Do you really need to protect yourself from WiFi radiation?
I guess the first question that needs to be asked is ‘what is WiFi radiation?’ Which leads to the question ‘is WiFi safe?’
Because if you’re not clear about these questions it’s pointless talking about WiFi radiation protection.
What Is WiFi Radiation?
WiFi devices emit radio-frequency radiation otherwise known as microwave radiation.
Most wireless routers and similar wireless devices emit a field of wireless radiation 24/7.
This microwave radiation is exactly the same kind of radiation that microwave ovens use to cook food.
When you put food in a microwave oven and press ‘on’ this bombards your food with microwave radiation which creates molecular friction and heats up the food.It’s known as ‘the heating effect’ or ‘the thermal effect’.
WiFi devices like wireless modem routers and wireless computers contain transmitters that use this same kind of microwave radiation to send information back and forth in the airwhich can in theory have a similar heating effect on our body.
Luis Hernan, a student at Newcastle University in the UK, has produced a series of photographs using an Arduino based Kirlian device that can show the strength of wireless signals according to color.
Cell phone in WiFi mode – Luis Hernan
Is WiFi Safe?
The whole controversy surrounding the safety of these exposures revolves around this heating effect. For people, in most cases there is no heating effect.
On the one side there is the telecom industry and other vested interests.They say that because there is no observable heating effect with WiFi and similar devices that these technologies are safe.
On the other side there are now thousands of peer reviewed studies conducted by scientists from around the world that show WiFi radiation to be potentially extremely harmful BECAUSE the issue is not about the heating effect.
It’s about the more subtle adverse biological effects.
Independent research links WiFi radiation to a long list of adverse biological effects, including:
•increased blood brain barrier permeability
•disruption to brain glucose metabolism
•DNA chain breaks
•generation of stress proteins
•disruption of cell metabolism
Independent studies also show that WiFi radiation commonly causes such symptoms as fatigue, irritability, constant daily headaches and digestive disorders.
All this might sound unpleasant but the bigger concern is that the upshot of these adverse biological effects are life threatening diseases.
Thousands of studies link long-term exposure to WiFi radiation to many serious diseases, including:
5G is the next generation of cell phone infrastructure, yet it is
categorically different than its predecessors (4G/LTE, 3G, 2G, etc.). It is not
a simple upgrade. It is a major increase – and change – in the type of wireless
radiation to which we will all be exposed, without consent, whether we use this
service or not.
The government’s human exposure guidelines haven’t been
updated in more than 20 years, while radiation from cell phones, cordless
phones, WiFi and wireless baby monitors has increased exponentially in that
time.
No Safety Studies
In a February 2019 U.S. Senate hearing, senior telecom
executives admitted they have not done any safety testing on 5G, nor do they plan
to do any. Currently, there are over two dozen cities in the U.S. and countless
cities abroad that have 5G, yet there is no scientific evidence to support any
claim of safety for it.
What related research does show is cause for alarm. Thousands of independent
studies indicate adverse health impacts from wireless radiation. These range
from cancer and sterility to DNA damage. The government’s human exposure
guidelines haven’t been updated in more than 20 years, while radiation from
cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi and wireless baby monitors has increased
exponentially in that time.
Planet Earth Blanketed in Radiation
The 5G agenda is vast.
It includes 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, that will
be part of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, with one trillion
transmitting objects a few years later. 5G is meant to usher in more
robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, including 5G
antennas installed inside cars – behind our heads and irradiating our brains –
so we can talk to people in other vehicles and instruct our driverless cars on
where to take us.
5G base stations and 5G devices will have multiple antennas in phased arrays
that work together to emit focused,
steerable, laser-like beams that track each other. Each 5G phone will
function like a mini cell tower, containing dozens of tiny antennas working
together to track and aim a narrowly focused beam to search and connect with
the nearest cell antenna. The FCC has adopted rules that permit
those beams to be as much as 20 watts, ten times more powerful than levels
allowed on current phones.
Numerous independent studies on millimeter-wave radiation
already show a range of biological effects, indicating that an increase in
frequencies may worsen harmful effects.
Alarming Evidence of Harm
More than
10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies conducted by independent
researchers from around the world demonstrate the harmful biological effects of
wireless radiation. Because of their developmental stages, children are much
more susceptible. In addition, wireless radiation effects are cumulative,
putting children at greater risk.
Detrimental
effects on fetal and newborn development
Detrimental
effects on young children
Brain
tumors and other cancers
DNA damage
and altered gene expression
Neurological
effects and cognitive impairment
Impaired
sperm function and quality
Learning
and memory deficits
Cardiovascular
disease
Altered
metabolism
And more
The mechanisms of biological harm from wireless radiation were not well
understood until Martin Pall, PhD, demonstrated how voltage-gated
calcium channels are disrupted, resulting in excessive intracellular
calcium ions affecting our cells. Numerous independent studies on
millimeter-wave radiation already show a range of biological effects, indicating that an increase in
frequencies may worsen harmful effects.
5G is being touted as the next industrial revolution, when,
in fact, it amounts to surveillance capitalism, in which intimate details of
our lives are tracked, recorded and sold to the highest bidder, irradiating us
all the while.
Government Corruption
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, section 704, gives the telecom industry
free reign and prohibits opposition to wireless infrastructure based on environmental
effects, which includes health effects. Thankfully, this
prohibition is being challenged in court right now.
The telecom industry is supposed to be regulated by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC); however, the Harvard Center for Ethics describes the FCC as a “captured
agency” that is dominated by the industry it is purported to regulate. The
multi-trillion dollar telecom industry wields massive lobbying power and
formidable public influence through pervasive, propagandistic advertising and
media presence promoting 5G.
In the Information Age, data drives the economy. 5G is being touted as the
next industrial revolution, when, in fact, it amounts to surveillance capitalism, in which intimate details of our
lives are tracked, recorded and sold to the highest bidder, irradiating us all
the while.
There’s one big difference between cell phones and cell towers.
You can choose not to have a cell phone at all. And if you do have one you
can switch it off whenever you like.
But if a cell phone tower pops up next to your home, this is a different
story. Cell towers emit radio frequency radiation, a form of electromagnetic
field (EMF). These EMFs can’t be seen and can’t be heard but these exposures
are linked to many diseases.
Cell Tower Radiation Symptoms
Cell phone tower radiation exposures are linked to many different symptoms,
these include:
For a comprehensive list of symptoms resulting from cell phone tower type
radiation exposures see this article.
Research On Cell Phone Tower Radiation Health Risks
In a 2003 study conducted in France it was found that people living
within 300 meters of cell phone antennas reported various health complaints
including, “fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, difficulty
concentrating, depression, memory loss, visual disruptions, irritability,
hearing disruptions, skin problems, cardiovascular disorder and dizziness”.
A study carried out in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third
largest city, found that over 80 percent of people who succumbed to certain
types of cancer resided a third of a mile away from one of the hundreds of cell
phone antennae that populate the city. The study established a link between
over 7000 cancer deaths and cell phone tower radiation exposures.
A study carried out in San Francisco to investigate if the risk of cancer
was associated with the distance from the Surto cell phone tower found that the
cancer risk increased 10 fold for residents who lived less than 2kms from the
tower. There was also found to be 2 fold increase in cancer risk for people
living 6kms away from the cell tower.
In Germany, a study was conducted to assess the cancer risk for residents
who lived near the Naila cell tower. The study found that after 6-10 years of
exposure there was a 3 fold increase in the cancer risk for residents who lived
less than 400 meters from the tower. For people who lived more than 400 meters
away from the tower, there was no marked increase in cancer risk.
If you are still in doubt about the potential dangers of cell tower
radiation, read this article. For a PDF print out of cell phone tower
dangers see this page.
But before you get overly concerned about the dangers of your
nearest cell phone tower, you first need to put your own house in order.
There is no point going to great lengths and great expense with all sorts of
elaborate shielding if inside your home you have not already
minimized/eradicated the other EMF radiation sources. Use my electromagnetic radiation exposure questionnaire to
identify the sources of EMFs in your home.
7 Tips On How To Protect Your Home From RF Radiation
This procedure also applies if you want to protect yourself from any
external form of RF radiation, be it from a cell tower, neighbors WiFi, a
smart meter, etc,.
1. Do You Need To Take Action?
The starting point is to establish whether you need to take action.
Firstly you need to ascertain just how close the nearest cell phone tower
is, if you are in the US you can use this website to
see where the nearest cell phone tower is in your area (in the UK see the
Mast Database). If the
nearest cell phone tower is more than half a mile away then you should be able
to sleep easy. There are no hard and fast rules on this, it depends on the
power output of the cell phone tower in question and the position and nature of
the antenna’s – whether they are directional or not. As a rule of thumb if the
cell phone tower is within 500 m and you can see the antennas from your home,
then it’s wise to investigate further.
2. Get Some Reliable EMF Readings
You
MUST get some reliable readings to ascertain the dangers. If you
don’t, it’s all guesswork. You can’t hope to deal with your EMF exposures on
the basis of guesswork. You could call a qualified EMF consultant to come to
your house and give you some readings. But buying your own EMF makes more sense
in the long run. The advantage is if you buy the meter , you can use it over
and over again – which you need to do because EMF exposures are changing
constantly. Also economically it makes more sense. Often one consultation will
cost you about the same price as buying the meter. I recommend
the Cornet ED88T for this job – its perfectly suited to
measuring RF radiation emitted by cell towers and easy to use.
3. Shielding Your Home
Once you’ve got some EMF readings then you can decide what to shield.
Shielding your whole house is just not going to be feasible and will in any
case be fairly pointless. Instead you need to focus your attention on the room
where you spend most of your time and your bedroom. If you spend most of your
time in your kitchen then you would be looking to shield your kitchen and
shield your bedroom, unless you live in such a big house that the bedroom has
negligible readings. Again what can be qualified as a high reading is very
subjective and above all depends on your own sensitivity.
4. Shielding Your Bedroom
You
can effectively shield your bed with a Faraday bed canopy. This is the easiest and
the most effective but not necessarily the cheapest solution of shielding your
bed from RF radiation. The EMF Faraday canopy is an ultra-fine metal composite
mesh which works along the same principles as a mosquito net. Instead of
keeping out the mosquitoes it keeps out RF radiation. This kind of shielding
can offer over 99% shielding performance.
If you want the freedom of being able to have the run of your bedroom and
still be protected then shielding the walls and windows will be a better
solution.
5. Shielding Your Windows
Your windows are a weak spot and generally provide the least
protection from EMFs. Which is why your windows are a good place to
start shielding your room, readings from your EMF meter will confirm this. The
good news is that windows are easy to shield using a special window film. You
can buy Scotchtint in a roll, cut it to size, peel off the backing,
moisten and stick it to your window. It can also save on your heating bill.
6. Shielding Paint
Stop cell tower radiation penetrating your bedroom through an
outside wall with a high frequency EMF shielding paint.Yshield paint is the ideal choice. It’s a water-based
paint, free of toxic solvents. I’ve found it easy to apply and very effective.
It can be used on walls, ceilings, doors. It adheres well to cement, plaster,
polystyrene and most building materials. It can be used inside as well as out
but generally you’re better using it on your interior where it’ll not be
exposed to the elements.
7. Cheaper EMF Shielding
Insulating aluminum foil is a cheaper solution. For internal
walls, which unlike external walls don’t need to breathe, insulating aluminum
foil as used in the building industry, can be used. You can stick this to the
walls using wallpaper paste (careful to not use wallpaper paste with
antifungals) and then just paper over the top. (some people claim cooking foil
is adequate but my tests do not support this).
There are many other materials that can be used to shield against RF
radiation from cell towers and smart meters and the like; generally the more
dense a material is the more effectively it shields. Lead for instance is very
effective (its used around x-ray machines) but its difficult to use and is
classified as a possible carcinogen.
Grounding
To ground or not to ground
your EMF shielding? This is something that you need to test.
Grounding will usually be beneficial but there are instances where electrical
fields can be higher after grounding than before. A ground kit is an easy way of grounding shielding paint. For
instructions on grounding click here.
Shielding your home from RF radiation boils down to building a conductive
enclosure around the room or rooms you want to shield. It is much easier to
achieve than shielding from magnetic field radiation but you do have to be
thorough and methodical.
Be Thorough and Methodical
If you’re not thorough and methodical RF radiation can and will seep
through the smallest cracks. So if you paint a wall, be sure to paint
all of it. Being methodical means doing your shielding step-by-step. You take
your EMF readings, you determine which direction the RF radiation is coming
from, you shield that wall, you test, then you earth it and you use your EMF
meter to test again to see how the readings have changed. Then you may go on to
shield the next wall or the ceiling, or both.
If you ground your shielding I do advise measuring the electric field in
your shielded zone before and after. Most shielding materials are conductive –
you don’t want to shield from RF radiation at the price of increased electric
field exposures. Measure your electric fields with an electric field meter.
As much as you can shield inside, when you’re out on your balcony or in your
garden you will be fully exposed to the EMFs. Much depends on the extent of
your exposure, but if your proximity is such that all your house needs
shielding it may be time to start looking for alternative accommodation and/or
to get active on the issue through an association.
This article was updated April 2018.
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Gina Martin said,
Hi
Thank you so much for all your invaluable
information. I live in NYC on Park Avenue and i can see 8 antennas from my
apartment. I am very worried and I want to put up shielding paint to protect
me, but I am not quite sure what you mean by grounding. How do you ground
something in an apartment. And, what happens if you ground incorrectly?
All these things worry me so much and I have not been sleeping well at night so
I drive one hour to get to sleep in my country house. I have a canopy but I am
worried about the radiation also coming from the wi fi in the apartments
below?? Also, can you explain which of the measurements in the trifield meter I
should use. There are 3 different ways to read the RF with my meter and this
also confuses me? Thanks so much again for your help.
Lloyd said,
Hi Gina
The easiest way to do grounding in an apartment is through your homes
electrical system, that to say via the ground connection of an electrical
outlet. You might find it better to do the shielding yourself and take an
electrician to do the grounding because if you ground incorrectly your
shielding will not be effective.
If you are worried about the radiation coming through from the apartments below
you can shield your floors, using foil or paint as described above. But really
the starting point is to determine where the EMFs are coming from.
The Trifield 100XE is a great all round meter but it is not best adapted for
what you are trying to do here. You would need something which can give you
accurate directional readings, for instance the high frequency meter
Lloyd
Biren Soni said,
Dear Mr. Lloyd,
It’s great ideas to protect home against Cell Tower radiation, thanks for the
informations.
We have a cell tower on top of our apartment, just
a floor above my flat; if I want to seal it against radiation, I may require to
seal even the glass windows, which is not practical, so please let me know a
solution to get protection in this situation.
Lloyd said,
I would start with shielding the ceiling; paint is
the easiest way to do this. Then test with your RF meter. You may not have to
shield the windows, it just depends on to what extent the radiation is bounced
and deflected off nearby buildings. And if you do need to shield windows it may
not be all the windows that need shielding, hence the need to test at each
stage with a meter.
Farhad said,
Hi
Thank you very much for your helpful informations.
Which type of films are appropriate for glass windows to protect against RF
radiations?
gisele cyr said,
Hi Lloyd,
Thank you so much for the videos you put on
youtube. I have been electrosensitive for a while.
You said in one of your videos that you have 2
instruments to measure and contol your environment. I would like to know what
instrument you recommend to measure the electrical and EM radiation ( I could
not see the brand on your video). Also, I would like to know if there is an
instrument you know of that measures your bodie’s reaction to EM radiation. I
have been informing myself on this subject and would like to make presentations
on it. I am a veterinarian and teacher and would like to see the effects on
animals as well.
Third question I have is I would like to build
myself a faraday cage and my friend who is an engineer calculated that a metal
screem mesh would do the job. I just wanted you opinion on this.
I would like to know also if you have any
information on a site that I could check where the antennas are in Canada and
according to you, what is the best book available on the subject regarding
scientific proofs of the effects on the biology of the human body.
thanks,
gisele
Lloyd said,
Hi Gisele
I recommend the Trifield and the Cornet meter. There are reviews on my website
so you can better understand what each one does – they do different jobs. In
both cases if you are disappointed with the meter you can refund it and get a
full refund. I would just buy one first and see how you get on with it.
I have never used a faraday cage – it’s a bit cumbersome. It depends what you
are trying to achieve, but you can achieve a lot with a shielding net.
You can see where the cell phone towers are in Canada using this website: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html
If you are looking for a good presentation of the independent literature on the
dangers of EMFs I would start with the Bioinitiative report, its free you can
download it here http://www.stopumts.nl/pdf/BioInitiative.pdf
Kim said,
Hi Lloyd,
I wanted to know what you would say about
protection from technology that Clear Channel uses which seems even more
daunting. Supposedly, the special kind of wireless can travel through brick or
anything else for miles!
Thank you for your time, Kim
Lloyd said,
Hi Kim
Clear channel uses HD technology or Hybrid digital. HD radio transmits audio
and data with a digital and analog signal. I know of no studies on the dangers
of HD radio and I know of no anecdotal evidence so I can’t really comment on
the health impact. But the implication is more man-made emfs in the environment,
which is not good.
Izzy said,
Hi,
Just wondering what your thoughts are on other forms of shields that don’t
involve foil, paint, screens, etc? I live in a rented property with a smart
meter and cellphone tower about 100m away (yikes!), so have been looking into
plug-in shields that cancel the dirty EMFs, various crystals that purportedly
do the job – basically, things I can just sit in each room that are practical,
portable, non-intrusive, but will give us some degree of protection. Due to the
location and positioning of the house reflective shields won’t work, and we
aren’t allowed to fix anything to the walls or modify the property in any way,
so these suggestions are all no-goes, so to speak.
Thanks,
Izzy
