Subject:  (Lundquist) EMF/Alzheimer's/chlamydia (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 12 Aug 1998 141603 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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......Very interesting commentary!!!.......guru.........

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:16:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: marjorie lundquist 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: EMF/Alzheimer's/chlamydia

Many people do not know that it has been repeatedly demonstrated that
exposure to microwave radiation will breach the "blood-brain barrier".
 (This term refers to the fact that where the circulatory system
passes through the nervous system -- brain, spinal cord, etc. -- the
cells that consitute the walls of blood vessels adhere very tightly
together, more tightly than in other parts of the body.)  Physicians
know that the body has a "less leaky" circulatory system in nervous
tissue, but no one knows why the human body is designed this way. 
Since it developed under evolutionary pressures, it probably means
that there would be damage of some kind to nervous system tissue if
components of the blood got into the brain and other tissues of the
nervous system.
As I mentioned, during exposure to microwave radiation, the
blood-brain barrier gets leaky, meaning that blood seeps into brain
tissue.  But when the exposure is stopped, the situation corrects
itself; that is,, the blood-brain barrier recovers its integrity and
the leakage of bllod stops.
My theory of Alzheimer's disease is that repeated breaching of the
blood-brain barrier allows cumulative damage to the brain to occur
which eventually becomes permanent.  Microwave radiation causes this,
and it is possible that RF radiation genrally may cause it, though I
don't believe any studies have been done that demonstrate this.
I am deeply suspicious that the radio-frequency fields that surround
electric power lines that have "power line carrier" on them have the
same effect as microwave radiation.  There is support for this from
the experience of one man in Pennsylvania, who reports that every time
he comes too close to an electric power line, he suffers a cerebral
hemmorhage.  (He lives in a wilderness area with his wife, far away
from electricity.)
My own mother, who died four years ago, suffered from Alzheimer's
disease.  I was never able to make a clear connection between her
condition and any exposure to RF or microwave fields; she did not use
a micrwave oven or a cellular phone, for example.  But she lived all
her married life in a house between Langley Field and Norfolk, VA;
there are military installations at both sites and so there is
undoubtedly a lot of radio traffic in the air there at all times. 
Over decades, this might have had an effect.
The other possible source is that my father insisted on having an
electric stove in the house, not a gas stove, so she cooked on an
electric stove from 1937 on.  This means she was exposed for decades
to the fields from the strong currents in the stove-top burners.  If
Virginia Electric Power Company was using power line carrier on its
distribution lines (and I am quite sure it is NOW, though I don't know
for how long it has been doing this) then she was exposed to RF fields
when cooking.
I do know that my mother had a problem with short-term memory loss for
two or three decades before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's
disease.  She was forever forgetting where she had just recently put
something -- for example, car keys -- and the whole family would join
in the hunt for the missing item, sometimes.
I arranged for a study of her brain to be done after she died, and was
supposed to receive a report, but it never arrived.  I've been too
busy to follow up on it, but I will do so now.
Anyway, as regards chlamydia, I suspect that its presence in the brain
means that it was present in the bloodstream, and when the blood-brain
barrier was breached, it leaked out into the brain.
One final point:  I do not think that power-frequency (50-60 Hz) EMF
can breach the blood-brain barrier.  I know of no studies that suggest
this, nor of any evidence suggesting that such an investigation would
produce a positive result.  But RF fields around electric power lines
behave like microwaves, and so SHOULD be able to produce such a
breach. -- Marjorie
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