As each new piece of technology appears on the horizon, we embrace it without question and add it to the ever-growing collection of ‘must have’ gizmos that adorn our lives. Perhaps, however, we should be a little more circumspect about what we adopt.
When I first moved into a house with an inside loo, I was overcome with joy that I would no longer have to empty my chamber pot each morning into the tippler at the far end of the yard. And our tippler was quite a posh affair – a fully enclosed, brick-built ‘thunder box’, unlike the more usual, ramshackle wooden structures. Users of the latter would relate stories about how they had had their posteriors pecked by hens while answering the call of nature, or prodded with sticks by local miscreants looking for a quick giggle.
An indoor flush toilet was just the most amazing thing, and little did I realise, back then, that this technology might actually be involved in the causation of the eventual collapse of my health, of years of pain, and the loss of a job that I loved dearly. I knew nothing at that time about the effect on the parasitic worm cycle of sanitation and the wearing of shoes, and their consequent relationship with allergy and autoimmune disease.
I never even questioned why I didn’t have worms like those that my aunt had told me she had pulled from her anus on one occasion. I just thought that such things were, like chamber pots and tipplers, ‘of the past’, and good riddance to them! Only now, after reintroducing worms to my intestines and beginning to regain a degree of health that I had come to think impossible, have I realised the price that we in the West have paid for using flush toilets and wearing shoes.
Another contributor to the steep learning curve that I have experienced recently is a realisation about the effects on human health of the plethora of microwave-emitting electronic devices, on which many in the West have now come to rely.
Soon after I installed Wi-Fi in my home, and I began enjoying the freedom provided by this, I noticed that, whenever I used my laptop computer on my knee for any length of time, my legs began to tingle, and this was certainly not due to the weight of the laptop. I wondered if it might be the heat but, eventually, discovered that the tingling stopped when I disabled the Wi-Fi function on the laptop.
This led to a series of related discoveries, including the fact that my DECT telephone was bathing me and my family in microwave radiation 24/7!
The Wi-Fi went into the bin and I switched to a dLAN internet connection which works via the household power main. The DECT phone was replaced by an alternative which only emits radiation when it is actually being used, and I now use a wired land-line phone whenever I can.
Prompted by this experience, I began to research the whole issue of radio-frequency radiation, and was, frankly, astounded by what I discovered. This article looks at most of the many sources of microwave radiation to which we are now exposed, the effects which these can have on humans, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
It is now clear that we need to be constantly vigilant when assessing new technologies, whatever form they may take, and adopt a skeptical approach to protestations about safety from manufacturers and representatives of the UK and US governmental and medical establishments in particular, especially as the latter have yet to take any action at all on radio-frequency radiation… and still insist that mercury dental fillings and the fluoridation of public water supplies are both completely safe.
In spite of our obvious technological sophistication, we are still, physiologically, simple hunter-gatherers, biologically unadapted to many aspects of twenty-first century ‘civilization’, such as diet, sedentary working practices, the absence of parasites and exposure to ubiquitous industrial pollution. We ignore this reality at our peril.
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Cell phones and their threat to health
