Dear All: The issue of bees doing well in forest away
from cell towers, powerlines, etc. caused me to remember that I never
distributed facts surrounding lots of health problems affecting one of
my brother's partners. Even persons living in
forests might be exposed to EMF's they are unaware of.......
I have permission to share that my brother, Skip Besch conveyed
many concerns re his partner, Susan Williams, while they were spending
the summer in national forest campgrounds in the Arizona mountains
(near Springerville) from spring to fall of 2006.
Skip was describing Susan's problems -- one after another --
headaches, hot flashes, inability to sleep, etc. followed by medical
tests indicating elevation of cholesterol, blood pressure, blood
sugar with the doctor prescribing several medications.
Skip doesn't have any health insurance (no tests or doctor
consults) but reported not having much energy and also not sleeping
well. Even their dog, Sasha was lacking energy and enthusiasm to
go for hikes......
I had previously been concerned about cell phone usage but
Skip always reminded me that they use the speaker.
Skip had been living his "mountain/forest lifestyle" for many
years and always depended upon frequent cell phone contact and often
drove to areas where he could get better reception.
SO, I, at least for the moment, was discounting cell
phone/antennae concerns as major contributors to this sudden increase
in adverse health problems.
I said, "if you weren't living out in the middle of nowhere, I
would think you had some sort of electrical item near you at
night." Skip responded, "well, we watch TV
......" I was a bit surprised. He added,
"unless the INVERTER could be causing problems........"
Family members later told me inverters would not cause such
problems.
Skip said, "the inverter acts like a
transformer...." In spite of others stating their
reasons why they believed the transformer would not be causing decline
in health, Skip and I discussed moving it away from the side of the
trailer. It had been very close to the outside of the bed
where Susan watched TV for hours at night. Also, Skip and Sasha
were nearby but farther away from the inverter itself.
They moved south to the city of Benson, Arizona in late fall to
spend the winter. Susan "excitedly reported" that ALL of her
tests were/are now completely normal and the doctor was very surprised
that she had made such remarkable improvement. Susan had reported
feeling much better and sleeping well -- more energy, no hot flashes,
etc. only a day or so after Skip moved the inverter farther away from
the side of the trailer. Susan had also "stopped taking
medications" while still up at Springerville area.
A couple years prior to Susan's sudden decline in health (August
2006), she was living with her husband in a trailer (initially reported
as motorhome) in the mountains near Williams, Arizona. She
had a heart attack. She reports that, at the time of the
attack and for months before that, she had been actually sitting up
against an inverter in their trailer.
The issue of RV'ers having panel boxes right behind heads' of beds
in many motorhomes and trailers, not to mention widespread usage of
inverters in RV's and probably also semi-trucks, may be the reason why
many persons who travel across-the-country and/or live in mobile
facilities during the winter, find themselves going to the ER for chest
pains and other health problems.
It is only in hindsight that I realize this might be one of the
reasons my dad crashed their new motorhome into a toll booth. He
reported to me that "I don't know if I had my foot on the brake or the
gas...." He seemed very confused but, of course, he was
talking to me right after the accident. This occurred after they
spent the night in the parking lot of the place they purchased the
motorhome. We had chalked up the accident to his
inexperience in handling the motorhome (he was elderly -- now deceased)
but drove many thousands of miles before and after that without
incident.
Dr. Marjorie Lundquist's reply (my computer didn't save email date
and info) is included w/this email (copied below or as attachment) as
well a my request for her opinion. Take
care - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email:
jcmpelican@aol.com
(3-29-07)
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Joanne, if an inverter transforms direct current (DC) to
alternating current (AC)
then it MIGHT be a source of harmful EMF fields. It depends on
the details of
its circuitry. One that puts out good-quality current might
itself be hazardous,
but the current it puts out might not be. A real cheap inverter
could, at least
in theory, put out current that is of poorer quality, and then there
may be a
somewhat reduced hazard near the inverter, but a somewhat greater
hazard all along
the wire carrying the current that it produces.
You mention running a television set off the inverter. Remember
that TV sets are
notorious for introducing high frequencies onto the current that is
used to power
them. Maybe the TV set that is being operated by the inverter is
old, so it is not
operating quite right (e.g., generating frequencies internally that it
ought not
to generate) in which case a new TV set would correct the problem.
The RF around electrical wiring should fall off VERY STRONGLY with
increasing dis-
tance from the source, which means that if the sick person moves away
from inver-
ter, wires and TV set and this reduces the severity of illness, then
the illness
may well be caused by RF around this equipment or the wire carrying the
current.
If all this is happening in a mountainous area, maybe there is a
distant source of
EMF contributing to the problem. Telephone conversations used to
be transformed to
microwaves and then beamed from point to point across the country; the
relay trans-
mitters for this were always situated on places like
mountaintops. {This doesn't
seem to be a likely source of the problem you describe, but I thought I
should men-
tion it.) Other external sources are things like airport or air
base radar, and
maybe even HAARP.
Sorry if this is not much help. You could always suggest that one
or two of the
Graham-Stetzer capacitors be plugged in where the TV set is plugged in
to the out-
put from the inverter; if this helped, then either the TV set or the
inverter, or
both, is the culprit, and a solution is in hand! (One of those
"multiple outlet
devices" that can be bought for under $5 might have to be bought and
used, so that
several things could be plugged into a single female plug coming off
the inverter.)
Marjorie Lundquist
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
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--- JCMPelican@aol.com wrote:
From: JCMPelican@aol.com
To: marjlundquist@Pubs-UK.com
CC: plunepur@earthlink.net
Subject: Inverter.....
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:00:46 EDT
Dear Marjorie: Do you have any idea whether an inverter
might put out
EMF's -- electrical field, magnetic field, or RF? I
think it runs off battery
(maybe truck battery??? or a separate one he keeps charged up for
that
purpose???) and is used to allow for operating TV when they have
no electricity.
Brother who spends most of time in woods (free National Forest
Campgrounds)
has a friend with him who has been getting sicker and sicker.
Would suspect cell phone usage (heavy) but they use a speaker all the
time
when not in town (seldom). Signals would need to be strong
to reach their
mountainous locations -- sometimes they can't get strong enough
signal, etc.
Doubt she carries cellphone in her pocket....they have only one phone
and
Skip usually has that.
Friend is in her late 30's. Docs say she is too young to have all
the "hot
flashes"she reports -- lately were almost constant and
severe. Her blood
pressure has been hard to control. She was also put on
Lipitor (now stopped
after talking to me). The Lipitor, however, was only part
of her history in
past week (time of suspecting EMF's) and had been taken for only
two days
before I questioned Skip re possible electrical exposures.
I suspected a thyroid problem due to EMR exposure. I
was mystified re
possible exposure other than cell phone, antennas, etc. but did
ask. Turns out
Skip has been hooking up an inverter that was right next to spot
where they
watch TV for several hours a day (next to the bed).
So much for "middle of the woods -- healthy lifestyle!!!!"
He purchased a longer cord for the inverter and it is now about 7 ft.
from
the bed where they watch TV.
Friend now reports feeling great -- sleeping well all night long except
to
let dog out -- returns to bed and goes to sleep, wakes up refreshed and
having
lots of energy.
Skip himself had reported "no energy" and friend now reports Skip
also has
more energy and has mentioned they should start hiking again.
She reports he
now sleeps good all night whereas he was up pacing and couldn't
get back to
sleep when dog went out, etc. before inverter was moved.
Friend reports the dog seems to have more energy (in reponse to
my
query)......
She also now realizes her exposure at home in West Virginia (growing
up) up
against electric meter may be involved in her ES.
She had a small infarction diagnosed when she was still with her
abusive
husband some time in past two years. She reports spending
lots of time "up
against" the inverter in the motorhome just prior to the minor
heart attack.
I began to get very suspicious when I started thinking about them
mentioning
several times about doctor visits over past 6-8 months but with a
sudden
increase over past couple of months. It has been about
a year of close
exposure to the inverter in the small trailer (Skip's).
As usual, you are busy but if you think of something without doing too
much
digging, I would really appreciate your opinion as to whether an
inverter
might cause problems similar to an electric meter, clock,
etc. As I
mentioned, they use the speaker for cell phone conversations and
that has not
changed since they moved the inverter. Thanks much and take
care!!!! Joanne