Proposed biological mechanisms

Scientific Article Submitted for HHS Review We respectfully submit the following peer-reviewed publication for consideration by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Garoli A, Greco A. “Shielding the First 24 Postnatal Months of Life: A Proposal for a Prospective Cohort Study of Early-Life Electromagnetic Exposure and Autism Risk.” Alpha Psychiatry. 2026;27(4):53282. DOI: 10.31083/AP53282. This publication presents a prospective research protocol investigating whether electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure during the first 24 months of life may influence neuro-developmental trajectories and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) risk. Importantly, this paper does not establish that EMR causes autism. It proposes a methodology for investigating the question prospectively. The authors propose following 1,000 full-term newborns for 24 months, comparing an EMR-reduced cohort (n=500) with a standard-exposure cohort (n=500). Exposure would be characterized through RF/ELF measurements, proximity analysis, device inventories and wearable dosimetry. Neurodevelopment would be evaluated using joint attention, language development and EEG mu-rhythm measures, with ASD diagnosis as a secondary exploratory endpoint. The article also identifies biological mechanisms that warrant further investigation, including voltage-gated calcium channels, intracellular calcium signaling, Ca²⁺/calmodulin pathways, mitochondrial metabolism, oxidative stress and neuronal synchronization. Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR) is presented as a candidate framework for understanding some of these interactions. The authors appropriately acknowledge that weak-field transduction and ICR mechanisms remain scientifically contested rather than established. The protocol is particularly relevant because it attempts to address a persistent challenge in EMR research: accurate exposure measurement. The proposed study incorporates environmental measurements, wearable dosimetry, shield-integrity monitoring, compliance records and repeated neuro-developmental assessments The authors also acknowledge significant limitations. Cohort allocation is observational rather than randomized, residual confounding may remain, and the proposed 1,000-participant study is underpowered to establish modest differences in ASD incidence. The study is therefore explicitly designed for exploratory signal detection and to generate data necessary for a larger confirmatory trial. We respectfully request that HHS review this publication and consider whether this hypothesis warrants independent, adequately powered, multi-center investigation. Future federal research could examine whether objectively measured RF/ELF exposure during infancy is associated with neuro-developmental differences; whether specific developmental windows are more sensitive; whether effects vary according to exposure characteristics; and whether genetic susceptibility, calcium signalling, mitochondrial function, oxidative stress or other biological pathways modify potential effects. Given the widespread exposure of children to electromagnetic fields, we believe these questions merit rigorous, independent scientific investigation. The objective should not be to presume that EMR either causes or does not cause neuro-developmental effects, but to establish the answer through appropriately designed prospective research.

your mind is working with microvolts your heart is working with milivolts. its only to see what wifi and the cell tower has for exposure. kindly regards.

I upgraded my router to 5gz wifi over the course of weeks i was finding i was not getting good sleep, i thought maybe it was the wifi? I turned off the wifi and my sleep improved. I tested this to make sure by turning it back on and my quality of sleep deteriorated. Since then i have abandoned wifi in my home to maintain better sleep and hardwired my home. i have read the work of Becker and a book of dirty electricity, i also have removed the LED lights from my home as they too were messing with my sleep. I have also changed to a job where no phones are aloud which has also helped my health and i get less ringing in my ears which i often get in town centers. The safe limits are based on heat and the idea that harms begin at ionizing radiation like switch is absurd when you consider the laws of physics and the electrical interference that will naturally occur within our bodies when nonnative EMF is introduced. There are thousands of studies on the harms of EMF on the BIOINITIATIVE website, it very clear that none native EMF is very harmful. I believe our institutions are captured by corporations and greed and have incentives to keep kicking the can down the road on this issue not to mention the governments interest in harvesting data and surveillance to the point i think even this survey will be rigged and we progress further with these toxic technologies.

I became eltromagnetic hypersensitive in 2007, when a 2G cell tower was erected less than 1000 ft from our trailer in Naturita Co. I had been watering weeds in hopes of growing something in a desert yard, having recently remarried and moving there. Also I had a deck phone held between my ear and left shoulder while patiently listening to my x-sister-in- law try and convince me to invest in a restaurant in Tulya Texas. This went on for over an hour. Next morning when I got up I saw my face and neck in the bathroom mirror that my cheeks were bright red, my skin around my eyes were baggy, and there was a bright red area around my thyroid atea of my neck , and it was growing in heat and intensity,! I realized then the connections and began wondering what was I going to do, because it was getting worse by the minute, and with it, my mind wasn't doing well either! I prayed , I cried to my husband to help. Already I had been treating cancer of the lungs for seven years with alternative natural medicine, and I had an abiding distrust of regular medical services,and then .. I was finally truly healing and so going to the clinic wasn't obvious to me. But I did understand what must have happened,and my inner instinct was to get as far away from the cell tower as possible and fast! I opened the tiny phone book praying, and saw there was a cafe out in The Basin, a huge flat ranch and oil drilling land some many miles south of town. I called it, the manager a woman answered, and I asked her if she might have a cabin to rent. She did! It was often rented to hunters, but this was summer, and so it was a available. I had the money from my divorce, and packed up and went there. My husband brought me food and water for the month it took for this thermal burning to subside!I became friends with that woman, and strange as life sometimes is, now I am one of four Caregivers taking care of her aged father,19 years later! But as that may be, this horrible condition repeated 11 times over the next 9 years, and every time ,I tried to come home and resume life with my husband the thermal burn would come back. This would include my skin debriding from my face and neck, and my brain barely able to function, while I had kept moving to remote locations to recover.my husband had work so he couldn't just be with me. Eventually he found on the Internet that people who have EMH if they have exposed metal in their mouths can suffer extreme from thermal burns from cell towers radiation. We found a dentist who agreed to remove my remaining upper teeth , so as to remove the titanium bridge partial I had for the previous 6 years and replace it with a resin denture.I moved into inadequate housing nearer to town, as slowly I was getting better. I took in a homeless elder abandoned lady by her family who was 91, and got signed up to take care of her under the CDAS Program, because I have certification as a CNA.She lived the last 6 years of her life with me. It took those years to get the metals out of my blood so that I can withstand using a cell phone and being in what we consider normal radiated environments. But it's not OK. I am not a quiter, I know of many people who became homeless because of their sensitivity to microwave radiation! I joined groups to help bring awearness of this scourge,and to get feedback about this issue. I have a reputation in my small town about this and many people are still confused about it. This was like a natural disaster economically for us! One which few recognized! I recognize we are all suffering. Tinnitus, headaches, fibromyalgia, thyroid diseases, kidney failure, rapid aging, just to make sure. 5G is a bio weapon. So please stop it! My town of Nucla is engaged with Virtible Bridge to relocate a contracted 5 G tower after strong opposition to it. Our little phone co. Is considering putting up one too. The combined towne of Naturita, and Nucla 's population is about 1500. We have too much cell coverage already! Other Nations have limited the frequencies, why can't we!Thank you Annie Gibbons

Thank you for finally addressing this critical and profoundly underacknowledged topic. In the modern world, we are routinely exposed to levels of EMFs that are many orders of magnitude higher than the environment in which we evolved (I don't have the numbers before me – if HHS doesn't have these numbers, I strongly encourage you to establish them) – I believe the comparison I've seen was some ridiculous discrepancy on the order of trillions if not higher. That alone is cause for suspicion. Electromagnetism is one of the fundamental forces of known reality; it is inconceivable that we would ratchet up the levels of electromagnetic fields and not cause profound, complex changes to our biosphere and our human bodies. Yet our society's understanding of this topic has remained infuriatingly ignorant, relative to what is known scientifically on the topic (what is not known scientifically, and thus is in urgent need of more study, is also relevant). There has been a willful ignorance, a tendency to shun discussions of this topic as 'tin foil hat conspiracy' stuff. I believe this has been encouraged if not outright orchestrated by the communications and technology industries; EMF and related emissions/pollution are a core externality of their business model (this need not necessarily be so; there are ways to change/harmonize/reduce the EM that comes from technology – this should be pursued and studied and implemented with vigor). Regulation has long been myopically focused on thermal effects from EMF, which do not manifest until intensely high doses; thus, relatively low dose (though still very very high doses) EM emissions have been dismissed, if they do not cause thermal impacts. The scientific literature on this point is robust, and clear: the game is all about the non-thermal effects. Non-thermal effects from EMF/RF/wireless non-ionizing radiation, documented in scientific literature, are diverse, and concerning; they include a far broader array of impacts than I'll be able to recite here. Cancer, yes, but also irritability, anxiety, alterations to cellular calcium channels, depression, sleeplessness. I mention these because I strongly suspect that the sky-high levels of EMF-type emissions we bathe in daily are causal to some degree in the disturbed mental health and general sense of dis-ease in our modern world. People widely report being depressed, being anxious, and we see the impacts in our fractured social ties, polarized social discourse, disintegrating families and communities. The physical health harms of EMFs are highly important, and deserve your priority attention; and so, too, the mental health harms. Thank you for addressing this topic. I wish you well in your study, and encourage you to take this comment as a framework for your understanding of the issue.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I'm responding from the perspective of a concerned citizen who has experienced firsthand the effects of cell tower radiation. In 2015 I worked for 6 weeks in a building with a cell tower on the back. I had worked there previously, and noticed nothing for the first 4 weeks. But then I began to notice strange things. My feet would tingle as soon as I entered the building. I experienced extreme muscle weakness in my eyes, and would have to close my eyes despite not actually being sleepy. On several such occasions I felt electric shocks pass through me (dirty electricity from the equipment?). On one occasion I had the bizarre sensation that my chair dropped away from under me, then came back up and slammed me in the butt! I developed a hand tremor I'd never had before. For several months afterward I'd get sudden tremors racking my body, out of nowhere. I had frequent dizzy spells, felt weak and was afraid to drive long trips for fear of blacking out in my car. My swallowing reflex was slow on one side and I was afraid of choking. I developed weakness in my hip muscles and lower back (worst when the barometric pressure was low), and would feel like I was going to collapse. I also developed restless leg syndrome which has not completely gone away. This was a day job and just for 6 weeks. What happens to people who live near a cell tower 24/7? (Truly horrific things from what I've read -- one woman suffered 51 strokes, and for others it's a-fib, heart palpitations, chest tightness or outright heart attacks, not to mention headaches, dizziness, nausea, sleep disturbance, nosebleeds, and cancer.) Smart meter radiation (same type of radiation) has been shown to rip and slash the red blood cells of anyone standing near one for just 2 minutes, whether the person felt anything (e.g. tingling) or not. I've opted out of a smart meter, but have had bad experiences in homes with smart meters -- violently increased heart rate, or sudden exhaustion and hunger ("hangry" doesn't begin to describe it). This radiation is a serious threat to the health of all of us, and must be addressed. The experiences of all who have been affected need to be considered alongside the scientific evidence. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard. Sincerely, Debra Kohn dmk7779@gmail.com

• Comment: My comments represent an individual who is affected by EMF/RD Exposure as a family member. This individual, male, over 65 year of age, is currently afflicted with AHI since November 2025. A common symptom of people suffering from AHI (Anomalous Health Incidents) is targeted to receive audio modulated radio frequency or microwave energy is directed at the skull, heating cranial tissues microscopically to create thermoelastic pressure waves that the cochlea or brain perceives as sound. This individual believes that there is constant monitoring of his memories, which is being controlled via remote electronic means. The auditory sounds that this individual can hear are based on past memories that was not shared for a long time, posts in social media, the address book or apps in the phone or websites this individual normally access for information and these information are harvested in order to create a protocol of escalation in order to harass and harm this individual. Adverse health effects to its exposure are: a. Burn marks on the neck and chest area b. Exposed dentin- Yellow/brown stains on teeth. c. Loss of weight d. Short term and long term memory loss, confusion on past events, difficulty in identifying proper nouns/pronouns or word selection to articulate trail of though e. Confusion f. Nausea and headaches g. Balance issues h. Loss of sleep- causing lower immune resistance i. The triggering of higher body temperature causing fevers j. Muscle loss- significant weight loss k. Involuntary muscle response in chess, legs, stomach and groin area When the adverse health effects appeared related to the exposure, we resorted to getting a preliminary RF and Non-Linear Junction Detection Scan Report. While preliminary, it allowed us to gather results to exposure, which indicated the following: Instrumentation and Methodology The RF assessment utilized the following measurement equipment: JM-20 Pro General Frequency Detector: This device provides adjustable attenuation to ensure that detected emissions originate from within a narrow spatial range (1–2 cm). This feature minimizes interference from ambient RF noise and improves signal source localization. Spectrum Analyzer: Deployed to establish a baseline RF profile of the test environment and to differentiate between environmental RF emissions and those potentially associated with the test subject Findings Positive frequency activity was identified at the following anatomical reference points: Anterior Aspect 1. Left Superior Shoulder Region 2. Left Maxillary Region 3. Anterior Base of Neck Region 4. Left Apex Region 5. Upper Abdominal Midline Region 6. Right Maxillary / TMJ Region 7. Right Superior Shoulder Region 8. Right Apex Region 9. Left Lateral Hip Region 10. Nasal Dorsum Region Posterior Aspect 11. Left Scapular Region 12. Base of Neck Region 13. Right Scapular Region 14. Lower Lumbar Region 15. Right Superior Occipital Region In addition: using the NLDJ Scan, findings proved positive for presence of semiconductors. During the exposure period, we received feedback that by using Zeolite will flush our presence of silicone semiconductors, aluminum, or microplastics in the body that exacerbate the effects of RF/EMF exposure. After aggressive doses for 3 weeks the auditory sounds have decreased by 60% of the volume. Supplements are another step taken to strengthen the immune system, Vitamin K, switching to a higher protein diet to build up muscle. In my humble opinion, the gaps I see are: • the lack of medical experts to holistically diagnose and provide guidance to reduce and eliminate AHIs is lacking. One doctor may diagnose muscle loss or fever, but does not have the tools to explain higher levels of metal, RF exposure, the involuntary muscle responses as part of the effects suffered by this individual. These EMF/RF exposures should leave technical signatures. The lack of a process to identify, apprehend and prevent this expose is sorely lacking. • In evaluating such cases, medical facilities should have proper equipment and training to scan the body for metals, is it can react more negatively to RF/EMF exposure, identify frequencies and technical signatures, and safe scanning equipment without harming the individual which is already exposed to all kinds of negative effects. • Lastly, AHI needs to be acknowledged that US civilians are afflicted by this, and not just exclusive to the military. No treatment can be offered with the acknowledgement of what is truly happening.

Out of concern for my own health I purchased my own Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum analyzer. I find that I can detect the cell phone tower about a hundred yards from my apartment, but the intensity of radiation is orders of magnitude lower than would concern me. The multiple antennas on the tower look like a phased array, which beam signals to cell phones, and reduce the RF radiation spilled in other directions. So as long as I don't have a cell phone, I am not worried. When testing cell phones, the power levels that they emit are usually a few times below the level that concerns me. However, they do rise to as much as ten times dangerous levels when the cell phone has a weak signal. I also don't want to be in the beam from the cell phone tower. I believe that the huge increase in cataracts is due to RF exposure from cell phones. RF exposure is also known to cause brain tumors and infertility. RF towers handling high data rates, such as from data centers or military installations have well known hazards to those within a quarter mile. Cell phones use the same RF frequencies as microwave ovens. Those frequencies are resonant with water: They heat water efficiently. About half of the microwave ovens that I test leak RF; and the directions of emission vary greatly. A crack as long as a centimeter is sufficient to be a dangerous leak. Therefore I recommend that people stand at least two meters (six feet) from an operating microwave oven, because at that distance the power usually drops to safe levels. Exceptions must be made for rooms which have conducting walls, where constructive interference can amplify the radiation in locations far from the oven.

Wireless radiation standards in the U.S. are outdated and severely deficient. Thousands of independent studies have shown that there are numerous ill effects from RF/EMF, such as oxidative stress, cancer, and neurological disorders. I've been very sensitive to RF/EMF for many years, and unfortunately, levels continue to get worse. I have neurological symptoms from exposures. I've had to make accommodations to my living environment (e.g. special shielding) to try and limit my exposures. I'm currently looking for a new place to live because my exposures from neighbors has gotten so bad (e.g. wireless routers on 24 hours a day, Tesla cars charging all night long, which cause magnetic field levels in my house to double or triple, etc.) Also, the medical community needs to be educated about RF/EMF because most doctors know very little about the subject (a similar situation to the lack of knowledge about nutrition). Thank you for reaching out for feedback.

To: US Department of Health and Human Services From: Kathleen Morris, age 83, Pittsboro, NC Dear Sirs, RFK Jr. said that if you believe that you or a member of your family has experienced an adverse health effect that may be associated with radio frequency or electromagnetic field exposure, share your experience. I am such a person. In 1998 I was living in an apartment in Ramsey, NJ, where, due to underground and overhead electrical wiring the magnetic fields were elevated. Magnetic fields are the “magnetic” part of the term “electromagnetic fields.” Magnetic fields are commonly measured in milligauss (mG) or microtesla (𝝁T), using a tool called a gaussmeter. The utility company came in and found that the reading in my apartment was 100 mG in most places. They said this was a healthy level. The real healthy level is and was around 2.0 mG or less. Then I bought my own meters for EMFs and learned to use them. My symptoms included not being able to sleep. I had to sleep in my car. By 4:00 am, when not many people were using electricity, the levels in the apartment dropped to where I could go back to the apartment and fall asleep. But that’s not the final outcome. I got a few hours of sleep but at the end of it my head and brain felt “frozen.” It felt like a rock and that I was not “myself.” Luckily I had a job where my time was flexible and I could “wait it out” until the feeling subsided, which was by about 1:00 pm. I had to abandon my roommate, break my lease, and move to a safe place. I could never move where there are elevated radiofrequency levels in the vicinity of cell towers. I can’t own a Smart Phone. I can’t drive modern cars with all their electricity. I can’t fly on an airplane or ride in an electric train… both of which give me the “frozen” feeling. I found out the hard way that I can’t use electric devices like cars or trolleys. If it got bad enough when traveling I would have to ask for help because I’d have trouble “thinking.” One time I had a wonderful vacation and took a train home that switched from diesel to electric on the way. There went the good feeling from the vacation. My normal recovery time for an incident like that was four days. I have Wi-Fi but it is about 40 feet away from my computer. Ethernet cable would be better. In order to stay “normal” I follow the “degree, distance, duration” rules. DEGREE refers to the power level or strength of the EMF being emitted by a specific source. DISTANCE is your most powerful defense against EMFs because of the physics of how radiation travels. DURATION focuses on the amount of time you are actively exposed to an electromagnetic field. To this day I am paying $15 a month for the right not to have a Smart Meter installed on my house because the new Smart Meters give off high levels of radiofrequency EMFs. A Smart Meter is the meter that measures monthly electricity usage and communicates over the air with the utility company. For my meter the meter reader has to walk up to the meter to read it. It is called an Opt-out meter. Thankfully Duke Energy provides an electric meter with NO EMFs! I doubt whether you will ever prove one way or another if it is genetic or psychological or an indicator of some level of poor health that brings on symptoms from EMFs. Mineral deficiency could play a role. Even too much grief in life could play a role. Reacting to EMFs could even be a survival mechanism because the body is an electrical unit, and it must "notice" as a living unit that it is in a foreign space when EMFs are out of its healthy range. There is also dirty electricity that I keep a watch on. Dirty electricity is considered a part of the study of electromagnetic fields. You can ask Magda Havas about that and how it causes cancer in school children and teachers. I did find one honest doctor. He said that the best he had for me was that I should move to a mountain top! I read every book I could find that was written by scientists and other professionals. I would have gone to the Environmental Health Center, Dallas if I could have afforded it. I have watched big business crush the ideas about EMFs that president Trump is now looking at. They actually “think” that if the EMFs are not heating the body then what could the issue possibly be. Ask the trillion and trillions of cells in the body what they think of that. I'm doing okay now as long as I practice what they call "avoidance, avoidance, avoidance." My next book will be Dr. Eric Berg's new book “Change Your Environments: Redesign Your Life to Reclaim Your Health,” published by MAHA Books on September 15, 2026. Thank you and good luck on your plans to help Make America Great Again. Very sincerely,