A short YouTube podcast clip (hosted by James Barry) exploring how electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) from modern devices may affect human health. The speakers share personal anecdotes (e.g., feeling a Motorola device before it rang), cite historical and contemporary sources (the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg; researcher Beverly Rubik), describe physiological claims (positive charge burden, elevated cortisol, blood 'clumping'), and offer mitigation strategies (turn off Wi‑Fi at night, charge phones outside the bedroom, go camping/be barefoot, use airplane mode, and consider tested "quantum" products). The tone mixes personal testimony, experiential advice, and references to some scientific-sounding studies.
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When I was cooking for celebrity, I had one of those Motorola. It's so old at this point, I don't even remember the name of it. I wore it on my hip. I would feel it in my body before it went off. I mean, that just says so much right there.
I just think we are sacrificing our health sometimes for these modern conveniences.
Now, you just mentioned something that I find really fascinating because I think a lot of what informs us of what's working or not is contrast. Let's bring up EMFs, for example. So EMFs are something that a lot of people don't think, feel, they don't sense because they don't have the contrast of not living around EMFs. But you do. You were in these tribes where there's no electronics. So did. What did you notice? What did you feel?
It's the same feeling, James, that people get when they go camping. They're not just happy because they're away from the demands of work, but it's because your body has a time to relax. Your nervous system can kind of reset when you get your feet on the ground at the beach again, when people are on vacation, they think, oh, I'm just feeling great cause I'm out of the office. That's not the only reason. And it's because you're getting the earth's frequency instead of these non native electromagnetic frequencies that man makes. The problem is, to be honest with you, is sometimes we only measure things by what's visible to our eyes and we see a very narrow band of light and things around us when there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. I think I interviewed this guy, George Carlo, who said if we could see the frequencies that were surrounding us right now, this room would be filled with smoke as if it were cigarette smoke. Like, we would be astounded by how much is bombarding us. So we don't see it, so we think it's not affecting us, but it is. It's like a burden that our bodies are carrying. Scientifically, they call it a positive charge. And that sounds like it's good, but it's not. It's a positive charge that kind of is wiring us. If your cortisol feels through the roof, sometimes if you're just like, oh, I just, I've got to get away. I just want to throw this laptop or get out of this kitchen or whatever. It might not be just that things are on your last nerve. It may be that you're literally being kind of fried. So it's important to pay attention to. I would say at the very least where your router is in your home and turn it off at night because yes, when I get to these places like by the Omo Valley, people are barefoot, there's no frequencies right in their immediate vicinity and there's a lot more peace and calm and joy. And if you don't believe me, just experience it yourself, experiment with it, go camping, go to the beach, see what it's like to have your phone away from you for a couple of hours even. And you'll feel the difference. Because what we don't realize is when we have our devices also, by the way, every time we touch it, we, we're getting just a mini zap. And so it's not just the light that's interfering with our circadian rhythm and so forth, but it's also the energy that's being emitted from that device. So our devices were meant to serve us. They're good. I use mine too for sure. But we had to make sure that we own them and they don't own us.
Back in the day when I was cooking for celebrity, I had one of those Motorola. It wasn't a pager, but it was the. It's so old at this point I don't even remember the name of it. It's so funny. I wore it on my hip because. Because I had to be always in touch and it wasn't as well known then what kind of resulted from that. And I would feel it in my body before it went off so I would know a text or whatever was coming in and the machine hadn't even gone off yet. I would feel it and then maybe 30 seconds later it would go off. I mean that just says so much right there.
It does say so much. And I'm so glad you're bringing this up because I just think we are sacrificing our health sometimes for these modern conveniences. I've interviewed people on the Wise Traditions podcast about movement for example, and I'll never forget, I think it was Rhonda Patrick talking about even how we don't need to turn a key to start a car anymore. You just push a button. We don't have to get up to change the channel on our tv. In the olden days, people you had to get up and do it. Like those micro movements, the loss of them is affecting us. And so in the same way we just think, oh, how convenient I can order a doordash or how convenient I can just text my brother in law. That's great. But what's missing because of that, you know? And what are the effects? There's so many. So I do my best to give parameters or boundaries to my tech. So we turn our wifi off at night. I think even on my holistic Hilda website I have a little device you can buy. It's not hard to use, but it just makes it easier. You don't even have to be near the router to click it off at night. And my husband and I used to fight about this, but we don't fight about it anymore. We click it off at night. Cause we're not gonna be answering emails or texts or anything at night. That's one thing we do. And then we also charge our phones outside of our bedroom so that we're not getting even that pinging happening back and forth all the time. It's interesting. I have to tell you a story. So I was with this little seven year old girl, neighbor girl, yesterday. We've become besties. It's so much fun. We're working on a little project together. She saw me put my phone on airplane mode after I recorded something we did. And she's like, why'd you put it on airplane mode? And I thought, to me it's second nature. This kid has no idea. Her parents probably have their phones on all the time. I said, well, there are waves and what's happening is the phone is trying to kind of ping and see where it can get information from. And I want to stop that. She was surprised. As I'm putting boundaries, that's modeling it for others around me. So even if the people around you are just on their phones all the time, like I just wait till they make eye contact with me to start talking again. Because it can be a distraction for that in person connection too, as I was mentioning.
Yeah, it's a real testimony that we only know what we know. And you don't know to look or feel for it. And you might feel something, but you don't know what it is. And until you have a label or some awareness of what it could be, you think it's normal.
Yes. And so that's why I was saying we did experiment with being away from our phones because we're so used to being electrified all the time, we think this level of agitation is normal. And I did read the Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Furstenberg. And in there he said, do you know that the diagnosis of anxiety didn't come about until the electrification of our cities? In other words, when cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s started putting up lampposts. People started getting anxious and they didn't know why. So they put it in their psychology book that this is a diagnosis anxiety. But he suspects it's linked to this condition of being around. And notice that wasn't even electromagnetic frequencies in terms of unwired. It was all wired at the time. But now we've got wireless stuff around us all the time. So, yeah, I invite people to test on themselves what it feels like to be, like I said, away from the phone or getting your feet on the ground, making these small shifts. This is also not just kind of woo woo information that I'm intuiting though I. I do some of that in my life for sure. But I've talked to Philip, the head of Lila Q. I don't know if you've heard of that company, but they've developed these quantum blocks and little quantum capsules that you can wear. I like them a lot because they have been scientifically tested. And so Beverly Rubik, who is someone I've had on the podcast too, who's a scientist who's done some studies on these things, she studied what happens if you've got your cell phone in a backpack or in a purse on your body. And she noticed that the blood had a tendency to clump. And as we all know, we don'. Want clumpy blood. You know, you want it to kind of flow. Right. She tested these blocks and noticed that they declumped the blood, basically in layman's terms. And I'm like, okay, that's cool. And that's something I want and need. Why? I personally live in the city, even though I look like a country girl and I do fly a lot and I'm exposed to a lot of radiation, so I'm trying to do what I can to mitigate its effects on my life. I also spend time barefoot outside. I connect with nature a lot and I do travel a lot to get out of the city, to be honest, to be in these rural places where I know there's not a lot bombarding me so my body has a chance to rest.
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