Andrew McAfee Says He Could Not Rest Until He Killed the Power to the Room He Slept In
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In this episode, Andrew McAfee, electrical engineer, EMF consultant, and inventor of the nuisance current blocker, answers live questions after a replay of his conversation with Dr. Sam Milham, one of the first scientists to document health effects in people working around electricity. McAfee explains why voltage alone tells you almost nothing about your real exposure, and what to actually measure and fix instead. And he has lived this at the extreme, uprooting his life to Green Bank, West Virginia, one of the only radio quiet zones left in the country. Here's what you'll learn:
Why a meter reading zero volts can still mean current is flowing through your body, and why that current is constantly ionizing and deionizing your cells Why dirty electricity filters can backfire and make your magnetic field exposure worse if your home wiring already has a code violation How Andrew uses a simple copper rod and a gauss meter to find and redirect "rivers" of ground current crossing a property What to test for before buying a car, including exact gauss thresholds for your feet, seat, and head, and why to pull the Bluetooth chip before you drive it home Why DC electricity is fundamentally safer for the body than AC, and why almost no one can practically build a fully DC home today
Andrew McAfee came to this work through his own health crisis caused by faulty wiring in his home, then spent years mastering both the trade of electrical work and the science of EMF health effects, a combination R Blank says he has rarely seen in one person. McAfee worked directly alongside Dr. Sam Milham, whose research and book, Dirty Electricity, shaped much of what we understand today about electromagnetic fields and health, and he credits Dave Stetzer, the researcher behind the dairy cattle studies that first established ground current exposure thresholds. McAfee now lives in the Green Bank National Radio Quiet Zone, a federally protected area with no cell towers and no 5G, where he is working with Children's Health Defense lawyers to strengthen state radiation limits to protect residents, not just the Green Bank Observatory's telescope. If you have ever measured zero volts in your home and assumed that meant you were safe, this conversation will change how you think about what your wiring is actually doing to your body. Website: protectnationalquietzone.org Connect with R Blank: For more Healthier Tech Podcast episodes, and to download our Healthier Tech Quick Start Guide, visit https://HealthierTech.co and follow https://instagram.com/healthiertech Additional Links:
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