Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution

284 Pages·2010·2.2 MB·English

by  Ann Louise Gittleman

ZAPPED
Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn’t Be Your
Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart
the Hazards of Electronic Pollution
• • • • • • • • •
ANN LOUISE
GITTLEMAN
This book is dedicated to all the canaries among us
who can learn to fly like eagles.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“Facts don’t cease to exist just
because they are ignored."
—Aldous Huxley
CONTENTS
Dedication
Epigraph
1: THE BODY ELECTRIC
2: THE BODY INTERRUPTED
3: LIFTING THE VEIL
4: HOW ZAPPED ARE YOU?
5: ZAP-PROOF YOUR HOME
6: ADVANCED ZAP-PROOFING
7: THE NEWEST ZAPPER: DIRTY ELECTRICITY
8: ZAP-PROOF YOUR PHONE
9: ZAP-PROOF YOUR KIDS
10: ZAP-PROOF YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT
11: OTHER ZAPPERS IN YOUR LIFE
12: ZAP-PROOF SUPERFOODS AND SEASONINGS
13: ZAP-PROOF MINERALS AND SUPPLEMENTS
EPILOGUE
NOTES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ZAPPED RESOURCES, SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS
Also by Ann Louise Gittleman
Copyright
About the Publisher
1:
THE BODY
ELECTRIC
uick. Look around you. What is the most fascinating high-tech thing
Q
you use?
Is it your iPhone or BlackBerry? Or that GPS mounted on your
windshield? Perhaps it’s your Nintendo Wii video game system or your
home theater with its monster-size plasma TV and surround-sound
speaker system.
With all the latest technological innovations, you may be hard-
pressed to come up with your personal favorite digital or electronic
appliance or wireless gadget. The truth is, nothing man-made even
comes close to the wonder of the human body as an exquisitely tuned
and sensitive electrical being.
You might be surprised to know that everything your body did today
was made possible by electricity. The organic computer, known as your
brain, that runs the whole show emits waves that are electrical. All the
sensory information (like hunger and pain) it sends and receives is
electrical. This includes the neurons that discharge when you move a
muscle, the signals that tell your body to heal a wound, and even the
beat of your heart.
In fact, the electricity that facilitates the heart is produced when
charged increments of energy—known as ions—flow through the heart
and cause contractions. You may remember these ions—calcium,
potassium, chloride, and sodium (which are especially high in
conductivity). They are found on that Periodic Table we learned about in
high school science. Well, every one of the elements on the Periodic
Table carries an electrical charge, so we are, in a very real sense,
electrical beings in an electrical world.
As Yale scientist Harold Saxton Burr—who first used a voltmeter to
test the electromagnetic fields in the human body in 1936—once said,
“Electricity is the way nature behaves.” When an electric current flows
through a conductor or wire, a magnetic field is created; thus, the term
electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Electric and magnetic fields both interact
with the body in various ways. When your heart pumps electrically
charged blood (the electric current) through your circulatory system (the
conductor), the process creates a powerful magnetic field that surrounds
your body and can be measured.
The electromagnetism of the body is so crucial to our functioning
that even conventional medicine uses it on a daily basis in diagnostic
testing. Every single electron, cell, tissue, and organ in your body carries
a very specific frequency or range of frequencies—an electronic
signature—that can be measured. This principle is utilized in some of the
most accurate and life-saving diagnostic procedures from the
electrocardiogram for the heart, the electroencephalogram for the brain,
and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the body.
MRIs work through the transference of energy via a specific
frequency. The energy in this case is made up of radio waves. The atoms
in the body or body parts that are being assessed only absorb these
energies if their resonant frequency is a match for the frequency of the
energy.
So, it is time to think of yourself as much more than a physical being.
You are an energy being as well. And you are the most fascinating high-
tech “machine” you use on a daily basis!
MODERN MEDICINE MEETS ANCIENT MEDICINE
The decade of the 1980s ushered in a new awareness for many of us
regarding the electrical nature of the body. Such awareness is truly
essential to understanding how invisible man-made sources of
frequencies from power lines, electrical appliances, and electronic
devices can impact our physical health. Two pioneering researchers in
the field of energetic medicine, Robert O. Becker, M.D., and Richard
Gerber, M.D., were largely responsible for bringing this new awareness
to those who were ready to receive it. Both authored books dealing with
electromagnetism as the basic life force and its role in health and
disease. Those books became time-honored classics—Becker’s The Body
Electric, first released in 1985, and Gerber’s Vibrational Medicine, released
three years later. The information in these books laid a foundation for
understanding the electric nature of the body and related ancient healing
arts, such as acupuncture, which deal with energetic balance.1
Doctors of Oriental Medicine teach that the life force energy, which
they call chi (Indian yogis call it prana, Hippocrates called it natural life
force, and Christ called it light), flows through the body in a given
sequence through long, narrow energy channels known as meridians.
There are two polarizing forces, known as yin and yang through which
chi manifests itself. Yin and yang are paired opposites, which express the
female and male principles, respectively, that exist in all things in
varying degrees. Our state of health, according to Traditional Chinese
Medicine, is determined and measured by the balance of yin and yang
forces in our bodies.
Balance—energetic balance, which expresses itself physically as
chemical balance—is the key to health. When the energy balance is
disturbed, chi no longer flows freely through the body. It may become
stagnant or flow too forcefully through any of the major meridians, each
of which is associated with an organ or set of organs. These imbalances
are seen as giving rise to (and preceding development of) physical
symptoms in the physical body.
Therefore, before physical symptoms manifest—sometimes years
before—an energy disturbance exists, which will eventually express itself
in bodily illness if not corrected. To prevent this physical expression of
imbalance as disease, the Doctor of Oriental Medicine uses acupuncture
to redistribute disturbed energies in the body through insertion of
needles at key points along the meridians (points that serve as booster
amplifiers to bolster the energy flow).
MODERN SCIENCE MEETS ANCIENT MEDICINE
Western medicine has long been skeptical about acupuncture. Such
skepticism was largely based on the inability to think of the body in
electrical rather than just biochemical terms. Furthermore, there was no
proof of any physical structures that corresponded to the meridians
through which the invisible chi was said to flow. Little did conventional
health practitioners know that the actual physical structures had already
been identified. In the 1960s Korean researcher Kim Bong Han
discovered a fine duct-like tubule system that corresponded to the
meridian paths as charted in Chinese medicine thousands of years
earlier. (Gerber made this stunning disclosure in Vibrational Medicine.)
This correspondence was later verified by tracking the movement of
radioactive isotopes through the tubule system with a high-speed
computed tomography (CAT) scan. The isotopes were found to travel the
course of traditional acupuncture meridians when injected into
acupuncture points. Injection into random, non-acupuncture points did
not have this effect.
Additional confirmation of acupuncture came in 1988, when William
A. Tiller, Ph.D., of Stanford University found that acupuncture points
were measurably different than other points on the body. At the exact
center of the acupuncture points—and not at other locations on the body
—there is a nearly twenty-five-fold decrease in electrical resistance. In
other words, acupuncture meridians are more conductive than other
points on the body.2 It’s all about energy and electricity … and the
magnetic force that comes with it—electromagnetism.
MODERN PHYSICS MEETS ANCIENT MEDICINE
The findings of modern physics are now echoing those of Traditional
Chinese Medicine. Both suggest that our bodies are essentially a
composite of billions or even trillions of frequencies. These frequencies
are expressed in the form of cells, organs, and tissues, which are
constantly vibrating and communicating with each other—and the
external environment.
How so?
The body is so amazingly sensitive that its bioelectric makeup can be
affected by the planets and other celestial bodies. According to