Electromagnetic fields can cause serious damage to tissues, especially body tissues rich in lipids like the brain and nervous system. Vitamin E and Carotenoids are fat-soluble antioxidants which can provide some measure of protection against the massive exposure to EMF's people are experiencing today. Note the importance of antioxidants in the following quote from an article on the oxidative damage EMF's can cause in biological tissue.
"In brief, EMF exposure has been shown to cause high oxidative
stress-induced biological damage, manifested by a substantial increase
of peroxidized lipids, oxidized proteins and fragmented/nicked DNA.
Substantial decrease has been also documented in the antioxidant defense
mechanisms, i.e., in the activity of crucial antioxidant enzymes and in
the concentration of endogenous antioxidants. Exogenous antioxidants and inhibitors of certain ROS/RNS-producing enzymes reversed all these effects,
which is another strong evidence for the causative relation between
oxidative stress and EMF exposure. EMF-induced oxidative stress.
References:
Georgiou,
Christos, Oxidative stress-induced biological damage by low-level EMFs:
mechanism of free radical pair electron spin-polarization and
biochemical amplification, Eur. J. Oncol. Library, vol. 5 63. In Non-thermal effects and mechanisms of interaction between electromagnetic fields and living matter.
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