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Human society has undergone many significant changes in just the past 200 years. The Industrial Revolution, and discovering how to harness electromagnetic energy to benefit our lives, has ushered the presence of artificial electromagnetic energy into our daily lives. With the launch of 2G wireless technology in 1990, this energy was on its way to surrounding us 24/7. Now, in just 30 years since we began to experiment with the conveniences of wireless devices, the prevalence of EMF emitting technology has accelerated to exponential levels we can’t even comprehend. We are now in the age of 5G, which to function optimally needs receiving and transmitting antennas (repeaters) on almost every street corner!

Along with the drastic increase in EMFs due to humanity’s enthusiastic acceptance of this new way of life, has also come widespread questioning and skepticism regarding its safety when it comes to our health. More and more people are seeking protection from this thick blanket of frequencies that we are exposed to mostly without our consent – a respite from the constant stimulus. Even if you can’t tangibly “feel” the frequencies, many people have an intuitive sense that they need to get away from them – urgently if you’re a very sensitive person, or if you’re not consciously aware of them, you may just feel the occasional need to leave “the hustle and bustle of daily life”.

We want to get away from them, to place a barrier between these unwanted, uninvited, invisible intruders. They have entered our homes, which we consider to be our personal safe spaces to rest, recover and feel protected from the dangers of the world. Unfortunately, while the protective barriers of our cozy homes can keep out inclement weather, hostile physical intruders, and air and noise pollution, they cannot keep out the electromagnetic energy that saturates the area we live. These EMFs can come from electricity in our own home and RF radiation from our own wireless devices, but a large amount also comes from outside our home – nearby cell towers, smart electric meters, the neighbor’s Wifi or satellite internet, and even passing cars that are using data from phone calls and GPS navigation.

The idea of blocking, or shielding, EMFs is an obvious first thought. It seems like a simple and straightforward answer, and satisfies our mental need to put a barrier between ourselves and the energy we want to get away from.

In the EMF protection industry, the terms Faraday cages and shields, EMF and RF shields, and protective fabrics and materials have become well known.

How effective are these products for actually protecting our health from the effects of manmade EMF sources?

Is it the simple and straightforward solution that it seems to be, or are there complexities and nuances that we need to consider to ensure we have proper protection?

What is a Faraday cage, anyway?

So who is Faraday, and why is his cage such an important invention? We will have to go back to a time when no one was thinking about EMF protection, and the first experiments with electricity were being done by some very curious geniuses!

In the 1800s, English scientist Michael Faraday made some revolutionary discoveries about electricity. He is often called the “Father of Electricity” because he discovered that a changing magnetic field produces an electric field. Rather than observing or producing just electric energy, or just magnetic energy, this new understanding enabled us to intentionally produce electric and magnetic fields together, which is considerably more functional and dynamic. EMFs are called electromagnetic fields because there’s always an electric field and a magnetic field existing together, each perpetuating the other.

A conductor that’s placed inside a changing magnetic field (or moving through a stationary one) produces voltage across the conductor, which is called electromagnetic induction. This is also called Faraday’s Law in modern physics, since the phenomenon was first observed and described by Michael Faraday.

Faraday also discovered that an electric current aimed at a conductive metal container would distribute its charge across the entire surface of the box, without passing through the container into the inside. Therefore, the inside of the box was basically a “dead zone” with no measurable fields. Faraday reproduced an earlier experiment by Benjamin Franklin that was based on the same principles, but Faraday took it much further with several variations, all showing the same results, and actually explained the mechanism. He built a room coated with metal foil, and standing inside of it himself, allowed high-voltage discharges from an electrostatic generator to strike the outside of the room. He used an electroscope to show that there was no electric charge present on the inside of the room's walls.

Modern Faraday cages come in many forms, and are used for many purposes. They can be made from sheets of solid metal, or mesh, cage or grid-like patterns full of small or large holes. They can be made from many types of metal, as long as the metal is marginally to highly conductive. Common shielding materials include copper, silver, gold, aluminum, steel, and brass. Although steel is far less conductive than electron-rich precious metals like silver and copper, its practicality and low cost makes it a good choice for many kinds of Faraday cages.

Modern examples of Faraday cages

You may not realize it, but you are likely utilizing and interacting with Faraday cages every day! Cars and airplanes act as Faraday cages, due to the metal frames and exterior paneling inherent to their design. This is why you can be driving your car in a lighting storm, and are still safe from being struck by lightning – if it did happen to strike your car, the high voltage current would distribute its charge across the entire outside surface of the metal panels, then pass into the ground below, while everything inside the car is completely unaffected.

It’s the same situation when you’re flying in an airplane. Did you know that lighting strikes airplanes all the time? Even if you fly a lot, you may not know this, because you are completely protected when you’re inside the plane, and likely wouldn’t even notice if your plane was struck! The outer “skin” of an airplane is primarily made of aluminum, which is highly conductive.

Microwave ovens are also Faraday cages, although they work in reverse by containing their electromagnetic energy inside the oven, so it won’t leak out and dissipate. Of course, we recommend never using microwave ovens to cook food, but if you have a microwave hanging around, you could always use it to store your sensitive electronics inside the unplugged device, to protect them from being harmed by natural or artificial electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that can fry your technology!

There are also many uses for entire rooms that are Faraday cages: MRI rooms in hospitals are completely shielded to ensure that the high powered magnetic and radiofrequency diagnostic imaging won’t be contaminated with stray electromagnetic radiation from other sources. Militaries and governments use shielded bunkers and vehicles to safeguard critical systems from solar storms and manmade EMP attacks, and to protect sensitive communications from electronic eavesdropping. Science labs that perform rigorous clinical studies use fully shielded rooms to create a neutral testing environment, free of outside electromagnetic influences.

Power utility lineman who work with high voltage electricity and live wires wear special conductive (shielded) suits woven with ultra fine silver fibers, protecting them from potentially deadly electric shocks.

What are the limitations of Faraday cages and shielding?

When it comes to EMF protection applications, shielding and Faraday cages can offer some protection, under the right circumstances. However, there are some limitations that need to be considered, so you can use shielding methods appropriately, without deriving a false sense of security by believing you’re more fully protected than you are.

Faraday cages and shielding materials can only block or attenuate (reduce) some kinds of frequencies, and their effectiveness will also depend on the size of the holes in the material, and how much coverage the material gives to what you’re trying to protect.

The holes in the shielding materials have to be significantly smaller than the wavelength size of the frequencies they are designed to block, so higher frequencies (with shorter wavelengths) in the microwave and radiofrequency spectrum require extremely small holes, or a continuous material with no holes, to be blocked effectively. A traditional Faraday “cage”, or a mesh or a grid, may block the extremely low frequency (ELF) fields from your home electricity, but a cell phone signal will pass through it easily.

A full Faraday cage that completely surrounds a person or device, and which is made of solid, thick conductive metal, will offer fairly complete protection from measurable electromagnetic fields. It will keep all external electromagnetic fields on the outside, and all internal ones on the inside of the cage. If you invest in expensive shielding paint for your bedroom, and use several layers to ensure that the metal particulate in the paint is distributed as thoroughly as possible, and your room has no windows, then your cell phone or Wifi router should not work at all from within the room. If it does, you aren’t getting complete protection.

If you put a full Faraday cage over the top of your Wifi router or smart electric meter, those devices should no longer work at all, since they rely on wireless signal transmission to do their job. Likewise, if you store your cell phone in a shielded case, you should not be able to receive a call on your phone. It should render your wireless communication devices completely unusable. This is not practical or desirable, unless you just want to store your phone in a shielded case to protect it from an EMP (or for cybersecurity and privacy purposes) when you’re not using it.

To remain practical, most shielding products are not full Faraday cages. They are usually designed to block the frequencies on just one side of the device, which is often the side that touches your body, like with shielded phone cases. The actual protection you get from this kind of product is fairly low, and you would be better off keeping your phone further away from your body, or turning it on airplane mode (or off completely) if you have to carry it in your pocket. Likewise, Wifi and smart meter shields are made of metal mesh with tiny holes, so that most of the RF radiation is blocked, but there's still enough getting through so the devices can emit the RF fields needed to remain functional.

Clothing made from shielded materials, like woven silver fibers, offers somewhat more protection, as it will protect the body parts it covers from all ambient EMFs, not just your phone like a shielded phone case does. However, since your entire body is conductive, the ambient EMFs will still reach unprotected body parts and enter your body through your skin (since your pores act as antennas), traveling through your electromagnetically active nervous system. Our bodies are not just a bunch of separate parts, but are an integrated whole, so anything that affects one part of our body will ultimately affect our whole body. This is one reason you wouldn’t want to rely on shielded clothing as your primary form of EMF protection, but only as an adjunct to more complete forms of protection, like Blushield home and portable devices.

Another consideration with complete Faraday cages is that in addition to blocking the unwanted EMFs, they will also block a portion of the beneficial natural EMFs from the Earth and cosmos, including the Schumann resonances. These frequencies are considered essential to the health and natural rhythms of life on Earth, and we do not want to block them. Shielding materials won’t block the Earth’s magnetic field (since they cannot block static magnetic fields), but there is an entire symphony of natural beneficial frequencies that you won’t be able to benefit from if you’re inside a Faraday cage.

Shielding materials do not block scalar fields

There is one final consideration when it comes to the limitations of shielding, and is the most important one, in our opinion. Every measurable electromagnetic field that exists has both a transverse component and a scalar component. The transverse component of the EMF is the part that you can measure with an EMF meter. It is the part that exists materially in 3D space, and can be blocked by Faraday cages and shielding materials.

However, as we have discussed at length in previous articles, every EMF also has a scalar component, which could be described as the “essence” of the field, or the pure energy and potential behind the material manifestation of moving physical electrons. This pure energy moves through the space between atoms, so cannot be blocked by physical shielding materials. The scalar component of an EMF can also be considered to be an information field, containing the blueprint of whatever information the field is carrying or transmitting. Scalar fields are highly bioactive, affecting the body considerably more than the transverse, measurable, “block-able” portion of the field!

Scalar fields can be produced intentionally, or unintentionally as a byproduct of a transverse field. Manmade EMFs from wireless devices use a transverse carrier signal to transmit information, and the scalar component of this field is unintentionally transmitted as well, carrying biologically incoherent information that our bodies pick up on and react to. When we use shielding to block external EMFs, the scalar component of that EMF will still get through, and will still affect us.

While all measurable (transverse) fields have a scalar component, that is not the case with scalar fields. There can be “pure scalar” fields, which are pure informational/blueprint fields that aren’t bound by the same rules of space and time that physically manifest frequencies are subject to.

Blushield technology uses pure scalar as the carrier signal for its multiple waveform algorithms based on natural frequencies and patterns. This allows our bodies to perceive and entrain with these beneficial fields much more easily (since scalar is more bioactive), and the field is not limited by the properties of transverse fields, which lose power over distance and are easily blocked or attenuated by physical obstructions.

If you placed your Blushield inside of a full Faraday cage, it would still work just as well! Your body will still perceive the field. This would also be the case if you were inside a shielded room, and your Blushield was plugged in somewhere outside the room. Your body would still pick up on the field, even though the transverse carrier signals used by cell phones and Wifi would no longer get through.

Frequencies are everywhere, all the time

The truth is that we are in constant community with many types of frequencies, at all times, and we will be for our entire lives. Instead of trying to block out the frequencies around us, a more effective solution is to introduce an additional frequency field into our environment that is biologically coherent, which our bodies can then preferentially seek out and choose to resonate with.

The majority of us do not want to completely cut ourselves off from the outside world and try to live in a bubble, but would prefer to develop a healthy relationship with the world around us. Along with living comes exposure to many frequencies, including a variety of beneficial and harmful ones, and we just need the tools to maximize our resilience and vitality, so we can handle anything that comes our way in life with more ease.

For more information on this subject, please read our other articles on scalar energy, and the benefits and limitations of different types of EMF protection methods and devices:

Passive vs. Active EMF Protection

Scalar Energy & EMF – What You Need To Know

Scalar Energy, Biology & Consciousness

As we move through our daily lives in the modern, high tech world we inhabit today, we are being exposed to electromagnetic fields from many different sources. The number of sources are increasing all the time, as we and those around us decide to incorporate new technologies into our lives for the sake of function, efficiency and convenience.

Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can vary widely in their structure, intensity and frequency, depending on the technology used. The type of EMFs that cell phones, Wifi, smart meters, Bluetooth and other “smart” devices utilize is called radio-frequency radiation. This type of radiation is in the radio wave and microwave spectrum of hundreds of megahertz up to hundreds of gigahertz, and consists of wireless information packets being sent from a transmitting device to a receiving device, or back and forth between devices (like between cell towers and cell phones). Wireless radio-frequency radiation fills the ambient space that exists between the two communicating devices, and all life forms in that space can perceive these fields, and are affected by them.

Another type of EMF is the localized electric and/or magnetic fields produced by appliances that plug into the power mains of your home, office, school, or anywhere that utilizes electricity to power anything. This includes your TV, computer, refrigerator, washer and dryer, and even the home wiring itself. It includes space heaters, air conditioners, toasters, ovens, fans, and even your electric stove top.

These electric fields are highly localized to the device itself (and the power cord and wall power outlet), and do not travel very far into the ambient space like radio-frequency radiation does, because this EMF is just a byproduct of the device utilizing electricity, not a means to transmit information. The localized electric and magnetic fields from standard appliances in most cases drop down to almost zero when you move just 2 to 3 feet from the device. However, if you’re standing very close to the appliance, your body will be affected by this field to some extent.

High powered home devices can reach well beyond 1,000 volts per meter (abbreviated v/m) for electric fields, and well past 1,000 milligauss (mG) for magnetic fields. The strength of these fields is subject to the inverse square law, which basically means that as you move further away from a source of radiation, the intensity of the field drops exponentially. This is why they say “distance is your friend” when it comes to EMF exposure!

Although every powered appliance is going to have some degree of an electromagnetic field, there are some pretty vast differences when it comes to the intensity of the field, and the structure and makeup of it. Different EMF sources are going to affect your body in different ways. Some may only have minor effects on you under certain circumstances, and some can cause much more significant harm.

Let’s talk about all the wonderful appliances we use to cook our food! This is something we all have in common as humans – our kitchens are important to us, and many of us spend a lot of time there every day.

Did you know there are some cooking methods that pose little to no threat to our health and the quality of our food, while others literally derange the molecules and destroy nutrients in your food, all while exposing you and your family to harmful levels of radiation?

The health risks of microwave ovens

Let’s start with the most well established danger in most people’s kitchens: microwave ovens. Fortunately, these devices have been studied extensively for their effects on the quality, nutrient density and toxicity of the food cooked in them, as well as on life forms that consume that food, and even the effects of being in close proximity to these high powered devices.

Microwave ovens operate in the microwave segment of the electromagnetic spectrum, around 2.45 gigahertz – around the same frequency as Wifi. 2.45 gigahertz is 2.45 billion hertz, or 2.45 billion cycles per second. This means the frequency oscillation occurs over 2 billion times in one second, for every second your microwave is operating! This is happening inside of any food item you place in a microwave to cook or heat up.

The microwave itself is basically a Faraday cage that does not allow (most) of the radiation to leave the inside of the device, and concentrates on the inside. When you turn it on to heat up some food, this extremely intense level of radiation goes into the food, exciting the molecules in the food itself, over two billion times per second. Agitating the molecules of the food so intensely produces heat as a side effect, thereby “cooking” the food. It also tears the molecules apart and deforms them, and can even separate the charge of the atoms, causing them to lose electrons (ionize).

Ionizing atoms can produce free radicals, which are displaced electrons that aggressively seek out new atoms to attach to. They are unstable and highly reactive. In the body of living organisms, excess free radicals cause oxidative stress, which can lead to DNA damage and even cell mutation into malignant forms. If you’re consuming food that contains higher than usual amounts of free radicals, over a long period of time, this will not fare well for long term health.

The radiation from microwave ovens can cause a massive (as much as 60-90%) reduction of bioavailable nutrients in the food, including the B complex vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, and essential minerals. One study showed that microwaved broccoli lost 97% of its beneficial antioxidants, which makes sense considering antioxidants are neutralizers of free radicals. Broccoli that was steamed on a stove top only lost 11% of its antioxidants.

Microwaved milk loses most of its beneficial bacteria that normally keeps harmful bacteria in check, and that milk was found to be 18 times more susceptible to E.coli contamination than unheated raw milk. Microwaving meat causes the formation of well known carcinogens called d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, and microwaving vegetables turns many of their natural alkaloids into carcinogenic (cancer-causing) substances.

Several studies have been done showing live plants that were watered with microwaved (then cooled) water have stunted growth and poor health compared to plants that are watered using the same type of water that wasn’t microwaved – even if it was heated (then cooled) on a stove top first. Many people have reproduced the results of these studies in home based experiments, which have been widely shared on internet forums.

There have even been blood tests done on animals and humans fed microwaved food versus food cooked using other methods, and the blood of those who consumed microwaved food consistently showed a considerable reduction in blood hemoglobin, lower red blood cell count, and far more susceptibility to bacterial contamination. Studies where rats were fed microwaved food showed damage to the pancreas, and a drastic reduction of antioxidant enzyme activity in the brain and liver.

Another unacknowledged danger is the fact that the rubber seals on the doors of microwaves degrade over time, leaking larger amounts of microwave radiation as the device ages. If a person is standing near their microwave when it’s turned on, they may be exposed to levels of radiation thousands of times stronger than their cell phone or Wifi router, and well past even the conventionally accepted safety levels!

Sadly, all of this is still not common knowledge in the mainstream, and many people still use microwaves without any awareness of the potential dangers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 90% of American households own a microwave. The information regarding its dangers has been available for decades now, but unfortunately is not being reported by governments or mainstream news outlets, and there haven’t been product recalls based on this information, so the majority of Americans still have no clue.

Safer cooking methods without sacrificing convenience

Although nothing is more convenient than popping a dish into a microwave oven and coming back to a fully cooked meal 2-10 minutes later, I think you would agree after considering all the above information about the dangers, this slight increase in convenience is not even remotely worth it!

If you’re used to using a microwave, it may take some initial effort to change your habits, but there are other methods you can use to accomplish the same goals without too much compromise to your time and energy.

Conventional electric stove tops do produce heat using electricity, but this will just show up as a localized electric field operating at the 60 hertz frequency of mains power. The ambient electric field will occupy the space that your food is being heated in, but only passively, and does not directly manipulate the food itself. Also, it is millions of times slower/lower of a frequency than what microwaves produce. Underneath your electric stove top is a coil that receives electrical power to heat up, and then the pot/pan and food is heated by the infrared heat emanating from the hot coil, not from the electromagnetic field itself. Infrared heat is the same energy that burning wood emits, as well as the heat that comes from the sun. As humans, we are much more adapted to this kind of ancient, primordial radiation than the artificial radiation sources of modern times.

This ambient, passive EMF exposure is not the case for a different type of stove called an induction cooktop. Besides microwave ovens, induction stoves are one of the few other cooking methods we would caution against, because of how they work to channel electrical energy directly into your cooking pot or pan, and the high (kilohertz) frequencies that are used. Conventional electric stoves emit heat as a byproduct of the electric field, whereas induction stoves include your metal pot or pan as an essential part of the electromagnetic circuit itself, channeling the EMFs directly into the pot, which then heats up and cooks your food. Because the pot/pan is part of the electric circuit in this case, you can only use cookware made of ferromagnetic (iron based) materials on induction stoves, whereas you can use any material cookware (including ceramic, clay and tempered glass) on regular stoves.

An extra risk to using induction cooktops is if you touch the handle of your pot while it’s on the stove, your body also becomes part of the electromagnetic circuit that’s heating the pot! Although it won’t noticeably shock you like touching a high voltage circuit, it will channel these kilohertz frequencies through your body, exposing you to the full EMF load the appliance is producing.

Back to electric stoves: if you’re used to heating up cold coffee in your microwave, it should be fairly easy to get into the habit of reheating your beverage in a small pot or teapot on your stove. You can also keep beverages warm for long periods of time in a thermos or insulated mug.

It’s equally simple to cook packaged soups, canned beans, and other healthy prepared foods on your stove instead of in your microwave. The “instant” microwaveable meals that are on the market are usually packaged in plastic, and that plastic leaches into your food as you cook it in your high powered microwave, contaminating your food with toxic, hormone disrupting chemicals… just another reason to give up that microwave for good!

Other convenient, moderate EMF quick cooking options include toaster ovens, air fryers and electric tea kettles. Air fryers utilize a unique cooking method of convection (moving and circulating) heat that creates a crispy and flavorful end product fairly quickly, whereas microwave ovens detrimentally affect both the flavor and texture of food.

Do we really need “smart” cooking appliances?

The biggest modern craze in mainstream homes is a “smart” everything: smart beds, smart doorbells, baby monitors, and even smart refrigerators, ovens, toasters and coffee makers! While some of these can have pretty major benefits (like wireless security cameras that are connected to your doorbell, which you can access anytime from your phone), most just seem like curiosities that may save a few minutes here and there, possibly at the expense of your long term health and well being.

Do you really need a coffee maker that will brew you a cup while you’re laying in bed playing with your coffee maker phone app, sending a Wifi signal through your house just so you don’t have to get up and do it yourself? Or a stove you can preheat from a wireless phone app while you’re on your way home from work? These things may not seem like a big deal, but every single “smart” appliance in your home produces its own little radio-frequency field, increasing the overall EMF pollution in your home. Your home is supposed to be a sanctuary of relaxation and recovery, but if your body is under constant low level stress from ambient EMFs from dozens of sources, it will be anything but that.

If you do have smart appliances, you could always just keep the Wifi setting disabled (or never set up the Wifi capabilities and app in the first place), and you should be safe from unwanted RF radiation.

The materials you cook with matter!

The materials of your cookware may not seem EMF related, but it’s important to understand that many EMF sensitive folks are also sensitive to other toxic environmental stressors, including chemicals that are commonly found in homes. Experts on the subject have found that if someone has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), they are also very likely to be EMF hypersensitive. Reducing chemical exposure in the home as much as possible will take a large burden off these peoples’ extra sensitive systems, making it easier for them to deal with the stress from EMFs that they can’t control nearly as easily.

Avoiding any cookware that’s promoted as “non-stick”, as well as aluminum cookware, is a good start. Many pans, rice cookers, crock pots and other ceramic cookware are coated with a non-stick surface, which is usually a polymer coating called PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). When heated to high temperatures, this coating can break down and release toxic fumes, and become infused into the food you eat. It’s better to create a natural non-stick surface on your pans by cooking with healthy oils. You can replace aluminum baking dishes with stainless steel or glass.

A wonderful alternative to chemical glazed crock pots and rice cookers is a high tech, powerful product on the market called VitaClay, which cooks food in a non-toxic, unglazed clay pot. Instead of chemical glazing, the clay is sealed using a very high temperature water glazing process. The clay cooking pot can improve the quality, texture and flavor of your food, and can cook using a wide range of methods and types of meals. It preserves nutrients much better than a pressure cooker, and cooks food about four times faster than a crock pot or slow cooker.

Zero EMF cooking methods

In the modern, convenience-focused homes most of us live in, being exposed to a certain level of EMFs from our cooking appliances is almost inevitable. However, there are a few cooking methods that are good to know about, if you live a less conventional and more earth-based lifestyle, or strive to in the future! These technologies can even be implemented in a modern home, with the right planning and expertise. If you are highly EMF sensitive and want to remove EMFs from your life as much as possible, these are options to seriously consider.

One zero EMF cooking appliance that’s still fairly prevalent is the gas powered stove. Many older houses still use gas ranges, which produce no electromagnetic fields, as the food is heated by the infrared heat byproduct of the gas fueled flame. Propane stoves are another option, and are generally safer to use than gas stoves. Propane also heats faster and uses less fuel than gas.

Moving closer to an earth-based lifestyle, there are wood stoves and rocket stoves, which are heated using firewood. There are some very smart and strategic designs out there that maximize function, efficiency and aesthetics. Well designed rocket stoves, in particular, are extremely efficient in combusting almost all the fuel from the wood with the absolute minimum production of smoke and soot. They can serve multiple vital functions in a home – acting as an efficient cooking surface that uses locally sourced renewable materials (firewood), as well as a powerfully effective way to heat your home in the colder seasons that can replace electric and gas heating in the right circumstances, even in the coldest of climates!

The radiation from wood fires is a full spectrum light and heat source (especially infrared) that’s very healthy for the body, as long as exposure to smoke (from incomplete combustion) is avoided.

Conclusion

Considering how much time most of us spend in the kitchen, especially those who value wholesome, home cooked meals, we think it’s important to have an understanding of the electromagnetic exposure levels and types we are getting from the various ways we prepare our food, so we can cook more consciously.

Although most types of cooking methods will expose us to some ambient electric and magnetic fields, there are definitely ways to minimize exposure, especially by reducing or eliminating radiofrequency/microwave radiation from our kitchens. Those who are EMF sensitive will appreciate knowing about ways to keep their food as nutrient dense, healthy and low EMF as possible.

You are what you eat – if you’re eating food that’s exposed to intense EMFs, that will definitely affect and alter the digestibility, nutrient density and toxicity of that food.

You will almost definitely still have exposure to some localized electric and magnetic fields in your kitchen. If you consider your overall EMF exposure, and choose a Blushield home model that’s the appropriate strength for your living situation, these low frequency, localized exposures can become a non-issue for most people.

We want to help you make your home into the sanctuary it is supposed to be!

References:

Report: “The Hidden Hazards Of Microwave Cooking” – https://healthfulbalanceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/HazardsOfMicrowaveCooking.pdf

Study: “Phenolic compound contents in edible parts of broccoli inflorescences after domestic cooking” – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.1585

Study: “Effects of Microwave Radiation on Anti-infective Factors in Human Milk” – https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/89/4/667/58140/Effects-of-Microwave-Radiation-on-Anti-infective

Study: “Consumption of Microwaved Food induces Oxidative Stress in the Liver and Brain of Sprague-Dawley Rats” – https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ajayi-2014.pdf

Study: “Investigation of the Effects of Radio Frequency Water Treatment on Some Characteristics of Growth in Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Plants” – https://www.scirp.org/pdf/abb_2020021716134094.pdf

Study: “Effects of Microwave Radiations on the Morphological and Biochemical Aspects of Some Economically Important Herbs” – https://asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/4624

Study: “Effects of the Ingestion of Microwaved Food Items on Some Haematological Parameters in Albino Wistar Rats” – https://journalcjast.com/index.php/CJAST/article/view/6472

All living organisms are bioelectric in nature. Humans, animals, insects, plants and even microscopic organisms generate weak electric and magnetic fields that are essential to performing the constant tasks that keep the organism alive and responding intelligently to its environment. We are electromagnetic because the Earth itself is electromagnetic, and our bodies are composed entirely from Earth materials. The rhythms, melodies and harmonies of life can be seen as an electromagnetic interaction between all living things.

If this “Divine design” is interfered with, it can disorient and even put a halt to these intricate biological processes, and create chaos on a microscopic and macroscopic level. “Disorient” is a good word for this, because many species literally rely on the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field for daily and seasonal navigation. This is especially the case for bees and migrating birds, for whom natural magnetism is the primary force that informs their movement.

Even humans, who rarely think of themselves as electric or magnetic, are influenced by external electromagnetism. There have been fascinating studies done by blindfolding humans and keeping them in a dark room on a swivel chair, spinning the chair around and then asking them to point in the direction of north. If the room was shielded (blocking out the Earth’s magnetic field), they were unable to reliably determine direction. If it was a normal room with no shielding (though completely dark to remove light cues), astonishingly, a statistically significant percentage were able to accurately point towards magnetic north.

As humans, our minds and beliefs often get in the way of instincts and “innocent perception”, and we lose the ability to directly perceive subtle energies in the way that animals can. There is a small but significant subset of humans who can still perceive these things. Their bodies are more sensitive, and speak loudly over any mental interference that may be present, to deliver a message that needs to be heard. These people are the “canaries in the coal mine”, so to speak. We would do well to pay attention to them – because their stories need to be heard and believed, for one thing, but just as importantly, because they may be informing us about something that is harming every single one of us even if we aren’t aware of it!

What is electromagnetic hypersensitivity?

“All over the world, electro-hypersensitive people are hiding in the most remote, isolated, forgotten and desperate places. It is towards these sensitive human beings that I will ask you on June 16, 2022 to show solidarity and to carry the voice of those who can no longer do so by showing your support for this cause that concerns us all!”

This is a statement on the website for the World EHS Day, which is being recognized for the 5th year in a row this June 16th, 2022.

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is also known as microwave syndrome, or radiation sickness. There is no set of specific, definite symptoms that all EHS sufferers will experience. This is because EMFs affect the body as a whole, and the symptoms generally show up where any individual body has a genetic weakness or injury. Common symptoms include headaches, chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, disturbed sleep, tinnitus, heart irregularities, brain fog and digestive issues. It may be very difficult to determine that these symptoms are caused by EMFs and not something else, since any one of these symptoms could have a variety of causes. The main telling factor for EHS sufferers is that they feel worse, and their symptoms increase, in the presence of higher levels of EMFs, or around specific EMF sources with fields that may be especially triggering for that individual, like Wifi, smart meters or high voltage power lines.

A conservative estimate is that 5-10% of the world population suffers from mild to extreme EHS. Some speculate that it may be closer to 20% of the population, especially considering everyone who has a multitude of chronic “mystery” symptoms who do not know about the dangers of electromagnetic fields, and therefore could not even consider that as the root cause.

Most of the time, EHS sufferers have other health issues and are sensitive to other environmental exposures as well. Many of them have Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), which means they are sensitive to substances that contain chemicals, including cleaning products, personal care products, pesticides, herbicides, air pollution, smoke, and more. They may also have a chronic health issue like Lyme disease or a chronic viral infection, and likely heavy metal toxicity. These issues will increase sensitivity and vulnerability to electromagnetic fields. EHS and its combination of co-factors results in severely limiting what that person can do in the world, as so many things set them off.

Although the creators of World EHS Day strongly encourage informing as many people as possible about the harms of electromagnetic fields, the day was not intended to be an EMF awareness activism day, but specifically to raise awareness about electro hypersensitivity. This is because many of these sensitive people have had to remove themselves from society, so can’t speak about their experience. They can’t spend time in population dense areas, and many of them have little to no tolerance for computer or online activity, even limiting their ability to share on online platforms.

What can you do to raise awareness?

The World EHS Day website has some great suggestions for raising awareness in the general public about something that’s affecting all of us, even though it’s invisible. Although these people feel extreme effects from this harmful environmental element, that doesn’t mean that everyone who feels nothing is immune. Electromagnetic fields have detrimental effects on ALL life forms! As EMF sources and levels increase over time, which is definitely happening all throughout the developed world in an exponential way, more and more people are going to start to feel it, and some will even become debilitated by it.

Now is the time to become aware of the issue, so we can begin reducing our exposure by cultivating good “EMF hygiene”, strengthening our resilience with nutrition and lifestyle changes, and using high quality devices like Blushield to give the body a healthier frequency field to anchor to, reducing the effects of the EMFs.

Here are some ways you can increase awareness in the general public on World EHS Day:

• placing a yellow chair (or a mannequin with a yellow t-shirt) in the middle of populated areas with a sign indicating the ambient EMF levels (which you can test with an EMF meter), symbolizing the absence of the EMF sensitive person who would otherwise be present
• carrying yellow signs at social and cultural gatherings that explain what happened to them and why they are not there
• posting these actions on social media

The goal is to make the invisible visible. Most people have no clue that they are surrounded by manmade, incoherent electromagnetic fields. These frequency fields weaken ALL living organisms in a general way, and are one of the triggering factors of multiple pathologies.

How can EHS sufferers heal and recover?

Although the healing process can be complex and prolonged, many EHS sufferers have found relief by minimizing exposure while simultaneously increasing resilience through nutrition and lifestyle changes, and introducing Blushield home and portable devices into their lives.

Cultivating “EMF hygiene”, such as never talking with a cell phone up to your head or keeping your phone against your body, turning off Wifi when you’re not using it, or having your smart meter replaced with an analog or older digital meter, can go a long way. Many EMF sensitive people find ways to replace their Wifi with a wired connection, and their cell phone with a land line, which are ways to considerably reduce your EMF exposure.

Gentle but effective heavy metal detox will remove toxic concentrations of heavy metals from the body. Excess metals that are not being used by the body, and are stuck in the tissues in a state of positive charge (rather than the neutral salt form of the minerals the body is utilizing), act as an antenna for ambient EMF. Reducing metal loads makes you a weaker antenna, which is what you want.

Improving overall organ and mitochondrial function with nutrition, targeted supplementation and healthy lifestyle changes is a powerful element in the healing process. Ensuring adequate magnesium status (to act as a natural calcium channel blocker, decreasing EMF reactivity), as well as overall body mineralization is essential to keeping the cells and mitochondria functioning optimally. This can be achieved through a nutrient rich diet and targeted supplementation. On top of that, adding in adaptogenic herbs like chaga (and other medicinal mushrooms), schizandra and many others are a powerful way to increase resilience to all of life’s stressors, natural and artificial.

Introducing a high quality active scalar device like Blushield, to give the body a healthy, biologically coherent frequency field to anchor to, can significantly reduce the harmful effects of EMFs. Our bodies are accustomed to the infinitely varied coherent fields that exist in nature, and this external frequency field keeps our own bodies regulated and functioning optimally. The problem is that the harmful EMFs are considerably stronger in amplitude than the natural background EMFs, drowning them out.

Blushield produces an infinitely varied (never repeating the same frequencies at the same amplitude more than once) frequency field based on the known patterns of nature, but at a higher amplitude, so the body can perceive the field and anchor to it. Blushield home and portable devices can be used as a powerful tool for healing EHS. We have many customers who suffer from EHS, who have been desperate for answers, whose lives have changed once they started using Blushield. Please see our Testimonials page for a few of these amazing stories!

Let’s take a day this week to raise awareness about electromagnetic hypersensitivity, its insidious and all-pervasive cause, and the helpful solutions that are now available to relieve the suffering of so many!

Read more about EHS here.

What we know of as electromagnetic waves, with their measurable frequencies and properties that are considered to be widely known in modern science, are just the tip of the iceberg. What the vast majority of sources refer to as electromagnetic fields are acknowledging only one part of the field, known as the transverse component.

Transverse refers to the up-and-down, oscillating motion of the wave, and if we could see it with our eyes, it would look “wavy”. Transverse waves contain an electric field that moves up and down, and each up/down cycle moves at a certain speed, depending on the frequency (cycles per second, or hertz). For example, a 60 hertz frequency (like mains electricity in our houses) would contain 60 of these up/down cycles per second. This oscillating electric field always produces a resulting magnetic field, which occurs perpendicular to the electric field – moving side to side, instead of up and down. Transverse waves, as the materially manifest motion of photons (a form of light), move at the speed of light.

These transverse waves are not the only energy that makes up each electromagnetic field. There is also a part of the field called the scalar component, also called a longitudinal wave.

For a basic primer on scalar energy, including the history of its discovery and use, potential future uses, and especially how it relates to electromagnetic fields and EMF protection, please read our first article on the subject: Scalar Energy & EMFs – What You Need To Know

If you already have a basic understanding about scalar, and are curious to take a deeper dive into this fascinating subject, then this article is for you. We will be covering more detailed mechanics and behavior of scalar fields, and then go into how it relates to our own biology, and even consciousness and awareness itself.

The nature and behavior of scalar fields

The most peculiar thing about longitudinal waves is they do not exist in a “normal”, physically manifest sense, in what we know as 3D space. Although our modern EMF meters cannot measure scalar energy, the phenomenon can be documented in other ways, through the effects it has in the material world.

Let’s compare longitudinal waves to transverse waves, to see how they’re different. First of all, some scientists and engineers who study scalar do not like using the term “wave” for this energy field, because it does not act like what we think of as a wave. However, based on the standard physics definition of a wave, it definitely is one: “A disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is transferred from one particle of the medium to another without causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself.”

There are other scientists and engineers who do not agree with using the term scalar for this energy field. However, we think this term is acceptable, and can be correctly used because a scalar (in physics) is a quantity that is fully described by magnitude alone, versus a vector quantity, which includes both a magnitude and a direction.

Since scalar waves do not move in a specific direction in 3D space, they cannot be a quantified as a vector, like transverse waves can. This is why they’re also sometimes called standing waves – because they appear to “stand” in the same space, without moving in any direction.

However, scalar waves DO move, in a very unique way. Beyond our three dimensional, material world, time itself is referred to as the 4^th dimension. Obviously, as we all know instinctively, time has a profound effect on three dimensional space. Time is not part of 3D space, even though 3D space couldn’t exist without it, which we could call spacetime: “the concepts of time and three-dimensional space regarded as fused in a four-dimensional continuum.”

Scalar/longitudinal waves move along the axis of time itself, which you can understand intuitively by the fact that the field persists as time goes on.

These “waves” do not move in the same up/down motion as transverse waves. As the term longitudinal suggests, they move parallel to the direction of propagation, not perpendicular to it. There are variations in the energy density as the wave moves through time, which can be defined as compressions (when the energy becomes denser and closer together) and rarefactions (when the energy becomes less dense and further apart).

You could think of these compressions and rarefactions, moving through time, like the beating of a heart (with its contractions and dilatations) or the rhythm of our breath. A longitudinal wave can be described as a pulse perturbation (a small disturbance), referring to the rhythmic compression and expansion of the energy as it persists through time.

There are ways to generate scalar fields intentionally for specific purposes. A pure scalar field without the transverse component is automatically created anytime two electromagnetic waves that are in exactly the opposite phase (but same frequency and amplitude) meet, thereby canceling each other out. This creates a vortex effect, imploding the charge into its longitudinal orientation. This process of combining two exact mirror image waves (that are 180 degrees out of phase with each other) can be called phase conjugation.  

Scalar energy and living biology

All life forms produce their own electromagnetic energy, which couples with (and guides) the chemical messengers in the nervous system, in what could be considered a living electrochemical system. This system runs every single function of our bodies, including growth, healing, and even regeneration in certain instances. This bioelectricity can be measured with extremely sensitive instruments, at levels millions of times more subtle than what a conventional EMF reading tool could pick up.

Robert O. Becker’s revolutionary book, The Body Electric, documents the fascinating discovery process and the many experiments that were done in the ‘60s and ‘70s to dig deeper into living biology and its ever present electromagnetism, establishing with certainty that we are electrical beings.

Even with all the questions that are answered, and the many ‘aha!’ moments, the book leaves readers with a sense of wonder and mystery at the complexity of life, and Becker often marveled at the mysteries that still remained. Interestingly, with his focus on measurable frequencies (even with extremely sensitive instruments), it’s very likely he was not at all aware of the scalar aspect of electromagnetism. It’s not a long stretch to postulate that most (or all) of the questions he left unanswered could be answered somewhere in scalar science.

According to Patrick Flanagan (a scientist and inventor), “the living system is infinitely more responsive to scalar signals.” This is likely due to the predominance of scalar in our own biology, compared to the extremely small emissions of measurable, transverse fields. Scalar emitted by biological organisms is called bioscalar, and occurs widely throughout nature. Just as scalar fields can be generated intentionally by devices producing opposite phase EM waves that meet and cancel each other out, this also occurs naturally when similar frequency waves in the environment meet from two different vectors.

Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden, one of the most well known scalar scientists of our time, believed that the scalar energy in living organisms resides in the nucleus of the atom, and is a repository for information. Human thought emits various complex frequencies that alter the electrical signals in the brain and body. Our thoughts and intentions may be working directly with the scalar energy inside our atomic nuclei, by changing the information frequencies that our scalar fields hold, which ripples out to affect our body as a whole. There are many examples of healers doing “impossible” things (according to the modern medical system), just by directing their thoughts and intentions in skillful ways.

A study that was done that applied longitudinal fields to plants, designed by scalar energy expert Konstantin Meyl, found that the ones exposed to the field showed increased ATP levels and extended lifespans, compared to the control group.  

The nervous system, electricity, and human regeneration

The body’s electrochemical system is extremely sensitive. As you already know if you have read our educational material about the harms of manmade repetitive EMF sources, one notable harmful effect of EMFs is increased incidence of certain types of cancer. These aren’t just any types of cancer – by far the most common cancers that have been found from excessive, prolonged use of cell phones is gliomas of the brain, and Schwannomas of the heart.

As Becker found through experimentation, and detailed in his book, all nerve cells are surrounded by protective sheaths. It was previously believed that these sheaths only provided insulation and protection, but it turns out that the sheath cells that surround the nerve cells are the exact location of the electrical currents that move through the nervous system. These nerve sheath cells are called glial cells in the brain and central nervous system, and Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system. Therefore, it’s no surprise, and certainly not a coincidence, that most of the cancers from overexposure to EM radiation specifically arise in the cells where the body’s own electricity moves.

Becker’s most pressing unanswered question seems to be how to induce considerable regenerative capability in the human body. Some animals naturally have pretty extraordinary regenerative abilities, such as salamanders, newts and zebrafish, but in all experiments so far, humans don’t seem to have this capability in more than very limited circumstances.

Scalar energy and human consciousness

Although much of modern science wants to view the body as a machine, with many separate parts, and consciousness itself as an unknown (or as a random occurrence), it is clear that biology and consciousness are intricately linked, and even one and the same: the bodymind.

Patrick Flanagan found that IQ is a measure of neural efficiency, which is reflected by the phase difference between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The higher the IQ, the less of a phase difference.

Meditation, which is known to synchronize the hemispheres of the brain, is said to increase wisdom, discernment, full spectrum intelligence (meaning logical as well as emotional), and other noble human qualities. It may be that the synchronization of the brain hemispheres creating a scalar field is the underlying mechanism of how meditation “works”!

Semiconductor properties of biology

There are three known types of electrical conduction: metallic (electrons traveling along a wire), ionic (movement of charged atoms in an electrolyte solution), and semiconduction. Semiconduction is the most recently discovered, and by far the most complex and versatile. It involves lattices made of certain crystals/minerals. The lattices contain either an excess of electrons (for N-type) or an excess of holes in the lattice (for P-type), and if these materials are combined with other substances to increase efficiency and versatility, they will conduct electricity by exchanging electrons through the lattices in an organized, intelligent way.

Our modern electronics would not exist without solid state (semiconducting) technology, including modern computers, cell phones, and any technology that utilizes transistors or integrated circuits. Silicon and germanium are two examples of semiconducting minerals – hence, the name Silicon Valley as the U.S. mecca of modern computing technology.

According to Becker, nearly all organic matter exhibits all the hallmarks of semiconduction: piezoelectricity (converts mechanical stress into electrical energy), organization, information processing, regeneration and rhythm. In nature, there are species of bacteria which act as semiconductors, like filamentous cable bacteria. In animals like salamanders with strong regenerative capabilities, the site of regeneration, called the neuroepidermal junction, produces healing electrical currents in the same manner as the P/N junction of a semiconductor.

Since our bodies are composed of many different minerals (among many other components), and we require continuous replenishing of our mineral reserves through our diet to stay healthy, it makes sense that a mineral-rich system as complex as our own biology would utilize an electrical system far more versatile and sensitive than the more simplistic metallic or ionic forms of electrical transmission.

Indeed, biological systems are so complex, and capable of functions we are just beginning to become aware of; it has also been discovered that a variety of living matter has exhibited properties of superconduction at room temperature. This is interesting and extraordinary, as superconductive processes are almost always found to require near zero (extreme cold) temperatures. Superconduction is when a specific material conducts an electric current with no resistance/impedance, and therefore can continue indefinitely, as long as the proper conditions are maintained. This leads one to wonder about the role of bioscalar in the instances of superconduction in living matter, since scalar longitudinal waves are characterized by not being hindered by physical matter, and not losing power over distance – which can result in overunity processes, a.k.a. “free” energy.

In the past, almost all intentionally generated scalar fields were produced using metallic antenna and coil devices. This certainly works, and there are several working models available to reproduce for anyone interested and willing to put in the work. However, semiconductor type devices can also be used to create scalar fields, although this is a much newer type of technology.

Blushield scalar EMF protection devices use semiconductor light-emitting diodes to produce the biologically active scalar field. This method is more sophisticated, versatile, and efficient than the past methods using high voltage and coils. It may also be a lot more similar to our own biologically produced scalar fields than the older scalar generating devices, as well.

One thing we know for sure is that scalar science is a field full of vast potential, and will very likely be explored in much more depth as humans continue to seek out novel, efficient, sustainable solutions to our modern problems. We certainly find it fascinating, and are really looking forward to seeing how this field of study evolves over the next few years and decades.  

References:

• “Particle motion in Transverse and Longitudinal wave (animated GIF)” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLWuXHljZzU

• “Bioscalar Energy: The Healing Power” by Valerie Hunt – http://www.biodisc-energy.com/ebooks/Bioscalar%20Energy.pdf

• A conversation with Patrick Flanagan – http://www.newphysics.se/archives/keelynet/energy/flan1.txt

• “Scalar Waves: Theory and Experiments” (Konstantin Meyl) – https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242200443_Scalar_Waves_Theory_and_Experiments_1

• “Tesla’s Secret Tech: Tesla Teleforce or Scalar Waves” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJKzfKwKSDM

• “Longitudinal magnetic waves trigger higher ATP-levels and extend the aging process of plants” – https://oatext.com/longitudinal-magnetic-waves-trigger-higher-atp-levels-and-extend-the-aging-process-of-plants.php

As humans living in modern times, since the advent of cell phones and other forms of wireless communication technology, we are exposed to the highest continuous levels of radiation since the beginning of our species. Many forms of radiation can have damaging effects on the cells, such as ionizing radiation from radioactive components found in nature as well as radiation from medical treatments and nuclear energy technology, and UV radiation from the sun itself. However, the newest, most pervasive and potentially the most harmful source of radiation we are exposed to on a daily basis is non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.

Those who downplay or deny the harmful effects of EMFs are quick to point out that manmade electromagnetic fields are non-ionizing, which they claim does not do any harm if the intensity is too low to produce a heating effect in the tissue. They say that only ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and x-rays, which operate at a high enough frequency to instantly ionize atoms and disrupt chemical bonds in the cells of living organisms, can cause harm.

The truth is that ionizing and non-ionizing is a largely imaginary distinction. All radiation exists on a spectrum, and lower frequencies are certainly capable of breaking cell bonds and causing DNA damage over time, just not as instantly and dramatically. UV light is not considered ionizing radiation, yet is widely known to be damaging to the body in excess.

There are now thousands of studies that show that the lower parts of the spectrum, including microwave radiation, can and do cause DNA damage with prolonged exposure to even low intensities, way below the threshold that causes tissue heating. Even at low frequencies and low intensities, the repetitive, pulsed structure of these manmade EMFs is extremely foreign to the body, which the body perceives and reacts to as a potential threat.

Much of the harm from electromagnetic radiation comes from the oxidative stress that is produced by the body perceiving the EMF as an enemy/invader, and mounting an immune response to it. Since it’s not a tangible physical invader that the body can attack and defeat (like a virus or bacteria), this immune response continues 24/7, unproductively, just to eventually exhaust the body’s energy reserves. All immune responses produce countless oxidative compounds in order to kill invasion agents. However, these reactive oxygen species compounds can also damage healthy cells during their attack on the invader, so the immune defense itself can act as a source of oxidative stress.

Introducing a frequency device like Blushield into your environment is one of the best strategies to considerably reduce the effect of these harmful repetitive, pulsed EMFs on the body. Blushield gives the body an alternative frequency field to respond to and resonate with, which is NOT repetitive, but based on the subtly changing, infinitely varied and naturally structured patterns that humans have lived and thrived with for our entire existence.

It is important to consider that what we eat and drink can also have a considerable effect on how our body responds to EMFs. There are substances that exist in nature that produce their own internal protection against radiation. These compounds, found in various plants, mushrooms and other natural organisms, can impart these same qualities and benefits to an animal or human that consumes them!

We consider chaga mushroom to be one of the best herbal supplements to consume to increase your resilience against radiation of all types.

Chaga’s adaptation to harsh environments gives it unique medicinal properties

Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a mushroom that has been used for its medicinal properties by cold climate northern peoples for at least one thousand years. Siberians and Northern Europeans consume it regularly, and it is believed to give them extraordinary resistance to chronic illness, and considerably extended lifespans.

Chaga itself grows only in extremely harsh climates, consistently exposed to intensities of cold, wind and UV radiation that are very difficult for humans to live with. The mushroom adapts to its stressful environment by producing very high levels of antioxidants and other medicinal compounds that offer it internal protection from the elements. When we consume chaga, these medicinal elements become part of our own bodies, and over time with consistent use, can build up in our bodies and increase our own resilience to many forms of stress.

Chaga mushroom grows mainly on birch trees, concentrating the natural medicinal components of the birch bark itself. The part of chaga used medicinally does not look like what we commonly think of as a mushroom, with a stem an a cap (a fruiting body), but shows up as a rough looking brown/black mycelial mass (called a sclerotium, or a conk) that grows out of the side of the tree. Its dark brown color is due to its melanin content, which is an antioxidant color pigment that’s responsible for a large portion of its beneficial free radical scavenging effects.

More than 200 mycochemicals have been identified from chaga. These include water-soluble polyphenols and polysaccharides (including beta glucans), alcohol-soluble terpenes, and oil-soluble sterols. Betulin and betulinic acid are terpenes originating in the bark of the birch tree, which the chaga mushroom concentrates. These terpenes occur in the outer black crust of the chaga mushroom, and have potent antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and immune modulating properties. This substance is only present in wild chaga mushrooms (not lab cultivated strains) that utilize the black outer crust of the mushroom.

Chaga mushroom and electromagnetic radiation

A lot of research has already been done on the protective effects of chaga mushroom against UV and ionizing radiation, and the restorative effects it can have on previous radiation damage. Although ionizing radiation is categorized in the higher portion of the electromagnetic spectrum compared to non-ionizing microwave radiation (from cell phones, Wifi and other sources), long term non-ionizing EMF exposure has many similar effects on the body as exposure to UV and ionizing radiation, including oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, premature aging, DNA damage, and increased incidence of various cancers.

Although not much research has been done specifically on chaga and non-ionizing radiation, we can look at the large body of research that shows the harmful effects of EMFs on the body, and then at the equally large body of research showing the specific beneficial and protective effects of chaga mushroom against ionizing radiation and other oxidative stressors, and make the correlation ourselves through rational observation.

It is already well documented that electromagnetic fields produce oxidative stress and damage at the DNA level. Chaga mushroom has extraordinarily high levels of antioxidants that prevent oxidative stress and damage, and repair existing damage. EMFs damage cells in ways that increase their likelihood of mutating into cancerous cells. Chaga has anti-mutagenic properties, which increase cell integrity and resistance to mutation, and increase apoptosis (cell death) of misformed cells. A side effect of the harmful action of EMFs is inducing a state of chronic inflammation. Chaga is anti-inflammatory, due to its ability to protect the body from the root causes of chronic inflammation.

Chaga is considered a powerful adaptogen, which refers to a substance that helps the body respond in a way that’s appropriate to whatever is needed at that time. It can assist in ramping up immune power if there’s an actual invader that needs to be eliminated, or if the immune system is overreacting or trying to fight something it shouldn’t be fighting (like EMFs), it helps to calm it down. Adaptogens improve the body’s innate intelligence, so that it will respond appropriately to any given situation. They can help increase energy levels and mental focus during the day when cortisol should be higher, and then help you calm down and rest in the evening as cortisol naturally lowers and melatonin increases.

Chaga is one of the highest antioxidant substances known, which can neutralize the oxidative stress of EMFs, and restore balance and harmony at the cell level.

What to look for when sourcing chaga

Thousands of studies have been done on the medicinal benefits of chaga mushroom, and its potential for future treatment in the immunotherapy realm of modern medicine looks promising. Therefore, there are experiments being done to figure out how to grow chaga in a lab environment. Unfortunately, lab grown chaga at this time is considerably inferior in medicinal aspects, compared to wild chaga.

If you want the strongest and most medicinal chaga, make sure the chaga you source comes from a wild place. You’ll also want to make sure it’s sustainably harvested, with respect to the natural populations of chaga in that environment.

Chaga that’s at least a dual-extract (water and alcohol) will have a potent and well rounded nutritional and medicinal profile. Some of the important components of chaga will only come out in water (like most of the polyphenols and polysaccharides), and some only come out in alcohol (like the terpenes), so the combination is important. The best option is a full spectrum extract that contains the water, alcohol, and oil soluble compounds that have been properly extracted, in small batch production.

Lastly, the highest quality and most medicinal chaga on the market will utilize not just the inner part of the mushroom, which is an orange-brown color, but also the extremely potent outer crust, which is black and rough looking. Some of the vital compounds (like betulin) only exist in this crust, and most sources that sell chaga leave this part out entirely!

Our favorite chaga, which meets all these criteria for the ideal chaga source, can be found here.

When it comes to EMF protection, we believe in a full spectrum, comprehensive approach. Blushield running in the background of your life, providing protection at the cell level with its biologically coherent frequency field, plus optimal nutrition that includes powerful herbal substances like chaga, is a winning combination!

References:

• Study: “Fungal Pigments and Their Roles Associated with Human Health” – https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/6/4/280/htm

• Study: “Prevention of Inonotus obliquus polysaccharides for high power microwave radiation induced testicular injury in rats: an experimental research” – https://europepmc.org/article/med/25137855

• Study: “Chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) polysaccharides exhibit genoprotective effects in UVB-exposed embryonic zebrafish through coordinated expression of DNA repair genes” – https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(21)00108-0.pdf

• Study: “Birch Sap (Betula alba) and Chaga Mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) Extracts Show Anti-Oxidant, Anti-Inflammatory and DNA Protection/Repair Activity In Vitro” – https://www.scirp.org/html/11-1050490_92972.htm?pagespeed=noscript

• Study: “Immunostimulating and Antitumor Effects by Inonotus obliquus” – https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,0d0f121956dd501b,4eaa36bf5a0e7eca.html

• “Review of Medical Uses of Chaga” by Arthur Haines – https://www.wildfeder.com/resources/Review%20of%20Medical%20Uses%20of%20Chaga%20.pdf

These past several years have ushered in significant changes to many aspects of society on a large scale. One of the most major changes (although it is often overlooked or even ignored in the midst of other big societal events) has been the massive increase in wireless technology infrastructure and services, which are broadly referred to as “5G”. This technological expansion has increased our exposure to wireless radiation in ways that are literally exponential, due to the design of 5G and its requirement for a significant increase in infrastructure (mainly broadcasting towers and antennas) to support its functioning.

If you’ve been following the evolution of Blushield EMF protection devices for a while already, you have noticed that these past few years have unleashed quite a few new product launches. This is in direct response to the increase in wireless radiation we are all exposed to on a daily basis, and also in anticipation of a continued increase in wireless services for many years to come, commonly referred to as 6G, 7G, etc. – which mean subsequent “generations” of wireless technology, just as 5G is the 5^th generation, at least in the marketing terminology of the wireless companies.

Since Blushield devices are designed to last for several years, if they are well cared for, we always design new products anticipating the EMF exposure levels and protection needs of people years down the road. This way, if you buy one of the newest models in our product line, it is likely going to protect you sufficiently for years to come and will not become outdated in terms of protection during its lifespan, so you will be getting the highest return from your investment.

These past few years have brought the creation and launch of our strongest home devices yet, the EVO Cube and EVO Pyramid. The EVO models are ideal for the highest EMF, most dense metropolitan areas in the world, where there are 5G antennas in line of sight of almost anywhere you find yourself.

However, it’s also completely okay to have one of the EVO models even if you live in a low to moderate EMF area. There is no harm in having a model that’s stronger than what you currently need, because the body is always just seeking out the strongest frequency field it’s consistently exposed to, whether that’s a little bit stronger or a lot stronger. The benefit of having a strong device even if you don’t technically need it yet is knowing you will continue to be protected far into the future, even if EMFs increase in your area considerably, or if you ever have to move or travel to a higher EMF area.

You are likely already aware (unless you’re brand new to Blushield) that a stationary home device should be the foundation of your protection. Since they plug into the wall of your house and use mains electricity, they are able to broadcast a strong enough field to effectively compete against the EMF pollution affecting your home environment. This strong field is required for your body to initially entrain with the Blushield frequencies via sympathetic resonance, and stop “attacking” the invisible threat of the EMFs, allowing your body to regain its health by reclaiming immune power for more productive uses.

Our portable models are meant to be used as an adjunct to your stronger home unit. Because they run on battery power instead of mains electricity, they are not usually strong enough on their own to achieve strong sympathetic resonance initially, but they do have enough strength to maintain your entrainment to Blushield frequencies while you’re away from your house for periods of time, and prevent your body from resuming its unproductive attack on the harmful EMFs around you.

Blushield Portable units: we have something for everyone!

Until these past few years, we only had two options for portable units, and both were mono band devices like our Plugin and Cube home devices. Mono band refers to the classic Blushield multiple waveform algorithm that’s produced for a couple of seconds at a time, repeating every 30 seconds, broadcasted from Blushield’s pure scalar carrier signal. Until halfway through 2020, this was how all of our devices worked.

Due to the particularly intense effect that 5G has on the body if you find yourself in “line of fire” of its beamforming, phased array technology (you can read more about the unique way that 5G works here), our team of engineers found a way to significantly increase the protective capacity of our devices, so that the effects of this more intense EMF exposure could be considerably minimized.

In 2021, we launched our first continuous signal output portable device. Then in 2025, we upgraded our portable technology even further! Our current portable models are more powerful than any of our previous models, with highly efficient and long lasting batteries, and a complex triple or quadruple band scalar output that mirrors natural fields even more precisely than past models.

Four portables to choose from: which one is right for you?

Let's go over the differences between our four portable models, so that if you need or want stronger protection on the go, you can choose the model that’s right for you.

Any of these models are excellent choices for traveling through or working in high EMF areas where you can see 5G antennas. They are also great if you drive an electric or hybrid car, ride electric trains, use a 5G phone, use Starlink 5G satellite internet (which uses centimeter/millimeter waves in the 10-72 GHz range), or are exposed to many Wifi signals and/or banks of smart meters.

The Phi 01 Portable is ideal for low to moderate EMF areas. It has an updated multi band scalar signal output compared to previous versions of this model. It is lightweight, with an opening in the corner so you can attach a lanyard or string to a belt loop, purse, backpack, etc. The battery will last about 2 continuous days per charge, or longer if you turn it off between uses. If you live in, or frequently travel to, high EMF urban areas, then you may need a stronger portable model for optimal protection.

The Ultimate Portable has a strong, powerful protective field, and is ideal for high EMF areas, and use with a stronger home device like the C1 Ultimate Cube. It has a triple band scalar signal output, designed for protection for most people in moderate to high EMF situations. It has a large, strong 1000mAH battery that should last at least 7 days of continuous use per charge, or more if you turn it off between uses.

The Sensitive Portable is specifically designed for EMF sensitive people, or those prone to feeling easily stressed and may have other chronic sensitivities or health issues. This model emphasizes calming frequencies within the delta and theta brain wave range, but is still quite powerful for use in moderate to high EMF areas. It has a large, strong 1000mAH battery that should last at least 7 days of continuous use per charge, or more if you turn it off between uses.

The EVO Portable is the strongest portable device we've ever created, but also has a really smooth signal like our EVO Cube and Pyramid, emphasizing mental well being and sleep quality. The EVO Series is also excellent for EMF sensitive people. It has a large, strong 2000mAH battery that should last at least 10 days of continuous use per charge, or more if you turn it off between uses.

All four portables have a very quick recharge time of only 2-3 hours from zero charge to full charge, similar to a cell phone, making it easy to remember to charge it with enough time before needing to use it.

For more ideas about how to use Blushield portables to protect kids from EMFs when away from home, read our article about children, EMFs and Blushield.

For more information on choosing the best home and portable devices for your needs, please read our Blushield Product Guide.

Lloyd Burrell from Electric Sense interviews the founder of Blushield EMF protection technology Mark Langdon.

In this interview Mark explains in-depth what Blushield is doing to protect the body from non-native EMF at the cell level.

There is no doubt that the modern world has brought us a level of convenience and comfort that our ancestors likely couldn’t imagine in their wildest dreams. One of the major accomplishments of modern society has been creating technology that allows us to instantly communicate with anyone in the world in a split second, and to easily access almost any type of information we want.

Technological advancements have propelled massive progress in almost all areas of human life, but there is also a huge downside to this rapid, unchecked level of growth: we don’t always slow down enough to consider the potential harm of the methods we have chosen to utilize to meet our goals. We need to consider more than just the immediate danger and harm, which can be seen in the “I didn’t die from it yet so it must be okay” mindset, and be able to foresee the potential harm our actions are having on future generations.

The level of toxic elements that we are exposed to on a daily basis is at an all time high, coming at us from all directions, including from the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, as well as the invisible electromagnetic fields that surround us 24/7. These invisible EMFs from manmade devices, especially wireless radiation sources like cell phones and Wifi, emit repetitive frequencies that generate stress and damage at the cell level of all living organisms.

The most recent generation of children was born into this unprecedented level of convenience and comfort, as well as the invisible soup of toxic elements coming at them from many sources at once. Not surprisingly, this generation of children deals with the highest prevalence of chronic illness ever in recorded history – including chronic allergies, asthma, skin conditions, mental/mood disorders, autism, childhood onset cancer and diabetes, and many more obscure and “unexplainable” health conditions beyond those.

Although our ancestors were faced with many challenges that we thankfully no longer have to deal with, our kids are up against an entirely new kind of difficult situation. The issues are multifaceted and involve all aspects of modern life, so there’s really too much to cover here, but let’s talk about one of the most insidious and underestimated threats to our children’s long term health: non-native electromagnetic fields.

Why are children more affected by EMFs than adults?

All of the cell phone “safety tests” are done on a human body with the attributes of a 6-foot tall, 200 pound, fully grown man, and cannot be applied to children. Children have much less body mass than adults, resulting in stronger effects from the same levels of EMF exposure. In addition to that, children are different than adults in significant ways that make them far more susceptible to EMF harm. The brain and nervous system are not fully developed until physical maturity (early 20’s), and developing tissue is more susceptible to damage than fully formed tissue. Since their heads will continue to grow until physical maturity, the skulls of children are softer and thinner, allowing more radiation to penetrate into their brains. The younger the child, the softer and thinner the skull, and the more danger of harm from EMF exposure.

Children’s heads and bodies also have a considerably higher water content, which acts as a radiation conductor and amplifies harmful effects. Add to that the accumulation of radiation over time – in modern times, children are exposed to exponentially higher levels of radiation from a much younger age than what their parents and grandparents had to deal with, which means more time to accumulate damage throughout their lives.

So the damage potential is much higher to begin with, and now we have to factor in the technology use habits of modern children and teenagers. A surprisingly high percentage of kids and teenagers have their own cell phones, and many of them sleep with their phones right next to their bed or even under their pillows, directly exposing their brains to RF radiation.

As an EMF conscious parent, you have likely already limited your kids’ use of devices, but there is only so far you can go without restricting their access to the reality of their peers, and even participation in school and other activities they’re interested in. Many parents feel there needs to be a balance between protecting their kids from EMFs, and letting them utilize the benefits of technology for learning and communication.

EMF protection for children

For the vast majority of parents reading this, you don’t want to remove technology entirely from your kids’ lives, considering the great benefits it can have to their learning process and building skills for modern times. There are ways you can allow them to utilize technology in a much safer way, preserving their health in the process. It’s important to prioritize their health first, since if they don’t have their good health, their skills won’t matter!

If your child has their own phone, or has access to your phone, you can teach them some basic “EMF hygiene” that will keep them far safer in the long term. First of all, teach them to never keep a cell phone against their body for long periods of time (such as in a pocket) unless it’s turned off, or on airplane mode. If it must remain turned on (so you can get ahold of them in the case of an emergency, for example), it’s much better for the phone to be in a backpack or bag they keep near them, than in a pocket or directly against their body.

Make sure they don’t place a laptop computer on their lap, but that it’s placed further away on a table, preferably at least one foot away from their body. When they need to make a call, it’s important that they don’t hold a cell phone directly against their head. This exposes them to extremely high levels of EMFs. It’s better to use the speakerphone setting, or to use AirTube headphones. AirTubes are different than wired headphones, because the final six inches before reaching the ear pieces are tubes of air that transmit the sound acoustically, rather than electronically through a wire. This means the EMFs stop 6 inches away from their head, instead of being channeled like an antenna through the wire directly into their sensitive ear canals.

If they keep their phone next to their bed at night, have them make sure to turn it on airplane mode.You can still use the phone’s alarm setting while it’s on airplane mode.

In addition to cultivating healthy habits while using devices, nutrition also plays an important role in EMF protection. A diet that’s centered on organic whole foods will provide the most nutrients and the least toxicity, increasing overall resiliency and vitality, and minimizing the heavy metals accumulated through food. Heavy metal toxicity in the body increases the harm from EMFs, as the metals act as a conductor that attracts and amplifies EMFs in the body. There are foods that kids can eat that can gently remove heavy metals from the body, including seaweeds, miso, spirulina and cilantro. Magnesium is an especially important nutrient, as it protects the cells from EMF harm, so make sure they are eating plenty of high magnesium foods, such as leafy greens, nuts, beans, fish, and even child-safe magnesium supplements. You can read more about this in our article on magnesium.

To deal with all the EMFs you can’t minimize or remove from your environment, Blushield EMF protection devices can bridge that gap so you and your children can still benefit from technology, with the addition of a strong protective field of nature-based frequency patterns that their body will preferentially resonate with. When the cells of the body are entrained with Blushield’s biologically coherent field, the vast majority of the harm from the other EMFs is removed, without having to physically remove those EMF emitting devices from your home!

We have noticed that kids can be even more responsive to the beneficial frequency field of Blushield than adults, because their instincts are usually stronger and they don’t deal with the “mind chatter” of the adult world. Often, even if a child doesn’t know about a new Blushield device in their home, they will comment about feeling different or better in some way. We also find that children seem to intuitively grasp how Blushield works, and short videos that explain the frequency field visually, like this one, are very effective at giving them a basic understanding.

How to equip your kids with a Blushield portable unit

Just like with adults, the most important Blushield device for children is a stationary home unit of the appropriate strength for your living situation and needs. This home device should emit a strong enough signal to become the dominant frequency field in your surroundings, overriding the combined total of EMFs around you (which is different for everyone, depending on where you live). We have different home devices designed for rural areas, suburban areas, cities, and dense metropolitan areas. Investing in the model that’s the right strength for you will make sure you’re optimally protected. You can find out which one is ideal for your needs by reading our Blushield Product Guide.

The home device is important because since it plugs into the wall and uses mains power, it’s able to produce a strong field with a very large coverage area, to protect the entirety of your home and the outdoor spaces where your children play. This is their baseline protection, and is the field they are immersed in as they sleep at night, which is when the body restores and regenerates itself from the stresses of the day… and for kids, that’s when a lot of their growth and development happens, physically and mentally!

If your children leave your home during the day to attend school (or other activities if they’re homeschooled), it would be optimal to equip them with their own Blushield portable device.

Our best portable model for most kids is the Phi 01 Portable. It is small, lightweight, and has an opening in the corner of the device where you can attach a lanyard, chain or string, to keep it attached to your child's clothing or bag, so it won't be lost.

If you prefer to have a stronger model (like the Ultimate, Sensitive or EVO Portable) for an older, more responsible child, those models do not have a hole to loop a lanyard or string into, so it’s best to place the portable in a pocket that buttons or zips up, so that it won’t fall out during the day, especially if they engage in physical activity. Another alternative is keeping the portable in their backpack, as long as they stay within several feet of the backpack during most or all of the time they’re away from home.

Protecting children is one of the things we are most passionate about, as they are our future! Most of us on the Blushield USA team have children of our own. We have extensive experience using Blushield as a protective tool to maintain their health and well being in these challenging times, and truly believe in it as a key piece of their healthy and thriving future.

Over the past two years, 5G (a marketing term for the 5^th generation cellular phone network) has been launched all over the United States, and then considerably densified in most urban, suburban and even rural areas. A couple years ago, if you were to look at a map of cell towers and antennas, it would be rare to find one near you that’s operating over the standard 600-900 MHz (megahertz) range that 4G service uses. Now when you look at those same maps, not only are you way more likely to see antennas operating at higher frequencies, but you will see a much higher number of antennas overall, due to the fact that higher frequencies can’t transmit a signal as far as lower frequencies, requiring more frequent antenna placement to compensate for the smaller service range.

Related to the 5G rollout, this increase in tower and antenna numbers is called densification. These higher frequencies, often above 1 GHz (gigahertz) all the way up to 47 GHz (with plans to go higher in the future), are desirable for the 5G vision due to their much faster transmission speeds and higher performance bandwidth. But the higher you go in frequency, the smaller the coverage area, and the more the signal can be interrupted by any obstruction, including buildings, trees, or even rain and fog!

As detailed in our 2021 article, 5G Explained (and What It Means for Health & Humanity), 5G will utilize a wide range of frequencies. A lot of it will overlap the current 4G spectrum in the high megahertz ranges, due to the long distance transmission that’s characteristic of lower frequencies. This is referred to as low band 5G, and is the easiest to implement because it doesn’t require the installation of new towers, just additional antennas that use the updated technology placed on current towers.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is high band 5G, which is currently defined as frequencies over 6 GHz (although other sources define it as 24 GHz and beyond). Millimeter waves, which are waveforms with frequencies over 30 GHz and up to 300 GHz, are part of the grand vision of 5G’s IoT (Internet of Things) uses in dense metropolitan areas. However, these higher frequencies require extremely dense infrastructure, which could mean an antenna on every street corner or multiple antennas inside of a single building! This makes millimeter waves both impractical for broad coverage ranges, and expensive to implement due to the massive increase in infrastructure that would need to be installed before these more advanced uses can be realized at their full potential.

Between low and high band 5G is a small band of spectrum between 1 GHz and 6 GHz, referred to as mid band. Telecoms see this as the “sweet spot” for 5G use, and this spectrum is highly coveted because it has the strengths of both low and high band – the wider coverage range of low band, with the faster speeds and higher bandwidth of high band. It can be implemented with only a fraction of the new infrastructure that high band 5G requires to function, so is seen as a realistic short term goal that will considerably expand 5G service capabilities.

The T-Mobile website explains how telecoms feel about the mid band spectrum: “Mid-band is critical to 5G spectrum because it bridges the speed, capacity, coverage, and penetration gaps between low-band and mmWave.”

Telecoms and aviation industry fight over mid band spectrum

At around this time last year, AT&T and Verizon spent a combined total of $70 billion purchasing portions of spectrum between 3.7 and 3.98 GHz that were being auctioned by the FCC, in the highly desirable mid band. They were preparing to launch their expanded 5G network on December 5th, but met with an unexpected obstacle that ended up delaying their rollout date, which could have been easily foreseen if they had been paying attention.

The frequency spectrum between about 3.7 and 8 GHz is commonly referred to as C-band, where the C stands for communications, due to the long standing use of this frequency spectrum for satellite communications uses around the world. The lower portion of this spectrum, 3.7 to 4.2 GHz, is used by many types of satellites for their downlinks, meaning the transmission from space based satellites to their associated ground stations.

The portion of spectrum just above satellite usage, within the 4.2 to 4.4 GHz range, has a special use in the aviation industry. Radar altimeters are instruments that are designed to provide altitude (direct height-above-terrain/water) information to a variety of aircraft systems, including transport and commuter airplanes, as well as helicopters. The information that radar altimeters provide is critical during attempted landings in bad weather with low visibility, as well as other low altitude operations, and is of utmost importance to the safe operation of an aircraft. Due to their critical nature and highly sensitive receivers, radar altimeters have exclusive use of the 4.2-4.4 GHz band throughout the world.

Similar to other radar devices, a radar altimeter must be able to detect faint signals reflected off the ground to measure altitude. These instruments are highly accurate in normal conditions, but the signals they are designed to detect are very faint. If there are frequencies present from other sources operating in the nearby spectrum at a higher level of power, they may interfere with the radar altimeter’s highly sensitive instruments of detection and produce false results. The possibility of this type of interference could mean the difference between a safe, predictable flight and a fatal disaster.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the government body that is supposed to regulate the telecom industry, but in practice seems wholly devoted to awarding them legal permission to do anything they want. This is something you can read about in detail in Captured Agency, a 2015 report by the Harvard University Center for Ethics.

The FCC argues that there is already a 220 MHz guard band that would act as a buffer between the mobile broadband 5G use of C-band, and the airline’s instruments. However, industry experts and major aerospace and avionics manufacturers have studied the subject in depth, and are concerned that this guard band is not nearly enough, due to the wide difference between the high power 5G emissions and the subtle, low power radar waves from the altimeters. Therefore, the aviation industry has expressed ongoing concern about this issue since as far back as 2013, when 5G’s planned utilization of mid band spectrum was initially being proposed.

In the years since, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other aviation and transportation organizations have attempted to resolve these concerns with the FCC, proposing solutions but mostly being ignored. A good example is a December 2020 submission by the Department of Transportation to the FCC’s docket a week before their auction for the 3.7-3.98 GHz portion of the C-band spectrum. This document contained important and time-critical information, but apparently the NTIA (the federal government coordinator on spectrum disputes) failed to add this letter to the docket.

What resulted was this long standing battle coming to a head at the very last minute, just days before January 5^th, when AT&T and Verizon had planned on launching their expanded service in the C-band range. To anyone who is unaware of the background of this ongoing dispute, it would seem like the aviation sector sprung an off-the-wall request on the FCC and telecoms when they had very little time left to act on it. However, do a little background research and one will realize that these concerns, which were repeatedly expressed, have been ignored or delayed for far too long.

The Department of Transportation (DoT) requested last week (on December 31^st) that AT&T and Verizon delay their launch by two more weeks, in addition to the temporary safety measures they had previously agreed to that would provide a buffer to make sure aircraft safety was still in place while all the needed research is done and changes are made. Initially, in a January 1^st response, the FCC rejected the DoT proposal, scoffing at the requests, but then did a one-eighty on January 3^rd, deciding to accept it after all. A threatened lawsuit by air industry trade group Airlines for America (A4A) may have factored into their quick change of heart.

The current state of 5G

The current plan is for AT&T and Verizon to launch their C-band service on January 19^th at the earliest, considerably expanding their network coverage. They have agreed to a 6-month period of exclusion zones with no active C-band 5G in the close vicinity of no more than 50 priority U.S. airports, as well as maintaining close communication with the FAA about all new antenna installations. At the end of this 6-month period, on July 5^th, they will be allowed to deploy their 5G base stations “in any manner consistent with their C-Band Licenses, all customary rules and regulations, and any additional airport-specific mitigation measures” that the companies have since agreed to.

This plan is still a compromise for aviation, and they are now actively issuing notices and warnings of potential interference to all airports and runways that may be affected by the new spectrum launch on January 19^th.

Considering the evidence, it is easy to believe that the FCC is “dominated by the industries it presumably regulates”, and in their alliance with the telecom industry, their primary tactics are bullying, ignoring evidence, and treating any objections from other arms of the government as well as U.S. citizens as an annoying inconvenience that’s only trying to slow them down.

In a speech by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr in March of 2021, he happily announces that the United States is “winning the race to 5G”. The competition between the United States and other countries (especially China) to take the lead in 5G implementation has been cutthroat, and has motivated those in power to barrel over all objectors in its desperation to be the first and best. This has resulted in laws changing to accommodate easier and faster 5G deployment, including removing the power of local municipalities from preventing tower and antenna installation through various legal loopholes and tweaks to current code wording, which Commissioner Carr refers to as “modernizing our infrastructure rules.”

Carr also stated in his lecture, “Infrastructure builds accelerated at a record pace over the last four years. In 2016, U.S. providers built just 708 new cell sites. In 2019, with our streamlined framework in place, they built over 46,000. That’s a 65-fold increase!”

That is a massive and unprecedented increase in tower installations, and you will notice this if you’ve been following any of the cell tower and antenna maps available online over the past few years (such as Antenna Search). If there was a 65x increase in cell site installations from 2016 to 2019, just imagine what has happened since then, in 2020 and 2021. Covid disruptions enabled them to lift even more restrictions to building, citing the urgency that lockdowns are “moving everything online” and therefore service needs to be implemented at an even faster pace!

We are closely watching the progression of 5G service, to ensure that Blushield EMF protection devices remain several steps ahead of all of their plans. Our Premium and Ultimate product line provides protection for anyone living in areas with hundreds of cell towers and antennas in the vicinity, and up to 300 GHz frequency output, which is the extreme high end of high band 5G that’s currently not even being used at all.

We are prepared for 6G, 7G and any other marketing term they can throw at the unsuspecting public to try to convince them that an increasingly digital world is a desirable place to live – hyper connected electronically, while becoming increasingly disconnected from our own bodies and healthy instincts.

References:

Federal Aviation Administration: “FAA Statements on 5G” – https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statements-5

Federal Aviation Administration: “Risk of Potential Adverse Effects on Radio Altimeters” – https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgSAIB.nsf/dc7bd4f27e5f107486257221005f069d/379cfb187d16db10862587b4005b26fc/$FILE/AIR-21-18R1.pdf

U.S. DoT December 31^st proposal to AT&T and Verizon to delay launch for additional two weeks – https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2021-12/12.31.2021%20-%20DOT%20and%20FAA%20Letter%20to%20ATT%20and%20Verizon%20.pdf

FCC January 1^st initial rejection of U.S. DoT proposal – https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-378918A1.pdf

U.S. DoT January 3^rd letter to AT&T and Verizon about deal terms, after acceptance – https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2022-01/USDOT%20Letter%20to%20ATT%20Verizon_20220103.pdf