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EMR Radiation From Cell Towers, Wireless Devices Linked to Diabetes Epidemic & Chronic Immune Stress

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/people-living-near-cell-towers-chronic-immune-stress-risk-india-study

People Living Near Cell Towers at Greater Risk of Chronic Immune Stress

Living near a cell tower was associated with elevated levels of white blood cells — comparable to those seen in smokers — according to a peer-reviewed study in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. A chronically elevated white blood cell count is linked to inflammation and immune stress.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
March 10, 2026
cell tower and lab test tube with words "white blood cell count test"

The study also found that using a cellphone for 4 to 6 hours a day raised people’s white blood cell count, particularly among adults under 30.

“These results indicate human biological systems are under stress from both mobile phone use and local mobile phone tower exposures, leading to potential health effects,” the authors wrote.

White blood cells are key to the body’s immune response and naturally elevate during infection or inflammation, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

But ongoing exposure to wireless radiation from cell towers and cellphones may deplete the immune system by chronically elevating the white blood cell count, according to the study authors.

“People’s everyday exposures to mobile phones and towers may be affecting their health by creating or adding to inflammatory conditions and immune system depletion,”  Julie McCredden, Ph.D., and Zothan Siama, Ph.D., the study’s corresponding authors, told The Defender.

Cellphones, cell towers and other wireless devices are all “potential sources of physical stress — not just social or emotional stress,” they said.

“Unfortunately, most doctors are not aware of the potential immune and inflammatory effects of exposure to wireless frequencies, because they are not trained in environmental health.”  (See link for article & study)

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/emr-radiation-cell-towers-wireless-devices-diabetes-kids/

EMR Radiation From Cell Towers, Wireless Devices Linked to Diabetes Epidemic

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure from electrical power grids, cell towers and wireless devices is likely a driver of the global increase in diabetes, according to a new report by Paul Héroux, Ph.D. Studies compiled by Héroux show that very low levels of EMR can affect how cells function, including how they handle glucose.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
February 17, 2026

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

cell tower and word "diabetes"

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is likely a driver of the global increase in diabetes, according to a new report by Paul Héroux, Ph.D.

The report — which includes over 280 citations — is a deep dive into the evidence suggesting that EMR exposure from electrical power grids and wireless radiation can dysregulate and raise blood sugar levels.

“Current EMR safety standards are inadequate for protecting long-term metabolic health,” Héroux told The Defender.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which sets the U.S. safety limits for wireless radiation exposure, based its limits on the assumption that wireless radiation can only cause harm at levels high enough to heat human tissue.

But the studies Héroux compiled show that very low levels of EMR can impact how cells function, including how they handle glucose.

Diabetes occurs when a person’s blood sugar levels are too high, according to the Cleveland Clinic. As of 2023, 364,000 U.S. kids and teens were diabetic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Although more recent figures aren’t available, the CDC in 2024 reported that the number of young people with Type 1 and/or Type 2 diabetes is on the rise.

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new clinical guidelines that endorsed weight-loss drugs and weight-loss surgeries as “safe and effective” treatments for childhood obesity.

The same year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes for children ages 10 and up.

Meanwhile, AAP hasn’t updated its parental guidance on cellphone radiation in nearly a decade, despite numerous studies in recent years highlighting the dangers of exposure in children. A link on the group’s parenting advice webpage lists telecommunications company AT&T as one of its corporate sponsors.

“It’s almost unfathomable what the link between EMR and diabetes could mean for kids’ health if we don’t change course,” said Miriam Eckenfels, director of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) EMR & Wireless Program.

“It’s not like there is a simple fix, like changing your diet,” she said. “Our children are being radiated 24/7, at home, in schools, on their phones and from nearby cell towers. We should really be paying attention to this.”

Doctor: Héroux’s ‘argument is difficult to ignore’

Héroux’s report appears as a chapter in the book, “The Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Natural Environment and Societies during the Contemporary Period,” currently available for preorder.

Héroux is an associate professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a medical scientist in McGill University Health Center’s surgery department.

He is also vice chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, a “consortium of scientists, doctors and researchers” who study wireless radiation and make recommendations for wireless radiation exposure “based on the best peer-reviewed research publications.”

Although the report is academic, it has “down-to-earth consequences” — especially for children, who are more susceptible to the negative health impacts of wireless radiation.

The report traces research showing that EMR can suppress mitochondrial energy production in cells, increase oxidative stress and lower pH in some body fluids.

“These changes impair insulin secretion, reduce insulin binding, elevate blood glucose and promote insulin resistance,” Héroux said.

He also tracks how diabetes rates have climbed alongside the proliferation of technologies that emit EMR.

Yet the general public and “average medical audience” don’t realize EMR’s impact on metabolism, including a person’s diabetes risk, said Dr. Sharon Goldberg, an integrative and functional medicine doctor who has years of experience treating patients sickened by EMR exposure.

“His argument is difficult to ignore for anyone who takes the time to actually read what he has written,” she said.

EMR also linked to weight gain, hypertension

Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, M.D, Ph.D., a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, said she has “long recognized” that EMR can play a role in “not only in diabetes but in all of the metabolic syndrome factors, including weight gain and hypertension.”

However, medical training generally overlooks the impact of environmental toxins like EMR. Golomb explained:

“Much of medical education revolves around organ-based physiology and conditions for which drugs and procedures are often a prioritized approach. There is not much attention to the impact of environmental toxins or, more generally, to conditions tied to exposure-induced mitochondrial or cell energy impairment.”

Golomb leads a research group that studies conditions related to oxidative stress and cell energy impairments, including electrosensitivity — renamed EMR Syndrome in 2025.

In 2011, she posted a research paper in Nature Proceedings. The paper documented “extensive evidence” that some factors that cause oxidative stress and cell energy impairment — including EMR exposure — are driving the diabetic and metabolic syndrome epidemics.

She has since spoken with people who told her they experience serious weight gain linked to EMR exposure.

One person who had been overweight told Golomb that 80 pounds “melted away” when the person was able to relocate to a low-EMR environment, Golomb said.

News outlets are unlikely to report on such stories because the wireless industry is a big source of their advertising revenue, according to EMR researcher Camilla Rees.

Just because researchers like Héroux and Golomb publish reports doesn’t mean doctors will take the time to read them. Many doctors don’t read all the published science on EMR, Rees said.

“There is also the corporate influence on universities — and on medical associations — so the truth about environmental factors impacting people’s health can often be little known and long suppressed,” she said.

Higher EMR frequencies like 5G can still disrupt glucose levels

Some may doubt that 5G could increase a person’s diabetes risk. That’s because the pancreas — which produces insulin — is deep in the body, and 5G doesn’t penetrate beyond the skin, according to Dr. Robert Brown.

Brown is a diagnostic radiologist and the vice president of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs for the Environmental Health Trust.

Héroux said 5G could still disturb a person’s glucose metabolism, because all body tissues — including those at the skin level — use insulin.

Also, lower frequencies of wireless radiation can directly affect the pancreas, he added.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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The Hidden Truth About TBIs: IBS Treatment Center Article

https://www.ibstreatmentcenter.com/blogs/the-hidden-truth-about-tick-borne-illnesses

The Hidden Truth About Tick-Borne Illnesses

Dr Stephen Wangen
September 9, 2025

Today I want to talk with you about something that is often misunderstood and more common than most people realize: tick-borne illnesses.

When most people hear about tick-borne diseases, the first thing that comes to mind is Lyme disease—and usually only in the context of the northeastern United States. Maybe you’ve even heard about the “classic bullseye rash” that’s supposed to make Lyme easy to recognize. But the truth is much more complex—and more concerning.

Tick-Borne Illnesses Are Everywhere

One of the biggest misconceptions is that tick-borne diseases are only a problem in New England or a handful of rural areas. The reality is: ticks are found in every state in the U.S. They thrive in woodlands, grassy fields, parks, and even suburban backyards.

As our climate changes and animal populations shift, ticks are spreading into areas where they weren’t as common before. That means people all across the country—from the Pacific Northwest, to the Midwest, to the Southeast, and yes, the Southwest—are at risk of exposure.

More Than Just Lyme Disease

Yes, Lyme disease is the most well-known tick-borne illness. But ticks can and do carry and transmit many other infections, including:

• Babesiosis

• Anaplasmosis

• Ehrlichiosis

• Rocky Mountain spotted fever

• Bartonella

• And other infections

Each of these can cause significant health problems, and in many cases, people may not even realize that a tick bite was the original cause of their symptoms.

The Bullseye Rash Myth

Let’s talk about the rash. We’ve all heard about the “classic bullseye” rash that’s associated with Lyme disease. But here’s what most people don’t know:

• The majority of patients never develop a bullseye rash.

• Some might get a rash that looks nothing like the pictures online.

• Others may not have any noticeable skin reaction at all.

That means you can still have a tick-borne illness even if you’ve never seen a rash.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Good article except for the climate change bit.  I won’t pontificate but if you are unfamiliar with this, please read:

 

 

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More COVID Treatment Vindication: The Published 17,000 HCQ Deaths That Never Happened

https://brownstone.org/articles/those-published-17000-hydroxychloroquine-deaths-never-happened/

Those Published “17,000 Hydroxychloroquine Deaths” Never Happened

By    September 19, 2024 
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Article Excerpts:

Early January of 2024, Americans learned about the publication of an article from Elsevier’s Journal of Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy overseen by Dr. Danyelle Townsend, a professor at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy’s Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences. As Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Townsend reviewed, approved, and published the article titled: “Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: An estimate.”

The article was always a hypothesized estimate of people that might have died, but now even that estimate has been retracted.  The reason for the retraction was that the Belgian dataset that was one of the bases for the piece was found to be ‘unreliable’ (but in reality was fraudulent). The article also repeatedly referenced the New England Journal of Medicine’s 2020 RECOVERY Trial.  The Recovery trial is well known to be a deeply flawed study which, in addition to implementing late treatment in severely ill COVID patients, used extremely high doses of HCQ.

In addition to being a hypothesized estimate, the article also attacked the legendary safety of HCQ, contradicting centuries of the safety of quinolines as a class.

HCQ, chloroquine and quinine are structurally and pharmaceutically/mechanistically related, sharing the same quinoline structural group. The original iteration of quinine was a very fortunate discovery that dates back to the 1600s (at least) as a medicinal tipple used by Jesuit missionaries in South America. It is naturally found in the bark of the Cinchona tree (also called a “Quina-Quina” tree).

Quinine is still available today both as a prescription drug, for similar indications as HCQ including malaria…and as a Covid-19      treatment.

Quinine is so safe that it may be unique in that the FDA simultaneously permits its use without a prescription, as an ingredient in tonic waters. (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The truth always comes out.

The HCQ scandal is widespread, as is the ongoing ivermectin scandal, proven to be effective for COVID yet still denied by mainstream medicine.

Dr. Didlier Raoult stated the RECOVERY trial was “the Marx Brothers doing science.” The person in charge of the trial (Professor Landray from Oxford University) used the “usual” dosage for amoebic dysentery, but HCQ is not even the usual treatment for this. He does not understand anything about infectious diseases or anti-infection drugs but led an international trial anyway.

HCQ:

Ivermectin:

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Easier to Obtain Medically Assisted Death Than Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease

https://medicaldetective.substack.com/p/you-can-get-medically-assisted-dying-easier-than-treatment-for-chronic-lyme-disease?

You Can Get Medically Assisted Dying Easier Than Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease

Richard Horowitz
Feb 04, 2026

There are certain aspects of medicine and specifically medical politics that make my blood boil. All of my calm abiding meditation goes out the window when I see the Canadian broadcasting system continuing their biased attack on Lyme disease patients in Canada, especially when it is easier to get medically assisted dying in a country than it is to get treated for a chronic illness. This is what was in the news media this week, once again:

Lyme disease is littered with misinformation. Celebrities are part of the problem, experts say. Chronic Lyme isn’t medically recognized. It’s a controversial term that some say fuels a dubious industry.

[A number of celebrities including Bella Hadid, Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake claim to have Lyme disease, but some doctors worry this could mislead people into thinking they too could have the disease. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto, Patrick Smith, Manny Carabel/Getty Images)https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/celebrity-chronic-lyme-industry-9.7056234]

This news article from a Canadian broadcasting system, casting doubt on whether chronic Lyme disease and persistent infection is real, was released the same week that this article was highlighted by LymeDisease.org on January 27th:

[From: https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-can-persist/]

Does anyone in the news media actually do a medical search (or know how to do one) before reporting news and purporting to know the truth? The article on the persistence of Lyme disease came out several days before the Canadian broadcasting system released their news feed. This is the second article I saw on the subject of chronic Lyme being a ‘non-disease’ coming out of Canada in the past few weeks, where the best they can do is to slam medical clinics trying to help patients. See the last Medical Detective Substack I did on sleuthing the ‘mysterious brain disease in Canada’ which likely involves some patients having chronic tick-borne illness mixed with mold and other environmental toxins:

(See link for article)
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**Comment**
Important excerpt:
The newer guidelines by the IDSA do not incorporate any of the recent science on biofilms and persisters, and the Canadian healthcare system has chosen to adopt IDSA guidelines instead of giving doctors a choice, as we have here in the US to follow ILADS guidelines.
As Dr. Horowitz points out, his findings on persistence were published SEVEN years ago yet were never mentioned in the Canadian news story. But studies showing persistence were found even far before that:
I already did a summary of the horrifically biased Canadian piece here, where I summarize and point out the myriad of errors; however, I highly recommend reading Dr. Horowitz’s piece as he takes a deep, deep dive into the subject and the fact that some with potentially treatable illness are applying for medical assistance in dying.  The blatant denial of chronic, persistent Lyme/MSIDS will only further this practice.
I will end with a potent quote:

You Can Die from Lyme Disease. We Don’t Need More Help Getting There ~ Dr. Richard Horowitz

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A Blind Spot on Autism

https://www.lymedisease.org/autism-infectious%E2%80%91disease-lens/

Looking at autism through an infectious‑disease lens

The following excerpt comes from A Blind Spot on Autism. The book is co‑authored by Debbie Kimberg, a mother and advocate whose writing for LymeDisease.org has chronicled her son’s improvement after treatment for vector‑borne infections including Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia. She partners with Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, one of the world’s leading Bartonella researchers. Together, they blend lived experience and scientific expertise to explore biological patterns they believe have been overlooked in autism research.

By Debbie Kimberg and Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt

Article Excerpts:

From the moment we step into a doctor’s office, we’re taught to think of health problems as separate boxes. A child’s learning issues go to a specialist for educational testing. A sibling’s anxiety is treated by a mental health professional. A parent’s autoimmune disease is managed by a rheumatologist. A grandparent’s memory loss goes to neurology.

Medicine is organized this way.

This book brings together two perspectives rarely combined: the lived experience of navigating these patterns as a parent and patient advocate, and the decades of research from one of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. Our goal is not to dismiss the work already done on autism, but to attempt to connect the dots between existing research that has remained scattered across a thousand scientific papers, often among different fields of study. When viewed together, these studies point toward a hypothesis that could explain both the near-exponential rise in autism cases and the convoluted web of health problems in so many families.

This is not the first time medicine has been blindsided by an invisible infectious cause. History is full of examples where an infectious trigger hid in plain sight for decades before science caught up. Syphilis was once thought to be a mysterious neurological illness, ulcers were blamed on stress, and HIV was first recognized only by its complications. Each time, the truth emerged slowly, in pieces, and often against the resistance of the medical establishment.

….Bartonella species may represent one of the most stealth and dangerous pathogens seen in generations, pathogens that have been allowed to spread silently, reshaping the health of millions without recognition.  (See link for article & ordering info)

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**Comment**

Sadly, autism is only one such illness with an infectious connection.  In this study, it was found that 92% of pediatric bip0lar disorder had tick-borne infections exposure.  PANS is connected with Lyme and mycoplasma.

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