HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-10-29 Diga Kern Testimony Bill 194
From:Diga Kern
To:WPCtestimony
Subject:Support Bill 194
Date:Tuesday, October 29, 2024 7:24:05 AM
In accordance with the precautionary principle, the verdict is still out regarding negative heath
effects of EMFs. Preliminary evidence shows adverse effects upon multiple wild animal
populations, to include birds and insects. Also, cancer clusters have been observed among
human residents near cell towers. Our island should be emphasizing wired connections to the
internet rather than jumping on the bandwagon with this newest unstudied technology. Here is
the summary of one scholarly article on the subject:
1. Attack our nervous systems including our brains leading to widespread
neurological/neuropsychiatric effects and possibly many other effects. This nervous
system attack is of great concern.
2. Attack our endocrine (that is hormonal) systems. In this context, the main things that
make us functionally different from single celled creatures are our nervous system and
our endocrine systems – even a simple planaria worm needs both of these. Thus the
consequences of the disruption of these two regulatory systems is immense, such that it is
a travesty to ignore these findings.
3. Produce oxidative stress and free radical damage, which have central roles in essentially
all chronic diseases.
4. Attack the DNA of our cells, producing single strand and double strand breaks in cellular
DNA and oxidized bases in our cellular DNA. These in turn produce cancer and also
mutations in germ line cells which produce mutations in future generations.
5. Produce elevated levels of apoptosis (programmed cell death), events especially
important in causing both neurodegenerative diseases and infertility.
6. Lower male and female fertility, lower sex hormones, lower libido and increased levels
of spontaneous abortion and, as already stated, attack the DNA in sperm cells.
7. Produce excessive intracellular calcium \[Ca2+\]i and excessive calcium signaling.
8. Attack the cells of our bodies to cause cancer. Such attacks are thought to act via 15
different mechanisms during cancer causation.
mahalo, Diga