WHY SHOULD YOU READ THIS?
Because It Is Important!
…and You Should Know!
YOU LIVE IN THE SAME ENVIRONMENT!
NEW DISCOVERY RADIATION DANGERS!

Comments and Reviews

“This is a very interesting article you’ve sent me. The problem looks similar to others I’ve heard about. Do you mind if I pass your e-mail on to some physicians and researchers we work with? They should see this – since it appears well documented.”

– Cindy Sage, Environmental Consultant, Sage Associates

“Hi there, it’s Linda — thank you for your e-mail. I appreciate that you took time out to bring this to my attention– I will certainly pass this e-mail along…”

– Kind regards, Linda Vester, Anchor of “Day Side,” Fox News Channel

“I previously was a researcher. I think that you are onto something. Would you like to meet with me on Wednesdays? We could do research.”

– Dr. Mukesh Mehta, Pulmonary Specialist

“I think that you are way ahead of the rest of us.”

– Dr. Charles Goodman, Dermatologist

“Very impressive, I was moving my laptop off my lap half way through! I think many people will find it interesting and you are a very good writer, you made me want to read it, actually I stopped everything I was doing and stayed up late reading it all. I will definitely pass it on.”

– Kris Kelly, CEO, AllReviews.com

“Just think of how many books I get to see every day and I rarely have the curiosity to read one. People publish a lot of silly stories that nobody wants to read and they don’t realize it. Your book first drew my attention because of the huge message you put on the first page (“This could be you!”) and that photo with the leg is very striking. It looks really horrible and it made me think: “What is that? Could that really happen to me?” So I started to read to find out what this is about and then the book started to interest me because I realized it wasn’t just some lunatic’s predictions and the stuff you talk about really makes sense.”

– Mirona, Digital Illustration and Graphic Design, Romania

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FIRST EDITION

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Introduction

I have been both encouraged and discouraged while researching and writing this document.

I believe that I have discovered something new and vitally important that everyone should know. Before my illness, I had little interest in reading or researching any subject related to health or medicine. But when physicians could not accurately diagnose or cure my symptoms, I grew desperate and became determined to solve this supposed medical mystery on my own.

I did not know where to begin, but when, through trial and error, I finally figured out the first few steps, I knew what to look for next. It motivated me to learn more because I believed that my discovery was extremely important. I spent many days and nights researching. My conclusion is that my illness was caused by something right in front of all of us, something not all that difficult to understand. What I do find difficult to understand is that no one in the medical profession has figured this out. I took many notes as I went along and referred back to them to help me write this book.

The following is a summary of my journey.

Why should you read this? Because what happened to me could also happen to you! How can I say this so confidently? That’s easy. You and I share the same environment!

Because I believed that people would be interested and eager to learn more, in May 2000 I wrote a brief summary of my thoughts and theories. I asked a few family members and friends to proofread my document and to give me an honest opinion about its contents, before I presented the information to strangers.

At first, it was difficult to get anyone to read and take my theories seriously. Those who did offer feedback gave a variety of differing opinions, ranging from, “Wow, I’m impressed,” and “I rarely enjoy reading but I enjoyed reading this. It held my attention,” to less enthusiastic responses like, “It’s okay,” “I haven’t had time to read it,” or, “It was entertaining but I don’t think anyone is going to believe it. People are going to think it’s too far-fetched.”

I also received suggestions ranging from “You need a lab for experiments to better document your theories,” to “You should send this to as many researchers and physicians as possible.”

I realized very quickly that this sample represented the general public at large. As for every new discovery or idea, there would be people who supported my theory and others who would reject it outright.

After a few corrections, I decided to e-mail my discovery to as many news organizations and scientific and medical professionals as possible. As I expected, many ignored or dismissed my theory without even bothering to read what I had sent. Others took the time, not only to read my documents, but also to encourage me to go further.

One PhD believed in my theory and asked if he could have my permission to e-mail the article to his colleagues in the United States and Switzerland. Another scientist replied, “I discount your theories because if there was any chance that you are correct, I believe that I would have read about it before.”

Many people can look at the same thing, yet each can see something entirely different. Eyewitness testimony is a classic case in point. Witnesses view the same crime, yet their testimony is often conflicting. Please read everything I’ve written with an open mind, and then consider posting your thoughts or comments about your conclusions in the comment section at my web site. I welcome any and all honest input. If you would like to contact me or post comments – Click Here!

It is my hope that this book will make you think about your life, your surroundings, and your future.

My intention in writing this lies not in a desire for recognition; rather, it is to help others. The truth is, I am hesitant to expose my personal life to public view, especially when the stories, information, and images offered are not always complimentary.

Please read everything. After that, what you believe or decide to do with the information is entirely up to you.

Sincerely,
Claude Ledbetter

(Note: Part One was written in May of 2000 about a medical condition occurring between January and May 1999)

My name is Claude Ledbetter.

The following is my account of an illness that I experienced.

The conclusions may surprise you.

In January of 1999, I became ill and could hardly work for three months…

My Illness and Discovery

One Saturday Morning, I woke up with a slight swelling and rash on my left foot. By Monday, I could barely walk. Both of my feet and legs were swollen and covered with a bright red rash and open sores. It was painful to stand or walk.

I saw a dermatologist named Dr. Isaac Grabelsky in Brooksville, Florida. He immediately diagnosed me as having Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis and asked if I had been exposed to anything that could have caused an allergic reaction. I told him I wasn’t aware of having been exposed to anything and that I had been working solely on my home computer for the past three weeks. He prescribed Prednisone and ordered a battery of tests, all of which came back negative. The swelling gradually went down, and the rash began to go away. But as soon as I stopped taking Prednisone, my symptoms returned.

When Dr. Grabelsky couldn’t figure out the cause of my problem, I started researching on my own. I read anything and everything that got my attention.

A quick digression is probably in order here. As a corporate division manager, I was responsible for two wholesale nurseries, one located in Tennessee and the other in Florida. Growing over four million plants per year, a wholesale nursery is similar in many respects to a large hospital. Plants constantly battle against problems caused by bacteria, fungi, chemicals, wind, water, sun, insects, and more. In fact, it could be said that growing plants presents the same challenges a physician faces every day. You must constantly diagnose problems and decide their proper treatment.

I felt that my education and experience helped me to understand and empathize with the medical profession. My highest grades in high school were in biology. I did not attend a university. My natural interest in the subject made it easier to understand the research materials I was reading. In addition, some of the chemicals used in a plant nursery are the same as those used in medicine. Because of my work, I had a basic understanding of bacteria, viruses, and fungi, as well as being familiar with the hazards of chemical usage.

I decided to see another doctor named Mukesh Mehta, a pulmonary specialist with an office in Brooksville, Florida. He ordered further tests, which, like my earlier tests, also came back negative.

At this point, it was about a month since the problem had begun, and I was beginning to understand and put a few pieces of the puzzle together. I explained my own theories to Dr. Mehta, and he conceded that they made more sense than his conclusions. He told me that he had previously been a researcher and asked if I would consider meeting with him on Wednesdays (his days off) so we could do research together. I agreed that I would call him, but time went by, I felt a little better, and I grew busy once more with my job responsibilities. I never contacted Dr. Mehta.

Almost three months passed and, though my symptoms were improving, they kept recurring. Once again, I decided it was time to visit a physician. I chose Dr. Karl Vandevender. He had been my family physician for many years and practiced in Nashville, Tennessee. I had always respected his opinions.

Up until this point, my symptoms included insomnia, an irregular heartbeat, variations in blood pressure, extreme fatigue, and rashes and ulcerations on my legs and feet. I had worked very little for three months, which had given me time to research and read through thousands of pages of information. I found some answers, but mostly just bits and pieces. Most of my conclusions came from my own direct experience — I was my own guinea pig.

I was better educated and prepared with specific questions about my problem when I met with Dr. Vandevender. Initially, he had questions for me, and he wanted to run various tests: tests I had already taken. He granted me the time to explain my theories and seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say, spending almost two hours with me. After giving my words some thought, he decided that they had merit and suggested I meet with a friend of his. That friend (another physician) was researching the use of magnets for medical purposes.

(Note: I later tried to call his friend several times and left messages. He never returned my calls.)

At this point, Dr. Vandevender asked what I thought would help. I told him that I believed my symptoms and illness were signs of my body trying to get rid of something. I said, “I think I should stop taking Prednisone, even if I end up with scars. I should drink a lot of water each day and increase my fiber consumption to help flush my system. In addition, I need to restrict my iron, salt, and acid intake.”

(Note: As you read more, this self-diagnosis will become clearer.)

To my surprise, he agreed.

I went home and followed my own prescription, and my illness went away in less than two weeks. My visible symptoms disappeared entirely. I knew then that I should have tried this earlier on my own, but I’d been afraid of going against doctors’ orders, thinking (the way most of us do) that they always know best. In this case, however, I had proved them wrong. I was growing more confident and sure of myself, but I was still hesitant. I needed the encouragement, support, and approval of someone I respected, someone whose medical knowledge far surpassed my own.

(Note added in 2010: It has been over 11 years now. No visible symptoms have returned.)

I decided to visit a dermatologist friend of mine named Dr. Charles Goodman, a man whose opinion I deeply respect, and who was based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He listened carefully to what I had to say. When he finally had to leave the room to attend to a patient, I asked, “Do you think I’m crazy, or do you think I could possibly be onto something?”

He paused, looked me straight in the eye, and said, “I think you are way ahead of the rest of us.”

That was all the encouragement I needed. It was at that point that I began feeling very confident about my theories. That’s why I’m writing this. The only thing I’m not confident about is my ability to find the right words to explain adequately everything I want to say. I’m not a physician, and I’m not a writer. I don’t know all of the proper scientific or medical terminology, so I may not write my thoughts as well as I can express them in conversation. It would help if you could ask any questions you have, and I could answer them. Unfortunately, given this medium, that is not possible. I can only hope that, after you read everything I’ve written, you reach the understanding I’m trying to convey.

I’m guessing by now that you’re more than a little curious to know what I think caused my medical condition. I believe that the answer is exposure to electromagnetic radiation. My best estimate is that I spent at least 2,000 hours at my computers during the 12 months prior to the first appearance of my symptoms. (I was also exposed to radiation from many other sources as well.) I worked on a computer at my office and at home, as well as carrying a laptop with me while traveling.

I realize that there are many others who have been exposed as much as I was and may not have experienced any immediate recognizable problems, or may not have related their problems to electromagnetic radiation exposure. I believe that different people have different symptoms and sensitivities.

I will explain this statement briefly here. If a person is physically active and exposed to low amounts of electromagnetic radiation, consumes the right diet, and drinks lots of fluids, then he or she may have no symptoms at all. However, if another person is exposed to a great deal of electromagnetic radiation over a long period of time, is not physically active, eats a diet high in iron, and doesn’t drink enough fluids, then he or she would be at greater risk. This is the general idea, but I cannot explain everything here. You should get a clearer picture as you continue reading.

Because of the nature of my work, I often used my computer at home. I sat in a recliner with the keyboard in my lap and my feet propped about 6 inches away from the monitor/screen. I later learned through my research that the greatest exposure to electromagnetic radiation occurs at less than 20 inches from the computer screen, and that the maximum recommended exposure at 20 inches should be no more than .25 milligauss (a quarter of a point). This is one of the unofficial standards in the industry.

(Note: Switzerland developed these unofficial standards. The United States and other countries adopted these, but no one called them “Official,” probably for legal purposes. I am guessing no government wanted to open the door for lawsuits.)

My exposure, at roughly 6 to 12 inches from the screen, gave a reading as high as 10 milligauss — over 30 to 40 times higher than the recommended safe level!

(Note: Magnetic fields are measured in milli-Gauss)

In our daily living, each one of us is exposed, in some form or another, to electromagnetic radiation. Some of us, however, are exposed more often and to higher degrees. It’s my belief that medical problems associated with such radiation have been around for years, but it has been difficult, until now, to connect them directly to this exposure. I also believe that, with the increase in the use of electronics and electrical equipment over the past few years, many more people will soon experience these problems. With the spread of the Internet, we have all witnessed the increase in the use of computers.

In recent years, the use of mobile phones has also increased dramatically.

With my own lifestyle, I became very dependent on electronics, carrying a cell phone everywhere, along with using a two-way radio at work. I also bought a computer for my home only two years before I became ill.

Yet we are all exposed! Every second of every day we are exposed in so many ways that it would be almost impossible to keep track. The most common sources of electromagnetic radiation include computers, televisions, mobile phones, blow dryers, microwaves and many other electrical appliances, communication towers, satellites, electrical wires and high voltage power lines, electric motors, power generating plants, nuclear radiation, radar, and even flying on a plane. There are many, many sources!

You have probably heard most of this before, but what makes my story different is that I believe I have figured out some of the ways that exposure to electromagnetic radiation affects the body. I believe that electrical currents affect the nervous system and probably other functions as well.

I studied electrical currents very little; my research has focused primarily on the magnetic part (magnetic radiation/magnetic fields), because I thought, early on, that the magnetic part of electromagnetic radiation was more responsible for my medical condition. Magnetic fields got my attention, and that is where I focused my time and energy. I believe that, given exposure over long periods of time, it affects our immune system and our chemical balance, causing allergies, rashes, headaches, nausea, sleep disorders, lupus, joint pain, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, extreme fatigue, damage to DNA, birth defects, leukemia, cancer, brain tumors, hemorrhages, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vision disorders, gout, and problems in the liver, heart, kidneys, as well as much more. I also believe that it can cause miscarriages and even cavities!

(This note added December 30, 2003: And possibly Mad Cow Disease. Some of my theories that come later in this document will explain more.)

I believe that exposure to electromagnetic radiation over a long period of time causes the body to crave iron, salt/sodium, acids, and calcium.

My theory has a lot to do with iron. (Or anything that reacts to a magnetic force. I use iron as my example throughout this document, because I believe it to be the main culprit, and it is easier to follow one example, rather than trying to remember everything. Keep in mind, however, that many other substances could also be involved.) I believe that the iron molecules flowing through our bloodstream become slightly magnetized when passing through a magnetic field, causing them to become attracted to each other and to cluster slightly. Also, while in a magnetic field, they can be drawn into the capillaries and tissues more than they normally would be. The oxidizing or dissolving of this iron, caused by our ingestion of salts and acids, may over time etch, decay, dissolve, and disintegrate the surrounding tissue.

I verified my thoughts about the magnetization of iron which passes through an electromagnetic field by reading information about metal detectors. Different articles stated that metal detectors emit electromagnetic pulses/signals which slightly magnetize metal objects that their signals hit. Iron absorbs electromagnetic radiation waves. The following is one quote: “Ferromagnetic substances tend to become magnetized when placed in a magnetic field, like a paper clip which becomes temporarily magnetized when picked up with a bar magnet. Cast iron (square nails) and steel objects (bottle caps) exhibit both electrical and ferromagnetic properties.”

I currently have no access to an experimental laboratory or to computer-generated illustrations. The following photographs ( Photos 1 through 8 ) hopefully illustrate a simple way for you to picture my theory in your mind.

If you taped a magnet to your arm, close to where blood flows through your arteries and veins, do you not think it possible for the magnet to pull iron or other magnetic substances from your bloodstream into small capillaries and nearby tissues? In fact, you should have a higher concentration of iron or other substances in the area closest to the magnet. Electromagnetic radiation is not the same as a magnet, but it could cause a similar reaction. Keep in mind that, in reality, iron accumulation and subsequent chemical reactions would be a slow process. Cell and tissue damage would occur over time, possibly over many years.

(Photo 1)

I taped a magnet to the side of a glass, added a drinking straw, and then filled the glass and straw with water (imagine the water as blood in your body and the straw as a blood vessel). I then poured iron dust down the center of the straw. As you can see, the magnet stopped the iron dust from flowing to the bottom.

I drilled a few small holes into the straw to demonstrate better the iron being pulled from the straw toward the magnet. This illustrates how iron could be pulled (by a magnetic force) from your veins and arteries into your capillaries and tissues.

(Photo 2)

Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

4 to 6 inches above iron dust.

(Photo 3)

Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

2 to 4 inches above iron dust.

You can see the magnetic pull on the iron dust through the hand from this distance. Just imagine the magnetic pull on the molecules of iron in the blood vessels, joints and tissues in the hand!

(Photo 4)

Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

2 to 3 inches above iron dust.

(Photo 5)

Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

1 to 2 inches above iron dust.

(Photo 6)
Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

2 to 4 inches above iron dust.

There are different iron compounds, but more or less, iron is iron. The iron you ingest from beef, vitamins and other foods would attract to a magnetic force, from every exposed location in your body. The magnet shown is from a speaker. Many devices we use have speakers. Imagine listening to music through headsets, or talking with your cell phone to your head. How many hours per day is your cell phone (turned on) in your pocket or on your body?

(Photo 7)

Magnet on Hand near Iron Dust

View the strength of the magnetic pull (through the hand) on the iron dust in the plate. I would think the magnetic pull on the molecules of iron in the tissues of the hand would be equal.

( Photo 8 )
Magnet, Hand and Iron Dust

Do you think that a magnet or electromagnetic field could pull iron molecules from your bloodstream into your joints, capillaries and tissues?

This common speaker magnet used in the examples is the same as the magnets in many products you own, including your television, stereo and car speakers. The magnet in your cell phone speaker, headsets and other telephones are the same, only smaller. When you add electrical current to a magnet/speaker – the higher the volume, the higher the magnetic radiation emitted!

Here is another example to help you understand: In a cold climate, where there is snow and ice, the Highway Department often spreads salt on the roads. Vehicles driving on these roads get covered with it, exposing their metals to rust-causing oxidization from the chemical reaction between salt and metal. If these vehicles are exposed many times, or if salt remains on the exposed metals for long periods of time, oxidation eats/rusts holes into the vehicle. The iron molecules in your body are similar to those in the structure of a vehicle.

Shortly before my symptoms appeared…

I started feeling ill and weak, and my eating habits changed. I began taking vitamins, (containing 100% of my daily requirements of iron and other metals), thinking this would help and give me energy. I also craved beef, which is high in iron, and dill pickles and sauerkraut, both of which are loaded with salt and vinegar (an oxidizer and an acid).

I believe that I was eating and retaining too much iron (brought about by being in a magnetic field for long periods of time), then craving salt and acids to oxidize and dissolve this iron. In addition, I think that this cycle “dissolved” my tissues, causing Vasculitis (ruptured blood vessels). As a result, I would crave ice cream, cheese, or milk (all sources of calcium), which temporarily neutralized the oxidation and acids. After eating these, I initially felt better, so I continued the diet process, repeating the cycle.

That’s why my symptoms wouldn’t go away and kept causing more damage. This did not happen overnight; it happened over time. I ate other foods also, but I ate more than the normal amount of the items listed above.

If a magnetic force was pulling more than normal amounts of substances into capillaries and tissues, taking large amounts of calcium and reducing the amount of salt and acid ingested would not solve the problem. Instead, it may cause a chemical imbalance in the body and also cause substances to build up into formations, thus causing other medical conditions (such as blood flow blockage or the formation of cysts).

(Note: Cholesterol-blocked arteries and veins should be researched with my theories in mind.)

Examples:
If higher than normal amounts of any substance are drawn into the capillaries, a blockage could occur. Likewise, if above-normal concentrations are drawn into or between tissues, a cyst could develop. If excessive amounts of any substance are found in any part of the body, I think you might agree that our body’s natural waste removal process will try to eliminate, reduce, or balance these concentrations. That process would include dissolving or oxidizing unwanted substances and carrying them off as waste in the bloodstream. If these concentrations continued to build and our body’s defenses had to work harder and harder to eliminate them, this repeated process could cause a chain reaction. Tissues could begin to dissolve and grow into vasculitis, lupus, cancer, and many other conditions where the body eats away at itself.

I believe that my tissue and membrane damage accumulated over a long period of time, but that my symptoms suddenly appeared because I was drinking with friends the night before the onset of my illness. That night, I drank many margaritas, which contain an acidic lime juice, and each glass has a layer of salt around the rim.

While alcohol was not the cause of my problem, it contributed to it by speeding up the process. Alcohol is a vasodilator. In other words, it dilates or opens up the veins, arteries, and capillaries, allowing for faster and easier penetration into or through cells and tissues. Had I not consumed that amount and combination of drinks, my vasculitis may not have occurred, or may have occurred later. Because of my previous unbalanced diet and my exposure to electromagnetic radiation, I believe that my tissues and cell membranes were very weak and thin. When I added large amounts of alcohol, in combination with high concentrations of acid and salt, this caused my tissues to disintegrate and my blood vessels to rupture. The result was an instant case of Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis.

(Important Note: The lime juice used in making Margaritas contains Vitamin C, one form of ascorbic acid; Vitamin C is essential for the absorption of iron from foods and plays a role in iron metabolism. Vitamin C increases serum iron levels and should never be taken in large doses by individuals who have large total body iron. Vitamin C helps prevent the formation of insoluble and unabsorbable iron compounds. Vitamin C enhances absorption, while milk limits iron absorption.)

People with allergies should not drink alcohol or take aspirin, because alcohol is a vasodilator and aspirin thins the blood. Therefore, either substance could speed up or trigger an allergic reaction. While neither alcohol nor aspirin is usually the cause of an allergy, they can both contribute by triggering the allergic process or making the symptoms worse.

I feel confident about most of my conclusions, but realize that there is much I still do not understand. I have a limited knowledge of chemistry and the workings of the human body. Even so, I feel that my conclusions are, to a high degree, correct. I am sure that a magnetic force attracts iron. I am sure that acids dissolve iron. I am sure that salt/sodium oxidizes iron. I feel sure that if your body has an abnormal pH level (pH level is a measure of acidity or alkalinity) caused by an imbalance of one substance or another, the iron in your body will oxidize or dissolve (faster or slower) depending on that pH level. The speed at which iron metabolizes depends on the amount of each substance in the mixture and the overall pH balance. The further the pH level is from being normal (on either the alkaline or acidic side), the more rapid the reactions of the acids or oxidation will be. If everything is in perfect balance, there will possibly be very little, or only slow, reaction.

Women taking iron supplements (usually prescribed by a physician) during pregnancy show some of the same symptoms that I had, including cravings for dill pickles (salt and acid) and ice cream (calcium). I believe that these cravings are caused by an excessive iron build-up in their bodies. I also believe that iron could build up in the fetus, causing the same chemical reactions and possibly causing damage to the fetus, or even a miscarriage. (A child would be more at risk than an adult, because it is growing and cells are reproducing at a rapid pace. Therefore, any damaged cells would replicate faster.)

Exposure to electromagnetic radiation could amplify the dangers to both the mother and the baby. Therefore, I believe that pregnant women should not take excessive iron supplements. Iron deficiency is a common problem in pregnant women as the growing baby consumes their iron reserves, but I think that physicians and expectant mothers do not actually know the exact amount of iron that is needed in each case.

For example, a physician may prescribe a specific dose of iron, which may turn out to be too much. The dose is probably prescribed without actually measuring the pregnant woman’s iron levels, and even if the blood was checked for iron, it would not show higher than normal amounts if the build-up was in a specific area or organ. If the physician believes there is no danger in taking large amounts of iron, the mother may also receive the impression that iron is beneficial for her and her baby, and she may take more than the amount prescribed. Natural cravings and eating a potentially unbalanced diet just add to the problem. Ingesting the minimum amount of iron would be much safer!

Cavities

On a visit I made to my dentist in 2000 (Dr. Holbrook, Brooksville, Florida), his assistant took X-rays and found that I had a new cavity. It was in a tooth next to one that had previously been fitted with a metal filling.

I asked Dr. Holbrook, “Are many cavities found in teeth next to or under/over teeth that have been previously fitted with metal fillings?”

He replied, “Yes, as a matter of fact, there are.”

My thoughts are that such cavities may be caused by the same chemical reactions I’ve already written about. Concentrations of acids and salt/sodium in our mouths could slightly dissolve and oxidize the surface of a metal filling over time, causing damage to the tooth and surrounding teeth. I also believe that exposure to electromagnetic radiation would slightly magnetize any metal in our mouths or bodies, causing it to attract molecules containing iron.

I believe that you can decrease the risk of cavities by rinsing your mouth thoroughly immediately after eating and also by drinking lots of water. If my theories are correct, toothpaste helps with cleaning but possibly contributes further to the problem over time, because most brands contain a form of sodium. Most toothpaste brands use Sodium Fluoride (NaF); some brands use Sodium Monofluorophosphate – SMFP (Na₂PO₃F); and many contain Sodium Chloride (NaCl), which is common salt. Therefore, I believe everyone should place an emphasis on rinsing thoroughly after brushing, so as to remove as much sodium as possible from their mouth. (For all of you who don’t know, common salt is a compound of sodium.)

I honestly don’t know if there are good metals. I guess it all depends on the concentration, whether they become magnetized, and their reaction to chemicals.

(Note added in 2010: In early 2000, I had Dr. Holbrook remove all my metal fillings [approximately six] from previous cavities. He replaced them with a white bonding material. I have not had a cavity since then. All my previous cavities occurred within a four- or five-year period, with about one or two cavities per year. It was a little expensive removing the metal fillings, but I haven’t spent more time, money, and discomfort on filling new cavities.)

Joint Pain and Arthritis

My theory as to how exposure to electromagnetic radiation could
cause joint pain, arthritis, or other joint/bone problems is that if a magnetic force drew abnormal concentrations of iron molecules or other substances into the lubricant around the joints, the chemical reactions of salts and acids would deteriorate the fluid’s lubricating value. This would cause an increase in friction between the joints and adjoining bones. This, in turn, would cause premature wear and deterioration of the joints.

Symptoms would show up more rapidly in an exposed person who is more physically active. The reason a more active person would experience bone or joint damage faster than someone who is inactive is that the more you move your joints, the more friction is created between the moving surfaces touching each other. Thus, if the lubricant had deteriorated, there would be more wear and tear on these joints and bones.

The following may not be the best example, but just imagine a running car engine. It uses oil to lubricate its moving parts. What do you think would happen if you poured iron dust, acids or salt into the oil? It would kill the oil’s lubricating value. Without proper lubrication, the metal parts rubbing against each other would grow very hot because of the increased friction. As a result, the metal would wear down very fast. Depending on how much damage there was to the oil, the engine would soon have difficulty running. Eventually, it would lock up altogether!

A person typing long hours each day for many years on a keyboard located near a computer screen in all likelihood runs an increased risk of developing joint pain in the fingers, or possibly carpal tunnel syndrome in the wrist. He or she may also experience other medical problems (as described throughout this document), including muscle damage, skin rashes, and joint pain in his or her knees and upper legs because of radiation exposure through the desk from the screen. A metal desk would be even worse, because the constant electromagnetic radiation from the screen to the desk would slightly magnetize the metal in the desk, causing a slight pull on the molecules of iron in the body of the person sitting there. This would continue even when the computer is off, because the metal in the desk would retain some magnetism.

A person using an electric screwdriver, drill, or sander every day for many years would also likely experience problems in his or her wrists and hands. A person running every day on an electric treadmill may develop pain in the joints of his or her feet.

Anyone who works as a welder may experience a variety of symptoms throughout the body and may also develop joint pain in the toes if wearing steel-toed shoes. Anyone who works on or under power lines every day, a barber using electric hair clippers, a construction worker using an electric power saw–the list could go on and on– all those exposed over long periods of time would be at greater risk! Common symptoms could be allergies, rashes, joint pain, and other conditions caused by a weakened immune system.

Our bodies need iron, salt, acids, and calcium to function properly, but I believe they are not distributed or metabolized equally, or they flow through the body in an unbalanced way when exposed to a magnetic field.

My opinion as to why there has been no scientific evidence before that conclusively proves the dangers of exposure to electromagnetic radiation is that researchers have not considered or understood properly the chemical changes that occur in the body due to the magnetic effect. It seems that the scientific community and most studies have focused more on “Radiation.” The name “Radiation” seems to imply more danger. Magnetism does not get much attention.

Not many researchers would think to look at and research a connection between diet and magnetism. Too many so-called experts have tunnel vision. You need wide-angle vision to figure out complex connecting problems. A controlled lab experiment is often limited in producing results. To solve complex problems, you need the capability to connect as many known and unknown variables as possible.

At this point in my research, I took a break and…

I e-mailed this article to a friend, asking for her comments.

She read it and replied, “It was entertaining, but I don’t think that anyone is going to believe it. People are going to think that it is too far-fetched.”

She concluded, “I know you, Claude, and I know how you think. People will need to talk to you.”

After reading her comments, I have to admit that I wondered if I was wasting my time. Still, I was confident that my conclusions were, to a high degree, correct. I am not easily discouraged. I believe there is someone out there in a position to pursue and more thoroughly research my conclusions. I believe that I could prove my theories with more research and lab experiments.

I included in this document the negative responses I received, because this is reality. I quoted other comments in this book to point out how difficult it is to be motivated by others. Most family members and friends, along with the general public, will not encourage you. To solve problems and accomplish your goals, you must be self-motivated. I am self-motivated. I listen to the input of others, but I follow my own advice. I also included most of my thoughts during my journey, both good and bad, because I wanted to give you an honest and clear picture of events as they occurred.

Now, let’s go on…

I believe the reason that lab researchers have never proven the negative effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation is that, in most lab experiments, animals are placed in controlled electromagnetic fields with no varying circumstances. The problem with this type of research lies in what is missing: it fails to truly duplicate the human environment, including the effect of an unbalanced diet (similar to mine). I would guess that, in previous research, the animals were fed a diet high in fiber and given all the water they wanted to drink. This would, counter-productively, minimize the symptoms! It would flush their bodies and help get rid of toxins. Another problem with electromagnetic radiation research is that, often, the researcher is paid by the company or corporation that makes radiating products. They often are not motivated to verify the dangers; their goal is to prove the benefits of these products.

If I were conducting an experiment, I would use an animal that has a similar metabolic process to humans. (I do not know what animal I would use; I would need to research this.) I would place this animal into an environment with a variety of strong electromagnetic fields. I would feed it a diet high in iron, salt, and acids (an unbalanced pH), even occasionally including alcohol in its drinking water. I would feed it very little fiber and calcium, then wait and document what happens.

You may think it’s cruel for me to put an animal into this environment. That’s good that you think this — because you are sitting in this environment right now! I did not put you there. You are irradiating yourself, your family, your friends, and others — by using mobile phones, electrical appliances, electrical or battery- operated toys, computers, and numerous other

things. I am not the cruel one; I am trying to convince you to help in limiting your exposure. Lack of knowledge and greed is the cruelty. Government agencies and companies making radiating products are not doing much to correct the problems; they are actually rapidly contributing more.

It was suggested that I conduct this experiment myself and include the results in this research. Unfortunately, in order to reproduce the symptoms I’ve described, it could take years, and I think it’s important to get this report out now. I believe that everyone can benefit immediately from the research I have already done. I have no need to devote any more of my life to convincing myself this problem exists. I am already convinced. It’s now up to you.

The current world environment is one big experiment with all the necessary information we need all around us. We are all living in experimental lab conditions!

To determine if electromagnetic radiation is really dangerous to humans, would it be better to study an irradiated rat in a controlled environment (where something may be overlooked), or an irradiated human in an uncontrolled environment (where everything is already in place)?

Heart, Lungs, Liver, and Kidneys

May 25, 2000

My father died suddenly of heart failure at age 70. He had worked 22 years at a manufacturing plant on a grinding machine near its large electric motor, which is a very high emitter of ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) electromagnetic radiation. Dad had his first heart attack at age 58 and had many other medical problems up until his death. He experienced joint pain and arthritis. His diet was high in iron and salt/sodium. I am not saying that exposure to electromagnetic radiation alone caused his death, but I do believe his exposure contributed to his medical problems.

I believe that I can now explain how exposure to electromagnetic radiation damages the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. Briefly, the heart receives oxygen-enriched blood directly from the lungs and then pumps it to these other organs, allowing for a rapid process of oxidation. (Iron is the central atom of the heme group [hemoglobin], a metal complex that binds molecular oxygen (O₂) in the lungs and carries it to all of the other cells in the body. Without iron, there would be no site for the oxygen to bind, and thus no oxygen would be delivered to the cells). Think about what happens if you add oxygen to a fire. It burns hotter and faster. There would be a similar reaction in oxidizing iron concentrations in the heart and lungs, which, over time, would result in muscle damage and possible hemorrhaging in the heart, and hemorrhaging or other tissue damage in the lungs, caused by salts and acids deteriorating or weakening tissues and cells.

I believe that iron molecules, or anything in the bloodstream that reacts to magnetization, could cluster and pool or settle into various areas of the body. The liver and kidneys would be likely locations for these higher concentrations, because they both function as filters. However, these filters were designed for normal-size particles and blood flow, not for magnetized clusters. The liver is the hardest working organ in the body. Each minute about two quarts of blood are filtered through the liver. Even without magnetization, an unbalanced diet high in iron, acids, salt, and alcohol could still cause the same damage over time.

Excessive alcohol use is believed to be the leading cause of cirrhosis of the liver, but a less-publicized condition that causes cirrhosis is hemochromatosis (iron build-up in liver cells). Alcohol has been thought to be the leading cause of liver disease, but actually the combination of iron and alcohol may be the real leading cause.

Electromagnetic Radiation
Measurements

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Exposure is based on proximity. The closer you are to a source, the higher your potential exposure.

VLF is the abbreviation for Very Low Frequency, which is the frequency emitted by computer screens, television screens, etc. (Measurement scale is 0.00 to 19.99
milligauss.)

Many professionals consider it unsafe for anyone to be exposed for long periods of time (many hours per day for months or years) to more than ¼ of 1 point or .25 milligauss
of VLF radiation.

ELF is the abbreviation for Extremely Low Frequency, which is the frequency emitted by electrical wires, electrical motors, electric stove heating surfaces, etc. (Measurement scale is 0.0 to 199.9 milligauss.)

Many professionals consider it unsafe for anyone to be exposed for long periods of time (many hours per day for months or years) to more than 2 milligauss
of ELF radiation.

Some devices emit both VLF and ELF radiation.

The VLF magnetic radiation from a computer screen is 2000 times more powerful than the ELF magnetic radiation emitted from electrical power lines.

I purchased a Milligauss meter and performed all the measurements on items listed on the following pages.

VLF measurements 0.00 to 19.99 milligauss (VLF = Very Low Frequency)

Desktop Computer Screen, VLF = 12 to 14 milligauss. This is 48 to 56 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

(Note: It was pointed out to me that the amounts in the following illustration do not match the numbers here. That’s because each electrical device may emit a different amount of electromagnetic radiation, and the illustration is a laptop computer screen; this example is a desktop computer screen.)

Laptop Computer, Screen: VLF = 8 to 9 milligauss, which
is 32 to 40 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels. Battery: VLF = 14 to 18 milligauss, which is 56 to 72 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Television Screen, VLF = 3 to 4 milligauss. This is 12 to 16 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels. (Exposure drops off as you move further away.)

ELF measurements 0.0 to 199.9 milligauss (ELF = Extremely Low Frequency)

Measurements of ElectroMagnetic

Sources from Your Kitchen

Numbers in photo refer to numbers assigned to the following items:

1). Dishwasher, ELF = 90 to 105 milligauss. This is 45 to 52 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

2). Garbage Disposal, ELF = 100 to 120 milligauss. This is 50 to 60 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

3). Toaster Oven, ELF = 140 to 155 milligauss. This is 70 to 77 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

4). Overhead Fluorescent Light, ELF = 90 to 120 milligauss. This is 45 to 60 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

5). Overhead Fan Light, 100-Watt Bulb, ELF = 8 milligauss. This is 4 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

6). Overhead Fan, ELF = 4 to 6 milligauss. This is 2 to 3 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

7). Electric Can Opener, ELF = 180 to 192 milligauss. This is 90 to 96 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

8). Television Screen, ELF = 34 to 44 milligauss. This is 17 to 22 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

9). Microwave Oven, ELF = 160 to 190 milligauss. This is 80 to 95 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

10). Coffee Maker, ELF = 14 to 24 milligauss. This is 7 to 12 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

11). Digital Controls for Ice and Water on Refrigerator, ELF = 170 to 180 milligauss. This is 85 to 90 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

12). Electric Stovetop Cooking Surface, ELF = 160 to 180 milligauss. This is 80 to 90 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

13). Digital Clock/Digital Controls
Electric Stove, ELF = 60 to 90 milligauss. This is 30 to 45 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

14). Electric
Oven, ELF = 10 to 24 milligauss. This is 5 to 12 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

15). Refrigerator Motor, ELF = 2 to 8 milligauss. This is 1 to 4 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

16). Telephone with Cord, ELF = 4 to 10 milligauss. This is 2 to 5 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

(Note: Cordless phones would emit even more electromagnetic radiation because they transmit by wireless signal, have batteries in the handset, and have magnets in the speakers/earpiece.)

Other General Items:

Mobile/Cell Phone Battery, ELF = 14 to 24 milligauss. This is 7 to 12 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

(Note: My milligauss meter is not capable of measuring the frequency emitted from the antenna while the phone is in use.

Also, an additional concern in relation to cell phone usage is, believe it or not, the glasses a person wears. Eyeglass frames should be made from plastic with no metal in them, because the metal absorbs radio and electromagnetic waves from many emitting sources in the area surrounding you, plus metal eyeglass frames absorb and emit radio waves – comprised of radio-frequency (RF) energy, a form of electromagnetic radiation. Therefore, when your phone is in use, your eyeglass frames may be working similar to an antenna. Metal eyeglass frames can focus and transmit electromagnetic waves directly into your head, and also the metal could possibly become slightly magnetized.

Antennas convert electromagnetic waves into electrical currents, and vice versa. It may be wise to purchase plastic frames, or take off your wire frame or metal eyeglasses while talking on a mobile phone or using headsets
or headphones.)

Gameboy, ELF = 100 to 160 milligauss. This is 50 to 80 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Car Speakers (High Volume), ELF = 130 to 150 milligauss. This is 65 to 75 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Electric Digital Alarm Clock, ELF = 16 to 20 milligauss. This is 8 to 10 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Electric Power Panel (Breaker/Fuse Box), ELF = 70 milligauss. This is 35 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Portable Electric Space Heater, ELF = 130 to 140 milligauss. This is 65 to 70 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Desktop Computer Screen, ELF = 26 to 28 milligauss. This is 13 to 14 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Electric Power Lines, ELF = 60 milligauss. This is 30 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Blow Dryer, ELF = 150 to 180 milligauss. This is 75 to 90 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Blender, ELF = 146 to 166 milligauss. This is 73 to 83 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Mixer, ELF = 140 to 180 milligauss. This is 70 to 90 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Make-up Mirror with Fluorescent Bulb, ELF = 160 to 190 milligauss. This is 80 to 90 times higher than recommended safe exposure levels.

Exposure at any level or measurement may not be safe. I now sit farther away from my computer screen. Even so, while there is no measurable radiation at the distance I currently sit, I am sure that it still affects my eyes. If I stay away from the computer for a week or two, I feel a big difference. I am sure that the change is not from a decrease in eye movement, but from not staring at the screen continuously. In fact, more than previously thought, there may be dangers present at even further distances, even if the measurement meter registers 0. The milligauss meter may not be sensitive enough!

Photos for Your Curiosity

I mixed iron, salt, vinegar, water, and calcium together
in the combinations listed below. There was no consideration of the amount needed to balance or neutralize the oxidization and dissolution of the iron. This was not a controlled and measured scientific experiment. I was just curious about the reactions I would see. The end results surprised me. They may surprise you, too.

1). Water – Salt – Iron. Beginning.

2). Water – Salt – Iron. After 1 Hour.

3). Water – Salt – Iron. After 8 Hours.

4). Water – Salt – Iron. After 24 Hours.

5). Water – Salt – Iron. After 32 Hours.

6). Water – Salt – Iron. After 48 Hours.

7). Water – Salt – Iron. After 56 Hours.

8). Water – Salt – Iron. After 72 Hours.

9). Water – Salt – Iron. After 80 Hours.

10). Water – Salt – Iron. After 80 Hours.
(Close up)

11). Vinegar – Iron. Beginning.

12). Vinegar – Iron. After 1 hour.

13). Vinegar – Iron. After 8 Hours.

14). Vinegar – Iron. After 24 Hours.

15). Vinegar – Iron. After 32 Hours.

16). Vinegar – Iron. After 48 Hours.

17). Vinegar – Iron. After 56 Hours.

18). Vinegar – Iron. After 72 Hours.

19). Vinegar – Iron. After 80 Hours.

20). Vinegar – Salt – Iron. Beginning.

27). Vinegar – Salt – Iron. After 72 Hours.

28). Vinegar – Salt – Iron. After 80 Hours.

29). Vinegar – Salt – Iron. After 80 Hours.
(Close up)

30). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. Beginning.

33). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 24 Hours.

34). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 32 Hours.

35). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 48 Hours.

36). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 56 Hours.

37). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 72 Hours.

38). Water – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 80 Hours.

39). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. Beginning.

40). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 1 Hour.

41). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 8 Hours.

42). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 24 Hours.

43). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 32 Hours.

44). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 48 Hours.

45). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 56 Hours.

46). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 72 Hours.

47). Vinegar – Iron – Calcium. After 80 Hours.

48). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. Beginning.

49). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 1 Hour.

53). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 48 Hours.

54). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 56 Hours.

55). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 72 Hours.

56). Vinegar – Salt – Iron – Calcium. After 80 Hours.

MY THEORY IS ACTUALLY VERY SIMPLE.

Sir Isaac Newton’s Law says it best –

“To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

(Written: December 30, 2003 through February 2004)

Important Introduction:

I did not research Mad Cow Disease, Lupus and Three Mile Island with as much time and intensity as I put into electromagnetic radiation. I was more motivated with the first part of this book because I was ill. It affected me personally, so I understood how things were related and included information from discussions with others to further verify my thoughts.

I added bits and pieces to the electromagnetic radiation research over many years. I researched and wrote this Mad Cow section in about three months, so it is less detailed.

I have never lived near nor visited the places where Mad Cow Disease occurred. Washington State and Canada are both over 2,000 miles from my home in Tennessee. I began researching Mad Cow Disease when I heard about the first known case found in the United States, in Washington State. This eventually led me to Canada, and subsequent information led me to Europe, which is where I stopped researching. That is why there is little information in my book about Mad Cow Disease in Europe. I researched this, because I thought I understood something very important that could affect everyone, and that by passing this information along, it could possibly help in understanding and solving the mystery of this disease.

There needs to be much more research done, but I believe that both stories are important and that you may agree with my theories in the following.

I do not want to be perceived as raving about every danger in the world. Much of the following is made up of thoughts, information, and paraphrases from other sources. I included it because I found it relevant to my explanation. I may be asking you to absorb too much too quickly — sorry, but it is all important!

The reason for this long explanation is that reviewers of this book, almost unanimously, think the first part is impressive, and almost all think this section about Mad Cow Disease, Lupus and Three Mile Island is important, but dilutes the focus and the importance of the message from the Electromagnetic Radiation Research. I admit that I also believe that everything together in one book is overwhelming and may confuse many readers. I do not know why, but I feel like I am apologizing for including this section and not listening to others’ advice. I can tell you why I’m including it; it’s because I am not writing this trying to win a prize, I am writing this because I truly believe this may be an important discovery. I am trying to get a message out. I mentioned earlier, I am not a professional writer. Please just read everything and help me pass it on, if you believe it may help someone. It is not important if this is a best seller; it is IMPORTANT that it is read.

Just consider this Section as a FREE and added bonus and read it for your curiosity. If by chance I am correct, you will be glad you did. Maybe it will have meaning in the future. Please keep an open mind, and do not allow the following information to detract from the Electromagnetic Radiation Research.

Mad Cow Disease: United States

Why should Mad Cow Disease be important to you? Do you or your family and friends eat beef, cheese, butter, or ice cream, or drink milk? The following dairy practices and exposure problems are worldwide, including where you live.

Please keep going….

The connection of Mad Cow Disease to my first story is the danger of iron, salt, and acids when ingested in high amounts or in unbalanced amounts. The effects could be the same with or without being exposed to electromagnetic radiation. However with exposure to radiation, the processes would be more rapid; therefore, the effects and symptoms would show up much sooner. Humans may crave certain foods, causing them to eat higher concentrations. Many animals are forced to eat more food or drink more water with these higher concentrations in them, and, as in the case of livestock, they have no choice about what is fed to them. Animals that live in the wild often have environmental conditions that increase the level of iron, salt, and acids in the food and water sources available to them. One Example: Drought conditions drastically change the food and water supply for animals in the wild.

When I heard about the first known case of Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE) being found in Mabton, Washington State, at Sunny Dene Ranch, the information that was reported piqued my interest. I was especially curious when I heard that the disease eats holes in the brain and is believed to develop and slowly progress over a long period of time. In addition, the disease is not detectable by blood or urine tests and is not caused by an infection from bacteria or viruses.

I saw similarities to my earlier theories and soon began reading more about the disease.

I found out that the body parts of dead animals were often ground up and used in the making of feed for other animals. Scientists and researchers believe that a
protein called a prion (which is found in animals infected with Mad Cow Disease) is associated with passing the disease from one animal to another when one eats feed containing the infected tissue.

The disease is probably passed to other animals and humans in this way, but that does not answer the question of how it originated and developed. In fact, I believe it is possible that its origins may lie in the damaging and dissolving of tissues and cell structures caused by excessive acids and oxidation. I then theorized as to how the cow in Washington had developed the disease, suspecting that if I researched the history of the cow, I would probably find abnormal exposures to electromagnetic radiation, iron, salt, and acids.

A cow is one animal to which most farmers feed supplemental salt. I am guessing that the owner or manager of Sunny Dene Ranch followed the same protocol. Theoretically, a milk cow consuming more salt would probably drink more water and, ultimately, produce more milk. Therefore, I suspect that most dairy farmers supply more salt to milk cows than to other cattle.

I searched the Internet and found an article stating that milk cows that are fed salt supplements usually produce up to double the amount of milk per day compared to cows with a low-salt diet. “In a 1986 review article, a University of Florida dairy scientist recommends an additional 1/3 pounds of salt per cow per day.”²

It is recommended that supplemental salt be mixed with the food source and not poured on top of the food, because animals will not eat the extra salt and will push it away. This indicates that they do not want the extra salt but are forced to eat it.

My guess is that male beef cows are not fed as much salt as dairy cows, and therefore have a lower incidence of contracting Mad Cow Disease. It should be much safer for humans to consume the meat from these animals, if my conjecture is correct.

Something else that I keep thinking about:

Milk is loaded with calcium. Dairy cows would deplete their bodies of large amounts of calcium if they were continuously milked. If my theories are correct, calcium is an important nutrient that cows need to retain. (Calcium neutralizes acids and oxidation.) Cows are among the few animals that are often herded under power lines, are fed salt, contain large amounts of iron in their bodies (I know from eating beef and earlier research that beef contains one of the highest percentages of iron), and deplete their calcium when milked. Some cows have the perfect diet and environment for the deterioration of cell membranes and tissues, especially if exposed to electromagnetic radiation, including living under high voltage power lines.

I found information stating that pastureland is often fertilized with salt to increase the salt content in grasses and other plants, causing the cattle to graze more often and consume more. The end result is that the cows drink more water, and therefore, produce more milk. However, I also found that grasses and other feeds are very high in iron. Iron is taken up by plants at a much higher rate than are other trace elements.

I also learned from my research that one illness that some cows experience is milk fever (Hypocalcaemia), which is caused by a drop in blood calcium. Milk fever is a disorder with which every dairy producer is familiar. Just about every dairy farmer has had a cow down with milk fever.

Milk fever is a disorder mainly of dairy cows close to calving. It is more prevalent in third calvers and older cattle.

(Note: The first mad cow in the U.S., found in Washington State at Sunny Dene Ranch, was a Holstein dairy cow that gave birth to three calves, one of which died at birth. In the first known case thought to have originated in Canada, the cow had had four calves and then developed Mad Cow Disease!)

Age is important. Heifers (young female cows before they have had their first calf) are rarely affected by milk fever. Old cows increase in susceptibility up to the fifth or sixth calving, because they produce more milk and are less able to replace blood calcium quickly. Usually a dairy cow calves each year. It is necessary to calve in order to produce milk. Cows at some stage stop calving and stop producing milk, at which point they are usually sold and slaughtered for their meat.

Grazing in some pastures results in alkaline blood, which creates conditions unfavorable for the availability of calcium in the body and predisposes the cow to milk fever. Feeding hay prior to calving, and restricting access to green feed, results in acidic blood.³

(Note: All of this could be a precursor to Mad Cow Disease!)

Notes:

Many sheep are herded into feed lots and also fed salt supplements, with many having been diagnosed with the sheep version of Mad Cow Disease, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or TSE.

One thing that all species—including humans–that have been diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease and its variants seem to have in common is that they all eat supplemental salt. Do you know of any species that has been diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease that does not ingest much salt?

The owner of Sunny Dene Ranch is a veterinarian. He would be an expert at maximizing the diet of his dairy cows in order to generate maximum milk production. My guess is that his milk production was above average in comparison to smaller farmers with less knowledge. I bet his cows ate a lot of salt!

I searched the Internet for photos of the farm where the cow was discovered. I wanted to see if there was an electric power line near where the cow spent most of its time. I could not find any photos verifying my theory, but I was later watching Fox News Channel when I saw an aerial view of a farm that I surmised was Sunny Dene. The video showed a power pole with three transformers on it located next to what looked like a feeding barn.

Keep in mind that people and animals could live in the same electromagnetic area but not show the same symptoms due to many variables. For example, they may not eat, drink, or consume equal amounts; they may not be in the area of exposure for equal amounts of time; or they may be located varying distances from the source. Furthermore, one person or animal could have a stronger and more resilient immune system. There could be many variables. For example: If two cows grazed under high voltage power lines, but one was larger or older; consumed more iron, acids, and salt; and spent more time in the area of exposure, it could develop symptoms earlier than the other cow, develop different symptoms, or perhaps not show any visible symptoms at all.

Logically, you would think that if an animal’s brain was stimulated to send signals to produce more of whatever was necessary to dissolve or balance excess iron, salt, acids, and calcium in the body, that this evolved substance or trigger would remain in the animal’s tissues after death. This substance is not a bacteria or virus. It would be difficult to detect; it is probably natural in the normal body and probably more evolved or in stronger concentrations in animals ingesting higher amounts of salt. This evolved substance could trigger the same processes of dissolving tissues in any other animal which later eats this infected animal’s parts.

I am guessing this trigger may be the protein called prion, which scientists and researchers believe is associated with passing the disease from one animal to another when one eats feed containing the infected tissue. This could explain why healthy animals eating feed containing dead animal parts contract the disease and why humans eating parts from infected animals also contract the disease. The substance that triggered the eating of tissues would still be in the dead animal’s tissues in higher concentrations, or in its evolved molecular structure, and could continue the process in the next recipient. This chemical combination would not be a living organism; therefore, it could be dangerous if ever ingested. It may naturally decompose or break down over time, but until someone actually figures out what it is, who knows?

I was still curious to know for sure, however, if there were any power generating plants located near Mabton. I thought that there could be a possibility of high voltage power lines running over the farmland where this cow had lived.

I searched the Internet for power generating plants located in the area.

To my surprise, I found the following three:

1. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland (currently the world’s largest nuclear radiation clean-up site) is about 15 to 20 miles from Mattawa, where the cow was first shipped into Washington State, and is about 30 to 40 miles from Mabton, where this same cow developed Mad Cow Disease.

2. The Columbia Nuclear Power Plant (not part of Hanford) is located 30 to 40 miles from Sunny Dene Ranch in Mabton and approximately the same distance from Mattawa.

3. The Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Dam is 5 to 10 miles from Mattawa
and about 30 miles from Mabton.

In February 1997, ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) concluded that a medical monitoring program was warranted for persons exposed to the radioactive iodine-131 released from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation during the period between 1945 and 1951. ATSDR determined that the major health risk was to young children living downwind of the facility and persons that may have consumed contaminated milk during that period. The Hanford Nuclear Facility produced plutonium used in nuclear weapons.

The thyroid dose estimates (for radiation exposure) were determined within a 75,000 square mile region around Hanford, including Mabton and Mattawa.⁴

(Note: I included the ATSDR information to show the U.S. Government verification of connections between radiation exposure, dairy cows, milk, and humans consuming the milk.

Even if the radiation release was 1945 to 1951, I have read that some radioactive materials can remain active for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. Some radioactive nuclear waste can remain active for up to 10,000 years!)

Hanford Nuclear Facility Facts:

USDOE (U.S. Department of Energy)
plans to ship 70,000 truckloads of dangerous radioactive waste to Hanford.

The Hanford site, located in southeastern Washington State, is now considered to be the most contaminated site in the world.

Within its first 30 years of production, more radiation was released into the air, soil, and water than Soviet officials say escaped at Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. In fact, as much as 450 billion gallons of contaminated waste were dumped into the soils at Hanford, including a million gallons of liquid high-level nuclear waste. Furthermore, over a third of the 177 underground storage tanks have leaked radioactive and chemically toxic solutions into the ground. The Department of Energy is responsible for cleaning up Hanford. They estimate that it will take at least 50 years and cost tens of billions of dollars to do so.

Hanford Nuclear Facility Fast Facts

• Construction began in 1943.
  
• Produced the 1st plutonium-production reactor that fueled the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
  
• Peak years of weapons-material production: 1960s.
  
• Legacy: World’s largest clean-up project.
  
• By 1964, nine plutonium production reactors were operating at Hanford.
  

Green Run:

• A 1949 government experiment that intentionally released radioactive iodine into the air for two days from the Hanford Nuclear Facility.
  
• The primary purpose of the experiment was to study Soviet monitoring systems.
  
• Extensive sampling over the region was also done. The worst vegetation contamination was found near Hanford, an area that contains hundreds of square miles of farmland (including Mabton and Mattawa).
  
• The sampling also showed that radiation levels higher than government-established limits reached as far north as Spokane and as far south as California.
  
• Although this was one of the biggest releases of radiation ever to occur at an atomic facility, the Green Run experiment was kept secret until the 1980s.
  

Downwinders

• Downwinders from the Tri-Cities (Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco) to Spokane are some of the most irradiated citizens outside of the former Soviet Union.
  
• They have reported health problems such as skin sores, respiratory problems, thyroid problems, miscarriages, and cancer.
  
• Although high levels of radioactivity were found in Columbia River fish in the 1940s, this information was ordered classified and no public warning was issued.
  

Columbia Generating Station is Washington State’s only commercial nuclear power plant. It is located about three miles from the Columbia River in southeast Washington State. The plant has been in operation since December 1984 and is located about 10 miles north of Richland on land leased from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

The Columbia Nuclear Power Plant is not part of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Columbia Generating Station produces about half of the electricity used in the area. It services about 9,000,000 people.⁵

Headline: Thousands of nearby residents evacuated when wildfire nears the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Wednesday, June 28, 2000

In a news release, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy said, “There was no sign of radioactive or hazardous materials being released into the atmosphere from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.” This is despite the fact that the fire had already consumed over 200,000 acres (312 square miles). The spokesman said that the fire was burning away from the storage tanks and there was no reason for concern.

The fire forced about 2,500 residents to evacuate from the town of Benton City and a few thousand more from West Richland.

About 1,700 employees who worked on the Hanford reservation were either sent home or told not to report for work.

Although the Energy Department said that there were no known radioactive releases, an anti-nuclear group called Heart of America Northwest warned that the fire could burn plants and brush on the radioactive soils and carry contaminated particles into the air. The anti-nuclear group urged government officials to monitor the area.

The fire spread rapidly and was difficult to bring under control because of temperatures of over 100 degrees and winds gusting to over 30 mph.

There were over 900 firefighters as well as many airplanes and helicopters involved in fighting the fire.

Benton County was declared a state of emergency and the National Guard was activated to help with evacuations.

Some local residents were concerned about the destruction of the vegetation and worried that the run-off from future rains would carry radioactive soil into the Columbia River.⁶

(Note: The 30+mph winds could carry radioactive particles from the burning contaminated vegetation and soil as far as Mabton and Sunny Dene Ranch, which is less than 30 to 40 miles away. This fire was approximately three years before the first mad cow was reported in Mabton, which would be about the right amount of time of exposure before the development of Mad Cow Disease.)

Kennewick, Washington State

August 27, 1999

A former nuclear engineer from Kennewick, Washington dies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

(Note: Kennewick is about 20 miles from the Columbia Nuclear Power Plant, about 40 miles from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and about 45 miles from where the mad cow was found in Mabton in 2003.)

This rare disease can be caused by eating meat infected with Mad Cow Disease. The disease ate away at this nuclear engineer’s brain for about four months, before he died on August 27, 1999. Researchers say they have no idea where or how the man contracted the disease.

(Note: He may not have contracted the disease from eating contaminated meat; it may have developed in his body.)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an incurable brain-wasting condition that is rare in the United States. Worldwide there have been 153 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob that were caused by Mad Cow Disease that are known; 143 cases were found in the United Kingdom, only 10 cases were recorded in other countries (2003).

(Note: Iron helps produce the connective tissues in our body and the neurotransmitters in our brain, and helps to maintain our immune system.)

Mad Cow Disease: Canada

Canada’s first case of Mad Cow Disease appeared in 1993 in a beef cow that had been imported from Britain in 1987.

(Important Note: On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Pastureland all across Great Britain received much radiation fallout. Since 1986, more than 185,000 cases of BSE have been confirmed in Great Britain. The epidemic peaked in 1992-93 at almost 1,000 new cases per week. This first Mad Cow in Canada lived in Great Britain during the time of radiation exposure.)

The first known case, thought to have originated in Canada was discovered in 2003, at a farm near Wanham, Alberta, in the Peace River Valley.

Large reserves of oil are located in northern Alberta (including near Wanham). The oil is tar-like and dispersed in sand and sandstone. This oil is known as “tar-sand” or “oil-sand,” and these reserves contain about 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil, which is comparable to the amount of oil found in all of Saudi Arabia.

The Athabasca Oil Sands form one of the largest deposits found in Canada. There are major oil-sand deposits on Melville Island and three other smaller deposits are located in the Peace River, Wabasca, and Cold Lake areas.

Oil found near the surface can be open-pit mined, but much of the oil is deep and must be extracted by injecting high-pressure steam. The injected steam heats the tar-like substance, separating the oil from the sand and allowing it to be pumped to the surface.

Impacts of Oil-Sands on the Environment in Alberta

The oil-sands in northern Alberta are actively being processed to develop fuels, materials, and other petroleum-based products. During the “high-pressure steam” extraction process, large volumes of water contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, naphthenic
acids and high levels of salt
are pumped to the
surface, stored in waste water ponds and reclaimed back into the area. Wildlife and cattle
inhabit these reclaimed ponds and the lands surrounding them. A recent research program was completed that studied the effects of contaminants in these waters on plants, fish, and other wildlife.⁷

(Note: I could not find the results or conclusions from the study.)

I was curious to know if the mad cow found in Canada lived near any of these areas, or if the first mad cow found in Washington State (that was shipped into the U.S. from Canada!), or any of their parents, came from these areas.

The size of the drainage basin (i.e., the Peace River Basin) encompasses nearly 44% of the total area of Alberta.

Near Wanham (the approximate location of Canada’s mad cow), there are deposits of sand-oil and iron.

As I read more information, I doubted that the mad cow found in Alberta in 2003 had contracted the disease at the farm near Wanham. The farmer said that he had bought the animal in August 2002 in a deal that included 35 pairs of cows and calves. Therefore, he had only owned the cow for a few months before it was killed in January 2003. The cow (tissue sample) was not tested and diagnosed with BSE until May 2003.

The cow was believed to have been born on a farm near Baldwinton, Saskatchewan, and then sold to a farmer in Tulliby Lake, Alberta. Later, a rancher bought the animal and took it to his farm near Lloydminster, Saskatchewan (Lloydminster is only a few miles from Baldwinton), where it lived for over four years and gave birth to four calves before being sold and ending up on the farm near Wanham.

When I first found information about the mad cow, I began searching for salt reserves, iron ore, and power generating plants located near Wanham. I found only one salt mine in Alberta, and it was not near Wanham. The information that really captured my attention at the time was that there were many, many salt mines located in nearby Saskatchewan. In fact, there are more salt mines in Saskatchewan than in any other province in Canada. I thought at the time, “This area should have more health problems than Alberta.” I was a little surprised when my research traced the mad cow from Wanham, Alberta, right back to the salt mine area of Saskatchewan. The accuracy of my theories was beginning to show.

(Note: I searched for salt mines as a reference only to verify salt in the area. I knew that if there was enough salt to be mined, there would probably be large concentrations all over the area, including pastureland, and possibly above-average amounts in the drinking water supply.)

The Great Manito Sand Hills are located very near Lloydminster and even closer to Baldwinton. They are laced with salt and freshwater lakes (including Manito Lake). Isolated cases of Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD (a variant of Mad Cow Disease found mostly in deer and elk) have been found in three wild mule deer in the Manito Hills. There was also one wild white-tailed deer that was found with CWD near previously-infected elk farms northeast of Lloydminster.

(Note: Deer and Elk, in the wild and in captivity, are often fed salt and mineral blocks to increase the size of their antlers for trophy hunters.)

There have also been many other cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) reported in deer and elk near the areas of salt deposits. My guess is that the salt content is very high in the soil and pastureland, and in the water sources all over the area.

Salt Lakes in areas of Mad Cow Disease

Water isn’t potable if it contains more than 500 parts per million of dissolved minerals. Ocean/seawater contains about 35,000 parts per million. Little Manito Lake of Saskatchewan contains almost three times more salt than seawater. It is 95,900 parts per million! ⁸

Drought Spring/Summer 2001

The worst drought in decades affected vast areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 2001. Much of the area was declared a disaster area. The hot and windy conditions dried up or lowered water levels in many reservoirs, lakes, and ponds, resulting in increased salinity levels and a reduction in habitat along the shoreline. The salinity levels were already dangerous for wildlife before the drought, but became extremely dangerous during it, forcing both wildlife and cattle to drink the unsafe water after many freshwater sources had already dried up. In addition, cattle and wildlife had very little grass to eat, because most of the grasslands were dead.

A very interesting story…

Drought Brings Clouds of Salt
May 31, 2001
by Mary MacArthur
Camrose Bureau
The Western Producer

I pulled the following highlights from a story written by Mary MacArthur that appeared in The Western Producer in May 2001. I believe this further verifies the relationship between the drought and animals forced to ingest high concentrations of salt. The timing coincides with the explosion in the number of cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) found in the drought-stricken areas of Canada.

HANNA, ALBERTA.

• When cattle walked across the pastures near Dowling Lake, they kicked up little puffs of white powder. This powder was salt.
  
• The powder covered the grass, brush, trees, and soil. The salt made the grass unpalatable, and cows refused to eat it.
  
• The only thing that could make the grass palatable was a good rain to wash the salt off the leaves, but even then, the salt content remained high in the grasses.
  
• The water in Dowling Lake was 4.5 meters deep before the drought, but for the past five years the alkaline lake, 60 kilometers around, has been dry because of low rainfall. Salt from the lake seeps to the surface and dries in large piles all around the lake bottom.
  
• Strong winds blew the salt off the lake and covered farmland for 138 kilometers. Many times it looked like snowstorms blowing through the pastureland. Clouds of salt were so thick that visibility was often less than 100 meters.⁹
  

(Note: There was a similar drought in the area in 1988. Canada’s first case of Mad Cow Disease in cattle was discovered in 1993, in a single cow in Red Deer, Alberta. The animal was imported from Britain in 1987, only one year before the drought of 1988. Red Deer is 60 to 80 miles from the Dowling Lake “Salt Clouds.”)

Deer Killed Fall 2001

(During the year of the drought)

The Canadian government approved the killing of thousands of deer in an effort to control the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the wild.

A major deer herd reduction took place in the fall of 2001, just south of Lloydminster in the Manito Sand Hills area where two deer had tested positive for the disease.

(Note: There have been more droughts in Saskatchewan since I first wrote this. I feel sure the outbreaks of CWD are going to increase and follow the drought patterns. I did not research this further, because I thought you may be tired of reading about this by now. You research: I will bet you will find the correlation between other droughts and CWD outbreaks in Saskatchewan.)

Other interesting notes:

• Saskatchewan Province ranks fifth in the world in the production of sodium sulphate (the sodium salt of sulfuric acid).
  
• Saskatchewan has the richest uranium deposits in the world. The province is the world’s largest producer and exporter of uranium. All of the uranium produced in Canada comes from Saskatchewan.
  
• The Quill Lakes, located in Saskatchewan, are the largest inland body of salt water in North America. The Quill Lakes are a series of three large saline lakes used for cattle ranching, recreation, and swimming.
  

Lupus

I have thought, since experiencing my illness, that anyone exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation who also ingested unusually high concentrations of salt, iron, and acids (over time) might develop symptoms similar to vasculitis, lupus, or other similar health problems.

I was amazed at the extreme amounts of salt in the region of Saskatchewan. I realized that the salt content in the drinking water supply and food sources may be very high all over the area. Since I suspected that there might be an above-average number of cases of lupus or other similar diseases in the area of the salt concentrations, I searched “Lupus Saskatchewan” on the Internet and found THE LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS SOCIETY OF SASKATCHEWAN, INC.

In Saskatchewan in 2003, there were approximately 500 people known to have lupus. The lupus web site listed seven cities that have lupus support groups or contacts. I found active salt mines or cases of Mad Cow Disease (or variants of the disease) very near all but one of the listed cities. My research involved only a day or so on the Internet; therefore, I am sure that the information I found only touches the surface. ¹⁰

(Note added in October 2009: The total population estimates in all of Saskatchewan is 1,023,810. The incidence of Lupus in Canada is discussed more in the following information.)

Location of lupus support groups or contacts:

1. Saskatoon
   lupus support group (Sterling Pulp Chemicals salt mine is in Saskatoon)
   
2. Regina
   lupus support group (Belle-Plaine salt mine is 27 miles away)
   
3. Swift Current
   lupus support group (18 deer were found infected with CWD just north of Swift Current)
   
4. Prince Albert
   lupus support group (There were herds of deer infected with CWD located near Prince Albert)
   
5. Hudson Bay lupus support group
   
6. Moose Jaw
   lupus support group (Belle-Plaine salt mine is 18 miles away)
   
7. North Battleford
   lupus support group (Unity salt mine is 54 miles away)
   
8. Unity
   lupus support group (Unity
   salt mine is also 15 to 25 miles from the farm in Baldwinton, where the mad cow found in Alberta was born.)
   

Interesting Note:
There are many cases of lupus in animals in Saskatchewan.

I emailed the following message to: LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS SOCIETY OF SASKATCHEWAN, INC

———————

October 13, 2009

I am researching lupus. I could not find on your website how many cases there are in Saskatchewan. Could you please e-mail this information?

Thanks in advance,

Claude Ledbetter

I received the following reply on October 16, 2009.

Dear Claude,

Thank you for your interest in lupus.

The incidence of lupus is a little complicated; it depends on the population you are considering. Also, lupus can be difficult to diagnose, so it’s hard to say how many people are undiagnosed.

Lupus Canada states:

(From Living Well With Lupus Facts)

“It is estimated that lupus affects one in 2,000 people, thus there are thousands of people in Canada with SLE.”

(From Lupus: The Disease with a Thousand Faces)

“Who gets lupus?

“Women of child-bearing age (15 to 45) are most often affected. Indeed, in that particular age group, lupus is 8 to 13 times more common in women than in men. However, the disease does occur in men, in children, and in the elderly. According to the Lupus Foundation of America, of the 500,000 Americans estimated to have SLE, the disease occurs in 1 of every 600 white women of child-bearing age and in 1 of every 200 black women. Lupus is therefore not rare and is more common than multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, or leukemia. Lupus is diagnosed worldwide.”

“In Canada, estimates of the number of lupus patients range from 15,000 (based on the number of patients followed in various University Hospital Lupus Clinics throughout the country) to 50,000 (based on the figures used by the Lupus Foundation of America, adjusted to the Canadian population). At any rate, it is clear that SLE is not a rare disease in Canada.”

I hope this is helpful.

Marianne Weber

LESS E-mail Contact

(Note: Remember my mentioning earlier that women often take iron supplements while pregnant? That could be a contributing factor as to why they are more susceptible to lupus. I also believe that women who are not pregnant often take more iron supplements than men. Statistics show that female dairy cows of calf bearing age are more susceptible to Mad Cow Disease, and women of child bearing age are more susceptible to Lupus. I believe the causes are related.)

After reading the email from the Lupus Erythematosus Society of Saskatchewan, I suspected that if I researched women of childbearing age and why black women were at higher risk for lupus, I would find iron involved. The following is what I found.

Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. Women of childbearing age are at increased risk for the condition, since menstruation, pregnancy, and lactation take their toll on the body’s iron supplies.

Iron is one of the few things women need way more of than men. Females 14 to 18 years old need about 40% more iron than males in the same age group. Females 19 to 50 years old need about 110% more than males in the same age group.

In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that 12% of all women aged 12 to 49 years were iron deficient in 1999-2000. When broken down by groups, 10% of non-Hispanic white women, 22% of Mexican-American women, and 19% of non-Hispanic black women were iron deficient.¹¹

(Note: The information concerns iron deficiency. If women needed more iron, it would make sense that if they ingest more from foods and supplements, their bodies would be processing more iron than men would be, even if they tested as deficient.)

Iron Deficiency Anemia

The prevalence of iron deficiency anemia is 2 percent in adult men, 9 to 12 percent in non-Hispanic white women, and nearly 20 percent in black and Mexican-American women.

Iron Deficiency Anemia Risk Factor Statistics

Prevalence in white women: 7.1 percent; prevalence in black women: 25.1 percent.¹²

(Note: I believe all these percentages about iron related medical problems show a possible relationship to the percentages of people with lupus. The percentages of men, white and black women with lupus are very near the same percentages of men, white and black women with iron related problems.)

Progress in Chronic Disease Prevention Anemia during Pregnancy in Low-Income Women — United States, 1987

Anemia was more prevalent among younger women, except for white women in the 35-39 age group. For all age groups, the prevalence of anemia was higher among black women than among white.¹³

African Americans have consistently been observed to have higher serum ferritin (SF) concentrations than European Americans, despite lower hemoglobin. (Hemoglobin is the iron containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in red blood cells.)

Ferritin is a protein found inside cells that stores iron so your body can use it later. A ferritin test indirectly measures the amount of iron in your blood. The amount of ferritin in your blood (serum ferritin level) is directly related to the amount of iron stored in your body.¹⁴

(Another interesting note: In the United States, gout is twice as prevalent in African American males as it is in European-Americans.)

(Note: Ferritin protein should be studied along with the protein prion found in CWD, with my theories in mind.)

Science Daily (Dec. 30, 2004) — “A new study from the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine shows that the infectious version of prion proteins, the main culprits behind the human form of Mad Cow Disease or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), are not destroyed by digestive enzymes found in the stomach. Furthermore, the study finds that the infectious prion proteins, also known as prions, cross the normally stringent intestinal barrier by riding piggyback on ferritin, a protein normally absorbed by the intestine and abundantly present in a typical meat dish. The study appears in the Dec. 15, 2004 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.” ¹⁵

Iron in diseased Brains (prion – Mad Cow Disease ferritin)

Research from the Singh Laboratory:

May 20, 2009

“Singh and her team were surprised to find that prion disease-affected brains are iron deficient despite a significant increase in their overall iron content. The group concludes that ferritin, a major iron storage protein, co-aggregates with PrP-scrapie in diseased brains and sequesters bound iron in the complex, creating a state of apparent iron deficiency. The brain cells respond to this condition by increasing their level of iron uptake, thus creating a vicious cycle of increased iron uptake in the presence of increased iron.” ^16
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(Note: November 3, 2009. All major news agencies reported the discovery of a new drug (Benlysta) to fight lupus.)

Benlysta, also known as belimumab, blocks a protein that stimulates B cells which are part of the immune system and could be responsible for the autoimmune activity in lupus patients. Benlysta is an antibody that binds and inhibits this stimulating protein.

Human Genome, researching human DNA, discovered the gene for that protein, and the medicine was based on that discovery.

(Note: Do you remember my statement earlier? — I believe a protein called prion is probably the trigger and stimulating factor causing the continuation of the same processes of dissolving tissues in the next recipient which eats infected animal parts (from animals infected with Mad Cow Disease). I wrote that quote in 2003 and my iron theory in 2000. If I was correct then, before researchers proved this, please consider the possibilities of the other information included in this document.)

(Note: This new lupus drug should be researched on humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and animals infected with Mad Cow Disease.)

To view more information about locations of Mad Cow Disease in the U.S. and Canada on a customized navigable map – Click Here!

Three Mile Island Nuclear

Accident

November 22, 2009

I heard a report that on November 21, 2009, a small amount of radiation contamination was found in a Three Mile Island Reactor Building. This report did not get my attention, but I remembered that there was another major accident years ago. I was curious if there were cases of Mad Cow Disease near the area of contamination a few years after the first accident. So, I searched…

March 28, 1979:

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident.

The incident was a partial core meltdown. It was a significant accident in the United States commercial nuclear power industry. The accident released up to 481 PBq (13 million curies) of radioactive gases. Radiation levels up to five times higher than normal were measured in locations hundreds of miles downwind. Elevated airborne beta radioactivity was measured in Albany, New York, and in Portland, Maine, which are located about 280 to 430 miles distant, north/northeast of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

1986 and 1990:

18 people die of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or the human form of Mad Cow, killed as many as 18 residents in Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, located downwind north/northeast of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility. Deaths from the disease were reported in Northampton (100 miles downwind from Three Mile Island), Schuylkill (100 miles downwind from Three Mile Island), Monroe (115 miles downwind from Three Mile Island), and Lehigh (170 miles downwind from Three Mile Island). ¹⁸

As with my previous theories, the amount of time after the radiation exposure, during which this outbreak of disease developed, is about right. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is very rare in the world. Do you think these nearby locations that were definitely exposed to nuclear radiation, and the timing of the development of disease, could be just a coincidence?

To view location Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident – Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
on map – Click Here!

Ideas for You to Research

You may wonder how I find all these connecting things. It’s not because I am lucky or making things up. It is because once you understand what causes a problem, it is easy to find other cases, and therefore, it is easy to find the connecting factors to those cases.  Once you understand the direction to go and begin taking steps, it is easy to spot red flags along the trails. I could keep researching and writing examples to support my theories, but there could be more rapid discoveries, if you and others began researching.

If you understand my theories about electromagnetic radiation, iron, salt, acids and calcium, and you want to find connecting factors.

Try some of these…

• Find someone you know that worked as a welder for 10 years or more, not just occasionally, but as a full time welder. Ask them if they have joint pain. Possibly gout? Allergies? Rashes? Fatigue? Sleep disorders? Ask about their diet, what foods they like, and if their diet includes above average amounts of salt, iron, acids, calcium. Ask them about health problems in general. Compare their answers to my theories. See if you can find a welder that worked full time, welding every working day, for over 20 years.
  
• Find a family that has lived (over 15 years) directly under high voltage power lines that come direct from a power plant; not near, but under the power lines. Ask them questions about their health, about cancer, rashes, fatigue, miscarriages, and deaths in the family.
  

  
  

• If you know of incidents such as Three Mile Island, or nuclear contamination such as Hanford in Washington State, or Chernobyl in the Ukraine, look downwind for cases of Mad Cow Disease or its variants (or other abnormal illnesses) about 2 to 12 years after the exposure. I did not research Chernobyl: try researching this incident; see what you find.
  

  
  

• Search for cases of Mad Cow Disease or its variants in areas during or after extreme droughts, especially areas of salt mines, salt lakes, or any area or farms where cattle or wildlife are forced to ingest above normal amounts of salt.
  
• If you know a dairy farmer that forces his or her dairy cattle to eat large amounts of salt, ask about the death rate, the incidence of milk fever, downer cows, the incidence of miscarriages or deaths due to birthing.
  
• I did not research other droughts in Saskatchewan, other than the ones I wrote about. I think there have been more recent droughts. Search and compare incidents of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and elk and Mad Cow Disease. I believe there would be more deer and elk with the disease than cattle, because possibly cattle farmers, during a drought, would find access to fresh water. Wildlife would only have access to whatever is available. If you live in one of these areas, it would be easy for you to find information.
  
• Someone should research which direction the winds were blowing, possibly the jet-stream pattern on Wednesday, June 28, 2000, through June 30, 2000, when the wildfire burned near or on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State. Possibly the winds blew toward the areas in Saskatchewan where many cases of Mad Cow Disease (or its variants in wildlife) showed up 1 to 3 years later. Possibly this was a contributing factor to the outbreak of disease in Saskatchewan, if winds carried the radiation into the air from burning contaminated plants and soil on the Hanford Nuclear Reserve.
  

   

(Note: I searched briefly and did not find the wind direction or jet-stream map for June 28 to June 30, 2000.)

I would be curious to know what you find in your research.

MAD COW DISEASE: GREAT BRITAIN

I spent very little time researching Mad Cow Disease in Europe, but did find the following interesting facts:

• For a small country, Great Britain has quite a few nuclear facilities, and many of these facilities are being decommissioned.
  
• Many of the cases of Mad Cow Disease discovered in Great Britain were located near these facilities.
  
• The human form of Mad Cow Disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) has so far killed 143 people in Britain (2003).
  

  (Note added in 2008: The known cases in Great Britain have increased to 165.)
  

• On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. Great Britain received much radiation fallout. Since 1986, more than 185,000 cases of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) have been confirmed in Great Britain. The epidemic peaked in 1992-93 at almost 1,000 new cases per week.
  

  
  

• Interestingly, in Great Britain, government ministers have ruled out construction of more nuclear power plants and hope to replace them with wind-powered generators.
  
• The standard electricity supply voltage in the United Kingdom and much of Europe is 240 volts alternating current. The standard electricity supply voltage in the United States is 110. I am guessing that 110 volts gives off less electromagnetic radiation than 240. I could not find information that verified the radiation difference in 240 vs. 110 volt current. If my theories are correct, humans and animals exposed to larger doses should show symptoms faster than others exposed to a lesser degree. If electricity is associated, Europe’s many nuclear power plants, and the 240 voltage current, could be another contributing factor to why Mad Cow Disease first showed up in Europe.
  

To view the locations of Great Britain’s nuclear facilities, visit BNFL at the following web site: http://www.bnfl.com/index.php?pageID=67

(Note: Westinghouse Electric Co. is a unit of the British nuclear energy company, BNFL.)

BNFL also operates the Hanford, Washington, site. You can view this information at the web site listed above.

(Note: Web site URLs may have changed since this was published. If you have problems going to the web site listed above, go to the BNFL Homepage, and you can find the information from there. The home page is at: http://www.bnfl.com)¹⁹

I know that my subject changed, and I have sometimes strayed a little off track. I wrote parts of this over a ten-year period. I have re-read it many times and can see where I may have rambled on, but I also believe that if you focus on the content, all of it is important. It really does matter, and it all interconnects. You should read this more than once!

The following are other notes that I thought important, which may or may not be connected to what we’ve been discussing…

A Few Things Concern Me
about the molecular and bio-engineering of food, water, crops, and animals.

Examples:

1. Insect-killing proteins in corn
   

   Scientists have introduced insect-killing proteins, taken from a bacterium called bacillus thuringiensis, or “Bt,” into corn. They say that it is safer than chemical pesticides.
   

   My profession for over 20 years was horticulture. I grew plants. I used pesticides. There are many unknowns. My questions to the scientists are: How can you be sure? If this insect-killing protein kills insects, how does it kill them? And what does it do to animals that consume the corn? Like cows? Humans?
   

   (As was discussed earlier, one of the markers associated with Mad Cow Disease is a recently discovered and unique protein molecule called prion, and the new drug to treat lupus is Benlysta. It blocks another protein that stimulates B cells, which are part of the immune system and could be responsible for the autoimmune activity in lupus patients. In
   the human form of Mad Cow Disease,
   prion proteins piggyback on ferritin, a major
   iron storage protein.)
   

2. Radiation and chemicals used to produce mutations
   

   A technique that many seed producers use to produce new plant varieties is to use radiation and chemicals on the seed to produce mutations. Some of these mutated plants are later introduced as new or improved varieties.
   

3. Ionized drinking water
   

   Promoters of ionized drinking water state that the water (which is bottled and sold everywhere) is better for you because it re-hydrates you faster and better than regular water. They state that regular water molecules are changed into more electrically-charged ones after passing through a process of low voltage electrolysis. Ionized water is electrically charged because it has one extra electron in the outer shell (after electrolysis). These molecules are absorbed more rapidly and held longer in the body. The researchers say that they have proved this by having volunteers drink regular water and others drink ionized water. The group that drank the ionized water excreted less water over a monitored period of time than the group that drank the regular water.
   

   I have a different theory as to why those who drank the ionized water excreted less. The ionized water contained a negative charge after flowing through the electrolysis process, becoming similar to being magnetized; therefore, anyone drinking this water would not absorb or excrete it normally. Rather, the water would probably flow abnormally through their bodies.
   

   It concerns me that governments approve the sale of experimental water and other products of a different molecular structure, when none of us can fully understand the extent of possible future side effects.
   

   Another ionized water, called “Super Ionized Water,” has also recently been introduced. It contains not one, but three, extra electrons in the outer shell and is in our supermarkets today. Its promoters state, “The result is an increase of cell permeability for nutrients from our food, an increase of oxygen in the cell, and an increase in elimination of toxins and metabolic waste material found in the cell. Super ionized water is able to release heavy metals from the tissue in the body and encapsulates the heavy metals. Super ionized water has strong oxidation potential.”²⁰

   (Note: Ionized water may be dangerous! Pure water is said to have a neutral pH. The pH for pure water at 25 °C (77 °F) is about 7.0. Solutions with a pH less than 7 are acidic and solutions with a pH greater than 7 are alkaline. We may never know if ionized water is safe or not, because no one currently seems to have the knowledge or understanding to know how to accurately test for dangers with many products.)
   

4. Irradiated foods
   

   The recently approved use of irradiation for food sterilization concerns me. This irradiation process is the same that is used in sterilizing medical/surgical instruments in hospitals. Hospitals were among the first to use irradiation for sterilization. One of its downfalls that produced many complaints is that it caused the metal in medical instruments to become brittle.
   

   Irradiation equipment is now mounted on many conveyor belts at meat processing plants (and at many other food processors).
   

   There are metals in the foods being irradiated, such as the iron found in beef. I would like to know what possible changes this irradiation may cause to the molecular structure of the iron molecules in the beef that we consume. I also wonder if irradiation slightly magnetizes the metals. Irradiated food may not be safe!
   

5. Dolly
   

   Do you remember Dolly, the first cloned sheep? She was brought about by chemically or electrically stimulating a single cell. If this cell incurred damage, every cell that split thereafter would replicate that damage, causing any physical or medical conditions to show up at an earlier age, and therefore contributing to a shorter lifespan. If you begin with a single cell and have nothing less than perfection, each cell that reproduces will have the imperfection. Cloned species will probably have a shorter lifespan due to the chemical and electrical stimulation alone, without including all the other unknowns.
   

   Do you know how Dolly eventually died? She died of progressive lung disease at age 6. On average, sheep live for 11 to 12 years. Dolly was diagnosed with arthritis at age 4 or 5. My guess is that Dolly did not live out her life on a pasture in the countryside; rather, she lived in a structure near many sources of electromagnetic radiation, including electric wires, lights, and machines. A CAT scan revealed the lung disease. I bet she was x-rayed a lot, and who knows what else. I wonder what her diet consisted of in comparison to sheep grazing on open pastureland. She could have died because of the damage to cells from the cloning process (chemical or electrical stimulation of the original cell to activate the process) or from damage contributed by exposure to electromagnetic radiation and diet.
   

There were also hundreds of other cloned lambs born that did not survive because of malformed hearts, lungs, or kidneys.

Am I an Extremist?

As I am writing this, I have begun to wonder if many of you reading this think, “He is just another extremist.” However, I don’t feel that I am. I am not an environmentalist or protester. I am an average person. In fact, I am just as surprised as you to note where my thoughts and research ended up. I just kept an open mind and wrote about the things that grabbed my attention. I am not sure of everything, but I do believe that many of my theories make sense.

I actually believe that anyone exposed, in the past, to all that I have noted, should not be allowed to file legal actions against governments or producers of these products, if, they like the rest of us, did not know, for sure, about the dangers. Lawsuits could bankrupt the world…and honestly, most of us more or less knew these things were possibly dangerous, but we consciously chose to continue using them.

What everyone should do now is join together to help in correcting the problem.

Many of you probably believe that physicians, veterinarians, government regulating agencies, and other so-called experts would know more than me, so you may discount my logic. I don’t claim to understand everything. I am confident, but not overconfident.

Conclusion

I don’t believe that many people will stop using devices that radiate them. They may become more aware of their exposure and try to limit it, but most will not change anything. Many will not listen. It is difficult to convince anyone of dangers when they feel no pain. How many times have you heard, “I wish that I’d listened before it was too late!”?

Future hope may lie with regulators, researchers, developers, and manufacturers. Devices could be shielded more. Possibly even clothing could be developed and manufactured that would exhibit shielding qualities, especially for people forced to work long hours in irradiated areas. Possibly a new shielding material could be developed to wrap electrical cables.
There are unlimited possibilities. There could be many improvements that come from people like you!

Perhaps a whole new industry could be born. Think of the job creation potential.

What I do differently now? Not much! But I am probably exposed to electromagnetic radiation half as much as I was before, because I am more educated and aware. I use electrical items less and keep them, when possible, at a greater distance than before.

I still eat foods that are not good for my health. I still use my computer, but I don’t sit close or type near the screen any more. I want to live a normal life, but how I live differently now is to avoid some things that I understand will negatively affect my life. I drink more water (not ionized). I eat more fiber, but not cereal fortified with 100% of your daily requirements of iron. I take vitamins occasionally, but only ones with no iron. I prefer not to eat irradiated beef or other irradiated foods, but our government will not require companies to label these foods. So, as of this moment (January 2010), we do not know if the food we eat has been irradiated or not. I don’t talk on my mobile phone as much as before. I no longer stand next to the microwave and watch the food go around.

My diet and lifestyle are a little more balanced.

I don’t know all the answers, but neither do others who are making the decisions affecting our lives. If you avoid some of the things that I have mentioned, it will not harm you. But if, by chance, I am correct, and you don’t make changes, a combination of everything may kill you.

Examples: A continuous bad diet, exposure to electromagnetic radiation, plus eating foods that we are unsure of, may cause cancer, Mad Cow Disease (in cattle), and the human form of Mad Cow Disease – Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other illnesses.

Something that makes me feel a little sad for everyone is that our society has evolved to the point where it is almost impossible to correct all the misjudgments and bad decisions of the past. Most developers and salespeople only see the surface and the profits. Many don’t understand or comprehend the depth and consequences in the future for their grandchildren. It’s not that people are

intentionally bad; it is just impossible for everyone to know all the variables, and sometimes people have no problem looking the other way when money is involved. Everything combined is just too complicated and overwhelming to be completely understood.

In the past, it could have taken years, or possibly a lifetime, to research thoroughly and conduct studies leading to new discoveries. Today’s Internet, however, is an open door to the world. The curious can view an endless array of information on any thought imaginable. Discoveries are everywhere! You only need to follow your thoughts.

What You Can Do

1. Encourage everyone possible to read this book! Please, send all your e-mail contacts (now) the following link to read this book for FREE online at: www.ClaudeLedbetter.com. Post links back to this story on your web sites, and bookmark and write notes on social sites like Facebook, My Space, Twitter, and others. For Text Links and Banners – Click Here!
   
2. Don’t sit or type close to your computer.
   
3. Move your keyboard at least 20 inches away from your computer screen.
   
4. Move the computer tower away from your body.
   
5. Move your digital alarm clock away from your body and especially your head.
   
6. Don’t watch the food go around in the microwave; stand over four feet away, or even better, stop using a microwave.
   

   
   

7. Don’t use fluorescent lights close to you.
   
8. Eat a balanced diet; read, and understand what foods have in them.
   
9. Explain your concern to others and help train your family, friends, and especially your kids.
   
10. Talk on a mobile phone or any other phone for a minimum, not maximum, amount of time. Encourage your kids to do the same.
    

    
    

11. Do not use headphones thinking they are safe. They have magnets in the speakers which emit electromagnetic radiation. The higher the volume, the higher the radiation! Regular telephone speakers are equal.
    

    
    

     

12. Stop using a blow dryer.
    
    
13. Stop using a hair straightener or curling iron.
    
14. Change your electric appliances, where possible, to gas.
    
15. Do not stand or sit near any electric motor; stay at least four feet away.
    
16. Don’t allow your kids or yourself to play with small hand-held battery operated games or other similar devices.
    

    
    

17. Do not buy or rent a house or business located under or near power lines.
    
18. Do not buy or rent a house or business near communication towers.
    
19. Do not allow communication companies to install small portable transmitting modules on your building.
    
20. Do not carry your battery-powered mobile phone or other battery-operated items on your body, when possible. For example, when you are going to be in the same area for many hours, take your mobile phone out of your pocket, at home or in the office. When you are carrying the mobile phone on your body, turn off the mobile phone when possible.
    

    
    

21. Do not use your laptop in your lap!!! Double problem… battery and screen. Use an external keyboard and mouse and sit at least 20 inches from the computer.
    
22. Do not set your laptop on a pillow or table with your legs or body under or near. The pillow or table does not minimize radiation. Only distance minimizes radiation!
    
23. Use a wired keyboard and mouse with a roller ball if possible. A wireless keyboard and mouse have batteries, which emit electromagnetic radiation as well as other radiation from the wireless features; plus, usually, the wireless mouse is infrared laser- guided, instead of having a roller ball.
    
24. Don’t fence livestock or pets under power lines.
    
25. Don’t buy or rent an apartment with a power transformer located just outside the wall.
    
26. Don’t use magnet wristbands or magnet mattresses.
    
27. Don’t wear a battery-powered wristwatch.
    
28. Women… Don’t use your breasts and bra as a pocket for your cell phone.
    
29. Don’t buy a vehicle with speakers mounted in the doors where they are near or can touch your legs.
    
30. Do not use speakers near the rear window of a car, where they are very near the passengers’ heads; activate the rear speakers only when there are no passengers in the rear seat.
    
31. Women… If you are pregnant, don’t use your stomach as a table for your laptop.
    
    
32. Do not sit with your head leaning back against a wall that has hidden electrical wires. If you’re not sure, don’t sit with your head to any wall.
    
33. Don’t buy or use an electric hand-held massager, electric massage chair, or electric massage bed.
    

If you must give up or limit a few things you enjoy, there are many other pleasures in life you can substitute. Change what you can and be aware and alert; and then go on and live your life.

Send me your suggestions to add to the What You Can Do list. I may add some of them in my next revised edition. I will probably block your e-mail address if you try to sell me something or send me junk mail! To add your suggestion to the “What You Can Do” list– Click Here!

GET A NEW JOB!

1. If you are a full-time welder, get a new job!
   
2. If you install TV cable lines all day across long distances on active electric power poles, get a new job!
   

   
   

3. If you work in a beauty salon and use a blow dryer and electric power clippers many hours per day, change to and use manual scissors and don’t dry the hair, or get a new job!
   
4. If you shear animals full-time with electric shears, get a new job!
   
5. If you work as a full-time cook on an electric stove, get a new job!
   
6. If you mow full-time under high voltage power lines connected to a nuclear or regular power plant, get a new job!
   

   
   

7. If you work with a blender mixing fruit juices or milkshakes many hours per day, stay away from the blender when the motor is running, or get a new job!
   
8. If you work many hours per day with an electric drill or saw in your hands, get a new job!
   
9. If you work many hours per day near any electric motor, try to change the distance, or get a new job!
   
10. If you work on a computer many hours every day, with your keyboard right next to the screen/monitor, move your keyboard to at least 20 inches away, or if that is not possible, get a new job!
    
11. If you work in a fast food restaurant, and constantly heat food in a microwave, stand at least four feet away from the microwave while it’s in use. If you are forced to stand near the microwave while it’s in use, get a new job!
    

…I Think You Get The Idea!

Send me your suggestions to add to the Get a New Job list. I may add some of them in my next revised edition. I will probably block your e-mail address if you try to sell me something or send me junk mail! To add your suggestion to the “Get a New Job” List– Click Here!

What do I hope to accomplish?

I hope to make you think and that, in return, you will make others think.

If you believe any of this, use the information and please pass it on. It may make a difference.

I think that what I know is very important. I hope that I have convinced you.

The truth is, I got a little tired of researching. There is much more that could be discovered, but at this moment I would rather pass on what I already have. I researched and wrote parts of this over years. I think it is about time to release it.

Thanks for reading the book.

Claude Ledbetter

THIS COULD BE YOU!

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