The above summary of scientific findings is not exhaustive, and much more scientific research will be needed in the future to expand and refine the picture. No one study can tell the whole story, but taken together many studies can provide a framework of understanding.

Scientists working within their respective limited area of interest and experience have over the past couple of decades found so many different biological effect induced by EMF exposure that the overall picture has become diffuse.

How could these minuscule, low-energy impulses, which moreover are impossible to detect by any of our senses, possibly be causing so many different effects? This is incredible, unless you understand that low-energy electromagnetism is in fact fundamental to all life processes, and that these energies affect some of the most critical factors for proper biological functioning: ions, the electrically charged atoms and atomic groups which are involved in virtually all important biophysical and biochemical processes in cells: enzyme-driven messenger systems and enzyme-driven metabolic processes.

Changes induced in these systems by EMFs are able to trigger a cascade of different effects ranging from gene translation/transcription, enzyme activities, hormonal secretions, neurotransmitter secretions, repair mechanisms, immune system responses, heart functioning, brain functioning, cell proliferation, cell apoptosis (programmed death), cell transformation, tumor suppression, tumor induction, and tumor promotion, among others. Which response particular cells or bodies show will depend on the actual situation in the system: genes, strength of homeostatic balance (health), situation, other stressors, etc. No one knows the exact long term effect in a certain organism until it is too late.

Nobody knows for sure her/his specific genetic heritage, strengths, weaknesses. The same insult may cause different responses in individual bodies. One person may be susceptible to cancer, another to Alzheimer’s, a third to Parkinson’s, while a fourth person may just get a headache, depression, memory loss or nothing. Large varations have been found in experimental systems as well, e.g., genetic varations in chicken embryos. Some flocks show a high response to EMF exposures and others show no response. Still others show a medium response. This has been the cause of much confusion and skepticism among scientists, but it is actually not hard to understand, considering the fundamental role of EMFs in virtually all life processes.

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