HEALTH  AND  ELECTROMAGNETIC  COMPATIBILITY

 

 BIOLOGICAL  EFFECTS  OF  ELECTROMAGNETIC  RADIATION :
POSSIBLE  PATHOLOGIES  AND  METHODS  OF  PREVENTION

How to apply the Precautionary Principle in the field of Public Health for the exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) of low intensity, such as those emitted by mobile telephones, their relay masts, screens of visual display units and telecommunications.

 

R. Messagier,  M. Fillion-Robin,   I. de Joncourt

 International  Centre of  Research  in  Electromagnetic Biophysics - Tecnolab - CIRBE

 

  This dossier includes numerous extracts of scientific publications and  articles of synthesis by :
B-J. Youbicier-Simo, PhD in Neuroscience, Laboratory of  Immunology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montpellier 1, Head of the Biological Research at Tecnolab Research Centre  (1993-2002)
V.N. Binhi, PhD in Mathematics and  Physics, General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Radiobiology Laboratory, Moscow, Consultant and Head of the department of  Physics and Biophysics at Tecnolab Research Centre  (1997-2002)
 

 

  Summary 

This article will deal in the first instance with the assessment of electromagnetic compatibility between living organisms and electrical or electronic equipment, that is to say with the biological compatibility or incompatibility of exposure to a non-ionising electromagnetic radiation.
Secondly, going beyond the criteria set in terms of physics for Electromagnetic Compatibility standards between machines, which are the technical considerations of manufacturers of electronic equipment, we shall address the concept of Electromagnetic Biocompatibility and the research that has made its realisation possible, which could lead to its general acceptance and the setting of appropriate health standards.

    Over the last forty years scientific literature has highlighted many instances of the effects of  non-ionising electromagnetic fields (EMF) (in the spectrum of extremely low frequencies (ELF), micro-waves (MW), micro-waves pulsed in ELF…etc) on biological parameters studied in animals and in man.
Today the biological disorders observed are still the subject of scientific and political debate as to their role in pathology in man or in the breeding of animals.  In particular in relation to exposure to high tension power lines, to machines and installations relating to telecommunications (computers, television), or to mobile telephones and their emitting relay masts.

These debates and the accumulated data and facts lead the legislator logically to the « Principle of Precaution » and give rise to comment on the tools and methods relevant to its application.
For the scientist, they stimulate studies directed towards finding a technological solution to prevent problems that may give rise to potential health problems, through a necessarily biophysical approach, which leads to the concept of « Electromagnetic Biocompatibility ».
In reality it is not conceivable to stop the technological development of electronic products which multiply every day, creating an accumulation of different electromagnetic fields in the space inhabited by man.
But this growth means account must be taken of the electromagnetic sensitivity of a living organism, inherent to its biological functioning, which is itself electromagnetic !     
 

Bio-compatibility of artificial electromagnetic fields

Just as the assessment of pollution is correlated with tests and experimental facts, so the development of standards and biological protection should also depend on the results of experiments.

It should not be possible to introduce scientific and technological discoveries to  the market without their ability to maintain or improve human quality of life and man’s physical and mental health having been proven.

This is however not the case for the majority of industrial and technological developments that affect the life and daily comfort of the population.

To be biocompatible is not to produce any negative effect in the short, medium or long term on the health or balance of a living organism.

Particles of both inert and living matter are, through their atomic structure, linked electromagnetically.  So - since living organisms are electromagnetic in nature at the level of their atoms, their cells, their structures – one can assume that the phenomenon of interference and resonance found in classic Physics apply to a living organism.

The observation of biological malfunctions and pathological symptoms originating from chronic electromagnetic stress in general supports this assumption.

-     Alternatively, thanks to these laws of physics, it has been possible to develop electromagnetic (EM) therapies and EM bioprotection technologies by modifying or cancelling the biological responses to external polluting EMF.

 

A score of studies of different biological parameters and of the human response to exposure to EMF from equipment used by the public, show that it is possible to reduce the observed biological effects through the simultaneous use of a technology of compensatory magnetic oscillation (CMO) and so to prevent the development of possible public health problems.

The possibility of establishing a technology to achieve electromagnetic biocompatibility with any biologically incompatible radiation is a new method, at once effective and realistic of applying the Precautionary Principle, a principle which, legally, depends on the state of current proven scientific knowledge.

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A new publication in April 2003, has been added to the dossier, which confirms the significance of the parameters studied for their electromagnetic bio-sensitivity and which validates the effectiveness of bioprotection by compensatory oscillation (CMO-Tecno AO).
The study in  question is that by Professor Reba Goodman (Columbia University, New York) – specialist in the biological effects of electromagnetic fields on the genome.  This experiment concentrated on the effects of mobile telephone radiation on the Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) and on DNA and their protection through the above technology.  It shows that - despite the low intensity of the non-thermal radiation from the mobile telephone -, DNA is electromagnetically sensitive and the production of heat shock proteins increases greatly, and additionally that an oscillation of ultra low intensity (CMO-Tecno AO) is capable of compensating for and correcting these effects of stress.


Rf. this dossier (pages i to vi) : EM Biocompatibility at the level of DNA

(* Effects of mobile phone radiation on reproduction and development in Drosophila melanogaster.
Weisbrot D, Lin H, Ye L, Blank M. and Goodman R. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. Vol. 89, Issue 1, 2003,  pages 48-55.  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=104088364  )