Why EHS and related symptoms are caused by non-ionizing man-made electromagnetic fields:

Why electrohypersensitivity and related symptoms are caused by non-ionizing man-made electromagnetic fields: An overview and medical assessment

Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122007010

Environmental Research
Volume 212, Part A, September 2022, 113374

Dominique Belpomme ab, Philippe Irigaray b
a. Medical Oncology Department, Paris University, Paris, France
b. European Cancer and Environment Research Institute (ECERI), Brussels, Belgium

Received 13 December 2021, Revised 30 March 2022, Accepted 25 April 2022, Available online 7 May 2022
doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113374

Highlights
• Electrohypersensitivity is caused by electromagnetic fields.
• Electrohypersensitivity is a neurological disorder with inflammation, oxidative stress, blood brain barrier opening and neurotransmitter abnormalities.
• Electrohypersensitivity must be defined by the decrease of brain electromagnetic fields tolerance threshold.

Abstract
Much of the controversy over the cause of electrohypersensitivity (EHS) lies in the absence of recognized clinical and biological criteria for a widely accepted diagnosis. However, there are presently sufficient data for EHS to be acknowledged as a distinctly well-defined and objectively characterized neurologic pathological disorder. Because we have shown that 1) EHS is frequently associated with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) in EHS patients, and 2) that both individualized disorders share a common pathophysiological mechanism for symptom occurrence; it appears that EHS and MCS can be identified as a unique neurologic syndrome, regardless their causal origin. In this overview we distinguish the etiology of EHS itself from the environmental causes that trigger pathophysiological changes and clinical symptoms after EHS has occurred. Contrary to present scientifically unfounded claims, we indubitably refute the hypothesis of a nocebo effect to explain the genesis of EHS and its presentation. We as well refute the erroneous concept that EHS could be reduced to a vague and unproven “functional impairment”. To the contrary, we show here there are objective pathophysiological changes and health effects induced by electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure in EHS patients and most of all in healthy subjects, meaning that excessive non-thermal anthropogenic EMFs are strongly noxious for health. In this overview and medical assessment we focus on the effects of extremely low frequencies, wireless communications radiofrequencies and microwaves EMF. We discuss how to better define and characterize EHS. Taken into consideration the WHO proposed causality criteria, we show that EHS is in fact causally associated with increased exposure to man-made EMF, and in some cases to marketed environmental chemicals. We therefore appeal to all governments and international health institutions, particularly the WHO, to urgently consider the growing EHS-associated pandemic plague, and to acknowledge EHS as a mainly new real EMF causally-related pathology.

Keywords
EHS Electrohypersensitivity Electromagnetic field Extremely low frequency Microwaves Pathophysiological mechanism Radiofrequency

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