October 22, 2014

by Louise Kuo Habakus

Is anyone in your house dealing with health issues that just won't go away no matter what foods you eat, which supplements you take, or how many practitioners and therapies you run through?

Is your child anxious, hyperactive, erratic, ticking, angry, foggy, forgetful, sleepless, nauseous, sluggish, dizzy, itchy, congested, or in pain?

Based on the extensive evidence base and reinforced by the volume of anecdotal stories I'm hearing, it's worth trying this:

Shut off your WiFi.

I just did. I flipped the switch on our router.

And then my family freaked out because it disabled our internet... so I had to turn it back on again. But a Verizon rep helped me to banish WiFi in 30 seconds. No worries; it's just as easy to get it back. (Here's Netgear, Linksys, Belkin router info; try "admin"/serial # for username/password.)

Our abode is now wireless-less. The only way we access the internet at home is with a wired connection. Yes, it means that my iPad and my son's Kindle are now rendered, uh, less functional. "TOTALLY USELESS," stormed my 13 year-old.

Here's my thought process and some of the research I reviewed before flipping the switch. It got me so worked up that I wrote an open letter to Apple's CEO last week.

The body is electric.

Toni Bark, MD recently introduced me to Robert Becker's fantastic book The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life. Our cells communicate with each other via bioelectrical signals and EMFs, which help to regulate important biochemical processes. It's important for our internal electromagnetic field to stay in balance. When we are exposed to some types of radiation:

All of these things can change the way our body works and make us sick.

"I don't have radiation in my home!"

WRONG. And there's a lot more than I realized. Electromagnetic radiation involves:

DEVICE-O-RAMA!

Sources of residential radio frequency radiation (RFR) include:

For recommendations and resources, keep reading>>

Be fearless.

The Fearless Parent Team

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