We are harming our animals
Artificial Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) impact domestic and wild animals, and they don't have any choice.
The subject of how electromagnetic fields (EMFs) impact us and the world around has been ongoing for decades. It is vast and a bit like the universe - ever expanding! People have written books about it, including me! You can buy access to my online audiobook The EMF Bible here. It takes a little over 3 hours to listen to me reading all 30k words, so I won’t repeat it all here!
Whilst people tend to focus (or not!) on our own and our children's exposure to EMFs, this post will concentrate mostly on the much overlooked impact that EMFs have on our animals. Our pets are exposed 24/7/365 within our homes and walking anywhere other than in remote rural areas, or where the surrounding terrain creates a blind spot with no mobile phone reception. Horses and farm animals are often exposed to nearby masts and overhead high power electricity cables in their fields and shelters as yard owners and farmers accept much needed payments for allowing masts on their land, believing what they are told regarding safety.
Those who have flagged EMF harms in the past have been called “Conspiracy Theorists”, the “Tin Foil Hat Brigade” and more, but once you realise that the Telecoms lobby is bigger than Pharma, Climate and any other lobby group, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that their ethics and honesty leave as little to be desired as the rest. The Military know all about what EMFs can do, as you can find out if you watch the interview I did with Barrier Trower back in August 2021 at his invitation. You can watch it here.
The threatened blanket internet cover for our planet from satellites has only just started with no regulation planned until 2027 at the earliest. Before SpaceX, there were in the region of 1500 working satellites orbiting Earth, most of which were telecoms, plus others. There are currently in excess of 1m applications to launch new satellites. If even only a fraction go ahead, they threaten our ability to view the constellations in the night sky, let alone navigation by the stars. Migratory birds won’t be able to navigate. Weather detection will become unreliable making airplane flight route planning to avoid storms considerably more hazardous. These are just some of the issues that haven’t been thought out.
For those who are ElectroHyperSensitive (EHS) there will be no escape either. Despite past accusations of it being psychosomatic, EHS can now be definitively diagnosed because of the changes to the brain detectable by a special type of scan. More people are becoming EHS, and we must assume that our pets are similarly becoming more affected.
It is impossible to argue the validity of research carried out on animals to test pharmaceutical products as a model for people without concurrently recognising that evidence for EMF damage in people must be equally representative of the harm being caused to our domestic animals and wild animals in the environment. Most vets are blissfully unaware of the potential harms of EMFs, or ignore the possibility because they don't have an answer, and/or don’t want to consider the implications for treatment modalities based on frequency, which is how I came to be interested in this topic.
Most people go out of their home to work and/or for recreation for significant portions of the day. Dogs go out for a walk once or twice a day, and into the garden to answer the call of nature, but then spend the rest of the time in the home. Even cats that have access to the outside via a cat flap cannot necessarily escape EMFs unless they live in the remote countryside. In cities where individual houses and flats, (each with their own Wi-Fi for online security) are very much closer together, their combined fields form a dense overlapping electrosmog. The accumulation of EMFs from internal and external Wi-Fi and emissions from mobile phone masts that may be situated on top of the nearest tall buildings means there is no escape 24/7/365. The advent of 5G (and 6G in future) where masts will require placement every 20-50m, and the Internet of Things where multiple relays will all interlink in the home, is an escalation in the proximity to EMF sources to our living space that brings higher power levels than ever before that have not been adequately safety tested in isolation, let alone the accumulation of multiple frequencies and power levels all together. Just because we cannot see this electrosmog doesn't mean it isn't already starting the chain of adverse reactions.
Smart meters and/or Wi-Fi routers (not to mention power points for plugs) may be placed close to where our pets sleep, which means they're getting a stronger exposure than we experience even when we're at home. Electrical goods are often concentrated in areas where pets spend much of their time – in the kitchen or living room – all of which emit EMFs by virtue of being electrically powered. With increasing smart technology that links our mobile phone to the lighting, heating and fridge etc, the burden on our pets at home is rising fast, both from the need for previously unpowered goods to be powered, plus the wireless communication to monitor and control their function. Electrical curtains/blinds that allow us to give the impression of being at home even when we aren’t are a good example of this.
.Birds are more seriously affected
I’m sure most people have seen social media videos of birds dropping dead/dying from the sky around 5G masts without the need to repost those distressing scenes again here, but there is considerable evidence that animals of all types are adversely impacted by EMFs. A study looking at wildlife found that birds that nested in camouflaged tetramasts or within 200m, had zero fertility and disrupted behaviour which could help explain not only the drop in wild bird populations but also the increase in infertility we are witnessing generally. Increased antisocial behaviour between birds was also noted. Whilst many pets have hormone disruption already from being routinely neutered, an EMF influence on behaviour is certainly possible.
Birds are more susceptible to EMFs than mammals due to a piezoelectric effect that travels down the feather shaft into the body and which amplifies the adverse effects. This gives us an insight into how animals including us may be affected over a longer period of time with continual exposure. EMFs all have the ability to cause damage based on their power, wavelength and exposure time. If an external EMF frequency coincides with the resonant frequency of a structure or process within the body then it takes considerably less power to cause an adverse influence.
Ionising EMFs such as gamma and X-rays are well known to be able to cause considerable damage based on relatively few exposures for very short periods of time. Medical use doesn't make them safe, yet many horses are exposed to huge amounts of radiation in the course of lameness work-ups and vettings especially. Paradoxically, it is the most expensive horses that are exposed to the most harmful amounts of radiation where every joint of all legs are exposed to multiple X-rays from multiple angles, plus spinal X-rays too! If the exposure isn’t quite right or the X-ray is blurred they are simply repeated. It is not uncommon to rack up 40-60 X-rays in total for one vetting. How many times might they be repeated for multiple vettings if the last set are deemed too historical?
We all know that microwaves cook food. When they first arrived in homes, people were advised not to stand too close to early microwave ovens in case of microwave leakage - even for the brief few minutes they blasted the food! The degree of cooking and the speed with which it occurs is determined both by the power of the oven and the cooking time. Lower power for continuously longer time will still cook! Cooking occurs because fat and water molecules are super-heated to temperatures higher than would otherwise be experienced in conventional cooking techniques. This is why microwave food is carcinogenic over time and why I haven’t used one for over 20 years. It therefore follows that organs with higher moisture and fat content will preferentially absorb most EMF radiation – brain, eyes, kidneys, testes etc. Jump forward from the warnings of the 1980s to now and we are looking at using microwaves freely in the environment with continuous exposure for mid-band 5G and higher telecommunications. A study published in 2023 by Özgen et al looking at 5G specifically, found adverse effects on all aspects of sperm health. Breeders take note! Effects weren’t restricted to just those directly exposed either. Bodin et al found that offspring of mothers exposed during pregnancy had behavioural issues later in life after birth, including depression.
Extremely low power can still cause harm
Whilst the Telecoms Industry maintains that harm only occurs by generating heat, it has been categorically proven that damage occurs from exposure to lower frequencies and power that are considered to be non-thermal too. In 1994, Bundyuk found that there were disturbances in the immune system of mice at a power level of 0.00000001μW/cm2. According to Kositsky, a power level of 0.00001μW/cm2 initiates a conditioned avoidance reaction in rats. As early as 1973, Dumanskij discovered that EMFs altered brain function as registered by EEG, disturbed carbohydrate metabolism, enlarged adrenals, altered adrenal hormone levels and brought about structural changes in the liver, spleen, testes, and brain in white rats and rabbits at a power level of 0.06μW/cm2. Salford found that the blood brain barrier loses integrity at 2.5μW/cm2 and in the same year (1997) Magras found irreversible sterility in mice was induced by power levels of 0.168μW/cm2. The most recent of these studies quoted is 2001, yet no attention has been paid to them or the warnings of many highly qualified scientists in numerous petitions and appeals.
Whilst these are results from experiments on smaller laboratory animals, larger mammals including dairy cows have also experienced adversely effects on fertility, milk production and hormone levels. In 2002, San Francisco rejected installing city wide Wi-Fi based on a report which included references to these and other papers including one where adverse effects were seen in blood cells from cows from a farm close and in front of a radar antenna which showed a significantly higher level of severe genetic damage. It is not unreasonable therefore to consider that all animals ranging in size from mice to cows are thus adversely impacted by EMFs at levels that are officially considered to be safe.
Given that Hart found that dogs are sensitive to small changes in the Earth's magnetic field, it makes sense that they will also be affected by electrical fields which always have an associated magnetic field.
If we consider that the ICNIRP-recommended power level (that Governments rely on to set safety levels) that is considered safe according to current international standards is 900μW/cm2 and the allowed safety level in Russia is only 10μW/cm2 then it becomes apparent that the current safety levels employed throughout the vast majority of countries are wholly inadequate. 5G was halted in Brussels and Rome because installation of masts required higher than permitted levels of power and the masts need to be situated very much closer to the population. To allow such placement of masts with power levels above safety levels that have already been called into question is nothing short of madness according to Prof Martin Pall. It sounds like a conspiracy theory but the figures don't lie and they are being systematically ignored by the vast majority of authorities, and people too if the truth be told.
Insects are our pollinators
There are much wider-ranging implications if we consider the disruption that EMFs have on our insect life. Dr Andrew Goldsworthy, a recognised expert in the biological effects of EMFs has spoken out about how EMFs can disrupt the cryptochrome and thus the activity of bees which are essential for pollination of our food crops. Another study looking at the action of a Wi-Fi router on the activity of ants foraging for food found significant changes in their angular and linear velocity and thus their ability to function normally, with some individuals being completely debilitated. Dr Cammaerts who conducted the study also found that using a Compensating Magnetic Oscillator (CMO) by Comosystems returned the ants' behaviour to normal.
The pathways above show how EMFs create chronic inflammation via a number of pathways. Chronic inflammation is the root of nearly all chronic diseases, including cancers. Cancer in dogs is now approaching 1 in 4. It's mostly down to kibble of course, but we shouldn't under-estimate the role that EMFs play too. All causes of inflammation add to the overall burden, and the more total inflammation there is, the greater the likelihood of cancer, auto-immune disorders, arthritis and more.
Scientists including Dr Goldsworthy and Prof Martin Pall of Washington State University who established the adverse EMFs biochemical flowchart above have identified a number of biological effects that result from EMF exposure. These include DNA damage, changes in calcium ion binding that lead to chronic inflammation and disruption of hormones, all of which are common to humans and animals. These can have significant impact on the health of our animals.
Chronic diseases are on the rise at ever younger ages. The stress of modern day living cannot be the cause in pets that we often blame it on in people, because most pets want for very little, and don't demand very much other than food, shelter and love. Of course these conditions are multi-factorial in origin. Environmental factors cannot be dismissed, and the rapid rise in the amount and diversity (in terms of frequencies and power) of EMFs must be considered to be significant.
As with human babies and children relative to human adults, the smaller size of pets relative to people (safety levels are based on adult exposure parameters) means that EMFs penetrate proportionally further into their body. Puppies and kittens are that much smaller and more vulnerable even than adult dogs and cats. As well as their size, it is their rapid growth when young where cells are dividing at their fastest that is important because disruption to DNA at this stage can lead to chronic problems later in life which may not be reversible. The problem of course is that veterinarians aren't taught to recognise or consider the possibility that chronic exposure to EMFs may be a significant factor in ageing and chronic inflammatory disease such as heart disease, cataracts, skin issues and arthritis etc.
Another recent paper published on the adverse effects of 5G looked at changes to the gut microbiome (see diagram below) and extrapolated the dangers from the rats used in the experiment to humans, but once again we must parallel that extrapolation to our pets too. We know that the gut microbiome is hugely important to health. Changes in the diversity and proportions of organisms within the biome must therefore impact health. This is likely accentuated in those pets that already have a narrow range of diversity from being fed processed foods. We also know from Russian research carried out decades ago that microwave irradiation of water and food as will now happen in the home environment from Wi-Gig (the faster version of Wi-Fi on the way) is not dissimilar to direct exposure of the digestive tract to the microwaves themselves because that information is carried into the body by the water memory
The Solution
There are many products claiming to protect against EMFs including shungite, organite, other crystals and a wide range of devices. However, when you delve into the published scientific evidence there isn’t any that stands up to real scrutiny. At best a crystal might absorb what hits it which does nothing about what hits you or your animals. They aren’t black holes that magically suck in all EMFs around you and within the home! Apart from the false sense of security, some may even amplify the harms.
The good news is that the Compensating Magnetic Oscillators (CMO) by Comosystems have been found to mitigate for the adverse effects of EMFs in the home. Simply by strategically placing a Harmony or Harmony XL in your home prevents the EMFs initiating their biophysical effects that lead to DNA damage and calcium ion disruption that triggers the inflammatory cascade. The Harmony XL protects everything within an 8m radius bubble around itself, whilst the Harmony protection bubble radius is 5.5m.
All humans and pets within the range of a Harmony/XL device are thus protected. No other company operating in this field has as much research, all of it positive, as the CMO technology, which is why I agreed to be their distributor for the UK and Eire when they asked me.
Quantum Physics researcher Prof Marc Henry of Strasbourg University provided an unsolicited endorsement video during one of his lectures that is available to view on the UK & Ireland website below. Within it he said the following …
"So this is why, look at my cellphone - it is protected with CMO (Compensating Magnetic Oscillator), because a protection system does exist. Of course, if you have recently visited an alternative health fayre you will see that everybody claims their product protects! I only know of one that does the job that is backed up by scientific research. It is called Comosystems."
For more information on CMO technology by Comosystems (and to buy devices for protection for you and your animals) click on the links below according to where you live…
The above is a very brief overview of the harm EMFs cause. There’s much more to this subject, but hopefully this post has provided enough information to encourage you to look further into it for the sake of your whole family - both 2 and 4-legged…!!
References:
Bundyuk, L.S., et al., 1994. Corrective action of millimeter waves on systems of various levels of hierarchy. Physics of the Alive 2(1):12-25.
Dumanskij, J. D., and Shandala, M. G., 1974. The biologic action and hygienic significance of electromagnetic fields of super-high and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. Biologic Effects and Health Hazards of Microwave Radiation, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Warsaw, 15-18 Oct. 1973, P. Czerski et al., eds.
Hart, V., et al. “Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth´s magnetic field.” Frontiers Zoology, vol. 10, no. 80, 2013.
Kositsky, N. N., et al., 2001. Influence of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation at non-thermal intensities on the human body (a review of work by Russian and Ukrainian researchers). No Place To Hide 3(1) Supplement.
Magras, I. N., and Xenos, T. D., 1997. RF radiation-induced changes in the prenatal development of mice. Bioelectromagnetics 18:455-461.
Salford, L. G., et al., 1997. Blood brain barrier permeability in rats exposed to electromagnetic fields from a GSM wireless communication transmitter. In: Proceedings of the Second World Congress for Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine, June 8-12, 1997, Bologna, Italy, F. Bersani, ed.
Wang, X., Zhou, G., Lin, J. et al. Effects of radiofrequency field from 5G communication on fecal microbiome and metabolome profiles in mice. Sci Rep 14, 3571 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53842-2
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Bodin, R., Seewooruttun, C., Corona, A. et al. Sex-dependent impact of perinatal 5G electromagnetic field exposure in the adolescent rat behavior. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 113704–113717 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30256-7
Singh K.V., Prakash C., Nirala J.P., Nanda R.K., Rajamani P.. 2023. Acute radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation exposure impairs neurogenesis and causes neuronal DNA damage in the young rat brain. NeuroToxicology Volume 94, pp 46-58, ISSN 0161-813X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2022.11.001.