Show Notes

• Lyn Maclean Unstressed episode on Electromagnetic pollution


• Lyn MacLean website

Timestamps

• 00:00 – Introduction to the episode and guests


• 01:30 – Overview of electromagnetic pollution


• 03:50 – Sources of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in everyday life


• 06:30 – Wireless radiation and its prevalence in modern devices


• 09:10 – Common misconceptions about EMF safety standards


• 12:00 – Discussion on the flaws of current safety guidelines


• 15:45 – Health risks associated with prolonged EMF exposure


• 19:20 – Evidence from peer-reviewed studies


• 22:15 – Practical tips for reducing EMF exposure at home


• 25:30 – The impact of EMFs on long-term health


• 28:00 – Strategies for making informed choices about technology


• 31:00 – Conclusion and final thoughts

Lyn Maclean; Electromagnetic pollution in our modern lives

Dr Ron Ehrilch [00:00:00 ] Feeling stressed. Overwhelmed. It’s time to Unstress your life and focus on controlling what you can control. I’m Dr Ron Ehrlich, host of the Unstress Health Podcast, inviting you to join the Unstress health community and discover a holistic approach that helps you more effectively face the daily challenges of our modern world and effectively recover each and every day. Unstress Health is here to provide you with advice and support that is independent of industry and influence, an influence that is easy to miss but difficult to ignore. Our focus is on building mental fitness. Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Mental fitness is the key. Our three phased approach Target mindset Whose positive intelligence quotient and move from self-sabotage to self-mastery. Secondly, the challenges We redefine what stress means in our modern world. And thirdly, recovery master the five pillars of Health. As a member of the Unstress health community. You’ll turn obstacles into opportunities with expert led courses, curated podcasts, personalised health assessments, supportive community, and much, much more. Join Unstress Health today and together let’s not just survive but thrive. Click on the link below or visit Unstress health.com. Well, the subject of today is something that just literally surrounds us. We bathe ourselves in it. We embrace it. We’re obsessed by it. It’s addictive. It’s actually what delivers all of our Internet and streaming services and wi fi radiation. Electromagnetic radiation. It’s everywhere. And it’s very we don’t read a lot about the problems of it in the mainstream press, even though there are literally thousands of scientific articles written that alert us to its possible dangers. Yes, we will not be hearing about this kind of thing in the mainstream media. My guest today, though, is a champion of that very message. Lynn McLane Lynn is an electromagnetic field consultant trainer. She is passionate about helping people understand and reduce their exposure to electromagnetic pollution to create safer homes and families. She’s the director of EMR Australia, which we will have links to, and she also publishes a newsletter regularly information which, as I said, usually includes the latest scientific research on this issue. Information and research that you just don’t get in the mainstream media. Lynn is also a published author, having written over four books or having written four books on electromagnetic radiation, co-authored a peer reviewed scientific paper, and writes regular blogs on science and international developments on this issue. She has also been involved in commenting on the major political and regulatory developments in this area for nearly three decades. I interviewed Lynn. She was one of our very first interviews almost 400 episodes ago. But of course, since then a lot has happened and we need an update to remind us of that. I hope you enjoyed this conversation I had with Lyn Maclean. Welcome back, Lyn.

Lyn Maclean [00:03:40 ] Thanks, Ron. It’s good to be talking to you today.

Dr Ron Ehrilch [00:03:42 ] Lyn. What we’re talking about today is something that is part of modern world of everybody’s life. We carry around it around with us. We put it in our homes. We’re literally bathed in it. I wonder if we might just and people don’t really know the risks of being exposed to electromagnetic pollution, especially from the devices we choose to use and buy for our homes. Can we just talk about that issue of electromagnetic pollution? I don’t think many people will be thinking of it in those terms.

Lyn Maclean [00:04:19 ] Yeah, that’s right. Well, the problem is we can’t see it. You know, it’s not like smoke where we can see that there’s that all that great stuff out there that’s potentially interfering with us. But this is invisible. And what we find is that a lot of people have got absolutely no idea how much electromagnetic pollution is in their homes. And it’s going to come from everything electrical. So from all your appliances, from all your wiring, from conductive water pipes, from the power points that have got the wiring to them. So those are the electromagnetic fields that are from electrical sources. But on top of that, we’ve got wireless radiation, which is is probably the better thing for us to be talking about today because that’s easier for us to to manage or control. And that’s from all of the wireless devices in and around our homes. So that’s going to be our mobile phones, our wireless, my tomorrow to our baby monitors, our tablets, our computers, our all our smart devices, our smart, maybe smart electricity metre, our smart TV, even smart light globes and smart appliances. So now there’s a trend for appliances to be made to emit radiation. So-called smart. I don’t think it’s very smart at all, but it’s very easy to buy some of these appliances to put them in your home and have no idea that they’re irradiating it. But they are. So if you look at all of those sources to hear that that is a lot of radiofrequency radiation transmitters in your home that’s affecting everybody in and potentially around your home. And that’s something that we can manage. That’s something that we can improve.

Dr Ron Ehrilch [00:06:09 ] But, you know, the interesting thing, and there’s a lot of similarities between environmental toxins within the home, you know, we are exposed to tens of thousands of chemicals. And the natural assumption for the majority of people is, hey, listen, if they’re on the supermarket shelves, they must have been tested. They must be safe for human. Beings. And surely the same is true of wi fi radiation. Wireless radiation. What’s your response to that?

Lyn Maclean [00:06:39 ] Well, that’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. We do assume that what we can buy is safe. But the trouble is, that’s absolutely far from the truth. Probably for a lot of chemicals, but definitely for radiation. And that’s because a lot of these devices are not tested for safety before they go onto the market. So what they what they have to do is demonstrate that they comply with a standard. Now, that would be great if the standard was reliable, but the standard that we have in Australia is based on international guidelines. And and these guidelines have been demonstrated very compellingly, demonstrated to be flawed. The science behind them is not reliable, it’s old, it’s flawed, and it doesn’t protect us. So essentially what we have around the world is standards in different countries. And to have these international guidelines that are essentially, you could say, designed to protect the industry. So the industry is able to to make these products, to make lots of money from these products, to roll out these telecommunications networks. But does human safety factor into it? Does the safety of, you know, of these animals or environment factor into it? And the answer is no. These standards don’t even consider environmental impacts. But for the purposes of our conversation, it’s it’s the effects on people that we’re concerned about. And what we can say is that there are now houses of peer reviewed scientific studies that are showing harmful effects of this radiation. So that’s compelling evidence that what’s out there on the shelves is not necessarily safe.

Dr Ron Ehrilch [00:08:31 ] The the standards, the international standards, the Australian standards are one and the same, I guess. Can you kind of give us a 1 to 1 appraisal of what what what are the what is it they’re looking at? What are they testing? Why is it so safe in inverted commas?

Lyn Maclean [00:08:47 ] Well, what they they’re assuming that you only have to worry about radiation if the amount of radiation that you’re exposed to hits the body up by one degree Celsius. So that’s the concerned about the short term heating effects of exposure. But only the short term heating effects of exposure, where the problem is that we’re being exposed to radiation, it’s not necessarily heating our body up by one degree Celsius, but also it’s not necessarily short term. If you’re living next to a mobile phone tower or you’re sleeping with your mobile phone underneath your pillow or next to your bed. This is not short term exposure. This is a long term chronic exposure. That’s and it’s cumulative exposure because we’re getting it from the phone tower, the phone, the wife on low temperature. W