How to Protect Your Home and Family from Electromagnetic Pollution
LEFT IMAGE follows emissions from a neighboring cell phone transceiver through one window, along stud walls, through door frames, along other rooms to re-focalize in a 4th room centre. RIGHT IMAGE shows the ricocheting from one router placed at an angle in the corner of a room where it intensifies, and is focalized by a door frame to transform into several beams beyond the room.
Although we are surrounded by electromagnetic pollution day and night, there are certain strategies which have been found to reduce or even remove the exposure.
First, you can review which parts of your residence deserve the greatest scrutiny. Is it where you sleep? Or where you work (including the kitchen), study, or sit? And if you have younger children – where do they play, or even stay or sit on the floor for long periods?
In the Bedroom
In research conducted throughout North America, it has been noted that bedrooms are the most polluted from electric power magnetic fields. This is in part because the headboards of beds tend to be located at close range to the obligatory wiring in walls adjacent to the beds.
In simple terms, the electrical wiring in your home produces electric fields (even in properly wired installations). In the bedroom, when you lay your head on a pillow that is adjacent to wiring behind the walls, the voltage (Volt/metre) is usually strong enough to interface with your brain and induce gradual changes in metabolism, possibly even the nervous system. Over time, this will eventually make you feel chronically tired – not ideal for maintaining a sense of wellness.
Further, there is a common tendency to place lamps and alarm clocks in the bedroom which are continually energized at close range. Creating a distance of an extra 10 cm from these EMF sources can make a big difference. For example, move the bed away from the wall so that your head is much less likely to absorb electromagnetic pollution during sleep. Also move any lamps, alarm clocks, cellphones, baby monitors at least 10 centimetres away. That extra distance helps a lot to improve wellbeing.
Also check to see if there are any wires under the bed crossing where you sleep. If so, disconnect. If you must have a wire, then replace it with those designed for outdoor use, as they have enough insulation coated to reduce the fields manifold.
All newly-built homes are located in lots serviced by a hydro station. The second storey bedrooms in these homes are usually placed at the corner where the electrical wiring comes in from an outside source. If that corner is in a child’s bedroom, then the child’s head may tend to stay (for hours) at 10 to 20 cm from the magnetic field emitted by the hydro wires servicing your home. These magnetic fields are present at levels of power densities way beyond standards considered safe by WHO agencies or by the Council of Europe – even for just short-term exposure.
I have witnessed cases where teenagers regained their health simply by moving their beds about 10 – 20 cm away from such corner situations.
Similar scrutiny can be made for zones where you work, study, recreate.
In the Home Office
Even just positioning the wires in parallel decreases such nuisances as charge collection (one of most common phenomena sensed by electrosensitive persons, and possibly an unconsciously avoided fundamental factor in feng shui arts).
Also keep away extension cord holders from your feet and seating. And move any lamps with LED or fluorescent fixtures (which have magnetic field and RF generating transformers) away from your head and chest.
In the Kitchen
If you use a microwave oven, there are several things to consider:
- Make sure that the door hinges perfectly and that the seal is completely shut when closed – the slightest opening in the seal releases strong beams or blasts of microwaves from the front. These microwaves are sometimes strong (above Canada Safety Code 6 standards) even at more than 3 meters away.
- The backs of these ovens have no shielding; so do not have any living space (bed, cradle, workstation) behind the wall, as the emissions penetrate for long distances.
- Several major EMF residential studies have reported that the microwave oven, even when not in use, is usually the strongest source of magnetic fields indoors. These ovens often have stronger fields than high-voltage power lines that supply our communities and cities. So just unplug the unit when you are not microwaving,
Induction cooktops and ranges also generate very magnetic elevated fields, so don’t stand close when cooking.
Effects of Cellular Radiation in the Home
Since the year 2000 or so, the cellular system of wireless communication has had a major impact on our residential environment; these systems were started using the same off-the-shelf parts as microwave ovens. These parts operated at near 1 Gigahertz frequency before offering still higher frequency systems to the near 5 Gigahertz.
It used to be a matter of the cell-tower transceiver and your mobile phone. Now it is an increasing number of transceivers working as an Internet of Things (including smart meters for various utilities, smart outdoor electric lamps, security systems, routers, etc.). So, it isn’t a matter of a relatively small number of beams affecting parts of your body. It is a raging dynamic with thousands of emissions radiating in a three-dimensional 360-degree manner, in random non-linear signalling over many frequency bands at the same time.
How your home is designed and built also becomes pertinent. For example, frames such as those in doors and windows, especially if made of conductive materials, can focus the electromagnetic signals entering your premises into strong beams. These beams, in turn, can be channeled along stud walls and can even collimate into power magnification with other beams.
Some of these beams are originating from the neighbourhood (even along metallic gutters!) or from ricocheted signalling from room-corner located wireless devices such as routers which might compact relatively scattered emissions into new beams.
Some of you may have noticed that in the winter your windowpanes have a disc-shaped cloud frosted; it is an indication of a persistent “stray” beam coming from outdoors etching itself passing into your indoors.
The current level of electromagnetic haze introduces new pollution dynamics. In flat areas, and dense suburbs, there are so many signalling devices present that the overall microwave power density tends to be much greater as one measures higher and higher at above the adult head level. So, a second-storey room will be immersed often at higher fields than a room at ground level. It is associated with the communications that are necessary to keep operations running smoothly with cell towers as well as with other antennae such as those operating the smart meters and all manner of “smart” applications and traffic.
Protect Yourself from Microwaves and EMFs
One important thing to understand is that microwaves, unlike hydro’s magnetic field EMF, can be easily taken care of. The best shielding is grid shape; best grid shape is honeycomb type. An easily available modality is the mosquito mesh. Another absorber is any dense metal object – even an old-fashioned water radiator – perhaps a sculpture, or a heavy metallic standing lamp post. The presence of such an object is capable of reducing microwave fields by 10 to 50 times for several square meters. [1]
Sensitive persons who have the proven knack of sensing microwave beams “coming from that smart meter below” or from “my neighbour’s router” can fix their persistent stalker source by finding one position in the entire residence where they can cross such beaming with a perfectly-flat conducive mesh firmly fixed to the rear frame of a painting or inside a banner with a stiff frame.
When properly fixed and located, fields can be reduced by 10,000 to 100,000-fold. That is how embassies protect themselves from microwave bugging and assuring that indoor-generated communication does not go outdoors. Of course, it is possible to trace beams with meters and conduct remediation in a technical way.
Having trouble sleeping in certain spots? Is there a specific sore every time you wake up?
The cause may be a geomagnetic one. Even if you do not have a magnetometer to identify and locate a geomagnetic disturbance you can check whether there is one in a lived-in part of your home.
Using a compass (used to detect the Magnetic North), just go over where you sleep, sit even where you stand for long durations. Wherever the dial starts to agitate, sometime even spin, that is where the problem is. Maybe it is the energized /” “on” TV set or an oven directly above or below, or a box of nail or tools or a water pipe touching an energized circuit wire. When you identify the place, you can consider moving the bed aside, change your sleeping or sitting position, or obtain a printed antenna device that can even out the sharp electro-magnetized field.
There are other less common issues to consider, most of which require a meter and some guidance such as a manual.
RESOURCES
- [1] Where to purchase a mosquito mesh??
- Is there a service that can visit and assess a home and recommend remedial action?
EMF Meter from power-frequency to 5G, T2: https://www.essentia.ca/product/trifield-t2-meter/
Manual for tracing EMF in building wiring and grounding: https://www.essentia.ca/product/tracing-emfs-in-building-wiring-and-grounding-karl-riley/
Geomagnetic disturbance di-pole antenna: Dar-Zon: https://www.essentia.ca/product/dar-zon
AUTHOR BIO: Dr. Andrew Michrowski studied at the faculties of Architecture and Urbanism at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, where he received his Dott. Arch. Degree with honours. He lectures before scientific and engineering societies and makes presentations on current scientific issues. Since 1991, he has been providing extended workshops, some of which lead to certificates, on EMF with a view of enabling participants to identify and to mitigate EMF problems in the built environment. Between 1993 and 1996 he headed the study team analyzing electromagnetic fields in Canadian houses for CMHC. For more information: Planetary Assn for Clean Energy https://pacenetwork.org
