Power Systems, Telecommunications, and Diabetes

Technology’s non-natural electromagnetic radiation challenges the metabolism of all living organisms and is on track to create a new environment for the human species. Life on Earth depends on the free movement of electrons and protons in cellular organelles called mitochondria. The radiation interferes with electron and proton movements, and so alters pH and ROS levels in important compartments of the human body. These two variables perturb vital metabolic enzymes, resulting in long-term diseases. We compare the rise in diabetes with that of non-natural electromagnetic radiation and offer the hypothesis that the incidence of the disease is mainly controlled by exposures from power systems and wireless. Electromagnetic radiation is not currently listed as one of the risk factors for either type 1 or type 2 diabetes on government websites (Smith-Marsch 2016, NIH 2016), but it penetrates the body and varies over time such that it connects not only with diabetes, but possibly with other chronic “diseases of civilization”. To protect humans and the biota, we promote tight control over non-natural electromagnetic radiation on Earth.