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Page 16| Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysMag.com between yourself and the source will also help; preferably with reflec ve barriers such as metal foil and certain types of metallic paint. Ideally, you'll want the cordless base sta on located at least three full rooms away from where you're sleeping. Keeping a cordless phone base on your desk is not recommended, as you'll be con nuously blasted with radia on throughout your workday. The Latest Danger—'Smart Meters' Some areas of the United States have already begun installing a so-called 'smart grid,' where u lity meters transmit data on your household energy usage wirelessly to the u lity. Eventually, they want to expand this to installing smart meters on each household appliance within your home, to individually transmit the usage data to the smart meter. If this technological advancement is allowed to spread across the na on, public health may plummet across the board. According to Vickie, they've already seen a direct correla on between increasing health complaints in neighborhoods where smart meters have been installed. An excellent interview on the radio frequency these new energy strategies will bring into your home can be found at on Electromagne cHealth.org. It features Blake Levi , author of Electromagne c Fields and a long- me science writer on this topic, and Duncan Campbell, Esq, a visionary thinker on the future of u li es and new energy technologies. "Usually, the first issue that people start talking about is inability to sleep, or mood swings, along with headaches," Vickie says. How can you protect your health if your community forces one on you? "We've talked to several people in Australia. What they're doing is to put a reflec ve barrier to keep radia on from your meter from coming into the home," Vickie says. "The problem is you've also got to be aware of your neighbor's meters and where they are located." This can be a significant challenge if you live in a densely populated area or in a mul -unit dwelling. You'd have to iden fy all the sources, and address all of them. However, you may be able to request that your meter be set up to transmit informa on only once a day, as opposed to once every minute. So if your home is ou i ed with a smart meter, talk to your u lity company and see if you can change the transmission rate to once every 24 hours, ideally during a me that you're not home. And then tell your neighbors and ask them to do the same. How to Decrease EMF Exposure while Sleeping First, begin with a visual inspec on of your bedroom to iden fy sources of electric- and/or magne c fields. Vickie recommends sleeping with your head away from the wall, facing the center of the room—even if it means lying with your head facing the headboard end of your bed. Why? Because unless you live in a community that requires buildings to have shielded conduits, you will be exposed to electrical fields from the wiring in your walls. There are not many communi es that require this however. Outside of Chicago, where I live, the building code does require electrical wires to be run through a shielded pipe, which reduces both fire hazard and electric field radia on. However, single-family homes in most areas of the US have bare wires running through the walls. If you're not sure whether your wiring is shielded or not, you can purchase a volt sensor from your local hardware store. Just run it up and down across your wall, and if the meter detects an electric field, you know you're being exposed. Remedia ng open wiring in a home that's already built can be an expensive venture. The least expensive fix, should your bedroom walls emit electric fields, is to simply turn off the par cular circuit breaker for your bedroom at night. Be aware that just turning your lights off does NOT eliminate electric fields, because the electrical outlets always carry voltage, whether the light is on or off. Next, make sure everything around your bed is ba ery powered. How to Determine Your Level of Magnetic Field Exposure While you can safely assume that you're being exposed to electric fields from lamps, appliances and wiring in your walls, magne c fields is another ma er. There is no way to know whether or not you have a magne c field problem in your home, unless you test for it.