Electromagnetic Radiation Survival Guide: Step by Step Solutions (book review)

The book promises to teach the reader about ways to reduce harm from electromagnetic frequencies, including harm from wifi, cell phone towers, and mobile phones.

Those concerned about Electro Hypersensitivity (EHS) symptoms.

Survival Guide is written for the non-scientist, and contains practical methods to reduce EHS.

Survival Guide does give the reader valueable information.

It includes ideas I have not yet seen in other EMF guides.

Some of the ideas a haphazard. They appear to be the writer’s notes transferred wholesale into the book.

This makes it a good guide, but you’ll have to do some work to get the ideas in a format that you can use.

Motivation

Halpern wrote Survival Guide after researching his own electro hypersensitivity (EHS).

As a PhD in Health Sciences, he has authority that other EHS and EMF authors might not have.

Electro Hypersensitivity (EHS)

Halpern explains that the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the existence of EHS.

Our problem, he says, is that they call it “idiopathic.”

In essence, they’re saying, “Yes, people have symptoms, but we don’t know why.”

We know that EMF does not have to create heat for it to be associated with physical harm.

But EMF exposure standards are based on the level at which they produce heat.

Just some of the EHS symptoms include headaches, nausea, dizziness, arthritic pains, and rashes.

Halpern warns that all EHS symptoms are also symptoms of other diseases.

The reader should not jump to an EHS conclusion based on symptoms alone.

Nevertheless, we do have science supporting the theory that radio frequency device exposure correlates with these symptoms.

Devices associated with harm include cell phone base stations, cell phones, cordless phones, power lines, visual displays, and fluorescent lighting.

Electromagnetic Fields

This section provides a good explanation of harmful devices and their associated wave types.

It explains wave cycling measurements, wave lengths, wave categories (low frequency, extremely low frequency…), and dirty electricity.

EMF Protection Basics

The author gives a good basis for more research in his list of ways to mitigate EMF.

The list includes avoidance, reduction, reflection, absorption, redirection, suppression, and cancellation.

This list is more comprehensive than most references I’ve read.

Magnetic fields, for example, cannot be shielded. But they can be diverted.So it’s important to understand all the effects we can have on EMF besides “shielding.”

Getting the Right LF Meter

This section describes different types of EMF meters.

It offers some helpful information, but in a scattered format.

The author mentions buttons on a meter, and what they do, but doesn’t tell the reader which meter he’s describing.

He describes trifield meters, but doesn’t explain what the three fields are that require measurement.

He describes electric and magnetic wave measurement, but doesn’t explain why you might buy an electric, a magnetic, or a combined meter.

Making a Diagram

Here are some good ideas on what to measure in your home, office, or apartment.

These include the power sources, appliances, electrical outlets and extension cords.

Make multiple measurements, and draw diagrams.

This is a useful exercise for anyone considering mitigating EHS.

Basic ELF Reduction Methods

This topic is found throughout the book.

Despite the fact that the layout for this topic is scattered, the advice itself is very good.

For example, one idea is to have an electrician replace all electrical outlets with switchable outlets.

With that in place, you can turn off the power to all electric items in a room.

[By the way, you can do this with an electric power strip as well.]

Cell Phones, PCs, Wifi

The rest of this book offers multiple but sometimes shallow ideas.

Altogether, there’s a good size chunk of information that you can use.

It just that you might have to read all the parts in different chapters.

And you might need more research before implementing any particular idea.

You will find info on dirty electricity, cell phones, wifi, computers, and smart meters.

The book offers help navigating the EMF found in public transporation, cars, and the home.

There is some limited information on EMF protective clothing.

Jonathan Halpern is a PhD with studies in Health Sciences and Engineering. He self-diagnosed his EHS in the late 1990s. He realized that his cell phone was making him sick. He shares his research in this Survival Guide.

Survival Guide contains some excellent information that would be better conveyed with more organization and some editing.

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