Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.
Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom.
Med Hypotheses. 2019 Jun;127:76-83. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.03.018. Epub 2019 Mar 26.
Whilst humans evolved in the earth's Electro-Magnetic-Field (EMF) and sun-light, both being essential to life but too much sun and we burn. What happens if background EMF rise to critical levels, coinciding with increasing environmental pollutants? Two of the authors can look back over 50 clinical years and appreciate the profound changes in human morbidity across a range of disparate conditions - autoimmune diseases, asthma, earlier cancer incidence and reduced male sperm counts. In particular have been increased autism, dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and neurological diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Early Onset Dementia, Multiple System Atrophy and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. What might have caused these changes-whilst genetic factors are taken as given, multiple environmental pollutants are associated with neurological disease although the mechanisms are unclear. The pace of increased neurological deaths far exceeds any Gompertzian explanation - that because people are living longer they are more likely to develop more age-related problems such as neurological disease. Using WHO global mortality categories of Neurological Disease Deaths (NDD) and Alzheimer's and Dementia deaths (Alz), updated June 2018, together they constitute Total Neurological Mortality (TNM), to calculate mortality rates per million for people aged 55-74 and for the over-75's in twenty-one Western countries. Recent increases in American people aged over-75's rose 49% from 1989 to 2015 but US neurological deaths increased five-fold. In 1989 based on Age-Standardised-Deaths-Rates America USA was 17th at 324 pm but rising to 539 pm became second highest. Different environmental/occupational factors have been found to be associated with neuro-degenerative diseases, including background EMF. We briefly explore how levels of EMF interact upon the human body, which can be described as a natural antennae and provide new evidence that builds upon earlier research to propose the following hypothesis. Based upon recent and new evidence we hypothesise that a major contribution for the relative sudden upsurge in neurological morbidity in the Western world (1989-2015), is because of increased background EMF that has become the tipping point-impacting upon any genetic predisposition, increasing multiple-interactive pollutants, such as rises in petro-chemicals, hormone disrupting chemicals, industrial, agricultural and domestic chemicals. The unprecedented neurological death rates, all within just twenty-five years, demand a re-examination of long-term EMF safety related to the increasing background EMF on human health. We do not wish to 'stop the modern world', only make it safer.
虽然人类在地球电磁场 (EMF) 和阳光中进化,这两者对生命都是必不可少的,但阳光过多,我们就会灼伤。如果背景电磁场上升到临界水平,同时环境污染物增加,会发生什么?两位作者可以回顾 50 多年的临床经验,了解一系列不同疾病(自身免疫性疾病、哮喘、癌症发病率更早、男性精子数量减少)中人类发病率的深刻变化。特别是自闭症、诵读困难、注意力缺陷多动障碍和神经退行性疾病(如肌萎缩性侧索硬化症、多发性硬化症、帕金森病、早发性痴呆、多系统萎缩症和进行性核上性麻痹症)的发病率有所增加。这些变化可能是什么原因造成的——虽然遗传因素被认为是既定的,但多种环境污染物与神经退行性疾病有关,尽管其机制尚不清楚。神经退行性疾病死亡人数的增加速度远远超过任何戈梅茨解释——即由于人们寿命延长,他们更有可能出现更多与年龄相关的问题,如神经退行性疾病。使用世界卫生组织全球神经疾病死亡率(NDD)和阿尔茨海默病和痴呆症死亡率(Alz)的分类,更新于 2018 年 6 月,两者共同构成总神经死亡率(TNM),计算 21 个西方国家 55-74 岁人群和 75 岁以上人群的每百万人死亡率。最近,美国 75 岁以上人群的死亡率从 1989 年到 2015 年上升了 49%,但美国的神经退行性疾病死亡人数增加了五倍。1989 年,根据年龄标准化死亡率,美国排名第 17,为 324pm,但到 2015 年上升到 539pm,成为第二高。已经发现包括背景电磁场在内的不同环境/职业因素与神经退行性疾病有关。我们简要探讨了电磁场水平如何相互作用于人体,可以将人体描述为天然天线,并提供新的证据,进一步证明以下假设。基于最近和新的证据,我们假设,西方世界神经疾病发病率相对突然上升(1989-2015 年)的一个主要原因是由于背景电磁场的增加,这已经成为一个临界点,影响任何遗传倾向,增加了多种交互污染物,如石化产品、激素扰乱化学物质、工业、农业和家用化学品的增加。在短短 25 年内,前所未有的神经退行性疾病死亡率要求重新审查与人类健康相关的不断增加的背景电磁场的长期电磁场安全性。我们并不希望“阻止现代世界”,只是希望让它更安全。
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