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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Green Living / 4 Ways to Significantly Reduce Exposure to Dirty Electricity

4 Ways to Significantly Reduce Exposure to Dirty Electricity

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • How to Reduce Dirty Electricity Exposure Immediately
  • More Ways to Protect Yourself

4 ways to easily and inexpensively reduce the amount of dirty electricity in your home or business for better health and improved sleep. ungrounded outlets generating dirty electricity

Electricity was originally intended as a “clean” and safe source of power for homes and businesses through standard usage of the steady electrical frequency of 60 oscillations per second, or 60 Hertz (Hz).

Modern energy-efficient devices, electronics, and other reasons such as earth currents can cause significant deviance from the 60 Hz frequency, however, and this pulsed exposure to spiking and unsafe frequencies of electromagnetic radiation (EMFs) on overloaded wires is what has become known as “dirty electricity”.

Exposure to dirty electricity has the potential to cause and exacerbate existing health problems in some people. It is not something that can be smelled, touched, seen, or felt, and yet it is very real and very problematic for those who experience it on a daily basis.

The health effects of dirty electricity were first identified as early as the 1950s in rural areas when the behavior and feeding patterns of animals were negatively affected by stray voltage caused by poor grounding and lack of utility infrastructure.

In humans, symptoms of exposure to dirty electricity can include:

  • Headaches
  • Difficulty sleeping
  • Body aches and pains
  • Ringing in the ears (tinnitus)
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Worsening of symptoms from multiple sclerosis or ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

In Sweden, sensitivity to dirty electricity is a recognized disability affecting approximately 3% of the population. In Switzerland, a survey of doctors concluded that 5% of symptoms in patients could be traced to dirty electricity exposure.

How to Reduce Dirty Electricity Exposure Immediately

While the concept of dirty electricity is a complex one that practically requires a degree in Physics to fully understand, ways to reduce your exposure are simple and easy to implement.

  1. Get rid of all the fluorescent and LED light bulbs. Compact fluorescent light bulbs and LEDs have a very large EMF field compared with simple incandescent light bulbs. These bulbs also produce a lot of dirty electricity. Getting rid of them within your home and business will reduce your exposure to dirty electricity immediately.
  2. Replace all dimmer switches with simple on/off switches. Dimmer switches produce a lot of dirty electricity!  Replace them with simple on/off switches or if that is not in the budget, just leave them off all the time.
  3. Turn off your wireless router at night. While getting rid of exposure to all wireless communications is futile in this day and age when it is literally everywhere, you can at least give your body a rest at night while you sleep by turning them off in your home.
  4. Make sure your home does not use a Smart Meter. Power companies all over the United States are installing smart meters to simplify the meter reading process. Call your local power company and find out if you have already gotten one and if so, make sure to opt-out and go back to the analog meters.

I initially thought our home had a Smart Meter, but after investigating, discovered to my great relief that the automated meters in our area were not Smart Meters and were one-way communication devices that allowed meter readers to drive down our street and pick up a weak radio signal and thereby read the meter without entering a person’s property.  They were not two-way Smart Meters constantly pulsing and sending information to the power company about our electrical usage.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine adopted a resolution that formally opposes the installation of Smart Meters in homes and schools “based on a scientific assessment of the current medical literature. Chronic exposure to wireless radiofrequency radiation is a preventable environmental hazard that is sufficiently well documented to warrant immediate preventative public health action.“

Dirty electricity was identified as a possible carcinogen in 1999 by the US National Toxicology Program. What’s more, the existing safety limit for pulsing radiofrequency is insufficient to maintain public health according to the Radiofrequency Interagency Working Group.

More Ways to Protect Yourself

This list of 25 ways to reduce EMFs in your home can help with additional suggestions.

If you feel that dirty electricity is seriously impacting your health and want to know more, please click here to investigate information on a line of Earthing products that can protect you in your home or business.

References

Wise Traditions Conference, Dirty Electricity, Jules Klapper
Swiss EMF Study
What Causes Dirty Electricity?

More Information

Harvard Medical Doctor Warns Against Smart Meters
The Health Hazards of Wireless Baby Monitors
Fitbit Health Dangers
Are AMR Devices Safer than Smart Meters?
How to Protect Yourself from a Smart Meter

 

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Marcel

    Oct 30, 2022 at 8:22 am

    Vicky,

    Incandescent lights do not flicker in the same way that LED lights do. The old fashioned lights have a filament that heats up to produce light. That process is very slow, i.e. the lamp is not capable of reacting fast enough to variations in the power source voltage. This means that incandescent lights, in essence, do not flicker.
    On the other hand, LED lights, because of their fast electronic nature, are capable of reacting to every little variation in power source voltage, i.e. the licht can be excessively flickering, thereby posing a light burden (E-stress) on all living organisms.

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