“There has been unprecedented growth in a new class of chronic diseases in the US since 1990. Four categories of disease have virtually exploded: autoimmune, neurological, metabolic and inflammatory. Meanwhile, there has been a similar uptick in reproductive conditions like infertility and a half dozen psychiatric disorders.
While the major health threats of the 20th century: cardiovascular disease, infectious disease and cancer, are barely growing, at least forty chronic diseases and disorders have more than doubled in the past generation. Many of these new age diseases weren’t even on our radar until the 1980’s.
In a single generation, there has been a dramatic acceleration*in the prevalence of diseases and disorders like autism (2094%), Alzheimer’s (299%), COPD (148%), diabetes (305%), sleep apnea (430%), celiac disease (1111%), ADHD (819%), asthma (142%), depression (280%), bipolar disease in youth (10833%), osteoarthritis (449%), lupus (787%), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD –120%), chronic fatigue syndrome (11027%), fibromyalgia (7727%), multiple sclerosis (117%) and hypothyroidism (702%).
While controversy remains over possible external causes, one internal biological trigger may already be known. A single molecule produced by the body called peroxynitrite is associated with much of this sudden explosion of disease. In January 2007 three leading scientists, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published, “Nitric Oxide and Peroxynitrite in Health and Disease,” This paper details the massive destructive capabilities of peroxynitrite (ONOO ̄).”
The key thing to understand is that the introduction of EMF (from our smartphones, our wifi, baby-monitor, head-sets, smart watches etc.) has defined this time-period connected with the sudden rise in chronic disease. Now obviously correlation does not imply causation, but we need to be more cautious when in doubt. And what we know for a fact is that:
EMF exposure increases levels of peroxynitrite.
Peroxynitrite is a powerful oxidant exhibiting a wide array of tissue damaging effects, including lipid peroxidation, inactivation of enzymes and ion channels via protein oxidation and nitration, and inhibition of mitochondrial respiration (Virag et al., 2003)
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