1. Cumulative call time

2. Real-life scenarios

3. Misinformation on power levels

4. Biased results

5. Heavy users of cell phones

6. Light users of cell phones

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The word influenza gets its meaning as our ancestors ascribed flu outbreaks to the “influence” of the stars, aka electromagnetic impulses of cosmic energy. Scientists and doctors witnessed as rapid shifts in sunspots caused flu faster than transportation could carry any alleged contagion. Illness occurred at the quantum level of an instant.

The truly independent scientists of today recognize the same energetic influences in our surrounding cellular architecture, devices, and smart grid that is causing humanity to outbreak its shell of sanity. Social media influencers shout about the next pandemic while speaking no evil of the electronics making us sick.

As America now vows to become the AI capital of the world, techno-fanaticism pervades both left and right sides of the political spectrum. Head down we march into the quicksand of time lost to the void of endless distraction. How do we recover our future and break out of the past?

Nietzsche believed that if we gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss may gaze back into us. Reclaiming our power can begin by averting where we place our attention by changing the medium, and media, of our mind.

While researching the latest stance of the World Health Organization on cell phones and cancer, I came upon a news broadcast on YouTube that wanted to reassure all of us that there’s nothing to worry about when it comes to cell phones harming us. All we need to do is trust the science.

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Where does the doctor media personality in the above clip get his information? He cites a 2024 research review and meta-analysis (combines data from multiple independent studies) commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO). The analysis was published1 by Ken Karipidis and colleagues and includes sixty-three studies between 1994 and 2022, stating cell phones “likely do not not cause brain cancer.” There are many flaws with this study, which include:

❌ Cumulative Call Time excluded

The study’s authors ignored the largest studies with statistically significantly odds (OR) in the highest exposed groups. Cumulative call time (CCT) is one of the most important variables to consider when studying the impacts on health effects. However, the 2024 WHO review only published users who had a low CCT, some as little as one minute per week for 10 years (2001-2011). Put into perspective, this is about 8.7 hours of total use in ten years.2 The study also did not publish the CCT results of high users, and excluded the data on the graphs included in the study. Dr. Joel Moskowitz and colleagues countered the WHO review with their own study. Their comprehensive analysis of studies found significant evidence linking cellular phone use to increased tumor risk, especially among cell phone users with cumulative cell phone use of 1000 or more hours in their lifetime (which corresponds to about 17 min per day over 10 years).

❌ Real-life scenarios excluded

The Karipidis study did not take into account laterality, or the side of the head used during mobile phone calls related to the location of brain tumors. Studies on laterality show clear evidence of increased risks of brain tumors for ipsilateral (same side as the brain tumor) use of the mobile phone, including also the cordless phone. Thus, results on the most exposed part of the brain were excluded.

The WHO review by Karipidis also only included five studies that modeled (simulated) exposure from transmitters or base stations and only studies on pediatric cancer, thereby excluding several studies showing increased risks for cancer in children and adults near transmitters and base stations. One of the two included base station studies reported increased risk “of all neoplasms in children with higher-than-median RF exposure to [Mobile phone base stations] MPBS”. Yet, the authors claimed there would be “moderate certainty evidence” of no childhood leukemia risk.

All use of cordless (DECT) phones was disregarded although they were also exposed to the same kind of RF radiation as from mobile phone use. Lennart Hardell and colleagues has shown that also use of cordless phones is associated with increased risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma tumors.3

Powerful misdirection

Karipidis and colleagues state in their review that the “average output power of a cordless phone is 1–2 order of magnitude less than that from 1G to 2G mobile phones,” and also write that “most participants in the reviewed studies had used mobile phones operating on 1G-2G networks, and mobile phones of newer technology (3G-4G) have substantially lower average output power.” Here the authors are referring to the SAR (specific absorption rate), or the amount of radiofrequency energy absorbed by the body. The SAR measurement is misleading as it does not take into account the frequency or the electric fields generated by cellular base stations or mobile phones. While you may have a microwave that is less powerful, which may not heat your food as quickly, the frequency of 2.45 GHz is still the same, and has biological effects on DNA.4

Older cell phones used lower frequencies, whereas newer cell phones use higher frequencies. As frequency increases, the wavelength (or space between each electromagnetic pulse) is lessened, resulting in more information transmitted over a shorter distance. The inverse is also true - lower frequencies have longer wavelengths, which means that they can travel further and more easily penetrate walls and objects. Newer 5G cellular system use laser beamforming (shorter wavelength) technology, which has a substantial increase in power level and power density from older (1G-4G) generations.

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❌ Biased results

Several of the authors in the Karipidis group have conflicts of interest, with ties to ICNIRP, a private organization that has recommended the exposure limits that most countries in the world have adopted. The telecommunications industry has adapted their technology to the ICNIRP limits. Several investigations5 have concluded that there are ties between the telecommunications industry, the ICNIRP and the WHO6, the latter commissioning the Karipidis report. According to the Ethical Council at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden in a verdict on Anders Ahlbom at Karolinska Institute Stockholm, the membership in ICNIRP is a potential conflict of interest.7

Here’s an example of the revolving door between lobbyists and the FCC, which overseas safety limits on wireless radiation:

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According to one of the major telecomm infrastructure providers, lower limits than ICNIRP’s would make the 5G roll out “difficult or impossible.”

Below is a list of authors with conflicts of interest:

• Ken Karipidis, first author, is member of ICNIRP (today vice chair), since 2015

• Dan Baaken, second author, is scientific secretary of ICNIRP since July 2024.

• Tom Loney has performed research and provided advisory services to the defense, industrial and healthcare sectors. The defense industry has interests in the outcome of a cancer risk evaluation of RF radiation, thus a potential conflict of interest.

• Martin Röösli is a member of ICNIRP since 2016. In addition, he has received funding for research from a Swiss foundation funded by the telecommunications industry8 that serves as an intermediate between telecom industry and researchers.

• Susanna Lagorio has collaborated with scientists with known conflicts of interest in terms of funding from industry and membership in ICNIRP.9 She has testified on behalf of Radio Vatican regarding cancer risks from the RF-radiation.

❌ Heavy cell phone users excluded

According to the highly-touted Interphone study10 conducted in 2010 by the World Health Organization, the results on cell phones and brain cancer are inconclusive. The study included 2,708 cases of glioma and 2,409 of meningioma, another type of brain tumor, with a total of over 5,634 controls —from 13 countries. It is the largest study of cell phone and tumors ever done. The total budget of the study, which got underway in 2000, was €19.2 million (~US$25 million). Funding came from the European Commission (€3.74 million) and the cell phone industry (€5.5 million), as well as other sources.

I read the study, and do you know what I found?

The published paper did not include heavy users of cell phones.

The parts of the study that did look at high cell phone users found a doubling and up to a quadrupling of tumors. The chances (odds ratio, OR) of having brain cancer doubled once you were a heavy cell phone user:

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❌ Light users also excluded

Jack Siemiatycki of the University of Montreal, a member of the Canadian Interphone group, called the study “genuinely perplexing, enigmatic and paradoxical” because, as he put it, "the data were dirty.”

The way the data were collected created what is known in research as selection bias, which occurs when certain individuals or groups are more likely to be included or excluded, leading to inaccurate or misleading conclusions. Interphone is a case-control study, in which those with brain tumors are compared with a reference group. In the published paper, the members of the reference group are those who never used mobile phones. In the appendix, which is only available when doing an internet search, and not attached to the main study, has a recalculation that includes the lightest users of cell phones (i.e. those who used cell phones for less than two years) The reason for the substitution is that the non-users were not properly matched to the users, which distorted the results.

When the Interphone team analyzed the data in a way to compensate for selection bias, they saw a much more provocative picture of the risks associated with long-term use of cell phones. Those who used a mobile phone for ten or more years were found to be twice as likely to develop a brain tumor. This increased risk is statistically significant. Indeed, the risk is higher for all three indices of exposure —years of use, total talk time and total number of calls. There even appears to be a dose-response relationship, with the highest risk among the heaviest users.

~ Source: Microwave News

In a series of interviews with Microwave News, members of the Interphone project said they now see the risk among long-term users as being larger than when the study began. Some think the risk warrants serious attention:

“To me, there’s certainly smoke there…overall, my opinion is that the results show a real effect.” Elisabeth Cardis leader of The Interphone project

Ms. Cardis is with the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona,11 and also worked at IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) for close to a decade.

As reported by Microwave News:

Siegal Sadetzki,12 the Israeli member of Interphone, goes further. She pointed out that while the risks are inconclusive, a number of the results show some consistency. These include increased risks among the heaviest users, the fact that the risks were highest on the side of the head the phone was usually used and that the tumors were in the temporal lobe of the brain, which is closest to the ear.

Where do we go from here?

Where there is smoke there’s usually fire. The problem is we’ve been living in a collective brain fog of war so long that we’ve been unable to see the smoke through the haze that has become our invisible maze of radiation. The only way out is through. Our war is won with drills of peace each day, marching off to nature’s front line, bombing distractions in airplane mode, and calling our family and friends for reinforcements.

“We’re not just facing a technological revolution. We’re in the midst of a full-blown spiritual war that’s largely invisible and occult in nature.

I call it the ‘end game’ because the outcome determines the spiritual future of humanity.”

~ , Time of Transition: The Battle for the Soul

In today’s technological war, let us take up arms by surrendering the weapons of our foe to the arsenal of the hazardous waste bin.

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2. From poor to posh - the evolution of the tan

3. What does the office worker of the future look like?

4. How we can build back healthier skin

5. Why sunscreen drains our energy

6. SPF vs UPF

7. How much UV does clothing block?

8. Why most sunscreens block Vitamin D

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12. Alternative remedies: DHEA

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Love is an invisible force.

There’s no double-blind peer-reviewed study proving its power or even its existence, yet few would argue that its presence is real.

Like love, light is outta sight. Over 99% of light isn’t visible to the human eye. The Egyptians and other ancients cultures understood this, as they prayed to the infinite light not only of the Sun, but of the mysterious cosmos.

Why did we stop loving the Sun?

Since the dawn of humanity, most of the world lived without artificial sunscreen. We tilled the Earth as the rays banned disease from our lives, and laughed with pleasure under the glowing green leaves of trees as we took our respite.

Ancient religions worshiped The Sun and God, until the demigods of science cast a shadow over a once healthy horizon. Once Western society began to separate science from God during the Renaissance, our spiritual connection to nature was lost. We stopped having our divine inner light work through us and started to believe that we could bend the light of God to our will. Instead of being willing servants, we became willful masters.

In the last one hundred and fifty years, one thing has undergone a radical shift: our light environment. The Industrial Age created a new love affair with light in the form of the incandescent light bulb, and our lustrous affair with electricity was consummated.

At the same time many of us were being pushed to work indoors during the day, as well as night. Rednecks were out of style, and the pale vampire factory look was in vogue.

Sunblock like an Egyptian

Are you a redneck?

Do you have a farmer’s tan?

Worse yet… a trucker’s arm?!

As far back as ancient Egypt, skin was the decisive status symbol. Those who yearned not to be associated with the lower working classes would wear a type of sunscreen made of rice bran and jasmine. This lotion helped give Egyptians a fairer complexion that would distinguish them as the higher class. The use of a mineral paint made of antimony was also applied not only for its cosmetic effect, but for its health benefits.

A research team led by scientists working at the Louvre Museum in France1 decided to study the chemical composition of cosmetics used by the ancient Egyptians. They detected two synthetic compounds of lead in the composition of antimony paint that do not occur in nature - laurionite and phosgenite. The Egyptians at that time were able to control chemical reactions and create new substances through synthesis.

The most surprising discovery? These substances stimulate the production of nitric oxide in the body, a substance that improves circulation and immune response. These lead compounds may very well have been deliberately manufactured in ancient formulations to prevent and treat eye illnesses by promoting the action of immune cells. A 2023 study conducted at St. John’s University of New York indicated lead could upregulate the immune system as certain dosages.23 Much of the eye paint that was used was of a blue and violet hue, which would absorb the ultraviolet radiation of the sun by its nature.

If this is the case, the question is: how did the Egyptians know UV was part of the solar spectrum when it is not visible to the naked eye?

Could it be due to the fact that their women had healthier eyes? After all, about 12% of females have tetrachromatic vision, which allows them to see into the range of ultraviolet.

What do you think?

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History Geeks: Did you know that some of the rulers of Egypt actually had pale skin and red hair, like Princess Scota, who was exiled, only to become the founder of Scotland?

The Vikings were known to line their eyes with Kohl, a black powder comprised of antimony sulfide or lead sulfide. Black absorbs all light, thus helps with sun sun glare. This eventually became mascara, or manscara if you’re a Viking linebacker.

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In our modern day, we wear sunblock and sunglasses to feel and look cool, but many of our ancestors didn’t have time to track their social status. For instance, the Inuit used snow goggles to reduce the chances of being snowblinded. In 12th century China, judges used smoky quartz lenses called Ai Tai to conceal their expressions during trials.

Leeches Peaches n’ Cream

To lighten their skin, women of ancient Greece and Rome would put on a concoction of lead and vinegar paint, which eventually poisoned them. We can give the Greeks and Romans a little credit because at least they used something that didn’t poison them: olive oil (which has an average SPF of 8). However, the reason why they used olive oil wasn’t necessarily for sun protection more than it was for the purposes of moisturizing and exfoliating.

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe, the association of pale skin with nobility continued, to the point that lead-based paint, arsenic and even leeches were applied to the skin to gain the Snow White look. Women of the Victorian and Edwardian eras covered up from head to toe in order to preserve their peaches n’ cream complexion, and arsenic-based cosmetics were still in use despite their known fatal effects.

Tanned Pirates of the Caribbean

As European trading routes and empires expanded in the 18^th and 19^th centuries, Grand Tours to exotic seaside locations became en vogue. Returning with a sun tan was now a badge of leisurely honor. In the meantime, the Industrial Revolution had begun, bringing blue collar workers who used to work outdoors, indoors. They were now the pale ones, slaving away in factories all day.

The Dark Ages of Industrial Age Lighting

Coincidentally, many of the studies demonizing potently healthy UV wavelengths began around the same time. These biased experiments were done in lab environments not under full spectrum sunlight, focusing high-intensity UV wavelengths through a quartz lens.4

The entire model under which UV is currently studied is flawed due to it being tested:

1. In a blue-lit lab

2. On nocturnal mice with flattened circadian responses so their innate DNA repair mechanisms are already stunted.

How can lab technicians isolate the one part of sunlight that “damages” and study it alone while confidently saying all of sunlight is dangerous?

We had been living in full spectrum sunlight for our entire human existence up until this point.

Could it be possible that many of us became more sensitive to the sun, specifically the more intense UV wavelength, as we lived and breathed mostly indoors, now under electric lighting?

Meet Emma: the Energy Vampire

Fast forward one hundred and fifty years: how has our skin and health situation changed? Turns out not too much - other than the fact that now we’re too out of shape to work in a coal mine all day.

The creepy, life-sized ‘Colleague of The Future’ is a warning from a team of health experts led by behavioral futurist William Higham about what office life is doing to us.

“The outcome is Emma. Emma is the extreme representation of the stressed, sedentary office worker of the future.”

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Hiding out indoors too long can make us look like vampires with bloodshot-red eyes, pale skin, and a hunchback. Emma isn’t sucking our energy right now, but her energy has been certainly drained by the blue light-toxic office environment in which she works.

What do you think is going to happen when we’ve been inside most of the year, sitting in front of our phones day and night, only to don a thong on July 4th?

Who’s more responsible for our sunburn?

The Sun, or our lifestyle?

How do we build back our skin?

Sunscreen disrupts our body’s natural mechanism of solar protection: melanin synthesis. Melanin is produced in response to sunlight exposure, builds up over time, and eventually produces a healthy tan with protection that can last for years.

“The powerful antioxidant effects of melanin protect you from UV rays, while you can still enjoy the many health benefits of visible light and infrared light.”

~ Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D, MIT Senior Research Scientist

UV actually lets us create and absorb certain amino acids such as tyrosine, which ultimately get converted to crucial hormones such as dopamine and melanin.

Melanin is not only able to transform UV light into heat, which our bodies use to fight cancer cells, but also enhances the amount of infrared (IR) light we can receive from the Sun. IR not only helps our bodies repair, IR further builds our skin’s tan, or what is also known as our solar callus.

The Early Bird Gets the Tan

Early morning light has no UV, but has balanced blue and red light frequencies. The picture below shows the second way we can improve our skin. When we get IR-A (infrared light) on our skin prior to any UV, this helps us build our solar callus:

The more IR-A we get (noted as exposure to red LED on the left) the less of a burn we get on our skin when we go into a stronger sun with more UV.

Sunscreen drains our energy

Melanin is not only a pigment that helps us absorb more UV, it’s our bodies’ battery bank. Melanin is what gives our skin its literal spark, helping us accumulate electrons from our local environment, replenishing our organs with necessary electrons that can even help detox heavy metals, while insulating us at the same time.

Ever get goosebumps? This is due to the melanin in our hair and skin working to transfer and conduct energy to where we need it most by maintaining our static electricity. When we cover ourselves up with sunscreen, we cut ourselves off from the zest, or styrofoam peanut, of life:

Our skin is our largest organ. Why would we want to cover it up, and disconnect our electrical circuitry?

SPF, UPF, UV-A, WTF?

SPF (sun protection factor) sunscreens are traditionally sold as blocking out UV-B, which is the type of light that burns. Like the pills we take, to “protective” products like anti-EMF pendants, this can foster a false sense of security.

What happens when we apply sunscreen?

Our skin is our largest organ, and regulates what toxins may or may not pass through into our body. This is why many of us put on sunscreen, because we think we’ll be protecting our skin from the potentially-harmful rays of the sun. However, slathering ourselves with this chemical cream may be doing the exact opposite.

Imagine you’re outside on a beautiful day in June. You have your sunscreen on, and ready to have some fun in the sun. You feel impervious, and are out for hours, constantly re-applying and slathering yourself with goo every hour or two.

You may be surprised to know that many sunscreens block mostly UV-B light. Why is this a problem? Everything in nature has a purpose. UV-B is what leads to localized inflammation (which in doses can even be beneficial). This inflammation creates a sunburn, telling us we’ve had enough for the day and it’s time to head to the tiki bar to share this article and support The Power Couple.

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If we block UV-B, we don’t create the swelling and inflammation that is needed to truly protect the innermost layers of our skin, where DNA may be damaged. Since UV-B has a shorter wavelength (280-315 nanometers) vs UV-A (315-400 nanometers), it not only doesn’t penetrate as deep, but is responsible for building our solar callus and thickening our skin, so that we can go on to fight another day like golden gladiators in the modern colosseum of radiowaves.

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If we stay out in the Sun longer because we don’t feel a burn, we could potentially let in even more UV-A than we would normally, which penetrates deeper into our skin due to its longer wavelength, wreaking havoc on our DNA and potentially exacerbating cancer as a result.

Broad Spectrum to the Rescue?

Some sunscreen manufacturers have recently shifted to what is known as broad spectrum, which blocks both UV-A and UV-B. However, now even more of the UV spectrum is blocked, cutting us off from this potent light source. As shown in the above graph of amino acids, UV allows us to create many of our thyroid hormones, along with dopamine, serotonin, and melatonin.

Remember - when we’re under the sun, we’re also receiving infrared (IR) light, which serves to repair and regenerate our skin tissue as well.

We also need to maintain our own internal balance of common sense when absorbing this potent medicine. If you’re a pale Nordic, am I telling you to run naked this summer in the bush of Australia for hours?

Not without at least a fig leaf covering your parts. In all seriousness, sun exposure needs to be approached gradually, with care, and caution. Now back to that fig leaf…

Natural Sunscreens are like “natural” flavors

If you want truly natural sunscreen, olive oil might be a better alternative than the titanium dioxide nanoparticles that are often sold in many “natural”, benzene-free sunblocks. These types of sunscreens have also been shown to double our risk of a bacterial Staph infection!5

[ Coincidentally this is also why you don’t want titanium implants when having dental work or root canals, as this metal is prone to attract more bacteria.

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Do you know of any good natural sunblocks?

We’d love to know what you’re using, or have used in the past!

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The Sunscreen of our Ancestors: Clothing

If you truly want full spectrum protection, look no further than the clothing aisle. Hemp clothing has been shown to have an average UPF of 50, which means it is 99.9% effective in blocking UV-A and UV-B rays, according to third-party testing. This style of sun protection doesn’t discriminate UV-B over A, and for that reason filters those rays more evenly than sunscreen.

Hemp/cotton blends are also a decent choice:

Personally if I’ve been out all morning, and I’m still in the garden in the mid-afternoon, I’ll wear a hat and one of my old dress shirts, which is mostly cotton.

The benefits of clothing over sunscreen:

1. Breathable: lets our melanin do its job

2. Biodegradable: no nasty chemicals

3. My personal favorite: you can just take your shirt off and put it back on! (When in-laws like to “surprise” you with a visit and you look like a caveman.)

If you can’t eat it, would you put it on your skin?

Do I guzzle Coppertone? No. But I do love my cold-pressed Cretan olive oil. Studies show that ingesting foods rich in omega 3s such as DHA can help protect against sunburn.6

DHA is the most ancient omega3 on Earth, being over 600 million years old, and actually controls how we express our genetics. In every organ, the concentration of DHA vastly outweighs the concentration of any other omega3.7

If my skin has become a bit dry after being outdoors for too long, I smear that olive oil on myself, and feel like a true Roman once more.

Our Vitamin D-lemma

People in the northern hemisphere suffer from chronically-low levels of Vitamin D, which may do more harm than good when we take it as a supplement.

If we’re advised by dermatologists to get less Sun, how do we become healthy?

What’s the optimal way for us to absorb Vitamin D?

The Sun! Specifically the UV-B range of light that most sunscreens block.

UV-B makes Vitamin D3 from LDL cholesterol. Now, this is an important fact to remember - if we don’t have cholesterol, we can’t make hormones or vitamins in the right amounts. When we can’t make enough Vitamin D, we become more vulnerable to cancer, heart disease, and depression.

A dermatologist from the University of Edinburgh, Richard Weller, is fighting the mainstream narrative of the Sun being bad for us. Weller began to doubt his profession around 2010, when researching nitric oxide (NO), a molecule produced in our body that dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure.

During the darker months of the year, the further we are from the sunny equator, the greater our risk for increased blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and overall mortality.

Weller had a eureka moment:

🤔 Could exposing skin to sunlight lower blood pressure?

Weller exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of summer sunlight without sunscreen and their nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down!

“Because of its connection to heart disease and strokes, blood pressure is the leading cause of premature death and disease in the world, and the reduction was of a magnitude large enough to prevent millions of deaths on a global level.”

~ Rowan Jacobsen , Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

You’re less likely to die from skin cancer when you tan in the Sun

Did you know that you’re less likely to die of skin cancer if you’re out in the Sun?

Skin cancer kills less than 3 per 100,000 people in the U.S. each year. For every person who dies of skin cancer, more than 100 die from cardiovascular diseases.

Pelle Lindqvist, a senior research fellow in obstetrics and gynecology at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, home of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, tracked the sunbathing habits of nearly 30,000 women in Sweden over 20 years. Lindqvist found that sun worshippers had a higher incidence of melanoma - but they were eight times less likely to die from it.

Lindqvist decided to look at overall mortality rates, and the results were shocking. Over the 20 years of the study, sun avoiders were twice as likely to die as sun worshippers.

In a 2016 study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, Lindqvist’s team put it in perspective:

Maybe we should go back to smoking then?

Sounds way more fun than being indoors, watching our calories and slathering on lotion like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.

After all - if we go into the sun and smoke at the same time, then we’re more like cowboys. Who doesn’t want to secretly be a cowboy or cowgirl? I don’t smoke, but I do secretly (and now publicly) want to be a cowboy.

What causes skin cancer?

Swedish researchers Orjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson have shown that the overall rate of cancer changed precisely with the increase in exposure of the population to radio waves. In Sweden, the rates of cancer accelerated in the 1920s, 1955, and 1969. In their article, “Cancer Trends During the 20th Century”, the authors note: “In 1920 we got AM radio, in 1955 we got FM radio and TV I, and in 1969 we got TV II.”

Johansson and Hallberg continued to focus on FM radio exposure in connection to malignant melanomas (skin cancers), upon following up on the findings of Helen Dolk at the London School of Hygiene. Dolk and her colleagues had shown that the incidence of skin cancer declined with distance from powerful TV and FM radio transmitters, noting that the FM frequency range of 85 to 108 MHz is close to the resonant frequency of the human body.

In their article, “Malignant Melanoma of the Skin - Not a Sunshine Story,” Johansson and Hallberg refute the claim that the incredible surge of melanoma since 1955 is caused primarily by the sun. Rates of melanoma on the head and feet barely rose at all between 1955-2008, while rates for areas of the body that are typically clothed, especially by Nordics, increased twenty times.8

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A potential remedy for sunburn: DHEA

Bohdanna and I aren’t huge fans of taking supplements we don’t need, especially hormones. However there is one that we’ve started taking recently that shows promise - DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). DHEA is a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands. It’s a precursor to both testosterone and estrogen in the body, although it may play other physiological roles as well. Dr. Jack Kruse isn’t huge on taking supplements either, but he recommends DHEA for women and men in their forties, depending on their blood levels. An owner of a health food store also recently told me he takes it as well, and has been doing so for three years. He told me he’s 48 years old but looks like he could easily pass for 38. This hormone has a plethora of benefits, which include improved cognition, sexual function, metabolism, and immune function to name a few. If you do take it, being in the sun will help sulfate the hormone to make it more bioavailable. Dr. Kruse also mentioned that when he was badly sunburned, he applied topical DHEA with astounding results:

“Many people might remember that I went surfing the day before AHS 2011 in Santa Monica, and I got really pink to red. Several people mentioned that because I was fair, I would likely be sporting a nasty peel soon. I told several of the people at UCLA my little trick for avoiding all sunburn peeling after a bad exposure: topical use of a DHEA cream I had formulated.

When you protect the blood vessels below the burn, the DHEA does not allow that skin to undergo apoptosis and it actually saves your dermal stem cells. It actually prevents wrinkling, too! I wish I had known this when I was younger, but that is how the science ball bounces.”9 ~ Dr. Jack Kruse

We recently have been using a DHEA cream of our own, which we’ve found applies very easily, and also helps buffer any inflammation of the skin.

Aloe vera is also amazing and works wonders, as it clears up dead skin cells with its salicylic acid, which also serves as a gentle exfoliant that helps to unclog pores and prevent acne. Get the fresh stuff. We keep a leaf in the fridge. Who needs cold beer when you can have icy aloe?

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There’s no one size fits-all diet, or light diet. Requirements vary individually, based on genetics and environment. Based on your skin type, you might have more difficulty tanning, however this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get out in the Sun, especially in the early AM when there’s no UV-B.

Non-native EMF in the form of cell towers and satellites have confounded nature’s biological tapestry of light, as we are no longer getting the natural balance of blue, red, and other wavelengths. This is why seeing the sunrise and getting out into AM Sunlight is crucial, as the intense blue and violet light is balanced with more infrared, and is what triggers melatonin regeneration for the rest of the day.

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1. Two reasons why looking at the Sun is good for our eyes

2. Can wearing sunglasses cause sunburn?

3. Can wearing sunglasses increase our risk for depression?

4. How sunglasses degrade cognitive function

5. Do certain types of glasses increase our EMF exposure?

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Do you wear sunglasses because the Sun hurts your eyes?

Could it be that you’ve become sensitive to the Sun because Alan has damaged your eyes?

Who’s Alan?

Artificial Light At Night is one of the reasons we banned Ray-Bans from our lives a long time ago.

Why?

We allowed common sense to conquer our fear of those ‘damaging’ UV rays we were always told about, and realized that Alan’s blue rays were to blame.

We thought: if us humans haven’t gone blind after thousands of years of evolution, why would we?

Plus I (Roman) would lose my glasses all the time.

When Bohdanna and I stopped wearing sunglasses, our eyes adapted more quickly than we had expected. *

We traded in our dark night of the soul gazing into a cold blue abyss of electronics, and embraced the mourning of our past Self at Sunrise.

Seeing the Sun, even on those cloudy morns, was able to restore the vitality of our eyes.

Two reasons looking at the Sun is beneficial for our eyes:

1️⃣ Full spectrum light: The Sun contains even more blue light than our devices. This blue light stimulates cortisol. When we receive cortisol in precise amounts, at the right time of day, this hormone acts to keep us alert, rather than lead to chronic stress. UV from the Sun also creates anti-inflammatory hormones.

While UV and blue light by themselves are toxic, in Sunlight all wavelengths of color are always paired with red. Red light regenerates our retina. We also create ocular melatonin1 when we get red light into our eye.

2️⃣ Full spectrum electricity: We harvest energy from the Sun in the same way plants use photosynthesis. While plants use chlorophyll, we use our mitochondria to capture light. This light then allows us to liberate electrons that will then create energy in the form of ATP - only if we see the light, which creates an electric spark within the “leaves” of our nervous system.

How does this miracle happen?

The magic is in the membrane. The electrical charge potential (voltage / force) across our inner mitochondrial membrane is massive.

Just like the 120 Volt wiring of our home, our mitochondria are waiting to be plugged into Nature’s power grid: the Sun.

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Our inner mitochondrial membrane has a voltage of about 150 millivolts, which is the minimally required pmf (proton-motive force) for ATP synthesis. 2 The minimum energy required to liberate an electron is around 3 electron volts. If we don’t see the Sun, we cut ourselves off from all the free energy around us:

Notice how UV contains the most energy in electron volts (eV) and is also the most demonized?

We don’t need to drive an EV (electric vehicle), EV already drives us.

Could a lack of UV, and overexposure to blue light be one reason why so many are suffering from chronic fatigue?

Is sunburn caused by sunglasses?

Before the advent of sunglasses, the UV (ultraviolet) light from the Sun would be absorbed by our eyes, activating a chemical known as the melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) in blood3, which in turn makes melanin. Melanin makes our skin thicken and go brown in order to give us gradual protection from overexposure to solar radiation and non-native wireless radiation as well.

You may be wondering…

How is it that we need the Sun to protect us from… the Sun?

Aren’t sunscreens supposed to do that since UV causes cancer?

You might be surprised to know that the studies showing how UV is carcinogenic were all done in lab environments, without the rest of the light spectrum balancing out the “harmful” ultraviolet.

Blue light does not stimulate melanin while UV does, and this is why blue light is associated with epithelial cancers and UV light is not. If you have cataracts, chances are you’ve been overexposed to blue light.

Cataracts are nature’s computer glasses, and act as a natural yellow filter that block blue light from completely desto.4

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Melanin also allows us to absorb even more of the beneficial light of the Sun. Recent research shows that when melanin is distributed deeply in our skin, the amount of UV radiation that reaches cells in the epidermis (outer layer) can positively affect folate and B12 levels and repair the DNA in our cells.

Furthermore, UV-B (ultraviolet B) can penetrate our eyes more deeply than our skin, which in turn creates localized inflammation, leading to a stress response that ultimately creates this melanin. This is a “good” kind of acute stress that our bodies used to adapt to our environment.

Sunglasses ultimately trick our brain by changing the solar frequency spectrum the eye senses, into thinking it’s dark and prevent it from producing a the anti-inflammatory melanin hormone. Since our eyes also produce anti-inflammatory nitric oxide in response to light, conditions like sun burn are easily exacerbated when one wears sunglasses.

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Is depression caused by sunglasses?

Sunglasses don’t directly cause mental illness. However, light does directly affect our mood. If you’ve ever gotten s.a.d. during the dark days of winter, you’re familiar with how a lack of sunshine can lead to acute changes in mood. This seasonal effect is compounded by an excess of blue light from technology.

Research has shown that blue light disrupts brain signaling, and lowers concentrations of dopamine and melatonin around the skeletal muscle of our pupil.

Why is this important?

Dopamine and melatonin are crucial in maintaining our mood and restoring our brain health, respectively. Low dopamine levels are also associated with mood disorders like depression.

When we’re chronically over-exposed to blue light, the pupils of our eyes become sluggish. As a result, the retinal pathways of our eyes that project to our suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) are disrupted. Our SCN regulates daily rhythms of nearly all physiology and behavior. When these rhythms are thrown off, this leads to a cascade of health effects.

Recent research on mice has shown that nerve signals to other parts of our brain, such as the perihabenular nucleus (PHb- shown below) are hindered as a result, leading to mood changes such as depression.4

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Do sunglasses dumb us down?

Mammals rely on the constancy of the solar cycle to maintain not only mood, but cognition as well. Cognitive dysfunction linked to light can be brought on by natural conditions, shift-work, or by traveling across time zones and experiencing jet lag.5

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Brown University have discovered that our SCN is the main driver of the effects of light on learning and memory (red pathway in diagram above).6

As mentioned above, when we wear sunglasses, the skeletal muscle tone of our eyes weakens, and we lose the ability to regulate dopamine. When control is lost in these central retinal pathways, GABA also will be lowered in the brain.

Why is this important?

Acetylcholine receptors will decrease as well. As this occurs, acetylcholine levels will rise in neural circuits to also lower GABA.7 A deficiency in GABA activity can contribute to certain mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and depression.7

This is why many patients suffering from depression are prescribed GABA, when in reality the root of the issue is not a "chemical imbalance" but an electromagnetic imbalance of light.

Our cognition also drops as acetylcholine receptors are reduced.

Why metal-framed glasses are worse than plastic

As far back as 1989, researchers found8 that metal frames can increase levels of EMFs by your eyes by ten times!

Remember - our bodies already have a natural mechanism to adapt to the Sun. We didn’t come out of our mother’s womb with Ray-Bans on. The only metal frame our eyes use is iron, which is embedded in the hemoglobin of our eyes’ mitochondria, transporting oxygen to our bodies that our cells can “see.”

We were meant to live and breathe under that Great Ball of Fire.

From MIT researcher Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D.:

“Sunglass marketing ads have trained us to wear sunglasses whenever we go outside, ostensibly to protect our eyes from damaging UV rays. However, melanin—which gives your eyes their blue, hazel, green or brown color—already protects them from UV rays.

In fact, the human eye has evolved to deal naturally with sun exposure through antioxidant protection by melanin. I believe it is crucial to get adequate sunlight exposure to the eyes, not just for the sake of eye health but also because critical nuclei in the brain stem make good use of light that enters through the eyes.”

Before we can be the light, we must see the light.

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Our genetics carry the key to the code of our human past, our toil, our ecstasy, our love, fear, and our transcendence. Shields of legendary fallen heroes that once shone under a blazing sun in glorious defeat now reflect back in our eye’s glimmering refusal of retreat. Our ancestors were superior warriors not only because they were physically fit or were trained in the art of war. They didn’t only know how to fight; they knew who to fight.

Wars today are fought on invisible fronts that neither friend nor foe understand. Our technological horizon hangs its metal hammer over our sun’s fields of gold while children play in ignorance of a dystopian future never foretold. Classrooms have become prisons of indoctrination while once-innocent bedrooms are morphed into sacrilegious palaces of antisocial media incantation.

Towers rise out of the ground like steel dragons waiting to embroil us with our own consumption of digital venom, as we fall in line - browbeaten electronic prisoners of war. Those of us who can feel the flames of artificially-intelligent progress try to run for the hills, only to find our enemy has surrounded us on all sides. Today we live and die in a Fifth-Generation War,1 which has enlisted us all. How does 5th generation warfare differ from the rest?

1️⃣st generation - the tactics of line and column, developed in the era of the smoothbore musket.

2️⃣nd generation - the tactics of indirect fire and mass movement, developed in the era of the rifled musket, barbed wire and the machine gun.

3️⃣rd generation - the tactics of nonlinear movement, including maneuver and infiltration, developed in response to the increase in battlefield firepower in WWI.

4️⃣th generation - the lines between "civilian" and "military" become blurred, armies tend to engage in counter-insurgency operations rather than military battles, and enemies are often motivated by ideology and religion, making psychological operations more important than ever.

5️⃣th generation - “a relative reduction in military violence" has led to "an increase in political, economic, and technological violence.”2

What is technological violence?

While some of us may think of Robocop or cyborg dogs knocking on our door, this type of violence can be even more subtle. The artificial blue light to which we’re exposed daily, the radio frequency that emits throughout our homes, and the dirty electrical currents that flow through Earth are a silent assault that if undefended for too long - makes us surrender to chronic disease. Yet many aspects of modern warfare can be wrested back under our control when we understand how our foe asserts their power.

An invading force always seeks the high ground for military superiority, as this terrain is not only harder to attack, but easiest to defend. Cell towers are mounted over us, planted in strong formation like wood, as satellites broadcast through the airwaves with currents that light fire to the night.

What trenches can we seek to muster our forces? Is any place truly safe?

Run for the hills and hide from triangles

Before we consider what locations are ideal, we first need to take the target off our back. In the words of Sun Tzu, “to know our enemy, we must become our enemy.” After an enemy takes control of a town and attains the high ground, the next thing they normally do is take control of communications. The first priority once we “invade” our new home should be to set up and secure our communication network. Most work in our current digital world can be accomplished with a hardwired connection. If you must use a cell phone consider sharing one with your partner, as wireless networks are less secure and more easily hacked.3

Before choosing a home, you’ll want to know the position of any cell towers in the area. Sites like cellmapper.net are your friend. This site shows you the triangulation and direction of each tower, and allows you to filter by service provider and network type (4G, 5G, etc):

Depending on where you live, you can hire a professional to come out and take measurements, or you can take readings yourself. While it’s difficult to completely avoid cell towers, it is not impossible. Another factor to consider is the elevation of your property. Even if there aren’t any cell towers within sight, if your property is lower and the tower has the higher ground, you’ll be more easily affected and could pick up a plethora of radio frequency. If you need to live in the valley, consider living by trees or areas of water, as these elements tend to absorb electromagnetic radiation.4 There are also harmful electrical ground currents to consider, which require advanced measurements to be taken.

How do cell towers affect residential property values?

Trees can’t move from an unfavorable area in protest, but humans can and are doing so. Towns and cities all over the world are fighting back, producing roadblocks for the wireless industry, which tries to install their technology the quickest and cheapest way possible, anywhere they can. Residents of municipalities are banding together and arguing that property values will be reduced as a result of “small cell” 5G antennas, which are not that small. The equipment that runs the 5G transmitters and receivers must be housed in a box that is the size of a small refrigerator. As small cells need to be placed within 500 feet of each other, there is a lot of visual real estate that is eaten up, raising concerns about aesthetics and property values. These concerns are nothing new, but are now becoming increasingly relevant.

Even before the rollout of 5G, the decrease in property values as a result of cell tower installations was known. A 2005 study5 published in The Appraisal Journal found that 38 percent of survey respondents felt that a cell tower being built in close proximity to their house would reduce their property value by 20 percent or more. In 2011, the Palo Alto, CA community successfully stopped a proposed AT&T cell tower at a Catholic church.6 They cited a 20 percent drop in property values in other communities. Considering many entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley live in Palo Alto, this should give us all pause. Why would those creating the technology not want it in their very own neighborhood?

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A 2014 survey7 by the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy found that 94% of its respondents said cell towers and antennas in a neighborhood or on a building would impact how interested they would be in a property and how much they would pay for it. Of those respondents, 79% stated they would not buy or rent a property within a few blocks of a cell tower under any circumstances, while 88% said they would never buy or rent a place that had a cell tower or group of antennas attached to it.

In early 2025, Benzie County Michigan became a flashpoint8 in the national conversation when residents rallied against the construction of a 195-foot cell tower near Bellows Park. Locals were outraged that a beloved public space could be repurposed for private commercial gain.

In New York City, community boards are increasingly rising in opposition to Link5G cell towers.9 Sixteen community boards to date have either disapproved or called for moratoria on these towers. This represents 40% of the 40 community board districts currently being considered for Link5G installations, up to 800 community board members, and an average of about 2 million residents, which is more than one-quarter of the NYC population. Protestors cited risks to children, declining property values, and aesthetic blight.

A 2015 study10 published in the Pacific Rim Property Research Journal found that New Zealanders would pay 10% - 19% less for a property close to a cell tower. Half of Australians surveyed in 2020 would not want to live near a cell tower.11

A 2018 study12 published in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics found for properties located within 0.72 kilometers [2362 feet] of the closest cell tower, property values declined 2.46% on average, and up to 9.78% for homes within tower visibility range compared to homes outside tower visibility range. Properties within the 0.72-kilometer band lose over $24 million dollars in total. The authors conclude, “given the apparent social costs associated with negative price effects, local zoning and regulatory authorities should consider granting approvals that include impact-minimizing conditions.”

A 2019 study on home prices in Savannah, Georgia13 found that “homes close to towers sell for a discount of up to 7.6% and that any noticeable effect disappears at 1500 feet. The study also found that the effect of a cell tower on residential property values during a declining market can drastically decrease the value while in an increasing market it could have little effect.14

How do cell towers affect commercial property values?

One exception to decreasing property values are commercial properties. When a cell tower is installed on a hotel, sports complex, office, industrial or medical building, the property value will likely increase due to the additional revenue and mass perceived benefits from visitors. Unlike someone’s home, having a full signal at work or while shopping tends to be more favorable with the masses.

As a result, adding a cell tower to a commercial property will likely increase the value relative to the lease rate/income received with almost no negative impact to the value of the property.15

Insurance companies run for the hills

Insurance companies are also making like a tree and leaving the scene of the electromagnetic battlefield. One of the world’s largest insurance companies, Swiss Re, has recommended16 that other insurance companies write in exclusion clauses against paying compensation for illnesses caused by continuous long-term non-ionizing radiation exposure. A 2016 report by Austrian insurance company AUVA confirmed DNA-breaks caused from non-ionizing radiation.17

Lloyd’s of London, the most well-known insurance company in the world excludes any liability coverage for claims, “directly or indirectly arising out of, resulting from or contributed to by electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetism, radio waves or noise.” (Exclusion 32, page 7)18

The world’s first credit agency, AM Best, who assesses the creditworthiness of over 16,000 insurance companies worldwide, identifies “radio frequency radiation as a risk for insurers.”19

“In 2013, well before 5G, the underwriter A.M. Best Company estimated that two hundred and fifty thousand workers come into close contact with cellular antennas every year. It warned other insurers that at close range, cellular antennas act ‘essentially as open microwave ovens,’ and that health effects in exposed workers ‘can include eye damage, sterility and cognitive impairments.’

The president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Edwin Hill, wrote in a September 11, 2013 comment to the FCC, ‘We believe that many of our members have been exposed to levels of RF radiation in excess of the FCC limits.’

Hill further stated, ‘When there is a hazard, the hazard creator has a duty to warn others against the hazard.’ He suggested that telecom corporations that are licensed to deploy transmitting antennas should be responsible for ensuring that IBEW members ‘know the unique physical boundaries at every work location so as not to exceed the referenced RF exposure limits.’

~ , Getting Informed About 5G20

The Fallen Tower of Babylon

Cell towers are industrial machinery and have serious risks, especially when constructed near schools and neighborhoods. Cellular phone gear (antennas) has snapped and is known to cause severe electrical fires. Towers have also collapsed due to construction errors (31%), ice (29%), wind (19%), aircraft (11%) and anchor failure (10%).21 Here is a report of 80 catastrophic incidents involving cell towers.

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The National Fire Protection Association recognizes five hazards associated with using electricity: electrical contact, thermal effects, overcurrent, fault current and overvoltage. Cellular base stations have an enormous array of electrical equipment. To ensure that the new project will not imperil life, health or property, a state-licensed professional electrical engineer must evaluate each hazard and certify that it has been mitigated. A state-licensed professional structural engineer must certify the structural integrity of each pole that holds telecom equipment. To honor their professional obligations, city councilors and county commissioners should not issue a building permit until they have PE-certified documents that prove that each proposed cellular site is safe.22

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Do fiber optic networks improve property values?

Two American cities, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Longmont, Colorado, decided to make the most of it when broadband (fiber) networks became available in 2009. Chattanooga's electric company the Electric Power Board even built its system with assistance from federal grant money.

During the first three years of the broadband network's existence (2009-2012), home values in Chattanooga increased 14 percent and median household income rose 13.5 percent, even as the state government cut almost 3,000 jobs.5 In 2014, Longmont rolled out NextLight, a municipal broadband system that allows residents to download data at a rate of one gigabit per second (gbps) for about $50 a month.

Fiber optic networks may also introduce more wireless networks, as newer technologies like 5G require higher rates of data transfer. Fiber optic networks like those from AT&T require Wi-Fi 7 modems to be permanently installed in the home. Wi-Fi 7 uses beamforming (a high-powered laser) to ensure coverage in your area. The increased data speed often leads to more dirty electricity pulsed throughout the home.

Before accepting a fiber connection to one’s home (FTTP), it may be a good idea to check the website of your town’s planning division to see if any cell towers or small cells are slated to be installed in your area. Fiber is becoming the backbone of the smart grid in many towns. You can read more about the rollout of fiber and the electromagnetic fields associated with its installation here.

Where do we go from here?

First - we need to know what does not work, which is complaining to the town about health effects when trying to stop a cell tower. While this may buffer your argument, money comes first. The 1996 Telecommunications Act includes Section 704—a law that has since been used to block local communities from rejecting cell tower placements based on health concerns. This law effectively gave the telecom industry legal immunity as long as they followed the outdated FCC safety guidelines.

However in 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in the historic case EHT et al. v. the FCC that the December 2019 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.”

Source - EHT Trust:

“The court held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.” Further, the agency demonstrated “a complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.” The court found the FCC ignored numerous organizations, scientists and medical doctors who called on them to update limits and the court found the FCC failed to address these issues:

❌ impacts of long term wireless exposure

❌ impacts on children’s health

❌ the testimony of people injured by wireless radiation,

❌ impacts on wildlife and the environment

❌ impacts on the developing brain and reproduction.”

The court ordered the agency to update its standards to reflect modern research on RF radiation’s non-thermal effects—biological harm that occurs even when heating doesn’t happen.

Currently, Section 704 only protects cell towers that comply with existing FCC guidelines. Once those guidelines change to reflect the science behind non-thermal effects, millions of existing towers — especially those near schools, homes, and hospitals — could be legally challenged.

Any winning military force requires organization and intelligence. While the technocratic surveillance grid seems highly organized and artificially-intelligent, our tribe has the wisdom. The only way we can learn how to combat an enemy that remains unseen is by leveraging our collective intelligence, and becoming organized around long-term solutions that work.

We need to look no further than the wisdom of the ancient armies of families that built their homes with common sense. When constructed properly, natural buildings can be a refuge. To learn more about this resurging art form, reach out to who has been making homes from the ground up since the 1980s. If you feel as if you have nowhere to turn, there are many others who understand, like Shannon Rowan, who wrote Wi-Fi Refugee.

Many of us feel like nomads lost in a place and time that is not for us. Our past is the future we seek. We don’t want faster internet speeds or higher resolution, we want stronger connection. Ultimately it is up to us to sow new fields of gold, and set the bricks that reset a timeless future of health and prosperity. The time to march toward destiny is now. Not all of us will make it but we will live trying. Let us lift our hearts to the sky, and carry the shield of our soul into battle - raising the fallen lives we once knew from the dead.

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In my past life as a computer salesman, a cell phone was a necessity.  This convenience eventually became a crutch, as never missing a chance to sell became an endless rampage of calls that would eventually have me miss out on the opportunity of living my life.

I eventually quit my job and ditched my phone for a simpler life.  That’s a different story for another day.

Some things aren’t worth giving up.  Cell phones aren’t on that list.

Knowledge is a resource so many of us seek, only to throw away any prospect of intelligence as we outsource our brains to the black box we hold in our hands. We often forget that it’s wisdom that teaches us our lessons in the end. 

We’ve over-fished our cognitive oceans only to escape the day with a paltry meal of instant gratification that doesn’t feed us, or teach another, how to fish.

Rather than defer mundane and profound queries to our memory, we’ve capitulated to an artificially intelligent challenger in a New York Minute of total surrender.

Hey Google:

“How can I get pregnant?”

“Why am I so tired all of the time?”

“How do I boil water?”

Do not submit your subconscious.

Chaos = Order

Welcome the chaos of not knowing - only then will we have order in our life.

You see, we don’t always need to have all the answers.  Sometimes not having them is the answer.

Not having a cell phone has allowed me to embrace the unknown and has let most of my previous addictions find a quiet resting place. 

Chief of all these temptations was the need to control.  I needed to command each outcome with keystrokes, otherwise I felt like life was out of my hands. 

But was it? 

Rather than search my soul for answers, I acceded to searching google instead.

Now life is quite different, and quite quaintly-quiet.

I have learned to comfortably feel uncomfortable.

I’d like to run through six lessons I’ve learned by not having a cell phone.

Won’t you join me?

Lesson 1 - Sitting with the Fear of the Unknown

I couldn’t remember the name of a middle-eastern dish the other day, and I waited for a few minutes to see if it would pop into my brain.  I grew impatient, so I asked a friend: 

“What’s the name of that side dish that has lentils, couscous, lots of parsley?”

He replied with a….”Uh…uh…Give me a second…” 

Both of us tried to remember.  All of a sudden I heard a Canadian say “eh (AY), which prompted my total recall of a culinary world.

I ran to my friend, howling like a mad banshee, “Tabboule!  It’s tabboule!”

Lesson 2 - Sitting with others’ fears of the Unknown

In years past, if I forgot to tell my wife something before I left the house, or had a question for her, my instant reaction was to call.   If I was going to be home later than expected, I would immediately want to get in touch so that she wasn’t worried. 

Now I’ve learned to sit with the discomfort of her not knowing.  If anything urgent arises, I send her an email from a local library computer. I can call or text her as well from the computer with my Zoom Phone account. Setting these boundaries has increased confidence in each other and has let us let go… of control. 

After all, if your dog loves you, it’ll always come home. 

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Lesson 3 - Plan ahead, or live on the edge

When you embrace the unknown, you then have to accept… not knowing.

One day I was on my way to pick up some business cards and forgot what time the store closed.  Too late - I was on the road, and I always have a short list of other things I can do if something else doesn’t work into my schedule. I lucked out as they were still open.  I’ve since learned the hard way to check in advance.

I also remember how to get to places very well now.  The other day I drove out to a meeting, and had memorized the map of the country roads in my head.  I didn’t need to refer to my box of road maps in the glove compartment, although that’s also a part of the adventure of living on the edge.

My wife and I love our maps, which we picked up for free at AAA, but she doesn’t let me use them that often because they end up looking like a busted accordion by the time I fold them up.

Lesson 4 - Builds Self-sufficiency

Not having Mr. Google tell you how to get places not only builds confidence in your own inner Master and Commander, but your memory of everything increases as a result as well.  I can recall people’s phone numbers, and my own passwords, with little issue. Do I still use an online map program? Yes. I take what’s called a pen, and actually write down the directions on a piece of paper!

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My black book is in my brain.  Come and take it.

I don’t submit photos to the cloud anymore, but have them loaded on a memory chip from a real camera (yes they still exist) that only I control.  I also don’t take those photos for granted anymore and appreciate each Kodak moment.

Plus, do you know how much easier it is to literally stick a chip in the computer to download your photos, rather than waiting for the internet to do it for you? 

It’s literally instantaneous.   

Lesson 5 - Hard bodies hard wire

When I hit the keystrokes, I type from a place of power.  I stand with my knees slightly bent, and my head looking straight ahead at the monitor, rather than hunched over like Quasimodo.  Years ago, I started out standing for a couple hours each day, now I can stand for 8 hours straight no problem. Not having a wireless connection also helps my nervous system not be in a chronically-stressed state when typing. Radiofrequency increases oxidative stress as our blood cells clump together, rather than flowing freely. Since blood transports oxygen to our brain, we are more likely to develop brain fog when on a wireless device.

When we’re in an upright posture, and our spine is erect, our brain can receive more blood and oxygen as a result, which lets us, dare I say…think!

When we stand in a position of power, this signals to our brain that we are in control. Being a good leader isn’t about being reactive or aggressive, hitting the dislike button on your enemy - it’s about scrolling right past their feed while you build your own army with pen, paper, and a desktop connection.

Research by social psychologist Amy Cuddy has shown1 that by “power posing” our testosterone levels increase, while reducing the stress hormone cortisol. 

Many a good ole’ grandma, talking on their copper-landlines, have more testosterone than some of those meatheads in the gym scrolling into oblivion.

Lesson 6 - Less texting = More brain power

Many of us take our fingers for granted.  Our hands are exquisitely linked to the rest of our brain and neural circuitry, so when we type we dampen our cognitive abilities.  This is why you’ll see many musicians or artists with increased gray matter in their cerebellum, as they are activating different regions of their brain with not only their minds, but bodies as well.  Brains of jazz artists were shown2 to have increased  blood flow to their medial prefrontal cortex, which exerts top-down executive control in the brain.

Lesson 7 - I miss out on some things, but I get everything.

Do you remember TV shows or movies from the eighties where certain characters would just sit on a park bench like Forrest Gump and zone out?   When’s the last time  you noticed anyone sit on a chair or in a park and just stare into space?

I do this a few times per week whenever I’m picking Bohdanna up somewhere. It’s a skill men used to have - learning how to patiently wait for women, without a toy to distract them. Stare up at the sky men - it builds character.

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Children, along with many adults, don’t know how to be bored.  Instead of zoning out, they get themselves locked in the twilight cell phone zone of no return.

Like a colleague of mine recently told me – children don’t know how to live “vertically” anymore, and instead are trapped on the horizontal plane.  We’ve lost touch with our sense of Divine wonder, the stars above, and have submitted to an endless wheel of AI which will only give us dooms of fortune. If we give up our mind power, we’ll only know Siri, and never appreciate Sirius.

Living vertically allows us to build the relationship we have with ourselves, and as a result lets others do the same.  For instance, my friends know that if they send me an email, I’m likely not to get back to them right away.  Because I’ve trained myself not to react in the twinkling of an eye, I have conditioned them to reach me through two long-forgotten modes of communication:

1. Email: I know…it’s so 1990s of me.

When responding via email, I can remain more present, composing longer, more thoughtful messages, in a safer, faster, more secure mode of communication.

2. Copper-wired landline telephone (dare I say)

With a hardwired connection, it’s easier to remain present for someone.   There’s only so far I can walk or go while connected to my wall. We also have a richer experience in a true phone call. When hearing someone’s tone of voice – we’re better able to decipher their state of mind.   A life-changer was letting calls go to the answering machine and calling that person back when I’m ready.  Both parties benefit as a result.

I’ve also been able to maintain better relationships and conversations through eye contact, something which suffers immensely when we immerse ourselves in our cell phones.  Wireless radiation has been shown to destroy our prefrontal cortex, along with areas of the brain responsible for empathic connection like the insula, which is responsible for processing emotional cues.

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If our clothing is a second skin, the home is our third.

In previous articles, we learned how we can use the native electromagnetic fields (EMF) of infrared and UV light to build a skin that’s more environmentally resilient to synthetic radiation from our devices and artificial light environment.

How does EMF affect us through the third layer of skin we take for granted, our home?

Some of us obsess about 5G and radiation from satellites1, while we discount what we can control right underneath our feet. We wear pendants and install harmonizers in our homes, all the while not addressing the root cause. We cling to the technology of hope rather than address our relationship with technology. If we’re not careful, hope can be the rope that becomes our noose.

Luckily, with a bit of grit and determination, we can loosen the stranglehold of toxicity that pervades our modern environment, and escape into a fortress of peace.

Our Skin’s Space Suit

If our homes are our skin, what qualities would we want it to have?

If we were in outer space and dependent on a space suit to be our life support, what would we want it to do for us?

We’d want it to let out stale air, and bring in oxygen. We’d want that spacesuit to be electrically quiet and a shield against cosmic radiation, so that we can perform optimally. We’d need a clear visor to let in a full spectrum of light, enabling us to see through the void of the cosmos.

My first aha! moment in the field of electromagnetic research didn’t come from reading books or learning theory, it was from taking action by listening to instinct.

I started to tap into my intuition and ask “how does this room make me feel?

Where do I feel most relaxed? Where do I feel most productive?

Instead of using the assigned office to study, I sought shelter in my cool, quiet basement, where I could focus as well as meditate.

Instead of eating in the elegantly dark dining room, my wife and I would find ourselves eating outside on the deck nine months out of the year.

After measuring electric fields with various EMF meters, I found that the rooms that I was least comfortable in coincidentally had the highest readings.

The 4 Elements of Housing

Before the Industrial Age, houses and shelters were built from natural materials, allowing air and energy to circulate in and out, refreshing our living environment. Our homes were automatically grounded to the Earth and in tune with the Schumann resonance.2

In the 1800s the Age of Electricity arrived, bringing momentous change to our vibrant communities. By 1850 telegraph lines were under construction on every continent. Twenty-two thousand miles of wire were energized in the US and four thousand through India, where “monkeys and swarms of large birds” were alighting on them.3

The nervous system of humans was also being set on fire at the same time as telegraph wires linked almost thirty thousand homes and businesses in New York. Dr. George Miller Beard, a budding New York City neurologist and colleague of Thomas Edison, noticed a trend in increasing nervous disorders. In 1869, Beard published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, where he came up with the term neurasthenia, which means “weak nerves.” Previously known as a physical disease that affected the nerves, neurasthenia was rebranded in 1895 by Sigmund Freud as a mental disorder called anxiety nervosa. A physical illness was now a mental illness blamed on the individual’s improper, hysterical thoughts.

In 1889 Edison General Electric Co. was incorporated, and every US city acquired electric lighting powered by AC (alternating current) motors. The Age of Electricity began in earnest. The light bulb advanced our working hours into the night, but our health fled in retreat. As cities came alight, not only were ancestral circadian rhythms of health destroyed, the electrical currents underpinning this technology birthed an artificial form of energy the likes of which humans had never known.

In this article we’ll explore the concept of energy, and how we can leverage the benefits of both visible and invisible forms, while reducing the impact of artificial currents that run through our most sacred space.

Water, Earth, Wind & Fire

Each element of our homes dances and exchanges energy with the next. For example, the Sun’s energy (fire) is stored by nature in wood, plants, oil, and natural gas. When burned, this energy is released into the air. The air then carries it down to the water, then to the Earth.

What is Energy?

The only place where equilibrium exists is death. Otherwise energy is constantly working through us, in the form of sound, light, magnetism, or electricity. If you ask a quantum physicist, they might tell you that our bodies are more energy (empty space) than matter.4

“Outside of an atomic nucleus, there are only two fundamental forces in nature: gravity and electricity.

The electromagnetic force is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times stronger than the gravitational force. Yet much of western science pretends that it does not exist.”

en·​er·​gy (n.) in physics - the capacity for doing work

Before we can learn to harness the energy of our body to make it work for us, I believe we must reduce the energy in our living spaces that is working against us.

How do we make our energy environment work smarter, so that we don’t have to live harder?

Our physical environment is the most controllable, thus easier to address before we move onto more complex healing modalities on the mental or spiritual plane. For example, it’s easier to unplug your Wi-Fi than trying to meditate or pray that the radiation doesn’t harm you.

How do we experience EMF as energy?

If you’ve ever had an electrocardiogram (EKG) or electroencephalogram (EEG), you’re well aware of the electrical nature of our hearts and brains. Traditionally our bodies were thought to be only electrical (transmitting power). Mainstream science has since recognized that our bodies use a much more sophisticated operating system that is electronic (transmits power and communicates data).

For instance, melanin functions as the most sophisticated semiconductor (an integrated circuit, akin to a computer chip) in human biology, capable of absorbing all frequencies of light, including those not present in our sun. This remarkable molecule allows humans to extract more energy and information from light than other species, contributing to enhanced cognitive abilities and immune function.5 Melanin is currently being tested by NASA for its capability to absorb cosmic radiation in space.6

It’s not what you say, it’s how you pulse it

External pulses from electrical and electronic equipment obscure the normal bioelectrical pulses of our organs, making it difficult for cells to understand the signals they’re receiving from our hearts and brains.

We can hear these irregular patterns play out in our homes when we install a CFL (compact fluorescent) bulb that emits distorted, higher frequencies. These frequencies are in the kilohertz (kHz) range, also known as dirty electricity, generating electrical fields that are thousands of times more powerful than our standard 60 Hz wiring. To put this into perspective:

• An average human heart pulses one beat per second = 1 Hz

• Our home wiring pulses at sixty times per second = 60 Hz

• Dirty electrical fields can pulse up to 100,000 times per second = 100 kHz

Electronic equipment can be disrupted or destroyed by power surges and degraded by low power quality. Our vital organs are no different.

Vibrating our cells

The speed of our communication is determined through vibration, with various cell-types oscillating at frequencies ranging from 0-75 Hz.7 This range corresponds to Earth’s Schumann resonance and its native electrical field.

When we’re exposed to abnormal frequencies from energy stressors like smart meters, cell phones, airpods, or fitbits8, our bodies fight back, attempting to resonate with the frequency of Earth, just as a tuning fork to a certain tone. Vibration tells our cells when to divide. When our cells encounter unusual vibratory patterns, division can become abnormal.9

Biological harm associated with non-native EMF falls into two major categories:

1. Brain (behavioral abnormalities, learning disabilities, altered hormonal cycles and stress responses)

2. Growing tissue (embryos, genetics, and cancer)10

An Electric Power Couple

Our bodies act like antennas, receiving and coupling with energy of ambient electric fields. Since the direct current (DC) electromagnetic communication system11 of the body runs very efficiently at extremely low levels, even miniscule changes from external EMF can cause muscle and nerve cells to misfire. For instance, acetylcholine is a voltage-gated neurotransmitter that regulates muscle contraction, and can be impaired by electromagnetic fields.

Research from 1989 showed that “long distance cell-to-cell or organism-to-organism communications” can occur by transmission and reception of electromagnetic signals.12 This concept of electroconformational coupling proved that electric signals can change how the proteins of our cell membranes behave. The image below depicts a fluorescent tube not connected to any wiring, yet lighting up from the wireless power transfer of the energized wires above:

Why is this important?

Epigenetic changes occur at the level of our cellular membrane proteins.13 Cell biologists like Bruce Lipton and many others have discovered that only 1% of chronic diseases are genetic, whereas 99% are epigenetic and based on our environment.14

What kind of signals do we need to be aware of that may be trying to couple with us without our consent?

Let’s not let those outlets jump our bones with their magnetic personality.

kHz frequency: a dirty EMF offender

Since the 1900s, humanity has been exposed to electric fields billions of times faster than ever before with the advent of radio (1920s), radar (1940s), television (1950s), computers (1970s), and cell phones (1980s). When the energy crisis of the 1970s arrived, this catapulted the world into an age of energy-efficient electronics that ignored biological inefficiencies. The infrastructure of the power grid wasn’t designed to support modern electronics and their higher frequencies, which are biologically-active.

Most modern electronics, from our laptop charger to our blender, are made energy-efficient through a technology called switch mode power supply (SMPS). This technology regulates voltage more precisely by converting the AC electricity coming out of our wall to DC electricity for our devices, which interrupts and “chops up” the electrical current flow up to hundreds of thousands of times per second. When an AC field is converted to DC, this creates electrical pollution known as dirty electricity which then flows back into the grid.

The 60 Hz current of our AC outlets is transformed into much higher frequencies as a typical switch mode power supply operates between 30 to 60 kHz, or 60,000 pulses per second. This electrical pollution is compounded by the fact that North America’s power grid uses ground rods to distribute current back to the utility’s substation, rather than a dedicated neutral wire. As a result, our Earth is saturated with ground current EMF. If you’ve ever seen lighting strike the ground and redistribute its charge, you’ll appreciate that our Earth is not a sponge, but a conductor of electricity.

How has this technological evolution impacted our health?

Samuel Milham, M.D. is an epidemiologist, or a scientist who verifies that the results obtained by other labs and researchers are actually happening to the masses of people in the real world. He studied historical US mortality and electrification data of the 1900s. Dr. Milham was astonished as he found that the data suggested many of our modern diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes are caused by electromagnetic field exposure, most likely dirty electricity. Milham would go on to write the book on Dirty Electricity.

Dirty electricity was shown to be a potent universal carcinogen in a study of cancer in teachers at a La Quinta, California, middle school. A single year of employment at the La Quinta school increased cancer incidence by 21%.15 Schools and offices have larger concentrations of printers, copiers, computers, and fluorescent lighting that all use switch mode power supply.

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Commercial vs residential electricity

One way of remediating dirty electricity is by using the proper electrical conduit when building, as electric fields in our wall can emanate anywhere from 1-8 feet into our living area. Most homes use sheet rock, which electric fields can easily penetrate. This is why natural building materials are superior, as wood and other substances can partially insulate the electrical frequencies coming off the wall. Electric fields generated by wiring can be shielded in metal conduit. This practice is standard in commercial building, however is not common for residential construction.

4 ways we can reduce dirty electricity

Reducing dirty electricity is trickier than unplugging our Wi-Fi modem to lower radiofrequency (RF). As the power grid becomes saturated, currents can flood into homes from many directions. Dirty electricity can also jump from one circuit to another within our house, traveling along power lines and coming in from neighbors’ homes. Thanks to I discovered how fifth generation (5G) cellular technology employs subcarrier spacing (SCS) technology that uses our home wiring, enabling 5G to communicate over wider areas, especially in places with poor coverage. Using kHz frequencies allows 5G to be more adaptable, rather than just being confined to the higher millimeter wavelengths that don’t penetrate buildings as well.16

1. Play Unplugged

The simplest way to reduce dirty electricity is by removing the local source. For instance, I use my laptop running on battery rather than plugged into the wall. Even though cords are “grounded” with a third prong, they most likely are still absorbing ground current EMF. Many parts of the world, even remote areas, can be saturated with ground current. For instance, in 1999 Dave Stetzer and a team of researchers at Dill Creek in Colby Wisconsin measured electrical current flowing through the water, with synthetic waveforms that are biologically active.17

Others like Paul Harding of Total EMF Solutions have found synthetic ground current in the middle of the Arizona desert.18

The NIEHS Report19 on Health Effects from Exposure to Power-Line Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields found “convincing evidence for cancer-causing effects is available for internal electric field strengths greater than approximately 1 mV/m (millivolt/meter)”, which is a very low-level electric field. Any other devices like blenders, toasters, and phone chargers that are plugged into the wall need to be disconnected as they still draw a charge when not in use.

2. Filter out the noise

Dave Stetzer and his late partner Martin Graham, who have been studying the effects of manmade electricity since the 70s, designed the Stetzerizer filter to reduce dirty electricity and microsurges in our buildings. The higher kHz frequencies produce what are called superharmonics. Not all of us hear this noise, yet it affects us all. Some may experience superharmonics as tinnitus.

We know that humans can hear electromagnetic energy in the ultrasonic range from 20 Hz to about 225 kHz. What transmits at 20 kHz- 225 kHz? Radiofrequency (which also emits above 225 kHz) along with higher frequencies emanating from our home wiring known as “dirty electricity.”

Dr. Magda Havas and Dave Stetzer studied the effect of kHz frequencies on tinnitus7, and found that these individuals suffering from tinnitus had high levels of dirty electricity in their homes. Some participants noticed that when the buzzing sound was loud, the dirty electricity in their home was high. When Stetzer filters were installed, these sounds became less audible. Dogs can also hear in the range of 20 kHz, which is why there have even been accounts of animals not wanting to walk on certain parts of the street with LED streetlights.20

These filters are portable, meaning you can move them from room to room. For instance, if you’re working in the office during the day, and there is a high dirty electrical field present, plug the filters into the surrounding outlets.

PRO TIP: You first want to plug in these filters to outlets that consume the most power and/or closest to the circuit breaker, so that you can bring down the total amount of dirty electricity in your home.

Here’s a quick video of how I like to use the Stetzerizer filter and meter:

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3. Invert your reality

Renewable energy is being sold as the panacea to the climate crisis, however the solution may also create a problem. Solar power inverters are often a large source of dirty electricity, as they also apply SMPS technology. It is not uncommon for a home to experience a tremendous spike in dirty electricity after installing solar, especially when panels are put on the roof. The good news is that inverters like the SMA Sunny Boy, made in Germany, are designed with electrical quality in mind and are superior to many other solutions.

4. Drive in the mega slow lane

While hardwiring our home will not only allow for faster and more reliable internet without the wireless radiofrequency, these solutions can also bring more electrical mud into our homes in the form of dirty electricity. Internet plans with higher bandwidths require more data transfer (gigabytes per second), which increases the amount of electrical impulses generated by our wiring. For this reason it’s recommended to select the lowest bandwidth internet package available.

In most areas, even the most basic package is much faster than you will need to stream movies on Netflix or Amazon. Choose a package at or below 100 Mbps and stay away from 1 or 10 Gbps packages, which will likely introduce more kHz frequencies into your home. You’ll also want to install a router that works in mbps (megabytes per second), with less electronics and circuits, like the simple plug-and-play TP link TL-SF1005D router.

Create a Sleep Sanctuary

Each night, once I start nodding off to my latest fiction novel, I strap on my red light headlamp and go into the garage to shut off the power to the bedroom at the circuit panel. EMF from our neighbors, smart meters, and any other devices tend to magnetize onto live wires, so it’s a prudent choice to cut the power especially when our bodies need to regenerate and our immune system needs support. Even after shutting the power off, Bohdanna and I move our bed at least 1-2 feet away from our wall to be safe.

If you live in an apartment and can’t move your bed that far from the wall, you can purchase a wooden frame and a latex/wool mattress without metal springs, as those springs will magnetize to electric fields. Similarly, sleeping on an earthing sheet is also not advisable, as these highly conductive metal surfaces can introduce more current when our organs are most sensitive.21

Aside from eliminating electronics and devices from our bedroom, which can distract us and serve as psychological triggers as we associate our phones with work, lighting and color is underestimated for its healing effect. We have multiple clip-on amber lights scattered throughout our home as we wind down, since amber does not disrupt melatonin like more intense blue wavelengths.

Color me green

If you’ve ever been dazzled by the sunset, stopped in your tracks to let yourself be charmed by a rainbow, you know the positive impact color can have upon our psyche. Color alone can also help us recover from the barrage of wireless radiation and electronic noise.

In our recent interview with photobiologist Dr. Alexander Wunsch, he elaborated on how he uses color to treat patients in his private practice in Germany. Dr. Wunsch has found that magenta helps balance our emotional state, and green calms our mental state. This combination of color will reduce the stimulation of our sympathetic (fight-flight) nervous system caused by wireless and electronics, helping combat inflammation. Dr. Wunsch has overseen palliative patients and those with chronic pain, who have been treated in a hospital with these colors, and have seen positive results in pain management.22

Nature has its own skin that protects it from solar radiation. Plants use the green in chlorophyll to absorb the sun’s energy, which lets them bloom in living color. The forest enjoys its own skin, with the canopy of trees that filter intense electrical wavelengths of the sun so that we can seek shelter in its magical paradise. We may not have a choice which color skin we’re born with, but we can always embrace the only home we have to live in - our body.

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If you’re low on dopamine - you may want to get out and see the Sunrise.

If you have Parkinson’s (PD), you may not want to see the Sunrise.

Many PD patients lose the wakefulness they’d typically have in the morning when dopamine levels are highest, as dopamine drugs (L-Dopa) disrupt the natural circadian rhythm and sensitivity of dopaminergic receptors of the brain.1 Taking L-Dopa pills will delay melatonin production and make us feel groggy in the morning.

When dopamine is highest (AM), our melatonin is meant to be at its lowest, and vice versa:

How do we build back our dopamine levels?

Is dopamine just a "feel-good” hormone we get every time we munch on a donut, or sip on a dopamine-building, glycine-rich bone broth?

Yes, but dopamine is also so much more.

So give me more!

Doped up on Sunlight

Dopamine is made in the eye by sunlight, and it can be made in the gut by our microbiome, which is full of bacteria that release light even brighter than what we receive from the Sun, in the range of UV-C. This light is then able to make dopamine from amino acids like tyrosine in the gut.

Nature has built in a mechanism for us to harvest free energy in the form of hormones. All we need to do is get outside.

Such a simple equation, but us humans managed to mess it up.

How did we go wrong?

Why are neurological conditions now the leading cause of disability worldwide?

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A major new study2 released by The Lancet Neurology shows that, in 2021, more than 3 billion people worldwide were living with a neurological condition. The overall amount of disability, illness and premature death caused by neurological conditions has increased by 18% since 1990.3

What has dramatically increased since 1990?

Use of devices emitting wireless radiation has grown exponentially every year since 1990 in the Western world.

Prior to 1980, only microwaves were commercially available in any significant quantity. The general public rapidly adopted other EMF (wireless radiation) technologies in laptops and cell phones after 1990.

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Evolution begins in the beginning

When you wake up, what’s the first thing you see?

Is it your screen? Overhead lighting? A laser your cat has now weaponized against you?

Soon after hearing the robins at 4am, the first light Bohdanna and I always see is either our red bathroom light, or the sky. We make sure that our first dose of blue light dope is paired with the red light heroin of the Sunrise.

Why are we obsessed about light?

Because we know how simple and effective, not to mention free, this formula is for so many of us who are suffering from chronic disease.

Most centralized doctors will tell you that Parkinson’s is caused by a loss of nerve cells which produce dopamine, in the part of the brain called the substantia nigra.

What most don’t know is that these same dopamine neurons produce neuromelanin, which is the foundation for total cellular regeneration.

Before we go on to explore how to build melanin, we must ask:

Why are these nerve cells being destroyed in the first place?

Inflammation seems to be the root of neurodegeneration. Unbalanced blue light from our devices, cars, and lights is a hazard not only for our eyes, but our brains as well. Rhodopsin is a G-protein coupled receptor, and is the most abundant protein in the rod cells found in the retina. G-protein coupled receptors are located in the membrane of our cells, and communicate information from our environment to our nervous system. These receptors form the “mem-brain”, which is the basis of epigenetics, or how our state of health is determined mostly by genes turned on/off by environmental triggers.

Does blue light cause Parkinson’s?

Not in its natural, balanced state. However, artificial blue light can be a major inflammatory trigger, which informs how photoreceptors like rhodopsin work. Recent studies4 have implicated lesser concentrations of rhodopsins with neurodegenerative disease.

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Lipofuscin is a “wear and tear” pigment that is formed through aging, metals, misfolded proteins, and is especially abundant in nerve cells, cardiac muscle cells and skin. Pathological accumulation of lipofuscin is implicated in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.5

What creates lipofuscin in excess? Blue light.

Drink your morning cup of cortisol?

If you google “Is blue light harmful?” most mainstream sites will say “no, the Sun contains more blue light than our devices.” What those sites don’t tell us is that the sun is always balanced with red, blue, green, and other wavelengths, whereas our devices only contain blue.

Why is this important?

Red wavelengths restore cell function and clean up cellular debris.

Since the sun has even more blue light than our devices, this can be advantageous as this same spectrum of light spikes cortisol. When many of us hear the word cortisol, we think “stress” but have forgotten that this same hormone produces alertness, which is Nature’s way of getting us ready to go on the hunt to work.

Nature and God also had a way to help us unwind after that long day in the jungle, as we stoked our fires at night, glaring into infrared embers of retinal regeneration. Now we’ve divorced ourselves from the divine, casting ourselves into a abysmal alien night where the scroll never sleeps.

Blue light, wireless radiation, excess carbohydrates, and annoying relatives can all elevate our cortisol levels. Cortisol is made from the cholesterol backbone of pregnenolone. When cholesterol levels aren’t adequate, our cell membrane becomes porous, a situation the body interprets as an emergency, thus releasing a flood of corticoid hormones that work by sequestering cholesterol from one part of the body and transporting it to areas where it’s lacking. Cholesterol is our body’s repair substance: scar tissue contains high levels of cholesterol, including scar tissue in the arteries.6 When we lower our cholesterol with statins, this is similar to killing the firefighter who has shown up to rescue us.

Cholesterol is a marker of inflammation, rather than a cause. The University of California at Irvine (2011) has pointed to the elevation of cortisol as the main generator of the inflammation in diseased neurons.7 Cholesterol is a major component of the brain, much of it in the myelin sheaths that insulate nerve cells and in the synapses that transmit nerve impulses. In short, when you take a statin, you’re taking away the protection your neurons need to work!

Misfolded Proteins aren’t the root of brain disease

Compounding the issue is the fact that our brains’ cholesterol stores are depleted in order to make cortisol, which further drives inflammation. Research from Brown University8 points to inflammation as the catalyst for the protein misfolding commonly found in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, as chronic stress can override the internal quality assurance system of neurons that would normally ensure proper protein folding occurs.

“When our system is overwhelmed the end result is the formation of neurofibrillary tangles from (misfolded) proteins. These proteins then block the transport of vital ingredients into the brain cells to offset the assault. One of those ingredients appears to be cholesterol itself. It appears that normal lipid metabolism repair mechanisms become so unbalanced that it induces the nerve cells to undergo apoptosis!” 9

Apoptosis is cell suicide. The neurons with these misfolded proteins are toxic, needing to be replaced, so they undergo apoptosis instead of autophagy. Think of autophagy like a scrapyard - our bodies recycle and repurpose cells for other functions. Apoptosis is when we drive that car off a cliff and set in on fire, instead of selling it for parts. Since we’re killing off too many neurons without replacing them, our brain’s renewable cell supply in the temporal, parietal and frontal lobes becomes exhausted.

If inflammation is at the root, what is driving the inflammation?

The same thing that can alleviate our cellular fire: light.

Photoelectric Health

Humans are a lot like plants. We both use light to create energy.10 When we capture particles of light called photons from the Sun, we create energy for our body in the form of electrons. How do we convert these electrons into energy?

Our brain needs between 25-35% of omega 3 fats called DHA to function optimally. More importantly, DHA sequesters the electrons found in light in order to activate hormonal and digestive pathways.

Energy conversion begins in our eye, which contain high concentrations of DHA:

Brains of those with neurodegenerative disease are often found lacking in omega 3s and overburdened with an excess of omega 6 fats. A lack of electrons can also contribute to the shape change of misfolded proteins.11 This is why DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid, is critical for anyone suffering from a brain disease.

Why are we losing dopamine?

As noted earlier, neuromelanin is the substance lacking in those with PD, and must be created in order for brains to regenerate.

Dopamine neurons in the human brain produce so much neuromelanin that we can visualise it with our naked eye. As we can see in the image below, the Parkinsonian brain has less dark pigmented cells (in the substantia nigra region of the midbrain) below. As dopamine neurons – which are affected in Parkinson’s – are lost, so too is the dark pigment of neuromelanin.

We lose neuromelanin for the same reason our dopamine stores get depleted.

Blue light spikes dopamine in the short-term, but chronic exposure to blue light inhibits our ability to produce more dopamine. Nature never had a way for us to be chronically exposed to blue light, as each day we see the same variations of sunlight in a twenty-four hour cycle. When we wake up, we get an energetic dose of blue light from the Sun, which is balanced with regenerative red wavelengths.

Since Edison, we have radically altered our genetic destiny by transforming our light environment.

Since artificial blue light ruins our ability to make dopamine, we also lose melanin. Melanin allows us to fight inflammation as well as cancer.

How can we make more melanin?

It turns out that melanin isn’t just a skin pigment, but the solar panel of our body, which processes light as information for healing. Melanin is made when we expose our skin and eyes to UV light.

Wait…isn’t UV dangerous?

Yes, if you don’t get enough AM light with red wavelengths that build the deepest layers of your skin, chances are you’ll burn.

If you wear sunglasses, then you also won’t make melanin. 12 Ultraviolet light activates a chemical known as the melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) in blood1, which in turn makes melanin. Melanin makes our skin thicken and go brown in order to give us gradual protection from overexposure to solar radiation.

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But…Sunlight hurts my eyes!

If you’re wearing sunglasses, chances are the Sun hurts your eyes because you’ve desensitized and ruined them, by overexposing your eyes to artificial blue light at night (ALAN). This is why it’s crucial to see the sunrise and/or sunset, as the red wavelengths, which build mitochondria and regenerate ocular melatonin, are gentler at this time.

*We are not licensed medical professionals, and this is not medical advice.*

Some other tactics to build back our brain:

In order of priority:

1. Eliminate all blue light at night* and before you get outside in the AM.

2. Shut off Wi-Fi at night

3. Eliminate sunglasses, especially in the AM.

4. *If you must watch anything, wear blue-blocking red glasses.

5. Eat DHA-rich fish

6. Have 1 cup bone broth at each meal

7. See the Sunrise and/or Sunset and smile because you’re alive.

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1. How did the dawn of radio affect bees?

2. Why does RF starve bees of oxygen?

3. How do our mitochondria use light to create energy?

4. How do cell phones create colony collapse?

5. How do bees use magnetic fields to navigate?

6. How do bees use electric fields to fly?

7. Why are pesticides a red herring?

8. What DNA mutations may EMF cause in insects?

9. Pollination decline and crop failures observed in Greece

10. Why shungite protects beehives

11. JOIN World Cancel Your Cell Phone Plan Day

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An ancient sun rises over horizons long-forsaken, drizzling a distant turquoise sea with its amber nectar of light. The morning sounds its alarm with a serene hum, abuzz with the vehicles of Life’s workers sent rushing along the muffled meadow highways of an Earth waiting to be born again. As we embark into the merciless light of day to render fields bountiful with our toil, we quickly find ourselves placated by the melodies of bird and beast, as they watch and wait for us to work in unison. Like the busy bee, life’s work of love all can see.

Through our sorrow we come to know the joy of tomorrow if we surrender our ambitions to the resolve of nature - where nothing is rushed, yet all is accomplished. Today the lust for control has propelled mankind past Elysian fields of courageous peace, and over the precipice like a bison caught in the bush fires of progress. Technocratic plantation owners disguised as good shepherds of science impatiently wield the pendulum of progress like a scythe, threshing our future into dust.

The first colony collapses

In 1898 the young Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi came to the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England, to build the world’s first permanent wireless station. In 1901, as Marconi sent the world’s first long-distance radio transmission from this island, the honey bees began to vanish. By 1906, the island, then host to the greatest density of radio transmissions in the world, was almost empty of bees. Thousands of bees, unable to fly, were found crawling and dying on the ground outside their hives. “They are often to be seen crawling up grass stems, or up the supports of the hive, where they remain until they fall back to the earth from sheer weakness, and soon afterwards die,” wrote Augustus Imms of Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1906. Ninety percent of the bees had already vanished from the entire island. Unable to find a cause, Imms called it Isle of Wight disease.

Swarms of healthy bees imported from the mainland began dying off within a week of arrival. In the following decades, Isle of Wight disease spread along with radio broadcasting to the rest of Great Britain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s its name changed to “disappearing disease.” It became urgent in 1996, when cell towers began to be erected throughout the United States, and became a worldwide emergency by 2006, when it was renamed “colony collapse disorder.” In the winter of 1995-1996, beekeepers lost 45 percent of their hives in Kentucky, 60 percent in Michigan, and 80 percent in Maine. By 1997, 90 percent of all feral honey bee colonies had disappeared nationwide. Today not only domestic bees, but also all wild bees are in danger of extinction.1 More than a century later, the description of this mystery disease is exactly the same.

[Source] Cellular Phone Task Force:

“On November 19, 2019, a 5G antenna was placed 250 meters from Angela’s house in Melbourne, Australia. ‘I photographed the new mast going onto the cell tower,’ she writes, ‘and the next day, I was in the driveway talking to our carpenter, and we saw bees dropping on the driveway then dying. I managed to film one trying to collect pollen, but it was hanging upside down and could not seem to make it to the centre of the flower, then it rolled off the petals to the ground.

Europe’s first UMTS network—what is now known as “3G” technology, which greatly expanded the network of cell towers and connected them all to the Internet, enabling the operation of smartphones—went into service in the fall of 2002, just before the disastrous winter during which so many of Europe’s honey bees vanished.

Ferdinand Ruzicka, a medical physicist and beekeeper in Austria, wrote an article in Bienenwelt (“Bee World”) about this problem in 2003 and published a survey form in Bienenvater (“Beekeeper”) requesting to be contacted by beekeepers with antennas near their hives. Ruzicka’s colonies had collapsed after telecommunications antennas appeared in a field near his hives. The majority of Bienenvater readers who filled out his form similarly observed that their bees had become suddenly aggressive when antennas appeared, had begun to swarm, and that their healthy colonies had vanished for no other reason.

During the winter of 2006-2007, when disappearing disease was renamed “colony collapse disorder,” a team of researchers examined thirteen large apiaries owned by eleven different commercial beekeepers in Florida and California, and could not find any specific nutritional, toxic, or infectious factor that differentiated bees or colonies with and without colony collapse disorder.

The supposedly devastating Varroa mite was not more prevalent in collapsed or collapsing colonies. in collapsed or collapsing colonies. The only specific observation they were able to make was that colony collapse disorder was location-specific, and that colonies with this disorder tended to cluster together. The colonies in those locations not only died, but tended to be left alone even by the parasites that normally infest dead honey bee colonies.

The Fish & Wildlife Service reports that the American bumble bee, formerly the most common species of bumble bee in the United States, has disappeared entirely from 12 states and is in severe decline in the 35 states in which it is still found. The petition from the Center for Biological Diversity reports that this species exists at only 11% of its former abundance, and that its rapid decline began only 20 years ago, in 2002.2 Until the mid-1990s, the western bumble bee was abundant in forests, fields, and urban backyards throughout western North America, from New Mexico to Saskatchewan to Alaska. It has now vanished except for small pockets in the Colorado Rockies. The rusty-patched bumble bee has not been seen in New York State since 2004. The Franklin bumble bee, formerly prevalent in southwestern Oregon, has not been seen since about 2005.

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A buzzing metabolism

For aeons, life evolved in an electromagnetic field that nourishes the Earth, and streams down from the stars. During calamitous points within the celestial cycle of time, life suffered greatly while attempting to adapt to the acute onslaught of cosmic rays. Like plants meticulously pruned for God’s garden, life was hardened off to withstand natural radiation. In contrast, the creatures and living beings of this world have never evolved in the synthetic electric and radiofrequency radiation that has enveloped the Earth for over a century. Picture a stack of four hundred coins, which symbolizes our human history of the past 100,000 years. The 400th coin represents everything that’s happened since the American Revolution.

This radiation affects biology in many ways, but most critical for bees is its interference with their metabolism. Radiofrequency affects the electron transport chain of the mitochondria, which is where the last, energy-producing step in metabolism takes place. Within this chain is where electrons generated by the sugars, fats and proteins we eat are transferred to the oxygen we breathe, resulting in the generation of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). Metabolic disruption affects bees more than other creatures because bees have such a high metabolic rate of electron transport in the mitochondria of cells. In short, radiofrequency deprives bees of energy by starving them of oxygen.

This phenomenon was proven in 2011 in a study entitled “Exposure to Cell Phone Radiations Produces Biochemical Changes in Worker Honey Bees.” These researchers exposed bees to an ordinary cell phone and sampled their hemolymph, a substance which transports nutrients to cells and tissues. After 10 minutes of exposure to a cell phone, the concentration of total carbohydrates in their hemolymph increased from 1.29 to 1.5 mg/ml. After 20 minutes it increased to 1.73 mg/ml. In other words, after just ten minutes of exposure to a cell phone, metabolism of sugars, fats and proteins was severely inhibited. If bees cannot metabolize their food they cannot fly. They will crawl on the ground and die.

For the geeks:

While in a cold shower after an intense workout the other night, I thought about the relationship between cold, light, oxygen, and heat. Cold exposure is the cool blue spark of our mitochondrial furnace, and the cold forces our cells to emit UV. As our mitochondria become energized they use UV light to deliver large amounts of direct electric current to oxygen.3 Recent research4 has discovered that our mitochondria are a literal oven, able to maintain a temperature that is 15° C (59° F) higher than our external environment! A clean light environment allows us to shovel more coal into our furnace. When surrounded by electrosmog that clouds the wavelengths of light only bees can see, Mother Nature can’t fuel her fire.

Colonies keep collapsing

The quickest way to destroy a bee hive is to put a wireless phone inside or beside it. In 2009, VP Sharma and Kumar5 placed two cell phones each — one in talk mode and one in listening mode in order to maintain the connection — in two of four hives. They turned them on at 11:00 in the morning for 15 minutes, and again at 3:00 in the afternoon for 15 minutes. They did this twice a week between February and April. As soon as the phones were turned on the bees would become quiet and still. During the course of three months fewer and fewer bees flew in and out of those two hives. The number of eggs laid by the queen declined from 546 to 145 per day. The area under brood declined from 2,866 to 760 square centimeters. Honey stores declined from 3,200 to 400 square centimeters. “At the end of the experiment there was neither honey, nor pollen nor brood nor bees in the colony resulting in complete loss of the colony,” wrote the authors.6

Sainudeen Pattazhy, a professor at Sree Narayana College, placed one cell phone inside each of six bee hives and turned the phone on for just ten minutes, once a day for ten days. While the phone was on, the bees became still. The egg-laying rate of the queen declined from 355 to 100 per day. After ten days no bees were left in any of the hives.

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“A 2011 study7 from Switzerland by Daniel Favre also demonstrates the effects of cell phones on honeybees. More than 80 sound recordings were taken from 5 different hives during February through June 2009. A cell phone was placed in the hives near the bees. When the cell phone was off, or on standby mode, the bees were not disturbed. When the cell phone was turned on, the effect was dramatic: within 25 to 40 minutes the sounds made by the bees increased in intensity and frequency, producing the “worker piping signal.” If the cell phone was turned off immediately, the bees calmed down within 2 or 3 minutes. If the cell phone was left on for 20 hours and then turned off, the piping signal continued for up to 12 hours more. The effect was consistent and repeatable. Worker piping usually indicates bees are preparing to leave the hive in a swarm.

Favre refers to another study done in India, where a mobile phone was kept continuously on near a beehive it resulted in collapse of the colony in 5 to 10 days, with the worker bees failing to return home. Starting in 2003–2004, bee colonies worldwide suddenly began to show symptoms of the so-called colony collapse disorder (CCD). This condition initially affects the worker bees, which desert the hive. The queen bee is usually abandoned in the hive with the young brood and with an abundance of honey, so that the colony can survive for a very short time. However, without the worker bee population, the colony becomes unsustainable and dies out. Never before have honeybees disappeared globally and at such a high rate.”

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Magnetic navigation: Earth’s GPS

All life depends on natural electric and magnetic fields for orientation and navigation through Earth’s atmosphere. Wireless technology introduces artificial fields that constantly change, and are much more powerful than the native electromagnetic spectrum. As a result animals become confused and fail to navigate back to their home environment. German biologist Ulrich Warnke author of Bees, Birds and Mankind: Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog’, reviews the science on the effects of electrosmog on orientation, navigation and communication in birds and in bees.

All insects possess cryptochromes in their eyes and brain, which function as magnetosensors under blue light (red light in the case of birds). Insects that are active in the dark seem to use a magnetite-based magnetic sense instead; this has been experimentally confirmed in bees, ants and termites. Warnke cites other experiments, which proved that an accumulation of bio-magnetite particles serve as receptors of the magnetic field. These iron granules are arranged in a band in the abdomen of the bee.

Honeybees respond to very small changes in the constant local geomagnetic field intensity.8 The maximum sensitivity of the bee to earth’s magnetic variations is around 26 nT (nanoTesla). The average TV generates a magnetic field that is 500 times more powerful at 1300 nT. Significantly amplifying the magnetic field compared to the normal biological range can cause a massive disruption in insect communication. Warnke found that if the field is amplified to 10 times that of the earth’s magnetic field, the colony swarms, away from its hive.

Electrical highways

When the ancient Greeks rubbed amber, they discovered frictional electricity. This discovery is one of man’s oldest observations and has lent its name to the entire electrical discipline (electron: Greek for amber). When two surfaces make contact on the molecular level, positive and negative charges are separated at the point of contact through charge transfer. Many such points are activated in a short space of time by friction. Animals can become statically highly charged through friction between air molecules and body tissue, especially in flight. To increase electrical and magnetic field strengths, animals have various aids such as protruding spikes on their wings.

Crowding the bees’ ancient superhighways with the traffic of electric current is a blindspot many environmentalists don’t see because they’re too busy whipping down main streets of data, ignoring the road signs of independent scientists.

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The Pesticide Myth

In October 2012, Harvard researchers setup 18 hives at three locations in Massachusetts. At each location, four hives were fed high fructose corn syrup laced with neonicotinoids (insecticides that act as nerve poisons), and two were left untouched. By the spring of 2013, researchers said half of the colonies treated with pesticides had abandoned their hives — the key symptom of CCD. The ones that were left weren't in good shape. Their honeybee clusters were very small and either lacked queen bees or developing bees, the study said.

There are a few issues with this study. While neonicotinoids are harmful to bees, they do not explain the entire picture behind colony collapse. Even though many bees may be exposed to pesticides, they typically do not feed on corn in the wild or are directly fed high fructose corn syrup. In 2017, a major German study9 found that flying insects had decreased over 75% in protected areas over the previous 27 years while ruling out climate change and pesticides.

The Harvard study also cannot explain why people in other areas without pesticide use are seeing a rapid increase in colony collapse. is a naturalist living on the island of Samos, Greece. She has been recording her observations about animal and plant life there since the 1990s. Beginning in 2017, Kordas published detailed observations on the stages of decline in bird life, insect life, and forests on Samos and throughout Greece that have accompanied the stages of the rollout of wireless communications, from 2G to 5G:

“On our 3.5 acre piece of land on the island of Samos, we have seen a dramatic decrease of insects between 2012 and 2021. Some species of insects may be extinct and several species appear to be suffering from DNA damage.

The area where we live had little wireless radiation until 2016, when 4G networks were installed on Samos and many new cell towers were built, at which time insects and birds began to decline noticeably. A tipping-point was reached in the summer of 2021, after the installation of a new 5G cell tower directly opposite the land. This cell tower is part of a new 5G network on Samos.

Since July 2021, when the 5G network on Samos went live, insects on our land have declined between 80-90% depending on species. All orders of insects are affected. The cause of these insect declines can only be RF radiation from the cell towers. No pesticides are used in this area and nothing else can account for the sudden, severe drop in the number of insects in this place since July 2021. Small mammals, especially rodents, are also declining rapidly.

The consequences of these declines will be far-reaching: this will affect wild plant diversity, agriculture and beekeeping. Worse, they may lead to crop failures and mass bee colony collapse respectively. Insect-eating birds will decline dramatically and may go extinct.

Frequency (i.e., wavelength) appears to be a more important factor than signal strength (power) in insect declines. Greece is using the 0.7 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 22.5 GHz bandwidths; the last of which is often classed as millimeter waves. Wherever 5G signals are present, insects have declined, whether these areas are near to or far from cell towers. Samos is rapidly losing most of its insects including its pollinators.”

Mini bee mini me

Ms. Kordas has also noticed four kinds of DNA damage and developmental abnormalities to insects where she lives: damaged wings, deformity, a marked change in the ratio of males to females, and insects becoming miniature versions of themselves. When DNA damage produces heritable mutations10 damage passes on from one generation to the next. In the summer of 2023, swallowtail butterflies and carpenter bees produced miniature versions of themselves. The miniature versions of the carpenter bee appeared to be perfect, but were about 50-66% smaller than normal.

The miniature versions of the carpenter bee appeared to be perfect, but were about 50-66% smaller than normal. Since that summer Ms. Kordas has not observed any swallowtails or carpenter bees on the island. Kordas also speculates that the same miniaturization phenomenon is happening to humans, with babies born increasingly small in her neighborhood. This is anecdotal, however I have also noticed that newer North American generations of men and women tend to be shorter and smaller, with thinner wrists and diminutive foreheads. While a processed diet and malnutrition can certainly affect bone structure, chronic stress from EMF can disrupt normal levels of human growth hormone by persistently raising cortisol.

Crop Failures and Low Yields

We don’t need a Ph.D. in biology to understand that without the bees, there is no pollination, no food, and starvation. Robotic bees will not solve the problem, they will add to the catastrophe of radiation already silently unfolding.

Kordas has found:

“Everyone, including us, had problems with pollination this year, and crop yields were way, way down. Normally our summer beds produce a lot more eggplants, peppers, tomatoes and melons than we can possibly eat; we give some away and freeze large quantities for winter. This year we barely produced enough for ourselves, despite having extended the beds and put in far more plants than usual. I planted and replanted tomatoes of five varieties, over 60 plants in all. We barely produced enough tomatoes to have a few salads, for many plants yielded no more than one or two tomatoes. The problem wasn’t the plants, which produced scores of blossoms. The tomato blossoms were not being pollinated.

Home is where the hive is

While there may not be any Superman coming to save us or the bees from extinction - there is a man who has been coming to the rescue of our fuzzy little friends. In 2016, Derek Condit embarked on an innovative and pioneering endeavor known as the Shungite Beehive Project, merging his extensive knowledge of treatment-free beekeeping with the distinctive energetic properties of shungite. Once Derek integrated shungite into the structure of the hive, he has not had any instances of colony collapse. Here are one of Derek’s hives:

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Shungite is a rare carbon-based mineral known for its high conductivity and unique molecular structure, and has long been studied for its ability to interact with various energy fields. By incorporating Shungite strategically within the hive environment, a protective energetic barrier is created that helps reduce electromagnetic stress and harmonize an otherwise toxic environment. Shungite also contains carbon 60, a biocompatible molecule that resonates in form and function with the hexagonal structure of the hive. I’m always leery when I hear the words “harmonize” in the world of EMF protection, but in the case of shungite, nature approves. In our upcoming podcast with Derek, he’ll discuss how and why bees don’t shun it.

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Derek also recently started The National Beekeeper Emergency Response Network, a nonprofit organization that is mobilizing first response citizens and beekeepers all over the world to deal with catastrophes like the recent tragic accident that occurred in Washington state. On May 30th, a semi-truck carrying over 300 beehives resulted in the loss and endangerment of an estimated 14 million honey bees. This event was devastating. Despite the well-meaning efforts of bystanders, there was no clear plan, no organized team ready to respond, and no centralized resource to call upon for help. By putting a national framework in place, many of these emergency situations may be prevented.

The rest of our podcast with Derek will be released this Friday, June 20th! Here’s a snippet of our buzzing conversation:

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The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), a small songbird known for its bright orange breast, undertakes one of nature’s most remarkable journeys each year. Breeding in forests and gardens across Europe and western Asia during the summer, these birds migrate southward in autumn to wintering grounds in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, and even as far as the Middle East. Some populations travel over 2,000 kilometers, crossing seas, mountains, and deserts with astonishing precision. This migration often occurs at night, under overcast skies where stars and landmarks are obscured, yet the robins consistently find their way.

How do they achieve this feat? For decades, scientists have been puzzled over the robins’ navigational prowess. They use a combination of cues: the sun for daytime orientation, stars at night, and even olfactory signals. But one key tool stands out—the ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field, a phenomenon known as magnetoreception. This “sixth sense” allows them to detect the planet’s geomagnetic lines, providing a reliable compass even in total darkness.

This avian superpower highlights a deeper frontier: quantum biology, the emerging field showing how quantum mechanical effects play roles in living systems. In 1944, physicist Erwin Schrödinger pondered in his influential book What Is Life? the idea of negentropy—how order arises from disorder—in biology, hinting that quantum principles might underpin life’s stability and complexity. Decades later, books like Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden’s Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (2014) brought these ideas into the mainstream, documenting evidence that phenomena like quantum tunneling, coherence, and entanglement operate in processes from photosynthesis to enzyme reactions—and, crucially, in magnetoreception.

A major breakthrough came in understanding the role of a protein called cryptochrome, specifically cryptochrome 4 (Cry4), found in the retinas of migratory birds like the European robin. Cry4 is not distributed evenly across the retina — it concentrates in the double cone and long-wavelength single cone photoreceptors, the cells most active under daylight conditions. It is also constitutively expressed, meaning its levels stay steady across the day-night cycle, unlike the cryptochromes that drive circadian rhythms and rise and fall with the clock. Discovered through genetic and biochemical studies, Cry4 is light-sensitive and forms the basis of the bird's magnetic compass, which is always switched on.

When blue light (from sunlight or skylight) hits the bird’s retina, it excites electrons in the cryptochrome molecule. This excitation triggers an electron transfer from one part of the molecule to another, creating short-lived radical pairs—pairs of molecules with unpaired electrons.

This compass is not like a traditional magnetic needle that points to magnetic north based on the polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field. Instead, it’s an inclination compass. Earth’s magnetic field resembles that of a giant bar magnet tilted slightly from the planet’s rotational axis.

Field lines form continuous closed loops: they emerge from the surface near the magnetic South Pole (close to the geographic South Pole) in Antarctica and re-enter near the magnetic North Pole (close to the geographic North Pole) in the Arctic, curving through the atmosphere and dipping into the ground at varying angles. Near the equator, those lines run nearly parallel to the surface; near the poles, they point almost straight down. What the robin reads is not which end of the field line is North, but the angle at which those lines intersect the Earth’s surface. The robin reads the inclination, (the angle) of the field, as it tilts towards the Earth, which tells the robin if it’s heading towards the equator or the poles.

Experimental evidence supports the existence of this mechanism. In classic studies, researchers fitted European robins with small magnets on their heads or beaks, disrupting the local magnetic field. The birds became disoriented, hopping randomly in test cages instead of aligning toward their migratory direction. Blindfolding experiments further confirmed the eye’s involvement: covering both eyes or even just the right eye (which processes magnetic information in many species) eliminated the birds’ ability to orient magnetically. In one notable setup, robins wore goggles with clear lenses on one eye and frosted ones on the other; they oriented correctly only when the clear lens allowed sharp vision in the right eye, underscoring that magnetoreception is intertwined with visual processing.

For decades, scientists dismissed the idea that such weak fields—Earth’s geomagnetic field is only about 0.3 to 0.6 Gauss—could influence biology. Conventional wisdom held that magnetic fields needed to be far stronger to affect chemical reactions or cellular processes, as they don’t generate heat or directly break bonds. Yet behavioral data from robins and other migrants proved otherwise, leading to the radical pair mechanism as the explanatory framework.

To understand how this compass works at the molecular level, you first need to understand what makes quantum mechanics categorically different from the physics most people learned in school.

The Quantum Rabbit Hole

In classical physics—the physics of billiard balls, and falling apples—every object has a definite state at all times. A coin is either heads or tails. An electron is either spinning up or spinning down. We might not know which, but it is one or the other. Quantum mechanics breaks this assumption. Before measurement, a quantum particle doesn’t merely have an unknown state, it has no definite state. It exists in a superposition: genuinely both possibilities at once, each with a calculable probability. The act of measurement, or any interaction with the surrounding environment, forces a resolution. The particle “chooses.” Before that moment, the choice hasn’t happened yet.

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This applies directly to electron spin. Each electron carries a property called spin—not literal rotation, but an intrinsic magnetic quality that can be oriented either “up” or “down” relative to an external magnetic field. Two electrons interacting under the right conditions can become entangled: their spin states become linked into a single shared quantum state, such that any interaction that forces one electron to resolve instantly forces the other to resolve in a correlated way—opposite or aligned, depending on their shared state—regardless of the distance between them.

Einstein called this ‘spooky action at a distance’ and spent the final years of his life convinced it meant quantum theory was incomplete—that some hidden variable we hadn’t measured yet was pulling the strings. He died in 1955 still unconvinced. Nine years later, physicist John Bell devised a mathematical test that could settle the question. The experiments it spawned ruled out Einstein’s hidden variables and confirmed entanglement as a genuine feature of nature—not an artifact or a gap in the theory.

Entanglement is one consequence of a deeper property: superposition, which is when quantum objects are in multiple states and multiple places at the same time. Superposition is only useful if it survives long enough to do something, and that is only possible when a system is coherent.

A quantum system is coherent when its wave-like nature—its ability to exist in multiple states at once—remains intact. The moment any information about the system’s actual state leaks into the surrounding environment, coherence is destroyed. This is the observer effect: not that a conscious mind must be watching, but that any physical interaction capable of revealing which state the system is in forces a resolution.

Decoherence is what happens when that interaction with the environment is fast and irreversible—the environment effectively “measures” the quantum system through it’s interaction with it, and the ability to exist in multiple states at once is gone.

For most of the 20th century, physicists assumed that quantum effects like entanglement and coherent superposition were strictly laboratory phenomena—fragile states that only survived at temperatures near absolute zero.

The reason is thermal energy. At any temperature above absolute zero, molecules are in constant motion, colliding and vibrating. Each collision is a physical interaction—and as we’ve just seen, physical interactions leak state information and force resolution. Every bump is, in effect, an unintended measurement. Near absolute zero, that molecular motion slows almost to a stop, and a coherent quantum state can survive. At body temperature, 37°C, the cellular environment is warm, wet, and turbulent—thousands of collisions happening each microsecond, each one capable of leaking state information and collapsing the superposition. The standard view was that biology was simply too noisy to sustain the coherence that quantum mechanics required.

That assumption fell apart in 2007, when researchers discovered that photosynthetic bacteria maintain quantum coherence across their light-harvesting complexes at room temperature—and that this coherence is what allows them to route energy with near-perfect efficiency. In classical physics, energy would diffuse through the complex randomly, hopping from molecule to molecule like a blind rat trying to escape from a maze—trying each path sequentially, wasting time on dead ends. Under quantum coherence, the energy spreads as a superposition across all available pathways simultaneously.

The energy finds the most efficient route not by trying each option in turn, but by sampling all of them at once in what is called a quantum walk. Imagine going for a walk in the morning, and instead of randomly turning left down a side street, you’re able to turn down all streets in your neighborhood. If you lose your partner along your journey, not only would they possibly be found around the corner, they’d probably be found everywhere. The spiritual implication is that no matter where you go, there you are - in the center of your heart’s wandering. The catch? These walks can be easily disrupted by decoherence. This means that if you and your partner get into an argument along your walk, it may be much harder to find them when they purposefully get “lost.”

In computing, quantum walks are used to create complex algorithms for search engines. In biology, the implications are vast. Our best understanding as to how quantum walks support life is when we observe the behavior of scaffold proteins, which are crucial regulators of many key cell signalling pathways. Scaffolding surrounding biochemical reaction sites appears to buffer the system from decoherence long enough for life’s critical processes to work. In a sense, there is no weak link in the chain in the relay race of the quantum walk - only until decoherence arrives.

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The good news? Coherence doesn’t need to be permanent. It only needs to survive as long as the process it’s driving, which brings us to this article’s destination: the magnetic compass of migratory birds.

Cryptochrome—the light-sensitive protein in the robin’s retina we met earlier—contains molecules that are primed to absorb blue light. When a photon of the right wavelength arrives, its energy is absorbed by an electron, kicking it out of its stable orbit into a higher-energy state. That energized electron transfers to a neighboring molecule within the protein, leaving behind an unpaired electron where it started and creating a new unpaired electron in the molecule it moved to.

Each molecule with an unpaired electron is called a radical—not in the colloquial sense, but in the chemical one: a molecule missing its electron partner, which makes it highly reactive and magnetically sensitive in ways a stable, paired molecule is not. These two radicals, held in close proximity within the protein’s structure, now share a quantum relationship: their unpaired electrons are entangled with their spins part of a single quantum state.

Each unpaired electron can be spin-up or spin-down. When the two electrons’ spins are opposed—one up, one down—the pair is in what physicists call the singlet state. When they’re aligned—both up or both down—it’s the triplet state. Think of it like two coins in mid-flip. Classical physics says each coin is already heads or tails at any given point. Quantum mechanics says each coin is genuinely both at once. Entanglement means the coins are linked: however they land, they’ll always land opposite (singlet) or always the same (triplet). Before they land, the radical pair oscillates between these two correlated possibilities, as the superposition continuously shifts between singlet and triplet. This oscillation is called singlet-triplet mixing.

In the singlet state, rules of quantum spin permit recombination—the excited electron that had moved to a higher energy state by the blue wavelengths of light returns to ground state, releasing the energy originally deposited, often as a faint biophoton: the molecular reverse of the absorption event that started the whole process.

In the triplet state, that recombination is spin-forbidden; the parallel electron spins make snapping back together impossible, so the pair persists long enough to react with surrounding molecules and yield different downstream products.

Whether the pair eventually recombines back into a single molecule or reacts to generate a new chemical products depends on which state it occupies at the moment of resolution. The ratio of those outcomes—recombines versus reaction—is what the bird’s nervous system reads as directional information.

Earth’s magnetic field enters through a phenomenon called the Zeeman effect. In the presence of a magnetic field, what were identical energy levels for each spin orientation get split apart—spins aligned with the field settle at slightly lower energy while spins opposing it sit slightly higher. For the radical pair, this means the variants of the triplet state¹ no longer sit at exactly the same energy as each other or as the singlet. That differential is miniscule but real, and changes how easily the system oscillates between singlet and triplet bias, tilting the odds toward one outcome or the other.

The geomagnetic field is weak—fractions of a Gauss, far below what any thermal model would consider biologically meaningful—but it doesn’t need to be strong, it only needs to shift those energy levels enough to change the probability of each outcome. Because the radical pair remains coherent long enough (microseconds) for this change in energy to accumulate before decoherence forces a resolution, that small modulation changes how often the cryptochrome recombines versus how often it generates something new. The angle and strength of the field determine the direction and magnitude of the shift. Different orientations relative to Earth’s field lines produce different ratios of products. The retina reads those chemical ratios as directional information — perhaps as a subtle shading of the visual field, a gradient that brightens or dims as the bird turns.

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What the radical pair mechanism reveals is that power level is simply the wrong metric. The compass doesn’t respond to intensity—it responds to information: the direction of the Zeeman tilt, the angle of the field relative to the molecule, the steady pressure of Earth’s static and unipolar geomagnetic field holding the energy levels in a consistent offset. An artificial AC field at 50-60 Hz isn’t a weaker version of that. It flips polarity dozens of times per second, reversing the Zeeman energy level splitting with each cycle rather than holding a steady tilt—first pushing the triplet states one way, then the other, before the radical pair has resolved. The perturbation isn’t just different in degree, it’s a different signal altogether.

The problem runs deeper than that. The radical pair is a resonant system, and a resonant system responds to inputs that match its natural rhythm and ignores almost everything else.

What is resonance?

Whether we absorb sunlight or Wi-Fi, resonance is the process by which a field of a particular frequency or wavelength can transfer vibrational energy from one object to another. This energy transference is not always to our benefit, as in the case of synthetic radiation. An example of resonance is pushing a child on a swing. At appropriate intervals, the pushes cause the child to swing higher and higher, similar to a pendulum. At a certain frequency, even tiny rhythmic driving forces like these can build up to produce strong vibrations because the system (the swing or our body) accumulates and stores each applied pulse of energy.

A child on a swing goes higher when pushed at the right moment in the arc and barely moves when pushed at the wrong one — the energy delivered matters less than whether it arrives in sync.

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Food is cooked in a microwave by the same law of resonance. The energy pulsations occur at 2.45 GHz (2.5 billion times per second), which is enough to heat the food by violently oscillating its water molecule. Think of it like those pirate boats at the amusement park that go upside down, but at warp speed.

For the radical pair mentioned above, three variables have to align at once. The intensity of the field has to sit inside a window where it’s strong enough to tilt the energy levels but not so strong that it overwhelms the internal magnetic interactions the electrons are already reading. Too weak and the effect doesn’t register. Too strong and the external field drowns out the signal the chemistry is tuned to, locking the spins in place. The windows repeat — effects appear at specific intensities, vanish at intermediate ones, and reappear higher up, in patterns that don’t follow from the magnitude of the dose.

The frequency of the field has to match the rhythm at which the electron spins naturally oscillate — the internal clock of the singlet-triplet mixing we’ve already described. The orientation has to hit the molecule at the right angle relative to its axis. Miss any of those three and nothing happens. Hit all three and the resonance lines up, then the chemical reactions follow. It’s a lock-and-key arrangement, and the key has to be cut on three axes, not one.

Ross Adey documented the behavioral signature of this in the 1970s and 80s and called them amplitude windows: specific combinations of frequency and power that produced measurable cellular effects, flanked by ranges where nothing happened at all. Classical toxicology assumes a ladder — ten units of a toxin is bad, a hundred units is ten times worse. The radical pair mechanism doesn’t climb a ladder; it finds a window or misses it. A field at ten times the intensity can produce less biological response than a field at one-tenth, because the stronger field has blown past the resonance that made the quantum effect possible.

There’s a second asymmetry layered on top. An overwhelming signal triggers the cell’s stress response — antioxidant systems upregulate, ion channels throttle, the cell notices it’s being hit and pushes back. A signal sitting inside an Adey window produces an effect without producing an alarm. The singlet-triplet ratio shifts a little. No heat is generated, no acute damage is done, and no defensive response is mounted. The perturbation accumulates in silence. Andrew Marino documented the downstream consequence in rodents across multiple generations: chronic low-level exposure produced more severe outcomes than higher-intensity exposure, with biological effects that rose and fell in ways that had nothing to do with dose size.

This is why the electromagnetic safety paradigm built around thermal energy thresholds for the wireless industry keeps arriving at the wrong answers. The European robin’s magnetic compass doesn’t operate by absorbing energy. It operates by reading probability—quantum probabilities, shaped by a field geometry that took millions of years of evolution to calibrate to. The same physics that guides a 12-gram bird across the Mediterranean at night is running inside every cell that contains water, unpaired electrons, and radical-forming proteins. Whether artificial fields perturb that chemistry in ways that matter for human health remains an open question. But asking whether those fields are powerful enough to cause harm is asking the wrong question entirely

Or Maybe Not? The Other Compass

Well, this is one possible mechanism at least - the best explanation we have for how Earth’s geomagnetic field registers inside a living cell. There’s another one. Where the radical pair mechanism is strange and quantum and almost philosophical, this one is almost reassuringly physical.

Magnetite—a permanent magnetic mineral—forms inside the bodies of migratory birds as biogenic crystals, meaning the bird grows them deliberately, organized into long chains that maximize their sensitivity to magnetic fields. When the bird moves through a region of stronger or weaker field, those crystals physically shift. That movement pulls open ion channels in nearby nerve cells, which fire, feeding information to the brain. No entanglement, no spin states, no wave functions: just a tiny magnet attached to a biological gate.

For a long time, the beak was the suspected location—clusters of iron-rich cells were found there and assumed to be the sensors. In 2012 researchers discovered those cells were mostly macrophages: immune cells recycling iron, not sensory neurons. The prime suspect was eliminated. But the nerve servicing that region — the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal — was not.

Lesion and electrophysiology studies show the trigeminal nerve carries magnetic intensity information to the brain regardless of what the beak cells turned out to be. Current attention has shifted to two candidates: a structure in the inner ear called the lagena, and the trigeminal system itself, with specific areas of the brainstem showing neural responses to changes in magnetic intensity. The sensory neuron itself—the specific cell where magnetite does its work—has not been conclusively identified. Finding a nanoscale magnetic crystal in a body full of iron for other reasons turns out to be its own kind of problem.

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The clearest evidence that this system exists at all came from a simple experiment: expose a migratory bird to a brief, intense magnetic pulse—strong enough to flip the polarity of any magnetite crystals in its body—and watch what it does. The birds didn’t get confused, they reversed course. Something physical in the bird was being reprogrammed, and the bird was flying accordingly. What that something is, precisely where it sits in the birds anatomy, and how it communicates with the brain remains, to put it charitably, an open question.

The radical pair mechanism and the magnetite system may both be real, operating in parallel, each contributing different information—inclination from the eye, intensity and position from the inner ear—assembled somewhere in the brainstem into a coherent map. The compass tells the bird which way the field tilts; the map tells it where on the field it currently sits. A bird crossing the Mediterranean at night needs both: heading without position is a direction with no destination, position without heading is a location with no way out.

However the picture may be more complicated. Decades of research into one of the most elegant navigation systems in nature and we are still, in the most literal sense, trying to find the sensor of light while flying in the night.

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Let us set the above example against what our regulatory institutions have been willing to assert with confidence. The FCC’s safety framework for non-ionizing radiation was largely settled in 1996. The position it encodes—that low-power electromagnetic fields pose no biological risk below thermal thresholds—has not substantively changed since.

Let us consider what we have learned about migratory birds alone: that Earth’s geomagnetic field, measured in fractions of a Gauss, may be detected by a quantum mechanism so sensitive that the field’s angle relative to a molecule determines which chemistry happens inside a living cell. That the dose-response relationship governing that mechanism does not scale with intensity. That a second sensing system almost certainly exists and we cannot locate the cell from which it operates.

We don’t fully understand how a bird finds its way across a continent using a field that regulatory bodies have been treating as biologically inert. The certainty that low-level electromagnetic fields have no effect on human biology is not a scientific position. It’s a political one. Those are very different things.

In 2014, a study arrived that made the abstract argument above concrete. Henrik Mouritsen and colleagues at the University of Oldenburg noticed that robins on their urban campus were simply failing to orient—not because of anything the researchers were doing, but apparently because of the electromagnetic environment of the city itself. When the birds were placed inside aluminum-screened huts acting as Faraday cages, blocking ambient radiofrequency noise from electronic devices and AM radio signals in the 50 kHz to 5 MHz range, their magnetic compass worked normally.

When the shielding was grounded—allowing the background radiation back in—orientation failed immediately. The fields responsible were orders of magnitude below any thermal threshold. They weren’t heating tissue or breaking molecular bonds, they were generating enough noise to disrupt the quantum coherence the radical pair mechanism depends on. A bird that had navigated by Earth’s geomagnetic field for millions of years of evolution was being jammed by the ambient emissions of a university town.

We built the power grid before we knew any of this. We expanded it at every frequency we could license before the science caught up. The robin has been navigating Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years, its cells calibrated by evolution to read electromagnetic information that we are only beginning to understand. The institutions telling us that low-level electromagnetic fields pose no biological risk have been saying so since 1996, on the basis of a thermal model built on a single finding: the power level at which food-deprived monkeys stopped pressing levers for food pellets².

Evolution does not have a regulatory capture problem. It does not have a budget cycle, a lobbying arm, or a revolving door with the industries it oversees. It has had millions of years to find out what works. The robin’s compass is the result. Our safety standards are not.

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¹ Full disclosure: I’d be lying if I claimed to fully understand the T₀ (mixed triplet) state myself. The “mixed” triplet has one electron spin-up and one spin-down — the same arrangement as the singlet, on the surface. The difference lives entirely in the underlying quantum mathematics: singlet and triplet describe not just which spins are present but how the two electrons’ wave functions combine. In the singlet, the combination is antisymmetric — the electrons are in a kind of quantum opposition. In the mixed triplet (T₀), the combination is symmetric — they are in quantum alignment, despite looking identical to the singlet if you only count spins. Quantum spin rules treat these as fundamentally different states with different chemical behavior, even though no plain-English description of spin-up and spin-down can capture why. I’m including this for completeness and accuracy. Honestly, it sounds a little insane to me too. Welcome to quantum mechanics.

²The studies were conducted in the 1980s on food-deprived monkeys exposed to microwave frequencies during 60-minute sessions. Researchers measured the SAR at which the animals reduced their lever-pressing rate for food rewards. That threshold — ranging across experiments from roughly 3.2 to 8.4 W/kg — was divided by a safety factor of 10 and became the 4 W/kg benchmark the FCC adopted in 1996. It has not been substantively revised since. The studies measured acute behavioral disruption from tissue heating. They were not designed to detect non-thermal effects, chronic exposures, or quantum-level perturbations of any kind. (No one asked whether the monkeys could navigate!)

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Foundational Quantum Biology

• Al-Khalili, J., & McFadden, J. (2014). Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology. Crown. (Mainstream overview of quantum tunneling, coherence, and entanglement in biological systems).

• Schrödinger, E. (1944). What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press. https://www.physik.uni-kl.de/eggert/statmech/what-is-life.pdf (The theoretical origin of quantum influence on biological stability).

The Radical Pair Mechanism & Cryptochrome (The Compass)

• Hore, P. J., & Mouritsen, H. (2016). “The Radical-Pair Mechanism of Magnetoreception.” Annual Review of Biophysics, 45, 299-344. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-biophys-032116-094545 (The definitive review of how electron spin and singlet-triplet mixing function in the bird’s eye).

• Ritz, T., Adem, S., & Schulten, K. (2000). “A Model for Photoreceptor-Based Magnetoreception in Birds.” Biophysical Journal, 78(2), 707-718. https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(00)76629-X (The original paper proposing the cryptochrome-based radical pair mechanism).

• Rodgers, C. T., & Hore, P. J. (2009). “Chemical magnetoreception: Bird navigation and entangled spins.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 106(2), 353-360. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0711968106 (The mathematical proof for how the Zeeman effect modulates chemical signals in radical pairs).

• Xu, J., et al. (2021). “Magnetic sensitivity of Drosophila and robin cryptochromes.” Nature, 594, 535-540. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03618-9 (The study confirming Cry4 in robins is specifically optimized for magnetic sensing).

• Wiltschko, W., & Wiltschko, R. (1972). “Magnetic Compass of European Robins.” Science, 176(4030), 62-64. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.176.4030.62 (The original study proving birds use an inclination compass rather than a polarity compass).

The Magnetite System & The “Beak” Plot Twist (The Map)

• Treiber, C. D., et al. (2012). “Clusters of iron-rich cells in the upper beak of pigeons are macrophages not magnetite-based receptors.” Nature, 484, 367-370. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11046 (The pivotal study that debunked the previous “beak-sensor” consensus).

• Wiltschko, W., et al. (2002). “Magnetic pulse effects on the orientation of migratory birds.” Journal of Experimental Biology, 205(16), 2367-2373. https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/205/16/2367/11690/Magnetic-orientation-of-migratory-birds (Evidence that a physical magnetic material, capable of being flipped, exists in birds).

Biological Coherence & Efficiency

• Engel, G. S., et al. (2007). “Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems.” Nature, 446, 782-786. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05678 (The “collapsed assumption” study regarding room-temperature quantum coherence).

EMF Effects, Regulatory History, and Non-Linear Dose Responses

• de Lorge, J. O. (1984). “Operant behavior and colonic temperature of Macaca mulatta exposed to radiofrequency fields.” Bioelectromagnetics, 5(2), 233-246. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.2250050210 (The foundational research for FCC safety standards measuring behavioral disruption and heating in monkeys).

• Engels, S., et al. (2014). “Anthropogenic electromagnetic noise disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird.” Nature, 509, 353-356. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13290 (Evidence that low-level “electrosmog” jams the quantum compass of European robins).

• Marino, A. A., et al. (1976). “The effect of continuous exposure to low frequency electric fields on three generations of mice: a pilot study.” Experientia, 32(5), 565-566. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1278293/ (The landmark research on non-linear biological responses to weak electromagnetic fields).

Neural Pathways & Vision

• Heyers, D., et al. (2007). “A Visual Pathway Links Brain Structures Active during Magnetic Compass Orientation in Migratory Birds.” PLoS ONE, 2(9), e937. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000937 (Identification of “Cluster N” as the brain region processing magnetic information from the eye).

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1. How can we build melanin in our brain?

2. How does melanin synthesis occur?

3. Epigenetic impacts on neurodegeneration

4. Why are rates of neurodegeneration increasing?

5. How blue light depletes dopamine

6. Five ways we can prevent neurodegeneration

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Buried deep within the cavern of our brain stands a door to everlasting vitality. There is no lock, only the will to walk right through. Many turn their backs upon reaching the threshold, donning black mirrors of sunglasses to avert their gaze, intimidated by the dark mystery contained within. Once inside, this cave of fear becomes our friend, as its dim walls protect us with warmth. The walls of this inner sanctum are coated with a holy black tar that absorbs light from the cosmos so that we may feast for all eternity at the dining halls of the Divine.

This substance is called neuromelanin, and is a dark black-brown pigment that soaks up light so that we may live, just as the leaves of a plant drink in the Sun so that it may bear fruit. Each of us was painted by God with a different brush. Some of us have more layers of protective melanin paint in our bodies that will determine if we will thrive in the mountains or the beach. Those of us who have pale skin, and are of Northern European descent, have less melanin on our skin than someone who has darker skin. However, concentrations of neuromelanin remain fairly consistent among all races, with women having more than men.1

Our neuromelanin is located within the substantia nigra, which in Latin means “black substance.” Similar to the melanin pigment of our skin, neuromelanin absorbs ultraviolet light, which helps us quell inflammation with the biological by-product of heat generated within our cells. This area of the brain also binds to metal ions in the body like iron, forming a stable complex that can eventually be excreted. Individuals with Parkinson’s (PD) are not able to metabolize iron effectively2, which would indicate low levels of neuromelanin. Since an artificial light environment has been correlated with PD, and neuromelanin’s role is to absorb light, we can induce that a natural light environment holds the key.

How do we build melanin in our brain?

The same pathway that builds our skin can be applied here. Research has 3 shown that melanin levels in the skin are increased under the presence of ultraviolet and red wavelengths of light. When we expose ourselves to UV, we build what calls our solar callus. It’s time to callus our brain, so we can deal with the harsh reality of our light environment. Since we’re constantly bathing in many invisible frequencies of light from wireless devices, along with our skies being coated with a primer of aluminum, we need to harness and build the most efficient solar panel within our bodies: melanin.

Have you ever wondered why our pupil is black? For the same reason our substantia nigra is also black, and why darker races live in areas of higher solar exposure. Black absorbs all light.

How does melanin synthesis occur?

We may make serotonin in our gut, but digestion begins in our skin and eyes.

Serotonin requires tryptophan, which is created when we absorb ultraviolet (UV) light. Serotonin ultimately creates melatonin. Similarly, our bodies also require UV so that we can create melanin. Our thyroid hormones, along with crucial “feel-good” neurotransmitters like dopamine are derived from tyrosine, which we also absorb under UV light.

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As you can see in the picture below by photobiologist (light scientist) Alexander Wunsch, our pituitary, thyroid, thymus, pancreas, and adrenals all require UV light to function properly.

Why is neurodegeneration increasing?

Alzheimer's Disease International predicts that there will be about 135 million cases worldwide by 2050 — up from 44 million cases today.

Is it because we’re all “getting older?”

The World Health Organization (WHO) may want you to think so.

They predict that by 2040, as many developed countries' populations get older, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's disease will overtake cancer to become the second leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease.4

Or is our environment staying the same age?

The study of epigenetics has shown that 95-99% of all disease is based on how our environment turns certain genes on and off. Only 1-5% of diseases have a pure, unchangeable genetic component.

I hear it all the time: “My grandmother had cancer, my mother had cancer, therefore there’s a good chance I’ll probably have it.” If you stay in the same house, eat the same food, and consume toxic amounts of programming, this could surely be the case. The good news is that we can all be mindful of, and adapt to our environments by removing devices, and physically moving to different locations that may have a stronger, more healing magnetic field.

Why are we “older” than our ancestors?

Before the Industrial Age and the advent of electricity, neurodegenerative disease was extremely rare. Today, many of our fathers and grandfathers have sat in front of screens that emit blue light, instead of a regenerative red-lit fire. Before the 1800s, the only factor that shifted melatonin levels wasn’t a screen, but the light of the moon.5

Desensitization = Neurodegeneration

As it turns out blue light spikes our dopamine, making us feel good in the moment, however we then gradually become less sensitive to dopamine, requiring more than before. Blue light also destroys our ability to make melanin and melatonin, which then doesn’t allow us to make enough dopamine as well.

Could it be that we aren’t “getting older”, but instead are losing our ability to create the hormones that tied us to our ancestral health?

Five ways we can decrease neurodegeneration

1️⃣ Get a tan. This will increase your ability to make melanin. We will cover how to incrementally build your solar callus in future articles.

2️⃣ Wear your glasses at night. If you need to be in front of screens after sunset, you can wear amber-red colored glasses from Ra Optics, or even cheaper ones like Uvex, to limit blue light damage and support melatonin release.

3️⃣ Dress up with no place to go. Our skin also has photoreceptors that absorb blue light, and this is why I wear a scarf when in front a computer. Silk optional. Keep in mind that your thyroid regulates hormones, and this is located close to the skin right on your neck, which is in firing range of blue wavelengths.

4️⃣ Relax in the red light district. There’s nothing better than coming back not to a house, but a home that exudes calm. That’s why we turn our place into a palace of red light at night. We light up a candle or two (beeswax for extra points as these generate negative ions and clean the air), and saturate our abode with red lights like those from SaunaSpace!* Red light therapy has been proven to decrease inflammation and support dopamine production naturally.6

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5️⃣ Depending on our age and chronotype, our circadian rhythms may vary. Some of us may stay up later at night. If that’s the case, we encourage you to see the sunset, as this will help you wind down into the evening, rather than being an anxious sundowner full of excess energy. One of the many photoreceptors contained within our eyes and skin is melanopsin, which is particularly sensitive to the absorption of blue light (435nm - 480nm) and will communicate this light frequency to our central clock: the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which then times melatonin release. I equate these melanopsin receptors to our brain’s dimmer switch.

As the sun descends into sleep and the light fades into another’s hopeful horizon, melanopsin comes and sets a curfew for young and all. As the curtain call of night fades away, we set the stage for another day. Let us paint the black door of night with our inner light.

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