[lurkingforacure]

I am wondering if anyone here lives near any big tv, cell phone, or communications towers/antennas. When we moved into our house now 15 years ago, there were four antennas on a hill not too far from us. Since then, mostly after 9-11, they have increased to NINE, and several of them were made much, much larger. They are so big, and tall, you can see them miles away and the guidewire network is like nothing I've ever seen, to hold those huge things upright.

Additionally, they have intalled three more antenna on another hill in the opposite direction. I spoke with a neighbor across the small valley these two hills form, and he told me his wife has leukemia and some other disease I didn't recognize...

Even further down the way a bit, in the valley part and not on the hill like we are on or our neighbor with leukemia, is a pastor of a church who also has PD...

I have always wondered if the EMsS that have to be emitted by such things had any causal effect in our PD. Tonight, unable to sleep, I looked it up...shocked to see the research done into this and confirming adverse health effects. Among them, melatonin depletion, which has a big effect on calcium (perhaps that is why certain calcium channel blockers seem to help with PD, current trial going on at northwestern with dynacirc for this). Here's the link on the melatonin:

http://www.feb.se/EMFguru/Research/e...-Melatonin.htm

In another article I was stunned to read EMF depletes dopamine as well, what the $#! Here is the link to that if you're interested, this contains a good disussion of adverse health effects as well:

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings/...klintestam.pdf

I am really surprised at this research and it goes back a ways and has been studied all over the world. I can't help but wonder if getting away from all of this constant buzzing might help with the PD?

[chasmo]

II know they can cause interferance with ones DBS, but other than studying the local inhabitants for like diseases, there is no way to know. To my knowledge these studies do not show an increased risk, from EMF anyway.
You will note that they do not tell you the signal strength they used and the writers of the study were corporate researchers. If you stick your head in a running microwave, I can guarantee adverse result! If you are really worried about it an aluminum foil beanie would give you a measure of protection, not to mention making you the talk of the neighborhood!!!!

Charlie