Electrosensitivity
Today much of humanity lives in a sea of electromagnetic energies, or EM fields. Radio and TV signals are now joined by mobile phone towers and communications masts. Closer to home are mobile phones, Wi-Fi and smart meters. According to Swedish expert and researcher Olle Johansson, this level of radiation is one quintillion (1 followed by 18 zeros) times higher than the background level encountered before modern technology arrived on the scene.
Biological effects were first noticed early, in the 1930s, when a syndrome often referred to as “radiowave sickness” was encountered among military personnel exposed to radar. During the following decades, this condition was also encountered by amateur radio buffs who were using non-shielded equipment.
Decades later, with multiplying sources of EMF radiation in the environment, this issue has not gone away and trends indicate a continuing growth in numbers affected. Electrosensitivity (ES), also sometimes known as electrohypersensitivity (EHS), affects somewhere around 4–10 per cent of the population in industrialised nations, with women more likely to experience it than men.
Among ES people, physiological damage is often cumulative and irreversible, although there are ways to
