Tinnitus and Microwave Hearing – Have You Heard?
“Ringing in your ears? About 750 million people have this perplexing condition, study says” was published by USA Today on August 13, and was written by Christine Fernando, who informs us of the following:
“Tinnitus, commonly described as a ringing in the ears, may affect about 750 million people around the world, according to new research based on about 50 years of data.”
The study, published this week in the research journal JAMA Neurology, suggests tinnitus is perceived as a major problem by more than 120 million people, most of whom are 65 or older.
“This study suggests that the global burden of tinnitus is large, similar to migraine and pain, and the lack of effective treatment options justifies a major investment in research in this area,” researchers wrote.”
“The condition can either be temporary or chronic [ ]. It’s not a disease in itself but is a symptom of other underlying health conditions, according to the association.
In most cases, tinnitus is a reaction in the brain to damage in the ear or auditory system,
[ ] However [ ] tinnitus can also be a symptom of roughly 200 health problems, including hearing loss, obstructions in the middle ear, and head and neck trauma.
Even something as simple as a piece of earwax blocking the ear canal can cause tinnitus [ ]. The condition may also be the first sign of hearing loss in older adults or can be a side effect of more than 200 different medications.”
The USA Today article also stated:
“Tinnitus usually isn’t a sign of a serious health problem [ ]. But if it’s loud and persistent, it can cause memory and concentration problems, fatigue, anxiety and depression.“
“For some, tinnitus can be a source of real mental and emotional anguish,” the institute said.”
“The ATA (American Tinnitus Association) also said chronic tinnitus can be a debilitating condition that can interfere with a person’s ability to work and socialize.“
“People at higher risk for tinnitus include older people, active military personnel or veterans, people who work in loud environments and musicians, [ ]”
There is “no scientifically-validated cure” for most forms of tinnitus, the ATA said. But treatment options can reduce the effects of the condition and help people live more comfortably. [ ]
“Treatments that may help tinnitus include hearing aids, counseling and wearable sound generators, the NIDCD (The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) said. Limiting exposure to loud noises can also help prevent tinnitus from worsening.”
At Safe Tech International we think treatment could include precautions to counter excessive microwave exposures. Switching to wired internet access, and putting cell phones on airplane mode when not in use, for example.
Safe Tech International takes an interest in the rise in Tinnitus being reported. We decided to reach out to the USA Today journalist Christine Fernando with additional information pertinent to Tinnitus experiences we thought the public should be made aware of.
Sean Carney of Safe Tech International responds
Sean Carney of Safe Tech International wrote to the article’s author as follows:
“Dear Christine Fernando, I have read your article with interest.
What could cause a mysterious rise in tinnitus? A known problem (the Frey effect, a.k.a. microwave hearing) arising from wireless radiofrequency antennae/equipment, is strongly implicated. There are sure a lot of radiofrequency transmitting devices around these days.
Please read the following factual extracts.
This is from global guidelines (2020 revision) for exposures to non-ionising radiation, eg, wi-fi, mobile phones, radio-masts, radar, etc:
3.6. Microwave hearing effect
“Sub-millisecond pulses of RF EMF can result in audible sound. This occurs due to thermo-elastic tissue expansion resulting from very small (circa 0.00001°C) temperature rises, which is detected by sensory cells in the cochlea via the same processes involved in normal hearing.”
https://www.icnirp.org/en/differences.html
This is from a TBR New Media article:
“The Frey effect, named after American biologist Allan H. Frey, occurs when microwaves cause the brain to “hear” ordinary sounds, like loud noises, ringing and even human voices. These can be the result of stealth attacks with sonic weapons.”
This is from the Journal of Applied Physiology:
“Using extremely low average power densities of electromagnetic energy, the perception of sounds was induced in normal and deaf humans. The effect was induced several hundred feet from the antenna the instant the transmitter was turned on, and is a function of carrier frequency and modulation.”
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1962.17.4.689
This is from IEEE:
“Absorption of a single microwave pulse impinging on the head may be perceived as an acoustic zip, click, or knocking sound. •A train of microwave pulses may be sensed as an audible buzz, chirp, or tune by humans. •Mechanistic studies show absorption of microwave pulses by soft tissues in the head launches a thermoelastic pressure wave that travels in the brain.”
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366412
This is from Elsevier:
“Tinnitus is a multifactorial condition and its prevalence has increased on the past decades. The worldwide progressive increase of the use of cell phones has exposed the peripheral auditory pathways to a higher dose of electromagnetic radiofrequency radiation (EMRFR)…
There are already reasonable evidences to suggest caution for using mobile phones to prevent auditory damage and the onset or worsening of tinnitus.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1808869415001639
This is from the National Environmental Society:
Cell Phone Tower Tinnitus: This is a major public health disaster and has been sent to the following with a request for remedial action.
https://sites.google.com/site/nationalenvironmentsociety/ears-ringing-
This is from UC San Diego Health:
““Everything fits. The specifics of the varied sounds that the diplomats reported hearing during the apparent inciting episodes, such as chirping, ringing and buzzing, cohere in detail with known properties of so-called ‘microwave hearing,’ also known as the Frey effect.”
“There are growing reports of “mysterious” tinnitus, but there is strong evidence that microwave hearing is causing widespread hearing problems such as tinnitus.” – Sean Carney
Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International responds
Microwave hearing was described in 1960 by Alan Frey.
Microwave Hearing was also described by James Lin in 2007, in his article “Hearing of microwave pulses by humans and animals: effects, mechanism, and thresholds.” He wrote “the microwave pulse, upon absorption by soft tissues in the head, launches a thermoelastic wave of acoustic pressure that travels by bone conduction to the inner ear. There, it activates the cochlear receptors via the same process involved for normal hearing. Aside from tissue heating, microwave auditory effect is the most widely accepted biological effect of microwave radiation with a known mechanism of interaction: the thermoelastic theory.”– Patricia Burke
The study’s authors and the reporter fail to note that reports of the onset of ringing in the ears across age groups have coincided with exposure to microwave radiation from wireless devices and infrastructure, including ‘smart’ meters using sensors while pulsing microwave radiation.
We are familiar with sensors, the ubiquitous semiconductor technologies that are used in intelligent devices, like laptops and smart bulbs, to detect stimuli and respond in accordance to it. As sensitive, sensing beings, we are caught now in a web of anthropogenic radiofrequency “chatter,” of remotely communicating electronic systems. From Wi-Fi routers to motorway radar systems, or from remotely sensing street lamps to sensor-equipped smart homes, ubiquitous wireless technologies incessantly chatter on night and day.
As science shows, the “chatter” is subtle and so often beyond audible range, but not always so. Certain exposures and interactions with these electromagnetic fields can induce sensory effects, including a range of concerning hearing phenomena. This is as the IoT (Internet of Things) demands everything chattering incessantly in radiofrequencies – the connectivity prized in the Industry 4.0 radiofrequency identification (RFID) digital paradigm, where health concerns are officially unheard of.
What is Microwave Hearing?
As WiredChild notes, ICNIRP were very concerned about microwave hearing in 1998. ICNIRP stated, “Repeated or prolonged exposure to microwave auditory effects may be stressful and potentially harmful,” in its 1998 review, on p.506.
Was it the first time alarm bells were sounded about microwave hearing? No. It was acknowledged years before ICNIRP had raised concerns.
Microwave hearing was recognized by the U.S. military sixty years ago. As the Cellular Phone Task Force explains, “In 1960, biologist Allan Frey, then 25, was working at General Electric’s Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University when he was contacted by a technician whose job was to measure the signals emitted by radar stations. The technician claimed that he could “hear” radar.
Frey traveled to the facility where the man worked and stood at the edge of the radar beam. “And sure enough, I could hear it, too,” he said. “I could hear the radar going ‘zip, zip, zip’.” Frey went on to establish that the effect was real—microwave radiation from radar (and other source) could somehow be heard by human beings. The “hearing,” however, didn’t happen via normal sound waves perceived through the ear. It apparently occurred somewhere in the brain itself, as microwaves interacted with the brain’s cells, which generate tiny electrical fields. Frey proved also that many deaf people and animals could hear microwave radiation. This phenomenon came to be known as the Frey effect, or simply “microwave hearing.”
At that time the U.S. military, which was interested in greatly expanding its use of radar around populated areas, had substantial funding available to investigate the effects of such radiation on health. For the next two decades Frey, funded by the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Army, was the most active researcher on the bioeffects of microwave radiation in the country.
Changing behaviour with non-ionising radiation
Frey caused rats to become docile by exposing them to radiation at an average power level of only 50 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered specific behaviors of rats at 8 microwatts per square centimeter. He altered the heart rate of live frogs at 3 microwatts per square centimeter. At only 0.6 microwatts per square centimeter, he caused isolated frogs’ hearts to stop beating by timing the microwave pulses at a precise point during the heart’s rhythm.
0.6 microwatts per square centimeter is about 10,000 times less than the amount of radiation an active cell phone would expose a man’s heart to if he carried it in his shirt pocket.
In a study published in 1975 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Frey reported that microwaves could induce “leakage” in the barrier between the circulatory system and the brain. Breaching the blood-brain barrier is a serious matter. It means that bacteria, viruses and toxins from the blood can enter the brain. It means the brain’s environment, which needs to be extremely stable for nerve cells to function properly, can be perturbed in other dangerous ways. [ ] Dr. Leif Salford is currently the most active researcher continuing Frey’s pioneering work on the blood-brain barrier.” – Cellular Phone Task Force
Subliminal anthropogenic ‘chatter’
Those reporting tinnitus in recent years, belong to a global population largely unaware of microwave hearing. People are oblivious to an invasion of their physiology that ranks among sky-rocketing rates of neurological diseases.
The human brain and sensory nervous system were getting along nicely before invasive thermo-acoustic waves added to the sea of likely suspects causing an escalation of Tinnitus. We underestimate our “new normal” of intensified exposures to electromagnetic fields, but an avalanche of science illustrates how this “habit” is anything but normal, or healthy.
How will future generations reconcile the repeated history of the tobacco wars? The public remains skeptical about cancer caused by cell phone use, while ignoring scores of other symptoms, illnesses, disease onset, and reported suffering and harm. But even skepticism is a habit, and it can be fatal too.
A side effect of ignoring the warning signs is that second-hand exposures to non-benefitting, non-consenting populations, exposes others to neurological, fertility, endocrine, and neurological issues, in addition to cancer.
We see the forced installation of proximal industrial-scale infrastructure on private property, near homes, hospitals, schools, and other sensitive environments. Clearly this is not in the same ethical category as the scenario of an adult consumer choosing to accept the risks associated with a health impacting consumer product. Instead, society largely accepts exposures to non-ionising radiation on trust they are in safe limits, though are arguably contributing to disease from continued, industry sponsored “denial.”
Will we, for the same reasons, also continue to deny a correlation between microwave hearing and Tinnitus, and the domino effect on our health?
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Wisenox
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I put a TriField meter 4 feet away from my internet modem. The safety limits in the manual stated <1.0 for peak, and <0.200 for pulse.
My meter routinely maxed out, unable to read the actual level.
Peak maxes out at 20. That’s 20 times the industry standard safety limit for electric workers.
The pulse was routinely reading 1.8, 1.4, etc.. which is 7-9 times the safety limit.
Health related effects from wifi are often overlooked, because most of us are unaware of the dangerous levels they use on us to begin with.
In order to reduce my exposure, I made an enclosure for the modem. It took more than a 1/8 thick layer of Shungite wrapped in a wifi protective clothe that was folded on itself 3 times. With all of that, the modem still hits 0.200 very often.
Put that meter next to a phone when it rings and it virtually explodes. I’ll also add that the human body absorbs EF radiation very well and even acts as an antenna.
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Clyde
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I have tinnitus due to years of working around heavy equipment so loud that not even ear plugs and ear muffs together stopped the sound sufficiently.
I’ve noticed recently the Frey Effect, but with a twist… it only happens when our box fan is on medium speed and the room is otherwise silent. There’s some sort of constructive / destructive interference going on that allows me to faintly ‘hear’ what sounds like a talk show. I can’t quite make out the words, but it’s definitely human speech and sometimes short snippets of classical-sounding music. Sometimes it sounds like a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes two people talking together.
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Clyde
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Apparently the signal I pick up varies with different conditions. Last night was a breakthrough, of sorts.
I was lying in bed, the fan on medium, the room otherwise silent. I distinctly heard a slide guitar, I could follow the melody, I could hear singing (but couldn’t make out the words), right through to the end of the country song.
Then a louder, deep bass voice came on, and I distinctly heard “96.3 FM”. That’s 96.3 The Moose, a country music station!
I listened to a few more songs, just to be sure I wasn’t imagining it. They were different melodies, one using slide guitar but a different-sounding voice, one using what sounded like regular guitar and a piano with two voices singing, then the third again slide guitar and again a different voice singing.
If I rolled my head to the left or right, the ‘signal’ faded. If I moved down a bit on the bed, that ‘signal’ vanished and I picked up a much fainter signal, the same talk format and classical music snippets I’d heard prior… but I have to lie on my stomach with my head cocked to the right on the pillow to hear it.
Weird. I’ve got radio ears. LOL
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