Subject: German Report on Russian studies (Scherer)..
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 050633 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.....Our sincere thanks to Dr. Balzer (in Germany) as well as to
Wolfgang for the following.....
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:31:35 +0000
From: "Wolfgang W.Scherer"
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Cc: core@vip.net
Subject: German Report on Russian studies
Dear Roy
I send the following ORIGINAL English text from the first
international presentation of the report - to answer all
the many questions that have been sent to me by list members.
- The report was never in Russian. - It is a review in GERMAN
of 1500 USSR & post USSR-Russian medical studies that were EMF
related. ( see text below)
- The report only summarizes all those studies and the conclusions.
- The study was done for the German Government Agency that is
responsible for Telecommunication - as Dr Balzer wrote me last week.
- Public review in Germany was first planned but did never happen.
- Dr. Balzer assumed due to the very negative findings in the report.
( Personally, I think most bureaucrats did not understand the
scientific phrases and/or did not bother to inform themselves or look
unfamiliar terms up. - (Like Canadian Officials who also tend to be
"clueless" on EMF matters.) - and also were anxious not to cause any
"disturbance" with "old communist popaganda science" - (at least in
Germany) - (too) many "cold war time " public servants are still in
office.....
Greetings
Wolfgang
Here the text as copied from the print - some of the terms used are
understandable but not quite common especially the term "reversal"
is used in the meaning of SHIFT or CHANGEOVER - ( based on the
German text ).
( English Abstract)
TENTH INTERNATIONAL MONTREUX CONGRESS ON STRESS
Biological Effects on Humans of Electromagnetic Fields In The
Frequency Range 0 to 3 GHz. Results Of A Study of Russian
Medical Literature From 1960 to 1996
Hans-Ullrich Balzer, MD., Karl Hecht, M. D.
Institute of Stress Research
Berlin, Germany
There is a great deal of controversy about the biological and psycho-
biological effects of electromagnetic fields on human beings. In the
discussions of results of studies of western countries, which usually
take place over a time period of only 1 to 3 years, Russian medical
literature is neglected to a great extent. We analyzed about 1500
original works of Russian medical literature from the years 1960 to
1996, in which the effects of electromagnetic fields on humans,
animals, and plants were studied.
The following evaluation summary has to do to a large extent with
examinations carried out by company physicians involving several
thousand industrial workers subject to effects from electromagnetic
fields, radar stations, and high-voltage plants, where the periods of
influence spanned a range of up to 20 years.
The following symptoms are characterisitc and appeared much more
often and intensly in relation to the number of years of service by
the worker in a plant:
Objective findings:
Neurasthenia, neurotic symptoms
Arterial hypotension1 bradycardia or tachycardia
Hypoglycemia
Vagotonic displacement of the cardiovascular system
EEG changes (deterioration of the alpha rhythm)
Hyperfunction of the thyroid
Potency disturbances
Passive tremor of the fingers
Disturbances in the hypothalamic-hypophyseal
cortico-adrenal system
Digestive system disorders
Sleep disorders
Slowing down of the sensorimotor system
Hair loss
Subjective symptoms reported by the patients:
Exhaustion, weariness
Lack of concentration
Headache
Diziness
Profuse outbreaks of perspiration
Spontaneous excitability due to hypotonic reaction
conditions, especially under heavy work pressure
Heart trouble
A three-stage symptom complex was determined:
1st stage: Beginning symptoms which can last up to 3 years:
without findings or a sympathicotonic
reaction level
2nd stage: weakly pronounced symptoms lasting 3 to 5 years
a reversal [*SHIFT*] gradually occurs from
the normal or hypertonic level to that of
hypotonia.
3rd stage: highly pronounced symptoms more or less distinct
replications of the symptom complex
mentioned above.
Wheras the symptoms at stages 1 or 2 can subside into remission, they
become unremitting at stage 3.
In extensive supplementary experiments on test animals, it was
determined that the biological effects of electromagnetic fields
depend on a number of factors:
Duration of subjection to influence
Individual senstivity
Kind of eiectro-magnetic field
Dose
It also depends on the particular wavelength (when the dose is the
same):
mm-waves cause hardly any biological effect at all,
cm-waves very little effect,
dm-waves a distinct effect,
m-waves a very highly pronounced effect.
It has also been shown from the results of animal experiments that
electro-magnetic fields (depending on the factors previously
mentioned) trigger an unspecific biological reaction over a longer
period of time (along the lines of Hans Selye) that later usually
remain at a hypotonic level.
Comparisons were made between the symptom complex caused by electro-
magnetic fields and by CFS.
...................................
end of English abstract
Wolfgang W. Scherer
Picton,Ontario Canada
ICQ 6798479
http://www.reach.net/~scherer/p/
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