Spain recognizes electromagnetic sensitivity as a cause of permanent disability

by | Sep 12, 2011 | Electrical Sensitivity News, NEWS | 0 comments


EHS can be a cause of permanent disabilitysource: noticiasmedicas.es
The Labour Court in Madrid, Spain recently declared a college professor permanently disabled by the waves from mobile phones. The professor suffers from chronic fatigue and environmental and electromagnetic hypersensitivity. The ruling is a first of its kind in Spain and sets a precedent for future cases of people disabled by electromagnetic radiation. The verdict was issued on May 23, 2011 and gave the professor 100% of his base salary.

Also in May, representatives from Spain and other European countries met with the World Health Organization (WHO) to request, among other things, that WHO classify electromagnetic sensitivity as a disease in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The group agreed that it is a complex issue, as electromagnetic sensitivity is a multi-system condition that is often difficult to classify as a concrete pathology within a specific medical specialty. If these countries are successful, they will lead the way for their American counterparts to get electromagnetic sensitivity included in the U.S. ICD classification system.

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  • Julie Genser, founder of Planet Thrive

    Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

    Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

    A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

    She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

    In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.

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