When I did mine, I found that my home was ringed by ten mobile phone and Tetra base stations, all within a mile or so. Several of them were located near, even next to, schools, and five of them were used by more than one mobile phone operator. One of the masts is shown to the right of the page.
I spent the day at Portland College in Nottinghamshire yesterday, talking about magnotherapy and magnetic pain relief. Towards the end of the day I had a long conversation with a couple of people about another concern of mine – the negative effects on human health of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and phone masts, and from wireless computer systems.
Are we in love with our mobiles?
It is estimated that around three billion of us worldwide use a mobile phone, and some of us have more than one. One in five of us even sleeps next to their mobile phone. We are strangely attached to them. The stress of being parted from a mobile phone has even been compared to moving house or breaking up with your partner! We just do not seem to think of it as a health hazard at all. And yet there is an increasing body of evidence emerging from research which links the electromagnetic radiation emitted from mobile phones and phone masts to a range of serious health problems including tumours and cancers.
The increasing opposition
Press coverage on this issue is increasing and is becoming increasingly negative. Like the article in the Daily Mail last July telling of the 14 people who died from cancer over a seven year period, who had lived within a mile of the phone mast described as emitting one of the highest levels of radiation in the country. Four of these people lived in a cul-de-sac yards from the site. Apparently a further 20 residents developed tumours in the last seven years, although fortunately they have survived.
Pressure groups have formed to put the case for a re-think on mobile phone use (for the latest information on this issue, together with details of the latest research, go to the EM Radiation Research Trust website at www.radiationresearch.org.) And mobile phone companies are coming under increased pressure from Euro MPs to stop building masts near schools and houses until the potential hazards to health are clearer.
The Industry line
Not surprisingly, the mobile phone industry denies any link between mobile phone usage and ill health. They refute research linking mobiles and phone masts to cancer and other illnesses, and point to their own research which fails to show any causal link. Now I’m old enough to remember the way the tobacco companies continuously denied any link between cigarettes and cancer over the last thirty or forty years, despite considerable evidence to the contrary. It seems to me that history is repeating itself.
The expert
What I find interesting is that the mobile phone industry recruited a respected expert, Dr George Carlo, to manage their research programme to prove the safety of mobile phones. But after some six years of research, Dr Carlo came to the view that they were not safe and broke ranks with the industry.
I’ve found a couple of short videos which you might find interesting. Watch them and decide for yourself.
If this topic interests you, check back over the next couple of days for more information.
If you want to do something positive to reduce the harm caused by electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, click here and take a look at Bioguards and Biophones on my website.
I have often been asked if magnetic bracelets can help to relieve the pain of arthritis and similar conditions. And yes, a good magnetic product can help relieve any form of pain in the body, including arthritis.
In 2004, the British Medical Journal published the results of a two-year peer-reviewed clinical trial into the effects of the leading Bioflow range of magnetic bracelets on osteoarthritis of the hip and knee. The trial was funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign, and was run by Doctors in the South West of England. It was a double-blind trial, involving three groups of patients – one group without magnetic bracelets, one group with dummy bracelets, and one group wearing Bioflow magnetic bracelets. It was the first ever peer-reviewed clinical trial directly relating to specialist static magnets in relation to pain relief, and concluded that Bioflow magnetic bracelets can reduce pain in osteoarthritis. Full details of the report can be found on the BMJ website at www.bmj.com (type Ecoflow into the search box).
The trial involved the least powerful of the Bioflow range of magnetic bracelets. For more information about the full range of their products, go to http://magnets4life.co.uk.
What is Magnotherapy (magnetic pain relief) and does it work?
Magnotherapy is a natural, non-invasive form of pain relief. It involves using the natural force of magnetism to relieve pain wherever it occurs in the body, and it works equally well on both people and animals.
It sounds like New Age fluff doesn’t it? And yet people have used magnets and magnetic rocks for pain relief for thousands of years. Around 4500 years ago in China, Huang Ti, the Yellow Emperor, produced a book setting out the principles of traditional Chinese medicine (The Inner Canon of Huangdi) which mentioned using magnetic lodestones on the body to relieve pain. Later, Cleopatra was believed to wear a magnetic rock in an amulet to improve her health and retain her beauty.
Nowadays, Physiotherapists use phased magnetic equipment as a means of natural pain relief. While this is fine for occasional treatments, the equipment has to be plugged into the mains electricity, and so isn’t practical for continuous use. Fortunately, you can now get magnetic bracelets and other products which mimic the phased effect of the Physiotherapist’s equipment, and which you can wear on your wrist 24/7, giving you continuous pain relief.
When I first heard about this I was hugely sceptical. I just couldn’t see how wearing a magnetic bracelet on my wrist would relieve the pain in both my knees that was starting to limit my activities. But a friend assured me that a magnetic bracelet would help, and my Doctor had been of little help (he told me that I was getting older and should expect bits to start wearing out. “Get used to it” he said!!). So I decided to give it a try. The bracelet came with a money back guarantee, so I felt as though I had nothing to lose.
I was wrong.
After a couple of weeks, I lost the pain. And my scepticism.
That was four years ago, and the pain has not returned. Since then, I’ve made a point of learning more about magnetic pain relief. I now know that there are magnets and then there are magnets. Some are powerful, and some are not. Some work supremely well, others are less effective. I was fortunate in that I bought a magnetic bracelet from the leading supplier of magnetic health products, and their bracelets all use Neodymium, a very powerful and long-lasting rare earth magnet. They also feature Central Reverse Polarity, which is a patented method of manufacture which maximises the magnetic effect.
Over coming months I plan to use this blog to share some of the things I’ve learned.
