Topic: Common Food Allergies and EMFs - Are they related?
tailz
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I have trouble believing that the body, even with Lyme Disease, would start rejecting food and essentially nutrition unless it was crucial for survival - as if we were in danger.
I was looking up both high copper and high iron foods, and this is what I found...
high iron foods include:
eggs, wheat, oats, soy, nuts, seeds, beans, potatoes, chocolate, seafood, molasses, brewer's yeast, dates, raisins - to name a few.
note: citrus fruits increase iron absorption.
high copper foods include:
grains, soy, nuts, seeds, beans, chocolate - to name a few.
I can't eat any of these. There are others, too, but too many to list.
Are we essentially developing food allergies to prevent ourselves from being the perfect 'conductors' for all the emfs around us since copper and iron conduct?
I honestly think my problem now is electromagnetic sensitivity or radiowave sickness, more so than Lyme.
I even went to www.antennasearch.com, plugged in some addresses of places I shop, and discovered I feel worse when I'm in a high cell phone tower or high antenna area. I also feel worse sitting at the computer or when I'm on the telephone. Until my hair dries after my shower, too.
If it's super sunny and damp or humid, I feel worse, too - water conducts, too.
If our problem is EMFs, no antibiotic will ever get rid of our Lyme or candida. I think we all need to start paying attention to what we eat, where we go, and how we feel - then start bringing up this possibility to our doctors.
I think this is why the honeybees are disappearing, too.
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What I have heard is that in the presence of EMFs, fungus grows at over 1000 times the normal rate. So if you are in EMFs, this leads to fungal overgrowth. This leads to leaky gut. This leads to food allergies. It seems to be a logical series of events to me if one believes that EMFs cause fungal growth to be exponential which I have heard both Dr. K and Dr. LC suggest at recent conferences.
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Wow, Tailz - you have some very compelling ideas and observations to go with them.... you've suggested some connections here that I've never heard before...
I'm more and more convinced all the time that the advent of mobile phones was just another unanticipated disaster, of sorts. But I would not have believed it 5 years ago.
But the question is.... is everybody equally at risk from EMFs, or just certain people, like those with chronic illness or some kind of predisposition?
Anyway, thanks for posting your thoughts on this.
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anybody try those EMF charms. I get offers in the mail. Just threw an offer out. I will search the trash if someone writes a good report.
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Wow this is scarey, I hope there is something we can do to stop it. I have heard about the honey bees as well, very alarming! Posts: 6641 | From Michigan | Registered: Jun 2001
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I have received some E-mail that says the only bees affected are non-organic bees. Here is some info I found on the subject:
Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:
I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.
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hardynaka
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I have read the same info as DBergy says. I really feel we humans are close to bees, and keep questioning the use of abx in great amounts PLUS chemical things (DEET included) that help disrupting our immune systems...
I also feel worse in front of my computer (all is wireless). I now know that if I spend more than 2 hours in front of my computer, I'll suffer from chilly attack almost 100% for sure.
My naturopath had told me to try to get away from EMF when possible, specially at night, because it disrupts my hypophise and probably causes me the chills. I can only say that the relation in my case seems clear. I thought chilly attacks was my longest lyme symptom (I got this symptom for almost 2 years). All other symptoms vanished.
Only to discover, it's not lyme but due to EMF...
Sorry to hear you suffer from allergies/ intolerances. That sounds awful. If you can at least rest your body during sleep (no EMFs, if possible in your bedroom, cut the circuit breaker), that could at least help a bit.
That's what I've been doing, and I seem to be better on that point (chills). The only problem I got re-infected, so I'm getting new sets of symptoms though.
I fortunately live in the country side, but I sympathize with you guys in the city.
I think most healthy people won't feel much each stress factor (amalgams, EMFs, bad food, smoke, alcohol etc), but once we fall sick with a cronic disease, any aditional stress counts A LOT. EMF is one stress. That's my experience.
Thanks Scott for the interesting info on fungi!
Selma
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Over the last nine years, I have attended a number of Dr. K. seminars involving many other experts on the subject - Healthy Home, Body Electric, Electrosmog, and Geopathic Stress, etc. Here is some from my collection and re-collection:
Main Sources of Pathogenic EMF Radiation
Electric household appliances (razors, hairdryers, etc.
Fluorescent lighting (separates + and - wiring)
Lamp and or alarm-clock on nightstand (if plug the wrong way and ungrounded)
Electric wiring in home
Nearby powerline
Laptop computer
Wrist watch
Switched-off cell phone in pocket
Known medical effects: decreases pinel function with decreased melatonin production, opens blood brain barrier, increased leukemia and cancer rates, brain fog, synergistic effect with all other types of radiation.
Pulsed EMF with Sharp Pulse rise (10-100Hz)
DECT system (and others) of cordless phones
Radar from nearby airport
Alarm system in homes
Known medical effects: disturbs all known intrinsic rhythms (EEG, heart rate variability, breathing patterns, 24 hr meridian activity, bowel movements, detoxification, etc.), blocks blood brain and gut barrier (leaky gut syndrome) in stuck-open position, synsergistic effect with other fields, increases mold growth in homes
Microwave (towers and others)
Cell phone radiation from base station (affects blood brain barrier in 1.6 miles radius)
Wireless internet, WLAN, etc.
Blue Tooth technology
Some home alarm systems
Known medical effects: increases cancer rate 3fold in 10 years after cell phone radiation is brought into a community - after a 5 year incubation period. Severe EEG, HRV and EKG changes, delayed and distrubed brain development in infants, decreased melatonin and hormone production, open blood brain barrier with increased toxicity, affects endothelial cells in gut mucosa and endothelium (dysfunctional), responsible for illness and death of trees.
Electro smog reduces melatonin production in the pineal gland. Why is this bad?
1. Melatonin induces sleep. We only heal and detoxify in deep non-rem sleep. Without melatonin no regeneration and no detoxification.
2. Melatonin is the most effective and potent neuroprotective chemical in the CNS and prevents damage from mercury, lead, aluminum, chemicals, mycotoxins, viruses, cigarette smoke, bacterial and parasitic endo-and exotoxins (Lyme, clostridia, ascaris) outgasing of carpets and new car plastics, etc.
(Sener, G. etal "Melatonin protects against mercury induced oxidate tissue damage". Basic and Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology Vol 93, Dec. 2003, pp290-296)
Is everyone affected?
Bodyweight, body-mass index, bone density etc. alter the conductivity and receptivity of the organism
Water and electrolyte content alter the antenna function of the organism (dehydration is protective and therefore most often adaptive!)
Touching the earth and spending time in healthy fields (i.e. old growth forest) discharges static electricity and restore snormal electric tissue properties
Heavy metal deposits in brain and CNS act as micro-antennae (Y. Omura), concentrate EMF-radiation into the brain and increase reception
Dental metal restorations increase reception for both radio waves, microcurrent from cell phone broadcasting and from all ambient fields
Genes regulate the metal detoxifying enzymes and can predetermine people to be electro-sensitive
Any loss of myelin (=insulation) increases reception (MS, Lyme, other demyelinating illness and auto-immune processes)
Synergistic effect between geopathic earth radiation, metallic objects in Home (mattress, artwork, frames), electric and magnetic fields from appliances and household current and incoming microwave from cell phone
Simple ways to help yourself and your willing neighbor ---
Your body is by the factor of hundreds of times more sensitive during sleep! Most suggestions are based on this simple fact:
Shut off all fuses at night. Buy a flashlight. Better: have a "demand Switch" installed by knowledgable electrician (rare to find). Move children's bed away from wall (3 feet)
Get rid of cordless phones at home and get corded phone
Use PC rather than laptop whenever possible. Have "box" as far away from chair as possible (best: outside, since computers outgas Beryllium, mercury, lead and PBDE's
No wireless internet at home or in office
******************************there is more, but I won't post it all. Have detailed most in previous posts.
Take care.
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tailz
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I appreciate all your replies.
Selma - I live in a fairly remote area, compared to where I was living. My problem is I can't avoid EMFs when I go shopping, for instance. I need to get a job here soon, but I feel sick in most stores, and I can't handle sunlight even. It's not the brightness so much anymore, but the heat. I feel sick until about 7pm or 8pm in the evening.
SForgsen - Are these two doctors you mentioned LLMDs? I so want one of the LLMDs to connect the dots that the reason Lymies can't kick their Lyme is because we're basically being radiated to death 24/7.
Tracy - I think we are all susceptible to EMFs. It's just that some of us are more aware. EMFs are basically radiation - it's just a matter of who gets disease first and where in their bodies they get it (which area of the brain or which organ gets cooked). Basically, by the time we hit 40-something, we're showing signs of the fact that we are being radiated - because we begin to age.
I can't even stand in the sun. I tried planting things this past month, and I honestly feel like I'm being cooked when I'm in the sun because I already got so cooked from EMFs. EMFs are like microwaves - they basically heat the cells in your body from the inside out. I think this is why I start sweating profusely in sunlight, especially if it's humid. The water in the air conducts the EMFs, so my body tries to sweat to cool itself down - basically like a microwave dinner steams in the microwave if you leave it in there long enough.
I forget the numbers, but EMF safety was never tested by doctors, but rather engineers. Basically, if say a computer did not interfere with a nearby computer, it was therefore deemed 'safe for humans'.
dmc - I haven't tried the charms. I'm like you - I need to know they work first.
I did hear that Stetzer filters can help, depending on how high the EMFs are in your home. The man I talked to advised me to buy the device that checks levels before investing in the actual filters. But that doesn't do me any good when I sit in the blaring sunlight in traffic - or go anywhere outside of my home.
DBergey - I didn't know it was just the organic bees. I'm just wondering though - are the organic bees living away from EMFs?
Gigi - Thanks for all the info. That's pretty much what I've been reading about EMFs. The problem is I'm so toxic and I have done everything you suggested pretty much with the exception of turning the circuit breaker at night - and I have this laptop, but I don't log on daily anymore. I used to have a PC, but my ex gave me this instead.
I just think it would be easier to shut off the EMFs. I can't trip the circuit breaker in the winter. If I had a fireplace, I know I would at this point - but I don't. I'm ready to go back in time to when we all had fireplaces and horses. I'm not kidding either.
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By the way, if you cut your finger off below a certain joint, did you know it will grow back? Most doctors do not allow the finger to regrow though.
The liver can also regenerate.
I just have a hunch that Noah really did live to be 900-some years old, that we could regenerate and live healthy at least that long, but that manmade electricity and EMFs have doomed us to an early death - and even 'old age' and everything we associate with it.
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GiGi
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Tailz, Of all the things I posted this ----- the circuit breaker ---
"I have done everything you suggested pretty much with the exception of turning the circuit breaker at night -"
would most likely benefit you the most because as indicated, in Dr. K's words, where you sleep and at night is the most important area to clear out.
Any metal on the body, besides all mentioned, is metal jewelry, any precious or other metal. The metals literally interrupt the energy flow - the electric transmission - starting in that area of the body. And that's the spot where eventually disease sets in. No metal belt buckles (men - prostate) no metal in or on the body, no metal-rim eye glasses, if possible.
I didn't wear a ring for years or anything else. Now it doesn't bother me at all. But to get well, you will have to do everything possible to help the Autonomic Nervous System to recover.
Take care.
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I'm on candle lights for the moment. I just bought more torches to walk during the night. Hubby is still complaining, but I keep telling him my long term chills do seem to be better.
It sucks to have to move around with torches, but I start to enjoy candle light.
Hubby though loves fans in very hot summer, so we still didn't figure out how to do that yet...
Also tapping (MFT/EFT) seems to help to get the ANS to work better!
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tailz
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Gigi - I can't turn the circuit breaker off though in the winter. I have propane forced air heat, Also, I can't turn it off with my refrigerator. I get frustrated because the answer seems to be to try to avoid fields that humans can't possibly avoid unless I move to a remote island, and even then, industry will eventually move in.
I know everybody is being radiated - not just me. I am simply more aware of it. It got progressively worse following a 45 minute SPECT scan of my brain last fall, too. I think I have radiation poisoning from all the scans they did. I couldn't even hold still during it because, as soon as she turned it on, I had a tremendous urge to go to the bathroom - even though I went right before she turned it on. Within seconds I was squirming on the table from the EMFs - she probably injected radioactive iodine in me.
I looked at pictures of me from like 2 years ago - gosh, I look like a skeleton, and doctors didn't see I was sick? It scares me what else they don't 'see' - electromagnetic radiation.
I just get so frustrated here though. I'm ready to give up technology - it's making me sick. We didn't come into this world with manmade EMFs. I can live without my TV, computer, phone, etc... All I really need is a fireplace and a few crops. Doesn't everybody realize we are being 'microwaved' to death 24/7 and we need to do something here fast? It's not just me - we are all being effected. If you go into menopause, you are there because the part of your brain that controls your hormones has been nuked to death. I'm not kidding here.
Sometimes tapping helps me, too. But it's not feasible to keep manually stimulating organ systems that are not working because we have too much electromagnetic fields. My immune system used to work on autopilot. I want it to do that again.
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One of the slides at the recent lecture on Electrosmog and Geopathic stress reads as follows:
What to do?
Meditate and tolerate?
Move into the woods or into a cave?
Fi9ght the system that is making us sick?
Become involved socially, politically, medically and scientifically?
Protect yourself and your family and wait until everyone else has killed themselves?
Throw your cell phone away? Is there a life without it?
A little bit of everything?
Many a chronically ill patient was advised to move and many do.
Take care.
P.S. A Mr. Gust of Gust Environmental appeared on the NBC Today Show in a segment called Is your Home Making You Sick? The clip of his appearance can be viewed at his website www.healbuildings.com. 805-644-2008/ This site also contains useful information about indoor environmental issues.
Mr. Gust was a speaker at this seminar "Body Electric - EMF and Building Biology: solution centered science.
Another speaker talked about "body voltage measurement - a "must" in the treatment of autistic children and patients with neurologice problems.
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It's not my indoor environment. It's electromagnetic chaos that is surrounding my home and will surround me no matter where I would move in this crazy world.
Is there a life without a cell phone? I don't have one and never did. You bet there is, and I'd be living a healthy life if those of you with cell phones would realize you are frying Lyme into my brain and into your own - and those of your children.
To expect me to hide like a mole from everybody's love of technology is ludicrous. Cell phones need to go yesterday.
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Oh Lord! This subject fits all my beliefs about how man disrupts everything. But I am so overwhelmed with all that I must learn and have already learned.
I just don't feel ready to take this one on.
I did, just now, remove my cordless phone from this desk and banished it to the guest bedroom. It will be a simple fix to replace it with corded phones. It will take 3 phones to replace the one since they aren't mobile.
What I'm not so sure about is cutting off the circuit breaker at night. I live in the hot and humid south and nights right now without air just don't seem bearable. We currently use our AC plus a floor fan, plus a ceiling fan. We have two lamps on our headboard (I don't know if they are plugged in correctly or not as I don't know what is correct). Our cordless phone base and answering machine is on a table on my side of the bed and our alarm clock is on a table on my husband's side of the bed. Talk about wired!!!!
Now I can remove all but the fans and the AC. I sleep hot as does my husband and we both would not sleep at all if not cool. Any suggestions?
Luvs
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I just turn off the circuits that aren't connected to HVAC and refrigerator.
I do feel I sleep better.
But I live by a cell tower, and I'm trying to figure out where to move. I need to go to a place with competent lyme treatment. Preferably NE or NW US. PM me if you would like to make suggestions. Seattle is a possibility, but I don't know if we can afford housing there.
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So, I'm trying to understand this as this is all new to me. Do we know if lyme can cause food allergies or is it the EMFs? My daughter not only has a connective tissue disorder but was just diagnosed this year with food allergies to corn, wheat, soy, peanuts and beef. She has not been tested for lyme yet.
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tailz, what type of work did you do before?
hardynaka
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Luvs,
Men were not created with AC!! I was born in Brazil and people there survive very high and very humid temperatures. The majority of people have no AC at all. I grew up without AC and to this day, I don't appreciate AC (it makes me have tummy ache!).
Our major luxury item was a fan. But to this day too, I hate sleeping with fans either.
Of course, I remember having to sleep on plain tiled floor and moving from side to side when the tiles got warm. Not very comfortable, but when I was tired, I could sleep like that.
During the day, I took many cold showers when possible. After a while, my body started to get a bit used. If I kept moving from cool to hot during the day or night, my body didn't adjust well.
Just keep in mind that AC grows mold/ bacteries inside. I can't remember in which hospital, but I remember in Japan cases of deaths by infection and they found out their AC system was infected with a deadly mold/bactery (I can't remember). Since then they decided to use special filters and change these.
Selma
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Just to add one more thing, I'm now pretty convinced about the direct relation between this computer that I write and my chills. I stay here for more than an hour (or about 2) and I get chilly FOR SURE.
I have been trying to see the direct relation between chills and EMFs for many months. At least with my computer, this is true 100% of times.
so my chills now, at least, seem to be more an EMF related symptom than lyme/ coinfections. Before lyme, this never have happened, I was the whole time in front of computers. I guess lyme activated something here.
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