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Thank you for taking the first steps in acknowledging EMF as a potential health threat. The limits currently seem to have no bounds and it feels as if we are running forward full speed with blind folds on. Thank you for taking a step back and considering what humans actually want first, lifespan and healthspan; 5G entertainment can take a back seat to the aforementioned.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a parent, grandparent and concerned member of the public. Exposure to wireless radiation has increased my nervous system dysregulation and I see its effects on my grandchildren where they cannot settle but are constantly wired (I understand wireless radiation is not the only contributor). My husband can no longer tolerate his cell phone in his pocket as the heat generated now is to such a degree it's uncomfortable. When we turn our Wifi off at night or have a power outage, we all sleep more peacefully. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I also support HHS examining carefully those individuals chosen to take an active role in these endeavors that they have no conflicts of interest and receive no kickbacks nor have financial ties to the wireless industry. I support the exclusion of these individuals from participating in any measure. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I have several anecdotal stories to share. The first dates back to summer of 1993. I was a healthy college grad working for minimum wage on a farm in Newburg, MD. Farm laborers stayed in a little cabin directly under high tension power lines. This was just at the inception of the internet. No 3G or 4G or 5G radiation yet vibrating. For the 4 months I stayed on the farm, I continued to be generally healthy, but my menstrual cycle changed from 27-28 days to 23-24. That's about 3 weeks to do 4 weeks worth of hormonal work. After I left the farm (end of harvest season), the very first month I was away from those power lines, my cycle bounced back to 28 days. I thank God that I was under that influence for only a few months. And for what it may be worth, the farmer's wife had stayed in that same cabin while pregnant and her child was born 8 weeks premature. Of course there are many reasons babies are born early, but it's hard for me not to think the constant exposure to EMF's so close to her developing fetus could have influenced the pregnancy. From what I've read and listened to from those who actually investigate the scientific studies into health effects of EMF's, these kinds of changes are quite common with nearby exposure. Please trust scientists who are calling out the potential and known health effects based on unbiased rigorous scientific research. Much of this literature is decades old, but still valid. Unfortunately, much more is being done as our collective exposures have only increased without government regulations and without morality based corporate self-restraint. Sincerely concerned, Jennifer C Darling

Power lines, power box's, dirty electricity shut my muscles off, give me headaches and make me feel gust plane terrible. Please make electricity, wi fi and all this new crap safe for people. Stetzer electric company in Blair wisconsin is very knowledgeable on this stuff and has started to work politically to make this stuff safe for people.

I am the webmaster of https://familiesforsafeandethicaltechnology.org/ for the last 11 years in Eugene , OR and 10 years before that in Seattle with SUMA-NW (Safe Utility Meter Alliance - Northwest) representing 100's of people in Washington State and Oregon who oppose wireless Smart Meters, Cell Towers, 5 G Towers and all forms of wifi. Many of are members have been severely sick with EMF sickness. This can include dizziness, anxiety, insomnia, cancer,edema as outlined here: https://familiesforsafeandethicaltechnology.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/flyer-MS-ES-re2.pdf I had to spend 75K dollars to turn my house into a Faraday cage so I could live in it. There are two 5G towers at 50 and 70 Meters from my house. see https://familiesforsafeandethicaltechnology.org/faraday-cage/ Now it is .1 Microwatts per meter squared inside my house for the EMF radiation. Outside my house it is 2,860 Microwatts per meter squared registering extreme on the https://safelivingtechnologies.com/products/safe-and-sound-pro-ii-rf-meter-non-rechargeable-discontinued.html RF Meter. Note more than 1000 Microwatts per meter squared is extreme. More than 10 Mirowatts per meter squared is severe. One of the members in our group was three times in two months in the ER Riverbend Hospital in Springfield, OR. Another Member has a tumor on their brain. Wifi is just like cigarettes half a century ago. It was touted as totally safe and doctors smoked in the office. Now we know better and need to totally stop Wifi everywhere. All this is said on the film: https://vimeo.com/227169236 Take Back Your Power. As mentioned in our about us: https://familiesforsafeandethicaltechnology.org/about-us/ Please hear us before we are all sick from this dreadful WiFi. Thank you for listening!!!!! victor odlivak eugene, OR

My background in the Air Force, cyber technology and security, the commercial business sector, and my experience as a university instructor shaped my perspective, but I was still caught completely off guard by my own struggle with EMF poisoning over the last year. I had no idea that someone could suffer from EMF poisoning caused by light bulbs, even though I had an LED desk lamp sitting just a foot and a half in front of my face for almost three years. I had only turned the bulb on once when I first got it, but I left it turned off because I really did not need it. What I did not realize at the time was that a smart LED continues to radiate radiofrequency (RF) energy even when the bulb is switched off and feels cold. Because my lamp had a metal hood, it acted like a reflector, beaming that RF radiation directly into the right side of my head and body. Over time, I developed severe physical symptoms, including constant dizziness, blurred vision, a strange soapiness in front of my eyes, and blackouts in my right eye. I went to twelve different doctors searching for answers, but not one of them could explain what was happening. My breakthrough finally came by accident when I watched a video on YouTube about EMF poisoning. The speaker explained that smart LEDs are rarely labeled clearly for consumers the way traditional incandescent bulbs used to be. He offered a simple test: reach up and touch a bulb that has been turned off for a couple of hours, and if it is still warm, it is a smart LED broadcasting RF energy. In my case, that metal hood was directing all of that energy straight into the right side of my head. I reached over and unscrewed the light bulb right away. The exact moment it came free from the socket, I felt an immediate, physical sense of release in my brain. Since removing that bulb last September, I have been steadily healing from the EMF poisoning. My dizziness has completely gone away, and both the blurred vision and the soapiness in front of my eyes have cleared, though a few minor remnants still remain. Incorporating dietary choices and protective strategies learned from Dr. Group has further supported my ongoing recovery and helped my body heal. I have learned that LED bulbs not only radiate blue light, which can cause health and eye issues, but they also have sound and light flickering whenever a bulb is turned on and lit. We need to get back to incandescent bulbs. Two months ago, Walmart and Amazon started selling incandescent light bulbs again. There should never have been a law making it illegal to sell incandescent light bulbs. Incandescent light bulbs are much healthier for eyes and the human body because they emit some infrared light, which helps protect our eyes and overall health. I attached 2 infographics and 4 ea ebooks that I wrote to help people with blue light exposure and EMF poisoning. Thank you... keep up the great work exposing EMF and high-frequency health hazards. Dane

Our story: smart meters were being deployed in my residential area. Option given for installation and acceptance on a notification flyer. 1. Date of Installation 2. If resident refuses they will be held accountable for reading their own meters monthly, providing their data to Pud AND will be charged $15 or $25 for submitting their requested information in one format vs another. Must be done monthly. So for us I must be home ( im not only spend 6mos there) each moth. Service wil be cut off if information/payment not received. 2. The utility company is using us as an unpaid employee and dictating the days of the month I must be home to participate in their new Smart Meter policy. Reasons I do not want A threatened by requiring my time and Pay $'s to provide requested data B. Additional EMF into home/access to other device data .... Bluetooth C this is yet another example of technology/EMF coming to our homes without our agreement and No benefits yet we are paying for it. The impact is more financial in this example yet is a clear display how a residence is given a choice "to comply" orelse! Same approach with the larger devices, cameras, cell towers, satellite, now Data Centers. My gosh, even out electric toothbrush has EMF remittance. The cell phones just upped the wall plug in unit to 20 Watts, up from 5. Who is adding up all these EMF fields in a home to know if safe and then do the same outdoors. Its the total compared to what each human is able to "respond" to levels remain unknown

I can tell when there is a tower nearby because I get instant migraines that go away about 20 minutes after I distance myself. The only other time I get the same migraines is when I put the cell phone to my ear, which I hardly do anymore because its the headache is too intense. There are 3 towers at my son's future High School and I am hesitating to send him to this school because of them. Please do not put them in schools where we make life harder on children, nor in neighborhoods where people's health are at risk.

My name is Staci Howard. I'm 36 years old, but in my late twenties I started experiencing many health issues. I went from a very health wife and mom of two young children, to an anxious, hurting women that couldn't get answers. I saw multiple doctors, they all told me that my labs were great and I was healthy. I wasn't experiencing good health, however. I not only was struggling with mental health struggles like anxiety, panic attacks and depression, I was also having many physical symptoms. I was battling headaches, pain in my leg and arms, flushed cheeks, jaw pain, brain fog, miscarriages, trouble sleeping and other things that would come up here and there. I wasn't getting any answers, my health was getting worse and my husband was concerned. One day I realized that when I was carrying my cell phone in my jean pocket, my leg pain increased. I also noticed that my arm pain and headaches were also worse with cell phone use. I had no idea this could happen, but I reached out to a professional in the holistic health space and she confirmed that it can happen. As we dove into this subject, we looked around our apartment and realized we lived under power lines, above six smart meters, wifi in our apartment and the apartments around us and many cell towers within a short distance from our home. This realization was completely overwhelming and my parents graciously allowed our family to move in with them, they lived rurally and they completely changed their lives around for us. They turned their wifi off, which, interestingly enough, I reacted to when my mom turned the wifi back on without my knowledge. I felt completely drained and defeated, I remember crawling onto the couch overwhelmed, having no idea that she had turned it on and not realizing why I was responding in the way I did. I hardly left their home for a month, I finally started to slowly adventure back out into the world, realizing that places like the church building and the library were toxic to me. My tongue would start tingling, I would get light headed, feel nauseous and have extreme brain fog. We all ended up moving even further from city life, moving to Eastern Oregon where we had more sunshine and less wireless radiation exposure. We don't have wifi in our home, I didn't have a cell phone for over seven year, just recently getting one due to my children being older and me needing to be able to be reached easier. It took over a year until I could sit through an entire church service again, often needing to take breaks and go outside. I still react going into the library, or if I'm at church very long I feel, what we call "wi-fried". Headaches, rosey cheeks, tingling tongue, light headed, brain fog... they are all still realities of being in wireless environments. Having my home base safe, allowing healing is what has allowed me to heal as much as I have, I believe it's why I've also been able to have three more healthy babies. My husband also feels a difference between high wireless spaces and our home, he gets brain fog and headaches as well. It's been a long journey, I'm thankful that I can handle being in the community as much as I do, because I know not everyone can. I "budget" my time, knowing if I have church and a meeting in one week, I may not take my kids to the library that same week... or different things like that. I have missed out on many things, I've had to quit volunteer work because I couldn't handle that much wireless exposure. In my experience, schools are the worst. I had take my son to an event at a local public school and I could hardly stand being in the building. It's my belief that food dye and wireless radiation are the two biggest issues in our schools today, with the behavioral issues we're facing, I firmly believe eliminating wifi and other wireless from schools would help these kids an amazing amount. Thank you so much for looking into this! I believe it will be life changing for so many.

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