I will talk a little bit about health effects of electromagnetic fields and I’m a neuroscientist and I work at the Karolinska Institute

you see me down here and you know we are famous

since we had out the Nobel Prize in Medicine or physiology

I have also worked at the Royal Institute of Technology which looks like this. It is also in Stockholm and there people are connected to the NobelPrizes in chemistry and physics .

Electricity had been introduced by mankind to easy our lives. Thanks to that we could have electriclights . we could run computers and we can use electricity in our daily work.

1979 a very famous paper was published by Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper who had found an association between electromagnetic fields and childhood leukemia and that was start of the very important field which let to that the World Health Organization has cancer classified power frequencymagnetic fields which is a long word for household electricity . OK.

If we then talk about electrohypersensibility (EHS) for a few moments and in Sweden and actually all over the world in all countries that are members of the United Nations,  it is classified as a functional  impairment that means it is not a disease.   As doctors, you have nothing to do with it and It’s for the Municipalities and special civil servants that deal with disabilities or nowadays functional impairment.

 And as you have noticed I am functional impaired.  I cannot speak Spanish and this is the United Nations definition meaning that every person in his or her life many times will be functional impaired . You will be when you come to Sweden if you can not speak Swedish and at the same time and this happened at the year 2000  the Nordic Council of Ministers classified the symptoms as an occupationally-related symptom-based diagnosis according to the ICD-10 diagnosis criteria meaning that you can’t prescribe medicines for a person that has functional impairment. When I cannot speak Spanish I may get a headache and then I could go to you you gave me some aspirin. So the symptoms you can deal with but not the functional impairment In Sweden the persons with the electrohypersensitivity had their own handicap organization which is called the Swedish Association for the Electrohypersensitivity. They are also included in the very big Swedish disability Federation and a lot of law texts apply to them. In Sweden the municipalities follow what is called the United Nations 22 Standard Rules on the equalization of opportunities for people with disabilities and since 2007 it has to be upgraded into the United Nations Convention on Human Rights for Persons with Functional Impairments.

And my whole lecture can be actually summarized in a one sentence when we talk about electrohypersensitivity (EHS)  because all people with functional impairment such as electrohypersensitivity are entitled to have an equal life in a society based on equality.

I didn’t write this , the United Nations wrote this and they also say that one of the most important principles to achieve is the one about complete accessibility. So people with different impairments should have accessibility to everything regardless of what kind of impairment they have.

In Sweden impairments are viewed from the point of the ennvironment.  That means that no human being is in itself impaired there are instead shortcomings in the environment that cause the impairment that’s, it is the environment that should be treated not the persons and the persons are completely normal and healthy but they react to inferior environment and in Sweden we have a lot of different law tests that regulates this including the Human Rights Act of the European Union and the United Nations regulations and this is a very interesting action plan and in Swedish it says something very important. It says that they should move from being patients to citizens

This has a lot of implications, for instance, “to force a person to quit one’s employment or to move from one’s home is a very serious legal violation. You are never allowed to do that.

their schools accessible.  So, in essence, it is actually very simple with functional impairment like electrohypersensitivity.

They should just enjoy their Human Rights: Nothing more, nothing less.

have EHS what would you then want for your country or if yourself were EHS how would you like to be met?

We then move to some scientific studies about electrohypersensitivity and if people and the these are from microscopes images of the human skin and at the top you see epidermis uppermost layers and here is the rest of the human skin or the dermis and people with EHS if they are subjected to computer screens for instance all these cells you see here they all the way, they will move away and the interesting thing is that this picture here is a classical radiation damage which you can get from plutonium,  uranium, radio, x-rays and strong ultra violet light but this had only be sitting from a computer screen nothing more.

Furthermore if you look on the classical mast cells which are the keys cells for allergies and asthma and over sensitivities people with electrohypersensitivity have a very strong activation again the classical text book image of the radiation damage these are normal healthy volunteers and here people with EHS and therefore it seems as if they have just a radiation damage from different gadgets in our society.

that people with EHS have. It is nothing peculiar, It’s just classical textbook explanations based on mast cells and histamine. Mast cells and histamines are of course everyday problems for any doctor. Furthermore if you just, sorry , if you just look here and there if you take normal healthy volunteers that they do not have Electrohipersensitivity and put them in front of computer screens or ordinary household television sets they don’t sense anything, they don’t feel anything but the cells increase in number as if they would have gone to Fukushima in Japan but they are still in Sweden just watching television and this is after two hours.

Again mast cells and the content of histamine.

This points to that all people are EHS and other scientists have shown that both 50 Hz magnetic fields as well as 915 MHz microwaves induced the same responses in lymphocytes from healthy and EHS (Electyrohipersnsitive) donors.

So that means that the people with electrohipersensitivity they react to an environment which we do not react to and therefore they seem to be a biological indicator or the classical yellow canaries bird in the coal mine reacting to something that is dangerous and we should actually be very, very happy that they have reported that something is not so good because you will soon see that there are long term health effects that they are very, very scary for the rest of the population.

Other scientists have shown and now and again we are talking the human mast cells lines that mast cells that are kept in cells cultured in a small jar in a culture cabins they don’t like to use a mobile phone they react as if they would have been an allergy such as pollen or nickel. And I do not know for Spain but in Sweden the last years we have had an explosion of asthma, allergies and other sensitivities .

So, you see I am not solo making the story up it’s all in here and the citations are good by good from the actual papers here. In Japan, Hajime Kimata has shown that patients we atopic  czema/dermatitis they get worse when they are irradiated by microwaves from mobile phones.  So eczema/dermatitis patients should definitely avoid mobile phones. In Sweden there was various explanations introduce to explain electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and many of them were just taking away on random out of imagination but one explanation was that this is actually a mass media driven psychosis . When journalist and reporters write about this then people sudden start to feel that . Well I am probably electrohypersensitivity , too. But it is very easy control for such mass media driven psychosis because you can use, for instance , rats.  And rats they do not read newspapers, they do not listen to radio,  they do not watch television and still they react dramatically to such exposures. So no mass media at all involved here. Some very short descriptions here

Many people with electrohypersensitivity seems to have tinnitus, this ringing sensation in the auditory system again something that’s really increase dramatically in Swedenand Scientifics like myself and than others have shown and association between these different gadgets.

I have collaborated with people in other countries like in Japan and in Japan people with EHS have the same problems as in Spain or in Sweden or whatever. So they need our support and also I have collaborated with people in Finland and we have tried to use shielding protection and that was very well for people with EHS.

if you take away all the electromagnetic fields then suddenly they could function and work and everyone is very happy with that.

At the same time I don’t want to live in a society where we first buy things and then we need to go to another shop and buy protection that it is not a democracy and therefore all ready 1997

I suggested that one should reduce the public exposure and here in Spain you should if we talk about mobile phone irradiation you should take 9.000.000 uW/m2 that’s the maximum exposure recommendation. But the natural background is down here ( 0,000.000.000.000.001 uW/m2) ; this is what your cells and molecules are accustomed to and therefore I said the only generic hygienic safe value is this ( 0,000.000.000.000.001 uW/m2) and that means that we need to reduce the exposure in the order of one million, billion times. Ten up to the power fifteen times. Then we are down to the natural background and then it is safe.

Mobile phone and mobile telephony and wireless systems in general have been a very sweet piece of candy for Sweden, Finland , United States and so on. We had Ericsson, Nokia’s consumer electronics and Motorola for instance. And we have gained an enormous income from that. Sweden is one of the richest countries in the world.

1994 in Sweden if you really love your family then you should buy the Christmas gift of the year which was this one and maybe this was a very stupid and dangerous Christmas gift and maybe mankind will have to pay for this and not only mankind all biological systems are at jeopardy ,all animals, all plants all bacteria and so on are affected by this.

amount of information and probably the most dangerous effect is the DNA fragmentation.

When you break, destroy the DNA you get small fragments and when they move in an electrophoresis field they will leave a tail of small pieces. This is a DNA which is undamaged,

This is a DNA which has been subjected to 1600 chest x-ray and then you see this tail and it’s called the comet assay. It is like a comet on the sky with the tail.  No patients in Sweden have got 1600 chest x-rays but this is the way it looks and It looks the same after 24 hours of mobile phone irradiation at so called SAR levels, specifics absorption rates of 1.3 watts per kilogram and you are suppose to stand 2 W/Kg so in your body right now you have these. We can be dead sure about that.

they use it every time, every day and they also have these Ipads, wireless routers ,computers etcetera and they are constantly exposed and the question is: Is this safe or not?

And again You do not want to have any cells cycle or cell proliferation changes in your body. Definitely not.

After a number of years I felt very strongly that we as scientists had to do something more than just been in our laboratories and check test tubes and microscopic slides and that kind of things. So I said we need to get together and start writing and publishing resolutions around these questions and you know in science that is very, very, very rare , that is very seldom that scientists get out into the reality. Doctors are in the reality scientists they are in their laboratories.

But we felt we needed to get out.

And in Italy 2006, in Benevento , in February, we met . We sat down and talk for several days and then we worked for many months and finally published this Benevento Resolution and I will not go to through all of it but you can see that the main points are put apart . We said that arguments that weak electromagnetic (EMF) fields cannot effect biological systems do not represent the current spectrum of scientific opinion. We also said that precautionary principle should be employed.  We said that we must inform the population of the potential risks and we said that we must limit cell phones and cordless phone use by young children and Teenagers and also ban telecom companies from marketing to them. We must protect the children I mean, if I would die here and now that doesn’t matter at all. I mean, you will be shocked , but that’s all. But if the children are affected then there isn’t any future any longer. One thing that we also decided was that someone had to do a compilation of the scientific evidence. To put it together into some kind of report and when you decide something you often end up having to do it yourself and so we did. We sat down for nine months and it’s important to remember we didn’t have any resources:

Not one euro , nothing. So we had to do in our free time, in evenings, weekends ,holidays that kind of things.

And after nine months we had just to say: stop. We couldn’t continue

I will not go through the Bioinitiative Report that it will take months actually to do it , but what happened the year after , September 4 , 2008 the European Parliament voted 522 to 16 to recommend tightest safety standards for cells phones and they said the public exposures limits were completely also obsoleted and they included all kind of technologies everything in the radio frequencies field and we were , of course, very, how do you say very flattered, we were very happy , very glad , very impressed because how many times in your life do you write something that the European Parliament reads and it was after a six hundred pages (600 pages) ; so they have been reading a lot , you know. and then they came out with this .

So, we were very, very, very happy, but then something very odd happened.

Olle Johansson and his coworkers can not do this. We should do the work to recommend new exposure standards. The Telecom Industry should do it instead and they did and they came out with that there is not need to change anything . Surprise, surprise!

The problem with the Bioinitiative Report was that ,,,

Do you remember that was published August 31, 2007, the day after when I came to my workplace they were already three new papers that had appeared overnight and they should have been included in The Bioinitiative Report and since then thousands and thousands of new papers are arriving at the very quick pace.

And I will just quickly show you a few ones.

For instance, scientists have shown that cell phones decreased the semen quality in men and you see it by decreasing the sperm count ,motility, viability and the normal morphology is changed into an abnormal morphology.

As you know in Europe , for instance, there is a catastrophe going on when counts to male sperm fertility issues.

Then, it is over for Italians , and the same goes for other European countries.

In Sweden the sperm quality has gone like this, really ,it’s just a dramatic effect. Other scientists have studied the effects of radio frequency radiation and shown that mice end up in irreversibility infertility. If we translate that into the Spain it could be and I hope not of course , but it could be that young men and women cannot get babies any longer in Spain in approximately 150 years time because something we did today.

When pregnant women as well as newborns are exposured to mobile phones signals, the babies in the women or just newborns they get stress. They get increase in heart rate and a decreased in the cardiac output. Their heart goes like this and when I asked mothers and fathers if they want to have such an effect on their babies they always say no and still they use all these gadgets around the babies.

So , the babies are stressed if that is good or bad for them,

I do not know, but the parents does not want it to happen , but it does.

This is probably one of the most famous and maybe also of the most important

studies ever done in this field . French scientists

headed by Alain Vian, and his coworkers ( Catherine Faure,1 Sébastien Girard,2 Eric Davies,3

Francis Hallé,4 Pierre Bonnet,2 Gérard Ledoigt,1 and Françoise Paladian) .they

had allowed tomato plants to be exposured to radiation from base stations

and the tomato plants and will quote the French scientists :- “they

reacted as if they had been crushed with a hammer”.

You know when you cut in plants or what you cut the grass or whatever you

do the plants since they are alive will react

with a damage sequence of molecules including a molecule called

calmodulina. The tomato plants no one touch them. They were only exposured

to the base station radiation as everyone is all day around and night around

everywhere in society and then they reacted as if they would have

been crushed with a hammer. We invited

this scientist to a very important meeting but then he had been offered

a new job and he did not work any longer with this. In 2009

this was mentioned as one of the most important publications in all

scientific fields all over the planet and suddenly they were not doing any think longer.

I think that’s all. Other Scientifics had put the mobile

phone next to bee hives for honey bees , then the honey bees leave

and they never come back. Further scientists had put mobile phones close to ants

and in a restrain space and if you put the mobile phone there, the ants

will move their babies to the other

end of the area and they will move the toilet out there . They will take their eating area

and sleeping area and moving away from the radiation source.

If you take it away they will rearrange this area moving the baby’s back, taking the

toilet to where it was and so on. So they are extremely

sensitive to this, but honey bees and ants

are not the consumers, we are. And we cannot move away. We are

constantly exposed. Also when comes to effects

on the central nervous system scientists very early could show that, for

instance, rats showed a retard learning capacity

and it was through decrease short term memory and decrease concentration capacity.

If you wish a Sweden school nowadays It’s like the second world war in the schoolroom

the children cannot concentrate and they cannot remember a lot though the things that

the teacher says. Maybe this could play roll in it.

And to make things worse. Scientists have studied

boys in a linguistic test and when they were

exposured to a mobile phone radiation they came out from the test

less good . Their learning capacity were impaired. And I thought

that all countries want to have the best students ,the best pupils , so we can compete with

each other and some countries have look very closely

at this. For instance, the People’s Republic of China

they keep their children away from radiation sources because they want to conquer

the world. they want to be the biggest democracy, the

richest country and so on. And the way to do it is to have the best

educated population . But in Sweden we are going to the other direction.

We give children more and more and more these gadgets :

at home , in the school and if you look on teaching and learning current

in Sweden unfortunately it’s like the curve down . It’s

like this. And it’s a national crisis nowadays. Politicians

are so stressed because Swedish pupils are falling behind

so quickly. Now , The very interesting area of investigation

was the idea that women maybe get breast cancer from the radiation

from computers, mobile phones, wireless indoor phones and so on but

no scientists could actually show it but what was shown is that electromagnetic fields

(EMF) reduce the efficacy of Tamoxifen

what it is the primary drug to treat breast cancer.

So ,you got a situation similar to Tamoxifen resistance

meaning that women die not from directly effects

but indirect effects. But , no one has changed the treatment strategy

I know the way in Sweden , for instance, that any cancer doctors say that :hey!

you can not exposure yourself when you take Tamoxifen.

You must stay away. I never hear that but it is clear.. An the interesting thing

is that this Journal by electromagnetic is an industry control

Journal so, but still they are allowed

to publication of this paper. We have read a number of other resolutions

as I said being Scandinavian we constantly repeat ourselves and we will

probably have to repeat ourselves so many years to come.

And one of this is called The London Resolution is from 2009 and again

a huge number of good points. An one thing we said was that we

propose that children under 16 should use mobile phone and cordless phone for an emergency

calls only. No Wi-fi, Wimax or other forms of wireless

networking are placed in homes, schools or public areas.

Many of you may think that it is not idea.

What is that here to write and publish such things , society will never change , no one

will listen , children and teenagers don’t care, they just use all of it ;but when

I die I want the last thought to be

I did my best not I could have done better.

One thing that we also decide to do and that was after the industry has said

OK! the industry will come up with the new public exposure guidelines and as you understand

they didn’t do anything then we said we cannot let them

just get away with this .We have to sit down and so we did .In Seletun which is

in Norway and we did it in 2009 and

the actual paper was published in 2010 and it is a very, very , very good and very

important summary if you don’t want to read all the pages of

the Bioinitiative Report and so on. You can just read this paper. It’s about 10

pages long. And it says ,among many things that:

low-intensity so called non-thermal bioeffects and adverse health effects are demonstrated

a levels significantly below existing standards .

The public safety limits are inadequate and obsolete with respect to prolonged

low-intensity exposures. And new biologically-based public exposure

standards are urgently needed to protect public health

world-wide. And Finally, it is not in the public interest

to wait. That was

the year 2010, what does happened since then? And I will

very shortly summarize all the things. But, one very

important issue for you it’s and you know in English , Englishmen say: ” never

trust a pretty face”; you should not trust me and you should

instead go to the literature. Today I spent time on 10- 15 publications.

There are approximately 25,000 more for you to read . You have to read them and

you have to think and read and think and finally come up with

a decision for yourself and for your family and if it

goes to hell don’t blame .I told you that

you had to read for yourself and I told that to

people around the world including the Pope; I told it to Presidents

, Emperors, Prime Ministers, Governments, Parliaments, Health Authorities

and so on. And I’m constantly send submissions

to expert panels. The last two weeks I did it a huge numbers

of such expert panels in Canada and we send the information

and say: hey ! there is a lot more out there , please consider

this if not for yourself at least for the future generations, at least for children

that they are yet to be born . Think about them.

And also don’t be so afraid we are all talking about toys.

If all these gadgets suddenly will disappear nothing will change . You will still breathe,

eat, go to the toilet , sleep, love, hate. Nothing will be altered.

Life like will continue but the question is what would happen

when you 24/7 all body irradiated. Everything on this planet at levels that are

only to be a understood in biblical terms.

So, what it has happened in 2011, in 2012 and

even in 2013 .I will just give you a few more examples. In May 6,

2011 , The Council of Europe said that mobile phones and wireless networks must be banned

in schools. Their Council Europe committee examined evidence that the technologies have

“potentially harmful effects on humans , and concluded

that immediate action was required to protect children,

not tomorrow but today. Now we must do it. May 31, 2011

then the World Health Organization through its

cancer organ call the International Association for Research on Cancer (IARC)

classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields

as possibly carcinogenic, in class 2B and then you have to remember that the

World Health Organization has a class 4 for things that are proven

safe and you know when you buy a gadget like that

everyone says this is a this safe, this thing is safe.

these ,these and so on. They are all safe but the World Health Organization doesn’t

think so

because then it would had set class 4. You remember ten years before that, 2001

power frequency magnetic fields what also cancer declassified

regarding childhood leukemia And power frequency magnetic fields is the

same as household electricity. October 12, 2012

The Italian Supreme Court ruled that mobile phones can cause cancer

in a patient and finally now we are here in Barcelona and maybe the

answer to the question is: no more full-scale

experimentation. You know

now in Stockholm It’s very dark and it’s very cold . You don’t want to go there but in the summer times Stockholm is very nice and a lot of tourists come to Stockholm and there are tourists from all over the world: American, Japanese, Chinese ,people from South America , Africa from Germany, England and so on and when Swedish walk around Stockholm ,we see these groups with cameras and son on , you know. Sometimes, we see group of people that look very happy say : “oh, they are from Spain”. Thank you so much for your attention!!