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Samuel Milham, MD, MPH has written a book, something of a memoir about his study of the effects of electrification. He shows in his book, _Dirty Electricity_, a graph which points out the concurrence of the rate of electrifying residencial areas to the growing rate of mortality from so called modern diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes...
He even shows how the rural areas with no electtriciy were slower to succumb to these disorders and diseases, until they were lucky enough to get electricity.
He theorizes that the use of electro-therapeutic devices like TENS units might lead to diseases like ALS (Lou Gehrig's).
EMF exposure has been linked causally to lowered infertility. In fact, he gives one anecdote about how Dave Stetzer went into a bank at their request, to measure and correct high EMF levels. He put filters in and about a year later, got an angry call from the bank manager beause so many of his workers were leaving all at the same time on maternity leave.
In another book, _Earthing_, author Clint Ober gives anecdotes such as this:
Armida Champagne, 68, with fibromyalgia: " ..I had a very hard time sleeping because of the pain. Just lying in bed, hurt, and on top of that, I couldn't sit too long in any one place either. I wasn't disabled to the point where I couldnt' do things, but I was in a lot of pain. And I was tired all the time. On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain was probably at an 8 level every night.
...I tried all kinds of remedies, ... in 2000 I started grounding myself at night with one of the first prototype bed pads. The very first night, I fell asleep right away and woke up refreshed without any pain. I couldn't believe it. The pain was completely gone. To be sure, I have slept grounded ever since."
in the next post, I'll copy out a description of how grounding ourselves to the Earth protects us from 'dirty electricity'.
He even shows how the rural areas with no electtriciy were slower to succumb to these disorders and diseases, until they were lucky enough to get electricity.
He theorizes that the use of electro-therapeutic devices like TENS units might lead to diseases like ALS (Lou Gehrig's).
EMF exposure has been linked causally to lowered infertility. In fact, he gives one anecdote about how Dave Stetzer went into a bank at their request, to measure and correct high EMF levels. He put filters in and about a year later, got an angry call from the bank manager beause so many of his workers were leaving all at the same time on maternity leave.
In another book, _Earthing_, author Clint Ober gives anecdotes such as this:
Armida Champagne, 68, with fibromyalgia: " ..I had a very hard time sleeping because of the pain. Just lying in bed, hurt, and on top of that, I couldn't sit too long in any one place either. I wasn't disabled to the point where I couldnt' do things, but I was in a lot of pain. And I was tired all the time. On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain was probably at an 8 level every night.
...I tried all kinds of remedies, ... in 2000 I started grounding myself at night with one of the first prototype bed pads. The very first night, I fell asleep right away and woke up refreshed without any pain. I couldn't believe it. The pain was completely gone. To be sure, I have slept grounded ever since."
in the next post, I'll copy out a description of how grounding ourselves to the Earth protects us from 'dirty electricity'.
this is from _Earthing_, Appendix B, written by Gaetan Chevalier, PhD, visiting scientist, Developmental and Cell Biology Department, University of California at Irvine.
If your body is somehow coupled to the Earth, no matter where you are, you are at the electric potential of the ground.> That means all of you, fromhead to foot. Your electric poteneital is zero and no positive charge can charge you up. You are a part of the ground. You are shielded from whatever happens in the atmosphere. If positive charges are present in your environment and "stick to you", the Earth will provide the electrons to cancel the positive charges and maintain your electric potential at the same level as it is: zero volts. If EMFs hit your body, their effect is cancelled by the electrons within your body supplied by the ground. Nothing can change your elecric potential, except uncoupling your self from the Earth.
Being grounded means your body's internal organs are shielded from any elecrostatic or electromagnetic interference in the atmosphere. This provides for a very quiet electrical "milieu" inside the body where no external electric or magnetic fields can disrupt the internal functions maintaining homeostasis and health. THis includes digestion, internal repairs, wound healing and all metabolic activities. Keep in mind that all chemical or biochecmial reactions are electrical in nature and so are susceptible to being disturbed by external electric and magnetic fields. Grounding prevents these disturbances.