Heart symptoms & implanted devices

First, thank you for opening doors to this discussion. In 2014, Rudolf Steiner Books published my book, An Electronic Silent Spring. It cited 200+ peer-reviewed studies about the biological effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by wireless devices and telecom infrastructure. First person accounts related to these studies. It reported the 1996 Telecom Act’s Section 704; the FCC’s definition of “harmful interference” (interference with existing broadcasts—NOT biology; FCC’s 2013 reclassifying the outer ear as an extremity so that mobile devices near it are allowed a Specific Absorption Rate of 4.0 W/kg, higher than the 1.6 W/kg allowed for non-extremities such as the head. Solutions included Whitney North Seymour’s amendment to Section 704. Dr. Gary Olhoeft advised me. He taught electrical engineering and geophysics at Colorado School of Mines for decades. In 2009, he got a deep brain stimulator (DBS) to ease his Parkinson’s symptoms—and experienced significant interference between his DBS and EMR-emitting devices. About 10% of Americans have a medical implant. Fewer than 0.5% of these devices have been tested in rigorous clinical trials. “Implantable Material and Device Regulation” Sept. 2021, Vol. 23, No. 9; E667-756, AMA Journal of Ethics. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/sites/joedb/files/2021-08/joe-2109_2.pdf How do EMR emissions from mobile phones, laptops, iPods, cellular antennas, smart utility meters, Wi-Fi, e-vehicles and transformers affect medical implants (deep brain stimulators, cardiac pacemakers, orthopedic devices, cochlear implants, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps) and people with implants? Here are a few related studies: Implanted medical devices in workers exposed to radio-frequency radiation (B. Hocking, 1991). How exposure to EMR may increase heat load and/or produce signal interference to orthopedic devices, cardiac pacemakers and cochlear implants. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2047801/ A review of radiofrequency-induced heating challenge caused to medical implants during MRI procedures. AS Afolabi, 2025. J. of Eelctrical Systems and Information Technology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s43067-025-00264-3 Neurostimulators and Radiation Therapy: Is there any risk? H. Rida, 2025. Discusses safety guidelines in patients undergoing radiation therapy. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1879850024002790 American Heart Association’s post about devices that may interfere with defibrilators and pacemakers. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/arrhythmia/prevention--treatment-of-arrhythmia/devices-that-may-interfere-with-icds-and-pacemakers Electromagnetic interference can lead a pacemaker to misread the heart’s beats. Prolonged or intense EMI can damage the pacemaker’s circuitry. https://forhearts.org/pacemakers-and-electromagnetic-interference-what-you-need-to-know/ I attach my book, its chapter 6 and testimony from Dr. Olhoeft and a woman with Type 1 diabetes. In creating discussion about the effects of EMR exposure, what are your goals? While everyone lives with laws that make environment (and health) considerations illegal, landlines are being eliminated, and more cell towers, smart meters, chromebooks and e-vehicles are deployed we need education about living with EMR exposure. We need to learn and respect nature’s cycles and to care for ourselves in EMR-saturated environments. We need forums that welcome questions; statutes that respect biological impacts; and opt-outs.

Thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you the effects I have experienced from adverse electromagnetic fields and to share the mitigations I have used to protect myself and others. May this lead to a safer, healthier world. -- financial costs from acting on that conviction. Electric Vehicle I bought at 2017 Bolt EV on January 5, 2018 for $42,428. I love the car! But within several months I realized I was becoming disoriented when driving it. At one point I was lost in my own neighborhood. I had been hearing about the adverse effects of radio frequency (RF), so I purchased an EMFields Acousticom 2, which displays RF in volts/meter. Inside the Bolt, the meter showed red light warnings of 3 to 6 V/m. I turn everything off that seemed a possible cause for that reading but nothing changed. I took the car to the Napa Chevy dealer where the technician was also unable to reduce the RF. He called back to Michigan where they told him that the RF could not be turned off because the car would not work. [Around the house I had started thinking I was getting old because tying my slipper laces had become complicated. After I quit driving the bolt tying my slipper laces once again became quite easy.] For someone who was not as aware as I was, they could have been diagnosed with dementia with the real cause unknown! My brain was much more valuable than the car, so on 8/21/2020 I sold the car for $17,500 losing $24,959 SOLAR In the spring of 2018 I paid $19,350 for the installation of 16 solar panels. The installation included an Enphase solar reporting system with a clever app that would tell you how much each of your panels were producing and when. HVAC Heat pumps are energy efficient heating and cooling systems. In May 2018 I paid for a ducted Fujitsu mini split HVAC system. Between the solar and the HVAC, our PG&E bill was reduced and I was happy we were doing our part to reduce climate change. RF SAFE HOME? BY 2022 I was having adverse reactions to RF. I had done everything I could to create an RF safe home. All of our devices we’re connected via Ethernet. My cell phone was always either off or in airplane mode. An Ethernet adapter allowed me to send email and photos from my phone. Because I have a MacBook I could even send and receive texts from other iPhones. I am grateful for my husband’s understanding and for family and friends who supported me by turning off their phones whenever they came to visit. But my RF sensitivity was getting worse. I was having difficulty tolerating the cell phones and Wi-Fi where we have loved to dance and socialize. For my 80th birthday in 2023, I even paid for the cover charge for 50+ dancers with the ask that everyone keep their cell phones off or in airplane mode. Everyone had a good time, and until then many of the people had no idea that there could be any harm from a cell phone. Thanks to 5G, I was completely unable to tolerate attending our grandson’s football games where my brain would become paralyzed and there was intense pressure in my heart when I was around people who were recording and uploading videos to the internet as they were taking them. BUILDING BIOLOGIST TO THE RESCUE Eric Windheim, a building biologist, did his first assessment here 12/28/23. He immediately discovered our Enphase solar reporting system and our “clean energy” Fujitsu mini split HVAC we’re radiating huge amounts of dirty electricity (DE) which were riding on our 110 electrical wires. As soon the circuit breakers for those two systems were turned off, my whole body felt relief from the tension I didn’t even know I had. The Enphase breakers have remained off, and I was able to confirm, through the PG & E website, that we are getting credit for our solar. The Enphase reporting system is unnecessary. fireplace and electric space heaters. Fortunately, our solar micro inverters we are much cleaner than large central inverters which have caused DE problems in earlier days.

Aires response to HHS RFI HHS-OASH-2026-0397 For more than three decades, the Aires research program has pursued one enduring objective: to engineer electromagnetic environments that support biological function. Its documented history extends to 1992, connecting early patterned materials and optical filters with successive silicon resonators and biological investigations. The attached response presents this connected research lineage. The primary record identifies more than 50 named authors and researchers, 15 academic, medical and research institutions represented through testing sites or author affiliations, and contributions from Russia, Lithuania and Canada. The archive review encompassed 97 research-related records, including translations, related versions and background materials. The response organizes its research and contextual sources into 44 reference entries; related publications of one experiment are identified as a research family. The breadth is central to our contribution: human EEG, ECG and heart-rate variability; human erythrocytes tested outside the body for osmotic response using laser diffraction; chromosome abnormalities in rat bone-marrow cells; rat behavior, learning, memory and blood parameters; honeybee feeding, memory and brain hsp70 gene expression; and goldfish movement. Water conductivity and infrared investigations, liquid crystals, thin films, patterned silicon, direct RF measurements and electromagnetic models supply the complementary physical research. To evaluate an intervention, researchers also investigated the exposure response itself. Mobile-phone and Wi-Fi protocols therefore contribute evidence about biological responses under specified exposures and about what changes when an Aires device is introduced. Repeated rat bone-marrow investigations reported increased chromosome abnormalities with router exposure and reductions with resonators. Other studies examine physiological regulation, susceptibility, recovery, behavior and molecular response in their respective biological settings. More than two decades of EEG and HRV investigations connect early patterned-material and optical-filter work with later phone-exposure protocols and personal-device studies. Across this sequence, investigators examined baseline state, brain activity, autonomic regulation and recovery. The response presents this human research as a connected program, with study-specific comparisons and findings retained in Appendix B. The response addresses Questions 2, 4, 5(n)-(p), 7-18, with the full research story under Questions 4 and 18. Question 12 discusses assessment against federal exposure limits without assuming that every experiment supplies the same dosimetric information. Traceable publications include the 2019 Ecological Genetics rat bone-marrow study (DOI 10.17816/ecogen17283-92), the 2020 Integrative Physiology honeybee study (DOI 10.33910/2687-1270-2020-1-3-231-241), the 2018 Lithuanian conference investigation of gigahertz fields, and Springer ICICT proceedings on semiconductor modeling (DOI 10.1007/978-981-19-1607-6_7) and 2026 thermal characterization (DOI 10.1007/978-3-032-28964-3_5). The attachment contains 44 references identifying journal articles, conference publications, technical reports and other source types. We request a technical briefing with the HHS team responsible for this RFI and relevant scientific staff at FDA, NIH and CDC to examine the research lineage, review exposure-and-intervention protocols, and identify coordinated physical and biological investigations. We ask HHS to include engineered electromagnetic environments and field-modulation technologies in its research priorities, including evaluation in personal device use, occupied spaces and equipment integration. Aires brings an accumulated experimental record and practical experience developing successive technology generations. We invite HHS to engage with us on how that record can inform its assessment of RF/EMF exposure and its next research priorities. For follow-up and a technical briefing: Josh Bruni, CEO, Aires, josh@airestech.com. Public evidence index: https://airestech.com/pages/hhs-emf-evidence-2026

In Spring of 2020 I became very sick! I lived in Beverly Hills and had heard that the roll out of the new 5G technology within the Los Angeles area was happening at that time. I’d heard about the dangers of this new technology about 4 or 5 years prior. As I noticed changes in my body’s health I knew it was from these new frequencies. I had explained the situation and onset of symptoms but your box here said it was too long. So I'm happy to share more details if you want to contact me. Summary: Over the course of a month I had a gradual increase of symptoms from what I believe was this new 5G switch-on. The only way to survive it was to leave town. I tested my theory and it worked, but my symptoms came back when I went back home that day. I knew if I stayed I'd die, so I had to leave town for a long duration. In a sense I became an EMF refugee. Symptoms: Sudden pain in chest, had the instinct to breathe deeply to make sure I was still alive and still breathing (unusual for me) Slow increase in feeling a pressure or constriction in my chest area and lungs. And increasingly labored breathing. Increasingly feeling physically weak and lightheaded. Tingly all over body, almost a buzzing feeling, on my skin and in my muscles and organs, definitely feeling an intense strange external energy all over my body. I began having trouble sleeping. Occasional dry cough, raspy voice. Mild and later increased scattered thinking. Further labored breathing and pain! Decreased feeling of circulation throughout my body. Reduced appetite, and dehydration. Dry and cracking lips. Headaches and reduced tolerance for noise or talking even at low volume. Emotional nervous system breakdown w/ less patience, heavy brain fog. The buzzing turned into a shaky feeling that doesn’t seem to go away 24/7. Turned into eyeballs and teeth buzzing and shaking. ~~ My cell phone is an old iPhone 6S. I didn’t like that they removed the aux jack in subsequent models. Many years before my EMF sensitivity I had an intuitive caution about wireless earbuds; inviting wireless frequencies to come that close to my brain always seemed like a bad idea. I wondered why I hadn’t had many problems using my phone, but when I looked it up, it seems the phone is too old to be compatible w/ this new technology. So even though I had the above extreme reaction to the switch-on of the 5G frequencies, I did not have problems carrying a receiver in my pocket from my phone. The phone does heat up and transfer that heat to my hand if I use it too long. I’m careful not to use it too much, or if I need to, I don’t hold it in my hands. ~~ In Summer of 2023 I was traveling through Austin, TX. I stayed at: Hampton Inn Austin/Oak Hill 6401 US-290, Austin, TX 78735 I had the same buzzing and energy draining experience at this hotel and wrote a 1-star review on Google, linked below. This hotel is right next door to a Substation, as shown in the attached photo taken out the window of my hotel room. I don’t write reviews often, but this needed to be mentioned so others were aware. Couldn't include the link. ~~ Trucks & engines: I’ve had my heartbeat interrupted by the idling engine of large-engine trucks. It also happens as they drive by, but idling seems to be much worse for me. I cannot confirm if it is simply because the engine is stationary and thus I’m getting hit by the frequencies constantly, as opposed to a truck in motion that will increase then decrease as it passes, or if the idling engine produces a slightly different frequency and that is what effects me. It’s also happened with a gas-powered generators (the kind used in Florida during hurricane season). The idling of a powerful engine puts out some frequency that overpowers my heart and causes it to skip beats and almost stop altogether. It’s very scary! I’ve had an EKG and xrays and doctors say my heart looks fine. I KNOW the problem is caused by the frequencies of these powerful engines when I’m nearby. ~~ “Dirty electricity”: I’ve also had similar symptoms from living in a house w/ what’s known as “dirty electricity”. I can also hear it buzzing at ports of machines or outlets. The bedroom I had in this house was by the garage where the entire house’s wiring meets and connects to the breaker-box. The walls and ceiling were just covered in wires from all over the house and I was bombarded by the off-loading of this electricity trail. It was hard living there and I had problems the whole time. Unable to move as immediately as I wish I could have, I bought some Grounding products that helped me Ground the electricity surging through my body; I also actual grounded myself barefoot in the grass. ~~ Many of us have been forced to seek “disconnected” products and ways of life. We need better industry guidelines throughout various industries! We also need education for those who aren’t as sensitive and don’t understand this invisible danger in our midst.

In early 2021, both adults in my household began experiencing a mysterious raft of ongoing and debilitating health problems with no obvious cause. We experienced chaotic changes in blood pressure, dizziness and brain fog, chronic fatigue, loss of control over muscle tension, unrestorative sleep, memory problems, lack of focus, and persistent feelings of doom. Most mysteriously, our symptoms would resolve when temporarily relocating to remote areas, but we were in no position to make any such move permanent. After experiencing such severe and prolonged symptoms that I was no longer able to work---after over a decade providing my family's primary income---I spent my available energy seeking medical help to try to understand the cause of all our troubles. After two years, I made a series of shocking discoveries: (1) that our symptoms strongly matched those of sufferers of microwave syndrome, discovered decades before, but paid little attention by the medical profession; (2) that the time our symptoms appeared coincided with the rollout of 5G networks in our community; (3) that researchers all over the world had connected reports of similar suffering to the deployment of 5G networks; and most terribly, (4) that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission had pointedly ignored this research, even in defiance of federal court orders that they give it due consideration. When I became a licensed amateur radio operator as a child, I was taught that the FCC maintained evidence-based radio frequency exposure standards to protect public health and welfare while facilitating effective communications. Recent events have made clear that the FCC no longer maintains either expertise or interest in the first of these goals, while its close relationships with telecommunications companies have compromised even its ability to follow the most basic directives of the law. With the massive increase in radio frequency exposures now pervading our country, it is clear that protecting people and other organisms from electromagnetic pollution should become primary responsibilities of the agencies charged with caring for human health and the environment, HHS and EPA. Today my children suffer concerning sleep disruptions that make me worry for their healthy development---yet another characteristic sign of microwave syndrome. I have tried to find a way to measure the electromagnetic pollution where we live, but I found that equipment able to distinguish individual sources of radiation at 5G frequencies costs tens of thousands of dollars. We may ultimately be forced to uproot ourselves from our community---our families, friends, schools, and remaining source of income---in order to find a place where we can be safe and fully alive once more. It devastates me to think how our government has failed us and so many other families in the single-minded pursuit of technological advancement at all costs, ignoring the scientific process that has allowed our society to manage progress in the past. For your reference, I am attaching below two scientific publications representative of hundreds more in their respective categories. The first is a case report documenting the clear association between 5G station deployment and debilitating microwave syndrome symptoms in the two adults of another household in Sweden, beginning also in 2021. The second is a review article documenting that the FCC's current exposure limits are based on wishful assumptions rather than consideration of scientific evidence. These are but two samples from a vast scientific literature that has been sidelined in the rush to deploy faster and faster wireless networks. I call on HHS to take charge of a new, scientifically honest program to reevaluate and regulate environmental exposure to man-made electromagnetic radiation. For every American who experiences an added convenience shaving seconds off a gigabyte mobile download, there is one suffering in silence whose life has been shattered by a poisonous force they cannot even see.

Since the over population of towers during the pandemic, the delirious effects of microwave technology has erroded my physical and mental well-being. I have had a string of adverse events from exposure within 1-2 miles of these RF towers and antenna to the point where I actually have to avoid places I once enjoyed visiting. Nothing has been the same. Everything, everywhere has become so inundated with this technology, that I feel the affects of it even with my phone turned off I see how it degraded and erroded the physical and natural structures around it, which is deeply concerning. I feel the effects of the thermal heating, subcutaneous and neurological impacts and overall disruption in my biological systems when I am near them. The regulations are way behind the times, and our future depends on an rigourous intervention that prevents further harm from all Living things, and the health of all populations regardless of where you live. RF has become overly invasive and we are at a turning point in history. I spent my entire summer with chronic issues due to these recent upgrades in my areas. I suffered through days of profound anxiety, insomnia, exhaustion, depression, heart issues, rashes, headaches, shingles, brain fog and the list goes on. At one point, I even thought I was going to have to move! Please HHS, this has to far... and I think 6G could do devastating harm if the appropriate regulations are not out into place right away. Set back requirements, tower limits, residential restrictions, and hotel accommodations for the sensitive, and non invasive tech in rentals should all be considered. The overload of RF is making us all sick and tired. Thank you for your attention to this and for taking action now.

My life has been turned upside down ever since the 5G mast was installed near my home. From that moment on, I began experiencing serious health problems that I associate with exposure to electromagnetic radiation. My symptoms, including tinnitus, dizziness, heart palpitations, breathlessness, sleep disturbances and concentration problems, have made everyday life increasingly difficult. Eventually, I felt forced to leave my home and the life I had built. I lost my stability, my belongings, my financial security and the feeling of having a place in this world where I could live in peace. I have been fighting to get my life back, but instead of receiving the understanding and support I desperately need, I have found myself struggling to survive. I have lost so much: my home, my peace of mind, my health and my sense of security. I am exhausted from constantly having to fight just to keep going. I never wanted this life, and I never imagined I would end up in this situation. I am still fighting, even when it feels as though everything is slipping away from me. All I want is to recover, to live somewhere I can feel safe, and to rebuild the life I had before everything changed. I want my life back.

See attached file(s) My life my sleep is interrupted numerous times each night since smart meters we installed at large all over NY. I live in a bldg with 60 smart meters. I personally opted out and my actual usage is obtainable; but I am continually botherec by EMF that is very intrusive. I am a Pharmacist studying for Lifestyle Medicine Board Certification exam because I no longer am able to take Perdiem jobs because I get woken up to many times each night. My suggestion is to ask the candidate fo NYS comptroller Joseph Hernandez to present valuable information to consider. Compare medication usage, prescriptions written and filled for blood pressure meds and insomnia meds between 2010-2019 and compare to prescription prescribing spending usage 2019-2026. The increase in prescriptions and diagnoses between two time frames is because almost everyone, almost every household got smart meters installed in 2019 and since then everyone is being woken up at night with blood pressure or arrhythmia symptoms that are triggered by smart meter signals. Smart meters are costing US prescription expenses and expenses for related services needed. Re Regulations: Smart meter monitoring should not be allowed from 8pm to 8am. If we want people to be well, we as a society need to shut down electronic energy during the night and get deep restorative sleep. Contact Joseph Hernandez (NYS candidate for Comptroller) for all financial data related to health spending in NYS. Please research how ConEdison and other energy company smart meter monitoring continually at all hours has effected health status in the past 2 decades I assert current prescription expenses are because of EMF usage at all hours.. Comparing prescription writing, From 2010-2019 and from 2019 to now. Contact Joseph Hernandez (NYS candidate for Comptroller) for all financial data related to health spending in NYS. Please research how ConEdison and other energy company smart meter monitoring continually at all hours has effected health status in the past 2 decades I assert current prescription expenses are because of EMF usage at all hours.. Comparing prescription writing, medication usage and healthcare expenses in NYS from 2010-2019 compared to 2019 to present. Thank you for your time and consideration. Rivka Robbin Freeman RPh Nutrition's pharmacist

wireless devices exposures IPAD, WIFI 5G installed at work, 4G cell phone adverse health effects-gut inflammation, nerve damage, pain in head dizziness, heart palpations all health effects and exposures as standard guidelines evidence that exists-information from the 5-G summit transcripts book from the 5-G summit exposure related information ALL should be disclosed for the comsumer exposure assessment-older adults health decline with age evidence that exists for adverse health effects-5-G summit transcript book written in 2020 technologies that effect exposure patterns-5-G nerve circulation, WiFi head dizziness heart palpation's, numbness research gap health agencies should look at mental, physical, and health environments agencies improve coordination of EMF and RF -public education, and label warnings, medical office testing Please look into this as the EMF exposures are increasing globally, and it is effecting a small population now what will it look like in 5 years as the broadband increase and the demand increase for more.

I am describing my personal experience:  In January 2019 I moved into a house with a broadcasting smart meter. Soon after, I experienced an immediate decline in my health. I noticed headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, exhaustion, sleep problems, leg cramps, chest pains, joint aches, anxiety, whole body buzzing sensations, rashes, loss of bladder control, tingling in the extremities, irritability, inability to concentrate, and agitation. I was unable to find a doctor who could help me.                      My life has changed in almost uncountable ways since my experience of living in a house with a smart meter. Getting it removed didn't make it be as if it had never been there although the new non-broadcasting opt-out meter's arrival meant that things stopped getting worse.        I used to be able to drive, ride a bicycle, walk on a road with houses on it, take public transportation, and go to places where people are. I can't any more because I can't be where there are cell phones, smart meters, WiFi, or power lines without experiencing pain, tinnitus, headaches, and aching joints. It takes several days to recover if I absolutely have to go into town (for medical appointments).  I used to be able to do all these things, and more. When I say I can't do things I mean the price is too high. I'd rather sit in the dark than turn on the light, for example, not because the small jolt I feel is excruciating but because it takes a while to recover from it and because avoiding these stressors means I might not get worse and I might improve. (Other, larger, devices give more discomfort, sometimes a lot more). I used to be able to use a toaster, a coffee grinder, a waffle iron, a blender, a food processor, an insinkerator, a flashlight, an electric shaver, a vibrator, a computer keyboard, a cordless phone, a cell phone, a laptop, a digital camera, a cook stove, a refrigerator, an electric blanket, a pellet stove, a heating pad, an air conditioner, a television, a DVD player, a ceiling fan, a floor fan, a dishwasher, a laundry machine, an iron, a vacuum cleaner, a lawn mower.  How do I live? I don't do these things at all or I get someone to do them for me or I create Rube Goldberg machines or scenarios to get around it. I turn on a lamp by holding an iced tea spoon with a reacher-grabber device so I can touch the spoon to the capacitive light switch on my battery-powered lamp. For years, if I wanted something from the fridge I'd only get it if someone brought it to me, I couldn't even be in the same room as the refrigerator. Now the fridge has been converted to an icebox and a quarter of the space is taken up by ice. I'm glamping in my home. It's often cold and dark.               That's not all I lost. I became dependent on others for help. I can't visit people in their houses. If I see people they have to come to my home. I couldn't fly to visit my father when he was dying. Or go on trips with my family Or go to a store. Or a movie, or a play or a park, or the sea. Or a museum or a library. or go to a protest, do jury duty or vote. I am so grateful to be able to vote by mail, now. (And get some of my medical care remotely.)                      It's now October 2026 and I still struggle with the sequelae from living with a smart meter for a few months more than seven years ago.