Biological Effects of EMF by Prof Olle Johansson and Davida Van Der Walt

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EMF AS PER THE INITIATIVE REPORT

by Prof Olle Johansson and Davida Van Der Walt

Histamine sensitivity is a key feature of MCAS, a condition where mast cells release too many chemical mediators, including histamine, in response to triggers. Unlike histamine intolerance, which is a reduced ability to break down dietary histamine, MCAS involves the overactivation of mast cells themselves, leading to a broader range of symptoms caused by the release of histamine and other substances like leukotrienes and prostaglandins.

People with MCAS can experience a wide variety of symptoms affecting multiple body systems, which may be worsened by histamine-rich foods, but also by stress, temperature changes, and certain medications.

Biographies

Olle Johansson

Olle Johansson is a professor, retired from the Karolinska Institute (in Nov 2017, still active), Department of Neuroscience, head of The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Stockholm, Sweden, and previously at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, upholding positions as an assistant professor, associate professor, guest professor and adjunct professor, in basic and applied neuroscience. The Karolinska Institute and the Royal Institute of Technology are famous for their associations with the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics.

He has a long background in the neurosciences and has coauthored – together with his supervisor assistant professor Tomas Hökfelt and many others, including Nobel Laureates – up to the presentation of his doctoral thesis 143 original papers, reviews, book chapters and conference abstracts, a publication record hard to beat! His doctoral thesis at the Karolinska Institute was entitled “Peptide Neurons in the Central and Peripheral Nervous System. Light and Electron Microscopic Studies”. He has participated in more than 300 congresses, symposia and meetings as an invited speaker, and with free contributions and as an invited ‘observer’ at an additional 200. His studies have been widely recognized in the public media, including newspapers, radio and TV as well as on the Internet, both nationally as well as internationally, and he is a regular interview guest in magazines, journals, tabloids and newspapers, as well as in radio shows, TV programmes and in the Internet-based news blogs and websites.

Olle Johansson is a world-leading authority in the field of EMF radiation and health effects. Among many achievements he coined the term “screen dermatitis” which later on was developed into the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity which recognition mainly is due to his work. He has published more than 800 original articles, reviews, book chapters and conference reports within the fields of basic and applied neuroscience, dermatoscience, epidemiology, and biophysics, and is one of the authors behind the original Bioinitiative Report, including the chapters that were published – following peer review – in the journal “Pathophysiology” (2009), as well as the Seletun Statement, The London Resolution, The Benevento Resolution and The Venice Resolution. He has received a number of awards, including the Nokia Consumer Electronics Award, The Grand Environment Award of the Cancer and Allergy Foundation, the SIF Award, Tandvårdsskadeförbundets Pris, and many more.

He has on-going international scientific collaborations with, i.a., Switzerland, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Malaysia, Uruguay, Canada, and the USA.

Davida Van Der Walt

Davida is an Industrial Psychologist who has since 2018 been a promoter of integrative health, supporting those with autoimmune disease to find the root cause of their illness. After developing electrohypersensitivity herself, working with experts such as Prof Johansson, she developed protocols for helping persons with electrohypersensitivity (EHS) to live a normal life, by once again addressing the root cause.

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