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I have been experiencing dew attacks everyday non-stop 24/7 since approximately mid 2019. Among many other symptoms, my entire body is being hit with a frequency called "buffeting" which causes vibrations. This has been severely debilitating and each day I struggle to function with even basic ADL's (activities of daily living). It is also extremely difficult to think clearly since my brain is experiencing ongoing trauma due to military grade weapons via airplanes, cell towers, & satellite. I have audio evidence as well as 2 separate scans - a RF (radio frequency) scan & a non-linear junction scan. This is due to synthetic nanotechnology which has been activated that resides within my body. This can happen to anyone worldwide. I am more than willing to provide further information upon request.

In March 2019 my wife and I were working in the yard of our home when we both were suddenly hit by an unusual, unexplained forceful blast that we will never forget. The blast hit us straight on and we were nearly knocked down to the ground by it. It took the air and energy right out of us and left us with an intense ringing in our ears that we continue to experience. We did not know what to do and I wondered if we needed to seek shelter, call the fire department, or call 911. It was that shocking, confusing, and intense. We did not know if the whole area was experiencing this event. It ended up changing our lives for the worse. In the days and weeks following we realized that the tinnitus was always present but lessened in intensity whenever we were away from our home. After researching and thoughtful deductions we came to the conclusion that the source of the forceful blast and our numerous symptoms was the cellular dish that had been installed on the city water tower near our home. Since that time, nearly seven years ago, we have experienced tinnitus, severe sleep loss, brain fog, confusion, dizziness, headaches, burning sensations, fatigue, loss of concentration, memory loss, irritability. These symptoms intensify whenever we are in proximity to EMF sources. All the symptoms we live with became so intense and persistent that we sold our home as quickly as we were able, in order to relocate to a safer place. We now rent and worry if we will need to move again. This has been a negative impact on our physical and mental health as well as our financial well being. The cellular companies are not transparent about the health risks and dangers of their structures, equipment, technology and the Electro Magnetic Forces they are using and producing. They continue to ignore the damage they are doing to the public while only concerning themselves with profits.

Life altering.. 4+ yrs HENIOUS ATTACK ON CITIZEN'S..UNFRIENDLY TO LIFE.. Seniors,, Military family.. WE KEPT Maintenance RECORDS. when FREQUENCY POWER OFF LOUD TINNITUS STOPS ..UNTIL ON AGAIN.. NO DRIVING, PRAYING NO CONCENTRATION. NO GARDEN GROW

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 and friend. Wireless radiation has affected someone I care about. Her experiences have affected daily life and relationships terribly. Wireless radiation isn't safe and HHS should address this issue. 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 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.

1. & 2. I am responding as: an individual 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…)Cell phone towers, 4G/5G network signals. wi-fi, mobile phones. ALL RF/EMF sources 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):At least ten years of involuntary exposure to wi-fi in workplace, network signals and neighbours' wi-fi etc in living environment. Network signal in all urban environments and now all rural locations. Affected 24/7. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Tinnitus 24/7. Headache, inner ear pain in close proximity to any wireless device particulary wifi router or someone's phone / "smart" device. Brain fog, sometimes severe, can only perform simplest tasks when affected. Memory loss/ focusing/ concentration/ word finding difficulties. Regular periods of depression and anxiety/anger/irritability. sleep disturbance. Chest tightness, "fight or flight" panic response. Prostate issues. Exhaustion/daily fatigue. Effects are cumulative. 3d. Time from first exposure to first appearance of adverse health effects; and did a change in exposure coincide with the onset of adverse effects:When wi-fi began being installed in the multiple locations I had to work in. Direct and immediate correlation with symptoms and adverse health effects. Adverse health effects increasing with addition of all new wireless infrastructure in my local environment. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?More than one medical doctor's diagnosis sought. Eventually (correctly) diagnosed with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Spending time in very remote rural areas with little or no mobile network signal/infrastructure/wi-fi/other people's devices etc (now no longer acheiveable) Eventual complete disappearance of all adverse health effects. Sleeping in a shielding canopy- some mitigation of most symptoms. Shielded some walls in home to reduce neighbour's wireless pollution, otherwise impossible to spend time in own home.

1. & 2. I am responding as: an individual 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…)Wi-Fi 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):Approx 15 years 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Agitation/racing heart, abnormal, extreme fatigue (not related to activity, sleep, or other illness). Headaches. 3d. Time from first exposure to first appearance of adverse health effects; and did a change in exposure coincide with the onset of adverse effects:Appeared gradually, began to notice feeling better when away from wireless devices and worse near them. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?No 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Yes. Removed all Wi-Fi from house, moved from house that had smart meter, limited cell phone use (turned off while driving or not using), connected to ethernet at home (bought iphone, as Android did not do this), tried protective clothing, hired home building biologist consultants to test EMF and mitigate. Did EMF research, added supplements. Reduced time in crowds, airports, places with high EMF. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:There is a wealth of science showing EMF damage to living organisms. https://bioinitiative.org/table-of-contents/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935122023659 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1538544223000238 https://https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27738269/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27738269/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24064953/ Additional Details you would like to share about your experiences of adverse health effects you believe to be associated with exposure to wireless radiation or EMF's: B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:Wi-Fi, cell phones, smart meters, cell towers, radiowave sensors from cars (in heavy traffic) B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you: B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed:I sense less harm from a device on airplane mode connected to a wired network (assuming I am not surrounded by others using Wi-Fi). B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):Micro-current B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:History of Lyme disease B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:Osteopenia B3. For each subquestion please list up to 5 drugs or therapies or home remedies (if any) B3a. That you recommend, as they helped you tolerate or recover from EMF exposure:H2 (Molecular Hydrogen) B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help:Niacin (flushing type) 25 mg B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful):Essential oils. Homeopathic EMF remedies. B3d. Treatments that had no effect:EMF hat, sometimes gives me a headache. As if the beam is bouncing around in there. B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse:55-64 B4. What is your age range?55-64 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?2011 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?Orangevale, California

I am writing to share concerns about EMFs, RF, and wireless radiation exposure. It is my understanding that US studies and regulations are out of date. The stakes are high; we need to have a clear picture of the impacts on human health, wildlife, the environment, and privacy rights. (See link to learn about some known health effects.) I have a PhD in Human Sciences and understand research (and conflict of interest in research). We need to study these areas further before developing additional, related technologies. I know of people who have had to relocate and unplug connections and apply protective fabric due to impacts on their health. (We are hard wired in our house.) Citizens need informed consent, and future generations need us to call out conflict of interest and apply the Precautionary Principle. Thank you for consideration. Sincerely, Stacey S. PhD https://childrenshealthdefense.org/emr/education/

1. & 2. I am responding as: an individual 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…) Mobile phones 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):When people use their mobile phones to access cellular data, the initial signal is very strong while the phone is connecting to a tower. It is about 20 seconds long and gives me symptoms. This has been happening to me for six years. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Wakes me up from sleep, heart palpitations, and headaches. 3d. Time from first exposure to first appearance of adverse health effects; and did a change in exposure coincide with the onset of adverse effects: 4 years. A change of exposure (to additional EMF) greatly increased the symptoms. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis? Medical treatment was sought, but unsuccessfully. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects? Yes. This involved removing all wireless devices from the home and moving to a different house away from neighbors. Additionally, because of the proximity of neighbors' wireless devices, it necessitated sleeping in the basement. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information: Apple iphones, when "wifi assist" is turned on, default to the cell tower for internet access. When I first started waking up 5x a night with heart palpitations, my baby in the other room would wake up 10 seconds later, screaming. This happened on the hour and the half hour. It turned out that this was directly correlated with our neighbor using her cell phone between TV programs. (She stayed up later than we did.) When she turned off "wifi assist" so her cell phone accessed the internet through her own wifi router, the night waking ended immediately. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of realizing I had become EMF sensitive and eventually I had to move. Additional Details you would like to share about your experiences of adverse health effects you believe to be associated with exposure to wireless radiation or EMF's:I was mildly sensitive to EMF, but it was not enough to notice, until I moved to a different house. This house, we later learned, was bordering on the right-of-way of a high voltage power line (69kV). Additionally, a smart meter was installed after we moved in. After a pregnancy, I had a situation that required a chest CT scan, which, of all medical imaging, has the highest amount of radiation. I think this overexposure created the perfect storm to make me very EMF sensitive.

Wifi, cell towers, and phone EMFs cause encephalopathy in me, and it is cumulative. With no recent exposure, my travel limit is 1 1/2 hours one way. It starts with word finding difficulty, and progresses to inability to form complete sentences and affects fine motor coordination to the point it is as if I am intoxicated. In early 2018, I traveled to a dentist 10 hours away, and was staying in a place w/ extremely high speed wifi. After being inside for a an hour, symptoms started. I had word finding difficulty. I could feel pressure in my head, and it got progressively worse. At first I wasn’t sure what was causing these symptoms. After sleeping there one night, I woke up having word finding difficulty, and my fine motor coordination was deeply affected. My head hurt from the pressure. I remembered the really fast wifi and wondered could it possibly be that. I drove out of town and grounded my feet to see if symptoms would dissipate, and they did, indicating it might be the wifi causing it. I drove back to the condo before my dentist appointment, and this time, onset of symptoms started as soon as I walked into the building. I grounded again before my dentist appointment to relieve symptoms. After my appointment, when returning to the condo, this time I felt the symptoms as I was pulling into the parking lot. It was accumulating. I had planned staying another night because of the 10 hour drive home but I knew I needed to get out of there and I cancelled my second night. On the drive home, I felt pressure in my head come on and then go over and over. I don’t remember how many hours into the trip I noticed this, but the interstate was lined with cell towers, and I noticed that the onset of symptoms was as I was approaching each cell tower, and as I drove farther away from each one, symptoms would dissipate. The symptoms got more intense the longer I drove. When I approached the last city I had to drive through the symptoms started to get extreme. Intense pressure, pain, and I felt like a drunk driver on the road. I started crying and trying desperately to get through the city and to the other side praying my symptoms would stop when I got through, and they did. After that I have never fully recovered. I avoid EMF’s as much as possible, but complete avoidance is impossible. The longer I am away from EMF’s, the more time I can go without symptoms upon exposure. At one point a few years in I thought perhaps I had recovered from it, and I wanted to test it, so I booked a hotel in Kansas City for two nights. The first full day I felt fine and I enjoyed walking paths and other things the city has to offer, but the second day I woke up and was lethargic, and not capable of really doing anything. I can no longer make the drive to Kansas City, where my doctor is so I had to start seeing him remotely because of it. I live in a barn loft in the country and have no wifi in the barn, and the metal barn blocks the wifi signal from the house, but I am exposed when I garden in the yard (that’s become my purpose because I can’t do anything else… I was a career prosecutor before). The house is remote enough there are no other wifi signals present. When this condition started, I could no longer obtain my CLE hours because they are all offered in hotel buildings with wifi and hundreds of cell phones. I started registering as non-practicing. The first few years I was hopeful I could overcome this condition and become active again, but a couple years ago I had to give up and changed my status to disabled. I have been looking for my own house for years, but can’t find one. Because of this condition, I require a house with no wifi signals from neighboring houses and no cell towers nearby. This requires a substantial amount of land, and preferably large trees surrounding the property because trees very effectively block EMFs. Housing has roughly tripled in price in KS for the type of properties I require, and even though I was frugal before I became disabled and saved as much as possible, I can’t afford what this condition requires for housing, so I am stuck here. I consulted Dr. Neil Nathan, who has treated people with EHS, and he told me the only thing he has seen work is for someone to get completely isolated and away from all EMF’s 100% of the time, and it can take a year or more before they recover. I have been unable to find such a place, but where I am is the best I can do. I have studied this for years in trying to regain my health. I believe it affects everyone adversely, just in varying degrees, and the vast majority of people are unaware that their brain fog, disrupted sleeping, word finding difficulty etc. are being caused by EMF’s. Even if they are made aware and start to suspect it, they are unwilling to give up exposure because of the addictive nature of the devices, and also the impossibility of avoiding exposure even if you are willing.

Docket: HHS-OASH-2026-0397 FR Doc No: 2026-19252 Comment Submitted By: Rex Funk Affiliation: EMF Consultant / Member of the Public Attachments: Three peer-reviewed studies (see attached PDFs) To the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health: I am submitting this comment as an individual with direct personal experience of adverse health effects from radiofrequency (RF) exposure, and now as an EMF consultant working with others who share these experiences. BACKGROUND AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE In 2018 I became aware of negative health reactions to RF exposure from cell phones, Wi-Fi, and related wireless sources. I learned to reduce my exposure and to avoid exposures in public spaces. This has been a tormenting experience and it remains very difficult to function in mainstream society, because RF sources are now essentially everywhere. I am unable to work in typical job settings. I now work as an EMF consultant helping people who are also noticing reactions to RF and other forms of electromagnetic fields (EMF). Some of my clients are even more sensitive than I am and have suffered greatly — unable to function normally in society or even in their own homes — simply because these devices were assumed safe without proper consideration of true safety. They must spend thousands of dollars to identify and mitigate environmental stressors, and many cannot afford to improve their situation at all. RESPONSES TO SPECIFIC RFI QUESTIONS 1. Effects below current exposure limits. The assumption that heating (thermal) effects are the only relevant biological mechanism is not acceptable. Thousands of independent, peer-reviewed studies report biological effects beyond thermal mechanisms, and this literature has been largely ignored in U.S. policy. I have attached three such studies for your consideration. HHS should commission systematic reviews of this body of evidence rather than relying solely on assessments that discount it. 2. Sensitive populations. Children are being enabled to grow up in a sea of RF radiation without adequate study of possible effects on the developing body. This should not be tolerated. Dedicated pediatric research, and precautionary measures in schools pending that research, should be a funding priority. 3. People with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). Federal research agendas should include affected individuals as a defined population: clinical characterization, diagnostic criteria, disability accommodations, and access to low-EMF environments. Many people like my clients cannot work, attend school, or use public services. 4. Practical guidance and mitigation access. HHS should publish plain- language exposure-reduction guidance and consider how to make assessment and mitigation affordable. At present, relief is available only to those who can pay thousands of dollars out of pocket. 5. Research priorities. Highest priorities in my view: long-term studies of chronic low-level exposure; personal dosimetry reflecting real- world use; studies of children and adolescents; and mechanistic work on non-thermal biological effects. I support transparent, science-informed decision-making and urge HHS to treat the existing independent literature — and the lived experience of thousands of affected people — with the seriousness it deserves. Respectfully submitted, Rex Funk Woodstock, NY rex@emfcheck.com 845-853-6060