WEBVTT 00:00.398 --> 00:09.436 Once the radiation exposure was gone, normal blood flow values were clearly visible again in both cerebral arteries. 00:09.436 --> 00:15.658 In other words: narrowing of the blood vessels caused by radio waves. On my right side, on the other 00:15.658 --> 00:19.362 person's left, and maybe all over for other people. 00:19.362 --> 00:26.389 I was able to measure my heart rate using radiation exposure. And now things are getting interesting. 00:26.389 --> 00:38.723 We can see these peaks in the recordings here. And they correspond to the radiation peaks. 00:38.723 --> 00:48.976 Exposure to cell phone radiation also weakens the immune system because white blood cells are no longer as mobile. 00:48.976 --> 00:57.068 Forty years ago, people with allergies were laughed at. You couldn't see allergens. 00:57.068 --> 01:01.818 Now we know that allergies exist, including peanut allergies. 01:01.818 --> 01:07.300 And even if I don't have them, Klaus here can have them. 01:07.300 --> 01:11.910 Now, people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity are being ridiculed. 01:11.910 --> 01:19.090 But just because I don't have that problem doesn't prove that the other person doesn't have it either. 01:19.090 --> 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. 01:26.039 --> 01:31.040 She studied medicine at the University of Marburg, earned her doctorate there, and then worked as a 01:31.040 --> 01:34.585 resident in pediatric oncology at the University of Cologne. 01:34.585 --> 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 01:40.829 --> 01:44.803 the University of Texas and the Health Science Center in Houston. 01:44.803 --> 01:51.516 She has regularly worked on assignments abroad in the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Tanzania. 01:51.516 --> 01:59.075 Monika Krout ran her own natural-science-oriented practice as a specialist in general medicine and conducts research in the field 01:59.075 --> 02:03.939 of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, particularly on the relationship between heart 02:03.939 --> 02:06.776 rate variability and cellular radiation. 02:06.776 --> 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. 02:13.243 --> 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 02:17.798 --> 02:22.776 other animals—and is dedicated to preserving animal and plant species threatened with extinction. 02:22.776 --> 02:30.401 We’re really looking forward to dear Monika, to hear your presentation on the topic “Electrosensitive Refugees in Their Own 02:30.401 --> 02:37.096 Country,” in which you’ll also share your own very distressing experiences related to electrosensitivity and 02:37.096 --> 02:42.316 the death of your husband. I’d like to give you the floor. 02:59.392 --> 03:03.689 First of all, thank you for listening, and I hope everyone still has a little energy left 03:03.689 --> 03:07.478 to stick with me for the last twenty minutes. 03:07.478 --> 03:13.756 My topic is “Refugees in Their Own Country”—it’s just… well, for two reasons… I’m personally affected. 03:13.756 --> 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. 03:21.116 --> 03:25.272 With my inhaler, but I'm really here now. 03:25.272 --> 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 03:35.242 --> 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. 03:45.797 --> 03:54.784 Refugees in their own country. The symbol is a hummingbird inside a yellow heart, and that is the global symbol 03:54.784 --> 04:01.449 for us people with EHS—that’s what we call it for short. 04:01.449 --> 04:08.390 Yeah, I don't even know who actually knows what a hummingbird is or what amazing animals they are. 04:08.390 --> 04:17.690 When you study hummingbirds, you realize that they are the only animals that do not flee during a forest fire. 04:17.690 --> 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 04:26.474 --> 04:31.451 and brings back water drop by drop to put out the forest fire. 04:31.451 --> 04:33.675 And the idea came to me as I sat here. 04:33.675 --> 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 04:42.684 --> 04:48.762 dangers of cell phone radiation, harmful vaccines, and everything else—and I’m simply 04:48.762 --> 04:54.266 inviting our online listeners to be hummingbirds, too. 04:59.809 --> 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 05:07.791 --> 05:12.567 something, we should always approach it with heart. 05:12.567 --> 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 05:21.184 --> 05:30.912 do away with cell phones, but there are possible solutions, and that’s why we can work together. It’s possible. 05:30.912 --> 05:34.197 A little background: I find the color yellow fascinating. 05:34.197 --> 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 05:43.313 --> 05:48.505 canaries—yellow canaries—down into the mines in cages. 05:48.505 --> 05:57.447 And when they ran out of air, it became dangerous, and the miners had to get out of the mine. 05:57.447 --> 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 06:06.166 --> 06:15.360 serve as a small warning of what might happen to other people as well. Not necessarily—that’s important! 06:23.900 --> 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. 06:32.716 --> 06:38.896 For sleeping, for working. And basements can sometimes be creepy—not very nice. 06:38.896 --> 06:41.157 They flee from their apartments into the forest. 06:41.157 --> 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 06:48.884 --> 06:52.840 because I couldn't stand living with electricity anymore. 06:52.840 --> 07:02.440 I couldn't stand Funk, but I made it through again—I just barely made it. 07:02.440 --> 07:05.712 Many people are moving in search of a new place—where else can we go? 07:05.712 --> 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. 07:15.391 --> 07:21.023 We are teachers, we are doctors, we are early childhood educators, we are caregivers, we are construction 07:21.023 --> 07:25.668 workers—we have so many skills; we could be an asset. 07:25.668 --> 07:30.902 And some people see no other way out than to take their own lives. 07:30.902 --> 07:36.005 And that's exactly what happened with my husband—after the radiation dose was increased, 07:36.005 --> 07:38.755 he was cooking in the kitchen, and I told him: 07:38.755 --> 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 07:45.540 --> 07:50.424 anymore.” That was the beginning—at least in the movie. 07:50.424 --> 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. 08:03.315 --> 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?” 08:15.220 --> 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?" 08:21.760 --> 08:25.502 The Federal Office for Radiation Protection says it's all in the mind. 08:25.502 --> 08:34.063 And people said, “No, actually, we do have that problem.” And that’s the question we’re looking into now. 08:41.329 --> 08:51.757 Exactly, the yellow chair. Many of us couldn't get out anymore, and the yellow chair represents all the 08:51.757 --> 08:59.433 people around the world who would love to be here but can't. 09:02.651 --> 09:07.279 I'm a person; I come from a research background, and whenever I come across something, I 09:07.279 --> 09:09.852 always want to know: Is that true, or isn't it? 09:09.852 --> 09:14.857 And I'm always trying things out on myself, because then I can contribute to the conversation. 09:14.857 --> 09:23.483 So, what did I do? I got myself a long-term radio signal monitor. 09:23.483 --> 09:27.704 I sat down in our office, which was soundproofed. 09:27.704 --> 09:34.915 I called in a colleague who performed a Doppler ultrasound of the head, and I told him: 09:34.915 --> 09:41.871 "Please check the right middle cerebral artery and the left middle cerebral artery, and see if we can see 09:41.871 --> 09:47.942 anything when the office door opens and the signal comes in." 09:47.942 --> 09:59.904 Yes, he saw something—you can see these elongated peaks down below. 09:59.904 --> 10:10.496 These peaks indicate that every time the clinic door opened (four times), blood flow through my right middle 10:10.496 --> 10:21.224 cerebral artery decreased or stopped entirely—and this happened only on the right side, not the left. 10:21.224 --> 10:29.193 I could never have influenced that. Once the radiofrequency exposure was gone, you can clearly see normal blood flow 10:29.193 --> 10:38.094 values in both cerebral arteries again—which means the blood vessels were constricted due to the radiofrequency exposure. 10:38.094 --> 10:44.629 On my right, on the other person's left, and maybe all over the place for other people. 10:48.960 --> 11:02.109 Next attempt: I was here—I walked through the woods here and monitored my heart rate. 11:02.109 --> 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 11:12.582 --> 11:22.304 ECG; I also attached a dosimeter to their arms, which recorded data in parallel over the long term. 11:22.304 --> 11:31.640 That means I was able to measure my heart rate using radiation exposure. And now it gets interesting. 11:37.603 --> 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. 11:54.043 --> 12:03.140 With one exception: That's where my heart rate goes up—not because there was radiation there, but because 12:03.140 --> 12:12.800 there's a hill in the forest that wasn't as physically taxing for me as the radiation exposure. 12:12.800 --> 12:20.618 The same goes for llamas and alpacas—they can't tell a cell tower from a tree. 12:20.618 --> 12:28.220 Then my predecessor, Klaus, was kind enough to tell me about the blood tests. 12:28.220 --> 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. 12:35.740 --> 12:44.503 Then the industry came along and said, “Oh, come on—blood clotting happens because of the second blood draw.” 12:44.503 --> 12:48.243 And that's when I thought: You know what, let's do it differently. 12:48.243 --> 12:55.763 I draw blood, take two test tubes, and two cover slips. 12:55.763 --> 13:02.830 I'll turn off the radio on one glass, but not on the other—at the same time. 13:02.830 --> 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. 13:08.913 --> 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 13:19.018 --> 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. 13:36.763 --> 13:47.669 Okay, let's move on now, and in a moment we'll see the same blood sample from the same 13:47.669 --> 13:55.183 subject, collected at the same time—there it is. 13:55.183 --> 14:01.243 And here we can see the difference. The red blood cells are clumped together. 14:01.243 --> 14:09.193 We can still see our little white blood cell hidden in the middle of the cluster, but it’s 14:09.193 --> 14:13.396 not doing anything—or hardly anything at all. 14:13.396 --> 14:22.221 What this means is: Mobile phone radiation also weakens the immune system because white blood cells are no 14:22.221 --> 14:27.336 longer as mobile. Does that make sense? (Audience: Yes) 14:27.336 --> 14:36.095 All right, let's continue. Then a patient, an art teacher, came in and said: 14:36.095 --> 14:37.768 "You know, I'll paint you a beautiful picture." 14:37.768 --> 14:43.168 And I'm sharing this here with my thanks to the lady, in case she's watching. 14:43.168 --> 14:52.429 In the upper part of the image, we see a gas pump—perhaps not quite fitting for this era—and we 14:52.429 --> 14:58.144 see the healthy radiance, the healthy blood cells. 14:58.144 --> 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. 15:07.750 --> 15:12.103 In the lower part, we see the artificial radiation. 15:12.103 --> 15:21.794 The blood has clotted, so it naturally flows more slowly; the blood vessels are constricted and 15:21.794 --> 15:28.390 spasmodic—as Klaus put it so well—due to the influx of calcium. 15:28.390 --> 15:34.856 You remember the cellular calcium... it sends a signal to the cell: “Please, muscles, tense up.” 15:34.856 --> 15:39.703 The blood vessels are surrounded by muscles and contract. 15:39.703 --> 15:46.220 Blood flow to the heart, brain, and kidneys is significantly lower in the presence of cell 15:46.220 --> 15:50.056 phone signals, and people receive less oxygen. 15:50.056 --> 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. 15:57.203 --> 16:06.189 On that day, my husband said, “I can’t take it anymore!” and then suffered a stroke and epileptic seizures. 16:06.189 --> 16:11.776 I took him to the hospital against his will, with isolation blankets and protective 16:11.776 --> 16:16.200 gear, which was immediately disposed of there. 16:16.200 --> 16:20.128 He fell into a deep coma while in the hospital. 16:20.128 --> 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. 16:31.336 --> 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? 16:38.360 --> 16:43.640 The diaphragm is a muscle that moves deeply as you inhale and exhale. 16:43.640 --> 16:47.430 My husband's diaphragm was cramped. 16:47.430 --> 16:53.290 And no matter how much ventilation pressure was applied through the oxygen cannula, even if you laid him 16:53.290 --> 16:57.710 on his stomach, you couldn't ventilate him anymore. 16:57.710 --> 17:02.150 Yes. The kidneys have failed. Why? 17:02.150 --> 17:10.720 The kidneys are supplied by small renal vessels, which are in turn surrounded by muscles. 17:10.720 --> 17:15.470 Because of the blockage, the kidneys could no longer filter blood. 17:15.470 --> 17:22.503 He had kidney failure. His lungs weren't getting any oxygen, etc., etc. 17:22.503 --> 17:28.600 Formula, everything. I fought for six weeks: “Please take him to another room.” 17:28.600 --> 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. 17:38.132 --> 17:44.764 After three hours, they were able to put him on a ventilator. The next day, he began breathing on his 17:44.764 --> 17:49.316 own, and after a week, he was sitting in a wheelchair. 17:49.316 --> 17:58.450 We were able to start speech therapy, physical therapy, and everything else, and his kidney function improved quickly. 17:58.450 --> 18:03.717 I couldn't take him home—I had three school-age children and no caregiver, because he always needed to be 18:03.717 --> 18:07.363 suctioned, so we lived in a "ventilator shared apartment." 18:07.363 --> 18:13.816 As specified in the written contract: shielded room, no wireless. 18:13.816 --> 18:24.989 After two weeks, Birgit, the night nurse, came in: “I have a right to my Wi-Fi.” – Yes! 18:24.989 --> 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: 18:32.056 --> 18:36.360 "Until 10:00 p.m., we'll keep the door closed; I'll do it myself." 18:36.360 --> 18:45.152 "But then the Wi-Fi goes out, you're giving my husband a blowjob, and I have to work tomorrow." 18:45.152 --> 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. 19:03.483 --> 19:11.584 Forty years ago, people with allergies were laughed at. You couldn't see allergens, 19:11.584 --> 19:16.376 Now we know that there are allergens, including a peanut allergy. 19:16.376 --> 19:21.800 And even if I don't have them, Klaus here can have them. 19:21.800 --> 19:26.415 Now, people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity are being ridiculed. 19:26.415 --> 19:34.556 But just because I don't have that problem doesn't prove that the other person doesn't have it either. 19:34.556 --> 19:39.450 And the treatment options—and I can tell you this—are really limited. 19:39.450 --> 19:46.400 I've tried many, many things, but the most important thing is exposure prophylaxis. 19:46.400 --> 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 19:57.370 --> 20:02.880 by providing oxygen, vitamins, minerals, and other things. 20:02.880 --> 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. 20:09.622 --> 20:14.656 And then we have our tools here, just like I do here. 20:14.656 --> 20:21.990 You can't do without them. I've called them "as-needed medications." 20:27.909 --> 20:37.282 So, that means being electrohypersensitive—let me rephrase it: we could be symptom-free on public transportation, we 20:37.282 --> 20:46.943 could attend events, we could, we could—if just a few small conditions were met. And I did the math. 20:48.724 --> 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 21:00.837 --> 21:08.105 single hospital with 500 patients; if we divide that by three—since we have 21:08.105 --> 21:13.176 three-bed rooms—we end up with twenty-eight rooms. 21:13.176 --> 21:21.140 We could easily fill two wards with people suffering from environmentally induced illnesses—with doctors suffering 21:21.140 --> 21:30.551 from them, with nurses suffering from them—and while we wouldn't have solved our nursing shortage, we could alleviate it. 21:30.551 --> 21:34.177 The same applies to preschools; it applies to schools. 21:34.177 --> 21:40.387 Yes, we could be in a much better financial position, because most of us who are 21:40.387 --> 21:47.746 electrosensitive want to work. We want to be part of society. 21:47.746 --> 21:56.056 We discussed how it is possible to reduce radiation, and so I ask everyone: 21:56.056 --> 22:06.226 Please help raise awareness about electromagnetic hypersensitivity, so that we—and I speak for all of us—can once 22:06.226 --> 22:14.437 again have a place in society, and so that we can move toward a healthy future together and need 22:14.437 --> 22:19.313 fewer and fewer yellow chairs. Thank you for listening.