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ALS AND ELECTRICITY church and died of ALS. He often To read more about the link between
Mainstream medical literature mentioned that he owned a motorcycle disease and electricity exposure, a
has finally confirmed that workers in and that he rode it extensively. When I good book is The Invisible Rainbow by
certain occupations are more at risk heard about his death from this disease, Arthur Firstenburg.
of Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic I was not surprised. When you are sit- Julia Hattori
lateral sclerosis or ALS). The full ar- ting on a motorcycle, you are sitting on Kingston, Canada
ticle can be read at: newscientist.com/ a large motor absorbing large amounts
article/212626. Roel Vermeulen at of EMFs, no doubt! At least in a car, the The TENS machine is a modern inven-
Utrecht University in the Netherlands driver is a fair distance from the motor tion, but other electrical stimulation
and his team found that people whose and so the EMF levels are somewhat devices for pain existed in earlier times,
jobs exposed them to high levels of very lower. There are no regulations about including one called the Electreat. It
low frequency (VLF) magnetic fields how much EMFs can be given off by is entirely possible that the New York
were twice as likely to develop ALS motorcycles, cars, trucks, etc. Yankees had such a machine in the
as those who have never had this kind It behooves us to keep our EMF mid-20th century, when Lou Gehrig
of occupational exposure. These jobs levels down and to measure them once was playing for the team.
include electric line installers, welders, in a while. There are various meters
sewing machine operators and aircraft on the market that measure magnetic FAST HEALING
pilots. Vermeulen said, “These are es- fields, radiofrequency (RF) micro- Our family has been incorporating
sentially jobs where workers are placed waves and electric fields. The price of Wise Traditions principles for about
in close proximity to appliances that use these meters is coming down as more seven years now. Last year, our three-
a lot of electricity.” people are using them. Or you can hire year-old daughter was unfortunately
Dr. Samuel Milham, author of a building biologist who will take mea- injured while playing with her older
the book Dirty Electricity, was far surements in your home and workplace. sisters. Her cry was different this time,
ahead of mainstream and we knew she
medicine when he pos- needed medical
tulated that athletes attention, but as
come down with ALS a first stop we
far more often than the went to the chi-
general population be- ropractor to see
cause of their exposure whether she had
to TENS machines. dislocated her
This is a small electri- knee. The chi-
cal device that is used ropractor felt her
extensively by athletes leg and said that
and others when they the muscles on
injure themselves. It one side of her
is used for pain re- lower leg were
lief. Milham knew of a stiff in one loca-
twenty-three-year-old tion. He said that
athlete who had ALS. there was most
This reminds me likely a frac-
of a minister who ture and that we
worked at a nearby should seek out

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