Welcome Back To The Synergetic Health Newsletter! 

🏝️ January 16th, 2025. Greetings From Phuket, Thailand! My final week in Thailand is here. I will be going out in style by attending a few music festivals here in Phuket before moving on to Vietnam.

The book I write about today, “The Invisible Rainbow”, had been on my list for a few years. It is an incredibly sobering read about the health and environmental effects that electrical technology has had, and continues to have, on living organisms. The author, who is a victim of electrical hypersensitivity, may be a bit of an alarmist, but we need people like him that aren’t afraid to speak out on these issues.

There is so much I had to leave out of this post, so I would encourage anyone interested in learning more to read the book. But only do so if, on the other end, you would be willing to make changes in how you currently interface with your devices and all modern technology. If not, then it would be better to remain blissfully ignorant to this information. That goes for even reading this post I guess.

I would like to caveat by saying that there are many people who believe they have found the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the rise of chronic diseases in modern civilization.

Electromagnetic radiation, lack of sunlight, seed oils, stress, dehydration, processed foods, pesticides, vaccines, disconnection from God, mineral imbalances, excess sugar, social isolation, childhood trauma, gut microbiome dysregulation, microplastics, sedentary lifestyle, artificial light— all are on the long list of things that people point the finger at.

It can be overwhelming.

The only thing we can do is educate ourselves as best we can and take appropriate actions that are not fear-based but out of common sense.

Right now, there is no fire alarm ringing to alert you of the potential negative effects of your cell phone, WiFi router, microwave, and laptop. But maybe after reading this newsletter, and following up with some investigation of your own, you will consider altering some of your habits when it comes to your technology use/abuse.

⚡ The Invisible Rainbow: How Electricity Shaped Modern Disease 📖

Arthur Firstenberg's “The Invisible Rainbow” traces how the electrification of our world parallels the emergence of both acute and chronic modern diseases. Beyond just major illnesses, he documents the rise of conditions like neurasthenia (nervous exhaustion, “anxiety”), headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and various psychological disorders - all tracking with the spread of electrical technology.

When telegraph wires first encircled the Earth, doctors began documenting new nervous system disorders. As electric light transformed cities in the 1880s, sleep disorders emerged. Each new electrical innovation brought its own wave of health effects - some immediate and acute, others developing slowly over decades.

The Influenza Mystery

Modern influenza emerged in 1889, alongside alternating current. According to Firstenberg, "many of the doctors who were flooded with the disease in 1889 had never seen a case before." The pattern of spread defied conventional disease transmission.

Evidence against contagion theory had existed even before electrification. As Firstenberg notes: "An 1857 report was so compelling that William Beveridge included it in his 1975 textbook on influenza: 'The English warship Arachne was cruising off the coast of Cuba "without any contact with land." No less than 114 men out of a crew of 149 fell ill with influenza and only later was it learnt that there had been outbreaks in Cuba at the same time.'"

"If influenza is primarily an electrical disease, a response to an electrical disturbance of the atmosphere, then it is not contagious in the ordinary sense. The patterns of its epidemics should prove this, and they do."

During the 1918 pandemic, multiple studies failed to demonstrate person-to-person transmission. Boston researchers couldn't infect 100 healthy volunteers with flu patients' bodily fluids. They tried everything: spraying mucus from sick patients into volunteers' noses, eyes, and throats; having volunteers gargle with a mixture of mucus and secretions from sick patients; and even injecting blood from sick patients into volunteers. None got sick.

As Hope-Simpson observed: "The simple fact is to be recollected that this epidemic affects a whole region in the space of a week; nay, a whole continent as large as North America, together with all the West Indies, in the course of a few weeks, where the inhabitants over such vast extent of country, could not, within so short a lapse of a time, have had the least communication or intercourse whatever."

Electrical Milestones and Health Crises

Firstenberg identifies major shifts in Earth's electromagnetic environment that coincided with disease outbreaks:

1. 1889: Power line harmonic radiation began. "From that year forward the earth's magnetic field bore the imprint of power line frequencies and their harmonics. In that year, exactly, the natural magnetic activity of the earth began to be suppressed." The first modern influenza pandemic followed.

2. 1918: "The radio era began. It began with the building of hundreds of powerful radio stations at LF and VLF frequencies, the frequencies guaranteed to most alter the magnetosphere." The Spanish flu pandemic emerged.

3. 1957: "The radar era began. It began with the building of hundreds of powerful early warning radar stations that littered the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, hurling millions of watts of microwave energy skyward." The Asian flu pandemic followed.

4. 1968: "The satellite era began. It began with the launch of dozens of satellites whose broadcast power was relatively weak. But since they were already in the magnetosphere, they had as big an effect on it as the small amount of radiation that managed to enter it from sources on the ground." The Hong Kong flu pandemic emerged.

5. 1996-1997: The wireless era arrived, marked by the widespread introduction of digital cell phones and cell towers across the United States. Disease patterns shifted dramatically.

6. Recent decades have seen the rise of high-frequency communications and radar systems, including HAARP, correlating with further increases in chronic diseases.

The Disease Burden and the Metabolism Connection

The statistics tell a dark story, but more importantly, they reveal a fundamental disruption of human metabolism that can't be explained by diet and lifestyle alone. As Firstenberg explains: "Like rain on a campfire, electromagnetic fields douse the flames of metabolism".

This effect impacts every living being: "Every person on the planet is affected by this invisible rain that penetrates into the fabric of our cells. Everyone has a slower metabolism, is less alive, than if those fields were not there."

The diabetes statistics illustrate this metabolic disruption. When digital cell phones were introduced across the United States in 1997, diabetes cases spiked 31% in one year. Today, the CDC estimates that 115 million Americans - more than half of all adults - have elevated blood sugar levels. This includes 21 million with diagnosed diabetes, 8 million with undiagnosed diabetes, and 86 million with prediabetes.

As Firstenberg notes, "human genetics has not changed and neither diet, exercise, nor drugs has put a dent in the escalation of this disease during the ninety years since insulin was discovered." The real problem may lie in our cells' ability to process glucose: "Due to 'failure of mitochondria to adapt to higher cellular oxidative demands,' they wrote, 'a vicious cycle of insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion can be initiated.'"

Cellular Disruption and Modern Disease

The link between electromagnetic fields and disease operates at the cellular level. Firstenberg explains how electricity affects our most basic biological processes: "The effects of radio waves on blood sugar are extremely well documented." Recent research confirms this - Finnish scientists found that "glucose uptake is considerably reduced in the region of the brain next to a cell phone."

The impact extends beyond just blood sugar. As Firstenberg describes, electromagnetic fields interfere with fundamental cellular processes: "The power plants of our cells, the mitochondria, become less active, slowing the rate at which our cells can burn glucose, fats, and protein. Instead of being taken up by our cells, excess fats accumulate in our blood and are deposited on the walls of our arteries."

This cellular disruption may help explain why heart disease has become so prevalent. Between 1979 and 2004, hospitalizations for heart failure tripled. The age-adjusted rate doubled, with the greatest increase occurring in people under 65. At Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, the annual prevalence of congestive heart failure almost quadrupled between 1989 and 1999.

Regarding cancer, the evidence points to a similar mechanism. Nobel laureate Otto Warburg's theory that cancer results from disrupted cellular respiration gains new relevance in light of electromagnetic effects. “If Warburg was correct, and chronic lack of oxygen causes cancer, then one need look no further than electrification for the origin of the modern pandemic."

Beyond Diet and Lifestyle

Traditional explanations for these disease trends fall short. The timing of disease pattern changes correlates remarkably with electrical innovations. For example, the 31 percent increase in diabetes in 2007 alone “was the year the telecommunications industry introduced digital cell phones en masse to the United States."

Similarly with heart disease - while mainstream medicine focuses on cholesterol and dietary fats (among other things), "Morris was sure that some other, unknown environmental factor was also important... That factor, as we will see, is electricity. Electromagnetic fields have become so intense in our environment that we are unable to metabolize fats the way our ancestors could."

Obesity follows similar patterns. "The first official statistics in the United States date from 1960, showing that one-quarter of adults were overweight. That number did not change for twenty years." However, dramatic increases occurred alongside the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. A Kaiser Permanente study found that children were "more than six times as likely to be obese when their mothers' average exposure during pregnancy had exceeded 2.5 milligauss."

The Millennial Health Crisis

The Blue Cross Blue Shield report on millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) revealed an unprecedented health decline beginning at age 27. The prevalence of major conditions increased dramatically in just three years (2014-2017):

• Major depression: +31%

• Hyperactivity: +29%

• Type 2 diabetes: +22%

• Hypertension: +16%

• Psychoses: +15%

• High cholesterol: +12%

• Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: +10%

• Substance use disorder: +10%

This generation, the first to grow up using cell phones, is experiencing worse health than previous generations at the same age. These increases occurred in just three years, suggesting an acceleration of health problems that typically develop over decades.

The Financial Impact

The rise of electromagnetic radiation could be partly responsible for the massive healthcare costs and could have even spawned entire industries dedicated to treating its effects:

• The global diabetes care market exceeds $400 billion annually

• Cancer treatment worldwide generates over $200 billion yearly

• Cardiovascular medicine exceeds $100 billion annually

• Mental health treatment costs surpass $200 billion per year

• The telecommunications industry generating these fields exceeds $1.7 trillion annually

These industries now have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, as acknowledging EMF health effects would threaten their business models and create massive liability issues.

Environmental Devastation

The environmental impact extends far beyond human health, according to Firstenberg and others. In studies documented by Spanish researcher Alfonso Balmori, electromagnetic radiation affected every species examined:

• Birds abandon areas when cell towers are installed

• Bee colonies collapse near wireless infrastructure

• Plants show measurable stress responses

• Insects display disturbed behavior patterns

• Amphibian populations decline in exposed areas

Belgian researcher Marie-Claire Cammaerts demonstrated that even a powered-off cell phone with its battery inserted dramatically affects ant behavior. Their angular speed increased 80% just from a phone with a battery, suggesting subtle electromagnetic effects we don't yet fully understand.

Greek researcher Dimitris Panagopoulos issued a severe warning that microwave exposure, even for minutes per day, may be "the most intense modern environmental stress factor compared to other environmental stress factors tested so far." The DNA damage observed could affect future generations.

The Satellite Threat

As of 2020, SpaceX had submitted applications for 42,000 satellites, with OneWeb seeking approval for 5,260 more. These satellites pose a unique threat because they operate within Earth's magnetosphere. Unlike ground-based towers whose radiation weakens before reaching space, "radiation from satellites works its full force on the magnetosphere, and is demodulated and amplified there by mechanisms that are poorly understood."

Scientific Suppression

Researchers investigating these issues have faced severe consequences. Dr. Olle Johansson lost his position at the Karolinska Institute and received death threats. In one incident, 27 spokes of his motorcycle wheel were professionally sawed through - an apparent assassination attempt.

Beyond individual harassment, institutional barriers prevent serious investigation of these effects. Research funding is often controlled by interested industries. Australian neurosurgeon Charlie Teo notes that "no telcos have allowed scientists access to their records for these large studies."

There are parallels to the tobacco industry's suppression of cancer research. Just as cigarette companies spent decades obscuring the health effects of smoking, the telecommunications industry has worked to prevent serious investigation of EMF health effects.

"At times," says Balmori, "I compare what is occurring to a collective ritual of suicide in slow motion." But he believes change will come: "there will come a day of realization, when society will awaken to the serious problem of electromagnetic contamination and its dangerous effects on sparrows, frogs, bees, trees, and all other living beings, including ourselves."

🤔 Ok, So What Am I Supposed To Do?

Protecting yourself from exposure to electromagnetic frequencies is worth putting some effort into. The range of options to do so are wide— from just turning your phone on airplane mode while you’re sleeping to moving to a low-emf community in Nicaragua.

Here are some ideas:

Distance and Reduction Strategies:

1. Increasing distance from EMF sources

2. Turning off Wi-Fi routers when not in use, especially at night

3. Using airplane mode on mobile devices when not actively using them

4. Limiting overall use of electronic devices

5. Keeping electronics out of bedrooms

6. Using wired connections (Ethernet) instead of Wi-Fi when possible

7. Setting up computer workstations at least 3 feet from walls (where wiring runs)

8. Maintaining distance from smart meters and electrical panels

9. Moving beds away from shared walls that have electrical panels/wiring

10. Avoiding high-EMF zones like near transformers or power lines

Device Usage Practices:

1. Using speakerphone or wired headsets for cell phone calls

2. Texting instead of making voice calls

3. Avoiding carrying powered-on phones in pockets or against the body

4. Keeping laptops and tablets off laps

5. Disabling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on devices when not needed

6. Only making calls when signal strength is strong (phone emits more radiation searching for signal)

7. Avoiding phone use in cars/elevators (metal enclosure causes phone to boost signal)

8. Using computer in battery mode when possible

9. Keeping phone in separate room while sleeping

10. Setting devices to 2G/3G instead of 4G/5G when possible (lower frequencies)

Home Environment Modifications

1. Using EMF shielding paint on walls

2. Installing EMF blocking curtains or fabrics

3. Using EMF protection devices like Faraday cages or special phone cases

4. Opting for low-EMF appliances and lighting

5. Avoiding metal coil mattresses

6. Using battery-powered alarm clocks instead of electric ones

7. Testing for and addressing ground current issues

8. Shielding electrical panels and smart meters

9. Using incandescent bulbs instead of CFLs/LEDs

10. Ensuring proper electrical grounding

11. Moving electronics away from beds/seating areas

Shielding Products

1. EMF blocking blankets and bed canopies

2. Protective clothing and accessories

3. EMF ear protection devices

4. Dirty electricity filters

5. EMF shielding window films

6. Grounded shielding mats for desks/work areas

Measurements and Monitoring

1. Using EMF meters to detect and measure EMF levels in the home

2. Identifying and addressing sources of dirty electricity

3. Regular EMF audits of living/working spaces

4. Testing different frequencies (ELF, RF, etc.)

5. Monitoring for electrical hotspots

6. Checking for EMF from neighbors' devices/equipment

7. Hire someone from the Building Biology Institute

Lifestyle Choices

1. Spending time outdoors away from electronic devices

2. Establishing EMF-free zones in the home

3. Preferring corded landlines over cordless phones

4. Avoiding wearable technology like smartwatches

5. Regular grounding/earthing practices

6. Creating low-EMF sleeping environments

7. Using mechanical/analog alternatives when possible

8. Scheduling regular "tech fasts"

Power Management

1. Unplugging appliances when not in use

2. Using power strips to easily disconnect multiple devices

3. Turning off circuit breakers to certain areas at night

4. Installing demand switches to cut power when not needed

5. Using DC instead of AC power where possible

6. Creating dedicated circuits for sensitive areas

7. Understanding and managing dirty electricity

I know this is a lot! I tried to make this as comprehensive as possible. If you are willing to work toward limiting you and your families’ exposure— just start with whatever seems easiest and go from there. While there is no turning back from the explosion of technology and the subsequent radiation, it is possible to mitigate the effects that it can have on your health.

Further Reading/Listening

EMF*D by Dr. Joe Mercola (Book)

The Non-Tinfoil Hat Guide to EMF’s by Nicolas Pineault (Book)

Radiation Nation by Daniel and Ryan Debaun (Book)

EMF Remedy (Podcast)

The Power Couple EMF (Podcast)

𝕏 Thread of the Week

📱 Cell Phone Use Impacts Brain Glucose Metabolism, Which Isn’t Good: A 2009 study of 47 participants found that 50-minute cell phone exposure increased glucose metabolism in brain regions closest to the phone's antenna. Localized increases correlated strongly with electromagnetic field exposure. Potential implications include neuroinflammation from chronic exposure, disruption of cognitive functions involving impacted brain regions, and possible cumulative effects over years of use.

🤱🏻 Moms With High EMF Exposure Have More Obese Kids: Researchers at Kaiser Permanente measured pregnant women's daily exposure to magnetic fields using personal meters worn for 24 hours. The study found that children whose mothers were exposed to high levels of magnetic fields during pregnancy (above 2.5 milligauss) were over six times more likely to be obese during their teenage years than those whose mothers had lower exposure. This prospective study uniquely demonstrated how prenatal EMF exposure could affect health outcomes years later.

☀️ You Need Bright Days and Dark Nights: This 2013 study of over 86,000 adults found that exposure to light has significant impacts on mental health. Nighttime light exposure was linked to increased risk of several psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and self-harm behavior. Conversely, greater daytime light exposure was associated with reduced risk of depression, PTSD, psychosis, and self-harm. The findings suggest that you need bright days and dark nights 🙂 

📚 Read my e-book, “Self-Development for Authentic Living” for free.

🔗 If you know anyone who loves learning about these types of topics, send them this link!

📰 To read all past newsletters, go here.