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A New Age for Colon Cancer Screenings

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Back on May 19 I wrote a post entitled “Why Are Adolescents and Young Adults Getting Sick?” Part of that story talked about the rising rates of colon and rectal cancer among young adults.

Since publishing that post, I was shocked to learn that an independent group of experts that advises the nation on preventive medical services has officially changed their recommended age for colon and rectal cancer screenings from age 50 to age 45. So when I found that out, I was immediately curious how that news was being reported and if anyone was reporting—or even hinting—that the higher rates of colon cancer among younger adults might have something to do with the increases in our ambient electromagnetic pollution and trend toward wearing our cell phones on or near our body.

I found three reports that helped shed light on this topic. The first was from a University of Michigan Medical School blog; the second from a NBC Today show video clip; and the third from a CNN online article and video which reported on the story.

Second Deadliest Cancer

The U of M story did a nice job of giving a broad-brush overview and summarizing the facts on the change: the U.S Preventive Services Task Force did indeed officially lower the age for adults to begin regular screenings for colorectal cancer from 50 to 45 because, over the past 30 years, the percent of all colorectal cancer among Americans under age 50 has gone from 5% to 10.5%. Moreover, colorectal cancer is the second deadliest cancer in the U.S. and because of this change in guidance private health insurance companies will be required to cover these procedures with no copays.

Root Causes

The NBC Today story allocated most of its coverage to an interview with Dr. Kimmie Ng, a medical practitioner at New York’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It was a very informative interview. Dr. Ng pointed out that not only are younger people getting the disease, but it is increasingly more deadly. A discussion about Dr. Ng’s research on the root causes of these cancers among younger adults ensued and implicated things like diet, sedentary lifestyle, antibiotic use and even changes to the microbiome though she also concluded that it was curious that so many of her younger patients “are very active, are not obese, and lead healthy lifestyles.”

She plainly said that her research team highly suspects that environmental factors are the probable cause of this uptick but did not mention an individual’s exposure to concentrated point sources of EMFs like a cell phone as a possible contributing factor.

Finally, the CNN story highlighted two points I think worth mentioning. First, the rate of colorectal cancers for people ages 40-49 increased by almost 15% from 2000-2002 to 2014-2016. That’s a big jump within a relatively short period of time in my view and I point out how that increase dovetails with the evolution of cell phone services I described in an earlier post among an age group that would have been among the earliest of adopters.

And second, doctors are extremely concerned about how our COVID lockdowns will impact future cancer rates. Precisely because a colonoscopy is such an effective diagnostic and therapeutic treatment, doctors anticipate a spike in colorectal cancers in the years ahead especially since colon cancer screenings were down 85% during this past pandemic year. One doctor describes our current situation as “a ticking time bomb with a ten-year fuse”.

Send me your thoughts. Bottom line is that EMFs and our cell phone/ wireless lifestyle were not even mentioned in the dozen or so reports I read about this topic, and It is clear to me that many more doctors and other medical practitioners would be well served by getting much better informed on this topic. As for myself, I intend to pass this information on to my own doctor, Dr. Vesna Skul, who I featured in a previous post some years ago in which I described her own interesting theory about obesity. Though Dr. Skul is hipper to this information than most, it frankly couldn’t hurt to refresh her memory.

Be well.

Man-Made Electromagnetic Fields

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I introduced the concept of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in a previous post. Let’s review:

  1. EMFs are a natural part of our universe. They are produced, for instance, by both the sun and the earth. They are created anywhere electricity is generated, transmitted or used. And I should note, electric signals are completely inherent to the human body. Our heart, our brain, our nerves all run on electrical impulses. In fact the clinical definition of death is the absence of any electrical signals within the human body;
  2. EMFs are all invisible to the naked human eye, except for visible light which our eyes recognize as ROY G BIV = red/orange/yellow/green/blue/indigo/violet); and
  3. EMFs can be beneficial or they can be harmful. One example of the former is the sun’s production of Vitamin D in the body leading to better immunity and stronger bones; an example of the latter is the earth’s natural meridians of energy that when corrupted by geopathic stress have been known to create dysfunction among humans and led to the creation of disciplines like Feng Shui and Vatsu that offer guidance on how to align our lives and our possessions with the most harmonious energies in nature.

Okay, what else do we need to know about EMFs? For starters, they are arranged by wavelength or (its inverse) frequency along a line known as ‘The Electromagnetic Spectrum’. Wavelengths are exactly as they sound—they are a measurement of the distance between incoming waves, completely analogous to water waves coming to shore as they travel across a pond, a lake, or an ocean. The wavelength is the distance between those waves as they pass by a certain point; their frequency is a measure of how often those waves repeat. A wave with a very long wavelength passes a point very infrequently; a wave with high frequency has very short wavelengths. They both describe the same thing just from different perspectives.

Second, Science gives a name to every segment along this spectrum. A couple of these names are self-descriptive, e.g., X-rays are, well, the X-rays we all know used by doctors and dentists to diagnose disease; the Microwave segment of this spectrum include microwaves used for communication as well as the microwaves used in a conventional microwave oven to cook our foods (and is the focus of a separate post in this blog entitled ‘Radar Range’….look it up!). The Power Line EMFs that are a part of this spectrum refer to the electricity that flows along the wires hidden inside the walls of our homes; we know the very long wavelength and low frequency EMFs portion of this spectrum as TV and AM/FM radio; and the segment of this spectrum labeled ‘Infrared’ we know as the EMFs used to create the heat we feel from a heat lamp or as the mechanism that gives an infrared sauna its therapeutic powers. And so on.

As I bring this post back full-circle from where we began, you must know that EMFs are either ‘natural’ or ‘man-made’. Since the discovery and commercialization of electricity in the latter part of the 19th century and even more so since the introduction of the Internet and wireless communications, the earth is now filled with orders of magnitude more artificial or man-made EMFs than natural ones. It is the man-made EMFs that concern us the most especially with the anticipated roll-out of 5G technologies that once approved will completely overlay our existing cell phone networks pulsing out signals and frequencies never before used for human communication within the home or tested for human safety.

Next up, we’ll wrap up our introductory series of posts on electromagnetic fields with a post that talks to the four types of EMFs that are most associated with detrimental health affects in humans.