Medical practitioner and mother of two, Dr Pri Bandara joins me today to share the impact of wireless technologies on our health. Pri shares her personal story that highlights some rather disturbing information we all need to take notice of.

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Unstress episode with Nicole Bijlsma on healthy homes

Unstress episode with Kate Harris on good environmental choices

Unstress episode with Alexx Stuart on low tox living

Unstress episode with Professor Marc Cohen on understanding toxicity

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Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Hello and welcome to Unstress, I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Today's episode affects everyone, and I mean everyone. From fetuses in vitro to infants, children, teenagers and adults alike. We are all connected, so we are all affected. The topic is radiation, specifically, radio frequency radiation or electromagnetic radiation of which microwave radiation as in wifi radiation is part. Now, from the beginning of time, we have been exposed to radiation. The Sun is literally the big one, and we all know it's life-giving. Without the Sun, not many lives, not very long anyway and of course, we know too much of it can cause cell dysfunction, which many of us know as cancer.

Well, the last 30 or 40 years has seen some huge additions to our electromagnetic exposure and total load as you will hear. My guest today is a medical practitioner and mother of two Dr Pri Bandara. Pri beautifully introduces today's episode, tells a compelling personal story and goes on to share some rather disturbing information we all need to take notice of. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr Pri Bandara.

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Welcome to the show Pri.

Dr Pri Bandara:             Thank you, Ron. It's a great pleasure to be taking part.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Thank you. Well, I've been looking forward to this conversation since we first talked about this. Our subject today is something that everyone, whether they like it or not, is part of so this is important for every single person but I wondered if you might share with our listener a little bit about your own background. What brought you to this point professionally?

Dr Pri Bandara:             Okay. Our topic today is going to be about the health impact of wireless technologies, and particularly the agent radio frequency radiation, particularly microwave radiation emanating from all things wireless that we use very commonly these days. How I ended up with research in this area, it's actually a fascinating story that I think is important sharing with your audience. I was an academic clinical and basic researcher. I worked for the faculty of medicine at UNSW first, and then at Sydney Uni where I've been based at Westmead and [inaudible 00:02:48] hospitals, I took a break from my career with my first bub and subsequently join the Westmead Children's Hospital.

Dr Pri Bandara:             Though I had never planned to give up my academic career. I was compelled to in 2008. Because my second bub was unwell. I would like to take a few minutes to go into little details about his story.

Dr Ron Ehrlich:             Sure.

Dr Pri Bandara:             He was very unsettled from infancy, colicky, unable to sleep, crying and vomiting too much all the time. He was put on anti-reflux medications at six months of age and they went till until he was about three years. Gastroscopy at I think it was about two years showed that his upper GI tract was fine and there was no apparent reason for the cause for his chronic reflux disease. His insomnia was terrible. Even by three years, he was unable to sleep, everyday past, he would wake up around midnight, and would cry till dawn. Then he would crash out of exhaustion and this happened on a daily basis and caused an enormous amount of mental and physical stress to my husband and me.