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Electromagnetic Effects on the Adrenal Gland ¢ Cortisol: Augner et al. (2010) in a double-blind study (where neither the subject nor the person recording the results knows whether the radiation is switched on or off) showed that short-term exposure to the radiation from a 2G (GSM) cellphone base station increased the cortisol level in the saliva of human volunteers. Cortisol is a stress hormone that is normally produced in the cortex of the adrenal glands and is controlled by the calcium level in their cells (Davies et al., 1985), so electromagnetically induced membrane leakage letting more calcium into the cytosol should also have this effect. A good example of this is the thyroid gland, which _ Electromagnetic Effects on the Adrenal Gland is in an exposed position in the front of the neck. ¢ Cortisol: Augner et al. (2010) in a double-blind study Rajkovic et al. (2003) showed that after three months’ (where neither the subject nor the person recording the exposure to power-line frequencies, the thyroid — results knows whether the radiation is switched on or glands of rats showed visible signs of deterioration. off) showed that short-term exposure to the radiation They also lost their ability to produce the thyroid from a 2G (GSM) cellphone base station increased the hormones, which they did not recover even after the cortisol level in the saliva of human volunteers. Cortisol fields were switched off. Esmekaya et al. (2010) found is a stress hormone that is normally produced in the a similar visible deterioration of the thyroid gland in cortex of the adrenal glands and is controlled by the rats exposed to simulated 2G cellphone radiation for calcium level in their cells (Davies et al., 1985), so 20 minutes a day for three weeks. electromagnetically induced membrane leakage letting Eskander et al. (2012) found that people living for six. more calcium into the cytosol should also have this years within 100 metres of a cellphone base station __ effect. showed a significant reduction in the Cortisol is part of a mechanism that release into the blood of a number puts the body into a "fight or flight" of hormones, including ACTH mode, in which more sugar is {adrenocorticotropic hormone] from released into the blood, sensitivity to the pituitary gland, cortisol from the pain is reduced and the immune adrenal glands, and prolactin and It may not be a system is suppressed. In fact, cortisol festosterone from organs elsewhere. coincidence that and s relatives are used medicinally owever, the most highly significan 0 relieve pain and also to suppress loss was in their ability to produce about a quarter of a he immune system after transplant the thyroid hormones. million UK citizens surgery. However, when exposure to The expected consequence of this . base station radiation does it, it is is hypothyroidism, the most frequen are NOW suffering not good news since the suppression symptoms of which are fatigue and from what is being of the immune system will also obesity. It may not be a coincidence increase the risk of infection and of that about a quarter of a million UK diagnosed as chronic developing tumours from citizens are now suffering from 0 precancerous cells that might what is being diagnosed as fatigue syndrome, otherwise have been destroyed. chronic fatigue syndrome, and and about eight ¢ Adrenalin: Buchner and overueight or clinically obese. out of 10 are either a newly installed 26 cellphone The incigencs of obesity may overweight or base station on villagers in be exacerbated by effects on the oe Bavaria and found that it caused release of the appetite- clinically obese. a long-lived increase in the production of adrenalin. This is an important neurotransmitter which acts on adrenergic receptors to increase the calcium regulating hormones ghrelin and peptide YY. Ghrelin is synthesised in the stomach wall and makes us feel hungry, whereas peptide YY is made in concentration in the cytosol. It is he intestine wall and makes us also synthesised in the adrenal eel full. In normal people, the level of ghrelin in the medulla in response to signals from the sympathetic blood is high before a meal and goes down nervous system. Adrenalin, too, puts the body into fight afterwards, whereas peptide YY goes up—so we go or flight mode by diverting resources from the smooth rom feeling hungry to feeling full, which stops us muscles of the gut to the heart muscle and the skeletal overeating. However, in obese people the level of | muscles needed for flight or combat. In addition, it both hormones stays roughly the same throughout so _ stimulates the production of cortisol by the adrenal hat they never feel completely full and they eat in an —_ cortex and indirectly reduces the activity of the immune unregulated manner (Le Roux et al., 2005; Le Roux et system and resistance to disease and increases the risk al., 2006). of getting cancer. If prolonged exposure to electromagnetic fields Some people get pleasure from the “adrenalin rush" imits the release of these hormones in the same way caused by doing energetic or dangerous things, and this as they affect the release of ACTH, cortisol, prolactin, | could be a contributory factor to the addictive nature of estosterone and the thyroid hormones, it may cellphones. However, on the downside, known effects of explain why so many people find it difficult to stop excess adrenalin include headaches, cardiac arrhythmia, eating and end up being clinically obese. high blood pressure, tremors, anxiety and inability to It may not be a coincidence that about a quarter of a million UK citizens are now suffering from what is being diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, and about eight out of 10 are either overweight or clinically obese. on 24 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com