#163 Dangers of EMF and 5G with Dr Mercola

Joseph Mercola (0:00)

Most people in responsible positions know that it causes a problem, and certainly the wireless industry does.

No question about it. In many ways, it's just like the tobacco industry. They knew that their product caused cancer and death and disability, and knew it was addictive. Yet, they claimed up until like the late 1990s, testifying before Congress that it didn't, that it wasn't addictive, that it didn't cause cancer. But then they finally were called out, and the truth was known. It's no surprise that you don't know about this, because you've been cleverly manipulated by a very sophisticated wireless industry strategy that far exceeds the cleverness of the tobacco industry.

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Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land and our guest today is Dr. Joseph Mercola. Dr. Mercola runs one of the largest and oldest health websites online, mercola.com. He's also a bestselling author, speaker and physician. Dr. Mercola, welcome back to the show.

Joseph Mercola (1:17)

Well thanks for having me, Siim. Appreciate the opportunity to be here and share some exciting information about EMFs.

Siim Land (1:23)

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

This time, we're trying to do another follow up episode since the last time we talked. The last time we talked, you just published your last book, KetoFast. So what have you been up to since that time?

Joseph Mercola (1:37)

Well, lots of things. I think I published probably 16 books or so and made the decision not to write any more books for quite a while and instead write peer-reviewed papers.

One of the recent ones I completed, I still have to submit it for publication, is on bloodflow restriction training and the exciting benefits that has to improving longevity because, I mean, you get it at a deep and profound level, but most people in the longevity movement don't understand the importance of maintaining high quality muscle mass, it is really fallen by the wayside. They'll superficially acknowledge it, but they don't really promote it as an integral part of the therapy.

Siim Land (2:14)

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Like muscle mass is really critical for just metabolic flexibility and functionality throughout your lifetime, and for older people, blood flow restriction is like an awesome biohack in the sense that you load your muscles with heavy stimulus without the actual heavy loads or the heavy weights, so to say.

Joseph Mercola (2:34)

Yeah, yeah, because the problem with the elderly is that they aren't able to really do the high load resistance training that you can when you're younger. Many disabled people or injured people have the same scenario, so with this blood flow restriction training, you can really radically, well, not radically, but allow your body to achieve similar benefits of high load training with the low loads and get almost identical benefits.

Siim Land (3:00)

Yeah, yeah. We can have a completely another podcast about this topic, so we're going to keep it that for this moment.

So your upcoming book, it's going to be about 5G and EMF, am I right?

Joseph Mercola (3:14)

It's actually coming out in February.

It's called EMF, EMF'D, and it talks about how 5G impacts your cellular health, which is something that most people don't appreciate. Certainly general public, probably your audience is wiser because they have access to your material. And by the way, your book, Metabolic Autophagy is just crazy good. I mean, that really is one of the best books on the subject. So if anyone hasn't gotten that book, I strongly encourage them to do that and read it really carefully because it's just a primer for molecular biology as it's related to health. You do such a good job.

Siim Land (3:55)

Yeah, that's what they say. Rumors go. So 5G and EMF, you know, a lot of people may have heard that these EMFs are dangerous for their health, but they're not really sure how or why.

So let's unpack it, what's the current state of research about 5G and EMF?

Joseph Mercola (4:17)

Well, not all EMFs are harmful. Certainly visible light and sunlight specifically is an EMF, a type of EMF. Really exposure to that, I think we both agree, is really an important part of staying healthy and improving your longevity.

So it's just not a general blanket statement because it's all EMFs, but the newer EMFs related to technology that's been developed in the last century or so provide some problems. And basically you can divide them into two types of radiation. One is ionizing radiation, the other is non-ionizing. Those are the two primary divisions. And there's really not much controversy that ionizing radiation, like X-rays or gamma rays, is harmful to biology. I mean, no one's going to disagree with that. And these are very short wavelengths with lots of energy and enough energy so that they can actually directly break the covalent bonds in DNA.