#421: Turn Down The Power: Patti Wood On Radiation Exposure

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week Blyss and Stu welcome Patti Wood, founder and executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, to discuss the potential risks of exposure to cell phones and other wireless devices, particularly focusing on their effects on fetal development and general human health.

About Patti:

Patricia Wood is the founder and Executive Director of Grassroots Environmental Education, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the relationship between environmental exposures and human health risks. Grassroots serves local and state governments, health care providers, school systems, community groups, other environmental organizations and individuals nationwide.

She is the co-creator of the BabySafe Project and a Visiting Scholar at Adelphi University where she lectures on the environment and related health issues in the College of Nursing and Public Health.

Website: thebabysafeproject.org

Facebook: baby safe project

Instagram: @thebabysafeproject

TikTok: @BabySafeProject

brochure "What You Need to Know About Wireless Radiation and Your Baby

Resources

Twin home birth stories,send your full birth story, high resolution photos and photo credit. If you had any, your full name and the age that you gave birth to the twins and where you're located. to [email protected]

Safe Living Technologies: safelivingtechnologies.com

Tech safe schools: techsafeschool.org

Why electrohypersensitivity and related symptoms are caused by non-ionizing man-made electromagnetic fields: An overview and medical assessment

Green Bank, West Virginia

In This Episode

Impact of Wireless Radiation on Health

Protective Measures and Recommendations

Fetal Exposure to Wireless Radiation

Environmental Insults and Brain Vulnerability

Evidence from Human and Animal Studies

Protecting Pregnant Women and Children

Practical Tips to Reduce Wireless Radiation Exposure

Health Risks of Wireless Baby Monitors

Electromagnetic Spectrum and Non-Ionizing Radiation

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.
0:10.0	And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.
0:13.0	Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.
0:17.0	Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.
0:25.1	Good morning, everybody.
0:26.4	Good morning.
0:28.1	Good afternoon.
0:28.9	Good evening.
0:29.2	And of course, good middle of the night.
0:31.9	Welcome to another episode of our podcast.
0:35.4	I don't know how many we've done, but we're in the 400s, and we just
0:39.2	keep right on chugging along. It's another Wednesday morning. Beautiful day here. I was out
0:46.4	working in the yard this morning. I'm very excited about our guest today, Patty Wood, because she's
0:52.0	going to talk about the potential risk of exposure to cell phones and other wireless devices on the development, well, to us too, but on the development of our fetuses.
1:04.0	So this is something that's close to my heart, it's very close to the Maha movement.
1:09.0	And she wrote to us and it seemed like a really good topic timely.
1:16.7	So that's that today.
1:18.0	You had a birth, I know, because I know the client well.
1:23.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24.5	I had two births.
1:25.8	So I was waiting on two babies and both came.
	...

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