Thomas M. Rau, MD Medical Director of the Paracelsus Clinic
February 10th, 2009. Dr. Thomas Rau, Medical Director of the world renowned
Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, Switzerland says he is convinced‘electromagnetic loads’ lead to cancer, concentration problems, ADD,
tinnitus, migraines, insomnia, arrhythmia, Parkinson’s and even back pain.
At Paracelsus (www.paracelsus.ch), cancer patients are now routinely
educated in electromagnetic field remediation strategies and inspectors from
the Geopathological Institute of Switzerland are sent to patients’ homes to
assess electromagnetic field exposures.
Of note, Dr. Rau says a strategy to consider for those experiencing
‘electrical sensitivity’ symptoms is to remove the electromagnetic ‘hot
spot’ in the head created by the presence of metal fillings. Concern is thus
not only for the ‘neurotoxic’ aspect of mercury in fillings, an increasingly
understood hazard, but because fillings themselves act as antennas in the
presence of electromagnetic fields from cell phones and cell towers, wi-fi
networks, portable phones, and other sources of radiofrequency radiation.
Rau says the removal of dental fillings can be an important early step in
reducing electrical sensitivity, allowing some people to live in homes they
otherwise could not tolerate.
Cultures have shown beneficial bacteria grows more slowly in the presence of
electromagnetic fields, says Rau, allowing pathological organisms to
dominate. Thus, a strategy with electrically sensitive patients, or with
those facing chronic conditions, is the aggressive supplementation with
probiotics and other Biological Medicine approaches to balance intestinal
flora. Many people with chronic infections likely linked to EMF exposures,
such as Lyme Disease, are symptom- free after an aggressive microorganism
rebalancing program.
Electrical sensitivity—originally known as radio wave sickness—is a
sometimes debilitating experience created by these and other disregulating
effects of electromagnetic fields. Linked to many acute and chronic illness
conditions, electrical sensitivity is a serious emerging public health issue
globally and a subject in which most doctors have no training.
A Petition to Congress, created by www.ElectromagneticHealth.org is now
circulating on the internet, requesting Congress:
1) mandate the FCC lower
exposure guidelines to reflect the large body of science showing biological
effects at exposures much lower than current standards
2) repeal Section
704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which rescinded state and local
governments right to resist towers on health or environmental grounds
3)
stop the roll out of the Wi-Max network until Congress better understands
the potential health consequences
and 4) accommodate citizens unable to
function adequately in high EMF environments, including forbidding cell
towers on school properties.
Exposing children in schools to radiation, known to impair brain function
and learning, Rau describes as “criminal”. He says, “It is unethical to
expose children to electromagnetic load in this way. We know that power
stations for electromagnetic waves like mobile phones are hurting the brains
of children, so to put such stations into schools is really…very, very, very
bad. Rau says, the question is, “Does the school, or does the society,
really want to have intelligent, well-educated children, or not?” He says, “If you install mobile phone towers, which radiate to the children, their
intelligence, their brain capacity, decreases. You will have more ADD
children, you will have less function of the brain, which in the long term
reflects on the intelligence of the children, of the possibility to really
teach children, and in the long term, the more this overcomes society, the
more we will have dumb children.”
The reality of the health consequences of electromagnetic radiation
eventually will have to be faced, and this will only happen with active
pressure on Congress. It is estimated that 3-8% of populations in developed
countries experience serious electrohypersensitivity symptoms today, and 35%
experience mild symptoms. With increasing electromagnetic field exposures,
these numbers, along with the suffering involved for people who are
impacted, and the health care costs involved, are bound to go up.
Listen to Dr. Rau interview.
By Camilla Rees for ElectromagneticHealth.org
Camilla@electromagneticHealth.org
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