Paper Warns of Infrasound Health Risks From Wind Turbines

Written by PSI Editor on September 12, 2025. Posted in Current News

Recent research paper from the SCIREA Journal of Medicine warns of hidden dangers from exposure to infrasound emissions from wind turbines on livestock and humans.

The paper is title “A fundamental basis for all living creatures, mechanotransduction, is significantly endangered by periodic exposure to impulsive infrasound and vibration from technical emitters – in particular cardiovascular and embryological functions” by Ursula Maria Bellut-Staeck, published in SCIREA Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (April 2025).

It tells us:

“For years, researchers have been searching rather unsuccessfully for the pathophysiological mechanism that explains why people living near infrasound-emitting installations exhibit similar symptoms everywhere, domestic animals display conspicuous behaviour and why animals avoid the immediate vicinity of increasingly taller wind turbines or other technical installations that emit infrasound and vibration. The research was for longer times mainly planned, carried out and evaluated by acousticians. Since around 2017, international studies have increasingly pointed to cellular stress effects and serious health impacts from chronic exposure to periodically occurring, low-frequency infrasound and vibrations. The knowledge of the specific properties of this far-reaching environmental factor and the current state of research on endothelial mechanotransduction and PIEZO channels has enabled a paradigm shift. The cellular effects could be reclassified.”

Below is a summary of the paper “A fundamental basis for all living creatures, mechanotransduction, is significantly endangered by periodic exposure to impulsive infrasound and vibration from technical emitters – in particular cardiovascular and embryological functions” by Ursula Maria Bellut-Staeck, published in SCIREA Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (April 2025). DOI

Key Points

1. Mechanotransduction as a Universal Process

   • Mechanotransduction refers to how living organisms convert physical forces (pressure, flow, vibration etc.) into biochemical and biological signals. DOI+1

   • The paper emphasizes PIEZO ion channels (especially PIEZO-1 and PIEZO-2) as part of this process, not only in endothelial (blood vessel lining) cells but also in many tissue types. DOI

2. Threats from Impulsive Infrasound & Vibration

   • The article argues that exposure to low-frequency periodic or impulsive infrasound and mechanical vibration from technical sources (such as industrial wind turbines, heat pumps, biogas plants) poses a risk to mechanotransduction. DOI

   • These unnatural mechanical stimuli may disrupt physical forces that cells rely on (e.g. laminar flow in capillaries) and thereby disturb the signaling and homeostasis mechanisms. DOI

3. Consequences for Cardiovascular & Embryological Functions

   • Possible health effects include loss of endothelial integrity, meaning the lining of blood vessels could become less functional. DOI

   • Disruption of nitric oxide (NO) homeostasis, critical for vascular dilation and regulation. DOI

   • Increased blood pressure; remodeling changes in heart tissue. DOI

   • Negative impacts on fertility; potential effects on embryogenesis (development of embryos). DOI

4. Wider Environmental / Ecological Implications

   • The paper also links these mechanotransduction disruptions to biodiversity issues: declines in animal and insect species, stress on plants, reduction in plant biomass. DOI

   • Examples include marine mammals (“whales”), presumably suffering from infrasound or vibration in their environment. DOI

5. Call for Reassessment & Urgency

   • The author argues there is an urgent need to reassess environmental exposure limits and regulation around technical emitters of infrasound and vibration. DOI

   • The paper suggests that forces which are not demand-oriented (i.e. unnatural, irregular, unintended) pose particular risk because they break the “information pathway” that normal mechanotransduction depends on. DOI

Strengths & Limitations (as presented / apparent)

Strengths:

• Integrative approach: ties together physiological, developmental, ecological impacts.

• Emphasis on a basic, universal biological mechanism (mechanotransduction), which gives the argument a potentially wide reach.

• Use of existing research on PIEZO channels, endothelial biology, oxidative stress etc., to underpin claims. DOI

Limitations / Caveats:

• The paper appears to be more of a review / conceptual / hypothesis‐building rather than reporting new empirical data (though referencing prior studies) ‒ so evidence for causality may be preliminary in many cases.

• It’s not always clear how strong the existing data are in humans (versus animals, cellular models).

• Effects from infrasound / low frequency vibration vary a lot with amplitude, duration, and context; these details may not be fully resolved.

• Regulatory or exposure thresholds are not clearly defined; it may be hard to translate into policy or public health measures without more precise quantification.

Implications

• If the arguments are correct, engineering, environmental regulation, urban planning and public health need to pay more attention to infrasound/vibration pollution, not just audible noise.

• Monitoring and measuring infrasound / low frequency vibration exposures may become more important.

• Further experimental studies (animal, cellular and human) would be needed to clarify exposure thresholds, mechanisms, and long‐term effects.

• Possible development of guidelines or standards for devices/installations that emit infrasound / vibration.

source  https://www.scirea.org/journal/PaperInformation?PaperID=12440

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