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"Is EMF Cooking Your Mitochondria?"
“Dr. Martha Herbert and activist Camilla Rees warn about a new set of proposed bills that would place 5G telecom towers every 750 feet, overturning local limitations on siting these dangerous structures. They explain what 5G and other EMF fields do to plants, insects, animals, and humans. From brain damage and higher cancer rates to diabetes symptoms and systemic damage at the cellular level, they make the case that these technologies create an environment in which we cannot possibly thrive. The new bills pose an existential threat. Four-alarm warning: take action. View the complete bios of our guests below.”
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Camilla Rees, MBA is a former financial industry executive in Corporate Finance, venture investing and Corporate Communications who has more recently been a researcher, author, and producer on technology risks focused on biological and health risks from electromagnetic fields.
She has studied widely in medical, scientific, complementary and alternative medicine, health enhancement and self-empowerment fields for thirty years and also serves as a personal and business consultant to change agents, using her Wide Angle Health TM framework. Camilla founded Manhattan Neighbors for Safer Telecommunications, ElectromagneticHealth.org, Campaign for Radiation Free Schools and co-founded the International EMF Alliance, in Oslo, Norway. She is Senior Policy Advisor to the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she has overseen policy papers on electromagnetic fields, the smart grid and telecommunications, including the landmark “Re-Inventing Wires: The Future of Landlines and Networks”. This paper explains why hard-wired, fiber optics to the premises (FTTP) is superior to wireless access networks, and the safer alternative to 5G.
In 2025, she co-authored a paper with Richard Lear, “Safety of Wireless Technologies--The Scientific View” which explained that unheeded warnings in a U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute review study in 1971, which found 132 different biological effects, symptoms and diseases associated with wireless exposures, has significantly contributed to the explosion in chronic illnesses in the U.S. since 1990. Twenty-three of the fastest growing chronic illnesses today were identified in the Navy report as being associated with electromagnetic field exposures.
Today, Camilla is co-leading a collaborative initiative among 100+ health and environmental advocacy groups aimed at dismantling Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which took away state and local rights to influence the siting of cell towers and antennas on health and environmental grounds. “No More TM” was initiated by Children’s Health Defense to restore state and local control over cell towers and antennas, and legal recourse to injured parties. The coalition is also focused on new proposed FCC rules and certain bills in Congress which aim to further strip local rights over cell towers and antennas so cell towers and antennas can go up wherever the industry would like with no hearings and no local resistance.
Camilla has organized dozens of expert panels on technology risks across the country for over a decade, including several groundbreaking programs on special risks to children, and has presented six times at the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum. She has also spoken at several medical conferences offering continuing education credits (CEUs) for physicians and serves on the advisory Board of the Building Biology Institute.
Camilla is an award-winning health and environmental activist, having received the “2018 Award in Public Health” from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicines, and “The Jonathan Forman Award” from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, its most prestigious award for outstanding contribution in the field of
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