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In this video, which is Part 1 of a two-part series, Brian Hoyer and I answer your questions about electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation. Brian is a leading EMF expert¹ and a primary consultant for my new book, "EMF*D," which is being released today.

In the video, Brian shares his personal journey and training, which includes nutritional therapy and continued education at the Klinghardt Academy.² As a nutritional therapist, Brian would see patients that just didn't seem to fully recuperate.

Once he began implementing EMF shielding techniques taught by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, they'd suddenly experience significant improvements. In some cases, they didn't even need supplements or certain medications anymore. For example, many patients struggling with leaky gut significantly improved simply by sleeping in a shielded room every single night. Brian says:

"We talk so much … [about] the ancestral way of movement and all those sorts of things. But … what's the ancestral energetic environment? Now we have all of these modern exposures to these pulsating currents and voltages of electricity in a vastly different frequency range than we've ever been exposed to in the history of mankind.

Approaching that whole gamut of energy from this more ancestral perspective, I realized it's not only what we put into our body. It's also what we put our body into — this environment — that needs to change. If we can mimic the ancestral environment, then all these dormant healing responses wake up and the body starts to heal itself …

We've come up with a priority system on where you need to shield the most to get the most bang for your buck. And then also, what to worry about and what not to worry about when it comes to your EMF exposures, and what you can do when you are exposed."

Your EMF Questions Answered

We cover a wide variety of really good questions in this interview. Due to the length of the interview, we broke the video into two parts. Part 1 (above) focuses on the first of dozens of questions.

It ended up being a rather extended discussion, as it covers several basics, such as the areas of your home that should be given the greatest priority, the six types of radiation that need to be addressed, and some of the basic remediation strategies for wireless frequencies, electric fields and artificial lighting.

Three Areas of Priority When Shielding 

Regardless of where your bedrooms are located, they're clearly the most important part of your home in terms of needing EMF shielding. If you can create a shielded environment there, then you're essentially replicating the ancestral environment where there's no electricity for eight hours or so every night.

This is a crucial time, as this is when your body needs to be in a parasympathetic state, detoxing, repairing and rejuvenating itself.

"In a typical scenario, in a person's bedroom, their [body] voltage could be anywhere from 500 millivolts at the lowest … up to 10,000, 15,000 millivolts on their body all night long, [so] you've got this contraction of your muscles happening," Brian says.

"Think about the way that electricity impacts the body. How do we restart a heart? We pump voltage into it. It makes your heart muscle contract … I think one of the reasons we're so magnesium deficient in our modern culture is because we've got this constant exposure to this alternating current [causing] micro-contractions all night long and all day long in our muscles.

That depletes us of magnesium, which is trying to relax our muscles. So, we've got this constant tension going on all the time. If you have that at night while you're sleeping, your body can never really get into that full parasympathetic state so that you can actually do the healing and restoration that you need ...

Your cortisol is going up, your melatonin is going down, you're not getting that restorative detoxification of the brain and your lymphatics are not detoxing optimally."

The area in which you eat is the second priority, as your body needs to be in a parasympathetic (relaxed) state in order for your digestion to function properly. An alternative strategy is to eat at your dinner table, and about an hour afterward, which is when your main digestion is taking place, go into your shielded space and relax for a while. "People who have digestive issues who do that have seen amazing results," Brian says.

The third priority would be if you're using a sauna for detoxification. Making sure your sauna has low or no EMF is an important consideration, as it will impact your ability to detox. Working with Sauna Space, Brian has helped develop a shielded near-infrared sauna.

"It's a drastic reduction in the wireless frequencies that you're exposed to. It's basically like having a portable shielded room," Brian says. "That allows your body to get into a deeper parasympathetic response, deeper detox, and we've seen some amazing results in people who are electro-sensitive using these saunas …

For my standards, I want the body to be in a parasympathetic state when you're in your sauna, so we're looking at [an EMF reading of] 0.3 milligauss or less in the sauna. That's the goal."

Remedial Strategies for 6 Types of EMF Stress

Brian tests homes for six primary stressors:

Wireless frequencies — "Anything from the FM radio station up through about 900 megahertz resonates with the human body and the skin, and the conductivity that's on the skin," Brian says, pointing out that while many are worried about the millimeter wave part of 5G, he's far more concerned about the 600-megahertz band that's been opened up for T-Mobile's 5G network. It penetrates deeper and goes farther than any of the 5G networks. Most cellphone companies have been using 900 to 2000 megahertz, so T-Mobile's network is a much lower frequency, which allows it to cover a greater area. "A lot of the assessment is hunting down Wi-Fi sources and telling people how to minimize them. Like don't leave your printer plugged in and turned on, because it's always emitting Wi-Fi and you only use your printer, what, once a week? And then Apple TVs, smart TVs — even remotes for the Roku. Sometimes they'll have Wi-Fi built into them that are constantly emitting," Brian says.

Electric fields from voltage, wiring in the walls, and appliances and devices plugged into your light sockets. Most commercial buildings, condos and hotels are not an issue, as building codes require the electrical wiring to be in a metal conduit, which essentially eliminates the electric fields behind the walls. Few residential homes have that, however, as it's not part of code in most areas. If you're building your home, you can install shielded wiring from the start, although it does cost more. If your wiring is not shielded, the solution would be to turn off the electricity, although that still might not solve the problem. In my own home, there was an electric current running through the floor as well, which remained when I turned off the electricity to my bedroom. "Ultimately, in my experience, everybody needs the RF shielding and wireless protection," Brian says, "Our solution for that is to have a canopy over the bed that's a conductive fabric that you can ground, so that the electric fields can't get in, and something on the floor as well. The ultimate solution is to paint the bedroom with shielding paint [that's] grounded as well, so even if the power is on — provided you have nothing plugged into the wall — you are not getting electric fields coming in. And then we have to do the floor as well."

Magnetic fields occurring from wiring errors, motors, power lines and transformers outside the home, as well as metal pipes with current, usually when you are on a municipal water supply

Dirty electricity

Geopathic stress that comes up from the earth

Artificial lighting (color spectrum and flicker rates). The best types of light bulbs are incandescent bulbs with higher wattage, as they have the most natural color spectrum and lowest flicker rates. Brian recommends using 100 watt or 150 watt incandescent bulbs whenever possible. But one needs to be careful as they create loads of heat, and many fixtures will not accommodate them. Brian also recommends the 250-watt near-infrared light bulb from Sauna Space, called Photon.3 It's $350 and can be used in your sauna, as a heat lamp and to improve the quality of your indoor lighting.

The testing and assessment Brian's company, Shielded Healing, offers takes about four hours, and starts at around $1,000 for a studio apartment. For larger homes, tack on $100 per bedroom and per 1,000 square feet. The fee includes a free retest, to make sure all of your remediation strategies are in fact working.

The cost for remediation can vary widely, depending on what you need and whom you hire to do the job. For a typical 12 by 12-foot room, you can expect to pay about $1,000 to $1,500 for shielding materials, depending on how many windows you have, as shielding windows tends to be costly.

While it's certainly a worthwhile investment that will pay dividends in terms of health, the cost may be too high for many. They still need a solution though. With Brian's help, my team has created an EMF-shielded sleeping tent, which will be among the most effective yet least expensive approaches available. We hope to have it available before the summer. After three years of development, the final prototype was recently finished.

There's No Getting Around the Need to Measure Your Exposures

When looking to buy or rent a home, key areas to avoid would be near a cellphone tower or powerline. Higher elevations like hilltops are also typically higher EMF areas, while rural areas tend to have lower saturation (provided you're not near a cellphone tower).

That said, you cannot identify low-EMF areas simply by looking at the location anymore. Regardless of where you live, you're likely to have one or more of the EMF stressors reviewed above, and will need to remediate them. In the end, the only way to tell if EMF is a problem in any given location is to measure it. 

"We don't know until we turn on the meters and can measure it," Brian says. "What I tell people is, yeah, generally speaking, the higher [elevation] you get, the more exposed you will be, but usually you're going to have to shield anyway.

If you can take an FM radio and get a radio station, you're being exposed to radio frequency radiation. And even people out in the middle of nowhere, like a national forest, a lot of times they'll still have radio-frequency exposure.

It's not natural. It's not something our ancestors were exposed to and it's something that you need out of your life at least while you're sleeping. Go through that priority system we've talked about ... Mitigate where you can and do some biological inputs using the solutions that we talk about …

You also have to test the ground current that's going into the ground and the dirty electricity, and if there are wiring errors. You need a really good screening tool in order to pick the right property. Also, rule out a massive exposure that's going to be more difficult to shield. We have come across that in some of the inner-city areas where it's really high …"

In an article on his blog, he adds:⁴

"It's important to understand that the PULSATION isn't natural. We don't receive modulated digital radio frequencies in nature. We get analog signals and they are MUCH weaker. The strongest radio signals we receive from natural sources from the cosmos are about a ONE HUNDRED BILLIONTH OF A WATT.

That means 1 microwatt of RF energy is about 1 million times stronger than the strongest RF pulse we would have received ancestrally."

Everyone Needs EMF Shielding

A key take-home message here is that virtually everyone needs to consider doing EMF remediation these days. Everyone needs an EMF-free space, at least during sleep, in order to prevent accelerated aging and everything that goes with it.

Remember, your body rejuvenates and detoxes during sleep, but if your body is bombarded with EMFs all night long, it won't be able to effectively perform those crucial cleanout and regenerative functions. To learn more, be sure to download the transcript of this discussion. We cover questions like:

What meter do you need to measure the six EMF stressors and what are the ideal, healthy levels?	How can you protect yourself from your neighbor's Wi-Fi?
What's the greatest, most harmful source of EMF exposure?	Why is it that partial shielding can make the situation worse rather than better?
What produces most of the dirty electricity in your home and what's the most effective way to filter it?	Are AirPods, wireless battery-operated headsets and hearing aids safe to wear all day?
How can you protect yourself from the EMF in your car?	Do EMF-shielding clothing actually work?
Which supplements can help ward off the negative effects of EMF, and how do they work?	Can you watch TV without Wi-Fi?
Will a satellite Wi-Fi dish expose you to harmful EMF?	Could 5G worsen autoimmune diseases or chronic infections such as Lyme disease?
What are the two most common EMF exposures in most homes, and how do you remediate them?

For the answers to these and many other questions, be sure to watch Part 1 and Part 2 of this interview, or download the 55-page transcript.

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In this interview, Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, author of “It's All in Your Mouth: Biological Dentistry and the Surprising Impact of Oral Health on Whole Body Wellness,” discusses his “all-in-one” holistic treatment program, and why addressing your oral health can have far-reaching whole body benefits.

Nischwitz is a biological dentist, like his father before him, and has served as president of the International Society of Metal Free Implantology (ISMI) since 2019.

As a child, Nischwitz “was always a little bit sick” and was frequently treated with antibiotics for recurrent throat infections. At the age of 14, his wisdom teeth were extracted. Age 15 brought on appendicitis and severe acne, which were also treated with antibiotics for months at a time.

“I thought it was normal to be just a little sick and then a little healthy … Then they wanted to take out my tonsils when I was 16. My mom said, ‘Ah, let's get a second opinion. Go to this naturopathic doctor’ … He tested me with kinesiology and … told me, ‘You're just allergic to milk … This is an allergy.’

[Removing milk] helped. My tonsils are still in there and it took me a few more years to actually look into dentistry. I was [doing] civil service at a Red Cross as a paramedic … and you have to do an internship in the clinic.

Maybe it's coincidence. They put me in dental clinic ... I applied to university, made the cut, and started without knowing anything. Finally, I got interested [in health] … because at the same time, I was starting to work out. I just wanted to perform better.”

Following the advice given in a bodybuilding magazine, Nischwitz started eating 3,000 calories a day to gain mass. Little did he know all calories are not equal, and after a year of eating noodles and tuna, he’d gained 20 kilos (about 44 pounds), although it wasn’t all muscle.

“I didn't know it was health that I was missing. I was just focusing on performance and of course muscle gain. Maybe it was just an aesthetic thing, but I learned everything I could about nutrition ...

I tried every possible diet. I used every supplement. I was the guy in university who had his box of food always with him, not even knowing that it maybe was also too much carbs … But I learned a lot from this.”

Eventually, Nischwitz learned about the effects dental amalgam has on health, which “totally clicked with everything nutrition-wise” he was learning. “Every minute in my residency when I wasn't drilling out amalgam fillings, I was searching the internet for stuff to remove, to detox, how the liver phases work, basically, everything possible,” he says. “I was really curious to find real solutions.”

The All-in-One Concept of Health

Nischwitz now focuses on what he calls an “all-in-one concept” of health, starting with the mouth.

“Your teeth are organs that are connected to your whole nervous system and basically are part of your brain, kind of like your eyes,” he says. “You have this massive brain nerve there called the trigeminal nerve. It's one of the 12 cranial nerves and takes up 50% of the space of all the other ones, so it's quite important.”

To get started, patients will send him their current panoramic X-rays, a medical questionnaire, and their vitamin D3 and LDL blood work to provide some basic knowledge of their health.

Next, the patient must be properly prepared through nutrition and other lifestyle changes. “It's basically the same stuff you would do for a patient of every other functional medicine doctor. Go as natural as possible,” Nischwitz says.

His book contains two charts, one red and one green. The red chart describes common food intolerances and food toxins, and their alternatives. All patients are asked to go grain- and dairy-free. The green chart lists healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats and proteins to add to your diet.

Nischwitz has also developed a Bone Healing Protocol that includes certain micronutrients and focuses on high doses of vitamin D3. Vitamin D levels, for example, should ideally be above 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), and if your levels are low to begin with, you may need to take a supplement for several months before your treatments begin. The protocol also stresses magnesium, vitamin K2, vitamin C and B vitamins.

“So, they come into this health optimization week already immunologically boosted,” Nischwitz. “The nervous system is already very good. What we're trying to achieve then is bring the patient from chronic sympathetic nervous system mode into parasympathetic [mode] …”

Removing Oral Factors That Interfere With Health

Nischwitz’s all-in-one treatment plan includes removing or addressing oral interference such as:

After surgery, Nischwitz prepares a “food design” or “lifestyle concept” plan for each patient, based on body composition, metabolism and so on.

More Information

Nischwitz firmly believes cavities and resulting problems can be avoided altogether by following an optimized lifestyle program where you’re getting ideal levels of sun exposure, nutrition, and avoid toxins and certain dietary culprits such as gluten and dairy.

“This is why it's so important that all this information comes out,” he says. “And that's why I devoted a whole chapter to the nutritional part. Basically, biological dentistry, I would say, is an overlap of functional medicine, biohacking and high tech dentistry with the goal of optimal health. I'm a big fan of the basics, and the goal is [changing] the lifestyle …

Everybody talks about leaky gut, but nobody talks about leaky gum. The gum tissue, the gingiva, is the same tissue, it's squamous tissue. And if you have a chronic gingivitis, for example, just from a lack of nutrients or maybe from the wrong [dental] restorations, you will have an opening into your system because the gingiva is outside.

Your bacteria cannot go really inside [the tooth], but if there’s an opening in the gum or if you have a titanium implant where the tissue doesn't grow on top, you will always have a huge gap … and all these bacteria, mainly anaerobic bacteria, will travel into your system. This is basically leaky gum. [The problem] starts there, because the gut basically starts in your mouth.”

Nischwitz also stresses the importance of a natural birth (whenever possible) and breastfeeding, as this is really important for proper jaw formation. Breastfeeding requires far greater strength than sucking formula from a bottle, so sucking on the breast develops the lower jaw and muscles, and ensures the proper development of the baby’s palate.

“This is the fulfilling part for me — that I can help you optimize your health. And this is also the challenge that I put onto all my patients; they have to change their lifestyle. Otherwise, we don't even accept them because then they won’t have good results.”

To learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of “It's All in Your Mouth: Biological Dentistry and the Surprising Impact of Oral Health on Whole Body Wellness.” You can also find more information about Nischwitz’ practice on his website, DNA Health & Aesthetics. Other resources include his YouTube channel and Instagram.

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We seem to be stuck in a nonstop news cycle about the new coronavirus that is causing an illness called COVID-19. Many parents are understandably sharing concerns, too — at least among friends and families. It’s also possible that teenagers are talking to their own friends and surfing the web and social media sites to gather information, including potential misinformation.

How can you make sure teenagers are informed just enough without feeling overwhelmed, yet also have accurate information? Your teen already may be asking many questions. Even if not, it might be a good idea to find out what your teen has heard in case you need to clarify information and ask them if they have any worries. (If you have younger children, see my blog on talking to children about coronavirus.)

If you have your own questions about the new coronavirus, check reliable sources, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which offers a range of information about the virus. The World Health Organization’s myth busters page can help you give correct answers to some surprising questions and misinformation that is spreading.

Answering questions teens may have about the new coronavirus

Before you start, ask what your child knows so far in case you need to clarify anything, and find out what questions your child has. Below are some questions teens might ask about the new coronavirus and some suggested responses.

What caused this new coronavirus?

Coronaviruses cause the common cold and the flu. This coronavirus is believed to have started in animals and then passed on to humans at a live animal market in China.

Why now?

This is actually not the first time that there has been a widespread virus that started in animals and spread to humans. Another example is the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2002 that was caused by a different coronavirus. That virus eventually was contained. Doctors, scientists, and government officials are working hard to do the same with this newest coronavirus.

One reason why we are hearing more about this virus is because of how fast it is spreading and how much it has affected people in many different countries. Another reason is that we also have many more ways of sharing information than we did in 2002, and posts now have the ability to “go viral” themselves. If you notice that you are becoming distressed after reading all of the posts about the virus, then it might be helpful to limit how much you read about the virus in the news and on sites or apps, to be informed just enough.

Can our pets get sick?

There is little evidence that domesticated pets, including dogs and cats at home, are likely to get sick from this new coronavirus, or spread the virus.

Can you die from the new coronavirus?

Most people — probably more than 95% and possibly more than 99% — who have gotten sick from the new coronavirus have not died. The death rate is likely even lower than has been reported in the news because, just like with the flu, some people with mild cases of the virus may not have gone to the doctor to get tested.

Will my school close because of concerns regarding the new coronavirus?

Some communities may decide to temporarily close places, including schools, to give communities affected by illness caused by the virus a chance to prevent it from spreading quickly. This has happened before when some schools have had high rates of other viruses, including the norovirus. Those schools reopened later. If your school makes the decision to close temporarily, we will hear more about that.

Should we stay home to remain safe, so we don’t catch the new coronavirus?

People who are infected with the new coronavirus are asked to stay home for about two weeks. Also, people who might have been exposed to the virus are asked to stay home for a period of time to make sure they don’t develop any symptoms of the virus.

If you don’t have the virus, then you should continue to do what you need and love to do. Practice the same everyday healthy habits that you would (or should) do anyway. You’ll be on track if you:

• Sneeze or cough into tissues (and throw them away) or sneeze or cough into your elbow. These behaviors help keep germs from traveling and making other people sick.
• Wash your hands with soap and water after going to the bathroom, before eating, and after blowing your nose. When you wash your hands, remember to count slowly to 20.
• Try to avoid touching your mouth, eyes, and nose, which are places where the germs can enter your body.
• Try to get enough sleep and eat well to help your body stay healthy.

Additional tips for supporting your teen

• Remind teens that everyone is working hard to manage the virus.
• Although it may seem difficult, it is important to model calmness. Teens will look to parents to gauge how worried they should be, even though it may seem like they just tune you out!
• Show your teens that it’s possible to continue to do what is important to you while practicing healthy behaviors.
• If it becomes necessary to adjust plans, be transparent and direct with your teen so that they understand the rationale behind the decision. For example, if you have to postpone travel because of new advice about safe travel, then let your teen know that. Check the CDC travel advisories for up-to-date information. You can add that the trip was postponed because it was not a necessary trip, and that the family will continue to do what is necessary each day.

For additional information, see our blog on what parents should know and do about the coronavirus and our Coronavirus Resource Center.

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