1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,398 2 00:00:00,398 --> 00:00:09,436 Once the radiation exposure was gone, normal blood flow values were clearly visible again in both cerebral arteries. 3 00:00:09,436 --> 00:00:15,658 In other words: narrowing of the blood vessels caused by radio waves. On my right side, on the other 4 00:00:15,658 --> 00:00:19,362 person's left, and maybe all over for other people. 5 00:00:19,362 --> 00:00:26,389 I was able to measure my heart rate using radiation exposure. And now things are getting interesting. 6 00:00:26,389 --> 00:00:38,723 We can see these peaks in the recordings here. And they correspond to the radiation peaks. 7 00:00:38,723 --> 00:00:48,976 Exposure to cell phone radiation also weakens the immune system because white blood cells are no longer as mobile. 8 00:00:48,976 --> 00:00:57,068 Forty years ago, people with allergies were laughed at. You couldn't see allergens. 9 00:00:57,068 --> 00:01:01,818 Now we know that allergies exist, including peanut allergies. 10 00:01:01,818 --> 00:01:07,300 And even if I don't have them, Klaus here can have them. 11 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:11,910 Now, people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity are being ridiculed. 12 00:01:11,910 --> 00:01:19,090 But just because I don't have that problem doesn't prove that the other person doesn't have it either. 13 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:26,039 I will now turn the floor over to my colleague sitting next to me, Dr. Monika Krout. She is the next speaker. 14 00:01:26,039 --> 00:01:31,040 She studied medicine at the University of Marburg, earned her doctorate there, and then worked as a 15 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,585 resident in pediatric oncology at the University of Cologne. 16 00:01:34,585 --> 00:01:40,829 She received research fellowships in the field of oncology and hematology at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, as well as at 17 00:01:40,829 --> 00:01:44,803 the University of Texas and the Health Science Center in Houston. 18 00:01:44,803 --> 00:01:51,516 She has regularly worked on assignments abroad in the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Tanzania. 19 00:01:51,516 --> 00:01:59,075 Monika Krout ran her own natural-science-oriented practice as a specialist in general medicine and conducts research in the field 20 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:03,939 of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, particularly on the relationship between heart 21 00:02:03,939 --> 00:02:06,776 rate variability and cellular radiation. 22 00:02:06,776 --> 00:02:13,243 She has been on early retirement since 2021; she is a widow, the mother of three adult children, and already a grandmother. 23 00:02:13,243 --> 00:02:17,798 Together with her partner, she runs a trout farm in the Eifel region that specializes in trout—as well as a few 24 00:02:17,798 --> 00:02:22,776 other animals—and is dedicated to preserving animal and plant species threatened with extinction. 25 00:02:22,776 --> 00:02:30,401 We’re really looking forward to dear Monika, to hear your presentation on the topic “Electrosensitive Refugees in Their Own 26 00:02:30,401 --> 00:02:37,096 Country,” in which you’ll also share your own very distressing experiences related to electrosensitivity and 27 00:02:37,096 --> 00:02:42,316 the death of your husband. I’d like to give you the floor. 28 00:02:59,392 --> 00:03:03,689 First of all, thank you for listening, and I hope everyone still has a little energy left 29 00:03:03,689 --> 00:03:07,478 to stick with me for the last twenty minutes. 30 00:03:07,478 --> 00:03:13,756 My topic is “Refugees in Their Own Country”—it’s just… well, for two reasons… I’m personally affected. 31 00:03:13,756 --> 00:03:21,116 I've been really preparing myself for the past three weeks so that I can truly be present here and handle all these things. 32 00:03:21,116 --> 00:03:25,272 With my inhaler, but I'm really here now. 33 00:03:25,272 --> 00:03:35,242 My husband was affected; he died from it, and in my practice I’ve had so many electrosensitive patients—so many cries for 34 00:03:35,242 --> 00:03:45,797 help—that I couldn’t really help because the politicians wouldn’t cooperate, and that’s why I’m here right now. 35 00:03:45,797 --> 00:03:54,784 Refugees in their own country. The symbol is a hummingbird inside a yellow heart, and that is the global symbol 36 00:03:54,784 --> 00:04:01,449 for us people with EHS—that’s what we call it for short. 37 00:04:01,449 --> 00:04:08,390 Yeah, I don't even know who actually knows what a hummingbird is or what amazing animals they are. 38 00:04:08,390 --> 00:04:17,690 When you study hummingbirds, you realize that they are the only animals that do not flee during a forest fire. 39 00:04:17,690 --> 00:04:26,474 All the animals are gone, all the people are gone, and the hummingbird does something special: it flies to the nearest river 40 00:04:26,474 --> 00:04:31,451 and brings back water drop by drop to put out the forest fire. 41 00:04:31,451 --> 00:04:33,675 And the idea came to me as I sat here. 42 00:04:33,675 --> 00:04:42,684 Wow, here we are already—I don’t know how many hummingbirds there are among us trying, drop by drop, to tackle this issue, the 43 00:04:42,684 --> 00:04:48,762 dangers of cell phone radiation, harmful vaccines, and everything else—and I’m simply 44 00:04:48,762 --> 00:04:54,266 inviting our online listeners to be hummingbirds, too. 45 00:04:59,809 --> 00:05:07,791 All of this, seasoned with heart. And the heart and mind go hand in hand, and I think that whenever we do 46 00:05:07,791 --> 00:05:12,567 something, we should always approach it with heart. 47 00:05:12,567 --> 00:05:21,184 And, of course, we must always use our common sense to make sensible decisions. It’s very clear to me that we can’t 48 00:05:21,184 --> 00:05:30,912 do away with cell phones, but there are possible solutions, and that’s why we can work together. It’s possible. 49 00:05:30,912 --> 00:05:34,197 A little background: I find the color yellow fascinating. 50 00:05:34,197 --> 00:05:43,313 Back in the day—as many of us older folks still remember—there were still coal mines, and they used to take 51 00:05:43,313 --> 00:05:48,505 canaries—yellow canaries—down into the mines in cages. 52 00:05:48,505 --> 00:05:57,447 And when they ran out of air, it became dangerous, and the miners had to get out of the mine. 53 00:05:57,447 --> 00:06:06,166 And I think many of us who are electrosensitive—I’ll explain that later, too—are a bit like those canaries, and perhaps 54 00:06:06,166 --> 00:06:15,360 serve as a small warning of what might happen to other people as well. Not necessarily—that’s important! 55 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:32,716 Many of us who are affected by this take refuge in our basements because we can no longer sleep in our regular apartments. 56 00:06:32,716 --> 00:06:38,896 For sleeping, for working. And basements can sometimes be creepy—not very nice. 57 00:06:38,896 --> 00:06:41,157 They flee from their apartments into the forest. 58 00:06:41,157 --> 00:06:48,884 I myself—I don't even know—spent two or three years sleeping in a two-by-two-meter red cabin in the woods at -20°C 59 00:06:48,884 --> 00:06:52,840 because I couldn't stand living with electricity anymore. 60 00:06:52,840 --> 00:07:02,440 I couldn't stand Funk, but I made it through again—I just barely made it. 61 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,712 Many people are moving in search of a new place—where else can we go? 62 00:07:05,712 --> 00:07:15,391 That's how things were at my practice until 2021, and many of us lost our jobs, and there was so much we could have done. 63 00:07:15,391 --> 00:07:21,023 We are teachers, we are doctors, we are early childhood educators, we are caregivers, we are construction 64 00:07:21,023 --> 00:07:25,668 workers—we have so many skills; we could be an asset. 65 00:07:25,668 --> 00:07:30,902 And some people see no other way out than to take their own lives. 66 00:07:30,902 --> 00:07:36,005 And that's exactly what happened with my husband—after the radiation dose was increased, 67 00:07:36,005 --> 00:07:38,755 he was cooking in the kitchen, and I told him: 68 00:07:38,755 --> 00:07:45,540 “Please go down to the basement; the radiation levels are high.” And he said, “You know, I don’t want to do this 69 00:07:45,540 --> 00:07:50,424 anymore.” That was the beginning—at least in the movie. 70 00:07:50,424 --> 00:08:03,315 And also, as Klaus Buchner just described, the pain is unbearable, and it’s like being in a prison you can’t escape from. 71 00:08:03,315 --> 00:08:15,220 When I first realized I had electromagnetic hypersensitivity—I think it was in 2013—I thought, “Wait, is this all in my head?” 72 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:21,760 "Do people really have something? You can't see it, you can't feel it? Or is that really how it is?" 73 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,502 The Federal Office for Radiation Protection says it's all in the mind. 74 00:08:25,502 --> 00:08:34,063 And people said, “No, actually, we do have that problem.” And that’s the question we’re looking into now. 75 00:08:41,329 --> 00:08:51,757 Exactly, the yellow chair. Many of us couldn't get out anymore, and the yellow chair represents all the 76 00:08:51,757 --> 00:08:59,433 people around the world who would love to be here but can't. 77 00:09:02,651 --> 00:09:07,279 I'm a person; I come from a research background, and whenever I come across something, I 78 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:09,852 always want to know: Is that true, or isn't it? 79 00:09:09,852 --> 00:09:14,857 And I'm always trying things out on myself, because then I can contribute to the conversation. 80 00:09:14,857 --> 00:09:23,483 So, what did I do? I got myself a long-term radio signal monitor. 81 00:09:23,483 --> 00:09:27,704 I sat down in our office, which was soundproofed. 82 00:09:27,704 --> 00:09:34,915 I called in a colleague who performed a Doppler ultrasound of the head, and I told him: 83 00:09:34,915 --> 00:09:41,871 "Please check the right middle cerebral artery and the left middle cerebral artery, and see if we can see 84 00:09:41,871 --> 00:09:47,942 anything when the office door opens and the signal comes in." 85 00:09:47,942 --> 00:09:59,904 Yes, he saw something—you can see these elongated peaks down below. 86 00:09:59,904 --> 00:10:10,496 These peaks indicate that every time the clinic door opened (four times), blood flow through my right middle 87 00:10:10,496 --> 00:10:21,224 cerebral artery decreased or stopped entirely—and this happened only on the right side, not the left. 88 00:10:21,224 --> 00:10:29,193 I could never have influenced that. Once the radiofrequency exposure was gone, you can clearly see normal blood flow 89 00:10:29,193 --> 00:10:38,094 values in both cerebral arteries again—which means the blood vessels were constricted due to the radiofrequency exposure. 90 00:10:38,094 --> 00:10:44,629 On my right, on the other person's left, and maybe all over the place for other people. 91 00:10:48,960 --> 00:11:02,109 Next attempt: I was here—I walked through the woods here and monitored my heart rate. 92 00:11:02,109 --> 00:11:12,582 I did this with myself, with over 1,000 people, with llamas and alpacas—and I didn't just hook them up to an 93 00:11:12,582 --> 00:11:22,304 ECG; I also attached a dosimeter to their arms, which recorded data in parallel over the long term. 94 00:11:22,304 --> 00:11:31,640 That means I was able to measure my heart rate using radiation exposure. And now it gets interesting. 95 00:11:37,603 --> 00:11:54,043 We can see these peaks in the recordings here, and they correspond to the radiation peaks. You can see that quite clearly. 96 00:11:54,043 --> 00:12:03,140 With one exception: That's where my heart rate goes up—not because there was radiation there, but because 97 00:12:03,140 --> 00:12:12,800 there's a hill in the forest that wasn't as physically taxing for me as the radiation exposure. 98 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:20,618 The same goes for llamas and alpacas—they can't tell a cell tower from a tree. 99 00:12:20,618 --> 00:12:28,220 Then my predecessor, Klaus, was kind enough to tell me about the blood tests. 100 00:12:28,220 --> 00:12:35,740 And this is how it was described to me: We draw blood, expose people to radiation, draw blood again, and the blood changes. 101 00:12:35,740 --> 00:12:44,503 Then the industry came along and said, “Oh, come on—blood clotting happens because of the second blood draw.” 102 00:12:44,503 --> 00:12:48,243 And that's when I thought: You know what, let's do it differently. 103 00:12:48,243 --> 00:12:55,763 I draw blood, take two test tubes, and two cover slips. 104 00:12:55,763 --> 00:13:02,830 I'll turn off the radio on one glass, but not on the other—at the same time. 105 00:13:02,830 --> 00:13:08,913 And then I'll take a look under the dark-field microscope to see what happens. Let's take a look at that. 106 00:13:08,913 --> 00:13:19,018 Here we see blood that has not been irradiated, we see a white blood cell—that’s the tiny white entity at the top—which is on 107 00:13:19,018 --> 00:13:30,623 the lookout for bacteria and harmful substances and sets out on its journey to fight off or protect the body from pathogens. 108 00:13:36,763 --> 00:13:47,669 Okay, let's move on now, and in a moment we'll see the same blood sample from the same 109 00:13:47,669 --> 00:13:55,183 subject, collected at the same time—there it is. 110 00:13:55,183 --> 00:14:01,243 And here we can see the difference. The red blood cells are clumped together. 111 00:14:01,243 --> 00:14:09,193 We can still see our little white blood cell hidden in the middle of the cluster, but it’s 112 00:14:09,193 --> 00:14:13,396 not doing anything—or hardly anything at all. 113 00:14:13,396 --> 00:14:22,221 What this means is: Mobile phone radiation also weakens the immune system because white blood cells are no 114 00:14:22,221 --> 00:14:27,336 longer as mobile. Does that make sense? (Audience: Yes) 115 00:14:27,336 --> 00:14:36,095 All right, let's continue. Then a patient, an art teacher, came in and said: 116 00:14:36,095 --> 00:14:37,768 "You know, I'll paint you a beautiful picture." 117 00:14:37,768 --> 00:14:43,168 And I'm sharing this here with my thanks to the lady, in case she's watching. 118 00:14:43,168 --> 00:14:52,429 In the upper part of the image, we see a gas pump—perhaps not quite fitting for this era—and we 119 00:14:52,429 --> 00:14:58,144 see the healthy radiance, the healthy blood cells. 120 00:14:58,144 --> 00:15:07,750 The fuel valve is well supplied with blood, and the heart is happy to have a good supply of oxygen-rich gasoline. 121 00:15:07,750 --> 00:15:12,103 In the lower part, we see the artificial radiation. 122 00:15:12,103 --> 00:15:21,794 The blood has clotted, so it naturally flows more slowly; the blood vessels are constricted and 123 00:15:21,794 --> 00:15:28,390 spasmodic—as Klaus put it so well—due to the influx of calcium. 124 00:15:28,390 --> 00:15:34,856 You remember the cellular calcium... it sends a signal to the cell: “Please, muscles, tense up.” 125 00:15:34,856 --> 00:15:39,703 The blood vessels are surrounded by muscles and contract. 126 00:15:39,703 --> 00:15:46,220 Blood flow to the heart, brain, and kidneys is significantly lower in the presence of cell 127 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:50,056 phone signals, and people receive less oxygen. 128 00:15:50,056 --> 00:15:57,203 And that’s exactly the story of my husband, which I’d like to share very briefly here because I think it’s important. 129 00:15:57,203 --> 00:16:06,189 On that day, my husband said, “I can’t take it anymore!” and then suffered a stroke and epileptic seizures. 130 00:16:06,189 --> 00:16:11,776 I took him to the hospital against his will, with isolation blankets and protective 131 00:16:11,776 --> 00:16:16,200 gear, which was immediately disposed of there. 132 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,128 He fell into a deep coma while in the hospital. 133 00:16:20,128 --> 00:16:31,336 They'd done a CT scan, and the brain looked just like the one from Salford that Klaus had just shown us—the rat's brain. 134 00:16:31,336 --> 00:16:38,360 His brain was completely riddled with holes, and the worst part was: My husband could no longer be put on a ventilator. Why? 135 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:43,640 The diaphragm is a muscle that moves deeply as you inhale and exhale. 136 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,430 My husband's diaphragm was cramped. 137 00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:53,290 And no matter how much ventilation pressure was applied through the oxygen cannula, even if you laid him 138 00:16:53,290 --> 00:16:57,710 on his stomach, you couldn't ventilate him anymore. 139 00:16:57,710 --> 00:17:02,150 Yes. The kidneys have failed. Why? 140 00:17:02,150 --> 00:17:10,720 The kidneys are supplied by small renal vessels, which are in turn surrounded by muscles. 141 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,470 Because of the blockage, the kidneys could no longer filter blood. 142 00:17:15,470 --> 00:17:22,503 He had kidney failure. His lungs weren't getting any oxygen, etc., etc. 143 00:17:22,503 --> 00:17:28,600 Formula, everything. I fought for six weeks: “Please take him to another room.” 144 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:38,132 I went to the ethics committee. After six weeks, he moved from a room with 4,000 μW/m² to one where there was hardly anything. 145 00:17:38,132 --> 00:17:44,764 After three hours, they were able to put him on a ventilator. The next day, he began breathing on his 146 00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:49,316 own, and after a week, he was sitting in a wheelchair. 147 00:17:49,316 --> 00:17:58,450 We were able to start speech therapy, physical therapy, and everything else, and his kidney function improved quickly. 148 00:17:58,450 --> 00:18:03,717 I couldn't take him home—I had three school-age children and no caregiver, because he always needed to be 149 00:18:03,717 --> 00:18:07,363 suctioned, so we lived in a "ventilator shared apartment." 150 00:18:07,363 --> 00:18:13,816 As specified in the written contract: shielded room, no wireless. 151 00:18:13,816 --> 00:18:24,989 After two weeks, Birgit, the night nurse, came in: “I have a right to my Wi-Fi.” – Yes! 152 00:18:24,989 --> 00:18:32,056 I slept at my husband's place last night, had to be at the office at eight in the morning, and told Nurse Birgit: 153 00:18:32,056 --> 00:18:36,360 "Until 10:00 p.m., we'll keep the door closed; I'll do it myself." 154 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:45,152 "But then the Wi-Fi goes out, you're giving my husband a blowjob, and I have to work tomorrow." 155 00:18:45,152 --> 00:18:56,389 The alarm went off at two in the morning, and my husband was right where he had been before. He never recovered from that. 156 00:19:03,483 --> 00:19:11,584 Forty years ago, people with allergies were laughed at. You couldn't see allergens, 157 00:19:11,584 --> 00:19:16,376 Now we know that there are allergens, including a peanut allergy. 158 00:19:16,376 --> 00:19:21,800 And even if I don't have them, Klaus here can have them. 159 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,415 Now, people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity are being ridiculed. 160 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:34,556 But just because I don't have that problem doesn't prove that the other person doesn't have it either. 161 00:19:34,556 --> 00:19:39,450 And the treatment options—and I can tell you this—are really limited. 162 00:19:39,450 --> 00:19:46,400 I've tried many, many things, but the most important thing is exposure prophylaxis. 163 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:57,370 People need to step away from the radio first to catch their breath; their muscles need to relax, and then we can help 164 00:19:57,370 --> 00:20:02,880 by providing oxygen, vitamins, minerals, and other things. 165 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:09,622 But the most important thing—and I don't know of anyone for whom it's any different—is: Get off the radio. 166 00:20:09,622 --> 00:20:14,656 And then we have our tools here, just like I do here. 167 00:20:14,656 --> 00:20:21,990 You can't do without them. I've called them "as-needed medications." 168 00:20:27,909 --> 00:20:37,282 So, that means being electrohypersensitive—let me rephrase it: we could be symptom-free on public transportation, we 169 00:20:37,282 --> 00:20:46,943 could attend events, we could, we could—if just a few small conditions were met. And I did the math. 170 00:20:48,724 --> 00:21:00,837 If we are to believe the Australian study, 17% of adults are electrosensitive, that means there are 85 affected patients in a 171 00:21:00,837 --> 00:21:08,105 single hospital with 500 patients; if we divide that by three—since we have 172 00:21:08,105 --> 00:21:13,176 three-bed rooms—we end up with twenty-eight rooms. 173 00:21:13,176 --> 00:21:21,140 We could easily fill two wards with people suffering from environmentally induced illnesses—with doctors suffering 174 00:21:21,140 --> 00:21:30,551 from them, with nurses suffering from them—and while we wouldn't have solved our nursing shortage, we could alleviate it. 175 00:21:30,551 --> 00:21:34,177 The same applies to preschools; it applies to schools. 176 00:21:34,177 --> 00:21:40,387 Yes, we could be in a much better financial position, because most of us who are 177 00:21:40,387 --> 00:21:47,746 electrosensitive want to work. We want to be part of society. 178 00:21:47,746 --> 00:21:56,056 We discussed how it is possible to reduce radiation, and so I ask everyone: 179 00:21:56,056 --> 00:22:06,226 Please help raise awareness about electromagnetic hypersensitivity, so that we—and I speak for all of us—can once 180 00:22:06,226 --> 00:22:14,437 again have a place in society, and so that we can move toward a healthy future together and need 181 00:22:14,437 --> 00:22:19,313 fewer and fewer yellow chairs. Thank you for listening.