Does human hair provide protection against microwaves?
I'm sensitive to microwave radiation. Using mobile phones feels like a punch to the brain - reeling after a "chat" so avoid it at all costs as best as I can and their buddies like Wi-fi, because they cause all kinds of inconveniences. Couldn't help, but think about ways of protection.
That article on Sott.net came to mind about long haired indian (native american) soldiers in the military having demonstrated extra-sensory skills during reconnaissance missions. Long hair allowed them to sense aspects about the enemy, whereabouts, etc.. As soon as they cut their hair short, like everyone in the military, they lost this ability. The scientist researching this topic announced his wife he will no longer cut his hair and explained why.
Then I thought about Gurdjieff mentioning long haired women having the ability or have greater chances maintaining the health of their reproductive system. So long hair definitely seems to be important for known and unknown reasons.
What if hair has some microwave protection?
Looked up EMF shielding on the net, protective clothing, canopies over the bed, curtains, the fabrics all these with metal woven into them. Paint containing metal particles to cover a house. Read about Faraday cages. Then thought if hair contains metals, could it give some protection against microwaves?
Turns out hair contains a lot of metals. Unfortunately the principle of propagation of microwaves is they can get through everything that has a bigger hole in it than microwave wavelength. Furthermore microwaves have a lot of finesse: they can find the smallest hole where they can get through. A cap made using microwace-absorption mesh and human hair doesn't cover 100% of our head or skin. A Faraday-cage - made of metal - must be completely sealed, without bigger holes to provide 100% protection from microwaves. So I might be a lot better protected using silk bed sheets and a metal-mesh canopy bed-cover and walls covered by special paint mixed with microwave absorbing metal-particles or sleep in a cave deep underneath. Hair obviously doesn't cover 100% of our head so microwaves get in very well and reach the brain causing most of the symptoms described on the internet. Not mentioning the harmful effect of all parts of the body, also during sleep.
Natural microwave blockers:
The harmful effect of microwaves is diminished by about 10 decibels just because the protective properties of walls. That is however not near enough! Speaking of building walls, I heard iron reinforced concrete isn't too bad. Unfortunately there is a microwave-oven effect switched on when using mobile phone in the car and anything resembling a car = metal container. Also when your cell phone has difficulties getting a good signal it transmits super-strong microwaves outward that bombard and fry your brain, all this to create a good signal strength for you so the other party can understand what you are saying: the harmful effect of microwave radiation is thus multiplied. That's why sensible people and writers at Sott warned squeezing phones to your head and best is to hold the device with two fingers only so it touches as less of you as possible. Using headsets and keeping the cell-phone away at a distance is also a good idea.
Caves naturally and any location where you do not get a signal are ideal for people sensitive to microwave radiation. That's why some sensitive people move where there are no cell towers or where signals are blocked in a natural way. Theoretically, people living in Hollow Earth and not using any cell-phone towers or similar tech ought to be free of microwave radiation. Yeah, i know.. i wouldn't go there either.
Anyway, speaking theoretically again, since hair does not cover all our bodies so its protection is questionable, I found several papers analyzing hair metal content. Human hair contains most of the metals the industry uses to create raw materials for microwave-shielding. Microwave-shielding is also called absorption. Engineers often enhance these materials on the atomic level to increase absorption rate, using Yttrium ions to boost the properties of absorbing materials for example. Human hair contains a number non-toxic and toxic metals, from natural sources such as diet and unnatural sources, because of environmental pollution. To my astonishment, a sales company recruiting manager told our assembled crowd of applicants in 2010 that during walking and commuting to the workplace in polluted cities large amounts of lead particles stick to our hairs. Lot of people do not to wash their hair daily so toxic lead remains there. Can it seep into our bodies?
Human hair contains metals like: zinc, iron, copper, nickel, cadmium, manganese, lead, uranium, strontium, cesium, mercury, bromine, selenium, calcium*, magnesium*, sodium*, potassium*, etc... The metals marked by * are washed out most easily when you clean your hair.
In more detail:
Human hair contains: zinc (not considered toxic) [zinc is in nutrition, electronics, cars, hardware, paints, rubbers, cosmetics, plastics, ink, soap, batteries, pharmaceuticals, dials, fluorescent lights, etc..etc..etc..], iron, copper [cookware, copper compounds which aren't same as copper! in algicides, pesticides, pure copper in plumbing and coins], nickel [from hydrogenated vegetable oils, ceramics, magnets, batteries], cadmium Cd toxic [food(rice in China for example, smoke from copper smeltery, zinc smeltery), electroplating, batteries, nuclear reactors, color television that uses phosphor tech], manganese [from nutrition and environmental toxins], lead [sticks to your hair in polluted city air filled with engine exhaust, ingestion of lead containing foods], uranium DU [living in or near war zones = radioactive toxicity from environment], Strontium [was used in glass for color television picture tubes, magnets, Strontium-90 in nuclear devices, Strontium-90 you can get from nuclear disasters like Fukushima], Cesium [atomic clocks, photoelectric cells, medicine, Cesium-134 & Cesium-137 are artificially created (not-natural) you can get from nuclear disasters like Fukushima], mercury [toxic environment and diet], bromine[environmental toxin], selenium[also from Se containing hair medications], calcium*, magnesium*, sodium*, potassium*. The metals marked by * are washed out most easily when you clean your hair.
References:
#1:
Carbonyl iron powder for microwave absorption in EMI shielding and radar applications
#2:
http://libra.msra.cn/Publication/22620643/factors-affecting-the-trace-metal-content-of-human-hair
#3:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/manganese.htm
#4:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/nickel.htm
#5:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/copper.htm
#6:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/zinc.htm
#7:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/strontium.htm
#8:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/cadmium.htm
#9: Cesium
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele055.html
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1064-CESIUM.aspx?activeIngredientId=1064&activeIngredientName=CESIUM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#Cesium-134_.26_Cesium-137_soil-radiation-map
#10: Distribution of uranium and some selected trace metals in human scalp hair from Balkans.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22940792
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/08/31/rpd.ncs225.abstract
#11:
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v64/n5/abs/5617273a.html
#12:
Metallic Elements in Hair as a Biomarker of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollution:
A Preliminary Investigation in Hubei Province
Lin Kuangfei, 1 Xiang Yaling, 1 Liu Xuefeng, 1 Wu Zuoli, 1 Sandra G. F .
Bukkens,2·3• • Mila Tomma seo, 4 and Maurizio G. PaolettiS
#13:
"Zinc In Hair Of The Middle Pomerania Human Population (Poland)"
Piotr Trojanowski1, Jan Trojanowski2, Małgorzata Bokiniec, Józef Antonowicz, Czesława Trojanowska.
Institute of Biology and Environmental Protection Pomeranian University in Słupsk.
(49-65 2009)
#14:
Microwave Absorbing Properties of zinc:
"Nickel-Zinc Ferrite/Multiwalled Nanotube Thermoplastic Natural Rubber Composites" http://www.scientific.net/AMR.501.24
Synthesis of zinc oxide particles coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Dielectric properties, electromagnetic interference shielding and microwave absorption
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025540812001729
#15:
Nanotribological Characterization Of Human Hair And Skin
Using Atomic Force Microscopy (Afm) by Carmen Anthony LaTorre, B.S.
