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EMF*D: 5G, Wi-Fi & Cell Phones: Hidden Harms and How to Protect Yourself

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The dangers of electromagnetic fields are real--and now a renowned health authority reveals exactly what they are and how you can protect yourself.

The hazards of electronic pollution may once have been the stuff of science fiction, but now we know they're all too real. And with the advent of 5G ultra-wideband technology, the danger is greater than ever.
Dr. Joseph Mercola, one of the world's foremost authorities on alternative health, has mined the scientific literature to offer a radical new understanding of how electromagnetic fields impact your body and mind. In this first-of-its-kind guide, he reveals:
- What EMFs (electromagnetic fields) actually are, where you find them in your daily life, and how they affect you
- The toll that EMFs have been proven to take in conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and neuropsychiatric illnesses
- Why you've been largely kept in the dark about this threat to your health
- How you can actually repair the damage done by EMFs at a cellular level
- Practical strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones from EMFs at home, at work, and out in the world

The coming 5G technology will be pervasive and powerful. It will also be one of the largest public-health experiments in history-with no way of opting out. That's why you need to read this book. Now.

360 pages, Hardcover

Published February 18, 2020

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Joseph Mercola

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Dr. Joseph Mercola is a natural health expert based in Illinois. He believes that people are capable of taking control of their health – they can harness their body’s ability to stay optimally healthy. He shares his recommendations through his website, Mercola.com. It is one of the leading natural health websites today, with over one million subscribers worldwide.

Dr. Mercola has authored three New York Times best sellers, "The Great Bird Flu Hoax", "The No Grain Diet", and his latest book, “Effortless Healing”, which he has written as an easy-to-read guide that can help you avoid the many pitfalls of the conventional approach to health through nine simple steps or healing principles.

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Profile Image for Sydney Beth.
903 reviews32 followers
February 29, 2020
My husband and I have been well aware of the dangers of EMFs. We stopped using the microwave years ago, we switched to all wood bed frames, we’ve been in the process of hard wiring everything in the house, and much more. But THIS BOOK. 🤯 If you want serious and DETAILED science on how EMFs are so damaging, grab a copy.

It’s not meant to cause fear, paranoia or hopelessness in light of the magnitude of the problem. It’s for educating yourself and giving tools (lots of them!) for protecting your family, especially young ones who are MUCH more susceptible. EMFs are doing harm to each and EVERY one of our bodies, even if you aren’t showing symptoms currently (he explains all of that very clearly).

I’m not naive. I know 99% of you aren’t going to change your lifestyles because I wrote yet another book review. But as 5G is blanketing the earth, plants and insects are dying off, and diseases are skyrocketing, I couldn’t help but share today.

Overall, though, even as we live in this toxic world, there is a 100% non-toxic, perfect world with no pain, tears or sadness awaiting those who put their trust in God. We still need to be smart and responsible with our health, but ultimately God is in control. As we increase our trust in Him, so also will our peace on this earth increase. We can only do what we can do and surrender the rest to Him.

So read this book [with the terribly crass title] but also read your Bible. 😘🤓 Thanks for reading!
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2,446 reviews926 followers
June 10, 2024
I appreciated all the information on what exactly 5G is, how it came to play in our technical world, the dangers it poses, and how the government is choosing to ignore the toxicity of it. It was heartening to realize how many European countries have and are fighting back, and I can only hope the US will soon follow suit.
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20 reviews2 followers
July 3, 2020
The book is good. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know and it was broken down and made easy to understand. The only quarrel I have with the book is that there's a lot of "correlation equals causation" Which, as anyone who knows anything about science knows, is not always the case.

The book empowered me to be more cautious with my phone and my bedroom at night. I'm happy that I read it and will recommend it to my friends and family. I just think it could have been written without all the "chicken little" Undertones.
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Author 1 book7 followers
July 1, 2021
A must-read, if you are at all interested in the effect technology, has on our long-term health. It gave me a wake-up call and I'm making changes.
Thank you for the wake-up call.

Updated review:

After leaving my review, I also found out the author has "decades of peddling health misinformation on the internet" according to McGill University's Office for Science and Society - Separating Sense from Nonsense.

So, now, I questioning all that I've read and will take anything from Dr. Joseph Mercola with a grain of salt and check other sources. I'd advise others to do the same.
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Author 4 books9 followers
May 14, 2020
You're Being Royally F*cked by irresistibly Convenient Invisible Radiation

You've probably heard before that the EMFs from smartphones, Wifi, and blazing-fast 5G networks are dangerous to your health. You've also probably heard that this is just a "crazy conspiracy theory" and that all this wireless radiation is fine.

EMF*D thoroughly breaks down the real science on this controversial issue, it's the latest title from Dr. Mercola, who is a titan in the health freedom movement.

If you're a respecter of science, you should definitely read this book because it's full of science, it's a very thorough documentation of the significant body of science that underlies the EMF threat to our health.

Frankly, I don't think I'm going to stop using my smartphone or Wifi, despite all the good reasons to do so that the book gives. As long as everyone around me is using smartphones and Wifi, it's not worth the significant convenience cost. You're probably not going to give up your smartphone and Wifi either, so I urge you to implement all the anti-cancer hacks that you can...

Supplement NAD+ (NMN is the best option).
Take C60 in olive oil which has a powerful anti-cancer effect.
Do a session or two daily of Red Light Therapy, feeding your Mitochondria the wavelength of the red light that they need to keep you cancer-free.
Fast regularly; do intermittent daily fasting and frequent 24-hour fasts.
Biohack your immune system; your first line of defense against cancer, take Adaptogenic herbs like Schisandra along with the crucial immune nutrients and vitamins; Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Glutathione.
Continuing to use your smartphone and Wifi, knowing what you know now, is like a smoker, who continues to smoke just hoping that they never get cancer. Listen to my interviews with J.T who has battled cancer for 6-years and Mark Sloan, author, and researcher; cancer will ruin (or take) your life, especially if you subject yourself to the tortuous Slash, Burn, and Poison mainstream (and very expensive!) cancer treatments. The American Cancer Society predicts that half of us will get cancer one day, it really does threaten your life and wellbeing.

We're all being royally F*cked by Big Telecom and their whores in the institutions of government and science with this non-stop barrage of toxic EMFs and investing in our own antifragility is our only hope.
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363 reviews161 followers
July 10, 2020
Overall, this book is very well researched, and is a good starting point for someone looking for learn a lot about EMFs.
I’m by no means a science major, so I didn’t enjoy the technical aspects of this book as much as I probably could have (sometimes it felt like I was reading gibberish! The author does explain that the science is very advanced, and tries to make things simpler, but it was still a LOT of information to process, all over the place).
The studies about EMFs on animals and plants were fascinating, especially that they are believed to play a large role in colony collapse disorder (CCD). Seeing the effects on these tiny bees really makes you wonder what’s happening to us humans over time.
This book also highlights the negligence of our safety guidelines for regulation exposure in America compared to other countries, which is also a cause for concern.
My life wasn’t drastically changed after reading EMF*D, but I’m also all too aware of how close my phone is to my body as I type this.
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13 reviews
January 6, 2025
Good book explaining what EMFs are and the dangers of them. Some of the information in here I already knew, like having your phone on airplane mode when you’re not using it and not using anything with Bluetooth enabled. I wasn’t aware on how serious EMF exposure is. I wondered while reading this if anything in here was exaggerated or maybe we are all doomed?
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242 reviews6 followers
November 8, 2023
This book took me a full two months to read because I only read a page or two a day and took copious notes. Much like RFK’s book The Real Anthony Fauci, this book has things on every page that you wish you didn’t know. I kept reading because I want to be informed, but it is just so very discouraging.
In a nutshell - EMFs and cell phones/wireless devices are the cigarettes of this generation. They are addictive and deadly.
I really want to take all the steps advised in this book to protect and mitigate, but I’m afraid I need a degree in some very technical fields, and a whole lot more money to spend on it than I have.
Dr Mercola is as thorough as always and includes several appendices and copious footnotes and references. Almost a quarter of the book is supplementary material. If only more mainstream doctors and scientists were covering this topic we might have some changes made. Unfortunately it appears the wireless industry is just as profit driven as the pharmaceutical company is now and as Big Tobacco used to be.
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145 reviews1 follower
October 10, 2023
Hmm. Where to start. It's quite convincing that EMFs are a problem but sometimes goes too far. A few quick jumps from correlation to causation made some of the other, more well thought out, arguments feel less genuine. As far as the implementation of this stuff, I just don't know. Part of me says this is a necessary vertical of health to dedicate time and energy too, no different from diet or excersize. Part of me feels like it's futile to even try. Part of me feels like this all might be quack medicine and fake anyway. I guess I'm recommending that you all read this too so I'm not alone in these thoughts.
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1,238 reviews
August 4, 2021
This book is full of valuable information about EMFs and how they are affecting us, even if we are unaware. It also has ways in order to stay healthy, in spite of EMFs, and whatever else is out there that is causing illnesses which we can't directly attribute to what the doctors know.

Dr. Mercola has spent his life trying to get information out into the world that can help us live healthy lives. It is maddening to see him discredited and vilified.
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233 reviews
May 17, 2022
Everyone needs to read this book, and every library should have it! It was super scientific and educational but in a totally understandable manner. You will be majorly keeping your EMF exposure in check if you truly let this information soak in. It’s terrifying but thankfully there are ways to protect ourselves and heal the cellular damage, as shown in this book.
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646 reviews3 followers
January 15, 2021
The tone of this book is incredibly negative and harsh. It was so bad I never reached the point of a solution. This gets the K rating, as in K for KRAP!
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90 reviews3 followers
January 3, 2022
A lot of maybe this, maybe that. A lot of comparing established science (cigarettes) to not at all established science (EMFs in general, 5G in particular), and calling them equivalent.
102 reviews5 followers
September 25, 2021
Cách tăng chất NADPH / NAD+
1. Giảm tiếp xúc EMF
2. Tránh ăn ít nhất 3-4 tiếng trước khi đi ngủ
3. Tăng nồng độ NAD+ trực tiếp: Để xác định lượng NAD + mà cơ thể bạn yêu cầu, bạn cần biết mình hiện đang sử dụng bao nhiêu mỗi ngày. Nếu bạn nặng khoảng 165 pound, bạn sẽ sử dụng khoảng 9 gram (9.000 miligam) mỗi ngày. Mặc dù ít hơn hai muỗng cà phê, nhưng đó chắc chắn là rất nhiều để thay thế bằng thực phẩm bổ sung. Tin tốt là trong điều kiện bình thường, cơ thể bạn sẽ tái chế 99% NAD +, vì vậy bạn chỉ cần thay thế khoảng một phần trăm, hoặc khoảng 90 miligam.
4. Thường xuyên tập thể dục cường độ cao, vì điều này sẽ làm tăng NAMPT và thứ hai là NAD +. Tập luyện thể dục nhịp điệu và tập sức bền đảo ngược sự suy giảm NAD + phụ thuộc vào tuổi tác, vì cả hai hình thức tập luyện đều làm tăng NAMPT.
5. Bổ sung Hydro phân tử
6. Đảm bảo bạn đang nhận được khoảng 25 mg niacin mỗi ngày và bổ sung magiê thường xuyên để đạt ít nhất RDA là 400 mg magiê nguyên tố

Một số lựa chọn hàng đầu của tôi về magiê.
1. Malate là một trong những dạng magiê khả dụng sinh học, được dung nạp tốt và có lượng magiê nguyên tố tương đối cao ở mức 15,5%.
2. Citrate cũng có giá trị sinh học cao và có mức magiê nguyên tố là 11,4%. Lợi ích của việc sử dụng hình thức này là citrate sẽ giúp liên kết các oxalat (các phân tử xuất hiện tự nhiên trong nhiều loại thực vật có thể gây ra sỏi thận và các tổn thương sinh học khác) và ngăn ngừa chúng hấp thụ magiê và cũng giúp hòa tan các tinh thể oxalat hiện có mà bạn đã tích tụ trong cơ thể.
3. Glycinate có một lượng magiê nguyên tố cao ở mức 14 phần trăm. Ở dạng này, magiê được gắn vào axit amin glycine, có thêm lợi ích. Nó có thể giúp tăng NADPH trong cơ thể của bạn và cũng góp phần vào sức mạnh của mô liên kết. Glycine là axit amin chính trong collagen và nước hầm xương.
4. Threonate có một lượng magie nguyên tố thấp ở mức 8%. Tuyên bố nổi tiếng của nó là nó đặc biệt tốt trong việc vượt qua hàng rào máu não và tăng mức magiê trong não. Một khi nó đi vào não, nó sẽ làm tăng mật độ các khớp thần kinh, là các kết nối giao tiếp giữa các tế bào não.


Đối với bất kỳ thiết bị điện nào bạn đặt tay lên — đặc biệt là máy tính cá nhân — hãy đảm bảo thiết bị đó có dây nguồn điện xoay chiều (AC) được nối đất với phích cắm ba chấu được cắm vào ổ cắm được nối đất đúng cách. Điều này rất quan trọng để bảo vệ khỏi EMF khi sử dụng máy tính xách tay. Nếu máy tính PC của bạn không có dây nguồn với phích cắm ba chấu, bạn có thể mua một dây cắm vào cổng USB của mình.

Điện thoại di động của bạn truyền bức xạ tần số vô tuyến ngay cả khi bạn không thực hiện cuộc gọi, vì nó liên tục cập nhật vị trí của nó và liên lạc với các tháp điện thoại di động gần nhất để cập nhật, tải xuống, e-mail và tin nhắn. Bất cứ khi nào bạn không cần gọi điện trên điện thoại, hãy chuyển điện thoại sang chế độ trên máy bay để tránh bức xạ liên tục mà điện thoại phát ra.

Cách đơn giản nhất để xử lý điện bẩn là lắp đặt các bộ lọc được thiết kế để giảm lượng điện bẩn, cắm vào ổ cắm và sử dụng một mạch điện cụ thể để lọc ô nhiễm điện bẩn cho mạch điện được cắm vào.
Bộ lọc có thể di động, có nghĩa là bạn có thể di chuyển chúng từ phòng này sang phòng khác— có thể cắm một bộ lọc gần bàn làm việc nếu bạn làm việc ở nhà vào ban ngày và sau đó di chuyển nó vào phòng ngủ bạn vào ban đêm. Hoặc bạn có thể mang nó đến nơi làm việc và sau đó mang nó về nhà vào buổi tối.

Tốt nhất là chỉ nên trang bị đèn LED ở những khu vực bạn không sử dụng nhiều. Điều này là do nếu ai đó vô tình quên không tắt, chúng sẽ không tiêu thụ nhiều năng lượng như giải pháp thay thế bằng sợi đốt lành mạnh hơn. Tuy nhiên, vì hầu hết các đèn LED đều có cùng liên quan tới ánh sáng xanh kỹ thuật số, nên tốt nhất bạn nên sử dụng bóng đèn sợi đốt trong suốt cũ ở những khu vực mà bạn thường xuyên chiếu sáng vào ban đêm, như nhà bếp, phòng tắm và phòng ngủ. Hãy đo bất kỳ bóng đèn nào bạn sử dụng để phát hiện điện bẩn bằng đồng hồ đo microurge cắm vào với đèn bật và tắt. Nếu bóng đèn tăng mức điện bẩn cao hơn với các chỉ số cơ bản (khi bóng đèn tắt), thì đừng sử dụng nó. Mua bóng đèn LED "điện áp đường dây" chạy thẳng 120 vôn và không có nguồn điện ở chế độ chuyển mạch ở đế của chúng, đây là thứ tạo ra điện bẩn.

Thay thế công tắc điều chỉnh độ sáng bằng công tắc đèn bật-tắt thông thường, vì công tắc điều chỉnh độ sáng tạo ra điện bẩn. Nếu bạn muốn kiểm soát mức độ chiếu sáng, hãy tìm bóng đèn sợi đốt có nhiều mức cường độ.

Rút bộ sạc và thiết bị ra khỏi ổ cắm điện khi không sử dụng. Giữ chúng xa giường của bạn vào ban đêm. Sử dụng pin dự phòng để sạc điện thoại và thiết bị của bạn vào ban đêm. Kết hợp với một công tắc ngắt, những bộ sạc dự phòng này có thể được cắm vào tường và chúng sẽ sạc vào ban ngày và sạc điện thoại của bạn vào ban đêm. Chỉ cần nhớ giữ điện thoại của bạn ở chế độ trên máy bay.

Chỉ sử dụng cài đặt từ trường không trọng số trên đồng hồ này. Con số lý tưởng cho từ trường trong nhà là dưới 0,5 miligauss (50 nanotesla) vào ban ngày và dưới 0,3 miligauss (30 nanotesla) ở khu vực phòng ngủ.
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152 reviews1 follower
February 26, 2025
My family has been aware of this type of hidden dangers in our technologically advanced world since I was a child. There isn't anything in this book that I haven't already heard, but realize it could be eye opening to anyone just learning that electricity and other energy fields can have an effect on human life.

However, much of this book is hyperbole and there doesn't seem to be any "fix" except to roll on back to the stone age. The author compares EMF to mistakes society has made in the past that have been extensively scientifically documented as harmful, such as smoking. He belabors the point that corporation don't care if they destroy people health as long as they make a profit and that the government bows to corporate control until turning a blind eye is overwhelmingly impossible. Which is true. But he also ignores that steps have been taken to make technology safer and shield us from the effects. It appears that he doesn't think any progress along these lines is enough and continuously uses fear inducing tactics to urge us to emotional over reaction instead of problem solving. Hyping past mistakes alongside the tiny bits of scientific evidence we now have about the possible dangers of technology makes everything appear to be the same type and level of dangerous health problems.

Along those lines, the author repeatedly makes sweeping conclusions from actual evidence to his idea of current reality that ignores all other evidence that should be included. For example, he notes that bees are harmed by excessive exposure to EMF (true) and that bee populations have been severely reduced as technology has increased (also true), but ignores the MANY other factors harming the bee population (pesticide use, civilization encroaching natural bee life, etc). This is just one of MANY times the author leads us down his doomsday path mixing truth, conspiracy theory, history, and possibility in a pattern designed to scare us into his way of thinking.

Mercola seems to be hoping we'll abandon all technology and scientific research in favor of - oh look! He has a website that will happily sell you supplements and household products that will shield you from the harmful effects he outlines in his book. After only eight years of abandoning patient practice in favor of promoting his product line, Mercola declared in court that he had a net worth of over $100 million. It's now been another eight years, with worldwide publicity, without an update on that. What does he say about corporations fleecing people again?
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497 reviews3 followers
October 4, 2022
This is yet another content rich book about manmade EMFs and the health consequences it has on us. Dr. Mercola deals with a lot of research and has devoted the end of the book to approx. 150 references to research articles that demonstrate health damage from EMFs, and this is only a small percentage of what is out there on research. The content of the book is simply explained except for a couple of places where Mercola goes a little more in depth around what happens in the cells when they are exposed to radiation. I also got an interesting insight into the molecules nitric oxide and superoxide which in large quantities and when they are close to each other will form a dangerous molecule called peroxynitrite which is harmful to our cells, and which EMF helps to bring about.

The book goes into this rather comprehensibly, while in a couple of other areas it becomes somewhat more complicated, but the book is mostly an easy to read and understand. In contrast to "The Invisible Rainbow", this one devotes a whole chapter to how to protect yourself from EMF and how to repair EMF related damage. Much of what the author writes is probably not that popular in the eyes of mainstream media, but he backs up what he writes with a lot of good research. He also shows how the EMF research that is backed up by the big companies works, and how their methods are similar to the methods that the tobacco and sugar industry used back in the time when tobacco and sugar were not considered harmful to our health. All in all, a rich book about this important topic which is really starting to become a social problem around the world today.
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233 reviews
August 24, 2020
This is a book for anyone who is aware or care of the health impact that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are having on our body. Apart from giving readers the understanding of EMFs to start with, the comparability of cigarettes studies on health impact with studies of phones emitting EMFs that causes harm to health reveals how government and industry organizations has been down playing and discarded the many medical and science studies that clearly stated the on going damages at DNA and cellular metabolism. It is a big plus that an appendix is delegated to list out all the studies that demonstrate harmful effect of EMFs, which one can further explore.

The next good part of the book is covering details on how EMFs cause damages and as a result what kind of effects and diseases can occur. Fortunately that I have the basic knowledge of DNA and cell biology, which makes the whole explanation very clear and easily understandable. With the knowledge of how the damages are done, this is followed with how the body's system can repair the EMF-related damage and what one can do to help the repair. Finally, the author provides the ways one can perform in order to reduce our EMF exposure, including a Resources section listing out tools and products for various purposes.
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290 reviews3 followers
February 7, 2021
Concise and Informative

I am familiar with EMF in general and I feel that this book really broke things down so that most people can understand the subject of EMFs and their impact on people and the environment. I found the extensive biology lesson extremely fascinating and important to understanding why the EMFs we expose ourselves to all the time effects us. Absolutely worth reading!
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276 reviews3 followers
March 17, 2021
I enjoyed the info - I thought the background info was great.

The mitigation techniques were difficult to apply to a house with kids and gaming consoles and cell phones. I will work through them - but trying to wrap my head around protecting a 13 year old from his cell phone was a bit difficult - but again, I will reread and apply as many of these measures as i can.

Thanks!
273 reviews12 followers
May 18, 2024
Excellent analysis of emf and rf dangers, how to understand them, and how to protect yourself at several levels. Very well sourced and documented. It's an absolutely vital read/resource for this and coming decades in terms of knowledge and protection for oneself, family, and friends. Well worth the effort to read and keep handy for rereading...several times.
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269 reviews
October 2, 2024
Very detailed look at what 5G and EMFs are doing to us. As someone who is highly sensitive and can immediately feel that Bluetooth is on in the car or wifi in your house i appreciated all he had to say, including all the studies and research that was cited. This book is a great beginners guide to understanding it all.
193 reviews2 followers
November 20, 2024
Having already read Firstenberg's "The Invisible Rainbow", it is a little hard to properly review this book. The first part of EMF*D is kind of a summary of Invisible Rainbow which I basically skipped over. The final part is about the science behind how EMF affects the body, and countermeasures, and this is where EMF*D hits it's stride.
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13 reviews
May 18, 2020
Everything you need to know about EMF. How it affects your body, how to heal after prolonged exposure, how to guard yourself and protect others from it. Dr. Mercola provided a nice list of resources and suggestions at the end of the book.
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24 reviews1 follower
May 22, 2020
An eye opening reading that will absolutely scare you into action to reduce, mitigate, and eliminate EMFs in your home. As an electrical engineer, my opinion about the health effects due to EMF is forever changed.
29 reviews2 followers
March 25, 2025
a little technical at times, though he tried to make it more readable. But it was mostly good and I mostly believe what he's saying to do and what is wrong with BEmf's. Best book I've read on the subject probably.
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32 reviews11 followers
February 26, 2020
I love the practical information, got lost on the cell level medicine. So many EMF things in my life, this will be a start of the process to minimize my exposures.
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62 reviews
September 14, 2020
Definite must read for beginners. Not much new if you've already spent a lot of time and research on making changes. Would have loved this book at the beginning of my journey.
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