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The Dillitarian's Health Effects of Microwave Radiation And my guess at that time is joining me again today to see if there's any new developments in this regard Magda Habas is a Professor Emeritus with the School of the Environment at Trent University and it's great to have you back Magda, how are you? I'm wonderful and thank you for having me back on your show

And I know that in your field you talk about the health benefits and also the detrimental health effects of electric fields, electromagnetic fields, and we've talked about Tesla medicine on the program before

But let's go back to that conversation about a dozen years ago

And we were talking about EMF then, the big debate with the so-called skeptics or the critics is that it's non-ionizing radiation and therefore it can impact us at the cellular level, it can impact our DNA

Let's begin there, how does EMF affect us in a deleterious fashion?

Well, one of the things EMFs, and I'm going to call it electro-smog, EMF is electromagnetic fields basically, but it includes radiation as well and so a more comprehensive term is electro-smog

It's a form of pollution, just like air pollution or chemical smog, and it affects us by stressing our bodies

So the fact that physicists and the governments that regulate this have based it on a heating effect came back from around the time of World War II when they were testing radar

They were wondering, and radar is simply microwave radiation, and they were trying to figure out how much radiation can those working with the radar be exposed to

And some of the men working there were actually complaining of headaches and various issues, and that's when they decided to figure out what was harmful

And it took them quite a few years and they thought it was related entirely to heating, and the understanding at the time was that if it's not ionizing radiation, if it's not gamma radiation, if it's not x-rays, then it doesn't have enough energy to damage DNA to basically kick out an electron from an atom or from a molecule

The concept was that this can't harm your body, but we do know that microwaves can heat the body because we have microwave ovens now that were originally called radar ranges that housewives didn't particularly care for

And we know that they excite water molecules, and the water molecules start vibrating, and it's that vibration that creates the heat

The water absorbs microwave radiation, and some of the radar operators were commenting that in the middle of winter, if they stood closer to the radar and tennis, they were warm

And it was because it was basically microwaving their body

And some of them were developing cataracts, and they were complaining of headaches

And so when they came up with the guidelines, they didn't take into account all these other things that could happen to you

Because there had been no testing, no science on it

We've learned since, though, that one of the major effects of microwave radiation is that it produces stress on the body

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