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EMF

Waves emitted by electrical devices disrupt the ionic bonds between metallic minerals and their biological couplings, converting them into free radicals that migrate to the brain and nervous system. Cellular structural damage begins at 3 milligauss.

Electromagnetic frequencies, in Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework, represent one of the most pervasive and underacknowledged sources of biological harm in modern life. He understood EMFs not as an abstract technical concern but as a direct physical assault on the molecular structure of living cells. The mechanism he described was specific: EMFs emit waves of neutrons and protons that exchange and alter the molecular structures of most biological substances within their range. In animal cells, this creates an imbalance in the electron-to-proton ratio of atoms, ultimately destabilizing molecular structure and cellular behavior. In too many circumstances, fragmentation of electrons occurred, and Aajonus compared the effects to huge meteors striking Earth.

The threshold number he returned to repeatedly across all of his writings and workshops was 3 milligauss. Scientists, he noted, had proven that animal cells exposed to EMFs above 3 gauss altered their molecular structure. He placed the conservative biological threshold for household AC current inside the body at approximately one billionth of an amp per square centimeter (RMS), corresponding to frequencies at or below 1,000 cycles per second. An external household appliance magnetic field of 3 milligauss, or an electric field of 2.5 kilovolts per meter, would produce approximately that threshold current inside the body. These numbers were not arbitrary safety margins to Aajonus; they were the boundary between tolerable exposure and measurable cellular damage.

His concern about EMFs was not theoretical. He experienced severe physical symptoms from EMF exposure himself, including carpal tunnel syndrome he traced directly to laptop use before understanding the source, tinnitus, joint soreness, muscular pain, hyperactivity, fatigue, ADD and ADHD-like states, hyper-allergic responses, hypersensitivity, and anger. He also described the case of a woman named Beth, who had been eating Primal Diet foods since 2003 and had dramatically improved her health, but between 2008 and 2009 was exposed to constant, extremely high EMFs from faulty low-grade electrical power lines. The exposure altered her body dramatically, forced her to leave her home, and reversed her health gains. The EMF levels she was exposed to exceeded what her meters could measure. She died at 67. He used her case as a direct illustration of how sustained EMF bombardment can kill, even in someone eating well.

How EMFs Damage Cells

The core mechanism Aajonus described is the disruption of ionic balance within cells. The nervous system and brain rely on metallic minerals to conduct electricity and transmit light throughout the body. When EMFs fractionate the ionic bonds between minerals and other nutrients, those minerals lose their bioactive couplings and become free radicals, taking on purely electromagnetic properties rather than nutritional ones. Once free-radicalized, metallic minerals migrate preferentially to the brain and nervous system, because those are the primary sites of metallic mineral use in the body. He estimated that approximately 80 percent of heavy metals freed by any means, including EMF exposure, end up in the brain and nervous system.

In his framework, cooked food already accomplishes a similar fractionation by heat, and EMF exposure compounds this problem by doing the same thing electromagnetically. Free radical metallic minerals gather or repulse each other based purely on electromagnetic properties rather than biological ones, producing toxic couplings instead of nutritive ones. The result is cascading neurological dysfunction: autism, dyslexia, senility, and general cognitive impairment. He also connected EMF exposure directly to carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, rheumatism, and general joint aching, pointing out that no one developed carpal tunnel using manual typewriters where real physical force was required, but it became epidemic once electrical computers were introduced.

When EMFs interact with free-radical metallic minerals already present in the body from other sources, such as industrial pollution, vaccines, or cooked food, the effects compound. Aajonus noted that University of Bristol researchers found EMFs can intensify the carcinogenic effects of radon gas specifically by attracting radon decay products and causing them to vibrate, making them more likely to adhere to human tissue. He extended this principle broadly: any industrialized electromagnetic living environment increases the danger posed by radioactive particles from other sources, such as nuclear contamination from Fukushima.

The Milligauss Standard Denied

Aajonus repeatedly cited 3 milligauss as the level at which documented molecular structural changes in animal cells occur. He noted that even governmental bodies, when pressed, had acknowledged this. He referenced a 1992 City of Los Angeles public brochure that instructed residents to turn on electric blankets before getting into bed, heat the bed, and then turn the blanket off before sleeping, stating that EMFs had been found to alter the molecular structure of cells. The city acknowledged they did not know if this was harmful, but they issued the warning anyway. Aajonus interpreted this as self-protective: authorities would not issue such a warning unless they were protecting themselves against liability, meaning the evidence of harm was real and known.

He was explicit that the electronics industry deliberately chose cheaper components, specifically capacitors instead of transistors, knowing this kept EMF emissions high. Electronic engineers had told him personally that the high EMF problem could be resolved by using transistors instead of capacitors, at an increased cost of approximately 50 cents to one dollar per device. The industry chose not to do this. He also singled out NEC as the only computer company he observed moving in the direction of lowering EMF fields, contrasting this with every other manufacturer.

Sources of EMF Exposure

Aajonus catalogued EMF sources exhaustively. Hair dryers, vibrators, electrical and radio clocks, electric blankets and pads including therapy pads, electrical shavers, water beds, vibration chairs and beds, and fluorescent lights all emit high EMFs when used for longer than three minutes at a time. Microwave ovens, Jacuzzis and hot tubs, computer towers, exterior hard drives, backup units, printers, copiers, infrared and Bluetooth mice, telephones especially cellular and Bluetooth versions, electrical transformers and voltage regulators on anything including computer peripherals and laptops, and sound equipment especially speakers are all sources. He included automobiles specifically, and anything electrical including battery-operated toys.

For computers, he was precise. A laptop generates EMFs from 50 to 110 milligauss or higher. His own PowerBook G4 at 800 MHz was measured at 50 to 100 milligauss, with the highest readings occurring when the hard drive was accessed. At two feet away using a separate keyboard, he could still feel its effects. His Acer laptop had an even higher EMF field than previous models. Desktop towers generate more than laptops by his account, and must be kept at least three feet away from the user.

For cars, the EMF range in modern vehicles while operating is 35 to 100 milligauss. Electric vehicles and hybrids produce extreme EMFs, especially in the driver's seat in the zone from the pedals to five inches above the seat. In Honda hybrids with a large battery unit under the rear seat or trunk, the back seat where children sit produces the worst EMF levels. The more expensive and technologically complex a car, the greater the EMFs due to computer systems. His own Toyota Prius hybrid registered 8 to 50 milligauss in the driver's seat, increasing with speed. When a CD player was running, the EMFs rose to 50 to 100 milligauss. He placed his feet on the mound between driver and front passenger most of the time when driving, where EMFs rarely exceeded 18 milligauss.

In airplanes, where jet engines are mounted on the wings, EMFs are extremely high from the cockpit through the business class sections, and the best seats are at the rear. Where engines are on the tails, the safest seats are several rows before and at the wings.

Electrical transformers and regulators on electrical and telephone poles create EMFs that bombard areas up to 150 feet (45 meters). These are typically located at the rears of buildings, closest to bedrooms. Many apartments and hotels have their own electrical transformers and regulators. He recommended specifically getting a room away from those objects when staying in hotels.

Cell phones warranted particular warning. He cited a Swiss laboratory study showing that rats exposed to 40 to 45 minutes of cell phone exposure per day, held at the ear and head, developed brain tumors, eye tumors, and ear tumors at a rate of 36 to 38 percent. He would not touch his cell phone while it was in use because that is when it broadcasts the highest EMFs. He kept it on a table, on the dashboard, or in a sleeve in the car during calls. Bluetooth devices emit lower but still significant EMFs, which he measured at up to 8 to 14 gauss. Wire earpieces, by contrast, he measured and could not get even a half-gauss reading from the ear end. He used wire earbuds and recommended them specifically over Bluetooth or holding the phone to the head.

Wireless and infrared mice produce very high EMF levels. Roller-ball mice that plug in are non-EMF-producing. Headsets he tested all had magnets in the earpieces that directly emit EMFs into the ear and head. He recommended using a tube earpiece to move the magnet away from the ears and head if the earpiece reading exceeded 1 milligauss on the Magnetic (0 to 3 range) setting of a TriField meter.

Infrared heating pads and electric blankets were specifically rejected. He instructed using hot water bottles instead, because they produce heat with no electromagnetic field. Heat relieves approximately 80 percent of any pain, but it must not come from electrical sources. Infrared lamps he described as generally causing problems, particularly skin problems, because infrared is an isolated ray of the spectrum rather than a complete spectrum, and isolated spectrums cause specific minerals to move and react without rebalancing the whole system.

MRI Magnetic Field Dangers

Aajonus identified MRIs as the worst EMF-emitting medical device a person could encounter. The main MRI magnet discharges 75,000 gauss. The antennas aimed directly at the patient's body shoot 12,000 to 75,000 gauss into the body during each engagement. To put this in context against his 3-milligauss cellular damage threshold, the difference is many orders of magnitude.

The imaging process itself requires approximately 260 bombardments of EMFs and radio waves. There is a 3-second delay between each bombardment because the cells require approximately 3 seconds to regain an ionic state similar to what it was before the previous bombardment. Without this delay, the image would be diffused in a glow of ionic bombardment and resultant disarray. He noted that even with this delay, each bombardment slightly and most often negatively alters cells. A typical MRI session runs at least 20 minutes, during which gross cellular alterations occur, and proper ionic balances may never be restored without eating a proper diet and practicing several ionic-restoring actions.

He was unequivocal: anyone stating MRIs are safe in the majority of patients has not studied their effects at the molecular and atomic levels and is merely repeating marketing rhetoric from the institutions producing and using the technology. He added that MRIs also cause internal free-radical metallic minerals in the body to pass through cellular walls like tiny bullets, causing much internal cellular bleeding.

The situation is compounded when contrast agents are used. Injecting or swallowing metallic minerals, which he described as toxic free-radical metallic solutions, is done to generate clearer images. These are additional free-radical metallic loads introduced into a body already being bombarded with 75,000-gauss fields.

His recommended alternative was ultrasound, which uses sound waves to map tissue density and does not use radiation waves. He acknowledged the images are less delineated and require more physician time to analyze, approximately 20 minutes compared to 2 to 5 minutes for MRI images. He attributed physician preference for MRIs to the fact that most medical doctors value their time over patient health. He also noted that ultrasound can damage the auditory capabilities of a fetus, and advised pregnant women to avoid both ultrasound and radiation exposure.

EMF Meters and Practical Detection

Aajonus recommended that everyone buy an EMF meter. He used the TriField meter specifically because it measures three different fields: electromagnetic, electrical, and radiation (including cell phone levels). He carried it while traveling because he found that many hotel rooms he might have accepted were extremely high in EMFs. His practice was to measure hotel rooms upon arrival; if EMFs were high, he requested another room; if no other room was available, he changed hotels.

To use an EMF meter, he described turning the dial to a magnetic setting and placing the meter at the electronic device, then slowly moving the meter away from it until the reading reached 0 to 1 milligauss. That distance represents the minimum safe distance to maintain from that device.

He sourced EMF meters through www.goodemfmeter.com. He also used the Magnetic (0 to 3 range) setting along with the Radio setting on the TriField meter to test headsets at the ear piece, recommending that any reading above 1 milligauss on a headset trigger the use of a tube earpiece to move the magnet away from the ear.

His personal laptop experience provided one of the most detailed case studies. An environmental expert measured the keyboard of his laptop and found the meter jumping to 85 gauss over the F11 and F12 keys. When typing, his right hand received 23 to 85 gauss depending on hard-disk activity; his left hand received 23 to 50 gauss. The farthest point of lower gauss registration was 7 inches from the bottom of the laptop. Based on this, the expert advised him to use a separate keyboard with the top of the keyboard at least 6 inches from the bottom of the computer. His subsequent Acer laptop had higher EMF fields and required the top of the separate keyboard to be 9.5 inches from the bottom of the laptop.

For anything with a motor, he stated that it must be kept about three feet away. The only reliable way to know the safe distance for any specific device is to test it with an EMF meter and identify the point where the reading reaches zero.

Airport Scanners

Aajonus mentioned airport security scanners in the context of food. He described allowing a two-and-a-half-foot gap in the conveyor belt before placing his food in, describing the food as spinning through quickly with nothing to detect except metal lids. He stated that food going through once was acceptable but that passing food through twice caused problems. Even going through once, he noticed it made his raw milk sting slightly on his tongue, but he considered this tolerable compared to not eating it at all.

Metallic Minerals and EMF Interaction

Aajonus's framework connected EMF damage directly to the body's use of metallic minerals for neurological function. The nervous system transmits light and conducts electricity using metallic minerals including aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, thallium, and others, all in trace amounts. These trace metallic minerals in food, when properly bound with other ions and nutrients, are not free radicals and are all utilizable, including mercury and lead in their properly bonded forms.

When EMFs fractionate these bonds, the metals lose their biological character and become free radicals defined by electromagnetic properties alone. Free-radical metallic minerals that gather electromagnetically create entirely new chemical combinations oriented toward electromagnetic attraction and repulsion rather than biological nourishment. Since the brain and nervous system use metallic minerals most heavily, they absorb most of the free-radical metallic minerals produced by this process, along with lead, cadmium, and thallium from other sources.

He described this as the reason for the epidemic of neurological disorders. The brain cannot function properly when it is receiving too many erratic signals from free radical metallic deposits, or when the conductive and light-transmitting functions of the nervous system are compromised. Autism, dyslexia, senility, ADD, ADHD, and general cognitive failure all trace back in his framework to the disruption of this metallic mineral conduction system, whether by cooking, industrial pollution, vaccines, or EMF exposure.

When cooked food is consumed, the fractionation of ionic bonds leaves metallic minerals as free radicals with purely electromagnetic properties before they are absorbed. EMF exposure can then take those same free-radical metals and cause further damage by adding electromagnetic energy directly to them. The interaction between environmental EMF sources and internal free-radical metallic loads from diet is not one problem compounding another mechanically, he clarified, but indirectly, because any additional damage forces the body's available nutrients to be spent on repair rather than on cleansing and building.

Bioactive Versus Machine Electromagnetic Energy

Aajonus drew a clear distinction between naturally produced electromagnetic energy from biological sources and the electromagnetic energy produced by machines. He stated that the nonbioactively produced electromagnetic energy from machines only mimics the energy that has been bioactively produced by biological life. Lying on the earth, on grass, or on sand at the beach will balance the body's currents holistically. Natural clays carry magnetic ions that correct cellular low-magnetic conditions.

He experimented with magnets from 1989 to 1992 and found benefits within specific parameters. Sleeping on a magnetic mattress with alternating poles, positive-negative-positive-negative, was better than no magnetic mattress. The product he found effective was organized in spirals rather than in straight lines along the mattress. A mattress he purchased initially had round magnets placed in straight lines and disturbed his sleep. He ripped out the magnets and rearranged them in spirals, after which he experienced good effects. However, after five months the effects reversed and began making him feel horrible. He concluded that the body adapts and then reacts against sustained magnetic exposure from a static source, meaning machine-generated magnetic fields, even when organized beneficially, do not have the same sustained benefit as naturally bioactive electromagnetic sources.

He acknowledged agreement with the position that the body contains magnets in each cell and that the north pole of a magnet and magnetized liquids can boost the body's electromagnetic energy. He agreed with this to a point, based on his own experiments, but the five-month reversal he experienced indicated the limitation. He also reported testing the bio shields and EMF-reduction stickers marketed for cell phones, finding that the best of them lowered EMF levels by only about half a gauss, and he used one anyway on his cell phone, taking any reduction available, while still maintaining the wire earbud practice.

Leukemia and Epidemiological Evidence

Aajonus cited epidemiological studies by Maria Feychting of Sweden showing that people exposed to high EMFs at home and at work had 3.7 times greater risk of developing leukemia compared to people who were not exposed. He also cited the Swiss laboratory animal studies showing 36 to 38 percent brain tumor development in rats with 40 to 45 minutes of daily cell phone exposure. He connected the rise in human brain tumors epidemiologically to the proliferation of cell phone use, describing the correlation as visible and high.

Electro Dermal Screening Devices

In his book he addressed Electro Dermal Screening Devices (EDSDs), which use computerized electrical devices with biofeedback to attempt to diagnose health problems. The machine sends electrical signals to the brain and body at frequencies believed to represent those of a healthy person. He rejected this approach on multiple grounds. First, those idealized frequencies are relative to the programmer's understanding of health, which may be biased against important bodily functions such as mucus production, bacteria, parasites, and virus activity. Second, every human body is different and emits varied electrical frequencies, which negates the ideological validity of any fixed healthy-person frequency profile. Third, the electrical signals from an EDSD machine may give the body false ideas about its needs and state of wellbeing, causing bodily systems to fail to respond properly. He noted that an EDSD treatment had forced a severe epoxy-detoxification and cancerous burn he described elsewhere in his book, which he cited as direct personal evidence of the device's potential for harm.

EMF Exposure Recovery Methods

Even with all available therapies, Aajonus acknowledged that the original and perfect ionic balances may never be completely restored once the body has been bombarded by non-organic ions that have become part of the body's structure. This was one of the most sobering statements he made on the subject. The emphasis was on prevention and reduction of exposure, not on the ability to fully undo damage.

For radiation damage generally, which he grouped with EMF damage in terms of the free-radical metallic mechanism, he identified animal fat as the primary cleansing agent. Cream he identified as the only fat that soothes the nervous system. He described how the sun's radiation is normally absorbed into animal fat in the skin and transformed into vitamin D and a range of complex fats and cholesterols; when people lack the proper fats in their skin tissue, solar radiation becomes damaging instead of nourishing. He extended this to EMF exposure: adequate animal fat in tissues provides buffering that raw food diets support and cooked food diets do not.

He noted that the body can restore ionic balance through dietary means combined with several ionic-restoring actions, without specifying in detail what all of those actions were in the passages available, beyond the dietary support of the Primal Diet, lying on the earth, and using natural clays.

For the specific situation of being injected with radioactive or metallic nanoparticles, as he believed happened to him during a forced injection, he noted that EMF meter readings from his own mouth after the injections registered 4 to 4.5 on the meter when he touched the meter and placed it on his mouth, compared to zero without his hand, indicating that his body was now registering and emitting electrical fields it had not before.

Practical Protocols for Reducing Exposure

From across all of his writings and workshops, a set of practical protocols emerges. Keep computer towers at least three feet away from the body. Use a laptop instead of a desktop when possible, because laptops produce lower EMFs, but use a separate wired keyboard with the top of the keyboard at least 6 inches (or 9.5 inches depending on the specific laptop model) from the bottom of the laptop. Do not use wireless or infrared mice; use only roller-ball plug-in mice. Do not use Bluetooth headsets; use wire earbuds, testing each at the earpiece with a TriField meter on Magnetic (0 to 3 range) and Radio setting, discarding any that read above 1 milligauss at the earpiece. Do not hold a cell phone to the head during calls. Keep the cell phone away from the body while it is transmitting or receiving. Do not use electric blankets or heating pads; use hot water bottles instead. Avoid fluorescent lighting; use LED bulbs. Do not use microwave ovens. Test all hotel rooms with an EMF meter and request a room change if readings are high. In airplanes with wing-mounted engines, sit at the rear; with tail-mounted engines, sit several rows before and at the wings. Do not live within 150 feet of electrical transformers or regulators. Test all vehicles with an EMF meter before purchasing. Avoid MRIs; use ultrasound as a less harmful alternative for medical imaging.

When building or selecting a home, ensure all electrical outlets are properly grounded. An improperly grounded outlet in a bedroom was measured by an environmental expert as emitting an electromagnetic field of approximately 12 (units unspecified but contextually gauss). If high EMF fields persist after turning off the power inside the home, the source is outside the home, such as power equipment on the street, and the options are to have the electric company, an electrician, or the landlord address it, or to move.

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