Anyone ever have fainting spells?

I know I posted some time ago that I have been having occasional dizzy spells as part of my symptoms.

However, my 9-year old has often complained of similar symptoms to my own. I would not be surprised if she is experiencing the same problem.  

But lately the dizzy spells (which she describes imaginatively as having "Flat white head") have been turning into fainting spells. She's been to twodifferent doctors, who both pronounced her healthy; one seemed to think they were panic attacks and that she was suffering these physical symptoms asa result of psychological stress.

I can see that this is the case, but the fact that she is quite healthy, and we have been on a healthy diet for many years, makes me wonder why this should be the case...and I still think it may have to do with the toxic and EMF/RF load we are dealing with. (We live in the shadow of O'Hare airport and have very high EMF readings in our house.)

Has anyone else experienced panic attacks that escalated into fainting spells?

Thanks,
Lisa

> Has anyone else experienced panic attacks that escalated into fainting
> spells?

Yes, I had that sort of experience after turning worse from an ionic footbath.
I concluded that it was an adrenal (or maybe thyroid?) problem -- I took
supplements to support both my adrenals and thryoid, and the problem
eventually went away (at least, it's my belief that this was the cause
and effect -- I suppose it could have been something else that made this
go away)

Marc

Support for EMF researcher goes global, puts Karolinska 
Pres. Wallberg-Henriksson in spotlight to respond 

By John Weigel 

 Controversy surrounding research into the effects of microwave radiation has accelerated 
with doctors and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic calling for Harriet Wallberg- 
Henriksson, president of the Karolinka Institute in Stockholm, to interveneand protect the  
institute’s reputation for academic freedom. 
 More than usual jockeying for coveted space in an academic environment, the attempt to 
convert a noted professor’s microwave research offices and lab intoa microscopic imaging 
facility is seen by professionals and activists alike as interference and timed to block 
crucial research that could damage the lucrative $153 billion wireless communications 
industry. 
 At the centre of the controversy is Olle Johansson, associate professor, head of the 
Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, at the Karolinska Institute 
(famous for it's  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) in Stockholm,Sweden. He is a 
world-leading  authority in the field of EMF radiation and health effects. Johansson also 
occupies the position of Professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. 
 Last Autumn Johansson was notified that his offices and lab were to be converted to “an 
animal house for ferrets.” Following a point-blank refusal the proposal was dropped and 
Johansson prepared for an independently-funded experiment to replicate the science of a 
Canadian professor whose work led to the cancellation of wi-fi and the labeling of cell 
phones in San Francisco. These experiments were to commence in August. 
 Replication of original scientific research is a standard procedure of verification of the 
original and leads to the establishment of official public health / industry standards. The 
wireless industry is largely unregulated and relies on standards that are 10 years old and 
widely regarded as hopelessly out of date. 
  Earlier this month, Prof. Staffan Cullheim,  chair of the Department of Neuroscience, 
informed Johansson that his premises were required for construction of an imaging centre 
effective July 31, immediately before Johansson was to begin a potentially industry- 
changing set of tests. 
 Opposition of the industry to what is seen as any interference came last month when the 
industry threatened to cancel it’s annual conference which attracts68,000 visitors in San 
Francisco. Loss of the conference would cost the city an estimated $80 million in economic 
activity generated by the three-day Enterprise and Applications Show. (CTIA, The Wireless 
Association, continues to promote the Oct. 6-8 show on it’s web site http://www.ctia.org/.) 
 Cullheim claims that the replacement of Johansson’s work space is standard procedure in 
a move to “optimise the effectivity of the organisation”. In what he calls a “correction”, Prof. 
Cullheim noted that “other researchers at the department have started to question the 
special support given to Olle Johansson by the department.” 
 Against objections that the new facility should be located in vacant space elsewhere in the 
building, Cullheim noted, Johansson “will be offered alternative premises as those he is 
currently using. A certain degree of down-sizing the area will be necessary.”
 Cullheim failed to address the issue of the timing of the demand for Johansson to leave 
his offices and immediately after posting his comments, explained that he is on holiday 
and that e-mails would be checked on an irregular basis only. 
 Predictably, Dr. Magda Havas, the Canadian researcher whose work Johansson plans to 
replicate, has issued an impassioned public statement proclaiming the Karolinska 
Institute’s action as an assault on academic enquiry. “Without academic freedom we are 
doomed to be corporate pawns,” she claims. 
  Havas, with Camilla Rees is co-author of Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the 
Wireless Revolution. She is Associate Professor of Environmental & ResourceStudies at 
Trent University, teaching and conducting research on the biological effects of 
environmental contamination. Havas holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, did 
Post-Doctoral research at Cornell University and taught at the University of Toronto before 
going to Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. 
  “We have a history of this type of activity that delayed policy and cost millions of people 
their health and their lives. It happened with asbestos, with tobacco, withpesticides and is 
happening now with electrosmog,” claims Havas. 
 In a pointed response to Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, president of the Karolinska 
Institute, Havas warned, “Sweden has had a reputation for caring about the environment 
and about human health and many of your guidelines are among the best in the world. It 
would be a shame if you allowed the work of Dr. Olle Johansson to be compromised by 
taking away his lab and office. He is among a handful of truly great scientists in Sweden 
doing this type of work and we cannot afford to lose him.” 
 Support for Johansson has spread across the North 
American continent and Europe. In Canada and the 
United States, Christine Hoch, executive director of 
the group Moms for Safer Wireless based in 
Gainesville Virginia, is circulating a letter to 
Wallberg-Henriksson which states in part, “Please 
ensure that Dr. Johansson’s independent work 
continues in his current lab and office. With over 
4,000,000,000 (four billion) cell phone users globally, 
including children, his research could prevent 
cancer’s silent growth in millions of people.” 
 
 Signatories to the letter include groups such as the 
American Association for Cell Phone Safety of Los 
Angeles, Citizens for Safe Technology Society and 
Citizens Against UnSafe Emissions (CAUSE) in 
Canada and The People’s Initiative Foundation of 
 Los Angeles, California.  In her letter to 
President Wallberg-Henriksson, Hoch, executive director for the Moms group said, ‘We do 
not want history repeated as with neglected awareness of health outcomes associated 
with tobacco, pesticides, lead poisoning, and asbestos. It is important that the Karolinska 
Institute maintain its world-renowned reputation.” 
Christine Hoch of 
Moms for Safer Wireless
 Other signatories to the letter ot Wallberg-Henriksson include Prof. Elihu D Richter MD 
MPH, of the Hebrew University-Hadassah in Jerusalem. 
 In Ireland where the government is promoting the use of frequencies for manufacturers to 
test new technologies, Dr. Philip Michael, founder of the Irish Doctors Environmental 
Association, expressed dismay at Prof. Johansson’s situation. Prof.Johansson has a 
particular interest in Ireland and has visited the country numerous times on invitation of 
community groups in the Republic and Northern Ireland. “I’mvery disappointed his 
premises are being removed as I see him as one of the key researchers into 
electrosensitivity and the effects of EMR on a global scale.” 
 The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland has predicted that one in two Irish residents 
will have some form of cancer by 2025. 
 Johansson is not the only Swede to be welcomed to Ireland. Ericsson aworld-leading 
provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile andfixed 
network operators around the world located it first research and development facility in 
Ireland at Athlone, Co. Westmeath. The company has has more than 1,000 networks in 
more than 175 countries using network equipment and 40 percent of all mobile calls are 
made through Ericsson systems. 
 The Swedish part of the Cohort Study on Mobile Communications (COSMOS) study is 
conducted by the Karolinska Institute. Ericsson is a co-sponsor of the longitudinal study 
which could take  20-30 years years to complete.  As with the previous Interphone study, 
proponents claim a firewall has been established to ensure scientific independence. 
COSMOS differs from previous attempts to examine links between cellphone use and 
diseases such as cancer and neurological disorders, organisers claim, because it will 
follow the behavior of users in real time. 
 Curiously, Johansson, 56, has not been asked to participate in the COSMOS project 
although he has published more than 500 original articles, reviews, book chapters and 
conference reports within the field of basic and applied neuroscience. He has worked with 
Nobel Laureates including professors Andrew V. Schally and Roger Guillemin.  The 
source of funding for his work is primarily from private sources including the Swedish 
Cancer and Allergy Foundation and Stiftelsen Tornspiran. 
Prof. Wallberg-Henriksson is also a member of Stockholm-Uppsala Life Science, a group 
which promotes the development of the life-science sector the region itselfon the 
international arena to attract new resources and investment. 
 Prof. Wallberg-Henriksson has failed to comment on the controversy. 
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