Environmental effects

These studies look at how EMF influences mold. Promoting or inhibiting mold growth depending on frequency and environment. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36354954/ "Enhancement of Fungal Enzyme Production by Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields" "The RF-EMF perfectly resonated at 2 GHz with directivity radiation pattern and peak gain of 0.5 dB (0.01 Watt). Total protein concentration and activity of α-amylase measured in media were about 1.5-3-fold higher in the RF-EMF exposed (10 min) sample than control (no RF-EMF) during incubation (the highest increase after 16 h). The level of α-amylase mRNA in cells was approximately 2-8-fold increased 16 and 24 h after RF-EMF exposure for 10 min. An increase in vesicle accumulation within fungal hyphae and the transcription of some genes involved in protein cellular trafficking was observed in RF-EMF-exposed samples. Membrane potential was not changed, but the intracellular Ca2+ level was elevated after RF-EMF exposure. Our results suggest that RF-EMF can increase the extracellular level of fungal total proteins and α-amylase activity and the intracellular level of Ca2+." https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/24/11508 "The Effect of Exposure to an Electromagnetic Field on Entomopathogenic Fungi" "Exposure to the 900 MHz frequency stimulated the growth of the mycelium and the pathogenicity of the entomopathogenic fungi, whereas the 1800 MHz electromagnetic field inhibited sporulation and spore germination" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969723005545 "Effect of extremely low frequency electromagnetic field on the pathogenicity of Magnaporthe oryzae" "The pathogenicity of M. oryzae were enhanced under ELF-EMF exposure. •The level of ROS increased in ELF-EMF-exposed M. oryzae. •Cell wall integrity of M. oryzae were enhanced under ELF-EMF exposure. •The infection cycle was shortened under ELF-EMF exposure.* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1567539419304104 "Effect of static magnetic field on mold corrosion of printed circuit boards" "In the absence of a magnetic field, mold formed a spore-centered corrosion pit group on the surface of the PCB-Cu, which was macroscopically characterized by regional uniform corrosion. When a 10 mT SMF was applied, the magnetic field exhibited an inhibitory effect on the growth of mold, which was hindered, and the corrosion of the PCB-Cu surface slowed down." "Previous studies have shown that the theory of the influence of EMFs on living organisms is based on the effect of magnetic fields on the permeability of ion channels in biofilms [12]. On this basis, the magnetic field can affect the entry and exit of ions inside and outside the cell, and thus, generate some biological changes, having effects on, for example, enzyme and protein activity [13], carbohydrate metabolism [[14], [15], [16], [17], [18]], and genetics [18]. Among them, the action of a static magnetic field (SMF) is explained by the ion quantum state interference, cytoplasmic membrane, and free radical theories [19]. The effect of moderate-intensity SMFs (1 mT to 1 T) on biological systems is related to the nature of the membrane molecular structure (i.e., diamagnetic anisotropy). The general mechanism by which these SMFs act on biological systems is derived on the basis of their effect on the molecular structure of the excitable membrane, which is sufficient to alter the function of the embedded ion-specific channels [19,20]. Whether the magnetic field promotes or inhibits the growth of microorganisms is affected by many factors, such as the strength, application mode, and direction of the magnetic field and the experimental environment. For example, a pulsed magnetic field can utilize its high frequency characteristics to cause microbes in the magnetic field to generate high frequency thermal effects and high induced currents, thus leading to cell death. At the same time, the change in the frequency and intensity of the magnetic field will cause an oscillating effect on the cell membrane, causing the cell membrane to rupture and the microbial extinction [[21], [22], [23], [24]]. Mengxiang Gao et al. studied the metabolic kinetics of Aspergillus niger by aligning two metabolites (citric acid and cellulase) under extremely low frequency micromagnetic fields [24]. The activity of the two metabolites increased immediately after switching on the magnetic field of B = 1 mT and f = 50 Hz, but the experiment of Gao did not solve the problem of how the magnetic field can promote growth. However, for mold in a liquid medium under a high-intensity magnetic field environment, the higher the magnetic induction intensity is, the lower the mold survival rate. These different phenomenological descriptions complicate the interpretation of the potential mechanisms of magnetic fields on biological systems." +++ These effects might happen in people, plants, animals, buildings.

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 concerned member of the public and mother. These frequencies interfere with molecular biology and are not resonate to our bodies. It impedes the proper functioning of our bodies and disrupts our wellbeing. I consider it to be an environmental toxin, personally. I first learned about the dangers of EMF exposure when listening to a Health Summit on the matter in 2018. I learned that baby monitors were a very high emitter and immediately stopped using ours to monitor our developing infant. My husband and I also took measures to connect our electronics to the internet with cables rather than use WiFi, including our phones. We also stopped using any Bluetooth devices. Sadly, there are spaces that I cannot protect my family from, such as my son's school. We were able to at least put him in a school that was not right next to a 5G tower, something that happened about half a mile from our house. We opted for a school that was a 15 minute drive from our house rather than expose him to 5G radiation while at school. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I do not know what is. My husband and I are exposed at work and anywhere else we go in town, really. With all the 5G mini towers on tops of buildings throughout town, we feel safest at home and when we're deep out in nature. I recently heard that nature has tech in certain areas so I will be sure to bring my EMF reader to check out my favorite nature areas. We all have the right to know what we are being exposed to, ideally the right to choose not to be exposed in the first place. It would be ideal if our government wanted protections in place for everyone's well being. If only well being was put before money and "convenience". It isn't very convenient to have leukemia or whatever other cancers they're linking to high EMF exposure. Our nervous systems are deeply affected. We all need to take a hard look at the reality of things instead of sticking our heads in the sand. This is not hard to understand. It's only hard to understand if people are concerned about money; the government can print more if they want to anyway. Stop worrying about money and care about the well being of others. Am I altruistic? Yes. Do I know that we are capable of being better to each other and the planet? Yes. We are totally capable. I pray that decisions are made that will make our world a better place to live in. For our health, for our planet, for the animals... Please make healthy decisions when it comes to this matter. 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.

I am concerned about the massive proliferation of LED lights in all areas of our lives, but particularly with respect to automobile headlights and street/outdoor lighting. The harsh blue-white color temperature of these LEDs (say, 6000K and above) is dazzling to the eye at night. When I drive past cold white headlights, my vision takes longer to return to normal than when driving past even bright halogen headlights. In addition, my area has mostly replaced sodium street lighting with bright white LEDs. Rather than casting a diffuse glow that makes it easy to discern shapes at night, LED streetlights provide a bright area of light, while the area beyond if not illuminated as well appears even darker in comparison because the eye has to adjust to the bright and harsh LED lighting. Next, bright white LED street lighting shines through (my) residential windows at night and makes it impossible for me to sleep without an eye mask, meaning I can no longer wake up to sunlight because I need to cover my eyes to block the bright light from the street lights. Harsh/bluish lighting has already been proven to disrupt the circadian rhythm of humans and wildlife alike. Automotible headlights now are extremely bright to the point of causing temporary blindness at night. I feel far more unsafe driving at night now than I did ten years ago. I also am frequently blinded as a pedestrian when cars shine their headlights on me. I'm also under 30 with 20/20 vision. This is not a problem limited to those with poor eyesight. I have also noticed that even when LEDs in public aren't necessarily too bright, they are often very intense light sources coming from small points that tend to be dazzling/blinding when you look directly at them. Street and vehicle lighting should, in my opinion, not only have a limit on the color temperature and brightness of lighting, but there should be a surface intensity light emission limit as well. For the same overall amount of light, a larger light fixture or one with a diffuser will be far easier on the eyes and less blinding than a light fixture or headlight that emits the same amount of light from a very small surface area.

5G antennas and towers are extremely dangerous and deadly to human beings. They are equally dangerous and deadly to trees, birds, insects, animals and anything else that is alive. Symptoms for humans are body twitching, ear ringing, random migraines, cancer, strokes, stomach issues, flu symptoms, heart attacks…. just to name a few. The 5G technology that was rolled out to “improve mobile and Wi-Fi service” is a lie because they haven’t improved at all and they were ordered to be rolled out by the US military to create a surveillance state like China has. The US govt has never released the long term studies to the public about 5G or any EMF and it’s because the military controls the technology. Trump should be ashamed of himself for recently approving 6G. God sees all.

Sleep disturbances, heart palpitations or other cardiac symptoms, eye issues,and more health problems, used to be rare or non-existent for me and others in my family until the expansion of wireless technologies and cell tower installations near our homes! Now, the effects of these types of radiation have shown up in many people I know! It's overdue that the truth of being exposed to these types of emissions is dangerous and must be honestly investigated, then, limit our exposure by banning most of it! There are safer ways to make technology much safer for our health and well-being before it causes further damage to our lives! The proof that these technologies and their radiation emissions do harm humans, plants animals and the environments we live in!

Radiofrequency radiation is biologically active, and not harmonious with the biology of plants, animals, birds, bees or humans. Policy-wise, it should be made safer, and safe zones for all kinds of emfs should be available to those who reasonably request a mellower more healing environment in homes in particular. For example, only about 2% of the population requests an analog meter so they can sleep or heal at home, or at night, requesting reasonable accomodation in their most private domain. These monopolies should allow this without contest, for it affects the power companies minutely, yet saves lives. This should not be a controversy. Power companies should consider grounding, isolating and filtering all powerful frequencies, as these have effects on all of life, including yours. Choice should be available in any free nation. Privacy is not a luxury. RF increases mold, inflammation, and diabetes. Beyond the biological effects which are openly studied in the goverments own Naval report (1971, or 1972), emfs bring out inflammatory conditions, and even ghosts! Hope there's a chuckle there. For me, the issue causes ocular migraines, cataract with surgery at a young age, the loss of my occupation, and a profound impact on my potential in all areas of life. It causes anxiety and many symptoms in others. Analog should be a choice, and the 1996 Telecommunications act is a form of Treason, imho. Thank you. We can and must do better, safer tech is possible. Thank you.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. This is an issue that I am deeply passionate about. There is great news for our public voice to be heard as we stand powerless at state and local levels while corporate and federal agendas steamroll over everyday citizens. I have donated money time and resources and stood at county board meetings with hundreds of locals opposing cell towers within feet of our homes only to be voted against or dragged into federal court lawsuits we cannot afford trying to protect our bodies, our families, our property values, and our environment from obvious harm. I have stood shoulder to shoulder with neighbors suffering from cell tower radiation health issues only to be reminded by the teams of lawyers and the elected local board members that we as citizens are legally gagged at any level to discuss health issues as an argument against placement of these towers too close to residential and school properties!! THAT IS JUST WRONG. The federal regulations that cite outdated studies claiming no harmful effects of cellular radiation at detectable levels as a reason to gag citizens rights is just wrong. My personal experience is interesting and quickly dismissed by health care professionals: I have developed tnitus out of no where many years ago. I live primarily in a 5 mile radius of many new and pre existing 5g cell towers (not just antennas). It effects my daily health and nightly sleep. Recently we purchased a property that has NO Cellular signal at all and our Internet and cell function is cabled in.(I want my fiber optic cable I was promised and have paid for for years! Dupped again by corporate agendas.) As soon as I get to the property my tinitus is gone immediately and for the duration of the trip. As soon as I get home I get hit immediately by a random crackeling loud wave of sound. I have been to multiple specialists and final results ...I was told by the specialist that it is all in my head and to look into cognitive behavior therapy. No one can or will listen to my feeling that this is signal related. The recent federal attempts to remove any local input to expanded FCC regulations around tower placement (and satellite launches too!) would fast track the complete loss of the last remaing signal radiation free zones in our planet. It will be too late!! My main local level argument, since I am gagged at a federal level from discussing my delusional health concerns over 5g tower radiation, has been the devistaing consequence on our property values with cell towers too close. For many of us citizens our property value in our homes is all the financial liquitdy we might have in a life time and the new cell tower in view of a home devistates property values and in many instances that house WILL NOT EVER SELL! (I have been personally studying this trend on Zillow properties for years and these costal communities are good clean communities but that cell tower in view and affordable remodeled homes just sit for years Then there are the existing studies of the effects of the signals interfering with insects, precious already threatened polinators, bats and other wild life that rely on communication signal of their own frequencies. Stop destroying our planet for profit and control. Just Stop It!!! Please help us get these issues heard and stop gaging legal committed US citizens at federal state and local levels from having any control of our own property, health, and communities at local levels and beyond. Mother, Business Owner, Property Owner, Citizen

Thank you for your consideration in this very serious matter as ai and Wi-Fi are expanding throughout the world. As a microscopist in the health industry, we can plainly see how the red blood cells are directly affected by the invisible frequencies that all cell towers and modems emit. We can plainly see how the red blood cells are unable to carry the oxygen that is necessary for optimum health. We can actively see the structure of the red blood cells changing and how this significantly reduces the life of each individual red blood cell. This affects the person in many different ways, including but not limited to, headaches, brain fog, nervous system irregularity, and respiratory issues of great concern. It has not been proven and hardly tested exactly what these frequencies are doing to the human population and all living things. Please pass legislation that will immediately and indefinitely limit the frequencies from the Wi-Fi/ai ability to affect the human population and all living things on the planet. Please allow unbiased research to be done extensively not just on the human being but all living things including animals and our Flora. Thank you for your time and consideration!

I am writing 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, long time educator and concerned member of the public. Ever since my son was born twenty eight years ago, I have been concerned by the increasing exposure of children, as well as wildlife, to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones, particularly. As a biologist, I am aware that the effects of this radiation are subtle and chronic for most people though more acute for some. They can interfere with our bodies on a cellular level, impacting the electrostatic fields created by our bodies and cell functioning. Some studies have found that EMF radiation can interfere with the calcium channels in cells. These play an important role in nerve and muscle function (J Cell Mol Med. 2013 Jun 26;17(8):958–965. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.12088). Employing the precautionary principle would have necessitated HHS to shield children from the unknown and potentially harmful effects of EMFs until they were found to do no harm rather than unleash them and hope for the best. Anecdotally, as an educator, I can say that children today have neither the attention spans nor the physical fortitude that they did twenty years ago when I began teaching, but this is an amalgamation of all the toxins in the environment that we have placed there rather than just EMFs. Our environment suffers the effects of EMFs as well, notably our pollinators (Sci Adv. 2023 May 12;9(19):eadh1455. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh1455 ) who already suffer from pesticides and ravages of climate change. I support, indeed urge, HHS in taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. For far too long, citizens have been left on their own to research and question the effects of these radiation sources on human health, something which should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health. 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 this opportunity to be heard.

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 concerned parent and professional who is seeing the impact of this radiation with clients. More and more people are becoming sensitive to this exposure and for those who aren’t sensitive and don’t feel it, their bodies do, which leads to unexplained health issues. As someone who does everything in her power to counteract it (as a profession) 5G is WAY too potent, leading to very expensive fixes that won’t work when 6G is thrown at us. All humans and animals are being affected. This needs to end. Kids are falling asleep with their devices in beds and the truth of EMF radiation needs to be discussed publicly. A tower, a mile away, is not only affecting my fascia but my health. Which requires even more work on my part to get my body to somewhat neutral, while healing remains much further away because it’s everywhere. 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.