Some people who research disease say the electricity that powers our everyday conveniences like light bulbs and cell phones is also causing an unintentional side effect.
Dr. Sam Milham says he's spent forty years trying to make people listen. Search dirty electricity in YouTube and it seems they finally are.
Milham says, "If you've got electric in your house, you're getting exposed. Every office every building every house has got this and all the electric junk we're adding to the system is making the dirty electricity worse."
Milham's new book -- "Dirty Electricity -- theorizes electrical pollution is the answer to numerous medical mysteries. He says eating right and exercising are good, but they will not protect you from electrical exposure.
Milham said, "We've heard about lifestyle being responsible for diseases. Don't believe it. It's all caused by EMF." EMF stands for electro magnetic fields.
Milham says they're created by the power running through your home, cell phone, and everyday appliances like computers or wireless internet routers.
Milham believes these invisible forces are causing cancer, diabetes, increases to the suicide rate, and more. "I figured the only way anything's going to happen is to get the public outraged enough to do something about it."
Electrical frequencies should stay between 50 to 60 hertz but they don't. Using a special tool, a YouTube video shows a man finding frequencies exceeding 1000. The dirty electricity theory says: the higher the frequency the more dangerous. But how many people are buying it?
It seems people, like much of the medical world, remain split. Some think it's hysteria over something that's not proven. Milham says, "I'm kind of worried that another epidemic is coming down the pipe."
We asked Milham what steps he takes to minimize his exposure. He says never put a cell phone against your head when talking, or carry it against your body while it's turned on. Don't use a laptop computer on your lap. Plasma TVs produce high levels of dirty electricity, as do variable speed motors for furnaces.
