What’s wireless radiation doing to your body? Part 1

July 4, 2025

If you’re a user of wireless technologies – and that’s most people these days – then here’s a good opportunity for you to find out just what these technologies are emitting and how they’re affecting our bodies.

In research published earlier this month, Dr Dimitris J. Panagopoulos and co-workers explain what we need to know about these emissions and why they can pack such a hard punch.

As it turns out, these devices of ours are emitting a smorgasbord of electromagnetic fields. They consist of fields in the microwave frequencies (300MHz to 300 GHz) plus fields in the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) range (3 to 3,000 Hz) and fields in the Ultra Low Frequency range (0-3 Hz). And that’s not all. The signals have characteristics of polarization, coherence, pulsation and intense variability in amplitude.

Panagopoulos says it is the ELF/ULF component of the signal that is doing the greatest damage and that component is also present from electrical sources such as household wiring.

When it comes to the more recent technologies, there are extra features to think about. ‘Newer systems 3G, 4G, 5G have basic frame repetition frequency (nominally) at 100 Hz and exhibit increasing variability in their pulsations/signals due to the increasingly higher amounts of variable information they carry (speech, images, video, Internet, etc.),’ the paper says.

This makes man-made fields very different to naturally occurring fields and explains why they are able to affect every molecule in our bodies. Panagopoulos writes, ‘It seems that the combination of polarization/coherence and low-frequency variability is the key to EMF-bioactivity. Polarized and coherent EMFs/EMR (in contrast to, e.g., light and other types of natural EMFs/EMR) possess net electric and magnetic fields, in addition to radiation intensity, which exert forces on every electrically charged/ polar particle/molecule such as the mobile ions and the charged/polar macromolecules in all biological systems. It is those unique features that make all anthropogenic EMFs, and most of all WC [wireless communication] EMFs, significantly more adversely bioactive than natural EMFs.’

The paper refers to research showing just how these fields affect our bodies. Studies show that exposure is linked to:

  • oxidative stress, genetic damage, aging and loss of ability to replicate in cells;

     

  • reduced capacity for reproduction, including reduce egg-laying, impaired development of reproductive cells, infertility and embryonic death in animals and humans;

     

  • cancer in humans and animals (including brain tumours in mobile/cordless phone users);

     

  • unpleasant symptoms (often called Microwave Syndrome or Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity), which include ‘headaches, fatigue, sleep disorders, and various other adverse effects’.

     


And it’s not just humans and animals that are affected.

Panagopoulos says, ‘The reason why the same effects are observed in a wide variety of animals such as mammals, birds, insects, etc., and humans, is that all biological and health effects initiate in cells and all cells are essentially identical in all animals, humans, and even plants. They have identical membranes, ions, ion channels and pumps, biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, proteins, etc., water, ROS, identical cellular organelles such as nuclei, mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, etc., and very similar metabolic processes and regulatory mechanisms.’

Panagopoulos and co-workers point out that these effects all occur at radiation levels that are supposed to be safe. ‘The exposure levels in the vast majority of all the aforementioned studies were significantly below the officially accepted exposure limits for ELF and RF EMFs, which are recommended by a private organization called the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) … It is remarkable that this organization arbitrarily ignores the overwhelming evidence of non-thermal effects which constitute the vast majority of effects of anthropogenic EMFs, and yet, governments adopt its recommendations instead of following the Precautionary Principle which dictates the obvious, that no new technology should be applied unless those who promote it have proven its safety beyond any doubt.’

How is it that this exposure affects humans, animals and plants and causes so much damage? Panagopoulos has the answer, and we’ll see what he has to say in Part 2 next week.

Panagopoulos DJ, Yakymenko I, De Iuliis GN, and Chrousos GP (2025): A comprehensive mechanism of biological and health effects of anthropogenic extremely low frequency and wireless communication electromagnetic fields. Front. Public Health 13:1585441. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1585441

You can see information about Dr Panagopoulos here.

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