Aaron Hartman, MD, walks through practical ways to cut EMF exposure at home: turn off routers at night, use airplane mode, keep electronics out of the bedroom, and install switches to kill bedroom power. He covers shielding options like grounding mats and bed nets, plus sources to watch for at work, in cars, and from smart meters.
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All right, so let's talk about electromagnetic fields and how can you actually mitigate the risk? Let's say you're someone who either wants to prevent EMF exposure to prevent biologic systems becoming dysregulated, your nervous system being activated, or you're someone who knows you have lots of sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, food sensitivities, you've noticed, you have an EMF sensitivity. You want to mitigate exposure, so you mitigate your symptoms. So that's what we're going to talk about on this mini 10 minute podcast. In regards to EMF, the first thing you need to think about is reducing the overall load or exposure at home. And this is where you spend most of your time in bed. You spend most of your time in your home. For most people, if you're sleeping in bed seven, eight hours at night, and you're at home in the morning, you wake up for an hour, two hours at night, all of a sudden 12 hours, half your day is at home. And so just decreasing the exposure at home can be a huge influence on you. If you live in an apartment, one of the things you want, you want to know about is are there routers WI fi in people's apartments around you? Where is the apartment situated? Is it close to a cell tower? And depending on where you're at in the city, you might have some of these places you'll look in the hotels or the apartments themselves have tons of 5G and different things on top of the roof. So just being aware an external environment can be helpful if you don't. If you live in a home, you're not somewhere like that. The easiest things to do, you know, is start working on your router. We have WI fi at home. Is your router on when you're sleeping at night? Just cutting that off at night can mitigate exposure during sleep. Making sure your cell phone is in airplane mode mode and away from your head. Do you have any, anything being plugged into outlets around your head, around your bed that you can unplug or turn off? Sometimes it's easier to have some people have like these circuits circuitries, they'll put their whole room, bedroom on a light switch and then turn off all the electricity in the room. So that's something that's relatively EAS or an electrician to do, just to run all the electrical in your room through that and turn off your router, that can mitigate a great amount of EMF exposure and then Bluetooth. One of the things I see people Using more and more these Bluetooth earbuds. It's almost like when you stick something in your ear, there's a hole actually where your ear canal goes through your skull into where your glycopoli is. And putting a device into that canal, that's a Bluetooth that's emitting emf. It's inducing, it's putting stuff inside your head. So personally I use headset that comes outside my head. Yes, it's Bluetooth, but it's away from my ear. Another thing to think about is the distance from your cell phone. I personally don't keep my cell phone on my body. If you read the, the manual comes with no cell phones. It actually tells you not to keep it on your body due to the how much electromagnetic fields they emanate. So that's just something to keep in mind as well. But these are some basic things you can do to mitigate exposure at home. Building materials at home, you know, using magoxide paints or titanium or zinc oxide based paints. When you repaint your home, if you're building a home using mag oxide walls, you know, if you have a choice between a brick home versus a vinyl home, having a brick home will actually mitigate exposure to your house. For EMF grounding techniques. You know, it's really interesting how just, you know, the concept of grounding, sleeping on a grounding mat will mitigate some emf. And if you're really concerned about, you could always put, they have these little nets you can put around your bed that actually pick up EMF and block it. But the point thing is just to cut off exposures when you're sleeping. Your bed, your sleeping place to be a sanction, to be a sanctuary, a place where you come and you feel safe. You don't want any TVs in there. And a Faraday cage is a way you can protect yourself. Not everybody needs that. But these are things to think about as far as where you work. You know, how can you adjust EMF exposure at work? You know, fluorescent lighting. You know, fluorescent lights actually have transformers in them which give off EMF. LED lights do as well. We're switching to LEDs all over the place. They actually have transformers in there that actually change the AC to DC for some LEDs that can emanate EMF. So the question is, you know, actually incandescent bulbs have less EMF than LEDs. Smart meters, routers. Smart meters can be exposure. Personally, our house, we do have a smart meter, but we have it the far end of the house away from sleeping so it's, it's like having a cell phone on 24, 7. So you know, people sometimes make a big deal about smart meters. It's a big deal. It's not a big deal if your cell phone's on 24, 7. I don't care if it's all the other way, the other side of the house, Right. If it's in my bedroom behind my bed, that's a different story altogether. And last, just shielding laptops that were grounding mats, ferrite beads, power cords or ways to minimize exposure. Being at the IT at work, last thing to think about is evaluating devices that can help mitigate the emf. How do you figure out what's, what's useful? There's two ways to mitigate emf, passive and active. Passive things are actually frequency. The things that emanate a frequency that will meet the frequency of EMF and minimize it. Those are kind of controversial. So if you have these devices you plug in, those are one way it's best to use shielding, which is some metal or some object or something that actually shields you from the emf. These can be physical barriers. They can be objects, they can be, you know, brick. Concrete's a great one. If you have a block house. A lot of homes are made out of concrete. That's earthen materials are great for blocking emf. Unfortunately a lot of homes here in Richmond are sick built homes and they're, you know, vinyl siding and wood and that's kind of in drought and sheetrock. And that's about it. What else to think about. Passive shield, active shielding. There are some products that are out there, but the best thing to do is do some kind of physical blocker. The question becomes, you know, do you go to all the trouble to do this? The smart things are to eliminate, keep yourself in a way from you cut off the rider in your home, not have all these, the lights on your home when you're, you know, wiring to your bedroom, having that go through a switch you can turn off. These are many different ways you can minimize EMF exposure at home. But ultimately the question is, are you someone who's sensitive? And if you are, you really need to address it and you want to minimize the high intensity and middle range intensity. The reality is it's kind of hard to eliminate everything. And even in our cars today, we get exposed to a lot of EMF in our cars just because of the computer systems and electronics in cars. So hope this information was helpful. If you have additional questions about emf, please put them below I'd be happy to answer those for you. This three part series was more in relationship to some questions individuals had in the clinic as well as some questions online. So hopefully it's helpful. Otherwise, take care. We'll talk to you soon.
