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Sound & Immunity: Humming As An Anti-Viral Agent
Everyone seems to be contributing their thoughts in this time of what is considered a global pandemic of Covid-19 and it seemed correct to do the same. So in this blog and for several after, I will be putting forth some ideas about how we can use sound and consciousness to enhance our immunological system and deal with many of the situations presently occurring.
As many of you may know, I’ve already created a couple of YouTube videos (and their downloadable audio mp3s counterparts). I’ll be focusing on something about them in a later blog. But for the moment, I’d like to bring your attention to something which has been on the focal point of my sonic consciousness for the past several years. This is humming.
As you may be aware, I’ve been in this field for over 40 years, researching, experiencing and teaching how to use sound for healing and transformation from nearly every aspect of the sound field. Many of these approaches seem to work very well for healing and transformation and I will do my best to bring information about them in future blogs. There are many different activities regarding sound that I don’t teach about—this doesn’t mean that I don’t utilize them. I hope to discuss many of them in later blogs.
For the moment, I’m going to focus on one aspect of the healing benefits of humming that I think can be immediately applicable to what is happening right now. Several years ago, my wife Andi and I wrote a book called THE HUMMING EFFECT. To our knowledge, this is the first professionally published book that deals exclusively with the subject of humming. We wrote about this subject because after many, many years of teaching sound healing, one troublesome phenomenon seemed to continue—this was the idea for a lot of people that in order to practice sound healing for themselves, they needed to be professional singers, trained musicians or have some ability that they were taught and practiced.
Andi and I wanted to find some sound that everyone could do—some sonic activity that people would not judge themselves about—something that would allow everyone to experience the power of sound to heal and transform. We were talking about this, trying to see if we could figure out a sound that would be inclusive, not exclusive—and allow everyone the power to use their own self-created sounds as tools for healing.
We thought for a moment and then almost simultaneously looked at each other and went: “Hmmmmm”. Thus began the first step toward writing THE HUMMING EFFECT. The second step was to outline the book and somehow discover some way that anyone would want to read a book about humming. We decided that in order for this to occur, the first chapter had to be about the therapeutic, positive physiological benefits of humming. And that this information had to be peer reviewed—from research found in journals that were accepted in traditional medicine and science.
While the process was pretty arduous—you had to know what to search for in order to find this material—it turned out that there was indeed much information that was available. And we presented a lot of this, including how humming caused the reduction of stress, release of melatonin, lowering of heart rate and blood pressure and much more. One of the most striking benefits that continually showed up was the release of Nitric Oxide (abbreviated as NO), a molecule that is, among other things, a vasodilator. Rather than tell you more about it right now, I’m going to ask you to check out the video above.
This 3 minute video is actually an excerpt of a more than hour long video by Dr. Deitrich Klinghardt, a German MD and Ph.D, who talks about using many different modalities to assist with the pandemic. The section I excerpted focuses on Nitric Oxide’s use with Covid 19 and in particular, the humming of use to stimulate NO. For those who wish to view Dr. Klinghardt’s entire 76 minute presentation, you may view the full video here
Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted to spread the news about 5G Health Risks and was originally published by M B Raja Posted on
The UK Government has been advised to move away from Microwave Radiation for mobile communications and to find an alternative to 5G pulse radiation technology.
The paper titled FUTURE TELECOMS INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW– call for evidence, also with relevance to the reviews: 5G Network Deployment Pilots/mobile connectivity on trains outlines the need for a technological alternative to the current model on 5G deployment.
“5G mm-waves (being higher-frequency) will concentrate their energy and most bio-effects (including from the abrupt digital pulse) in our surface tissue: our skin, eyes, testes, peripheral nerve/ blood cells.”
“We need also to avert i) 5G damage to urban/other trees’ surface tissues, including leaves / bark: British trees are already under pressure, re: ash dieback etc., and ii) 5G damage to bird and insect populations (including mmwave resonance effects in mm-sized micro-fauna) – notice, for example, the important Mount Nardi report for ►UNESCO by botanist Mark Broomhall: shocking declines in a huge number of bird and other species, in a World Heritage wildlife location, spatially pegged to its telecoms pollution levels and their timeline”
The dangerous health effects of 5G are being called a conspiracy theory – well, not anymore. The science is clear and the UK must not ignore this public safety issue. All biological life forms on the planet will suffer.
“There is an urgent need for all of us, without exception, to get up to speed with the latest precautionary evidence for pulsed-RF intolerance (head pain, lost productivity, severe cognitive problems, cardiac reactions, insomnia etc) and all the emerging harm and disability this can cause. As you know, it was first comprehensively confirmed by Russian / American military researchers studying pulsed-RF/radar operators. See, for example, Professor Karl Hecht’s impressive work on Russia’s evidence of harm, and the French former radar-research leader, Dr Pierre le Ruz”.
The mindest of profit over people cannot continue when there are so many peer-reviewed papers available clearly showing the disastrous effects of pulsed RF radiation.
” Britain has buried its head in the sand and rolled out dense pulsed-RF 5G, recklessly filling every accessible human environment; IoT policy has shunned fibre/light-based/other pulsed-RF-reducing options, worsening pollution indoors and out; precautionary evidence is now even more mountainous and its neglect a towering crime against humanity; related cancer rates, neurodegenerative diseases, autism, blood-brain barrier damage, infertility, diabetes (from free radical damage to the pancreas), foetal neural harm, and cardiac effects from exposure (to name but a few of the downstream risks clearly signalled by the growing peer-reviewed evidence”
We would highly recommend that you read the paper in its entirety. It also has some great references on the last page of scientific research already conducted.
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FUTURE TELECOMS INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW– call for evidence also with relevance to the reviews: 5G Network Deployment Pilots/mobile connectivity on trains Dynamic Progress by Revivifying the Precautionary Principle (re: 5G), anticipating new markets for electromagnetic hygiene.
Background: I have studied digital trends / infrastructure, peer-reviewed precautionary research, and environmental-health ramifications and implications for over six years. I hope you find this submission stimulating and helpful, and that, together with submissions and evidence of like mind, it will help to inspire creative, dynamic, policies that revivify the Precautionary Principle in this field – with a goal of future-proof (i.e. truly non-toxic) digital connectivity – to profound societal / economic benefit over the medium and longer term. Thank you.
Introduction
5G, an infrastructural and wider trend towards ‘next generation’ digital connectivity, is a step-change for humanity that can be approached through the corrective lens of biological wisdom, revivifying the Precautionary Principle in line with all the cutting edge, expanding, precautionary evidence – or – pursued with short-sighted recklessness, with under-estimated chronic negative risks and consequences for our society and economy. I encourage all to think with probing depth not merely about the technical feasibility of 5G but creative ways forward that future-proof environmental health and human wellbeing (including foetal) while taking policy steps to help Britain become a world leader in the emerging markets for safer digital products (i.e. reduced RF-radiation exposure) and electromagnetic hygiene, including low-EMF facilities and spaces, to public benefit. Because 5G is at an embryonic stage, you each have a historic opportunity to help to guide UK choices wisely, along these inspiring lines.
A) Prioritising Electromagnetic Hygeine In themselves, 5G fixed networks (fibre) can create high bandwidth that fulfils electromagnetic hygiene. In itself, when not appended to pulsed-RF cells (FTTC), state of the art fibre is a gift to humanity. In transmission by well-managed fibre (i.e not contaminated by HF transients/EMI), high-volume data traffic avoids the numerous emerging / published medical and ecological costs associated with increasingly dense, pulsing, electromagnetic radiation (microwave / mm-wave, both also known as “pulsed RF”) passing through living tissue. Having tracked the peer-reviewed precautionary science very closely for over six years, and its ever-accelerating findings, I observe institutions are struggling to keep pace with it and are failing to translate it into exciting, non-toxic, future-proof policies. At worst, they appear decades behind – clinging to the old, dying paradigm that only thermal or tissue-frying effects from extremely powerful pulsed RF need to be obviated; clinging to it, in effect, like a piece of the Titanic. It is a regrettable way of the world that toxicology often outpaces institutions, with timid reactionary advisory appointees (re: clinging to the dying thermal paradigm) rather than progressives who are making game-changing precautionary discoveries that will spur true human progress. Economies are then hit by downstream costs and human tragedy as they struggle to catch up and shape wiser, dynamic policy for non-toxicity and its profitable markets. (Re: asbestos, lead, chemical carcinogens, etc., and above all smoking). Therefore it is wisely pragmatic to prioritise electromagnetic hygiene and its proliferation (e.g. all the rapidly evolving fibre-only means) over dense electromagnetic pollution and proliferation (dense pulsed RF, see below) wherever possible – together perhaps with evidentially less risky, digitally-pulsed infrared and visible light communications (LiFi /VLC), pending independent premarket optical and biological testing.
[ ►Silicon Valley is looking into potentially LiFi-enabled mobile devices; Germany has trialled LiFi school desks] Compared to pulsed RF, the carrier waves of such means barely penetrate our living tissue and are now known to reflect / propagate around obstacles (Edinburgh University: ►see its home-grown talent) opening up potentially safer possibilities for mobile connectivity (when 2-way: in development) with far more bandwidth than the bioactive/polluting output that less forward-looking 5G (pulsed-RF) will otherwise create. You can all make a fabulous difference here by tactfully and skilfully prioritising electromagnetically-clean options and innovations (e.g. fibre-to-fibre /optical IoT media) by means of, e.g., policy, dissemination, education, behind-the-scenes advocacy, prizes for linked innovation (bypassing/ removing pulsed RF-EMFs) and economic / market stimuli. Anyone of vision can see that the markets for such safer means will be globally enormous as the mountainous extent of published precautionary science filters into public awareness – an awareness, in growing subsets of our own society and globally (J, below) that is already far outpacing the institutional jetlag that is holding back progress! By allying skilfully with this trend, Britain will get ahead of more head-in-the-sand competitors, caught up in cycles of denial (denial of the fast-growing precautionary evidence) to the longitudinal benefit of our national wellbeing and productivity.
B) Living under siege: problems of dense 5G (pulsed-RF options) An urgent concern is the density of (wireless/mobile) 5G electromagnetic pollution, especially in urban / suburban environments / transport/ crowded spaces / misnamed ‘smart’ homes, if 5G is implemented as currently conceived, without up-to-date precautionary insights. To truly future-proof national wellbeing, everyone in public service engaged in 5G issues – DCMS included – would benefit from alert, inquisitive, direct access to the published precautionary findings, rather than secondhand, bowdlerised summaries (if I can offer a piercing insight) from timid delegated bodies: the understandable but damaging jet-lag that occurs – sometimes for decades – before toxicology is translated into everyday life, missing key markets for cleaner ways forward. Rural Britain is currently on track to remain relatively healthy. As you know, we are gearing up to use 700MHz for rural (wireless) 5G. This is an available part of the microwave spectrum (just below 4G’s lower tier) which – although out-performed by high-bandwidth fibre/fibre optics – is fairly efficient at carrying digital information over distances. Yes: it will be biologically active (all pulsed RF has this capacity, as all my scientist-contacts in, for example, the International EMF Scientist Appeal, have been working conscientiously for years to bring to light) – but at maximum remove from housing, it is a less pressing, less urgent concern than the higher-density, urban/suburban 5G options (such as “massive MIMO”) that will be proposed to you. For example, in urban/suburban settings, where distance isn’t an issue, high-density, higher frequency 5G is being explored as an option. At first sight, to the innocent layman, the idea of many smaller transmitters that transmit higher-frequency pulsed RF (= higher-frequency microwaves and increasingly, pulsed mm-waves) to obtain higher bandwidth, may sound vaguely vaguely benign, but the reality – as I hope you will all appreciate – is far more visceral. Perhaps I could describe this somewhat so that you can begin to imagine, bodily, what it would be like to live in this kind of inescapable, dense, electromagnetic pollution. As you know, our cells and DNA use highly delicate electromagnetic signalling that is magnitudes below (several thousands of times weaker) than the artificial levels we are already generating wirelessly, in growing density and complexity. Professor Martin Pall, winner of 8 international awards, has unveiled a master mechanism of harm, earning a Global Medical Discovery listing, that accessibly and precisely explains how today’s wireless output (digitally-pulsed RF) tends to over-stimulate our cells (via their voltage-gated channels) rapidly driving a rise in one of the most toxic substances in our bodies – peroxynitrite. This helps to explain, he sets out in exact lucid detail, the key downstream toxic effects seen in paper after precautionary paper – particularly recent papers (for example, E, below). Wireless 5G is currently in this broad category of radiation (pulsed RF): the toxic risks of this mechanism rise with public exposure. Now: because higher-frequency pulsed RF struggles to pierce walls, very high-density transmitters (“small cells”) are being looked at to achieve inescapable line-of-sight transmission. At the same time, 5G phones with higher radiated power (especially from the back) are being considered, simultaneously working as relay transmitters, further raising passive exposure. This means that, whereas to date you have had a degree of choice in avoiding dense pulsed-RF pollution, you will now face dense, chronic, blanket pollution (worsened by pulsed-RF types of IoT) – just when precautionary findings, already mountainous, and global scientist-support, is accelerating! This is the opposite of future-proof, and adds urgent merit to the electromagnetic-hygiene options described and the rising global paradigm for such advances. For alhough radiated power will be less at 10m from a small cell than a macrocell (full scale phone masts in use today), our exposure levels, even before phones / dense IoT / other inbuilt sources are factored in, will overlap with the levels at which important, precautionary findings have been found: for example, WiFi-source damage to animal’s organs (see E) and the rise in skin cancer and other common cancers Professor Dode et al found up to1km from macrocells (see the full research paper, figures 1- 8: Mortality by neoplasia …, Science of the Total Environ, 2011).
C) Special Problems from 5G mm-waves (high-frequency pulsed RF), if used As you will appreciate, 5G mm-waves (being higher-frequency) will concentrate their energy and most bio-effects (including from the abrupt digital pulse) in our surface tissue: our skin, eyes, testes, peripheral nerve/ blood cells. Research from Israel has revealed risks to the pain receptors in our sweat glands (►see Dr Y Steins, co-researcher, 2017). Equally important, we must think of the 25% of Britain’s population (►Sanger Institute 2016) with higher skin-cancer risks, due to the recently discovered prevalence of the “silent” red-hair gene, i.e. freckle-prone, dark haired / pale skin types. How will pulsed-RF 5G rollouts, if permitted, i.e. dense, chronic, and inescapable (“massive MIMO”) affect vulnerable / abnormal skin-cells? Melanoma risk will rise sharply. Again, one has to think in a future-proof way, and compensate for institutional jet-lag. Including, for example, the alleged long-running conflicts of interest etc. in reactionary self-appointed advisory bodies such as ICNIRP (also noted, for example, by Caroline Lucas MP), who have clung to the old, dying, paradigm – if I may repeat the simile – like a lump of the Titanic, i.e. the 1950s notion that only extreme, thermal/tissue-frying levels of RF merit enacted caution.* We need also to avert
i) 5G damage to urban/other trees’ surface tissues, including leaves / bark: British trees are already under pressure, re: ash dieback etc., and
ii) 5G damage to bird and insect populations (including mmwave resonance effects in mm-sized micro-fauna) – notice, for example, the important Mount Nardi report for ►UNESCO by botanist Mark Broomhall: shocking declines in a huge number of bird and other species, in a World Heritage wildlife location, spatially pegged to its telecoms pollution levels and their timeline (for a copy, see the Environmental Health Trust, online). Also note that in their highly respected annual report on new global conservation challenges, Professor Bill Sutherland et al have flagged blanket pollution from 5G transmitters or “small cells”, where used (►Trends in Ecol & Evol, v 33/1, Jan 2018). We also need to avert increased antibiotic resistance, as recently found from ‘weak’ mm-waves Soghomonyan 2016. [Update: We should also be aware that certain scientists perceive risks to the conditions in which life has evolved, re: Koenig/Cherry, from overseas plans to rush 20,000+ high-power internet satellites into Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere]. Crucially: the phased-array technology proposed mainly for 5G mmwaves (ie, the short-pulse, beam-forming 5G generated from infrastructure and handheld devices) will plausibly risk re-radiated effects (►Brillouin precursors) within our bodies i.e. deep penetration of our tissue. This could be a key, overlooked, hazard with hidden chronic consequences.
D) Citizens at Special Risk from 5G: planning for disability and arresting its rise There is an urgent need for all of us, without exception, to get up to speed with the latest precautionary evidence for pulsed-RF intolerance (head pain, lost productivity, severe cognitive problems, cardiac reactions, insomnia etc) and all the emerging harm and disability this can cause. As you know, it was first comprehensively confirmed by Russian / American military researchers studying pulsed-RF/radar operators. See, for example, Professor Karl Hecht’s impressive work on Russia’s evidence of harm, and the French former radar-research leader, Dr Pierre le Ruz. As you may know, a major hindrance to progress has been the poorly designed studies that have dismissed pulsed-RF intolerance (often termed “electrosensitivity” or ES / EHS) based on whether people have instantaneous on/off pain etc. when sources are switched on/off. As you will appreciate, crippling headaches (for example) from any source can be slow to build and slow to ease (even taking hours ). Such tests have been a misleading red herring, unhelpfully delaying recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and the creation of electromagnetically hygienic spaces (such as low-EMF hospital waiting rooms) to accommodate the adults and children in our society whose lives – according to pioneering GPs like Dr Andrew Tresidder and growing numbers of EMF scientists – are being blighted by heavy exposure, many without realising the emerging link, and who stand to be further blighted if 5G (where wireless) is blindly and densely implemented. The new evidence includes measurable toxic markers and reduced brain blood-flow in those affected (►675 patients: Belpomme et al 2016, peer-reviewed) and the new pilot research showing striking MRI brain scans (physical differences) in badly affected individuals compared to those who are so far able to tolerate exposure. Just as Dr Lamech (peer-reviewed) discovered that relentless, high-intensity pulsed-RF “spikes” from some smart meters tipped many patients into pulsed-RF intolerance / EHS, such that they had to give up their jobs / homes, it is heavily likely that increased pulsed-RF exposure from 5G (if unaddressed) will ramp up levels of intolerance and associated disability / non-productivity. Precautionary scientists are formerly seeking an ICD (international disease code) for such RF intolerance / EHS, and recent court cases (France, Spain, Australia) yielded disability payments for those who are affected. [Update: ESA has been awarded to some cases in the UK]. As it is only a matter of time before our own RF functionally-disabled adults and children are awarded stronger accommodation, of whatever form, it is best to future-proof British 5G trends and create truly humane conditions by maximising digital options that are electromagnetically hygienic (e.g. fibre schools/clinics, easy fibre hook-ups for devices, and independently health-tested 2-way LiFi etc.) Such options will be the new “organic”, followed by a huge market globally, as grassroots awareness of the wealth of precautionary science inevitably grows, in this age of rapid peer-to-peer media, bypassing the jet-lag described (including conflicted bodies clinging to the dying 1950s paradigm: see the AGNIR 2012 report scandal, Starkey 2016). Let us collectively support this healthy trend, and aid Britain to become a policy-supported commercial and educational world-leader in electromagnetically clean ways forward.
E) Risks to all, illuminated by new toxic findings from ‘weak’ pulsed RF Let us take an example with which we are all familiar: WiFi. In the last decade, significant toxic biological effects of WiFi and WiFi-analogue exposure (particularly near-field exposure) have appeared in paper after peer-reviewed paper. Measured in RF volts per meter, these exposures are often less than near-field outputs / passive exposures broadly anticipated from (if the pulsed-RF trajectory is uncorrected) 5G cells or masts and many 5G devices. Here are illuminating examples for you: WiFi router & analogues’ damage to tested animals (revealing likely matching / similar risks to adults and children] Damage to Kidney: Kuybulu 2016/ Testes: Akdag 2016 / Eyes: Tȍk 2014/ Throat: Aynali 2013/ Foetal brain, liver, kidney: Celik 2016, Ozorak 2013 / Skin: Ceyhan 2012 / Blood: Chaturvedi 2011/ Forming teeth: Ciftci 2015/ Brain: Desmunkh 2015; Megha 2015; Kesari 2012/ Thyroid: Agustino 2015 / Nervous system: Ghazizadeh 2014/ Heartbeat: Sailh 2013 / Conception: Shahin 2014/ Puberty: Sangun 2015 / Learning & memory Shahin 2015 / Hormonal level: Yuksel 2015 / Foetal neural harm: Othman 2017/ Pancreas: Salah 2013, Topsakal 2017 (re: diabetes) [And so on, all peer-reviewed] More WiFi examples [ditto]: antibiotic resistance: Taheri 2017 / sperm damage: Avendano 2011/ increased mercury poisoning from dental fillings: Paknahad 2016. Notice also: new findings from current phone-masts, e.g. immune cell damage in surface tissue (to 80m from masts) Zothansiama 2017; amputee pain at equivalent to 70m, Romera-Ortega 2016 Notice also: accelerated body cancers (animals simultaneously exposed to a second carcinogen) from exposure levels that overlap with wireless tablets: Lerchl 2015. (Re: education infra-structure / current wireless classrooms) ►Also free radical damage to our hearts: Bandar 2017 The fact that each of you may be unaware of the above is a sorry reflection of dysfunctional systems that have been holding back awareness and vital progress. For scholarly evidence of this problem, see, e.g “Downplaying Radiation Risk” by Cambridge-trained physicist Nicola Wright (Corporate Ties that Bind, ed M J Walker 2017). Two further institutional-jetlag risks are: under-estimation of the market value of low-EMF innovation and electromagnetic hygiene, and under-estimation of the rapidity of shifts in consumer consciousness when health is an emerging issue (re: diesel / air pollution). World re-insurers, however, are ahead of us: Lloyds of London, Swiss Re, and others in their slipstream– having reviewed the precautionary evidence – now have an across-the-board EMF exclusion cause. When large insurers start to withdraw, toxicity gains serious recognition.
F) An ethical imperative: visible, transparent, infrastructure / embedding An ethical imperative is to make 5G transmitters or their housing visibly identifiable by the public. At present, each of you as British citizens have moderate means of managing your personal electromagnetic exposure: a means that will be increasingly valued and identified as a UN-convention-supported human right as health-awareness grows. Currently, you can sit at a remove from your wireless router/booster; you can move office if you are line-of-sight with a macrocell cluster, while testing your headache levels and productivity; you can decline a wireless smart-meter to reduce your exposure to the brief but relentless high-intensity microwave spikes (re: Professor David Carpenter et al). If you experience headaches, dizziness, ‘brain fog’, tachycardia or disorientation when surrounded by transmitting 4G phones, you can attempt to reduce your time in crowded locations. However: if badly implemented, without moral forethought, 5G will remove all personal choice regarding exposure – at the very time when grassroots awareness of the need for this is accelerating. If, for example, you are pregnant and have read the latest peer-reviewed precautions on pulsed-RF foetal risks (e.g. damage to the hippocampus / de novo genetic mutations /autistic and ADHD risk-factors) you will want to be able to identify embedded transmitters and to have access to clean spaces and to low transmitter-densities, both indoor and out, including clean train carriages or “white rooms”. For although you can put your phone in airplane mode or otherwise disable various outputs, you are dependent on moral digital policy for embedded 5G transparency – particularly in infrastructure/ facilities. Equally, consumers (►inc. with implanted medical devices) will need to know how to disable embedded 5G output in products. Otherwise consumer choice, in e.g. irradiation of their person / dependents, is destroyed, impeding ethical progress. Note: in ethical terms this issue has never been more pressing, given the perfect storm of small antennae (a feature of using higher frequencies) and the commercial temptation to bury these out of sight (without a clear locating label) plus any failures to map street transmitters and beam orientations publically – just when international precautionary calls are intensifying, and grassroots awareness is poised to take off: a global market-in-waiting for alternative connectivity and unpolluted homes/ offices/ classrooms/ green spaces etc.
G) An Invitation to Compare Two Futures This will take only a few minutes, followed by reflection. Rather than fear the growing weight of precautionary evidence (the several thousand papers on pulsed-RF toxic impacts – see end – and the great many coming down the tracks) and create an infrastructure review that timidly shies away from this, at risk of large downstream economic and human costs, let’s usefully imagine two contrasting futures.
i) Britain has successfully prioritised a 5G future that minimises pulsed-RF radiation exposure, nurturing and promoting alternatives at every opportunity. Embracing innovation in line with this, it has averted the new sick-building syndrome and other widespread, creeping deterioration that would otherwise result; productivity is high; national wellbeing is high; investors are attracted to Britain’s innovative, future-proof, low-radiation approach and the linked emerging health-first global market; telecoms interest in this new market is now positive and beginning to boom; consumers are enjoying the benefits of high-bandwidth fibre and easy instant hook-ups to their small screens; grassroots precautionary health awareness has inevitably grown exponentially, via social media and all other means; many now use state-of-the-art fibre for their main data traffic (the new “organic”) rather than self-irradiating devices; many also now have access to (independently health-tested / optically tested) less toxic two-way LiFi / VLC: its high reflectivity has reduced the need for indoor /outdoor pulsed RF (current WiFi/ DECT/ 4G and retrogressive RF 5G), it has also reduced the toxicity of public transport plus much mobile connectivity; mobile devices are more sensitive, needing less pollution to function; accommodation prioritising EMF hygiene is a boom business and is awarded highly sought-after star ratings; rural ‘white zones’ and urban ‘white rooms’ have enabled the growing numbers of adults and children functionally disabled by pulsed-RF exposure (especially where still dense i.e. where lagging badly behind) to continue to access essential services and contribute to society; “digital detox” is a boom business and fibre classrooms attract educated, EMF-aware parents, inspiring wider reform; as in France, younger school-children are protected; bird, plant and vital pollinating-insect health has been preserved, to national benefit; pulsed-RF footprints are beginning to take their place in public awareness alongside carbon / plastic footprints: old-style wireless exposure, where people were drilled for hours by near-range pulsed microwaves/ mm-waves, is now seen as naive, outdated, and a heavy burden on health services / the public purse; GPs are more emf-aware and therefore more efficient; Britain is rightly proud of navigating its way to this inspiring digital future, ahead of competitors and less ethical nations.
(ii) Britain has buried its head in the sand and rolled out dense pulsed-RF 5G, recklessly filling every accessible human environment; IoT policy has shunned fibre/light-based/other pulsed-RF-reducing options, worsening pollution indoors and out; precautionary evidence is now even more mountainous and its neglect a towering crime against humanity; related cancer rates, neurodegenerative diseases, autism, blood-brain barrier damage, infertility, diabetes (from free radical damage to the pancreas), foetal neural harm, and cardiac effects from exposure (to name but a few of the downstream risks clearly signalled by the growing peer-reviewed evidence, below) continue to grow; although grassroots health awareness has grown despite unsupportive policies, it is refractory, and citizen talent that could have co-created a far healthier low-exposure Britain has lacked channels and been squandered; innovators awake to the new paradigm have emigrated; risks specific to 5G pulsed MMwaves (skin cancers, sweat-gland pain, further antibiotic resistance, free radical damage to leaves and pollinating insects etc., see above) have caused loss and suffering; functional disability from dense involuntary pulsed-RF exposure has rocketed and gone untreated, leading to misdiagnosis and squandered health resources, lost productivity, actionable gross neglect, and an increase in suicides; post-Brexit bargain-basement telecoms, where permitted, may have exacerbated this decline; visionary new-paradigm competitors who prioritise health are leaving us behind; Britain’s health related quality-of-life indicators have fallen, miring it in further social problems, public costs, and reduced revenue.
H) Educational published appeals by distinguished precautionary scientists Please each take a few minutes to read the texts, below, of the two major, public, scientist-led appeals, to date, calling for action to address escalating EMF exposures from wireless expansion.
i) The International EMF Scientists’ Appeal (Appeal statement to the U.N., signed to date by 240 scientists, peer-reviewed in the field, from 41 nations including the USA, China, Britain, Germany, France, Australia, India, and Russia:) “Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plant and animal life”. They warn “agencies setting safety standards have failed to impose sufficient guidelines to protect the general public, particularly children” and call for “leadership fostering the development of more protective EMF guidelines, encouraging precautionary measures, and educating the public about health risks, particularly risk to children and foetal development” They call for doctor education, special protection for children/ pregnancy, the development of safer products, creation of white-zones (ie non-irradiated), independent funding and exposure of expert conflicts of interest, and the public to be taught harm-reduction strategies. Addressing 5G, the conveners add: “There is scientific evidence to cause concern among independent scientists, that this new infrastructure, on top of existing electrical and wireless infrastructures, will cause more harm to mankind and nature. People who suffer from electrical sensitivity are facing the reality that they may have no place to go that is free from EMF hazards. We recommend that, in keeping with the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’, 5G technologies must be subjected to an independent health and safety assessment before they are launched.
ii) Precautionary Scientists and Doctors’ Appeal on (wireless) 5G Health Risks Flags important risks and calls for a European Moratorium on 5G pending independent research. Notice the Appeal’s helpful alert on cumulative, involuntary exposure: “We the undersigned, more than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries, recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry. 5G will substantially increase exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc. for telecommunications already in place. RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment. 5G leads to massive increase of mandatory exposure to wireless radiation” “5G technology is effective only over short distance…Many new antennas will be required and full-scale implementation will result in antennas every 10 to 12 houses in urban areas, thus massively increasing mandatory exposure.” The Appeal flags high involuntary exposure in homes, shops, and hospitals, greatly worsened by the billions of IoT emitters (i.e. the cumulative exposure, rather than low-power single sources, unless – my note – delivered by fibre/digital infrared etc etc.) Germany was strongly represented: notice, therefore, that markets for safer infrastructure, products, and applications will be growing on our EU doorstep, as well as at home / overseas. Among other useful points, such as some published EMF disease risks, the Appeal also flags EHS (severe pulsed-RF intolerance / electro-sensitivity, sometimes extending to mains electric fields) as a “sentinel disease” for which inaction will come at a growing cost to society. It cites the UNESCO 2005 definition of the Precautionary Principle (UK-adopted, via the EU): “When human activities may lead to morally unacceptable harm that is scientifically plausible but uncertain, actions shall be taken to avoid or diminish that harm.” I suggest this definition applies to any digital rollout that fails to minimise involuntary pulsed-RF exposure by whatever means possible – even if this means re-conceiving 5G from the bottom up (while shedding loose safety assumptions based on the dying thermal paradigm) to deliver non-polluting, truly future-proof connectivity, in line with the powerful new paradigm. ►Update: see Professor Pall’s important 90pp document on 5G biological risks EU 2018.
I ) Hidden security & carbon costs; conserving wired infrastructure; fibre HAN To hope that wireless 5G will be truly secure is a fantasy. The proven hackability of some wireless-enabled implanted medical devices, for example, hints at the range of vulnerabilities and uncontrollable human costs of such colossal short-sightedness. There will always be brilliant, ingenious (or warped) wireless hackers who will enjoy the challenge of capturing, exploiting or selling wireless transmissions. Fibre is inherently more secure and therefore, I understand, often chosen for military facilities. Whenever you get an opening to prioritise fibre infrastructure and fibre add-ons, over wireless, remember that former CIA chief James Woolsey, speaking on air, identified wireless ‘smart’ grids as “a really, really, stupid idea”. One of the hidden carbon costs in buildings is their growing wireless output: ever-on WiFi routers, for example, were measured as one of the highest consumers in homes – a myopic trend exacerbated by marketing (for more powerful transmitters) to the uneducated. Factor in ever-on DECT and other growing pulsed-RF consumption, and the pulsed-RF ‘smart’ home (packed with embedded transmitters) tends to becomes self-defeating. Add the grave prospect of living in / being permanently trapped in a dense, bio-active fug of pulsed electromagnetic fields – multi-source, cumulative RF exposures – and we have a new sick-building syndrome (with rising neurotoxic / cardio-toxic / carcinogenic / aging free-radical / sensitisation risks): a slow-burn disaster, not least to children, with hidden costs to the public purse. Fortunately, fibre 5G can include fibre HAN – real-time appliance energy use that can be read over its wiring – together with many other fibre innovations that will attract talent, backing and further innovations, in a virtuous circle – providing that you are dynamic and develop attractive, world-leading, fibre-innovation policies. For inspiration and practical ways forward, and a no-nonsense exposé of 5G wireless fads, see the white paper Re-inventing Wires 2018 [► download], USA. See also: British bio-sustainability consultant / EU advisor Dr Isaac Jamieson. Simultaneously, be alert for false claims of EMF hygiene. For example: i, dubious ‘health’ trackers and devices that rely on chronic pulsed irradiation of the body ii, phones/tablets failing to meet their SARS limit (radiation-absorption rate, woefully based only on 6-minute heating effects on a large male mannequin) iii, any ‘shield’ that directs output away from the screen only, with no mitigation of on-the-body exposure or passive exposure of other people.
J) New Paradigm: New Markets It’s good to end on an uplifting note. Perceptive observers will notice that evidence-based precautionary EMF health-awareness is growing steadily in peer-to-peer media, proliferating social sites, websites, and health-aware networks – not least among well-informed parents. From new health charities to (for example) Parents for Safe Technology, this movement crosses oceans and is very well represented in the English language, with growing ripple-effects and many helpful new memes, e.g. digital detox, moral technology, “sent from my wired device”, and so on. On the whole, this is a power for good and portends where we are going: the rise in informed consumers who will want to service their digital consumption in ways that truly minimise both their and their family’s / peers’ RF exposure. A recent market response, for example (Far East), is the new “low radiation” WiFi router targeted at pregnant women. Public rejection of 5G, based on non-consensual infrastructure and all the above health risks, has already taken California by storm: some three hundred towns and cities, plus numerous civil organisations and NGOs, filed rejections culminating in a 5G small-cell veto by the state governor. Witness as other states, other populations, gradually awaken, with wide ripple effects. Also notice several hundred French mayors’ rejection of Linky smart meters: toxic stranded assets generating dirty electricity on house wiring – a risk of some switched-mode power aspects of 5G. Can we learn from the precautionary advances in some other countries? President Macron stood on an election platform of mobile-phone exclusion from schools (to improve educational outcomes). South Korea has digital addiction clinics: recall the couple whose child starved to death while they raised a “virtual” child (Reuters). Cyprus is taking public education steps on reducing RF-EMF exposure; ►ditto (personal communication) some doctors’ surgeries in Russia. France’s new law “Electromagnetic Sobriety” includes ethical health and transparency measures such as labelling of public WiFi to enable EHS / the health-conscious to reduce their exposure. Conclusion The coming cultural transition from naivety about electromagnetic toxic risks, including from 5G in its current reckless trajectory (from risks to our genetic material to functional disabilities and accelerated aging / chronic disease risks from the oxidative damage) towards electromagnetic maturity, which seeks far healthier ways forward, is to be supported and celebrated. This new paradigm is of a digitally but also biologically literate humanity, one that – from parents to infrastructure policy-makers, from home to nation – has wisely adjusted and guided its digital expansion so that it is less at war with our underlying biology and that of other life. In terms of how our bodies, cells, and DNA function and signal, we are fundamentally bio-electromagnetic in nature: the exquisite extent of this is only now being uncovered. Artificial radiation that is less polluting of living tissue, such as digitally encoded light (or techniques to infill / soften the RF pulse) holds some promise, if independently fully bio-tested. Better still, well-managed fibre of every kind – perhaps barely visible to the human eye, shimmering with digital capacity – may remove EMF pollution in ways we have barely begun to imagine. Your 5G-focussed future telecoms infrastructure review, plus 5G pilots review and review of connectivity on trains (see below) offers a golden opportunity to address escalating pulsed-RF pollution by backing safer, state-of-the-art digital applications as detailed above, and low-EMF zones, not least in sensitive habitats and child / welfare settings. So innovatively preparing the way to reduce pulsed-RF over-dependency and its cumulative risks as yet more precautionary evidence manifests, on top of the several thousand existing papers. In so doing, Britain will reap profound benefits over populations that rigidly cling to, and sink with, the dying paradigm. I declare that I have no conflicts of interest. Appendix 1) Some Ramifications for the ‘5G Network Deployment Pilots Review’ Taking these insights in detail (A to J), both individually and as a whole, ramifications include: 1) the need for (independently funded) pre-testbed tests of the effects of any proposed forms of 5G using pulsed RF, including all new-use frequencies / mmwaves, on living cells and organisms. (Professor Martin Pall may be able to advise: he has thought through this area). 2) immediate stimuli and encouragement for non-pulsed-RF digital means: this may bring out feast of ethical innovation and technical creativity, translatable into pilots 3) independent pre-testbed LiFi testing on bio/optical effects, free of conflicts of interest 4) fibre pilots – pushing the boundaries on what can be achieved by fibre-to-fibre alone 5) following 3), light-based pilots, fully consensual and optician-scientist monitored, with adult volunteers 6) recorded informed consent from every individual or guardian in any test-bed area before piloting wireless (pulsed RF) in human environments (re: the Nuremberg Code) 7) small 5G pilots on closely monitored herbaceous habitat / insect habitat / beehives / bird populations /amphibians. Re: Balmori, 90% tadpole death 100m from phone masts (peer-reviewed); Everaert, nesting sparrow decline in phone mast radiation (ditto); decline of above-ground nesting pollinating insects in telecoms radiation (ditto, Lázaro 2016) 8) pilots that allow for /gauge bio- and health-effects from chronic, multi-source exposures 9) careful pilots on urban trees and species already under pressure. Re: Waldmann-Selsam et al 2016, tree damage up to 2 miles from phone masts, depending on exposure levels, consistently diagnosed by early thinning/ crown loss on the exposed side (peer-reviewed). (Dr Andrew Goldsworthy, formerly of Imperial College, has specialist expertise in this field which may be of service). For free-radical effects on fauna/flora, see Prof C Georgiou. Appendix 2) Some Ramifications for the ‘Commercial Options for Delivering Mobile Connectivity on Trains Review’ In particular, see D: the need for provision of a protected space on each train service that will preserve access and equal rights /essential human rights for pulsed-RF intolerant/impaired adults and children, as well as all future consumers who wish to limit their RF-EMF exposure, including in pregnancy. This could be the “quiet carriage” or a simply-shielded vestibule, at negligible cost, especially when compared to the investment and adaptation that is made for other differently-abled groups such as the partially sighted and mobility-impaired, in line with the 2010 Equalities Act.
Endnote For accessible, independent-scientist / scholarly overviews of the several thousand papers on the chronic disease / dysregulatory and other emerging risks of RF-EMFs, see: ● Research summaries by Professor Henry Lai: he is widely respected for probing beyond published abstracts and combing innumerable papers in conscientious, even-handed, detail ● Michael Bevington, Electrosensitivity and Electro-hypersensitivity, 2014 (denoting life’s inherent sensitivity to EMFs), a scholarly to me with comprehensive, thematic, research listings. ● For telecoms infrastructure ethics, see the major Harvard Ethics Report Captured Agency by visiting professor Norm Alster; for an enjoyable and insightful introduction, see Overpowered by Professor Martin Blank. ● If needed, further resources / specific themes can be emailed) Thank you * The old paradigm on which pulsed-wireless telecoms was first built is fading (this is not to be feared since telecoms firms will profit in time, with innovation and, e.g., their fibre investments). In truth, it has been dying by stages ever since its inception. This is the 1950s-origin hypothesis that artificial non-ionising radiation causes harm (later diluted to ‘significant’ harm) only at very high power densities, known as “thermal levels”, that are capable of heating/frying living tissue. Military research (Russia / USA) rapidly unravelled this, and uncovered, for example, from non-heating exposures: ►disabling microwave sickness or ‘radio sickness’ in military personnel ►chronic risks to the Central Nervous System, fertility, foetuses, genetic material, etc. ►the ability to induce different types of psychosis using a wide range of pulse modulations nb wireless digital output is pulse-modulated or “pulsed” and uses the same portion of the spectrum / some identical frequencies to the above; pulsed RF is more bioactive than continuous waves
Reprint of Original Post by Brandon Amalani at Blushield US.
Throughout the history of discoveries of mathematical concepts with elements of universal truth, a few concepts stand out on their own, as if they were keys to open to us a glimpse into the complex structure of the universe itself. One of these that has demonstrated over time to be applicable to nearly every aspect of life and the universe, is the Phi ratio.
Called by a variety of names, Phi is also referred to as the Golden ratio, Golden mean, Golden number, Golden section, and the Divine Proportion (by Renaissance artists), among others. It’s also intimately related to the Fibonacci sequence (or Fibonacci series).
The number itself is 1.618033988749895… commonly shortened to 1.618. The “…” indicated in the longer version means it goes on infinitely, as far as we know.
Why is this number so “golden” in the minds of centuries of great thinkers? It’s an irrational number, which means it can’t be reduced to a fraction of integers, and it essentially goes on forever (after the decimal place) with no discernible pattern. So what is the significance of such a seemingly chaotic number?
To get a basic visual of Phi, imagine a line of a certain length, any length. Now, you could divide this line into two lines at any point. But there is one specific point, which is around 0.618 of the whole (1) line, where if you divide it, the ratio of the larger segment to the smaller segment is the same as the ratio of the whole original line to the larger segment – 1.618 to 1. There is only one place you can divide the line where this is possible. See illustration for a visual understanding.
There are many other methods to derive and demonstrate Phi with mathematics and geometry. You can use the Fibonacci sequence, a numerical series made widely known by Leonardo Fibonacci in the year 1202 AD (although the series was known by Indian mathematicians since the 6th century AD). The series starts as 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377… and keeps going indefinitely. Each number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. The higher the numbers go, the more exactly the ratios between each adjacent number approximate Phi.
Phi has many unusual mathematical properties, and is the solution to a quadratic equation. Even more profoundly, it is pervasive throughout nature: it is found in the forms of the bodies of animals, humans, shells, insects, trees, leaves, flowers, and even the solar system and human DNA!
Phi Ratio In Nature and Human Behavior
The Phi ratio is found all throughout the proportions of the human form. It is found in the proportion of human facial features, and faces that most closely approximate the Phi ratio are closest to what is considered most aesthetically beautiful. It’s also found in the proportions of the sections of the human body (head, torso, legs), fingers, and teeth. Since Phi seems to be a foundational element of the human design and beauty standard, it isn’t surprising that Phi is used in facial plastic surgery and cosmetic dentistry!
The petals and spiral patterns of flowers are a complex natural expression of Phi, as well as the patterns of leaf veins, honeycombs, insect body sections, wing dimensions and spots on moths and butterflies, the spirals of seashells, and even a wide variety of differently shaped animal bodies are found to be different configurations of Phi!
The double helix spiral of human DNA embodies Phi proportions, as well as the spirals of galaxies themselves. This ratio seems to be so pervasive in nature that it inhabits the microcosm of DNA, all the way to the macrocosm of galaxies!
As we ourselves are interconnected with nature, and are ourselves natural beings, it makes sense that much of human behavior tends instinctively towards Phi. It has been found that population growth can be recorded and predicted using Phi, and even the rises and falls of the stock market! Since stock market changes are determined by human expectations, and human expectations have been found to occur in a ratio near Phi, Phi has been used with great success to analyze and predict stock market moves. Because humans unconsciously express Phi in their behavior, like other animals, it has been said that the stock market may have geometrically as perfect a pattern as a spider’s web!
Human-created art and architecture, especially what are considered the “great works” throughout history, contain design elements utilizing Phi. This includes the Great Pyramid of Egypt, the Parthenon (apparently the Greeks were consciously aware of Phi during its design), a number of paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Georges Seurat, and more. The long-revered Stradivarius violins built in the 1700’s show Phi relationships. Modern architectural applications include the Notre Dame in France, and several other modern buildings. Phi is used in the design of logos by many major corporations, and in modern fashion. It is even being used to integrate knowledge in the fields of time and quantum physics!
It is notably found in the structure of great musical works. The peak, or capitulation, of great classical music pieces occurred very close to 61.8% of the way through each movement. This also occurs in popular music. Notes of a scale, chords, and octaves correlate to Fibonacci numbers.
Phi is seen pervasively in the visible patterns of nature, but just as with great music, it is also found in the frequencies and sounds of nature.
Phi and Blushield
It is clear that humans have an affinity for Phi, as it seems to be weaved into our very structure! Although humans have a tendency to create beautiful works of art, architecture and music by subconsciously utilizing Phi, not everything humans have created is even close to Phi. Some of our creations are very, very far from it.
Manmade electromagnetic fields, if we were able to see and hear them, would not appeal to our sense of aesthetics at all. They are static, infinitely repeating frequencies. If they were audible to us, they would drive us crazy. They might sound like a loud car alarm that never turns off, an alarm clock, or high-pitched screeching. These types of frequencies are not compatible with our bodies. Our bodies like the frequencies of nature, which express the complexities of Phi and other natural patterns.
This is why Blushield utilizes the Phi ratio as a foundational aspect of the infinitely varied, multiple waveform output of its microprocessors.
As 5G is on the verge of being rolled out all over the world, Blushield has prepared for this increasingly harmful and abrasive element by developing a new version of the Ultra unit: the 5G Ultra. The Ultra, itself, is already the most powerful Blushield model, in terms of strength and area of coverage. The 5G Ultra adds a new element, specifically designed to provide more protection to our cells from the added stress of 5G: constant emission of Phi ratio waveforms.
All other Blushield models emit a complex, ever-changing multiple waveform every 30 seconds, which is more than sufficient to entrain our bodies to the Blushield and ignore the manmade EMFs. But since 5G is a stronger, higher frequency, with more pulsations, and will be more densely placed throughout cities and towns, it is appropriate to combat this with a constant emission of natural frequencies modeled after Phi.
You can read more about the 5G Ultra unit here, to see if it’s appropriate for your current or likely future situation!
October 17, 2019 highly respected SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE published a compelling story about the growing evidence 5G is potentially unsafe to human health by over 240 peer review scientific studies. The article goes so far as to call for a moratorium on further 5G installations across America while more relevant and rigorous health testing is done.
We at CTE don’t suggest you wait on highly conflicted politicians to rescue you from the dangers of 5G or current 4G or wifi for that matter. Please visit our EMF protection page where you will find the finest EMF protection available today.
You can read the SA original story here, but as we have seen the pressure brought to bear by the million dollar advertisers to remove unfavorable 5G and Wifi stories, complied with by such respected sources like PC Magazine, who even went so far as to fire the writer for warning reader 5G may be unsafe, here is the SA article just as it appeared on 10/17/19 in its entirety:
Scientific American Magazine
We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe
The technology is coming, but contrary to what some people say, there could be health risks
The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation of “fear mongering” over the advent of wireless technology’s 5G. Since much of our research is publicly-funded, we believe it is our ethical responsibility to inform the public about what the peer-reviewed scientific literature tells us about the health risks from wireless radiation.
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced through a press release that the commission will soon reaffirm the radio frequency radiation (RFR) exposure limits that the FCC adopted in the late 1990s. These limits are based upon a behavioral change in rats exposed to microwave radiation and were designed to protect us from short-term heating risks due to RFR exposure.
Yet, since the FCC adopted these limits based largely on research from the 1980s, the preponderance of peer-reviewed research, more than 500 studies, have found harmful biologic or health effects from exposure to RFR at intensities too low to cause significant heating.
Citing this large body of research, more than 240 scientists who have published peer-reviewed research on the biologic and health effects of nonionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) signed the International EMF Scientist Appeal, which calls for stronger exposure limits. The appeal makes the following assertions:
“Numerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines. Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans. Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plant and animal life.”
The scientists who signed this appeal arguably constitute the majority of experts on the effects of nonionizing radiation. They have published more than 2,000 papers and letters on EMF in professional journals.
The FCC’s RFR exposure limits regulate the intensity of exposure, taking into account the frequency of the carrier waves, but ignore the signaling properties of the RFR. Along with the patterning and duration of exposures, certain characteristics of the signal (e.g., pulsing, polarization) increase the biologic and health impacts of the exposure. New exposure limits are needed which account for these differential effects. Moreover, these limits should be based on a biological effect, not a change in a laboratory rat’s behavior.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified RFR as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in 2011. Last year, a $30 million study conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) found “clear evidence” that two years of exposure to cell phone RFR increased cancer in male rats and damaged DNA in rats and mice of both sexes. The Ramazzini Institute in Italy replicated the key finding of the NTP using a different carrier frequency and much weaker exposure to cell phone radiation over the life of the rats.
Based upon the research published since 2011, including human and animal studies and mechanistic data, the IARC has recently prioritized RFR to be reviewed again in the next five years. Since many EMF scientists believe we now have sufficient evidence to consider RFR as either a probable or known human carcinogen, the IARC will likely upgrade the carcinogenic potential of RFR in the near future.
Nonetheless, without conducting a formal risk assessment or a systematic review of the research on RFR health effects, the FDA recently reaffirmed the FCC’s 1996 exposure limits in a letter to the FCC, stating that the agency had “concluded that no changes to the current standards are warranted at this time,” and that “NTP’s experimental findings should not be applied to human cell phone usage.” The letter stated that “the available scientific evidence to date does not support adverse health effects in humans due to exposures at or under the current limits.”
The latest cellular technology, 5G, will employ millimeter waves for the first time in addition to microwaves that have been in use for older cellular technologies, 2G through 4G. Given limited reach, 5G will require cell antennas every 100 to 200 meters, exposing many people to millimeter wave radiation. 5G also employs new technologies (e.g., active antennas capable of beam-forming; phased arrays; massive multiple inputs and outputs, known as massive MIMO) which pose unique challenges for measuring exposures.
Millimeter waves are mostly absorbed within a few millimeters of human skin and in the surface layers of the cornea. Short-term exposure can have adverse physiological effects in the peripheral nervous system, the immune system and the cardiovascular system. The research suggests that long-term exposure may pose health risks to the skin (e.g., melanoma), the eyes (e.g., ocular melanoma) and the testes (e.g., sterility).
Since 5G is a new technology, there is no research on health effects, so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator. However, we have considerable evidence about the harmful effects of 2G and 3G. Little is known the effects of exposure to 4G, a 10-year-old technology, because governments have been remiss in funding this research. Meanwhile, we are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attributable to the proliferation of cell phone radiation. These increases are consistent with results from case-control studies of tumor risk in heavy cell phone users.
5G will not replace 4G; it will accompany 4G for the near future and possibly over the long term. If there are synergistic effects from simultaneous exposures to multiple types of RFR, our overall risk of harm from RFR may increase substantially. Cancer is not the only risk as there is considerable evidence that RFR causes neurological disorders and reproductive harm, likely due to oxidative stress.
As a society, should we invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a cellular technology that requires the installation of 800,000 or more new cell antenna sites in the U.S. close to where we live, work and play?
Instead, we should support the recommendations of the 250 scientists and medical doctors who signed the 5G Appeal that calls for an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G and demand that our government fund the research needed to adopt biologically based exposure limits that protect our health and safety.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Joel M. Moskowitz
Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD, is director of the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been translating and disseminating the research on wireless radiation health effects since 2009 after he and his colleagues published a review paper that found long-term cell phone users were at greater risk of brain tumors. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website has had more than two million page views since 2013. He is an unpaid advisor to the International EMF Scientist Appeal and Physicians for Safe Technology.
Note: Under the old adage, “It’s better to laugh than cry,” the tone of this blog is meant to tickle your funny bone about a serious personal data issue that might just spell the end of Democracy.
Do you have friend or family member who shocked the hell out of you by changing from a run of the mill liberal into a Bible-thumping Trump believer back in 2016? Well then, there’s a new film on Netflix called THE GREAT HACK that just might solve the mystery of this transformation–a mind-numbing mystery that’s busted up entire families and ended lifelong friendships.
Remember those people all the pollsters called Undecided? THE GREAT HACK lets us see behind the curtain of the hard-working evil geniuses behind Cambridge Analytica. Using 5000 data points (which means they know your Aunt Emma better than you), Cambridge dubbed your loved ones who’ve been driving you nuts as “Persuadables,” in a big old PSYOP worthy of a Bond villain. They even offered up all kinds of fun ‘personality tests’ on Facebook to let us self-identify whose profiles they were after to persuade. Ever take one of those on Facebook? Even if you did not you friends who took us all down the rabbit hole together,
Yep, it’s time to forgive your Trumpy friends and family because they might have been targeted as Persuadables with weapons-grade brainwashing memes and videos, kind of a 2D stealth version of WW2’s Tokyo Rose. The movie deeply, albeit with an ‘ironic as it gets’ liberal slant, shows us that the Republicans like Trump and Cruz hired Cambridge Analytica, who in turn harvested the equally culpable (run by Mr. Butter Would Not Melt in His Zuckerberg Mouth) Facebook, to run Psychological Operations (PSYOP) using ‘weaponized data’ to divide and manipulate us like prize cattle.
Our personal data it turns out has been mercilessly mined into a trillion mind control business. No wonder that crafty Mr. Turtle, a.k.a. Mitch McConnell, won’t allow the passage of any legislation on election reform. He wants the Reps to hang on to their PSYOP card. Turns out, the greatest asset Facebook has belongs to us–our data–and rather than us getting paid for it, we’re getting mind-F’d.
Cambridge Analytica Whistle Blower Brittany Kaiser
What gives the film depth and excitement is the flipping of Brittany Kaiser from poor Obama angel to bought off wealthy Trump devil and back whistle blower angel again. It’s a personal journey worthy of Shakespeare. And the way the talented directors, Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim have such real time access to Britany’s tortured ‘journey to the light’ is mind blowing.
Five CTE penguins. We highly recommend THE GREAT HACK as a way to understand the proverbial shit storm of weapon grade social media PSYOP we’re all in for as the liberals play PSYOP catch up. Meanwhile, please hide your Persuadale loved one’s computer and cell phone. Or, more realistically, enlighten them on the peace of mind ad blocking can bring in the PSYOP wars we are all mired in.
Last, shameless plug, and we cannot prove any of this scientifically, but we at CTE, all two of us, personally feel our Blushield EMF protection devices, which after all are designed to tune out EMF waves using natural scalar waves, is of great benefit in fighting the forces who seek to divide us all against one another. There are cost free things you can do too. Meditation and yoga help to. And limit your news watching. It’s all worth the effort. Peace of mind is a beautiful, and daily getting to be rare, thing.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a reprint of an original article found here. Another case of ‘What You Can’t See CAN Hurt You.’ The stats show that between 2000 and 2010, there were an estimated 60,000 LESS new asthma cases per year! At CTE, our opinion is that urban environments are electromagnetically disrupted ‘geopathic zones’ – where the human brain and body is unable to sync or even ground with Earth’s electromagnetic field. Unfortunately, these zones are pervasive and multiplying and increasing cumulative cellular stress and inflammation that lead to immune system weakness and disease. Elizabeth
This condition has a high economic cost. Each year in the U.S., more than US$80 billion is lost because of asthma. This is mainly due to premature deaths, medical payments and missed work and school days. The burden is higher for families with asthmatic children, who, on average, spend $1,700 more on health care than families with healthy children.
One major environmental factor that might contribute to the development of asthma is air pollution from traffic. In our study, published on April 3, our team mapped where in the U.S. children are most at risk for developing asthma from this type of pollution.
Asthma presents as episodes of wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath due to the reversible, or partially reversible, obstruction of airflow. Six in 10 of children with asthma worldwide had a form of persistent asthma, meaning that either they were on long-term medication or their condition could not be controlled even with medication.
Traffic pollution contains a mixture of harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, benzene and sulfur. These pollutants are known to harm health in many ways, causing a number of cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological diseases.
Despite this emerging evidence, the burden of childhood asthma due to traffic-related air pollution is poorly documented. Very few studies explore the geographic and spatial variations.
My research team wanted to quantify the connection between exposure to traffic pollution and the onset of childhood asthma across 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. We also wanted to make these data open to the public.
In our analysis, we looked at 70 million kids and conducted all calculations at the census block level, the smallest available geographical unit for census data. We collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington, who modeled the concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, a strong sign of traffic-related air pollution, using satellite imagery combined with environmental ground monitoring data.
We then took data extracted from surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimating childhood asthma incidence in the U.S. Alongside data from our air pollution models, we used these data to estimate the number of childhood asthma cases caused by exposure to traffic pollution.
Our analysis found that childhood asthma cases attributable to traffic pollution across the U.S. decreased, on average, by 33% between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, we estimated that 209,100 childhood asthma cases could be attributed to traffic pollution, while this number dropped to 141,900 cases in 2010. That’s a major win for public health.
Despite this encouraging decrease in air pollution and its associated health burden, there were 141,900 childhood asthma cases due to traffic-related air pollution in the U.S. That’s 18% of all childhood asthma cases. CTE EDITOR’s NOTE: the current EPA has removed or reduced many of the air pollution standards.
Moreover, we found that children living in urban areas had twice the percentage of asthma cases attributable to nitrogen dioxide exposures as compared to children living in rural areas.
Our estimates underline an urgent need to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution. We hope that our analyses and heat maps will better inform policymakers, transportation agencies, medical associations and anyone else interested in learning more about the burden of childhood asthma due to air pollution. CTE EDITOR’S QUESTION: What would the mapping of disease to geopathic zones look like?
EDITOR’S NOTE: CTE found this article to be an accurate and balanced presentation of the research and benefits of hydrogen water. Ken Sheetz and I just feel better when we supplement with hydrogen water and love the easy-to-use HydroGO+ portable molecular hydrogen generating flask in our store. This is a reprint of this Healthline article found HERE.
Plain water is the healthiest choice to keep your body hydrated. However, some beverage companies claim that adding elements like hydrogen to water can enhance health benefits.
This article reviews hydrogen water and its purported health effects to help you decide whether it’s a smart choice.
Hydrogen water is simply pure water with extra hydrogen molecules added to it.
Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic gas that binds to other elements like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon to form various compounds, including table sugar and water (1Trusted Source).
Water molecules consist of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, but some assert that infusing water with additional hydrogen produces benefits that plain water cannot deliver.
It’s thought that the body can’t effectively absorb the hydrogen in plain water, as it’s bound to oxygen.
Certain companies claim that when extra hydrogen is added, these hydrogen molecules are “free” and more accessible to your body.
The product is made by infusing hydrogen gas into pure water before packing it into cans or pouches.
Hydrogen water can be pricey — with one popular company selling a 30-pack of 8-ounce (240-ml) cans for $90 and suggesting consumers drink at least three cans per day.
Additionally, hydrogen tablets meant to be added to plain or carbonated water are sold online and in health food stores.
Hydrogen water machines can also be purchased by those wanting to make it at home.
Hydrogen water is marketed to decrease inflammation, boost athletic performance, and even slow your aging process.
However, research in this area is limited, which is why many health experts are skeptical of its supposed benefits.
SUMMARY Hydrogen water is pure water infused with extra hydrogen molecules. It can be purchased in pouches and cans or made at home using special machines.
Does It Benefit Health? Though human studies on the benefits of hydrogen water are limited, several small trials have had promising results.
May Provide Antioxidant Benefits
Free radicals are unstable molecules that contribute to oxidative stress, a major cause of disease and inflammation (2Trusted Source).
Molecular hydrogen fights free radicals in your body and protects your cells from the effects of oxidative stress (3Trusted Source).
In an eight-week study in 49 people receiving radiation therapy for liver cancer, half the participants were instructed to drink 51–68 ounces (1,500–2,000 ml) of hydrogen-enriched water per day.
At the end of the trial, those who consumed the hydrogen water experienced decreased levels of hydroperoxide — a marker of oxidative stress — and maintained greater antioxidant activity after radiation treatment than the control group (4Trusted Source).
However, a recent four-week study in 26 healthy people demonstrated that drinking 20 ounces (600 ml) of hydrogen-rich water per day did not decrease markers of oxidative stress, such as hydroperoxide, compared to a placebo group (5Trusted Source).
More studies are needed to confirm if drinking hydrogen decreases the effects of oxidative stress in both healthy people and those with chronic conditions.
May Benefit Those With Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a condition characterized by high blood sugar, increased triglyceride levels, high cholesterol, and excess belly fat.
Chronic inflammation is suspected to be a contributing factor (6Trusted Source).
Some research shows that hydrogen water may be effective at reducing markers of oxidative stress and improving risk factors related to metabolic syndrome.
One 10-week study instructed 20 people with signs of metabolic syndrome to drink 30–34 ounces (0.9–1 liter) of hydrogen-enriched water per day.
At the end of the trial, participants experienced significant reductions in “bad” LDL and total cholesterol, increases in “good” HDL cholesterol, greater antioxidant activity, and reduced levels of inflammatory markers, such as TNF-α (7Trusted Source).
May Benefit Athletes
Many companies promote hydrogen water as a natural way to enhance athletic performance.
The product may benefit athletes by reducing inflammation and slowing the accumulation of lactate in the blood, which is a sign of muscle fatigue (8Trusted Source).
A study in ten male soccer players found that athletes who drank 51 ounces (1,500 ml) of hydrogen-enriched water experienced lower levels of blood lactate and decreased muscle fatigue after exercise compared to a placebo group (9Trusted Source).
Another small two-week study in eight male cyclists demonstrated that the men who consumed 68 ounces (2 liters) of hydrogen-enriched water daily had greater power output during sprinting exercises than those who drank regular water (10Trusted Source).
However, this is a relatively new area of research, and more studies are needed to fully understand how drinking hydrogen-enriched water may benefit athletes.
SUMMARY Some studies suggest that drinking hydrogen water may decrease the effects of oxidative stress, improve metabolic syndrome, and boost athletic performance.
We are growing rapidly. Over 40 of the coolest tech ever products are now featured on this website that’s only 10 months old. The site has been such a hit that we recently upgraded it. BTW, our mothership site CoolestMeditationEver is under remodeling and will relaunch soon.
So how did a planetary healing website birth this new website for health and wellness technology, known affectionately as Coolest Tech Ever out of respect for our connection to the continent of ice? For that let’s time travel, tech we hope to offer you one day, to the fall of 2012. I was base-camped in Sedona filming healers for company called SpiritQuest and on a spirit quest of my own raising money for an Indiegogo to film a series of 24 meditations Antarctica. Out of the blue an LA friend, Nick Edwards, called and said to me, “Ken, I love your films so much I am going to introduce you to one of the greatest scientists of the New Age, in fact maybe the father of New Age movement himself, Sedona resident Dr. Patrick Flanagan. It’s going to change your life forever. Pat is flat-out going to be your most amazing contact of your career.”
I told Nick I was embarrassed that I’d never heard of the doctor and that I doubted, with all due respect, that any connection I’d made in my career could match building Harpo Studios for Oprah Winfrey. Nick forgave my ignorance. He told me he knew I’d change my tune after meeting Patrick. So I agreed purely on the recommendation of Nick to meet Dr. Flanagan.
Wow. Nick, who sadly passed away in 2015, could not have been more right. Pat and I hit it off instantly and he became the biggest backer of the Antarctica project. In return I agreed to film Pat in Chichen Itza, where he was speaking at a celebration of the end of the Mayan Calendar, on my way home from Antarctica. I let Nick know afterwards that I he was right. Pat is so bright he transcends GENIUS. Yes, even one as great as Oprah.
But frankly, I might have not taken on the Chichen Itza assignment if I knew the daunting task I faced to make it all the way up from Antarctica in time to film Dr. Flanagan. After an ATM swallowed my only debit card tied to the Indiegogo that funded the entire Antarctica adventure, I traveled three days with only some cash a kind person named Michael had gifted me when they saw my ATM nightmare happen. After a series of long layovers without enough money for food, my only sleep on planes and in airports, I made it to Cancun.
But my travel troubles were not over. Through no fault of Pat’s, the poorly organized event that promised to pick me up by limo in Cancun never showed. Unfortunately, neither Nick nor Pat could be raised on the cell phone. Desperate to keep my filming promise, I improvised and bartered away my luggage and clothing to make the hot and bumpy 70 mile taxi ride. Broke and badly dehydrated, I arrived just in time in Chichen Itza to film Pat giving his speech to the enthralled Chichen Itza crowd.
My brother Western Unioned me the cash I needed to get home and I arrived back in LA with only my camera gear and the clothes on my back. But it was worth it because Patrick was impressed I’d kept my word at great personal expense. A few weeks back in the LA grind I pitched Pat about making a 50-video web series about all his great products I was learning about. Genius that he is, he surprised me and made the decision right on the phone call, inviting me back to Sedona to film the web series that introduces a whole new generation of fans to Patrick.
My lucky stars and spirit guides had dropped me into the most exciting project of my 20 years as a filmmaker. Pat, a certified genius who had been featured in LIFE MAGAZINE at only age 17 as one of the world’s most promising young scientists, I’d soon learn has a huge global fan base. Co-starring his amazing wife Stephanie, the three of us birthed a 25 million views web series I dubbed THE FLANAGAN EXPERIMENTS.
2015 Limited Edition NEO Neurophone
This success would propel me into creating an Indiegogo for Pat that would sell 5,000 brain boosting devices and raise $1.6 million for Patrick’s NEO (Neural Efficiency Optimizer) Neurophone development. Unfortunately, the NEO project stopped after Patrick suffered a series of mini-strokes in 2015 and has yet to resume. But we hope to soon offer a update NF3 version from Pat’s German maker soon. Stay tuned on the email list. These are incredibly popular and will sell out fast.
In January of 2019, as tribute to the doctor and all he and his wife have done as my patrons, I curated all 50 videos and edited them into a theatrical feature film that sold-out a special screening of THE SEDONA FILM FESTIVAL. Pat’s amazing life story also wowed the crowd at the 2019 New Living expo. That new 2019 film can be watched here as free gift for joining our CTE email list using the free movie ticket tab to the right and top of this page. Email me at help@coolesttechever.com if you are already list member and want to see the movie for free.
Over the busy 7 years that have flown by since that magical 2012 introduction by Nick Edwards, Patrick and Stephanie have generously allowed me to market the gorgeous Sensor V medallion and other PhiSciences products to support my planetary meditation filming. As we have discovered more incredible life-enhancing technologies, our success with Dr. Flanagan opened doors to offer products from other greats of spirit science like sound healer Jonathan Goldman, Jason Stiles and iTorus, Mark Langford’s Blushield EMF protection, and others. Coolest Tech Ever has become a funder for our conscious film projects, planetary meditation and our peaceful mission to bring more harmony to mankind.
Ken & Elizabeth, CoolestMeditationEver.com Team
My love and partner Elizabeth, who came into my life in November of 2015, also as a result of following spirit to Antarctica — an amazing cosmic love story worthy of it’s own post — finally convinced me a year ago to spilt off our sales work from our meditations. And so CoolestMeditationEver.com had a baby, CoolestTechEver.com born 8.18.18.
It’s important to note that CTE’s sales support the planetary healing film work of CME. They work as a symbiotic team. Your CTE purchases also support Elizabeth’s brilliant ocean awareness project Ocean-Nation.org. Rest assured that Elizabeth and I use most of these now 40 strong line of coolest ever technologies that Patrick inspired us to carry ourselves daily. We know from happy customer testimonials that our Coolest Tribe Ever enjoy the tech as much as we do.
Thanks for reading and being part of our spirit tribe at Coolest Tribe Ever.
To Your Health and Happiness!
With Great Respect, Ken & Elizabeth
Here’s our newest addition to the CTE family: The Best Portable Hydration Device Out There!
Editors’s Note: Reprinted from European GeoSciences Blog. Original article at: https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2013/10/28/imaggeo-on-mondays-the-names-bond-hydrogen-bond/. This article sheds light on the activity of hydrogen when introduced into the body through supplementation. Hydrogen will scavenge dangerous free radicals of oxygen and turn them into more water for the body, a very good thing. This is why we love hydrogen boosting products for better health, like MegaHydrate and the HydroGO+.
Imaggeo on Mondays: The name’s Bond. Hydrogen bond.
The O in H2O attracts electrons towards it, a property known as electronegativity. And because oxygen attracts electrons towards it, it is ever so slightly positive. Likewise, the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule are ever so slightly negative. The difference in charge across a water molecule is what holds water together as the slightly positive hydrogen atoms are attracted towards the slightly negative oxygen atoms – a phenomenon known as hydrogen bonding.
Water molecules are drawn together by hydrogen bonding – attraction between negative hydrogen atoms and positive oxygen atoms. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons user Qwerter)
Hydrogen bonding is what gives water its adhesive and cohesive properties, allowing water to form thin films as it spreads of smooth surfaces (adhesion), and stick together (cohesion) as droplets, that can fall as rain, collect on the surface of a leaf, or obscure your hand lens as you try your best to do fieldwork in bad weather.
“Water drops” by Jacqueline Isabella Gisen, distributed by the EGU under a Creative Commons licence.
This photo by Jacqueline Gisen captures the cohesive nature of water. She explains that “cohesive forces make water molecules to attracted to each other from every direction,” but because the water’s surface is exposed to the atmosphere (where there is relatively few water molecules) it can only be pulled down towards the rest of the fluid. This creates surface tension, responsible for the bouncing droplets you see when one source of water pours into another.
Imaggeo is the EGU’s open access geosciences image repository. A new and improved Imaggeo site will be launching soon, so you will be able to peruse an even better database of visually stunning geoscience images. Photos uploaded to Imaggeo can be used by scientists, the press and the public provided the original author is credited. Photographers also retain full rights of use, as Imaggeo images are licensed and distributed by the EGU under a Creative Commons licence. You can submit your photos here.
Editor’s Note: This is a simple explanation of the different natures of hydrogen and how it reacts with oxygen. Note that H2 ‘is the antioxidant in hydrogen-rich water.’ The measure of pH is derived from the presence of H+ in a substance.
Distinguishing between these different forms of Hydrogen can be confusing to those of us who flunked high school chemistry. Here is an attempt at clarification.
H = Atomic Hydrogen Atomic hydrogen is number 1 on the Periodic Table of Elements. It consists of one proton and one unpaired electron which means that it is a free radical.
However an atom of hydrogen rarely exists on its own because its unpaired electron eagerly seeks to join up with another electron.
The molecular form of hydrogen is more common.
H2 = Molecular Hydrogen
H2 is a gas which forms when two hydrogen atoms bond together and become a hydrogen molecule. H2 is also called molecular hydrogen.It consists of two protons and two electrons. Consequently it is the most common form of Hydrogen because it is stable with a neutral charge. H2 is not a free radical. It is the antioxidant in ‘hydrogen-rich’ water.
H2 is the smallest molecule in the universe. That means it can go where nothing else can …including into your mitochondria which are the powerhouses of your cells. Hydrogen gas cannot be kept in plastic because it will pass right through the walls of the container.
H+ = Proton
When the Hydrogen atom loses an electron all that is left is a proton. It becomes the positively charged hydrogen ion known as H+. This is the form of Hydrogen that produces the ATP enzyme that powers our cells and mitochondria.
The H+ hydrogen ion is the basis of the pH scale.
H:– = Hydride
Hydride is a hydrogen atom which has an extra electron. This means that it is a negatively charged ion, or anion. That is why Hydride ion (H-) has the minus sign distinguishing it from a regular Hydrogen atom (H). The two dots after the H means that this ion has two electrons instead of just one. The extra electron means that H- is not a free radical however it is not stable because this form of hydrogen is a very strong base (extremely alkaline) which reacts with water to produce hydroxide (OH–and molecular hydrogen (H2).
H:– + H2O –> H2O + OH–
Hydride (H:– ) also reacts with metals to form chemical compounds which are reducing agents.
OH– = Hydroxide ion
Hydroxide (OH–) is also known as the hydroxyl ion. When water dissociates or comes apart into its component parts it forms OH– (hydroxide ions) and H3O+ (hydronium ions). 2H2O ⇆ OH– and H3O+
This reaction is reversible. The hydroxide ion also reacts with the hydronium ion (H3O+) to become two water molecules.
The Hydroxide ion (OH– ) is a base (alkaline). The Hydroxide ion is not a free radical or an antioxidant. Dissolved molecular hydrogen gas (H2) is the antioxidant in ‘hydrogen-rich’ water.
Hydroxide (OH–) is sometimes confused with the hydroxyl radical (OH•). The dot to the upper right of the OH indicates an unpaired electron which means that Hydroxyl is a free radical, actually one of the most reactive oxygen radicals. Hydroxide and Hydroxl are two entirely different species. It is important to not confuse them.
H3O+ = Hydronium ion
A water molecule (H20) plus a hydrogen ion (H+) becomes a hydronium ion (H3O+). The H+ ion is a lone proton with a powerful charge. It does not exist on its own in an aqueous solution because it is immediately attracted to the unshared electrons in the oxygen atom of H2O. The result is Hydronium (H3O+). This process is reversible. Two water molecules can disassociate to form hydronium plus hydroxide. 2H2O ⇆ OH– and H3O+
Experiments indicate that the proton (H+) is very promiscuous. It changes from one H2O partner to another many times per second creating a new H3O+ ion as it moves.
pH = Potential of Hydrogen
pH stands for potential of Hydrogen and is actually a measurement of the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in a solution. Water breaks down (dissociates) into protons (H+) and hydroxides (OH–). This reaction is reversible.
H2O ⇆ H+ and OH– 2H2O ⇆ OH– and H3O+
pH indicates whether water is acidic, neutral, or alkaline. More H+ = more acidic. Less H+ = more alkaline.
Because H+ immediately associates with H2O to form H3O+ (Hydronium), pH can also be said to be a measurement of the concentration of H3O+ in a solution.
The pH scale is logarithmic. Increasing by 1 on the pH scale results in a 10 times decrease in the hydronium ion concentration and increasing by 3 on the pH scale results in a 1,000 times decrease in the hydronium ion concentration.
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Called by a variety of names, Phi is also referred to as the Golden ratio, Golden mean, Golden number, Golden section, and the Divine Proportion (by Renaissance artists), among others. It’s also intimately related to the Fibonacci sequence (or Fibonacci series).
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We are growing rapidly. Over 40 of the coolest tech ever products are now featured on this website that’s only 10 months old. The site has been such a hit that we recently upgraded it. BTW, our mothership site CoolestMeditationEver is under remodeling and will relaunch soon.
