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Individual consumer / patient (age 59, Ashland City, Tennessee area) who has experienced symptoms associated with RF/EMF exposure from mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, and 5G. I am 59 years old. My cognitive decline began when I was 55. Prior to that I was sharp, owned and ran a complex and successful business on Maui, and had no difficulty learning or retaining information. Since onset I have experienced extreme brain fog, a severely compromised ability to perform basic problem-solving, and an extremely limited short-term memory that has made me virtually unemployable—I can no longer learn and retain new things. I have had an MRI and cognitive performance testing; the results indicated early-onset Alzheimer’s. These symptoms have improved dramatically in the last two years only after intensive healing protocols. This was not the case prior to roughly 2021. I have always been highly sensitive to EMF frequencies and Wi-Fi, and I am especially sensitive to 5G. Enabling 5G on my phones quickly makes me feel sick, and I can notice when I am near a 5G tower. For this reason I always disable 5G. I used an iPhone 7 for many years and upgraded to an iPhone SE (3rd generation) in 2024. With both of these phones I could feel the radiation. The longer I held either device, the more severe the sensation became. Both caused strong aching in my hand and arm; after prolonged use this often progressed to tingling and/or numbness. The symptoms were noticeable during ordinary use and worsened with longer holding times. In 2026 I upgraded to an iPhone Air. I have noticed a significant improvement: much less of the radiation sensation and substantially reduced hand and arm pain when holding the phone. I still notice some effect, but it is markedly milder than with the older models. I never hold any phone to my ear and always use speakerphone. Published SAR values (U.S. FCC, averaged over 1 gram of tissue, cellular transmission) for these models are approximately: iPhone 7: Head ~1.11–1.19 W/kg, Body ~1.14–1.19 W/kg (varies by specific model) iPhone SE (3rd generation): Head 1.20 W/kg, Body 1.20 W/kg iPhone Air: Head 1.19 W/kg, Body 1.19 W/kg (cellular-only) Despite the similar official peak SAR numbers, my real-world experience of reduced sensation and pain with the Air has been consistent. This suggests that other design factors (antenna placement, power management, or everyday transmission behavior) may matter for sensitive individuals. My wife and I both use our phones many hours a day; her job requires extensive phone use. To reduce overnight exposure I keep my phone at least two to three feet from my body while sleeping and sometimes place it in Airplane mode. We live in an apartment building. Our Wi-Fi router is located in the closet in my wife’s bedroom because that is the only place the cable enters the unit. She rarely can sleep past about 2 a.m. She then remains awake—though exhausted—from roughly 2 a.m. until 5 or 6 a.m., after which she falls back asleep until her alarm only out of pure exhaustion. The amount of make-up sleep is woefully insufficient. This chronic sleep disruption has been extremely hard on her overall health and has resulted in permanent bags under her eyes. I am concerned that prolonged close proximity to the router may be contributing. I am also very affected by smart meters. A bank of approximately a dozen smart meters (one for each apartment) is mounted on the exterior wall immediately outside my bedroom. The only mitigating factor is a walk-in closet between my bedroom and that exterior wall; the added distance makes the exposure more tolerable, but it remains noticeable. Combined with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5G, and other sources, these create a continuous “soup” of RF/EMF exposure that warrants further study. I lived on Maui, Hawaii, through early 2020. Maui was one of the last counties in the U.S. to receive a commercial 5G upgrade, and 5G was not present there during the time I lived on the island. After relocating, my cognitive problems began around 2021–2022. Given my extreme sensitivity to EMF/RF, the timing of these symptoms relative to increased exposure after the move is concerning to me, even though I cannot prove a direct causal link. I am grateful that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and HHS have opened this Request for Information to examine potential health effects of EMF and RF frequencies, including real-world experiences of sensitive individuals and cumulative exposures. Further research into device design differences, smart meters, residential Wi-Fi, and vulnerable populations is needed.

I am the parent of an autistic adult who is fully dependent on my support. She was experiencing significant insomnia. Her heath care provider recommended she hard wire the house, turn off WIFI on the router, and eliminate WIFI and exposure to the cell phone in the bed room. This resulted in much improved sleep, including beginning to dream again. She was exposed beginning in ~2004, and had regular exposure to the cell phone as she did everything on it. The WIFI router was above her sleeping area. She experienced noticeable changes in her sleep which was much improved. It was recommended the house be remediated for EMF, so a building biologist was hired who identified ways to reduce the EMF load in the House. Smart meter was removed, dirty electricity remediation involved switching out fixtures, dimmers on lights were removed throughout the house, installing a sleep switch to turn on electricity in the sleeping areas, stopping electricity coming into the house on the water main, and other interventions. LED lights are NOT in allowed the house to avoid blue light. My doctor considers me EMF sensitive and will write letters to prevent me from unnecessary exposure to EMF. We do not let EMF emitting devices in the house and test the environment regularly with the Safe and Sound meter as new people come into house and new devices or appliances enter house. We relied on the building biologists many studies of harm from EMF exposure AND insomnia was a symptom that regularly was identified as a problem. The bedroom area and the house in general are not in the low EMF on the Safe and Sound meter. Studies can be found at: Regarding scientific support for negative health effects effects of EMF…. and included below in the attached document links to a website and a book. I also included them here, plus attached the color charts: i. The full Bioinitiative 2012 report can be found at: https://bioinitiative.org/table-of-contents/ ii. The attached are color charts below that list studies that looked at the biological effects of low exposure to EMF & is available at https://bioinitiative.org/rf-color-charts/ iii. A book on the topics is at: https://www.routledge.com/Electromagnetic-Fields-of-Wireless-Communications-Biological-and-Health-Effects/Panagopoulos/p/book/9781032061764

I started suffering severe headaches in the centre and left side of my head in March 2026. I then did some research and found this: Virgin Media O2 deployed a massive "5G+" standalone network transformation across Clackmannanshire villages and towns in March 2026. This is where I live! The headaches have not subsided and my Doctor has just signed me off work (again) for Headaches. The pain is so severe, my left eye feels like pins are being inserted into it. I have also gained a small lump in the centre of my forehead and I have a brain scan on 13th October 2026.

This type of energy is known to be dangerous to many types of living tissue. The government agencies and nongovernment agencies involved know this. I would appreciate an area in which these SMART technologies are not applied. Not all people are sensitive to it. I happen to be one who can feel and hear these energies. Countries outside the U.S.A. outlaw certain levels, frequencies, and amplitudes of these energies. Non military applications should be regulated here in the U.S.A.

Statement Regarding Wireless Radiation and Electromagnetic Fields I have lived in a small mountain community for many years, valuing its natural beauty and peaceful environment. Initially, I slept through the night and could work late hours in my office without unusual fatigue or headaches. My difficulties working in my office began after Wi-Fi was installed. After two to three hours, I would become tired, and by the end of the day I was often beyond exhausted, going home simply to sleep. Gradually, I reduced my time in the office to preserve my energy. Today, I can tolerate only about one hour there before needing to leave. This has significantly reduced my working hours and income and diminished my quality of life. Over the years, wireless infrastructure in my community has expanded considerably. Smart meters, Wi-Fi networks, cell towers and antennas, and surveillance cameras have become increasingly prevalent. I also experience sensations that I perceive as related to frequencies or electromagnetic activity, although I cannot objectively measure these sensations or establish their source. I have resorted to wearing specialized shielding hats and installing shielding curtains around windows, glass doors, and my bed in an effort to make my surroundings more tolerable. Looking back, I recall periods when the electromagnetic activity I perceived seemed to lessen, followed by periods when I became increasingly concerned about changes in my surroundings. I later read about maintenance and upgrades to HAARP that I understood might have increased its power. I cannot independently verify the timing or establish a connection between these developments and my experiences. I have friends who report being more affected than I am. Others appear less aware of specific sensations, yet I have noticed changes in their energy and well-being. I cannot establish the causes of these experiences, but I believe they deserve respectful consideration and independent investigation. I am concerned that people may experience changes in sleep, energy, concentration, or their ability to function without knowing what may be contributing to them. I believe such reports deserve scientific attention rather than being dismissed simply because they are difficult to measure. I respectfully ask federal regulators to support independent research into reported sensitivity to radiofrequency emissions and electromagnetic fields; transparent monitoring of wireless infrastructure and compliance with applicable exposure standards; and public access to reliable information about wireless installations and their emissions. Research should examine reported symptoms objectively, distinguish correlation from causation, and investigate whether some individuals may experience effects that are not yet fully understood. My purpose is to document my experiences and ask that the concerns of people reporting difficulties they associate with wireless technology be taken seriously. Careful investigation, transparent information, and open-minded scientific inquiry are essential as wireless infrastructure continues to expand.

I am a practicing Internal Medicine physician with roughly 10 years' experience treating adult patients using "Integrative" strategies, ie, specific biologically precise strategies which fundamentally address the root causes of chronic illness. I also personally suffer from chronic illness, thus providing the opportunity to experience the results of many, if not all, of the strategies I employ. Roughly 10 years ago, I became aware of the possibility that I was personally being affected by wireless (ie, RF/EMF) radiation exposure in my own household. Specifically, it was suggested to me by my health coach that my difficulty sleeping (for the previous 5-6 years) might be due to RF/EMF exposure, at that time cell phones not powered off at night plus WiFi router exposure, both at my office as well as at night in my home. I somewhat skeptically agreed to a trial of powering off cell phones and WiFi router at night, and my sleep immediately improved dramatically enough for me to conclude clinically that the improvement was very likely due to this removal of RF/EMF exposure. We eventually permanently eliminated the WiFi router and hard-wired our house with internet cabling, along with powering off our cell phones at night. I also keep my personal cell phone on airplane mode continuously during the day, establishing connectivity only to receive and read texts. I don’t use my cell phone for calls at all. This has resulted in our home becoming a relatively “safe haven” for me from an RF/EMF perspective. In fact, I use only a landline in my home office to make calls, doing most of my clinical work from home, and go to my medical office only to see patients, maybe an hour or two a day. My medical office, even though also hard-wired to minimize RF/EMF, has EMF levels (ie, density) from 700 to 1500 microwatts per meter squared, presumably from wireless devices in adjoining tenants’ offices and perhaps from nearby cell towers and I typically experience difficulty sleeping if I’ve spent three or more hours in my office. I have done extensive RF/EMF measurements throughout various parts of my city, most of which have EMF density levels of at least 500, and often up to 2500 microwatts per meter squared. When I have prolonged exposure to an environment with these higher densities, such as my place of worship which reads 2000 to 3000 microwatts per meter squared, I always experience increased difficulty sleeping, along with increased daytime fatigue for the next two days. Perhaps an experience I had very early in the process of discovering my own reactions to wireless radiation will be helpful. I was attending a neighborhood meeting located on the top floor of a tall apartment building, roughly 20 stories tall. As participants got seated, the middle-aged woman next to me said that she was sensitive to RF/EMF, and that on the roof of this building (right above us) were situated an array of wireless antennae. She then proceeded to pull out an EMF meter to show me the readings, which were very high. In fact, she told me that she would need to leave the meeting before its conclusion to avoid excessive EMF exposure, which she did after thirty or forty minutes. I had never knowingly had this level of exposure, and was feeling no particular symptoms, so I attended the remainder of the two-hour meeting. Within a day or so, I felt exhausted, and it took another 3-4 days to fully recover. Surprisingly to me at the time, I began to notice similar symptoms whenever I was again exposed to excessive RF/EMF radiation. Clinically, it was behaving in a way familiar to any practicing physician; namely, now that my system had sustained injury, the injured system was more susceptible to that same type of injury. What follows is an explanation of how this process occurs on a microscopic level, with both a link to full explanation, as well as sound byte-style quick summary: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/09/electromagnetic-fields-harmful-effects.aspx • Exposure to microwave EMFs, like cellphones, causes massive mitochondrial dysfunction due to damage done by free radicals from peroxynitrite that also cause single and double stranded breaks in your DNA Excessive free radicals triggered by low-frequency microwave exposure from cellphones and Wi-Fi networks have been linked to chronic diseases such as cardiac arrhythmias, anxiety, depression, autism, Alzheimer’s and infertility Excessive calcium signaling produced by EMF exposures also has important roles in producing pathophysiological effects of EMFs including each of the effects listed above In summary, exposure to nearly ubiquitous RF/EMF radiation has nearly confined me to my own home, essentially imposing upon me excessive fatigue whenever I venture out to the community at large.

**651 days.** That's 1 year, 9 months and 12 days since I've left my house. Why? Because there isn't a street around me without overhead transmission lines or a cell tower either on it or within line of sight. Some people wonder how I remain sane, being such an active person. However, just driving five minutes to the beach — a beach with significant EMF exposure — can set my health back for days. I hope the people reviewing this are at least half as knowledgeable as I am about EMF measurement and monitoring, and have some understanding of just how high our dynamic background magnetic fields can be due to the power grid, along with the microwave radiation exposure from cell towers. The discomfort I experience outweighs any desire to live outside my house, which itself is far from perfect. I see myself as the opposite of *the Electric Man from Serbia*, **Slaviša Pajkić**, who is known for his ability to pass electrical current through his body and perform feats such as cooking a sausage using himself as a conductor. Our standards and regulations don't adequately consider people like me, who report being at the extreme end of sensitivity to these exposures. How did we get here? That's the question I have to repeatedly answer in my consultancy business, to mothers, searching for answers. *The Canary in the Coal Mine*

2. I represent myself as an individual 3A. My comment covers in home wifi, smart meters (both electric and gas), cell towers, and cell phones. All of which I have had on my property, including a tower which is still here on my property. 3B. My worst experience has been with Smart Meters. I had one on the gas meter which was against the exterior wall of the house. That same wall was the wall of my bedroom where my bed was located. So when I laid down my head was 3 feet from the meter. My house had burned down and during the rebuild these smart meters were installed on the infrastructure that was still located there. I had no experience with them before and when we moved into the rebuilt house my sleep was instantly disturbed. I thought it was the wifi or the tower which were also installed during this time and bought devices to help with emf reduction, including a faraday cloth over my entire bed. And things worked in small increments. I had not realized the gas meter was also changed to smart and lived with that for 5 years. Just this summer I had both smart meters (elect and gas) removed and instantly my sleep was back to normal. Under the influence of the emf my sleep was agitated with lots of waking up with my heart racing and then no matter how long I layed in bed I woke up with baggy eyes not feeling rested. I would spend time on the couch in a different room and sleep much better but my back was not as comfortable there as in my bed. Interior wifi has also disturbed my sleep. I removed all wifi from the house, and now have it through repeaters using Eero which lands outside the house on the porch and I can plug in repeaters inside the house when I need to. Then unplug them when finished. This has been happening for 6 years. My cell phone also disturbs my sleep. So I charge it at the furthest point away from me across my room. I cannot use my cell phone on my ear because the ear and behind it heat up to an uncomfortable level. I use the phone on speaker and hold it away from my body. This has been going on since my first cell phone in 2000. I have a cell tower on my property as well and it is adding to the lack of rest I experience, though now so much better without the smart meter. There is a noticeable agitation while on my property that I do not notice when I am elsewhere and it was not like that here before the tower went up on 2016. I’ve been living here since 2007. 3C. My sensitivity to this increased exposure to emf has produced a feeling that I am getting dementia. My ability to concentrate has diminished. My ability to hold a short term memory has diminished. And some of my cognitive abilities have diminished. All in a short amount of time that correlates to the above mentioned exposures. Lack of sleep and loss of income from less productive time have been my experiences as well. 3D. I first noticed poor sleep when the cell tower was installed in 2016. Then when we moved into our rebuilt house in 2019 the effects became much more severe. That was when my head was near the smart meter, and this was the most intense acute exposure I experienced. 3E. Yes I sought several doctors. I used an MD who wasn’t very helpful, then an Ayervedic doctor which helped using herbs, but the best was an anti-inflammation diet though an MD who was also a naturopath working on mold and emf stress. These helped me feel better but did not remove the problem. 3F. Yes I first moved my phone charging station the furthest away from my bed possible and that helped me feel better. Then I used a plug in emf reducing device and that helped me feel better. Also the faraday cloth around my bed. Each of these brought small incremental improvements. But removing the smart meter was an incredible relief and it was noticeable in the first evening. 5. The website at cell phone task force needs to be considered for the data and information it reports on: https://www.cellphonetaskforce.international/ Also, Green Med Info contains many peer reviewed science articles about this: https://greenmedinfo.com/ And: https://greenmedinfo.com/problematic-action/electromagnetic-field-harms?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 5.N. A more comprehensive study needs to be done. EMF’s have been released upon the public without a full study of their effects. And especially, 5G amounts to an complete change in technology from the previous 1-4G which were not fully studied. 5G exacerbates the level of unknown about the strength and affect on the human body as well as on the natural ecosphere. This exposure also needs to be looked at as regards the satellites that are covering the planet with the same energies. 12. https://greenmedinfo.com/problematic-action/electromagnetic-field-harms?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 18. a published federal evidence review of the existing literature, with a timetable

I AM SURROUNDED BY 9 unregulated macro towers Since they were secretly installed DIRECTLY OVER my home , my office and my animal Sanctuary MY ANIMALS ARE DYING ! I AM NOW SICK . My family members are sick , MY NEIGHBORS ARE DYING rapidly. It began when the towers went live , I started having heart palpitations, heart pain , fluttering in my chest . Ringing in my ears, terrible headaches, vertigo , blurry vision , terrible body pain , EXTREME fatigue,, memory loss, mood swings , nausea, vomiting and so much more that has effected how I live daily . THIS IS NOW MY EVERY DAY LIFE . I was diagnosed with radiation poisoning, then electromagnetic radiation syndrome. There are unregulated towers on every corner in HOUMA LOUISIANA, Entergy forced a smart meter on my home , I now must use EMF / RF PROTECTION TO LEAVE MY HOME , MY HOME , MY BARN had to be completely covered with EMF protection for me to even be there . I AM NOW EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO ALL RF / EMF frequency, electricity or electrical waves of any kind . Walking in a room with a router makes me instantly SICK or walking outside in the towers frequency around me . My family members are now sick . The towers around us were not regulated, the smart meters they forced on our homes are not regulated. And I am now told OH WELL , You being very sick is not our problem Because THE FCC allows whatever it is we wish to install . Now I live a life I never thought could happen , I can not leave my safe areas without full EMF PROTECTION , I can not go to my barn or office as I did before , my horses are dying INSTANTLY UNDER THE TOWERS, my tortises were going blind and my small animals all DIED , 9 of my neighbors have died on ONE STREET since the towers went live . THE LOCAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT ALLOWD MORE THAN 100 Unregulated towers in our small town . My community is VERY SICK , AND DYING , CLUSTERS OF RESIDENTS ARE DYING UNDER THE TOWERS & WITH UNREGULATED SMART METERS forced on our homes . WITH ZERO REGULATORY STANDARDS, The death and destruction from unregulated RADIATION HAS BEEN CATASTROPHIC. WE NEED HELP . So many of my neighbors are very sick , others are DYING RAPIDLY. Of CANCER or a host of radiation exposure related illness . WITHOUT VERY STRICT REGULATION ON RF RADIATION FOR ALL PRODUCTS, Everyone , EVERY CHILD is faced with a lifetime of illness and death . Safe technology MUST BE THE STANDARD not something we must beg for .

Cant be near any wireless items since 14 years now. Get disisiness, headaces, noisia, heartproblems and many more symtoms. Have to live by my one in the countryside and avoid other people and houses because of all radiation around them. Its a very hard life! I am totally alone, no help or support. Just a pennpall sitting in the same situation but to far away to be able to visit each other. Swedish Authorities says radiation from devices not can be harmful. But we are many who knows, our bodies tells the troth!