Our presentation at this week's luncheon featured Cathy Cooke of Whole Home and Body Health. As a certified expert in holistic nutrition and building biology, she and her company dig deep to address underlying imbalances in people's bodies, looking especially at nutrition, exercise, mental outlook and stress, as well as at chemicals, mold and EMFs in their homes and workplaces. Just in time for Halloween, we were scared silly but inspired by her focus on EMFs or electric and magnetic fields
Cathy shared what EMFs are and how they have become so much more prevalent in our technological world. She became interested in this field after discovering that her health was suffering from overexposure to EMFs. She realized dramatic improvements after limiting radio-frequency exposure from Wi-Fi and cell phones.Symptoms that people may experience are tinnitus, insomnia, anxiety and imbalances in the body, all supported by many studies confirming the link to EMF exposure. Radio frequencies operate our cell phones, Bluetooth devices, Wi-Fi networks, TV/DVR controllers, microwave ovens and other devices that so many of us rely on. We are also surrounded in our homes by electrical fields from the outlets and switches in every room of the house.
Cathy explained the physiology of EMF exposure on our bodies by talking about their effects on the voltage gates of our cells, a concept that was difficult to understand. Fortunately, we don't have to return to a world before all our convenient devices existed. She shared ways to reduce our exposure, such as turning off devices and Wi-Fi routers at night when we sleep, not charging our phones near us at night (the farther away, the better), using corded headsets or the speaker function on our phones to avoid holding the phone close to our heads, turning off Bluetooth devices when possible and many others. Saying that this was a sobering presentation is an understatement, as we all thought about how much we depend on some or all of these devices today.
Besides helping clients with diet, nutrition and other health factors, Whole Home and Body Health provides home inspections to assess where EMF exposure is highest and teach people to better manage their exposure. More information is available at her website.