Where Is The Place You Absolutely Must Start If You Want To Protect Yourself From Electromagnetic Radiation?

Posted by Lloyd on September 16, 2010 under Electromagnetic protection, Protection tips | Read the First Comment

No matter what your current state of health is or where you may be with the issue of EMFs in your mind;

electrosensitive,

not electrosensitive but concerned about it,

personally OK on it, but worried about protecting your kids.

Well there is one thing you must get as much “right” as possible, and that’s your sleep.

I am sure that you have already read in a ton of articles and books about how important sleep is for your health and wellbeing generally. And I would hazard a guess that most of what you read was true.

But did these articles and books talk about EMF exposure? I would hazard another guess that most, if not all, did not. And yet the truth is, if you are in any way concerned about your health and wellbeing dealing with nighttime exposures to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) is the absolute foundation on which you can build a healthy life from.

Eliminate Nighttime EMF Exposures – The Foundation of a Healthy Life

If your bedroom is not totally conducive to recharging your batteries, you need to make some changes, and the sooner the better.

You’ve no doubt heard it all before; your immune system does its major repair work while you sleep.  This is when your body’s cells concentrate on regeneration, rejuvenation, and detoxification, notably melatonin production, a hormone that helps to regulate sleep will be disturbed.

On a cellular level this means that if at night your cells and organs are not able to detoxify and replace themselves because our cell membranes are in constant stress, then healthy cells can be damaged while unhealthy cells that’s to say infections, mutations and neural disorders can proliferate.

If there are elements in your sleeping space that keep you from getting into that deep sleep phase that you need, your immune system, will become overburdened and you will be opening the door to illness.

These invisible electrical fields have been shown to interrupt sleep cycles and to contribute to a host of ailments like: irritation of allergies, tiredness upon awakening, heart palpitations, muscle pain and weakness, and daytime irritability as well as generally weakening your immune system.

Here are my top 10 tips for making your bedroom a sanctuary:

1. Cellular Phones In Your Bedroom

Cell phones in the bedroom even switched off are a definite no no. Why, because you might forget to switch it off in which case it will be emitting and receiving while you sleep; your cell phone will play havoc with your sleep pattern and immune system. Don’t bring your cell phone anywhere near your bedroom.

2.  Cordless Phones In Your Bedroom

A cordless phone is like a mini cell phone tower in your home, you don’t want this next to your head when you are sleeping. Remove cordless telephones from your bedroom and use a regular, wired phone if you need to stay in touch with the outside world during sleeping hours. Same goes for wireless baby monitors and wireless speakers, get rid of them.

3. Electrical Devices In Your Bedroom

Unplug all electronics during sleeping hours use a battery-powered alarm clock, and never sleep under an electric blanket.

One of the most important but overlooked elements in sleep disturbance is theplacement of wired, electrical devices or AC (transformers used to charge or power devices) sources in your bedroom. These devices emit surprisingly strong electrical fields, even if the appliance is turned off -  above 1 mG is considered dangerous. There are countless sources within your home that can contribute to the constant radiation of erratic electrical fields, so for sure you don’t want any of these devices in your bedroom. Keep things like TVs, stereos, air con units, refrigerators, at least 6 feet away, that means 6 feet in the vertical sense too. Make sure your fuse box is not within this distance and consider cutting the power supply on the circuit breaker for your bedroom before you retire for the night.

4. Lighting In Your Bedroom

If you use CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs) get rid of them. Those that are against them usually condone them because of the mercury content but my argument is again to do with the electromagnetic pollution. CFLs emit electromagnetic radiation as a byproduct of the energy saving mechanism used to reduce voltage. Just hold an AM radio close to a lit CFL bulb and listen to the radiation. Instead of CFLs use LEDs.

5. Dirty Electricity In Your Home

You might have everything switched off and unplugged but if you’ve got dirty electricity running through your household wiring your bedroom and indeed home will be electrically polluted and your health is going to take a toll.

Dirty electricity is a term used to describe the electromagnetic fields (EMF) released by electrical and radio devices… which cause harmful side-effects in human cells. This can be seen easily on an oscillator, if your electricity is clean then you will see a nice crystal clear sine wave, if it’s dirty then it will be blurred.  You can buy or hire testers (a Graham Stetzer meter) for this and then filter out the dirty power by using GS filters.

6. Wi-Fi In Your Home

If you use a wireless router in your home you are transmitting a radio frequency signal (see wifi radiation article) that adds to the toxic load that your body has to carry, further interfering with your ability to sleep.  Do like me use a wired internet connection and knock off the wi-fi. Careful because some routers have the wifi setting on auto reset, so if you unplug your router at night and switch it back on in the morning it will switch on with wi-fi enabled again.

If you live near a cell phone tower, you will want to seriously investigate some protective measures to insulate yourself from the harmful effects of cell tower radiation.  There are special building materials that reflect radiation so you can, at least partially, reduce your exposure.

7. Neighbor Generated Electrical Pollution

You might have everything switched off in your home, your own electrical supply may be clean and your internal electrical pollution may be negligible. But if your neighbor has a flat screen TV which every time they turn it on is making their electric supply dirty, and by the same token yours, then something needs to be done. If they have a wifi router pumping out radiation 24/7 and you are only the thickness of the wall away you need to take action. Go and see them, explain to them the problem.

8. Blackout Your Bedroom

The more you can achieve total blackout conditions to sleep in the more chance you have of going into a deep, restful, restorative sleep. You could take tablets to help you sleep, personally I stay away from them. Sleeping tablets will inevitably be chemical based, they will thus contain toxins and long term they will aggravate your condition.

9. High Levels Of EMFs from Nearby Cell Phone Towers

If in doubt about this, hire or buy an EMF meter to check the levels of EM pollution in your home generally and your bedroom particularly. If this is a problem then your best solution, assuming moving house is not an alternative (I joke not) is special protective paints and protective netting. If the electromagnetic pollution in your bedroom is high you could just hang an EMF Faraday canopy net above the bed, like mosquito netting this is a canopy made from RF reflective material . A more complete solution is to paint an undercoat on the walls and ceiling with EMF paint and hang EMF netting over the windows.

10. Static Magnetic Fields In Your Mattress

There are 2 issues here; metal bedsprings can have residual magnetism and also spring mattresses can actually act as a giant antenna! As the Scientific American states “In the U.S. bed frames and box springs are made of metal, and the length of a bed is exactly half the wavelength of FM and TV transmissions that have been broadcasting since the late 1940s. Radiation envelops our bodies so that the maximum strength of the field develops 75 centimeters above the mattress in the middle of our bodies. When sleeping on the right side, the body’s left side will thereby be exposed to field strength about twice as strong as what the right side absorbs.”

Solution: , buy a chemical-free organic mattress that does not contain metal coils and prefer wood over metal for the frames and headboards.

Safe Radiation Levels for the Bedroom

The international guidelines are extremely confusing about what can be considered a “safe” level of radiation.

The Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines, widely recognized as being amongst the most prudent, have the following four basic categories of concern for sleeping areas:

• Nil Concern – Highest degree of precaution – magnetic field <20 nanoTesla, RF <0.006 Volts/m

• Slight Concern – Precautionary, especially for sensitive people – magnetic field 20-100 nT, RF 0.006 – 0.06 V/m

• Severe Concern – Unacceptable; a number of scientific studies confirm potential health problems – magnetic field 100-500 nT, RF 0.06 – 0.6 V/m

• Extreme Concern – Immediate action must be taken – magnetic field >500 nT, RF > 0.6 V/m

Michael Bevington in his book “Electromagnetic sensitivity and Hypersensitivity” notes that the EMF exposure levels in nature are:

• Magnetic Field: 0.000002mG (or 0.0002 nT)

• Electric Field: 0.0001 V/M

• Radiofrequency Radiation:<0.00002 V/M

When we compare even the lowest, strictest levels of Building Biology magnetic field Guidelines (<0.2mG) to those found in nature (0.000002mG) there is a difference of many orders of magnitude.

The same goes for radio frequency radiation. The Building Biology guidelines for their “nil” level of concern rating recommend <0.006 Volts/meter (or <0.1 μW/m²) where as in nature RF EMFs are <0.00002 V/M.

A truly safe EMF environment for sleeping is where the manmade EMF radiation is the same as that found in nature. This might not be easy to attain but if you are suffering from electrosensitivity sleeping in such an environment is the fastest route to regain your health and vitality.

 Your Bedroom – Healing Sanctuary or Electronic Hub of Activity?

The good news is that, as a rule, indoor pollution is generally much higher than the external pollution, so you are able to control your environment.

Some careful analysis of your use of electronics will help you eliminate electrical and electromagnetic-frequency-energy sleep-disturbing irritants…making your dreams peaceful and your rest healing and restorative.

Use these tips for keeping your bedroom free from silent and invisible yet harmful, invasive electomagnetic fields and radio-frequency energy. Create a bedroom that is a healing sanctuary–and not a place that robs you of the rest your body requires for optimum health.