HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3806
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3806

My Personal Experience and Research into the Harmful Health Effects of Ongoing Exposure to Electromagnetic and RF Radiation

In September of 2000, my wife and I set up a joint home office in a small room that we packed with 2 computer towers and monitors, 2 printers, 2 cordless phone bases, and multiple electrical cords associated with all of this technology.  While most all of these electronics surrounded my wife’s chair at her computer workstation, my workstation was off to one side giving me somewhat less exposure to the total amount of radiation generated.  

Spending about 4-5 hours a day at my computer (for at least 5 days a week) for next 15 months, I felt increasingly fatigued and frequently felt a burning pressure in my chest (around my heart).  By the end of 2001, I experienced total exhaustion and persistent brain fog, leaving me barely able to function.  This forced me to take a several-month break to rest and receive the healthcare I needed to recover and feel somewhat functional again.  While I was finally able to return to my computer-related work, I still struggled through periodic bouts of severe fatigue and burning chest pressure for the next 9 years.

From late 2000 to late 2010, my wife spent about 2-3 hours a day at her computer workstation.  During that time frame, she experienced different recurring health issues, most notably severe stomach and intestinal issues, painful bloating, and depression.  Her health steadily declined in 2010 until she finally passed away at the end of the year.  Prior to that, the doctors had found a grapefruit-size tumor in her lower abdomen.

When I then learned about the possible negative health effects of ongoing exposure to different forms of man-made radiation, I wondered if that might have been a significant cause of our ongoing health issues and what led to my wife’s ultimate demise.  Aside from the fact that her computer desk chair was surrounded by various radiating electronic devices, there was a metal desk off to her right side and some rectangular metal legs supporting a plywood work surface behind her.

When I later consulted a professional building biologist about our office environment, he pointed out that all of the metal surrounding my wife’s computer desk chair would have conducted and amplified the radiation from the electronic devices surrounding her.  He also informed me of several fairly simple steps I could take to greatly reduce my radiation exposure in my home office and throughout my home.  

These steps included: 
•	Removing the metal desk from my home office
•	Replacing the metal support legs on the plywood work surface with wooden supports
•	Replacing the cordless phone base near my desk with a corded phone (to eliminate the RF radiation I had been exposed to with my previous phone
•	Removing all household cordless phones
•	Replacing florescent lights with daylight/incandescent lighting
•	Keeping my nearby printer turned off when it wasn’t needed
•	Maintaining more distance between myself and any electronic devices when I was working in my office.

In the year after I had taken all of these steps, my chronic fatigue melted away, my recurring bouts of burning chest pressure vanished, my brain fog cleared, and I became more vibrant and energetic than I had felt in over a decade.  In the years since then, I’ve found that I will still experience a milder version of my previous stress symptoms when I spend a moderate length of time in environments that have a fairly high level of electromagnetic and RF radiation.   

While the experience I just described may not fit the rigors of scientific research, it does mirror that kind of research in some key ways.  For starters, I was in good health before this whole episode began.  Since my late wife was a well-educated holistic health practitioner and certified nutritionist, she made sure that we both ate a healthy whole-foods diets, used water filters to purify our drinking and bathing water, used air filters to purify the air in our home, and used personal care products free from toxins and harmful chemicals—eliminating several potential contributors to our health issues.  Obviously, the one harmful household environmental factor that we didn’t fully understand or address was our electromagnetic environment.

When I finally took extensive steps to slash the levels of EMF/RF radiation in my home and then experienced the disappearance of debilitating health issues that had plagued me for over a decade, I was convinced that ongoing exposure to man-made radiation was the culprit.