Red Light Therapy Devices and EMF Fraud
Fear-Mongering 60 Hz EMF Using Baseless Assumptions
Some unethical companies suggest that the EMF emitted from RLT devices “may” be detrimental to your health.
Mains-powered devices and appliances generate low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF). We will focus on the lower, 50–60 Hz portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in this article. EMF can occur at three different frequencies: extremely low frequency (ELF), moderate frequency (IF), and radiofrequency (RF).
How does ELF-EMF possibly affect the human body?
For many years the biological effects of EMF and its implications for human health have been a subject of intense public discussion. A situation fuelled by a series of epidemiological reports that reported harmful effects of EMF on human health.
According to some epidemiological researchers, 50/60 Hz electric and magnetic fields (ELF-EMFs), chronic and long-term exposure in the region of 0.3 to 0.4 uT ( 3 to 4 milligauss) doubled the rate of childhood leukemia. However, these studies didn’t hold up to scrutiny due to selection bias and animal studies that failed to confirm the original epidemiological research.