported in school age children. A case study has shown that when teenage girls place cellphones in their bras, multiple primary breast cancer can develop in the area where the phones are placed. [23]
You also may wish to watch this very informative video to help your children be better learners and have better health.
Other Electronic Technology that Causes Harm
Even though high frequency voltage transients are the most biologically active frequencies for harming human health, it will be necessary to address other electromagnetic frequency sources to bring about health improvements for people with serious modern illnesses. The resources below will introduce you to research findings that relate to other specific conditions.
Recommendations for Reducing Exposure to HFVT and other Radiation
Here are some tips on how to practice good electromagnetic hygiene. The goal is to reduce exposure to high frequency voltage transients in your home and to reduce exposure to radio wave and microwave radiations.
HFVT from sources such as computers, televisions, electronic game boxes, printers, copiers, compact florescent light bulbs, dimmer light switches, smart meters, and various energy efficient appliances is the most bioactive and potentially harmful type of radiation. Sources of microwave radiation from cordless phone base stations, DECT phones, and baby monitors represent serious threats to health. Wi-Fi, WiMAX, cell towers, and cell phones have clearly been shown to be related to cases of cancer and other illnesses.
It is of course impossible to escape exposure to all the sources just mentioned. The goal is to reduce and eliminate as much exposure as possible. Sometimes we can make no-cost or minimal cost changes that will substantially reduce our exposure. In some situations we may need to invest money to protect our health.
These recommendations were compiled from the work of Dave Stetzer [24], Dr. Magda Havas [25], and Dr. Sam Milham [26]. I have also added comments based on my personal experiences with reducing exposure in my own home.
1. Do NOT use compact fluorescent light bulbs. As mentioned, this technology adds high levels of HFVT to your electrical wiring. These bulbs also emit high frequency energy into the air. Just sitting or standing under one exposes you to energy currents that will enter your body. The best alternative is the traditional incandescent light bulb which is being phased out. Buy up a stock for future use. Compact florescent bulbs contain mercury and are extremely dangerous if broken. Also, they are nearly impossible to recycle in most areas. If you cannot obtain incandescent bulbs, then purchase LED lights, but be sure they are not the dimmable type. Dimmable LED lights produce HFVT. If you have florescent tubes in your office, try keeping them turned off and use a desk lamp equipped with an incandescent bulb or LED light.
2. Electric Equipment: Separate yourself from electrical cords and electric equipment. Move power strips at least 3 feet away from your feet. Use a wired keyboard with a cord extender to increase your distance from the computer screen. This will reduce your exposure to magnetic field. Do NOT use electric blankets or water beds. Laying down in close proximity to such devices will irradiate your entire body with electrical fields and high voltage transients. If you use an electric blanket, just warm your bed before going to sleep, and then unplug it before retiring for the night.
3. Do not sit or work near an electrical panel or electrical utility room. Stay at least 10 feet from electric panels and avoid working in rooms that are adjacent to the utility room. These sources produce high levels of magnetic fields. Keep alarm clock radios at least 6 feet from your bed. These devices emit electrical fields and have antennas, which attract radio waves.
4. Replace cordless phone with corded phone. The old fashioned phones that have a wire that plugs into a phone jack emit very little harmful radiation. If you can buy phones that do not have an AC power converter cube, then you will also avoid the creation of additional HFVT.
5. Measure high frequency voltage transients in your home & install filters if values are above 50 GS units. GS units are measured with a Graham microvoltage meter designed for measuring HFVT. Graham Stetzer filters can be installed in electrical outlets to bring down the HFVT to 40 GS units or lower.
6. Replace Wi-Fi routers with equipment that uses Ethernet cables for your computer. It is true that Wi-Fi is convenient; however, most of us set up our computer and then never move it even if it is a laptop. Replacing a wireless router with a less expensive Ethernet wired router will eliminate substantial radiation. Wireless routers emit a constant stream of microwave radiation 24 hours a day regardless of whether you are connected to the internet. If you must have a wireless router, then at least turn it off at night. You are not using your computer while you sleep. Some wireless keyboards and mice also use microwave frequencies. Replace these with wired versions.
7. Use cellphones as little as possible and only in speaker mode. Hair dressers are now noticing discolored skin on the side of the head where cell phone users hold their cell phones for many hours per day. I would be very concerned about using cellular technology when it has the power to change the color of my skin and change the temperature of my brain. A better option is to use the phone in speaker mode or with a headset that uses a hollow tube to bring the sound to your ear. Text messaging may be the safest method of cell phone use, because the message is sent in a quick burst of energy and does not require constant exposure as when speaking on the phone.
8. Ask your electric utility provider to remove wireless smart meters and replace them with a wired smart meter. In some areas you can pay a fee to keep the standard analog meters that do not broadcast microwave data and which do not create HFVT. Wireless smart meters constantly emit both microwave radiation and add high frequency voltage transients to the electrical power in your home. If you need to purchase a new appliance such as a refrigerator or freezer, try to avoid purchasing units that are configured to communicate with smart meters. Most all new appliances broadcast and receive microwave communication from the smart meter. Sometimes this is actually being done every 20 seconds — 24 hours per day.
9. If you are already seriously ill, consider measuring radio frequency in your home & install radio frequency-reflecting window film or fabric to shield from external sources. This can be important if you have a wireless smart meter that uses a microwave broadcast transmitter.
10. If you are already seriously ill, then you may need to consider moving if your residence is within 6 tenths of a mile of transmission lines or within ¼ of a mile of cell phone antennas. This precaution is recommended for everyone even if you are not yet aware of health problems.
Many people have become concerned about imbalanced electrical activity in their bodies which has been caused by various types of electronic equipment in their environment. To solve this problem, products have been created to help ground us and to balance energy in the body. Dr. Milham and Dave Stetzer have explained that grounding mats and sheets may actually increase our exposure to high frequency voltage transients. I have summarized their comments below. [27, 28]
We now know that our homes are contaminated with high frequency voltage transients. The ground wires in our homes actually are bonded to the neutral wires in our circuit breaker boxes. This means that the high frequency voltage transients that are created and released into the neutral wires of our home also are present in the ground wires. Thus, if you plug in a grounding mat into the ground wire portion of an electrical outlet, then the high frequency voltage transients flow into the grounding pad and into your body.
The alternative is to plug the grounding mat into a grounding rod that has been pushed into the ground outside your home. The problem here is that the physical earth that we walk on, drive on, and that our homes are built on, contains high frequency voltage transients from ground current. Thus, if you plug in a grounding mat into a grounding rod, then the high frequency voltage transients can flow up the wire into the grounding pad and into your body.
Dave Stetzer and Dr. Sam Milham recommend another alternative to balancing one’s biological energy system. Dave Stetzer explained to me that there is a common misunderstanding concerning the use of grounding mats. Most people think they are draining excess energy from their body that they picked up during the day. A better way to describe grounding is to bring balance or restoration to our energy that has been disturbed by exposure to high frequency voltage transients and radio wave radiation. We do not need a grounding mat to accomplish this.
Dave Stetzer recommends balancing our electrical activity by simply standing on a piece of aluminum foil in our bare feet for 30 to 60 seconds. Our feet will act like two electrical terminals, and the aluminum foil will conduct the electrical activity in our body back and forth between our feet until it reaches a point of balance. If you don’t like aluminum, then you could stand on stainless steel. It doesn’t matter whether the foil is on wood or carpet. Nothing is being drained off.
Dr. Milham explained that grounding mats can be used safely in Europe and they will work as designed, because the European electrical grid does not put voltage into the earth. All electrical current in Europe is contained in electrical wires. In North America, we must contend with ground current.
Conclusion: Research Shows Correlation Between Increased Electricity Use and Disease Rates
Dr. Sam Milham prepared a very interesting analysis of disease rates in relationship to the availability of electricity in rural verses urban locations. He suspected that the rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and suicide increased when electricity became available in the first part of the twentieth century. [29] I will summarize his findings below.
When the electrical grid was being installed throughout the United States, the process began in the large cities. As a result, there were several decades during which people living in the cities had electricity, and people in most rural areas throughout the US did not yet have electrical power.
Dr. Milham studied US vital statistics and census records for 1920–1960 and compared the health of these two groups. He found that urban death rates were much higher than rural rates for cardiovascular diseases, malignant diseases, diabetes and suicide in 1940.
He believed that his statistical analysis shows that the 20th century epidemic of the so-called diseases of civilization including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and suicide was caused by electrification, not by lifestyle. Therefore, a large proportion of these diseases could be prevented today if appropriate steps were taken to reduce the harmful effects of ground current, high frequency voltage transients, and radio waves.
There always seems to be a small number of scientists who question the safety of modern advances. Researchers such as Dave Stetzer and Dr. Magda Havas, and physicians such as Dr. Sam Milham are not willing to assume that new and modern means are always helpful and safe. They are not afraid to make scientific measurements and to raise a warning when harmful patterns of illness have been found. The evidence is strong that high frequency voltage transients should be taken seriously. HFVT causes costly damage to sensitive electronic equipment; and most importantly, it is a threat to our health.
Governmental agencies, and the corporations who create high frequency voltage transients with their products, both continue to underestimate the potential harm of HFVT and radio wave radiation. This is the same pattern we have seen with the underestimation of the risks associated with pesticides, chemicals, GMO food, highly processed food products, vaccines, antibiotics, and other pharmaceutical products.
Even though government agencies and corporations continue to overlook the harmful effects of HFVT and radio wave emitting devices, we do not need to resign ourselves to being victims of modern technology; rather, we can make choices to limit our exposure.
Dr. Milham believes that the problems with high frequency voltage transients and radio wave radiation are so pervasive that we could achieve huge changes in our health status by simply following the recommendations for controlling our exposure that were presented in this article. He explained it this way:
If the rest of the US population had the disease incidence and prevalence of the Old Order Amish, the US medical care and pharmaceutical industries would collapse. [30]
Dr. Milham is not advocating that we remove the electrical wiring from our homes and discard most everything that runs on electricity, and live like the Amish. He is challenging us to be smarter users of electricity and technology. He and the other experts that I have mentioned are encouraging us to take steps to protect our health and to advocate for the creation of a safer electrical system and for the creation of safer electronics. They are encouraging us to be smart and live longer.
John P. Thomas is a health writer for Health Impact News. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[9] Magda Havas, PhD; “Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis,” Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 2006, ISSN 1536-8378, DOI: 10.1080/15368370601044192.
[10] Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization, Dr. Samuel Milham, MD, MPH, 2nd Edition 2010-2012, page 60.
[12] A Philips and J Philips, 2006, The Power Watch Handbook. London: Piatkus Books Ltd., 294 pp. (Reference provided by Dr. Magda Havas in “Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis,” Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 2006, ISSN 1536-8378, DOI: 10.1080/15368370601044192.)
[13] Arthur Firstenberg, No Place to Hide, Volume 3 (1): April 2001, Special Issue on Russian and Ukrainian Research, Cellular Phone Taskforce, Mendocino, CA.
[14] Magda Havas, PhD; “Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis,” Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine 2006, ISSN 1536-8378, DOI: 10.1080/15368370601044192.
[15] Health Impact News Telephone interview with Dave Stetzer at Stetzer Electronics, 1/20/2015 and 2/3/2015. http://www.stetzerelectric.com/
[21] Havas M, Olstad A.; Power quality affects teacher wellbeing and student behavior in three Minnesota Schools. Sci Total Environ (2008), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.04.046.
[23] L. Lloyd Morgan, Santosh Kesari, Devra Lee Davis; “Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences,” Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 197–204. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213879X14000583
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I take this opportunity to share with you our most recent research that, most likely explains the result you are reporting and many others.
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Please attached find the latest study of ours as it appears in the bioRxiv archive of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory describing the effects of Bravo yogurt consumption associated with intermittent fasting (intermittent fasting is a means to achieve nutritional ketosis).
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There are four biochemical types of violent people. Many have severe zinc deficiency, pyrrole disorder, low blood spermine and methylation defects — an unusual combination of bad biochemistry
While there are hundreds of nutrients that are important for health, in the brain, six or seven dominate. These are nutrients that are either involved in synthesis or functioning of neurotransmitters
Nutrients that have a powerful influence on mental health include zinc, copper, B-6, selenium, folates and S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe)
By Dr. Mercola
Can you use specific nutrients to improve your mental health? Yes, you can. William Walsh, Ph.D., president of the nonprofit Walsh Research Institute in Naperville, Illinois, and author of “Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain,” specializes in nutrient-based psychiatry and nutritional medicine.
He and I are both fellows of the American College of Nutrition. He’s designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players and major league baseball players. More importantly, he’s spent a great deal of his career seeking to improve mental health through nutrition.
“I started off in the hard science. I was an experimentalist,” Walsh says. “I worked, in the beginning, in the nuclear field … with places like Los Alamos, the Institute for Atomic Research and University of Michigan Research Institute. I wound up at Argonne National Laboratory. While working as a scientist there, I started a volunteer project at the local prison, Stateville Penitentiary.
I eventually got really interested in why people were violent … [W]hen we started the ex-offender program, I got to meet the families that had produced a criminal. I found some wonderful families, caring and capable families, that have other children who turned out just fine …
I began to realize we didn’t understand why people had bad behavior. We then asked the question, ‘Could it be something related to their brain chemistry or the body chemistry?’… I started doing lab studies of their blood, their urine and hair. I found out that they were very, very different from the rest of the population. That’s how I got started.”
Biochemistry and the Criminal Brain
Walsh received valuable direction after meeting Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, who was doing work on heavy metals and schizophrenia. As it turns out, levels of metals, including copper, zinc and manganese, were all abnormal in criminals compared to the general population.
Walsh discovered four biochemical types of violent people. One of these was the sociopaths, all of whom had severe zinc deficiency, pyrrole disorder, low blood spermine and undermethylation. In all, it’s an unusual combination of bad biochemistry. A collaborative investigation with Pfeiffer resulted in nutrient therapies for each of the behavior types.
Pyrrole disorder is a stress condition commonly found in brain disorders. A urine test developed by niacin expert Abram Hoffer and Pfeiffer is the gold standard test for this genetic condition, which involves altered biochemistry in your bone marrow and spleen.
People who have pyrrole disorder may produce five to 10 times more pyrroles than normal — a byproduct of natural reactions, like the formation of hemoglobin. While harmless in and of itself, pyrroles bind to and draw out anything that is an aldehyde, such as B-6. It also sharply depletes zinc.
As a result, people with pyrroles disorder have exceptionally low levels of B-6, and zinc which can have serious effects on brain function, affecting their memory and ability to read, for example. B-6 deficiency is quite common among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well.
The Earlier the Treatment the Better the Results
“Eventually, [Pfeiffer] and I jointly evaluated 500 patients, mostly violent adults and violent children. We got our best results with the kids, young people with the same kind of chemistry, who were mostly very violent,” Walsh says.
“I have to say we didn’t really succeed in finding a way to help the adult criminals. They would get better for six to eight months, and then I’d find out they were back in prison. That had a lot to do with the fact that they were abusing alcohol and illegal drugs … At about 1990, we decided to focus on children …
It’s been very successful. If we can get a child before their lives are ruined, before they pass puberty perhaps, our success rate [is] very high … The doctors report a striking improvement in behavior. Most of these kids, of course, [are] on drugs, everything from Ritalin to powerful antipsychotic medications. Usually when we’re finished and [have] balanced their chemistry, they can wean off the medication. They usually are fine without it …”
Nutrients Involved in Synthesis or Functioning of Neurotransmitters Dictate Mental Function
Later on, Walsh expanded to also include children with autism and ADHD. Fond of numbers, Walsh began amassing enormous databases. At present, he has one of the world’s largest chemistry database for autism, depression and behavior disorders.
“When you look at these millions of chemical analyses of blood, urine and tissues, it’s obvious that there are very great differences,” he says. “I found that for mental disorders, about six or seven chemical imbalances dominate mental function. There are hundreds and hundreds of important nutrients in the body, but in the brain, there are about six or seven that [seem] to dominate everything. Eventually, I found out why …
[T]hese are the nutrient factors that are either involved in synthesis of a neurotransmitter or the functioning of a neurotransmitter. They include methylation — undermethylation or overmethylation. In our database, 70 percent of all humans in the United States have normal, typical methylation; 22 percent are undermethylated … 8 percent are overmethylated.
About 70 percent of all people who have a mental disorder have one of these methylation disorders. The symptoms are completely different, and the treatment they need is completely different. We also found that most people [who have mental disorders] are depleted or deficient in zinc. That’s the most common [deficiency] we see … Virtually everyone with a mental disorder seems to need zinc and improve on it.”
Copper Overload Linked to Autism, Schizophrenia and Postpartum Depression
Copper is another important trace metal, as it plays a distinct role in the synthesis of norepinephrine, a major neurotransmitter. Divalent copper (Cu2+) is a dramatic factor in the ratio of dopamine and norepinephrine.
Animal studies have shown that when animals are starved of copper until they only have 25 percent of the normal amount of copper in their blood, the ratio between norepinephrine and dopamine is changed by more than a factor of three. Most of us have the ability to homeostatically control copper. However, some do not have that ability.
“It all has to do with an enzyme called metallothionein that is genetically expressed. Some people don’t have that system working,” Walsh explains. “These persons have copper overload, which we find virtually in every autistic patient, most patients with schizophrenia and almost everyone with postpartum depression.
That’s a recipe for very high norepinephrine — which means anxiety and depression — and low dopamine (a feel-good neurotransmitter), which is a hallmark of ADHD … a nasty combination.
We find the sociopaths innately have low copper levels. People who have undermethylation tend to have low normal copper levels … The good news for mental disorders is that there are more than 100 really important biochemicals in the body, but only a few dominate mental disorders.
If we had to do lab testing for 100 of them, it would be really difficult. If we had to adjust the levels of these and normalize 100 different factors, it would make life very difficult. But we found that by just focusing on maybe seven or eight nutrient factors, we could help 95 percent of the patients we see with nutrient therapy.”
How to Measure Your Zinc and Copper Status
Zinc experts typically agree that plasma zinc provides the most accurate measurement. The taste test has some minor value but is among the least reliable. To accurately measure copper, serum copper is the way to go, and most labs throughout the world provide good copper assays.
Walsh recommends doing a ceruloplasmin test at the same time, because then you can determine how much free radical copper you have, which gives you a good indication of your level of oxidative stress. A high sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) test would also be useful as a marker of inflammation.
“By the way, oxidative stress runs through every single mental disorder we see, without exception,” Walsh says. “Every one of them seems to have extraordinary oxidative stress — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, a violent child or an autistic child.”
Unfortunately, our modern lifestyle strongly promotes oxidative stress, with processed foods, processed vegetable oils, excessive net carbs and excessive protein being some of the most potent factors. This kind of diet causes a reduction in ketones and a radical increase in reactive oxygen species and secondary free radicals.
Exposure to non-native electromagnetic fields, glyphosate and other pesticides, fluoride-contaminated water and other toxic exposures only add to the problem. Typically, copper and ceruloplasmin levels tend to go hand in hand, being either high or low together. The ideal level for copper, with respect to mental health, is somewhere between 75 and 100 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) in serum. The ideal amount of ceruloplasmin has to do with whatever your level of copper is.
Ideally, the percentage of copper in your ceruloplasmin should be around 85 to 90 percent. “It’s really great to do both simultaneously, because then you have a really good picture of not only the copper situation, but also the level of oxidative stress,” Walsh says.
The Importance of Methylation in Mental Health
Walsh was among the first people to alert the world to the importance of methylation in mental health, especially autism. The No. 1 causes of undermethylation are single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or mutations in the enzymes for the one-carbon cycle (the methylation cycle).
“The No. 1 factor is the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), which is one of the enzymes. That’s the rate-limiting step for that whole cycle, for most people,” Walsh explains. “Genetic testing services such as 23andMe can provide this kind of information.
However, most human beings have enormous numbers of SNPs. They’ve already found 10 million snips (or mutations) in the human genome. Every human being has thousands of these SNPs. A really high percentage of people have even the more serious MTHFR SNPs — the C677T, the A1298C that people are always talking about.
The thing that is often mistaken by nutritional scientists is that if a person has the homozygous, the double copies of the C677T, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re undermethylated. It certainly doesn’t mean that they will benefit if you give them methylfolate. That’s one of the problems that we’re finding.
The reason is epigenetics. You have to consider the epigenetics and the methylation at the same time. There are three nutrient factors that affect epigenetics more than anything else: folates, methionine and S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe). These have a really powerful impact on epigenetics.”
How Folates Affect Epigenetics
Folates are serotonin reuptake promoters. However, even if an individual is undermethylated and has a problem related to low serotonin activity, such as depression or anxiety, folates should not be given, Walsh warns. The reason? If you give folate, their methylation will improve and the patient will actually get worse.
The reason for this worsening is because, epigenetically, folates act as deacetylase inhibitors and sharply lower serotonin activity. Most autistic individuals will not have a serotonin problem and will thrive on methyl folate. However, an estimated 10 percent of autistic children and adults do have a serotonin issue and will severely regress if given methyl folate.
“We’ve had thousands of patients who were undermethylated depressives. I’ve seen more than 3,000 cases of clinical depression. I’ve got this huge database. The largest phenotype … is undermethylation.
But if you gave them any form of folate, they would get worse. Their methylation would improve, they would get worse, because it has a dramatic impact on serotonin reuptake. In contrast, methionine and SAMe are natural serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
They do essentially the same thing that Prozac and Paxil do. Folates have the opposite effect. Folates are wonderful if you want to knock dopamine level down in schizophrenics or people who have high anxiety — overmethylated people. It’s counterintuitive because folates are excellent methylating agents..”
To reiterate, some undermethylated people are intolerant to folates, and some overmethylated people thrive on folates even though folates improve methylation. As you can see, there are epigenetic complexities involved here, making self-diagnosis and self-treatment highly inadvisable.
It could be quite risky to take these bits and pieces of information and try to apply them on your own. There are simply too many variables. So, the bottom line here is to make sure you’re being treated by a knowledgeable professional.
Heavy Metals and the Autistic Brain
Walsh has tested 6,500 autistic patients. As a group, they have much higher toxic metal levels than their siblings or the general population. Walsh believes their toxic burden is likely due to an inborn predisposition that makes them more likely to accumulate toxins and/or vulnerable to the effects of toxins.
“Thousands of these parents, maybe more than half, told a very sad story of how they had a child who was developing normally, was beginning to speak and was singing and charming their grandparents. Then maybe the child got sick.
They took him to a pediatrician and the pediatrician — I’ve heard this story hundreds of times — said, ‘Oh, you’re behind on your shots. You’re behind on your vaccinations.’ They took a sick child and gave them multiple vaccinations, at that time, with thimerosal and mercury.
Hundreds of these families said that within a day or two, their child changed forever. Lost all speech, the personality changed, they became sick. They became intolerant to served foods. They were just very troubled little human beings.
When they went to specialists, eventually they wound up with the diagnosis of autism and were told that it was incurable and that there was no hope really for recovery. We’ve seen a lot of human misery just talking with these families. It’s just a shocking and terrible thing.”
Walsh suspects autistic children have an insufficiency of natural antioxidants such as glutathione and metallothionein, rendering them more vulnerable to the effects of environmental exposures, including vaccines and poor diet. It’s worth noting that 1 in 3 children diagnosed with autism does not have true autism caused by epigenetic variations.
Many of these children have a good chance of recovery, whereas classic Kanner autism is a permanent, life-long epigenetic condition (named after Leo Kanner, who discovered autism in the 1940s1), although some measure of improvement can be made even in these cases.
On Thimerosal
Walsh has also investigated the thimerosal issue, looking for evidence of mercury toxicity in the brains of autistic children. In fact, he was the first person to actually measure mercury in autistic brains.
He was able to receive brain tissue samples from Johns Hopkins, and using the Argonne facility called the Advanced Photon Source, he did over 1 million chemical analyses on brain tissue from autistic and non-autistic children. Every autistic child analyzed had received thimerosal-containing vaccinations.
However, no mercury could be found in the brain tissue. One explanation for this is that the tests were done years after the vaccinations. The half-life of mercury in the human body is 42 days. The half-life of ethyl or methyl mercury in the brain is 70 days.
“I think what it amounts to is that mercury is a terrible poison. It’s a terrible insult,” he says. “I think these vulnerable kids should never be exposed to it. However, it doesn’t stay in the body and it doesn’t do continuing damage. I think after a year or so, it has left the body, even though there are tens of thousands of families who are trying therapies that will take the mercury out of their child’s brain when it’s no longer there.”
Metallothionein Promotion Nutrient Therapy for Autism
The fact that autistic children tend to have extraordinary copper and zinc imbalances means their metallothionein protein is not functioning. Metallothionein is required for homeostatic control of copper and zinc. Walsh has developed a metallothionein promotion nutrient therapy: a formulation of 22 nutrients known to enhance genetic expression and function of metallothionein. This protocol has been used on more than 2,000 autistic patients, with measurable improvements in outcome.
“The most important antioxidants in the brain are somewhat different than the rest of the body. I call them the three musketeers. It’s glutathione, metallothionein and selenium. It’s specific to the brain,” he explains.
Technically, selenium is not an antioxidant per se, but it does increase glutathione levels and enhances the function of metallothionein and, in the brain, glutathione and metallothionein work together. Glutathione is your first line of defense. The problem is, autistic children typically have a poor diet (it’s hard to get them to eat anything) and with the oxidative overload, they quickly run out of glutathione. When you run low on glutathione in your brain, your metallothionein level increases.
“Metallothionein doesn’t work unless you have oxidized glutathione. It’s a hand in glove situation. It’s the backup system for glutathione in the brain, and we know that without selenium, that whole system doesn’t work well,” Walsh explains.
I take selenium every day. It’s a trace mineral, so you don’t need much, up to about 200 mcg per day, and you definitely need to be mindful not to overdose. As noted by Walsh, of all the trace metals, selenium has the narrowest division between deficiency and overload, so you need to be careful when supplementing.
Zinc also needs to be normalized, as it is the No. 1 factor for enabling metallothionein to function and support glutathione. According to Walsh, for mental and physical health, you need a plasma zinc level between 90 and 130 mcg/dL. Many mental patients have a genetic weakness in zinc normalization; they’re born with zinc deficiency, and need far higher amounts than typical to maintain a healthy zinc level.
Changing the Face of Psychiatry
Walsh is convinced the use of psychiatric medication will eventually fade away as we learn more about normalizing brain function through nutritional interventions. “These powerful drugs … they do not normalize the brain. They cause an abnormal condition,” he warns. “They might correct depression or anxiety, but you wind up with something that’s not normal.”
The Walsh Research Institute is a public charity with no financial interests, and they are slowly but surely helping to change mainstream psychiatry. Walsh has given talks at the highest levels, including the Surgeon General’s office, the U.S. Senate and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He’s also spoken at American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meetings several times.
“The last time I went there, they finally listened to me … I was there about two and a half years ago. I gave an invited talk on depression. I basically explained to them they’re doing depression wrong. They actually listened to me. I showed them our huge chemistry database and explained that depression is a name given to at least five completely different disorders, each involving different symptoms and each involving different neurotransmitters that are malfunctioning.
Then I described each one of these biotypes and actually showed them that if they would simply do some inexpensive blood and urine testing, they could identify which people would be good candidates for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or which ones would do better on benzodiazepine, but even more importantly, how they can correct it with nutrients.”
There were 17,000 psychiatrists at this meeting from all over the world, and Walsh was 1 of 4 speakers at a well-attended session. Afterward, there was tremendous demand for more information, which gives hope. Walsh also offers a training program for doctors. In the U.S., 45 psychiatrists went through the program last year. In all, 500 physicians and psychiatrists in 32 countries have taken his program so far.
Why SSRIs Induce Violence
One major problem with SSRI antidepressants is the risk of self-harm and aggression as a side effect. Overmethylated, low-folate depressors are intolerant so SSRIs, and evidence suggests this genetic intolerance may have been a factor in many school shootings. Walsh, who has studied this phenomenon, notes 42 of the 50 major school shootings in the U.S. since 1990 were done by teens or young adults taking an SSRI.
“I discussed this … before the APA … I tried to explain to them that they … can do a blood test; they can find out which children or which adults are more likely to become violent if they get an SSRI. I’ve written about this several times; published it in magazines …
If you buy Prozac or Paxil, the insert inside warns that some people … are prone to suicidal or homicidal behavior. We now know which ones they are!”
“Our website has a resources section that recommends quality labs, compounding pharmacies and a list of doctors who we’ve trained, who are now able to do this kind of therapy,” Walsh says.
