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4 ways to easily and inexpensively reduce the amount of dirty electricity in your home or business for better health and improved sleep. 
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
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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
How to get rid of all fluorescent and LED light bulbs? I’ve been doing quite a bit of research for the healthiest possible bulbs, but I’m going around in circles because each website will naturally give the info that will sell their own products. Apparently incandescent bulbs flicker and that’s not good either. Which clear lights are not LED and contain no blue light/flickering? It’s daunting.
Incandescent bulbs do not flicker. Its LED bulbs that cause flicker stress for the eyes.
There are ZERO health issues for incandescent bulbs. Be careful of disinfo … if you are googling, the top search results are typically corporate disinfo.
there is no option to get rid of our smart meter 🙁 what else could we do to minimise the effects of it?
Here’s how to protect yourself. https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/how-to-protect-yourself-from-a-smart-meter/
Please help. We live in a rental and have power lines about 10 ft from the back of our home. I bought the TriField Meter and scanned the house and the high magnetic field is 20-40 milligauss in both upstairs bedrooms by the lines, and the lower magnetic range if off the charts (about the (5) ) milligauss in the entire house. I’m freaking out. I want to move but we have nowhere to go and my husband thinks I’m overreacting. What do we do?!
Do you know if electronic timer switches (for a bathroom vent fan) also create dirty electricity? The company that makes the one we are looking at says it contains similar components to a dimmer. I am wondering if it would be better to have a mechanical timer switch instead?
Your article states: “Replace all dimmer switches with simple on/off switches… if that is not in the budget, just leave them off all the time.” Does keeping the lights at full power (not dimmed) also produce dirty electricity? Thank-you.
Yes, having the dimmer switches cranked all the way up is going to produce dirty electricity too.
your meter with a ‘weak radio signal’ has (significantly ) no more or less emf than a ‘smart’ meter. A radio signal is part of all the same stuff that you are talking about. Possibly more, as if it is ‘one way’ then it is presumably transmitting constantly, as it cannot be ‘called’ and then just transmits when needed.
Does a plug-in dimmer switch also produce dirty electricity?
Yes, will have the same effect unfortunately.
Thanks for this helpful post! I’m wondering if you have an opinion on tens units? I was given one for home use by a chiropractor, and my daughter’s pediatrician warned me about electrical pollution (which I’ve never heard of) and not to use it. Searched your site and didn’t find anything. Thanks!
Hi what do you think about lightniing rods? We have intense storms on flatland and live on a pasture. I also have Electrosensitivity.
Buy a QLink pendant. They are a little pricy $99.00 but well worth it.