June 2010

New England Health Advisory: Type 3 Diabetes and Electropollution

By Inger Pols

Research increasingly shows that energy and electricity can interfere with our body’s normal functioning. Cell phones, cordless phones, cell phone towers and WiFi can affect us all at a cellular level and those who are more sensitive may experience a significant disruption in cellular function and communication. I’m going to write more about electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and their effect on our bodies in coming weeks, including why microwaves are not allowed in Russia. But today I want to share some new information about how EMFs may affect blood sugar levels and lead to—or exacerbate—diabetes.

One leading researcher argues that there are three forms of diabetes, not two. Type 1, which is genetic, is generally diagnosed at a young age and requires insulin injections for effective management. Type 2, which used to be called adult onset, is brought on by diet and lifestyle choices and can be prevented or managed through diet changes and exercise. (It no longer takes an adult lifetime to damage cell signaling, as you learned in the sugar report. Today, more and more children are being diagnosed with this preventable form of diabetes.)Now Dr. Magda Havas of the University of Trent in Canada has shown that there is a third condition that is caused by the environment, not genes or diet. She calls it Type 3 diabetes and her research shows that “dirty” electricity and electromagnetic fields can alter blood sugar levels both in previously diagnosed Type 1 and 2 diabetics, as well as in people who have not been diagnosed with diabetes.

Her research, published in Electromagnetic Medicine and Biology, presents four case studies of patients affected by “dirty” energy. This is emerging research, so the numbers haven’t been quantified yet, but Dr. Havas estimates between five and 60 million diabetics are affected by this energy.So what exactly is “dirty” energy?

—Dirty Electricity and Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)

According to Dr. Havas, “dirty electricity” describes “electric power that has become corrupted by our use of modern appliances. Items such as CFL bulbs, cell phone transmission antennas, power supplies for portable computers, cell phone chargers, dimmer switches, variable speed fans and many other electronic devises that require a transformer to convert the voltage will “dirty” the electricity that enters your home. This form of dirty electro-magnetic fields (EMF) is invisible to the eye, but has a biological effect on the human body and has been associated with a wide variety of illnesses.”While Dr. Havas’ research is new, she is not the only one to write about EMFs. Many physicians and scientists, including Dr. Thomas Rau of the world-renowned Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland, and others such as Dr. Weill, Dr. Mercola, Dr. David Carpenter and even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been warning about these concerns since the 1980s.

Dr. Rau is convinced that “electromagnetic loads” can lead to cancer, ADD, migraines, insomnia, arrhythmia, Parkinson’s disease, back pain and difficulty concentrating. People who are super-sensitive to EMFs can get headaches, nausea, muscle aches, fatigue or skin irritations just from being around WiFi or cell phone towers.Dr. David Carpenter, Dean of the School of Public Health at State University of New York at Albany has attributed up to 30% of childhood cancers to EMFs. Martin Halper, the Director of Analysis and Support for the EPA says, “I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of evidence we are seeing with EMFs. Clearly there is something here.”

In 1989, the Department of Energy reported that, “It has now become generally accepted that there are, indeed, biological effects due to field exposure.” And Dr. Andrew Weill, natural health expert, has said, “Electromagnetic (EMF) pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced in this century, all the more dangerous because it is an invisible, insensible ‘toxin.’ ”Scientists and the government have known about these dangers for decades now, but the proliferation of wireless technology since then makes the risks greater than ever before, especially those who are more sensitive.
So what exactly does “dirty” electricity do?

—The Effect of “Dirty” Electricity

Dr. Havas looked at the effect of dirty electricity on blood sugar levels in four different scenarios. In the first, the patient was a 54-year-old man who had not yet been diagnosed with diabetes, but was considered to be “pre-diabetic.” In this case, the man’s blood sugar levels were found to be normal when he was outside fishing and camping and he had no blood sugar concerns. But when he measured his blood sugar inside his house, especially after working on a computer, he experienced blood sugar spikes.
The man’s blood sugar and the level of “dirty” electricity in his home were measured in the morning for nine days. The higher the level of dirty electricity, the higher his recorded blood sugar levels. On one day, he forgot to measure his blood sugar first thing and instead measured it later while working at his computer. It was shown to be higher than normal. He stepped away from his computer and measured it again 10 minutes later, and it had dropped 20 mg/dL or milligrams per deciliter.The second case was a 57-year-old woman with Type 2 diabetes who uses exercise to control her blood sugar levels. In the study, she walked inside a mall (after hours when everything was shut down) for 20 minutes and her plasma glucose was shown to drop significantly after her exercise from above acceptable levels down to acceptable levels. When she used a treadmill inside her home for 20 minutes instead and conducted the same blood sugar measurements, her blood sugar was shown to increase after exercise!

In the third case, an 80-year-old woman with Type 1 diabetes who was taking insulin measured her blood sugar every morning for a week. Then she had energy filters installed in her house to remove the “dirty” electricity and she measured her blood sugar every morning for the subsequent week. The filters removed 98% of the “dirty” electricity in her home and her blood sugar dropped 33%; the amount of insulin she required to manage her condition was reduced by 75% as a result.The final case study involved a 12-year-old boy with Type 1 diabetes who was sent to the hospital with very high blood sugar levels. He was given increased insulin until his blood sugar began to decrease and he was allowed to go home. Then, filters were installed in his home and his blood sugar dropped significantly as did the amount of insulin he required (to about half his former level). His younger sister, who had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of three months, also saw her insulin levels significantly reduced after the filters were installed.

In another part of the study, Dr. Havas put patients on beds with cordless phones two feet away from their heads. The phone was plugged into the wall, and either turned on or off for each session, though neither the patient nor the doctor administering the test knew whether the phone was on or off.Patients who were sensitive to EMFs experienced significant increases in their heart rates when the phone was powered on, and their normal heart rates returned almost instantly once the phone was turned off again.

—How do You Know if You Have Type 3 Diabetes?

If you experience unexplained blood sugar spikes, you may want to look into whether you are sensitive to “dirty” energy. If your blood sugar levels change based on your environment (test levels when you are outside in nature and at the same time when you are inside your home) or you have difficulty regulating your blood sugar levels for reasons you cannot identify, it’s worth exploring this further. One simple and easy way to test is to measure your blood sugar before and after exercising on electronic exercise equipment. After exercise, your blood sugar levels should be reduced; if they increase, you are energy sensitive.While we are all vulnerable to “dirty” energy exposure, it is unknown how many of us are sensitive enough to experience such measurable disruptions. The case studies Dr. Havas presents are just a small sample, but knowing you are sensitive to “dirty” electricity may be critical for improving your health and wellness. Because many doctors remain unaware, you may need to be proactive in exploring the reasons behind your blood sugar variations and the appropriate actions you can take to help restore balance.

—How to Reduce Exposure to Electropollution

Even if you are not sensitive enough to “dirty” electricity to see a physiological manifestation like heart rate increases or blood sugar level spikes, we are all bombarded with electropollution on a daily basis and many experts agree that minimizing our exposure makes good health sense for us all.The first step you can take is to test your home. The website EMF Safety Store identifies and summarizes various meters you can use to measure EMFs and offers filters to mitigate “dirty” electricity. Filters will capture the electrical noise from things like televisions, computers and phones and filter it out of your house and back into the line or the ground.

Whether you test or not, try to reduce exposure to cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi, microwaves, electric blankets and heating pads. Keep wireless routers and cell phones away from your body and be sure your router is removed from any area where people sleep or spend a lot of time. (Sometimes even a few feet can make a difference, but the further away, the better. I keep mine in my office at the opposite end of the house from the bedrooms and family living area.)At night, turn off phones, your router or any other electricity emitting devices. And never walk around with a headset on your head. Headsets deliver a steady stream of radiation, even when you are not speaking: They serve as a tractor beam of sorts for EMFs. If you must use a headset, take it off when you are not speaking.

Spending more time outside and away from all our gadgets, appliances and technology is a great way to recharge, reconnect and to reduce our exposure to “dirty” energy. And while you are outside, you can get some vitamin D and increase your health benefits at the same time! To your health!



Inger Pols
Editor of New England Health Advisory

The original article can be found at http://www.nehealthadvisory.com/2010/06/type-3-diabetes-and-electropollution

Case 1 

The Vortex 

saves energy, eliminates chemicals and generates 250,000 jobs within a decade 

This article introduces the vortex as one of the 100 innovations 

that shape The Blue Economy. This article is of part of a broad 

effort to stimulate entrepreneurship, competitiveness and 

employment. 

By Gunter Pauli 

The Market 

The world market for water treatment and the production of potable water represents 

one of the safest investments ever. The commodity of water is indispensable for society 

and industry. The availability of clean water is increasingly under pressure as population 

increases and consumption per capita rises incessantly. Water used to be free of 

charge, a commons. The last few decades has turned water into a profitable business 

with a secure cash flow and rising costs to the consumer. 

The world market for water and waste water treatment surpassed the $200 billion mark 

in 2009. China leads this market with an estimated annual growth of 17 percent. 

Treating water sewage is valued at $40 billion with over 13,000 companies worldwide, 

driven by long term service contracts. The model of water treatment so far has involved 

sedimentation and oxidation, which means settling solids out and pumping air in, and a 

subsequent chemical treatment. The annual volume of chemicals used to treat water in the 

US exceeds 10 million tons. As world demand for water increases, so does demand for 

chemicals.

The consumption of bottled water increased by an average of 12 percent per year each 

year over the past decade with an estimated $22 billion in sales. One of the fastest 

growing niches in this quest to expand drinking water supply is the conversion of salt 

and grey water into drinking water through reverse osmosis. The capital expenditure for 

this technology exceeds $2.2 billion annually but is expected to grow another 50% over 

the next four years. Aguas de Barcelona (Spain), part of the GDF Suez Group (France), 

is planning the biggest installation of this type, investing over $1 billion, thus liberating 

Barcelona from a chronic water shortage.  

The Innovation 

It is within the context of the world market for water that we have to assess the arrival of 

an extraordinary simple innovation: the vortex. The vortex has the capacity to 

dramatically increase efficiency in water treatment, cutting costs while generating local 

jobs. This natural phenomenon could one day replace chemicals and membranes, and 

upset the existing cash flows of traditional suppliers that have looked safe. The 

technology platform of the vortex is inspired by the observation that dirty water cleanses 

itself as a river moves downstream. The continuous swirling movement forces air in and 

out of the water, discouraging and stimulating beneficial micro-organisms. 

Two Swedish inventors, the development engineer Curt Hallberg and his colleague  

Morten Oveson, translated their observations into a mathematical model and then 

created a simple device that emulates the movement of water in a vortex with 

predictable results. They continued their venture to create Watreco AB based in Malmö. 

Watreco AB was elected the Swedish GreenTech company of the year in 2009. This 

company is more than green - it changes the business model of water. 

The power of the vortex rests in the predictability of the laws of physics, where air 

particles are dragged to the center, from where air is sucked out. The energy source for 

this process may be simply gravity, which is guaranteed to power the device 24 hours 

per day! Gone are chemicals, gone are membranes, and energy consumption is minute. 

The First Cash Flow 

The inventors realized the broad spectrum of applications for their vortex device and 

searched for the first obvious market entry close to home, which was soon identified as 

ice making. The hand-made vortex generator achieved beneficial results: energy 

savings and crystal clear ice. Water includes air, dissolved in micron-size bubbles. The 

vortex removes this air, and since air acts as an insulator, the resulting air-free water 

freezes faster. Air-free ice is crystal clear and cracks much less readily. When applied to 

ice hockey rinks, advertising signs beneath the ice remain visible all season, thus 

increasing publicity revenues. Since there is no air in the ice, aerobic bacteria that 

typically grow in ice like E.coli and Salmonella cannot survive. Most of the prominent 

Scandinavian ice rinks have since adopted the technology, resulting in a financial 

payback within months, not years. 

The second niche market that has generated cash flow for Watreco AB is the golf 

course. A golf course may need up to one million gallons of water a day. To save water, 

surfactants are added to the water so that it penetrates faster into the greens and less 

evaporates. If the water has been pre-treated by the vortex machine, no chemicals are 

needed, reducing water requirement by 20 to 30 percent. This is a case where the 

vortex actually makes chemicals redundant. A third niche market is the removal of algae 

from stable water bodies including swimming pools, which are typically treated with 

chemicals like chlorine. 

The Opportunity 

While hockey rinks and golf courses are niche markets, the experience gained in these 

sectors prepared Curt Hallberg and his team for growth markets including industrial 

water treatment and desalination. The trial units of the vortex machine in the Canary 

Islands demonstrated that its treatment of salt water again permits the elimination of air, 

which subsequently eliminates the problem of biofilms. Biofilms grow on membranes, 

reducing the membraneʼs efficiency. This forces the closure of the desalination plantʼs 

reverse osmosis installation every fortnight to chemically remove biofilms. This 

increases maintenance costs (via an additional chemical requirement) and reduces the 

plantʼs efficiency (since shutdown periods require back up) as well as requiring further 

capital for replacement membranes (since the life of a membrane is reduced). If there is 

no air in the water, then the aerobic bacteria are excluded. If a vortex but no chemical is 

used, then the life expectancy of the membrane increases. In fact the energy cost of 

one cubic meter of drinking water could drop from 2.4 to 1.0 kiloWatt per hour. 

These are only a few of the applications of the vortex that have been realized, but it is 

expected that  more will be revealed soon. However what we know today confirms that 

the vortex machine results in reduced running costs, energy saved, chemicals 

eliminated and existing investments generating higher return. The challenge for 

mainstream industries is that the successful integration of the vortex into existing 

facilities requires a new core competence: fluid dynamics. It will now be up to General 

Electric, Siemens and Nitto Denko to take us out of the box. In the mean time, 

entrepreneurs around the world can create a new competitive model that generates jobs 

locally anywhere in the world. 

Gunter Pauli 

author of the Blue Economy 

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