In a report by MedUX, Stockholm was named the city with the best 5G experience in Europe in 2025.
Behind this announcement lies a much messier reality.
Films and Caetera present:
5G - The secretive story
Stockholm, Sweden
5G was introduced in Sweden and many other countries in 2020.
This new technology is said to offer much faster transmission speeds and uses higher frequencies than 3G and 4G.
5G emits 10 to 100 times higher levels of microwave radiation than previous systems.
The use of 5G has begun without any prior study having been carried out to investigate
the health effects of this new technology.
I am a doctor, an oncologist, I have treated cancer patients.
I started researching environmental factors and cancer risks when the Agent Orange issue came up in Sweden.
That was in the '60s and '70s, and I had patients in the '80s or late '70s with a particular type of cancer
that was sprayed in the woods with this Agent Orange.
At that time it was not so widely known that it was a dioxin problem, a TCDD poisoning problem.
I did other studies on persistent organic pollutants like PCBs and cancer risks and so on. And finally, I did research for two
decades or more on radiofrequency radiation and cancer risks.
We have published a number of studies on cancer risks, especially on cell phone use and cancer risks for the brain, glioma and also
for the hearing, acoustic neuroma. Our and other studies have shown that the risk of cancer is two to three times higher if
you have used a cell phone for several years, 10 years or longer.
From then on we looked at the environmental impact of radio frequencies, especially from radio masts, which is a
really increasing problem with the introduction of 5G and so on.
I'm a journalist - usually called an investigative reporter - and I've done a lot of documentaries, especially for radio.
I have worked for the Swedish Civil Service for many years, mainly for radio and also a bit for television. A few years ago
I started my own channel, Folkets Radio - Radio of the People.
I think it was at the time when 5G was introduced. I knew a man who drove around Stockholm and took measurements in the houses.
I was offered the opportunity to go with him for a day.
I took my recorder and microphone with me and we drove around Stockholm and met people who complained about it.
One area in particular in Kista, a suburb of Stockholm, there was a woman, I think of Iranian origin, who complained that there
were a bunch of antennas on her roof, right above her ceiling. And her daughter was waking up at night with nosebleeds
and all sorts of problems - and she was really desperate.
I did an interview with her and it was heartbreaking, but I couldn't feel anything. So I asked her if she could show me a
place in her apartment where she thought it was really bad.
And she said: "Here's the dining table, we don't use it any more, because even people who come here and don't know anything
about it ask if there's anything strange in the apartment.
So I said okay and I sat there and started my stopwatch and my recorder and nothing
happened - for a minute, two minutes, three minutes.
But then, after four minutes, it started to pinch in my hand and in my arm, and it got worse and worse.
After seven minutes I decided, yes, I feel something and I said thank you. When I got out of the
elevator, it felt like an elephant was standing on my chest.
I couldn't breathe and couldn't breathe for a few seconds.
And that was the first time I really felt that it had an effect.
The fact that 5G was introduced without prior safety studies has angered some scientists who had demanded that
safety studies be carried out before the introduction of 5G.
They were concerned that 5G could potentially lead to serious health consequences due to the higher
radiation levels and the use of the new frequencies.
They have also emphasized that the harmful effects of previous systems such as 2G, 3G and 4G have
already occurred well below the thresholds of 5G antennas.
A year or two later I moved in here and I felt a kind of pain in my chest.
And I thought, normally I wouldn't have this. I asked myself why I had it.
But because I was just thinking about this topic, it occurred to me: What if this 5G tower really affects me?
So I asked one of these people I interviewed who had this kind of meter, EMF meter, if he could come to me and measure it.
He did and he said, 'Oh, it's actually quite high in your bedroom.
The Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation has been contacted by a number of people complaining of various symptoms - such as
sleep disturbances, headaches, dizziness, heart problems - after 5G transmitting stations
were installed near their apartments or houses.
These are exactly the same symptoms that have been found in scientific studies over the last 25
years in people living near mobile phone masts.
Dr. Lennart Hardell had suggested that we investigate the health effects and radiation levels of 5G.
So far, we have published eight case studies and a summary of the studies.
It is frightening that these case studies are so far the only studies that have investigated the
health consequences of 5G for people in real life.
As far as I know, this kind of research is not carried out anywhere else in the world.
But there have been case reports, people who have reported their symptoms after 5G was installed on their building or across the
street. They got these typical symptoms that can be categorized as microwave syndrome with
headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbances and so on.
Of course, it can also cause muscle pain and stomach or heart problems.
So there are many symptoms, and they can develop very quickly if you are exposed to radiation - unlike cancer,
which we have not studied, which is a long-term consequence.
5G was launched in Sweden four or five years ago, in 2020 - and cancer as a result will become apparent in 10, 15 or 20 years.
You have both the risk of cancer as a long-term consequence, but you also have these acute
symptoms that some people develop and others don't.
Many people probably already have them, but they are not aware of the connection to radiofrequency radiation.
Also, it's like classic provocation studies because most of these people had to leave their office or home to
live somewhere else and then their symptoms disappear within a very short time, within a few days.
I've lived in my apartment for almost 30 years.
And I've had 3G and 4G transmitting stations near my home for many years.
But after they upgraded it to 5G, a lot more antennas were put up.
The antenna elements were three times as large.
What worried me was that I saw that it was aimed directly at my home. And it was positioned on a
house that was lower than the house I lived in.
So it was right in front of my house, and I measured it later, it was about 22 meters from my apartment.
In the first week, I noticed this pattern of feeling a strong palpitation every night at 10 or 11 pm.
And it lasted all night until I left the house in the morning.
And I remembered: as the weekend approached, my heart was pounding non-stop Friday night until Monday morning.
I had no more energy and started to get headaches.
My ex-girlfriend came to visit me. After sitting in my living room for half an hour, she felt
a pain in her brain, started crying and asked:
What is happening here? What is that? Is that the antenna, the 5G antenna? What's going on here?
After living in the same apartment for ten years, I noticed in November 2021 that work was being carried out on the roof.
I asked around and found out that one of the main telephone providers in Sweden would
be installing new 5G antennas on the roof.
Previously, there was an existing transmitter station on the roof for an older telecommunications system.
I knew that it was possible to measure microwave radiation.
That's why I contacted a professional who could measure it properly before it was installed. So
we had readings before the 5G antenna was erected.
When 5G was set up, I got clear symptoms very quickly.
I felt very bad with headaches, dizziness, tinnitus and itching.
I tried to sleep in another room.
I felt a little better there, but not much.
I was aware that it could be a placebo effect, that thoughts and feelings affect judgment.
I have carefully observed how I feel at work, indoors, outdoors, in different rooms and in other people's homes.
The same symptoms came back when I was at home - and they got particularly bad when I was in bed.
When we realized that it had been put into operation, I contacted the specialist who had carried out the measurements again.
In view of the radiation levels he could now measure, he said: "You can't live here, pack your things!"
Before the antenna change, with the old system, we measured 6,000 microwatts per m².
After installation, when the antennas were put into operation, we measured at least 2.5 million
microwatts per m² - the maximum the device could measure.
Especially in the bed where Kerstin slept.
We then packed our things and moved into a 30 m² apartment with a sofa bed and a table.
Then I was away for two weeks.
When I came back, I tried to live alone in the old apartment.
That's when my symptoms showed up:
Nausea, reddening of the skin, tinnitus, nosebleeds, dizziness.
I realized that I couldn't stay here either and moved into Kerstin's small apartment.
The symptoms disappeared within a few days.
It was very obvious that the symptoms were related to our apartment and what was on the roof.
In some cases we had measurements beforehand.
They weren't low, but it was a different technology.
Perhaps a few thousand microwatts per m².
But that was 3G or 4G back then, the types of radiation that existed before 5G.
But when 5G was installed, they got symptoms very quickly.
It's interesting that these people actually put up with the previous generations.
But with 5G, they got these myriad symptoms.
It was an extreme pain that I have never felt before in my life.
It was the most intense pain I have ever experienced.
And it happened a few times.
I thought I was going to die.
So I came across the connections and realized that something was wrong with the antenna.
That is dangerous.
I have to get out of here.
I was able to stay with different people, that was my salvation, otherwise I would have had to move into a hotel.
I was afraid of becoming homeless if I didn't get the situation under control.
Every time I went back to my apartment to get my things, my symptoms got worse. Every time.
And I noticed a pattern of symptoms appearing after 6 to 8 hours and sometimes lasting until the next day.
I realized that I had a headache for five days.
It was difficult to work during this time.
I became more and more sensitive to radiation, so I couldn't even hold my computer mouse, which
worked with Bluetooth, without getting extreme pain.
And I had been using them for years.
Suddenly I could no longer hold her.
I observed more and more electrosensitivity.
And the longer I was exposed to radiation in my apartment, the worse it got.
Our governments and the industry claim that there are no health risks with 5G radiation because we
have so-called limits that protect us from harm.
However, they only protect us from the immediate "heating effect" that was observed after one hour of extremely high radiation.
Therefore, they do not protect us from any other consequences of long-term radiation, for example cancer, sleep
disorders, headaches, heart problems or other harmful effects that are not caused by heating. Therefore
most scientists do not consider these limits to be sufficient to protect against health damage.
Why are the limit values no longer protective?
The answer is that they are important for the industry.
These limits, which have been adopted by most countries, have been recommended by influential organizations such as ICNIRP,
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission.
Both the ICNIRP and the WHO have been criticized for representing the interests of industry rather than those of public health.
For many years, the World Health Organization has even received donations from the
telecommunications industry to promote these limits.
And ICNIRP has also been criticized for having links to industry.
Something is wrong with this technology, because it is fast on and off - called
MIMO, Multiple Input Multiple Output of radiation.
This is a bombardment of the whole human body and it seems to be particularly problematic.
One mechanism could be that it is not very restful.
If a toxin or radiation penetrates at the cellular level, damage can occur. But normally
there is also a repair mechanism in the cells.
This is not possible with 5G because it is so fast and pulsates at such a high level, which
creates these toxicological effects for the human body.
This is used in radiotherapy, in cancer radiation.
Instead of applying the dose once a day, we can split it up and give the dose twice, one dose of
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 is divided into two doses per day.
This is related to the repair mechanism, then the body does not have time to repair the damage of
the radiation if it is applied in short intervals.
So I became very sensitive to WLAN and Bluetooth.
When I moved to another apartment, I became very ill.
I was still in a very bad state and I was highly sensitive to all kinds of electromagnetic radiation.
That's a problem, if you're affected, you almost can't live in an apartment anymore because there's such a high level of
radiation there today - even from the neighbors because they have Bluetooth speakers, Wi-Fi routers, mesh networks.
We have built a society that is making people ill today.
This is a presentation given by a representative of Ericsson in 2017 about EMF limits for 5G network rollout.
The exclusion zone is the zone in which people cannot live or stay for a longer period of time.
If Ericsson had to adopt limits that are 100 times lower - or in other words 100 times stricter than the ICNIRP limits -
then the exclusion zone would be so large compared to the exclusion zone with ICNIRP limits, that would be just this area.
So it has a big consequence for Ericsson and they concluded that the exclusion zone with 100 times lower ICNIRP
limits would make 5G rollout very problematic or impossible.
On the other hand, there are a lot of transmission stations for 5G here.
I think we can count eight. And they are near the people walking and near the heads,
because there is only one such flat building here.
And we have a very high level of radiation here.
We have 14, 15 volts per meter right now, but we have already measured much higher values.
If you move and come into the direction of radiation, it will be much higher, around 30, 40 volts per meter - which is
very close to the 50 volts per meter where an increased risk of cancer has been found in animal studies.
This place is definitely not safe, it is a place where you can get microwave syndrome or
the symptoms caused by radiofrequency radiation.
The old town is densely built up with buildings and has very narrow streets, so they have set up very high radiation
from the transmitter stations to get into the old town.
This technology is poorly developed and poorly controlled by society.
And of course people don't understand it or are unaware of it because you can't smell radiation.
You don't see it, you don't feel it, etc.
This is a classic environmental factor that is not known to be a risk factor.
It is actually the same with dioxins, which are carcinogenic group 1 for humans.
You don't smell it, you don't feel it, you don't taste it. It's very similar.
It is a silent cancer factor that we now have in our environment and it is getting stronger.
Limits on harmful emissions are usually set to protect the public and then industry has to comply.
But in this case, the limits are set more to protect the needs of the industry.
This became apparent before the introduction of 5G.
The industry exerted pressure on countries and regions to have lower limits than those of ICNIRP and WHO to make the limits
less protective, for example in Italy, Brussels or Switzerland.
Otherwise 5G could not have been built.
I have taken measurements at ten schools near Örebro, my home town, and there is a very
high level of radiation in the schoolyard.
It's 10,000e microwatts, so about 30-40,000 microwatts per square meter, which is way above the toxic level from various studies.
We can see that all age groups are affected.
But we know from other studies in the literature that children are generally much more sensitive than adults.
And that is of course a cause for concern, for example for the school situation.
We have a lot of wifi use and we know that it is an increasing problem for school children with exhaustion, headaches and so on.
The telecommunications industry is, of course, the main player driving the 5G rollout.
5G is not primarily needed for the needs of the population, but rather for the needs of industry.
Unfortunately, the industry has shown no interest in our study results and in the reports of
serious health consequences of their new 5G technology.
Instead, they have taken measures to cover up the damage to health.
For example, a representative from Ericsson - the world's leading provider of 5G transmission stations - wrote an
email to the publisher who published our first case study, asking for our article to be withdrawn.
This is proof that the industry is secretly trying to cover up the health damage and is not interested
in any objective investigation of the health effects.
These case reports are important because they are red flags that something is going on.
That's the first signal. Like the canaries they had down in the mines back then to see how they reacted to the air quality.
If they became ill, it was a sign that they were not well.
If you look at history, a lot of medical knowledge started with case studies, like case reports.
It is the first sign that something is going wrong here.
Of course, they need to be supplemented by further studies and larger case series.
People are forced to be exposed to this radiation in their homes without having the opportunity to say no, without their
consent - and without studies showing that it does no harm.
On the contrary, there is more and more evidence that it is harmful and more and more
scientists are warning of the health risks.
This situation is, of course, the opposite of what we should expect from a democratic society.
It shows that the industry has too much influence on how society deals with these risks.
It also shows that these organizations and agencies like ICNIRP, the WHO and the European Commission pretend
that they are protecting the public, but they are not.
You say that this level is below the ICNIRP levels.
But if you look at 5G strictly from a medical point of view, it shouldn't exist, nor should 6G.
But the forces stopping this are of course very strong.
One piece of advice would of course be to dismantle 5G.
It is a toxic factor that is being forced on people, because people are not being asked.
Among the most widespread and severe symptoms in the 5G case studies were sleep disturbances, headaches, fatigue,
irritability, concentration problems, short-term memory loss, emotional distress, depression, anxiety/panic, a high or irregular
pulse. These symptoms correspond to the microwave syndrome.
The highest radiation level measured in homes near 5G antennas was between 2.5 and 3.18 million μW/m². This level led to illness
within a few days. It is well above the level of 1 to 100 μW/m² recommended by some scientists. The
recommended limits of ICNIRP and the WHO are 10 million μW/m².
The victims of mobile phone radiation are often silenced simply because of their complaints.
Their plight does not fit the narrative of industry, politics and the leading media.
That is why they are not listened to by the leading media.
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