Episode transcript

Why are we talking about EMFs at all?

0:42Liz: Welcome back to the Health Revival Show today. We've got an interesting topic for you all. And some of you will think, oh, this is woo woo. And some of you will be like, you're just now talking about this. So here we are. We are going to talk all about the EMFs electromagnetic fields and how it can be impacting your health, particularly those of you who are struggling with sleep and maybe unknowingly or knowingly struggling with mold toxicity, because there's some interesting research that's been done that we're going to talk about today regarding how and EMFs exacerbate mold growth. And, it's going to be pretty eye opening today. So if you see us on the YouTube channel, you'll notice that we both have wired headphones. I'll tell you, I don't think these are real cute, but it's better than the wireless. And then you're going to learn about that today. to people who don't fully understand, it can sound a little bit off.

3:25Liz: But when you really look at the research and you really look at cases and I just on my call today was talking to someone who has been through a lot in their protocols. They've seen multiple providers. The the husband said, you know, we've heard about this. We know people who have shared their stories of moving out of a place because of mold, toxins and getting into an apartment complex. But it was next to, you know, some of the towers. They actually were more symptomatic. And I believe, you know, back at you and I talked about one of your clients as well. And so while we think of toxins in one bucket, we think of, you know, other things in other buckets, really, your body and your nervous system is always your immune system is always responding to things. It's scanning. It's understanding what's a threat, what's impacting me. And so this can be something to really pay attention to. If you are someone who is struggling with chronic illness,

4:18Liz: the protocols that you're doing that should be working aren't working. Of course, we have to rule other things out, but this is something simple and I've actually put together a free document. It's going to be in the show notes for you. It's the bedroom checklist. Simple. Easy. There's a couple of options that you could utilize in terms of purchasing certain things that we'll talk about that are very affordable. But we want to bring this to you today because it's not often talked about. And yet we are surrounded by it all the time, every hour of the day. I'm sitting right now with my laptop for notes of all the research I put together. I have my cell phone. I have, you know, Bluetooth. I have all of the electronic equipment, you know, around me. Some of you are wearing or earrings, smartwatches. You have baby monitors in your home. So all of this is amazing tools that we have to help us live our life in the

5:12Liz: year of 2026 and communicate with people, but it also comes at a cost. And so that's what we're going to kind of dive into today.

Why am I still exhausted when I'm doing everything right?

5:20Liz: And for Becca and I, if you don't know, we've worked with thousands of women all across the world, people who have really struggled with chronic illness, things that have gotten worse over time, things that are continuing to be triggered or reactivated. And they're not understanding why they're so exhausted. They can't think they're having trouble sleeping, and yet they're doing all the things they're doing the the diet. They are maybe even fasting, taking peptides or hormones and trying to optimize, you know, with supplemental support. But they're still stuck. This could be one of the missing pieces. We have to look at the foundations in terms of your environment. We always talk about air quality and water quality. But in the world that we live in today, especially if you add on, you know, travel and different ways of communicating for work, this could be something for you to really start to pay attention to.

6:10Becca: Yeah, absolutely. And everyone's starting point is obviously different. Someone who sleeps well and feels great has more room to handle stress, comparatively to someone that's juggling three chronic conditions and, you know, dealing with a broken sleep because they have a baby. And like, you're, you know, have a history of eating disorders or you have Lyme disease or whatever it might be like your bucket is just fuller, right? And so these are pieces that actually do start to make a big difference. These are things that, you know, and this is something else that I'm sure we'll, And so again, everyone's starting point is different. And that is what we need to understand is like what Liz and I talk about today might not be your exact case and scenario, and you have to take that into account. But as you know, quote unquote, woo-woo EMFs are there's actually a ton of research around them, like a ton of research. So let's start off

7:23Becca: first with what you like, what, for those listening, what are EMFs? What are we even what does that even mean?

What are EMFs, and which ones are in my house?

7:31Liz: Yes. So Wi-Fi, for example, uses a radio frequency electromagnetic field or RF EMF. It's non-ionizing radiation. And so that means it doesn't have the energy to break chemical bonds the way that an X ray does. Right. So we all know about that exposure to radiation. This is a different kind of exposure. And it's studied in its own terms. So there's a few types in your home right now. You've got your cellular right Wi-Fi right Bluetooth signals. If you've got AirPods, things like that you're ordering, that would be all included. You also have routers throughout your house, most likely, that have radio frequency fields, and then your electrical wiring makes extremely low frequency fields. So this is also why we try to wire as much as we can. In my office, my computer is wired. And then we have wireless routers in both sides of our home because it is a wider area that we need to have better coverage.

8:30Liz: Ironically, though, sometimes my hard wired computer is slower than my laptop. Vice versa. I don't know EMFs kind of have their attitude, but this is really what EMFs are. And one of the things that we want to remember is that distance is our friend. So the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said that the signal drops fast as you move away from the source. Also, it gets weaker, right? If you move on the other side of the house and then you're trying to use the internet, it's like you're cutting out what you say. So every study test a specific frequency, strength, distance and length of time. So a lab antenna aimed at cells is not the same as a router down the hall.

Can Wi-Fi affect my sleep?

9:09Liz: That's the first thing that we want to check on when we read a study. And so the thing that we want to first help you understand is nervous system and sleep. Because in 2024, researchers in Australia studied sleep with a 2.45 GHz baby monitor. And that's the same range as your common Wi-Fi 12 healthy adults. Okay, we can argue this is a small study, but still, 12 healthy adults slept with the monitor, turned on for a week, and with it secretly turned off for a week. Nobody knew which week was which, not the people, not the researchers. People rated their sleep worse during the weeks the monitor was on and their brainwaves changed during sleep as well. The non-REM sleep. So heart rate variability and movement during sleep does not change. The researchers called for bigger studies to confirm this. So Becca is going to share. There's a couple larger studies and these are actually more recent,

10:00Liz: which is pretty cool that they are continuing to explore and gather this data.

10:04Becca: Yeah, this was a little bit more along the sides of like a meta analysis type study. So it was a review, a 2024 review of 41 different studies that had almost 2900 people. And they found short term exposure didn't cause symptoms like headaches or sleep problems. People also couldn't tell when the signal was on or off any better than chance. Almost everyone in these studies was young and healthy. Chronically ill people weren't studied. So you'll hear online that Wi-Fi keeps you stuck in fight or flight. The heart rate variability research doesn't show that consistently, though. So here's what does wreck your sleep your phone. And we're talking like scrolling at 11:00 pm and notifications and stressful, you know, news in bed. You can fix that tonight though, because you can put your phone on the other side of the room. You can turn your phone on to, you know, sleep mode, do not disturb mode.

10:54Becca: You can have a rule that at 8:00 pm, your phone goes in the kitchen until you go upstairs. If you use your phone to hear an alarm like I I do, I will put it further away in my room than right next to my head.

Does Wi-Fi cause oxidative stress or drain nutrients?

11:05Becca: Right? Because your body makes what are called reactive oxygen species or Ros. You need something. You don't want a completely on inflamed body that is not healthy either. And that is why. Fun fact too much glucose iron is actually unhealthy because it's too high of an antioxidant. And then you start kind of impairing the balance of stress non stress right. You don't want to bio hack your way into more sickness because you did too much. That is an actual thing. But Ros helps your cells talk and helps your immune system fight when there's more than your body can clean up though that is oxidative stress. Again, it's all about balance your mitochondria, the energy makers in your cell. They will take a hit when that balance starts tilting towards the oxidative stress side. So a 2024 review looked at 56 lab studies on radio frequency exposure and oxidative stress. This was done in animal and in cells, not people.

11:57Becca: So just caveat. But some found that oxidative stress markers went up, others found they went down. And in few a rodent. In a few rodent testes and thymus lean toward an increase. So the authors rated the evidence as like very low certainty. So it's very challenging here to kind of isolate these things, right. The things that protect your mitochondria, the sleep, the protein, the minerals, the movement, the steady blood sugar. That evidence is strong. Like we can start there, but we also see sometimes that there's claims that wi fi drains magnesium and zinc and selenium glutathione. Right. Unfortunately, there's no human solid research showing this. So if you're exhausted and anxious right. We test blood work, we test nutrients, we test liver enzymes, we test all of these different things. We don't just blame the router. Like this is not what we're talking about here. We're talking about it being an additional piece that

12:53Becca: can absolutely contribute to an already stressed out system. So in sense of research, it can be kind of challenging to isolate these things and say, this is your problem, right? It's it's a piece of it. It is not the entire thing.

Can Wi-Fi make mold grow faster?

13:07Liz: And we know in terms of the world we live in right now, unless you're taking like boatloads of glutathione, you're going to be exposed to things that are going to, you know, kind of keep that balance up in regards to the oxidative stress with the toxic soup that we live in. If you think about how you move throughout your life, the buildings that you go into, if you're working, the buildings your children are in, you want to believe that I wash all my kids clothes in the a mold-focused laundry additive because they're coming from schools and daycares that while they do their cleaning, they're not doing all of the prevention and using the nontoxic stuff. And so there's likely mold and exposures there, because that is all around us all the time, even in new homes. So that's what I want to talk about next is mold. And the research that they found around EMFs and fungus growing. And it actually is quite surprising,

13:53Liz: I will say a few years ago, I heard somebody talk about this and I was like, yeah, yeah, come on now. And then really looking at what some of these studies found is pretty eye opening. So in 2021, researchers in Chile exposed a wood rot fungus called Serpula himantioides to Wi-Fi signals in the lab. And so if you don't know, this is a wood decaying fungus, and it basically it is well known for house destroying dry rot fungus. Okay. And so in fact and chitin, a building block of fungal cell walls changed. The researchers concluded that Wi-Fi exposure caused oxidative damage to the fungus. In 2022, a team in Korea exposed Aspergillus, a fungus used in food fermentation, to a signal for ten minutes, and the fungus pumped out about 1.5 to 3 times more of a starch digesting enzyme. The gene for that enzyme turned up 2 to 8 times, and causing calcium signaling inside the cells went up as well.

14:54Liz: So in a lab dish, fungus changed how they behave. And when it when they were exposed to the EMF signals. The study did not test mold in your walls, mycotoxins or candida in your gut, but it is evidence to show us there could be a further exacerbation when you are exposed to mold with Wi-Fi, especially if you're in a chronic state, you're trying to get rid of it, or you have known water damage in your home and it maybe or maybe not, you know, was properly remediated. Maybe you think it was properly remediated, but it wasn't. Mold is very tricky. So this is just, again, another piece of your puzzle that you may want to try to mitigate and remove to see if you get any further with your protocols.

Why won't turning off Wi-Fi fix a mold problem?

15:38Liz: And this is what I would say from a mold perspective. Turning off your Wi-Fi is not a mold remediation, right? Moisture drives mold growth, so you do have to do your due diligence. And this is the number one problem with mold is finding the source. Where is it coming from. Some of them are invisible to the eye. Some of them are living in fabrics, carpets, sofa mattresses behind the walls and you're never going to see them. So you've got to find the source. If there's a water situation, you got to find the water, right? You got to fix the leak and you've got to remove everything that's been contaminated. I was actually just at her friend's and their basement flooded and they're like, yes or pro came out. They did their thing, and I was like, oh. Uhhuh, yep. Tell me more. It smells like I can smell it. She could smell it. I'm like, I would call them back because while they cut your drywall up,

16:26Liz: I bet that they didn't properly dry everything out and spray. And I know this because we did this for our home when we flooded back in Illinois. You have to completely gut everything from the insulation to the boards, the studs, all of that, and you got to spray it not only to kill it, but to protect things before you close it back up. So this again is something. If you have a home that you feel you know could be a contributing factor, you're going to want to take this way further than just shutting off your Wi-Fi router and investigate.

16:58Becca: Yeah. And are you closing off the area that's affected to the rest of the house? Right. Because I have a client that had someone, they came in fogged and it made everything worse, like the level of flares that she developed after that when she was already not doing well. Absolutely crazy. And it stirred up mycotoxins. Right. And they didn't kind of cover off the area that they were working on. It got into the rest of the house. She can't even go in her bathroom right now. Her chest tightens up. She can't take showers there. She has to go to her neighbor's house to take showers like it is very bad. And obviously this person deals with a lot of mold toxicity as well and other kind of coexisting conditions, but you can kind of see how not well done mold remediation attempt can make things a whole heck of a lot worse. And when there's Wi-Fi exhibited here, it is just exacerbating how quickly the mold is growing or contaminating things.

Do cell phones cause cancer? What the big studies found

17:53Becca: So let's talk a little bit more about cancer now. So in 2011, the WHO, the World Health Organization's cancer agency, IARC, classified radiofrequency fields as possibly carcinogenic, Group 2B, basically. And that was based on limited evidence linking the heavy cell phone use to certain brain tumors. And then in 2018, the US National Toxicology Program finished a large study. Basically, male rats were exposed to high whole body radiation for about nine hours a day. They developed a rare heart tumor, and essentially the levels were at or above what phones are allowed to emit. So the exposed rats also lived longer than the unexposed ones. Interesting, right? The NTP said the results shouldn't be applied directly to people, but they're definitely looking at this as a possible option for what is irritating the system. Right? And then in 2024, the WHO commissioned review 63 Human Studies from 1994 to 2022.

18:50Becca: They didn't find a link between the mobile phone use and brain cancer, even with ten plus years of use. And this is the challenging part, right? In these studies, you have to find pretty clear and direct correlation. There's got to be something that's like significant enough for it to be, you know, qualified as there is a direct link that's going to be really hard to isolate. And a lot of these studies. And so that's why we want to bring up the studies because it's important. But sometimes studies are you know they're you can't control for everything. And that's why studies are always taken with a grain of salt in these things. And there were critics that pointed out that many of the reviews authors have ties to a group that writes the exposure guidelines. Right. So, you know, as always, there's usually some bias going on.

Were women with chronic illness even studied?

19:36Becca: And the bottom line here is that no one has studied whether women that already have Hashimoto's or SIBO or mold illness are more sensitive to Wi-Fi and EMFs. Right. Almost none of the studies included them. So we treat this like any other environmental load. We lower it where it's easy, where you can manage it, and we put our energy into things we know move the needle. And that's why we want to talk about things that we've experienced, actually move the needle. Because again, most of these studies will not include people that have chronic illness, that have preexisting conditions, that have all of those things. And so, again, studies are always taken with a grain of salt. In my world. I love research and people are like, show me the research. And I'm like, how about the people? Thousands of women that we have talked to, that we have worked with, that we have seen clinically sitting in front of us that don't apply to the research.

20:47Becca: Sure. Happy to share research. Happy to give you the research. But does the research help when the person in front of you does not fit that book?

Can EMFs affect your thyroid?

20:54Liz: Yeah, like you said, I mean and it depends upon how the study was done. What was the strength of the Hertz rate? How long were they exposed to it? So the dose, the duration and the frequency all really matter. Now I do want to say something in regards to while there's no medical consensus on people with Hashimoto's, SIBO, EBV, mold, illness, all of that, there is actually some research that shows the electromagnetic fields impacting your thyroid. And there are some experimental studies that have noted the chronic microwave or electromagnetic radiation exposure affects the thyroid hormone levels, and it also can cause oxidative stress. However, you know, if you want to dig deeper on this, go to Dr. Izabella Wentz's website. She's got a really great article on EMFs, thyroid and even the adrenal glands. And the thought process here is that if you think about this, what we would call EHS electromagnetic hypersensitivity,

21:50Liz: because essentially that's what these people are experiencing because they are ill, right? Their immune system is very active. So they frequently experience similar nonspecific symptoms, including chronic fatigue, brain fog, headaches and sleep disturbances. So that's the correlation. Again the correlation doesn't mean causation. But when you've got enough people saying, hey, I moved out of here because of mold over here, but oh crap, it's next to all of these towers and I feel worse. I can't sleep now or I'm anxious. There is some level of common sense that says, okay, it's got to be coming from that environment, because that's the only thing that you change essentially. Right. And then systemic inflammation. So chronic conditions, we know with autoimmune and mold mycotoxins illness plays a heavy burden on the immune system in our nervous system. And so again there is research to show that

22:41Liz: some clinicians are saying that this is even more and more prevalent. The already overreactive or inflamed immune system may leave people more reactive to the various environmental stressors. And this is across the board. It's not just your EMFs and Wi-Fi routers or cell phones and all the other devices that we may be using. It is also the toxins. Now you go out and you realize I am nauseous on airplanes. I went through a season of, I think all this last time that we flew, I was fine. So I'm like, I don't know if I was just needing a little bit of a detox. And now I'm kind of doing this other protocol and things got cleaned up a little bit more, but you become more sensitive. You're getting headaches, you're noticing those smells around you. You know, you're more reactive to them. So there can be other things that you're noticing. And this is where it's like, okay, then in my environment I want to control all the controls.

How do I lower EMF exposure in my bedroom?

23:32Liz: So let's go through this. This is the low EMF home toolkit, if you will. And then again link is in the show. Note if you want to grab that bedroom checklist for free. So in the bedroom number one, Becca already mentioned this. Don't sleep like your head on the same wall that your phone is plugged into. Try to have your phone on the opposite side of the room. Some people will say, put it outside of your room. I'm going to be totally honest with you. It's plugged in on the other wall compared to where I sleep, and just turn on airplane mode at nighttime. You can also install a router kill switch so you can get one of these for ten bucks. They've got timers on them, or you can use the smart plugs, whatever. Turn it off at that time and turn it back on in the morning. Many routers also have a Wi-Fi schedule in their app now, so you can also utilize that and just minimize again, like how long are you exposed to these things?

24:20Liz: If you work from home and you sleep at home, which we do, then you're exposed 24/7. So at least it's giving you kind of like that 8 to 10 hour break. You use airplane mode the right way, as I mentioned. So on an iPhone, if you've ever turned on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth while in airplane mode, it remembers. So after you tap airplane mode, check the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth button off. Your alarm will still work, don't worry. And then get the phone off of the nightstand. So again, charge it across the room or outside the bedroom. Move the baby monitor away from the crib across the room, not on the rail? Check for a power saving or voice activated mode. I don't do this. I'm not going to lie to you are. Our monitor is on the wall. It's hard wired and it looks over the crib. There's a cost to everything. I feel that my child safety and that baby monitor comfort that it gives me is more important. Put wearables to sleep. So again,

25:12Liz: if you've got a watch that you're sleeping with or a ring, take it off, turn it off, and then during the day. So try to keep your phone off your body. I know our friend Lindsay actually did a reel on this where she was talking about how people will wear their cell phone, like in the top of their, you know, leggings or something like that right there next to the ovaries in the uterus. And, you know, that can exacerbate either infertility or periods, cramps, things like that. So not on your bra, your back pocket yourself. Just try to keep it in your purse. You can use a speaker or wired earbuds for calls. Ideally watch your bars. So the FCC says a weak signal makes your phone work harder and put more EMFs out. So wait for better bars to call. Obviously, if you're holding it up to your ear. This has been a longstanding, controversial topic for a while, right? What is it doing to brain and tumors and things like that?

26:02Liz: So I don't know. For me, I don't walk around on the phone that much. I like voice text, that attack. We're notorious for that.

What doesn't work: phone stickers and radiation shields

26:09Becca: Yes. Yes, absolutely. And obviously you can hardwire your desk, right. Like Liz was mentioning. She I do too. I have a desktop I don't have. I don't use my laptop. You can move the router out of the bedroom, you know, away from the couch where you spend a lot of time at, do a smart device, sweep like Bluetooth off when you're not using it. Wi-Fi off on printers and TVs that you don't stream from and then kids tablets? Download them, airplane mode them. They can still watch the tablet. Stop searching for a signal. All of those things are options. Some things to not use. So phone stickers or like radiation shields, they call them. There's really no scientific proof that they were made for shield blocks. A signal your phone may crank it up its power to make up for it.

Closing

32:06Liz: So if you like this episode, if it was helpful for you, please don't forget to rate, review, subscribe, share the show. That is what helps us grow. And like I mentioned, the cheat sheet is in the show notes. It's a little checklist if you want to download that and wear that. We'll see you on the next one.

Corrections and edits

• The cancer agency referenced at 17:57 is IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer), and its 2011 classification is Group 2B.
• The agency referenced at 25:46 on weak signals is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), not the FTC.
• At 17:45 the episode says Wi-Fi exacerbates how quickly mold grows in a home. The cited research was done in lab dishes only and did not test mold in buildings.
• At 25:20 the episode says carrying a phone near the pelvis can worsen fertility or period symptoms. That claim was not sourced in the episode and is not established.
• A brief aside on clinical trial design (around 20:09), personal product anecdotes (around 1:33 and 6:47), and the sponsor segment (26:51 to 31:50) are omitted from this transcript.

Frequently asked questions

Is Wi-Fi making me sick?

Usually not on its own. FitMom practitioners Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski treat Wi-Fi as one environmental load among many, not a root cause. The large 2024 reviews found no consistent harm in healthy adults, but almost no one with Hashimoto's, SIBO, or mold illness was studied. If you're exhausted, test bloodwork, nutrients, and liver enzymes first, then lower EMF exposure where it's easy.

Can Wi-Fi affect my sleep?

The evidence is mixed. A small 2024 Australian pilot study of 12 healthy adults found people rated sleep worse and showed brainwave changes during non-REM sleep when a 2.45 GHz baby monitor was secretly on. A 2024 review of 41 studies and nearly 2,900 people found no short-term sleep effects. FitMom's Becca Chilczenkowski says the bigger sleep wrecker is the phone itself: late-night scrolling and notifications.

Does Wi-Fi drain magnesium or cause oxidative stress?

There's no solid human research showing Wi-Fi drains magnesium, zinc, selenium, or glutathione. A 2024 WHO-commissioned review of 56 animal and cell studies found oxidative stress markers rose in some and fell in others, and rated the evidence very low certainty. FitMom's practitioners say sleep, protein, minerals, movement, and steady blood sugar have far stronger evidence for protecting your mitochondria.

Are women with Hashimoto's, SIBO, or mold illness more sensitive to EMFs?

Nobody knows yet, because almost no one has studied them. FitMom's Becca Chilczenkowski points out that most EMF studies enrolled young, healthy volunteers and excluded people with chronic illness. Clinicians report that an already overreactive immune system can make people more reactive to many environmental stressors, so FitMom treats EMFs like any other load: lower it where it's easy and focus on what moves the needle.

Does Wi-Fi make mold grow faster?

Only lab-dish studies exist. In 2021, Chilean researchers found Wi-Fi exposure caused oxidative damage in a dry-rot fungus, and in 2022 a Korean team found Aspergillus produced 1.5 to 3 times more of a starch-digesting enzyme after a signal. Neither tested mold in your walls, mycotoxins, or candida. FitMom's Liz Roman calls it one more puzzle piece, not proof that your router is growing mold.

Will turning off my Wi-Fi fix a mold problem?

No. FitMom's Liz Roman is blunt: turning off your Wi-Fi is not mold remediation, because moisture is what drives mold growth. You have to find the water source, fix the leak, and remove everything that was contaminated, including insulation and drywall when needed. Poorly contained remediation can spread mycotoxins through the rest of the house and make symptoms worse.

Do cell phones cause brain cancer?

Current evidence says no. The WHO's cancer agency, IARC, classified radiofrequency fields as possibly carcinogenic (Group 2B) in 2011, and a 2018 US National Toxicology Program rat study at high whole-body doses found rare heart tumors. But a 2024 WHO-commissioned review of 63 human studies from 1994 to 2022 found no link between mobile phone use and brain cancer, even after ten or more years of use.

How do I lower EMF exposure in my bedroom?

FitMom's Liz Roman recommends charging your phone across the room on the opposite wall, switching on airplane mode and confirming Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are off, and putting your router on a ten-dollar timer or app schedule so it shuts off overnight. Move baby monitors away from the crib, take off sleep-tracking watches and rings, and wait for strong bars before calls. Distance does most of the work.

Do phone radiation stickers and shields work?

There's no scientific proof that phone stickers or radiation shields reduce exposure. FitMom's Becca Chilczenkowski warns they can backfire: if a shield weakens your signal, the phone may increase its power to compensate, and the FCC notes that a weak signal makes a phone work harder. Distance, airplane mode, wired earbuds, and a speakerphone are the free fixes that actually reduce exposure.

Key terms

RF-EMF

Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: the non-ionizing energy used by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cell phones, and baby monitors.

Non-ionizing radiation

Radiation without enough energy to break chemical bonds, unlike X-rays. RF-EMF is non-ionizing and is studied separately from ionizing radiation.

ELF fields

Extremely low frequency fields produced by your home's electrical wiring.

Oxidative stress

When reactive oxygen species (ROS) outpace the body's ability to clear them. Some ROS is necessary for cell signaling and immunity; the problem is imbalance.

Heart rate variability (HRV)

The variation in time between heartbeats; a common marker of nervous system stress and recovery.

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS)

Self-reported sensitivity to EMFs with non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, headaches, and poor sleep. It is not an established medical diagnosis.

IARC Group 2B

"Possibly carcinogenic to humans": the category IARC assigned radiofrequency fields in 2011, based on limited evidence.

Mycotoxins

Toxic compounds produced by some molds that can be stirred up and spread during poorly contained remediation.

Mold remediation

Finding and fixing the moisture source, removing contaminated materials, drying fully, and treating surfaces before closing walls.

Sources

• FCC: Wireless Devices and Health Concerns
• IARC (2011): Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields classified as possibly carcinogenic
• US National Toxicology Program: Cell Phone Radio Frequency Radiation Studies
• Karipidis et al. (2024), Environment International: RF exposure and cancer risk, systematic review
• Meyer et al. (2024), Environment International: RF exposure and oxidative stress biomarkers
• Bosch-Capblanch et al. (2024), Environment International: RF exposure and symptoms, provocation studies
• Dr. Izabella Wentz: EMFs, thyroid, and adrenals

Also referenced: a 2024 Australian pilot study on sleep and a 2.45 GHz baby monitor (12 adults); a 2021 Chilean lab study on Wi-Fi and Serpula himantioides; a 2022 Korean lab study on RF signals and Aspergillus enzyme production.