{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3954","number":"3954","name":"Philippe Côté","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-13T04:00Z","body":"To the respectful and understanding reader,\n\nFirst of all, please don’t judge my English, as this is my secondary language.\n\nWhen I was young, my father working in the broadcasting industry, gave our family the love of technology. He believed, like everyone was told, that nnEMF were safe. Having seen a housing opportunity, our whole family moved to a house near huge electric pylons. I lived there for about 10 years. However, I started having health problems on the 5th years. Unfortunately, my father passed away on the 13th year and my mother a bit later, after moving away from this house.\n\nA few years later, I started having a permanent headache that wouldn’t go away. I would go to sleep with a headache, then wake up with a headache. I went for a CT Scan and they told me everything was \"fine\". But it wasn’t fine.\n\nFortunately, I started to have some clues:\n- My permanent headache went away only when going in the forest, and came back gradually while reentering the city. It occured a few time, but couldn’t understand the link between my headache and the forest.\n- A long lasting power outage of 5 days, which affected the whole block: no headaches during that time. Headaches came back as soon as the power went back on. This is the moment I understood my headache was linked to electricity, somehow. I wasn’t sure, though, having been told again and again that non-ionizing EMFs were totally harmless.\n\nAnyhow, having a better idea of the problem, I tried to get help from professionnals. I thought they would know better than me.\n\nAfter getting next to no help from my doctor and about 7-8 health specialists, that is when I tried to find answers by myself. This led me to a long and enduring path of discovery toward the truth, both for personal and professional reasons.\n\nBeing a product designer, I use a scientific, neutral and intuitive approach on almost all subjects. So, I did what I normally do when doing research: checking both sides of the argument and trying to spot inconsistencies and biases. I also learned in my career that if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it. So I started buying various and increasingly expensive EMF meters, covering different frequencies. This led me to understand that there were wiring errors in my house. I also discovered how \"noisy\" are WiFi and Bluetooth devices. I then tried to turn those antennas off. My headaches went away almost immediately after.\n\nFortunately, I was making progress.\n\nSince then the beginning of my then permanent headache, I did more than 3000 hours research of the subject of EMF of many ranges and sources in order to understand the subject thoughly. From my understanding so far, the problem isn’t necessarily nnEMF themselves, but their overabundance. We call that \"electrosmog\".\n\nDon’t get me wrong: I LOVE technology and wouldn’t want to quit my day to day job. It has just became very hard to practice under those conditions. So, my long term goal is to get to know and understand the subject as much as possible in order to create safer products that are respectful of biology, including humans, animals and plants, as I know now that those are affected too. Most of us just aren’t aware.\n\nIn one line: all lifeforms runs on electricity. Electricity is data. Any change of frequency, energy and vibration is affecting cell at microscopic levels.\n\nUnder weak non-ionizing nnEMF (WiFi, BT, 60Hz powerline, among others), it first affect blood cells (rouleau formation) after just 10 minutes of exposure but resolves by itself when it stops or if the subject is moving enough to activate blood circulation. However, if someone stand still while using those devices and that it happens all days over a year, bigger problems start appearing. That’s why most lab tests are failing to find evidence: their tests aren’t lasting nearly long enough to find those.\n\nAnother problem: all cells phones are tested for SAR. Their levels are tested against the FCC rules and they pass it before the product gets released to the public. This is fine by itself. However, when you go inside a cramped bus or subway, those numbers are suddenly going though the roof. Nobody is checking for exposure in those areas.\n\nBefore concluding, I also met many people having the same problem as me, which was a relief. I must admit though that it wasn’t all good. Many people, including some close friends, didn’t want to believe my story. I had to insist to the point of this health problem nearly breaking our friendship. Thanksfully, I had more listening ears around me than judging ones.\n\nMany people are downright hostile toward this unknown problem, as you might have noticed. From what I’ve found so far, what we were told since the 60’ hasn’t evolved much in the public mindset. It even developed as a stigma for many people which will defend heavily wrong theories and assumptions about scientific conclusions driven by the money of the telecom industry.\n\nThanks for caring.\n\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3954","tags":["health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places","policy-standards","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"c8ce741f07fffd5cfc3e5a930e7b3068662fc67c7da450f9a06999c78bedfa06","slug":"health-experiences-comment-3954","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-3954","body_sha256":"a612449469d29c6c7cb21ab88cd7e2ecff26fa81092bca9e373c72dc7475a959","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"neurological","topics":[{"id":"neurological","evidence":"ouse.\n\nA few years later, I started having a permanent headache that wouldn’t go away. I would go to sleep with a headache, then"},{"id":"electricity","evidence":"s. 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Most of us just aren"}],"summary":"The commenter describes chronic headaches improved during power outages and after reducing wireless exposure, discusses wiring problems and proposed cellular effects, and seeks biologically safer products and better cumulative exposure assessment.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-21T23:43:28Z","review_method":"Complete submitted comment-text review with neutral attributed summaries and exact evidence; attachments and external materials not reviewed.","review_source_sha256":"d386197c64cd599baf879659341653ecd23ee6c0c5b375e6599321406b029dc1","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["neurological","electricity","wifi","mechanisms","standards","environment"],"primary_topic":"neurological","forum_title":"The commenter describes chronic headaches improved during power outages and after reducing wireless expos…"}