Subject: EMF and calcium (Jenkins).
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 074800 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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..........From EMF-L......
I believe our scientists ought to SERIOUSLY look into this one!!!!
It could be a clue to CONFIRMING THE CALCIUM EFFECT..... (Which has
been known to some degree for some time.).....guru.....
(Could someone "out there" get this to Ross Adey???)
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Subject: EMF and calcium
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 08:00:40 -0500
From: Steve_Jenkins@URSCorp.com
To:
Mr. Beavers - I came across your website during some personal research I'm
doing to try and track down the cause of an interesting condition I am
experiencing. I am not involved in EMF research at all, although I did work
for an electric utility for many years, and certainly read many industry
articles on EMF. And as a ham operator, I always tried to keep up with
articles about EMF in ham radio magazines. Anyway, here's the description:
For years I have been a frequent apheresis blood donor. In apheresis, the
donor has blood removed from one arm, it is centrifuged, and the red cells
are returned in the other arm. It's all self-contained and very safe. The
separated platelets are used for cancer patients that have undergone bone
marrow transplants. This is just something I've done to help out the
community. It takes 10 whole blood donors to get the same amount of
platelets, so blood banks like to encourage donors to do apheresis. It
takes more time, but is much more efficient. As part of the process, the
system infuses some saline solution, and also an anticoagulant to keep the
lines clear. The anti-coagulant, which is a citrate compound,has the
interesting effect of tying up calcium in the blood stream and cells,
particularly removing it from muscle cells. When this happens to cells,
they tend to go into small contractions, I'm told. As a consequence,
apheresis blood donors experience a phenomenon known as "buzzing", where
during the 1 to 1-1/2 hour process the fingers, arms, and sometimes even
the neck and chest seem to vibrate a little. It's not uncomfortable, and
goes away within 20 minutes after the apheresis is complete. Donors
routinely take some Tums or other calcium antacids before the donation to
lessen the effects by increasing the calcium in the bloodstream to start
with.
What's interesting is that over the last year I have been awakened several
times in the middle of the night with the "apheresis buzz". I have not been
able to determine the cause. I've had my calcium checked and it was fine.
I've talked to doctors, with no resolution. But recently I noticed that
I've only experienced the buzzing during nights that I've used our new
electric blanket (AHA! the tie to EMF). I've read that low level 60HZ EMF
has quite an effect on calcium ions in cells. I don't know if this
EMF-calcium link is the cause of my condition, but I thought I should run
this by the EMF guru to see if it's plausible.
Please let me know if you think I am going in the right direction. If there
is someone you have worked with that is an expert in the EMF-calcium
effect, I'd appreciate contact information, so that I might go into this
further.
Thanks for your help.
Steve Jenkins
Power Industry Sector Leader and Senior Project Manager
URS Corporation
1 North Dale Mabry Highway, Suite 700
Tampa, FL 33609
Tel. 813-387-7807
Fax. 813-874-7424
E-mail: steve_jenkins@urscorp.com
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