Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 8:25 PM
Subject: Nexus Article
Hi Martin Weatherall and everyone else
The attached article from the Nexus
magazine, from Australia on dirty electricity, is a worth while read.
David Colling
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Letter from doctor
over concern for installation of 'Smart Meters"
Shivani Arjuna
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January 4, 2010
Ms. Susan Crane
Director, Meter to Bill Process
We Energies
231 W. Michigan Street
Milwaukee, WI 53203
susan...@we-energies.com
Dear Ms. Crane:
My patients, Shivani Arjuna and her husband Dan Small, have asked me to
write to you with regard to how Shivani is affected by exposure to
communication frequencies and dirty electricity frequencies. They
are deeply concerned that placement of one of We Energies' new,
radio-broadcasting meters on their property would be harmful to their
health, especially to Shivani's. I share their concern.
People who are aware of experiencing symptoms as soon as they are
exposed to radio (RF) and microwave (MW) frequencies are currently
termed electrically hypersensitive, or EHS. Shivani is electrically
hypersensitive. However, these individuals are by no means the only
people actually being affected by such exposure, as ample, rigorous
research done over a period of several decades shows chronic exposure
causes health damage to people who note no immediate symptoms. Please
see, for example, the bibliography of reported biological phenomena
associated with radio-frequency and microwave radiation compiled by the
US Navy Medical Research Institute in 1971, with over 2,000
references., at: www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD750271&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
. Also, please see the summary of EMF effects at:
www.icswebsite.com/emf/emfissues.html with 62 more recent references.
The immense proliferation of wireless technologies in the past few
years has given rise to health problems that cannot be successfully
treated medically, as medicine cannot remove the underlying cause, the
exposure to radiation.
Safety regulations of various nations vary widely regarding what level
of exposure is supposedly safe. Unfortunately, most countries'
regulations are still based on the old, inaccurate assumption that
non-ionizing radiation is not harmful unless it actually heats body
tissues. The fact that a given technology adheres to the present
standards is meaningless in terms of its actual biological effects.
Even an EPA spokesperson has stated that present U.S. standards are not
protecting citizens from harmful radiation. Research shows harmful
effects at levels far below what is presently allowed.
Years of research also reveal a broad range of symptoms and diseases
caused by RF exposure. This is hardly surprising, as the human body
functions electrically from the cellular level on. Attached you will
find a list of conditions caused by exposure to RF and therefore termed
radio wave sickness.
There are probably more mechanisms underlying the damage done to health
by manmade electromagnetic frequencies than we are presently aware of.
(To date, the mechanism by which smoking tobacco causes cancer is
unknown.)
However, here is brief information regarding a few known mechanisms:
o It is established from multiple, independent studies that EMR
from ELF to RF/MW reduces melatonin in animals and human beings.
Melatonin is not only vital for healthy sleep, it is the most potent,
naturally produced antioxidant that helps to protect cells from genetic
damage that leads to cancer, neurological, cardiac and reproductive
damage, illness and death.
o Exposure to intensities and field strengths that are extremely
low cause a biological effect called calcium ion efflux. Calcium ion
alteration of cells by EMR is linked to neurological degeneration, to
cancer and many other health effects. The heart is also an
electromagnetic organ, with an electric pulse initiating a cascade of
calcium ions that cause the cells in the heart to contract and produce
a heartbeat. Exogenous electromagnetic signals can interfere with this
regular, electrical pulse leading to heart disease and heart attack of
the arrhythmic kind.
o Physiological changes that are bedrock indicators of allergic
response and inflammatory conditions that are stimulated by EMF
exposures include: overreaction of the immune system; morphological
alterations of immune cells; profound increases in mast cells in the
upper skin layers, increased degranulation of mast cells and larger
size of mast cells in EHS individuals; presence of biological markers
for inflammation that are sensitive to EMF exposure at non-thermal
levels; changes in lymphocyte viability; decreased count of NK cells;
decreased count of T-lymphocytes; negative effects on pregnancy
(uteroplacental circulatory disturbances and placental dysfunction);
suppressed or impaired immune function; and inflammatory responses that
can result in cellular, tissue and organ damage if exposure occurs on a
continuing basis over time. Mast cells are also found in the brain and
heart, and this might account for some of the other symptoms commonly
reported: headache, sensitivity to light, arrhythmias and other
cardiac symptoms.
o Many studies have shown that RF/MW radiation and ELF fields cause
increased DNA strand breakage and chromosome aberrations.
As was concluded by the authors of the Bioiniative Report (www.bioinitiative.org), it is unwise from
a public health perspective to continue business-as-usual, deploying
new technologies that increase RF exposures, particularly involuntary
exposures.
Any company or industry whose products or operational methodologies
cause involuntary exposure to RF radiation would do well to become more
informed about these and other effects of such exposure, both to
protect the public and to protect themselves from future liability
suits.
Though it is no longer possible in today's world to completely avoid
exposure to communications frequencies, EHS individuals such as
Shivani, need to live in a personal environment as clear of RF/MW as
possible. This is recognized in Sweden, where the government creates
safe working and living spaces for such individuals. In the U.S., EHS
individuals have to do what they can to create their own safe living
spaces. Certainly, these safe havens, on their own property, should
not be denied them.
I have been Shivani Arjuna's physician since 2002 and have noted how
her specific symptoms and overall health have corresponded directly to
her exposure to RF/MW radiation. Initially, she was experiencing
incapacitating and life-threatening symptoms related to such exposure.
At present, she is able to remain free of RF/MW exposure-induced
symptoms as long as she remains in the safe home space that she and her
husband have gone to considerable effort and expense to create. That
she remains EHS is clear from how she responds to exposures when not in
that safe environment.
It is my opinion that the placement of an RF-broadcasting device
connected to the wiring on this property would be extremely detrimental
to Shivani's health and that it must not be allowed.
Such a device connected to their wiring, whether at or away from their
house, would cause RF to be broadcast from the wiring throughout their
home. I suggest the alternative of asking them to take regular meter
readings from their present meter and call or mail these to you, with a
We Energies employee checking the meter annually or semi-annually to
ensure accuracy.
I look forward to your response and hope you will agree to this
solution to ensure that Shivani's health be respected and protected.
Sincerely,
Roy D. Ozanne, MD, HMD
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Dr.
Ozanne's website and phone: wholehealthprograms.net 360-321-4116
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