Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Damn, there's too many people making jokes about the substation on Twitter for there not to be some truth to the theories.
I've been doing some more research that possbily explains why Lynch's study came back with with linkage between the substation and the injuries. There is a real factal linkiage that needs to be investigative, as the study that John Lynch obtain likely, based onj current US EMF safety standards, miss the impotance of EMF caiused oxidative stress.
Current US safety standards focus only on thermal heating of the skin. There is no consideration as to how they effect the entire complex biological system of a human being. One of the issues that is coming to the fore is the amount of oxidative stress caused by EMF. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between unstable molecules called free radicals and protective molecules called antioxidants in the body, which leads to cell and tissue damage. When free radicals outnumber antioxidants, they steal electrons from healthy cells, harming proteins, lipids, and DNA.
https://naturopathic.org/news/699247/What-Is-Oxidative-Stress-Causes-And-How-To-Reduce-It-According-To-Experts.htm
Athletes are under high levels of oxidative stress due to the strenuous physical activity they experience...
Skeletal muscle is continuously exposed during its activities to mechanical/oxidative damage. Normal activity induces physiological adaptations that allow the muscle to counteract oxidative stress, but intense activity can have negative repercussions at a cellular and functional level. Excessive stretching and intensive exercise can cause a rupture of myofibril filaments, leading to the loss of skeletal muscle function through the failure of the excitation–contraction coupling system.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10299531/
EMF radiation causes oxidative stress
Most animal and many cell studies showed increased oxidative stress caused by RF-EMF and ELF-MF. In order to estimate the risk for human health by manmade exposure, experimental studies in humans and epidemiological studies need to be considered as well.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8038719/
Here is an ai search...I asked Is oxidative stress factored into current US EMF safety standards
No, oxidative stress and other non-thermal biological effects are not factored into current US safety standards set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). [1]
The Basis of Current Standards
Thermal focus: US regulations (and international bodies like ICNIRP) rely strictly on tissue heating (thermal effects) as the threshold for harm from radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. [1, 2]
Established limits: Safety limits—such as Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) limits—are designed solely to prevent excessive localized or whole-body heating. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Exclusion of non-thermal science: Regulatory agencies maintain that there is no consistent, replicable, or established scientific consensus proving adverse health effects from low-intensity, non-heating (non-thermal) exposures. [1, 2, 3]
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=is+oxidative+stress+factored+into+current+US+EMF+safety+standards&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
So, let's put this all together...The current US safety standards do not take ito account oxidative stress at all. Yet.....
Excessive stretching and intensive exercise can cause a rupture of myofibril filaments, leading to the loss of skeletal muscle function through the failure of the excitation–contraction coupling system.
Most animal and many cell studies showed increased oxidative stress caused by RF-EMF and ELF-MF. In order to estimate the risk for human health by manmade exposure, experimental studies in humans and epidemiological studies need to be considered as well.
So it is totally logical that athletes who are already under immense oxidative stress, stress, which already causes damage to muscle fibers, would be much further stressed by both RF -EMF and ELF-EMF.
Which....
can cause a rupture of myofibril filaments, leading to the loss of skeletal muscle function through the failure of the excitation–contraction coupling system
Sure seems like something that needs to be considered in a whole new light...and if there is even chance that this EMF oxidative stress is part of this...they should move practices far away from the electrical substation or acquire proven EMF mititation technologies...
