In 2025 Stockholm was named as the city with the best overall 5G experience in Europe, according to a report by
MedUX, a company close to the telecom industry. Behind this announcement lies a less pleasing reality.
Films and Caetera present
5G THE UNTOLD STORY
Stockholm Sweden
5G was introduced in Sweden and many other countries in 2020.
This new technology is intended to provide much faster transmission speed, and it
uses higher frequencies than 3 G and 4G.
5G emits 10 to 100 times higher levels of microwave radiation than previous systems.
The 5G started to be deployed without any study being performed previously investigating
the health impacts from this new technology.
I'm a medical doctor, oncologist, so I've been treating cancer patients.
My research into environmental agents and cancer risk started with the Agent Orange stuff that was used in Sweden, too.
That was in the 1960s and 70s, and I met, back in the 1980s or late 1970s, patients with a special type of cancer that
had been spraying in the woods with this Agent Orange stuff.
And at that time, it was not widely known that there was a dioxin problem, a TCDD toxicity problem.
I went on with other studies on persistent organic pollutants like PCB, and cancer risks and so on, and finally,
during the last two decades or a bit more, studying the radiofrequency radiation and cancer risks.
So we have published a number of studies on cancer risks, mainly on using the mobile phone and the risk for tumors in the
brain, glioma, and also on the hearing - acoustic neuroma, which were confirmed in our studies and also in others to be about
two to three times increased risk if you have used the mobile phone for a substantial number of years, 10 years or more.
And so from that on, we have moved to look into the environmental exposure to radiofrequencies from …
mostly from base stations, which is a really growing problem with the introduction of 5 G, etc.
I'm a journalist, usually you call it like an investigative reporter, and I’ve also done a lot of
documentaries, especially in the field of radio.
And so I've been working many years for the Swedish public service, for the radio mostly and some TV also. And
then since a few years back, I started my own channel, which is called Folkets Radio, the people's radio.
I think this was also, you know, in the time when they were introducing 5 G, I was acquainted with a guy who was
driving around in Stockholm and measuring in people's homes.
So I was offered to go along with him for a day.
So I brought my recorder and my microphone, and we were riding around Stockholm and
meeting people who were complaining about this.
There was especially one place in Kista, a suburb to Stockholm, where a woman, I think of Iranian descent, she was
complaining that there was tons of these antennas on her roof, just above her ceiling, and her daughter was waking
up in the middle of the night with nosebleeding and all kinds of problems, and she was really desperate.
So I made an interview with her, and it was heartbreaking, really, but I didn't feel anything, so I said, could you show me
one place in this apartment where you think it's really bad?
So she said, well, here is this kitchen table. We don't use this anymore, because people who come here,
even if they have no prior knowledge, they ask, is there something strange in this apartment?
So I said, okay. So I sat there, and I started my clock, and I was just… and my tape recorder, and in one minute,
and two minutes, and nothing happened, three minutes.
But then after like four minutes, it started pinching in my hand, in the arm, and it sort of gets stronger and stronger.
So after like seven minutes, I decided, yeah, I do feel something. So I ... and then we thanked her, and
then when I came down from the elevator, it was like an elephant had been standing on my chest.
I lost my breath, and I was completely, how do you say, I couldn't breathe for a few seconds.
And that was sort of the first time that I really felt, wow, this really has some impact.
The fact that 5 G was to be deployed without any previous safety studies upset a number of scientists that called
for safety studies to be done before the 5 G deployment.
They were concerned that due to the increasing radiation exposure and the use of new frequencies, 5 G
would lead to potential serious health consequences.
They also stressed that harmful effects from previous systems, like 2 G, 3 G, and the 4 G, were already shown to appear
well below the levels expected from the 5 G antennas.
And then I think one or two years later, I was moving in here, and I was feeling sort of pain in my chest.
And I think normally I wouldn't have any... I would just wonder why do I have that?
But since I was working with this topic, it came to my mind, what if, what if actually this 5 G tower is affecting me?
So I asked one of the people that I interviewed, who has this kind of meter, IMF meter,
if he could come to my place and measure.
And so he did, and he said, oh, it's quite high actually in your bedroom.
The Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation was contacted by a number of people complaining of various symptoms such as
sleeping problems, headaches, dizziness, heart problems after 5 G base stations had been
deployed close to their apartments or houses.
This is exactly the same symptoms that had been identified in scientific studies during the last 25
years among people living close to mobile phone masts.
Dr. Lennart Hardell then suggested that we should investigate the health effects and radiation levels from 5G.
We have this far published eight case studies and one summary of the studies.
Shockingly, these case studies are this far the only studies that have investigated health
impacts on people exposed to 5 G in real life.
This type of research is not done in other places as far as I know, around the world.
But these have been case reports. People who have talked about their symptoms after 5 G was implemented on the building or on
the other side of the street and they get these typical symptoms as you can include them in the Microwave
Syndrome with headache, fatigue, difficulties to sleep, etc.
There can be muscle pains and problems from the stomach and from the heart, of course, too.
So there is quite a lot of symptoms and they can develop very quickly when you are exposed, in contrast to cancer,
which we haven't studied, which is a long term effect.
I mean, 5 G started some four or five years ago in Sweden, 2020, and the cancer
effect will come up after 10, 15 or 20 years.
You have both the cancer risk in long term, but you have these acute symptoms, which some people develop, others do not.
Many may have them, but they are not aware of the connection with the radio frequency radiation.
Furthermore, this is like classic provocation studies, because most of these people have had to leave their office or
homes to another place for living and then their symptoms disappear within a very short time, within a few days.
I have lived in my apartment almost 30 years.
And I had base stations near my apartment for many years, 3 G, 4G.
But after they upgraded to 5 G, they put up a lot of more antennas.
It was three times bigger, the antenna elements.
And what worried me, I saw that they were pointing it directly to my apartment and they placed it on a
house that was lower than the house I was living in.
So it was directly in front of my house. And I measured later on, that it was around 22 meters away from my apartment.
During the first week, I started to notice that pattern, that each night around 10 or
11, I sensed a hard beating of my heart.
And it continued during all night until I left my home.
And I remember when the weekend came, my heart was beating non-stop Friday night until Monday morning.
I was out of energy, started to get headaches. And I had a visit of my ex.
And she immediately felt, after half an hour sitting in my living room, she felt pain in
her brain and started crying and asked me
what is happening? What is this? Is this the antenna, 5 G antenna? What's happening here?
In November 2021, after living 10 years in the same apartment, I notice there was work going on, on the roof.
I asked around and found out that one of the main telephone operators in Sweden was
going to install new 5G antennas on the roof.
Before that, there was an existing base station on the roof for the older system of telecommunications.
I knew it is possible to measure the microwave radiation.
I therefore contacted a professional who could measure it correctly before it was installed and we had
measurements, before the new 5G antenna was installed.
When the 5G was connected, I got clear symptoms very quickly.
I started feeling very bad. With headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, my skin itched.
I tried to sleep in another room,
I felt a little better there, but not much.
I was aware that there could be a placebo effect. That thoughts and feelings can affect judgement.
I was carefully observing how I felt at my job, in, out, in different rooms and in other people’s homes.
The same symptoms kept coming back when I was at home, and got particularly worse when in my bed.
When we realized that this was in operation, I contacted the professional who had
done the measurements of microwaves again.
He found that in view of the radiation levels he now measured, He told us you cannot live here, pack your bags.
Before the antenna change, with the old system, we measured 6,000 microwatts per square meter.
After the installation, when the antennas were operational, we measured at least 2.5 million microwatts per
square meter, the maximum the device could measure.
Particularly in the bed where Kerstin was sleeping.
The antenna was exactly above our bedroom between 5 and 7 meters above. What happened, was that we
packed our bags, for another apartment of 30 square meters, with a sofa bed and a table.
Then I went away for two weeks.
On my return, I tried to live alone in the old apartment.
This is when my symptoms appeared.
It was insomnia, redness on the skin, tinnitus, nosebleeds, dizziness.
That’s when I realized, I couldn’t stay here either. I joined Kerstin in the small apartment.
That’s when the symptoms disappeared within a few days.
It was quite obvious that these sysmptoms were related to our apartment, and that which was on the roof.
We had some cases where we had measurements before.
They were not low, but it was another technology.
Maybe some thousand microwatts per square meter.
But at that time it was 3 G and 4G. The types of radiation that were before 5G.
But when 5 G was installed, they get symptoms very quickly.
So it's interesting that these people could actually tolerate the previous generations.
But with 5 G, they got all these myriads of symptoms.
It was an extreme pain I never felt before in my life.
It's the strongest pain I ever experienced.
And it happened a couple of times.
And I thought like I was going to die.
So I started to connect the dots. And I just understood it's something wrong with the antenna.
This is dangerous.
I need to get out of here.
I could stay at different places. That saved my situation. Else I would have been forced to move into a hotel.
I was kind of scared that if I could not solve this situation, I was afraid I could become homeless.
Every time I was revisiting my apartment to pick up my belongings, my symptoms became more severe. Every time.
And I started to notice a pattern that within like six or eight hours, the symptoms
appeared. And it could go on until the next day.
Also, I noticed I got headaches for five days.
I had hard working during that time.
I became more sensitive to RF-exposure that I could not even hold my computer mouse
that was Bluetooth without extreme pain.
I have been using that for years.
All of a sudden, I could not hold it.
I started to notice more and more sensitivity for RF-exposure.
And the more I got exposed in my apartment, the sensitivity increased.
Our governments and the industry claim that there are no health risks with the 5 G radiation because we have
so-called safety limits that protect us against harm.
However, they only protect against immediate heating effects that were observed from an hour of extremely high exposure.
In consequence, they do not protect against any other effects from long-term exposure. For instance, cancer,
sleeping problems, headaches, heart problems, or any other harmful effects that are not due to heating.
Therefore, most scientists consider that these limits are insufficient to protect against health hazards.
So why are the limits not more protective?
The answer is that they are important for the industry.
These limits that most countries have adopted are recommended by influential organizations such as the ICNIRP, the
World Health Organization, and the European Commission.
Both the ICNIRP and the World Health Organization have been criticized for defending the
interests of the industry rather than public health.
For many years, the World Health Organization even received funding from the
telecommunications industry for promoting these limits.
And the ICNIRP has also been criticized for having ties to the industry.
There is something with this technology, because it's rapid on -sets? and rapid off, called MIMO,
multiple inputs and multiple outputs of the radiation.
So it's a bombarding of all the human body and it seems to be especially problematic.
And one mechanism could be that there is not very much recovery.
I mean, usually if you go on a cellular level and get a toxin or on a radiation, there can be some damage,
but there is also a reparation mechanism in the cells.
This cannot be done with 5 G, because it's so rapid and it's so very high pulses, so they get
these toxicological effects on the human body.
I mean, this is used in radiotherapy, radiation of cancer.
Now, instead of giving the dose once a day, we can divide it and give the dose twice, one dose of the
radiation in the morning and another in the afternoon.
And we know that the same dose is much more toxic to the cancer cell if it's divided in two doses during the day.
This has to do with the repair mechanism, so the body doesn't have the time to repair the effect of
the radiation when it's given with short intervals.
So I've become very sensitive to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
When I moved to another apartment, I became very sick.
I was still in very bad shape, and I was extremely sensitive to all forms of RF-exposure.
So that's a problem when you get affected you can't live in an apartment almost anymore because there is so huge exposure
today, even from your neighbors, because they have Bluetooth speakers, they have Wi-Fi routers, they have mesh networks.
We have built a society that makes people sick today.
This is a presentation that a representative of the Ericsson company held in 2017 on the
impact of EMF limits on the 5 G network rollout.
The exclusion zone is the zone where people cannot live or stay for longer periods.
If Ericsson has to adapt to limits that are 100 times lower or in other words 100 times stricter than the ICNIRP limits,
the exclusion zone would be this big compared to the exclusion zone of ICNIRP limits, which is only this area.
So it has a huge consequence for Ericsson and they conclude here size of exclusion zone with 100 times lower ICNIRP limits
makes 5 G network rollout a major problem or impossible.
On the other side here are lots of base stations for 5G.
I think we can count to eight and they are located very close to the people who are walking around and
close to the heads of people, of course, because it's just one flat building like that.
And we have very high exposure here.
It's... just now we have some 14, 15 volts per meter but we have measured much higher before.
I mean, if you move around and come into the direction of the beam, it will be even higher, maybe 30, 40 volts per
meter, which is very close to 50 volts per meter where you have an increased cancer risk in animal studies.
So this place is definitely not safe and also a place where you can get this microwave syndrome or the
symptoms which are created by radio frequency radiation.
The old town is very crowded by buildings and very narrow streets between and so they put very high exposure, high radiation
from the base stations just to get into the old town.
I mean, this is a technology which is badly designed and also badly controlled by the society.
And of course, people don't understand or are unaware of this because the radiation doesn't smell it.?
You can't see it. You can't feel it, etc.
So it's a classical environmental agent which you don't know that this is a risk factor.
Actually, it's the same with dioxins that are group 1 carcinogens in humans.
You can't smell them, you can't feel them and you can't taste them. It's quite similar.
It's a silent cancer agent that we are now having in our surroundings and that is increasing in the level, of course.
Exposure limits for harmful emissions are normally set to protect the public and then
the industry has to adapt to the limits.
But in this case, the limits are rather set to protect the industry's needs.
This has become evident ahead of the 5 G rollout.
The industry put pressure on countries and regions with lower limits than those from the ICNIRP and the World
Health Organization to let the limits be less protective, for instance, Italy, Brussels and Switzerland.
Otherwise, 5 G could not be deployed.
I have made measurements around 10 schools in Örebro, my hometown, and there is a
very high radiation on the school yard.
It's tens of thousands of microwatts, like 30, 40 thousand microwatts per square meter, which is far away
higher than the toxic levels in different studies.
As we can see, all ages are affected.
But we know from other studies in literature that children in general are more sensitive than grown-ups.
And this is a cause of concern if you go to, like, a school situation.
I mean, we still have very much use of the wireless technology, and we know that there is an increasing problem with
schoolchildren with tiredness and headache and so on.
The telecommunications industry is, of course, the major player pushing for the 5 G rollout.
5 G is not primarily intended to meet the needs of the public, but rather the needs of the industry.
Unfortunately, the industry has shown no interest in the results of our studies and the reported
serious health effects of their new 5 G technology.
Rather, they have taken actions to cover up the health hazards.
For instance, a representative from Ericsson, the world-leading provider of 5 G base stations, wrote
an email to the editor that published our first case study, asking for the article to be withdrawn.
This is evidence that the industry is working behind the scenes to cover up the health hazards, and it's not interested
in any objective investigation of health effects.
They are important, these case reports, because they are the red flags that something is happening.
This is the first sign. It's like the canary bird down in the mines where they used to have them to
see if they reacted on the ambient air quality
and could see if they got sick, that, well, it's not good here.
And if we look historically, very much of the medical knowledge has started with case studies, like case reports.
That's the first sign that something is wrong here.
But of course they need to be supplemented with more studies and larger case series and so on.
People are forcibly exposed to this radiation in their own homes without any possibility to say no,
without their informed consent, and without any studies showing that it is not harmful.
On the contrary, there are increasing evidence that it is harmful, and an increasing number of
scientists are warning about the health risks.
This situation is, of course, against what we must expect from a democratic society.
It shows that the industry has too much influence over how the society handles these risks.
It also shows that those organizations and agencies such as the ICNIRP, the World Health Organization and the
European Commission that pretend that they are protecting the public are simply not doing that.
They can say that these levels are below ICNIRP levels,
but if you look strictly on 5 G from a medical point of view, it shouldn't be there, neither 6G.
But the forces against... to stop it are extremely strong, of course.
Advice would be, of course, to dismantle 5G.
I mean, it's a toxic agents that are forced on human beings, because human beings are not asked.
Among the most prevalent and severe symptoms in the 5G case studies were sleeping difficulty, headache, fatigue,
irritability, concentration problems, loss of immediate memory, emotional distress, depression, anxiety/panic, high or irregular
pulse. These symptoms correspond to the microwave syndrome.
The highest levels of readiation measured in residents’ apartments, in the vicinity of 5G antennas, were 2,500,000 and
3,180,000 μW/m2. These levels caused illness within a few days. They are well above the maximum levels of o.1 to 100
μW/m2 recommended by some scientists. The levels recommended by ICNIRP and WHO are 10,000,000 μW/m2.
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