What Are Possible Health Problems Due to Electrical Pollution?
In Zapped, Dr. Gittleman offers an easy-to-understand, yet science-backed look at how electrical fields, including EMFs, disrupt the body’s processes, causing issues such as:
Not only does Dr. Gittleman provide examples of common sources of electrical pollution inside our homes, school and work, but she she also provides a quiz to determine your potential for being what she calls “zapped” (harmed by electrical pollution).
OK, I’ve Been Zapped. Now What?
She then offers dozens (or really, 1,268!) ways to mitigate these potential harms with ideas such as:
- Removing as many electronics from bedrooms as possible
- Moving beds and seats away from wires inside walls
- Cutting the power to bedrooms at night
- Grounding
- Using battery-operated devices
- Increasing distance from anything with a fan, including hair dryers
- Eliminating or unplugging electrical devices
- Wiring the home’s internet connection instead of using Wi-Fi
- Turning off Wi-Fi at night
- Using corded instead of cordless phones
Ultimately, you may want to buy a tri-field meter to measure electrical/EMF fields or, better yet, hire an electrical consultant or building biologist. This may seem like a frivolous thing to do, but consider that this step was an important one for one of the children in our FLIGHT™ Study. This child’s alopecia universalis began to abate after his family’s home’s electrical-pollution issues were remediated. Several weeks after the electrical field exposure in his bedroom was removed, he began to regrow eyelashes and eyebrows. This is the first time his family had seen any hair on his body for over four years.
Given that Dr. Gittleman is a well known nutritionist, Zapped would not be complete without her suggestions for foods, recipes and supplements that provide power antioxidants that help the body counteract the inflammation and damage caused by electrical pollution including EMFs and dirty electricity.
We highly recommend Zapped due to its easy-to-read-yet-practical content. After reading it, you will likely be surprised at how much exposure you have to electrical pollution and empowered by what you can do to mitigate it.
About Ann Louise Gittleman PhD CNS
Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS is the undeniable “First Lady of Nutrition”. Her career spans more than 40 years; includes over 35 internationally best selling books, more than any other nutritionist in the genre. Over the years, Ann Louise has received numerous professional awards, including the prestigious Humanitarian Award in 2016.
Gittleman, whose name has become synonymous with “nutritional visionary,” has fearlessly stood on the front lines of weight loss, diet and detox, the environment, and spearheading women’s health issues.
Described by Self Magazine as one of the Top Ten Notable Nutritionists in the United States, thousands of nutritionists, health coaches, and practitioners have benefited from her work. You can find out more about her work at AnnLouise.com
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Sources & References
Resources
Articles
Documenting Hope. The Invisible Health Hazard That Is Easy to Miss.
Environmental Health Trust. Powerlines, Magnetic Field and Extremely Low Frequency Fields.
Klinghardt, Dietrich. Autism May Be Linked to Electromagnetic Radiation Levels in Mother’s Bedroom During Pregnancy.
Books
Gittleman, Ann Louise. Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution. HarperOne, 2011.
Lambert, Beth, et al. Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS and Autoimmune Encephalitis. Answers Publications, 2018.
Presentations
Pall, Martin. EMFs and Chemicals as the Main Drivers of the Autism Epidemic: Mechanisms of Action. AutismOne Conference, 2017.
Websites
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