Electromagnetic sensitivity

HHS, I am someone who has seen more harms and disease via wireless technologies than most. I am electrosensitive; my grandpa told me of my inherited ability to sense energies when we were close during his lifetime; turns out we are sensitive to human energy and EMF. My grandparents lived on acreage WA. Wireless coverage was poor but existed. Acreage was sold to a wireless company by a neighboring farm, & a large cell tower was installed on the property next to my grandparents' house. "Coincidentally," after tower installation, my grandma began to have memory problems, which she not had before, and leg swelling that was also ususual. My grandpa began to have bad insomnia; sleep disturbances contributed to his dementia, developing over the following years. My grandpa & grandma had personality changes, with new memory impairment, and physical symptoms, including inability to sleep, right after tower installation next to their property. Before this period, they were unusually high functioning cognitively for their age, which they attributed to God and eating mostly plant based diets. Yet for grandparents, the age related decline often seems to be, at least partly the result of new technology around them, yet harms can be put off as age related. During my years as a caregiver, I saw clients from all backgrounds & diseases, but most were over 60. Every time there was dementia, or new mental impairment, like sudden memory problems, I saw the introduction of new tech into their lives: tower facing room, wifi in their room, new smart phone/5g. There was a connection every time; elderly are vulerable groups to diseases & harms causes by EMF's. Now about me: 1st time I sensed RF-EMF directly aware was from my phone that disturbed me. I was 12, and I got my first flip phone; I awoke from sleep literally 1 second BEFORE ringing began. Pattern repeated: I noticed the phone is waking me up, but what is waking me up is something other than light or sound. ITS THE RADATION! Over the years, I began to become more and more SENSITIVE to radiation/EMF. After vaccine injury @13, where I received 2 vaccines containing aluminum & mercury, I had a very bad reaction, physical & psychological. At the time, people tried to convince me my reactions were psychological, but the treatments for such did not help but made everything worse. Some told me there was so way I can be vaccine injured. Yet I chose to not finish vaccine series, when I found out death, paralysis, or premature menopause resulted for many (gardasil). Physical symptoms were significant, but psychological symptoms fit the pattern of aluminum poisoning, combined with EMF: whenever outside home, especially my room, coincidentally farthest away from Wifi & under ceiling with metal pipes in it, I would become anxious or not want to be around people; being in public made me feel like I was literally being electrocuted! Now I see why, years after researching my own health problems, which caused me to find natural solutions on my own... Yet the process took years; I had setbacks many times, & I must admit some were due to more disease causing radiation & EMF's. 2020: both grandmas died; I lived with one of them, & I stayed there awhile after she died. 5G cell is placed on the roof of the house next door--why do they allow such harmful proximity to EMF? After 5G cell, I was unable to RELAX or go to SLEEP until after 12am--I was up right at 7 every morning, unable to sleep in no matter how hard I tried. Melatonin helped some but did not undo symptoms. EMF meter I had measured: off time was 12am & went back on at 7am. My health suffered from the 5g cell; bad insomnia, anxiety, depression, disorganization, headache, malabsorption & pain. After moving, I was unable to not live in houses by a cell tower for years; I mitigated damage by: living in the basement, not having wifi near me, using my phone less/a few hours/turning on airplane mode if not using/off during sleep! Yet, being around Wifi, living near cell towers, hurt my health & mostly mentally. After 2 years, finally living with low radiation, I see health recover, yet I have pain & symptoms recur if around too much EMF: insomnia, headaches, anxiety, depression, fogginess, disorganization, joint pain, irritability, numbness. Daily I see how decreasing EMF helps my health--I want to help others see damages being done to their health by EMF! EMF's daily exposure, controlling as much as possible, I was able to heal. Writing my letter on airplane mode, I can think better. In nature, I can be my full self: no EMF. Interference to human connection is EMF too! Important: every time near cell tower, or wifi modem, or a lot of computers, I feel pain to some degree--radiation mostly alters how I feel, thinking, or sleep. Yet great research exists showing health harms caused by EMF. Please help us! Dr. Martin Pall is one of the foremost researchers on EMF's--PDF 90+ pages of quality research is found on: radiationresearch.org.

2. I am a Speech-Language Pathologist with a Master of Science. I have suffered with EHS (Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity) for the past 5 years. 3a. This includes adverse effects from mostly all EMF exposure (cell phone towers, cell phones, Wifi, smart cars, electric cars, intersection radar, supermarket automatic doors, dirty electricity from household electric sockets, lamps, computers, extension chords, etc.). I’ve had to quit my job and sell my house to survive 3c. Health effects and symptoms included nerve and gut damage, piercing pain near my left temple, burning sensation when holding my phone, pain when driving through intersections, chronic fatigue, malaise, inability to digest food, ringing in ears, etc. 3f. These symptoms dissipated with reducing EMF exposure through silver canopies and clothing, removing heavy metal from my system and allowing my body to heal from the exposure. 6. & 12. I’ve spent the last 5 years researching EHS and EMF to gain understanding and solutions; having read over 300 peer-reviewed, related and near related articles to date. 15. Scientific evidence NOT funded by communication companies, cell phone companies, etc. should be used to avoid biased based on financial gain. 16. A comprehensive review and collection of all the adverse biological effects of EMF; how it affects the human cell, bodily organs, bodily systems and global interactions between the body’s subsystems. 18. Select research articles attached below:

Hello, I am an American born U.S. Citizen of 56 yrs. old and along with my wife have raised a beautiful family of four in this wonderful country. At least it was wonderful for us until about 6-7 years ago. We had built a house and gardens and a good life in Willits, Ca.. AT&T and T-Mobil wanted to put a cell tower in our rural neighborhood-basically right on top of us. Our neighborhood opposed this tower-77% were against 33% for. We petitioned the county planning and supervisors to deny the tower approval to the telecom companies and to give us fiber-optic line instead. They had fiber all the way to the tower site and could have given us safe broadband easily but a tower is cheaper and makes more profit for them. We attempted to share our medical issues and health concerns with them but were told that they would be struck from the record and not considered because of the 1996 telecommunications act-health issues were not valid according to this arbitrary and capricious act. So we tried to show how it was ugly-they said they would make it look like a fake tree-we showed that they had placed it 5ft. too close to a residence to pass code-they changed the code to allow five more feet . Sneaky, behind the closed door bullshit! They built the tower in complete disregard to the people's wishes-the overwhelming majority-77% said no/twice 77% -In any American election or vote 77% is a majority-hands down. At least this is how I believed we did things in America. Now I know better. Since that time my family and I have all realized that the major health issues we have has been due to the EMR in our environment. We were forced to leave our home we built and have been living in a R.V. down in a creek zone where there is no cell service. We cannot work jobs, go out to eat, go see a movie or music concerts with out becoming ill and having to take days to recover. We cannot engage in modern American life anymore-we are isolated and alone without any real way to make an income. Our children cannot even attend school or go to college let alone travel anywhere. We are currently looking into the American disabilities act for compensation-there have been a few individuals that have been awarded lifetime compensation due to their EHS and inability to create an income and must stay at home. If this is the only way to afford living here then we must pursue the ADA claim. I do not want to do so-I would rather be able to work and be in society. The health effects are real and devastating. My family is living through them at this very minute-We are seeing a doctor for EHS and know 100% that the effect are not psychosomatic. I implore you to look at the real science-not the telecom funded b.s. and lies they have been feeding us. The future of our country, children and environment depend on diminishing the high levels of EMF's we are currently being poisoned with 24/7. We can still have high speeds and keep pace with the world of commerce if we can regulate and make this technology safer. My family could even participate in American life once again. Please do your job and help the people! By the people? For the people? Please live up to true American values-not big business! Thank you, Rain Youngstrom

I have been affected by living in a house with black mold. along with living within less than half a mile from a 5G Tower .03 mil from my house in Decatur, Illinois. They also had installed a "Smart wireless meter" in the room I was in. Now I am Electro-Sensitive for 20 years, progressively getting worse over a 20 year span. I currently have to live outside the cities and towns, and away from cell towers and without electricity. It's very difficult to survive. Every day is a fight for my life and I cannot stay inside the cities for very long periods at a time. It makes surviving and living more difficult and has not been easy to deal with this way of life. For 4 years I have lived outside of the cities and towns, completely. Before that I was still inside the city while my symptoms continued to get worse. I currently am in the forest and mountains. This has not been easy to find a solution to or heal from, i have tried many different things, but not much has worked. It continues to be the biggest challenge I have faced, having severe symptoms associated with EMF's and Microwaves, Electric & Magnetic fields. I do not have much help and every day is a struggle. Thank you for reading my comment.

Dear Department of Health and Human Services: I am writing to ask that you to create Public Service Announcements to help educate and support the public in reducing their exposure to man-made Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), including WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular antennas, towers, etc. I am also writing to ask you to create regulations to help reduce the amount of man-made EMFs that are allowed in the public environment including: removing cell antennas and towers from schools, residential areas, shopping centers, and all highly populated areas; having all buildings hardwired with Ethernet internet access for all computers and phones; require industry to create hard-wired equivalent products for those who want to and need to reduced their man-made EMF load. Please ask Industry to: only use Infrared technology for remote controls; bring back hardwired options of stereos, headsets and all electronic devices; have non-SMART options for ALL appliances; have Ethernet ports in computers and laptops; have headphone jacks in computers, laptops and phones. Many years ago I rented an office across the street from a building that had cell antennas attached to its roof line. A window in my office had a direct line of site to one of the cell antennas. Over the years I developed symptoms of radio-frequency illness. I developed rashes on different parts of my body, fatigue, severe dry eye pains, severe lower leg cramps, tinnitus, loss of short term memory, inability to recall words/names, inability for my body to regulate heat, heart palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, headaches, joint pains. I felt like I had early onset dementia. I have developed Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity from the years of overexposure to the man-made Electromagnetic Fields. I discovered the source of all of my symptoms, after I measured the high levels of radio-frequency in my office with a HF35C Gigahertz Solutions meter. After talking to a Building Biologist, I decided to purchase SwissShield Naturell fabric to cover the entire wall facing the cell antenna. I slowly started to heal from the radio-frequency illness after I shielded my office. Other ways I protect myself on a daily basis is to keep my phone on airplane mode, use Ethernet connections for my computers and phone. I am one of the fortunate ones who figured out where my radio-frequency illness symptoms were coming from so I could protect myself and start to heal. There are so many others who are suffering needlessly from the impacts of constant exposure to man-made EMFs without knowledge of what is causing some of their health issues. Please start educating the public on a large scale so people can start to make choices on how they can make informed decisions on how to protect themselves and their loved ones in their homes, and how they use their wireless devices on a daily basis. Please create industry wide regulations to help reduce the amount of wireless devices and create hardwired equivalents to give their consumers a choice in reducing wireless exposures.

I, Julie S. Calderwood, reside in Huntsville, Alabama. I did not consent, nor do I consent today, to the continuous, involuntary exposure to biologically active radio frequency (RF) radiation. In 2019 I became injured by radio frequency radiation emitting from two cell towers erected near my home where I frequently drive and additionally from bluetooth frequencies in a newly purchased car. I sold the car soon after discovering the cause of my injury. I now have Electro Magnetic Radiation Syndrome - a condition linked to exposure to RF and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. These harmful frequencies cause me to have headaches and brain fog which only subside with time, lasting 6-9 hours. The RF radiation from cell phones also effect and cause me headaches. Therefore, I greatly limit my time being around people. These non-native frequencies have effected me greatly and continues to limit my driving, my activities, sociality with family and friends, as well as being in public places and attending public events. My husband and I keep our cell phones on airplane mode except when sending or checking necessary texts. We have a landline phone and use a corded phone. Our household devices, such as computer, router, etc. are hardwired with ethernet cables and the wifi is turned off. With these measures the radiation level in our home is below 100 micro-watts per meter squared. When rebooting my computer, I have to make certain that the bluetooth has not been inadvertently turned back on, since this causes me headaches as well. In 2025, we worked with a group of concerned citizens to help educate our city council and utilities executives about the harms of smart meters and the devastating effects they would have on my condition and our daughter’s neurological disease if they were attached to our houses. EMR Syndrome is real! I know it because I experience it. The following scientific articles, among many others, confirm the existence of this syndrome and delineate some of the mechanisms by which it occurs: Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS, microwave syndrome) – Review of mechanisms Stein MD, et al., Environmental Research, July 2020, Vol. 186. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935120303388?via%3Dihub, Wireless technology is an environmental stressor requiring new understanding and approaches in health care. McCredden, et al. Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 10 Dec 2022 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.986315/full The radiation limits must be lowered to protect our children or the consequences could be drastic, as noted in the following article: Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences, by L. Morgan, et al in ScienceDirect Dec. 2014. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213879X14000583 We don’t want cell towers on, above, or near our grandchildren’s schools. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. October 29, 2026 Julie S. Calderwood

To whom it may concern, I am writing this to express my concern on how this "new" tech is affecting ourselves, our children, the environment and the overall health of all involved. I personally am sensitive to EMF exposure and have and continue to suffer with various symptoms. I should be able to go to concerts etc. without suffering from this tech. It should also NOT be at schools. We need to protect our children. Clearly, hard wired connections work and can be used instead. There is plenty of proof that this tech is harmful and we know the regulations are not in place or working. Please, make changes that will help protect the public. Thanks so much, Mrs. Gentry

[...] '1.2. Microwave EMFs, electro-hypersensitivity, and cancer During the past 15 years several statistical studies indicate a connection between residential exposure to radiation of MT base station antennas (which emit similar radiation with that of mobile phones), and reported symptoms of unwellness usually referred to as “microwave syndrome”, or “electro-hypersensitivity” (EHS). These include headaches, fatigue, sleep disorders, etc. [57–63]. Similar effects that were previously categorized as medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are recently attributed to chronic stress and inflammation [64]. Recently, in an effort to find objective methods for EHS evaluation, ∼80% of EHS self‑reporting patients were found to present oxidative stress biomarkers in their peripheral blood [65] which is strongly related to DNA damage. At the same time, more and more epidemiological studies indicate an increasing connection between mobile phone use and brain tumors in humans, [66–75]. The time length of cancer development after cellular damage may be many years depending on the animal and the type of cancer. It is called latency period and is defined as the time between the initial causative event and the development of clinically recognizable cancer. The latency period for gliomas (type of brain cancer) is more than 20 years in humans [76]. This probably explains why epidemiological studies only recently have started showing a connection between mobile phone use and cancer. Tumor promotion in experimental animals after long-term RF exposure at levels below the officially accepted limits is also reported [77,78]. In a recent study of the USA National Toxicology Program (NTP) rats were exposed for 2 years, 9 h per day, in a simulated near field of a mobile phone antenna emitting 2nd generation (Global System for Mobile telecommunications - GSM) or 3rd generation (Code Division Multiple Access - CDMA) EMFs. [The CDMA is part of the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System – UMTS]. Exposed rats developed brain cancer (glioma) and heart cancer (malignant schwannoma) for both lower (1.5 W/kg) and higher (3, and 6 W/kg) Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) levels than the current exposure limit (2 W/kg) for the human head [56,79]. An Italian life-span exposure study of rats in a simulated GSM 1800 far field, also found induction of heart schwannomas and brain glial tumors, in agreement with the results of the NTP study [80]. These findings are in agreement with the above reported DNA damage findings, since DNA damage is a main cause of cancer [81,82]. Alternatively, DNA damage may result in cell death, reproductive declines, or neurodegenerative diseases [83,84]. [...] 1.4. Conflict between experimental studies due to unrealistic exposures An extremely important observation is the intense opposition between the results of experimental studies that employ real exposures from commercially available devices (mobile phones or other telecommunication devices), and studies employing simulated exposures from generators or “test” phones with similar but invariant parameters such as intensity, frequency etc. While ∼50% of the studies employing simulated exposures do not find any effects, studies employing real-life exposures from commercially available devices display an almost 100% consistency in showing adverse effects [34–36,84,100–118]. A wide variety of biological and clinical effects are already found to be induced by real-life exposures on a similarly wide variety of animals/biological samples including human volunteers exposed in vivo (19 studies) [19,34,35,100,104,106–109,114,116], human sperm in vitro (2 studies) [23,100], mice or rats or guinea pigs or rabbits in vivo (24 studies) [100,102,103,105,110,111,115,117], Drosophila (11 studies) [15,16,26,31,41,42,100,101,140,141], bees (4 studies) [47,100,118], ants (1 study) [100], chick embryos (3 studies) [36,45,100], quails (1 study) [100], human cells in vitro (2 studies) [100,112], cow brain tissue in vitro (1 study) [113], mouse cells in vitro (1 study), protozoa (1 study), and even purified proteins in vitro (1 study) [100]. From a total of 71 studies reviewed above that employed real exposures 68 recorded significant adverse effects (95.8%) ranging from loss of orientation, kinetic, behavioural, or EEG changes, heart rate changes, effect on cognitive function and memory impairment, effect on cell growth and proliferation, temperature increases in brain tissue, to decrease in male and female reproductive capacity, reproductive declines, molecular changes, changes in enzymatic activity, biochemical changes in the pregnant women and their embryos, DNA damage and cell death, protein damage, and histopathological changes in the brain [34–36,84,100–118].' https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331661949_Comparing_DNA_Damage_Induced_by_Mobile_Telephony_and_Other_Types_of_Man-Made_Electromagnetic_Fields

I am writing in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I’m responding as an individual personally affected by RF and am deeply concerned about the threat to our children’s health. I am one of a growing number of people who cannot remain healthy in the presence of wireless radiation. My symptoms upon exposure are common ones and include heart palpitations, headaches, blurred vision, extreme fatigue, nausea, anxiety, and cognitive impairment. I cannot work outside my home due to this and have great difficulty shopping, receiving medical attention, or going to a restaurant. I cannot safely use airlines, buses, or trains, nor can I rent, drive, or be a passenger in newer cars because they have so much on-board RF. I cannot stay in motels or hotels, and in fact I have not traveled anywhere in five years. I am terrified that should I need to go into a hospital, I will become very ill from RF, possibly losing consciousness and unable to even communicate about the symptoms that will register on medical monitors but whose cause will be unknown to medical staff. RF sensitivity is extremely socially isolating as there few homes and no public places where it is not saturating the environment. I am essentially stranded in increasingly small oases where wireless radiation is low or does not reach. My respite, and the thing that keeps me relatively healthy, is being able to return to and stay in my home, which after much hard work, is EMF free. In this environment my body stabilizes and is healthy, and I can tolerate limited exposures a few times a week in RF-saturated areas. But this refuge in my home has been extremely difficult to create and is constantly threatened by development of cell towers, cell antennae, and 5G deployment. It is virtually impossible to find a rental and very difficult to purchase a home that is not saturated with wireless technology. At age 70 I have finally been able to purchase a healthy home, though I had to move far from friends and family to find something. I live in constant threat of having to pull up stakes and move again (to where?) when cell towers and 5G antennas come to my neighborhood. While a minority of people understand that their symptoms arise from EMF and RF exposure, a great many more suffer from it and are unaware that RF is the cause or a major contributing factor. There is a large body of research confirming that these adverse impacts occur to both those who are aware of their sensitivity and those who are not. Children are so very vulnerable and without knowledgable adults and public institutions to protect them are being harmed in homes, schools, and virtually all public spaces. HHS is uniquely positioned to consolidate existing research, sponsor studies into existing information gaps, and generate policy to protect the public from wireless radiation. Doing so will help ensure more informed decisions about deployment of wireless technologies and make homes, offices, and public spaces healthier for all of us. I sincerely hope HHS will meet this challenge.

Our children attended a school and there were two large 5G towers on school property. Our children would complain of headaches everyday while at school. We became very concerned and had to move them to a different school. At school now they are happy and I’ve not heard them complain of a headache while at school. Just recently they installed a 5G small cell right by our home. In December 2025. We have all been terribly ill and terrible headaches everyday while at home. We have also been experiencing insomnia and other symptoms. Our neighbors are also experiencing health issues. We just can’t seem to catch a break. Our home used to be our safe place and it is no longer our safe place. We are very sensitive to 5G and it’s affecting our quality of life. I pray the 5G small cell that was installed to send information from the smart meters in our neighborhood- I pray it can be removed. Bradenton, Florida.