Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens

03/06/2026

My doctor would personally never live next to a cell tower due to health effects.

With the proliferation of cell towers being built in residential neighborhoods and harming us due to 24/7 RF EMF exposure without our consent, doctors should also update their intake forms.

It would make diagnosing that sudden onset headache, nausea, insomnia, tinnitus, dizziness, palpitations and more easier when our health professionals can see the whole picture.

People are harmed everyday from cell tower installations. Our doctors and nurses are now attending medical conferences on wireless harms, and doctors are now being taught about enviromental harms in medical school. So isn't it time all physicians updated their forms to reflect this knowledge?

03/04/2026

Shacktown neighbors near the cell tower are experiencing these issues and have documented and publically reported about them.

And no, it's not the FCC's job to help us.

"New insights into the link between EMFs, calcium and Alzheimer’s disease

For almost a quarter of a century, researchers have been studying and publishing on the effect of calcium on Alzheimer's Disease. Research has led to the development of the calcium hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease, which argues that Alzheimer's is caused by excessive intracellular calcium.

Calcium causes changes to the brain

Calcium build-up in cells results in diverse range of changes in the brain. There are two significant changes that develop conditions for Alzheimer's disease.

1. Specific increases in the amyloid precursor protein, BACE1 and amyloid beta protein aggregates
2. Less specific neurodegenerative changes including hyperphosphorylated tau protein and neurofibrillary tangles, cell death produced by apoptosis or by destructive autophagy, synaptic dysfunction produced by changes in neuronal structures required for synapsis between brain neurons, oxidative stress and inflammation

EMFs and calcium build up
Pulsed electronically generated electromagnetic fields (EMFs) used for wireless communication are coherent producing strong electric and magnetic forces that act in the cells of our bodies primarily via activation of voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs). VGCC activation produces rapid increases in intracellular calcium levels. Therefore, EMF exposures produce changes with lead to excessive intracellular calcium. This buildup explains the effects on the brain in Alzheimer's disease.
These EMF induced changes to intracellular calcium levels have been demonstrated in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. Research has shown the involvement of two pathways that lead to Alzheimer's disease. Each of the two pathways producing pathophysiological effects following EMF exposure are important in Alzheimer's causation: the excessive calcium signaling pathway and the peroxynitrite/oxidative stress/inflammation pathway.

Professor Martin L. Pall, at the Washington State University has been studying this phenomenon for a decade. "EMFs act via peak electric and time varying magnetic forces at a nanosecond time scale.", says Professor Pall. Such peaks are vastly increased with each increase in pulse modulation produced by smarter cell phones, smart meters, smart cities and radar in self driving vehicles. "Any of these may produce the ultimate nightmare – extremely early onset Alzheimer's Disease."
These findings provide powerful evidence that EMFs can cause Alzheimer's disease. Human and animal studies add still more evidence to the calcium hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease.

A look at some more evidence

Professor Pall summarizes the evidence in a recent review in Current Alzheimer Research.

Human genetic and pharmacological studies show that elevated VGCC activity causes increased Alzheimer's incidence. Consequently, it is not just calcium that is important. VGCC activity, which is directly greatly increased by EMF exposure, is also important in causing Alzheimer's.

12 recent occupational exposure assessments have found that people having occupational EMF exposures have higher Alzheimer's incidence. Some studies suggest that EMFs shorten the normal 25-year latency period of Alzheimer's disease.
Earlier occupational exposure studies (in the 1970s and 1980s) showed that neurological / neuropsychiatric reported effects, associated with EMF exposures, developed cumulatively, such that longer times of exposure to the same EMFs, produced more severe effects. This parallels cumulative effects in neurodegeneration.
The age of onset of Alzheimer's has decreased over the past 20 years or so, with the timing corresponding to the large recent increases in wireless communication EMF exposures. Recent studies report age 30 to 40 Alzheimer's cases.

Very young people who are exposed to cell phone or Wi-Fi radiation for many hours per day may develop digital dementia.

El-Swefy et al, in 2008, showed that 2 hours per day very low intensity mobile phone base station (cell phone tower) radiation produced massive neurodegeneration of the brains of young rats. 34% of the brain cells died in 4 weeks. 11 measured brain changes and 4 observed behavioral changes were each greatly lowered by the VGCC calcium channel blocker amlodipine. These findings show is that EMFs most of us are exposed to every day, acted via VGCC activation to produce universal massive, extraordinarily rapid neurodegeneration in young rats. The researchers did not examine any Alzheimer's specific brain changes.

However, Jiang et al. (2013 & 2016) looked at EMF pulses in rats found Alzheimer's specific changes but also some less specific changes in the hippocampus, a brain region which is heavily impacted in Alzheimer's. Jiang 2013 exposed rats to a series of EMF pulses in one day to 2-month old rats, finding apparent universal Alzheimer's effects in 20 month old rats (roughly the equivalent of 42-year-old humans coming down with near universal Alzheimer's). The 2016 paper exposed the rats to EMF pulses once a day, causing Alzheimer's at 10 months of age (similar to 21-year-old people with extremely early onset Alzheimer's). Both El-Swefy and Jiang found massive neurodegeneration in young rats simply from exposing them to EMF pulses.

What needs to be done?

Three types of studies are urgently needed to be performed by independent scientists:

1. Brain marker surveys of Alzheimer's disease and MRI brain scans for abnormalities among young people who show signs of digital dementia.

2. EMF exposures assessments for pre-diagnosis environments for people aged 30 to 40 who have been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. These assessments should compare phone and cell phone tower radiation, Wi-Fi radiation, smart meter and dirty electricity radiation levels with normal controls.

3. Examinations for early signs of Alzheimer's disease among people living near small cell antennae for a year or more.

Findings from each of these studies should be shared with the general public, so that everyone can take the steps necessary to reduce the incidence of early-onset Alzheimer's disease."
Professor Martin L. Pall, Washington State University"

Source:
Bentham Science Publishers
Journal reference:
Martin, P.L., et al. (2022) Low intensity electromagnetic fields act via voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) activation to cause very early onset Alzheimer's disease: 18 distinct types of evidence. Current Alzheimer Research. doi.org/10.2174/1567205019666220202114510.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220426/New-insights-into-the-link-between-EMFs-calcium-and-Alzheimere28099s-disease.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0OQo5RfOyTIrX6EEhTjsm8gGtgnTr2hXD_KpdHUq4CHpPyu2eNJEOrFJc

03/04/2026

🚨BREAKING STUDY: Living Near a Cell Tower Linked to White Blood Cell Elevation Comparable to SMOKING

24% of residents living within 60 meters of a tower had abnormally high immune cell counts and over 50% of heavy phone users suffered the same — a signal of BIOLOGICAL STRESS.

Researchers didn’t rely on surveys or symptoms. They drew blood, measured radiofrequency exposure inside participants’ homes, and analyzed complete immune cell profiles.

The findings were striking:

⚠️RF exposure from nearby towers predicted elevated monocytes — a key inflammatory white blood cell — at levels comparable to smoking.

⚠️Nearly 1 in 4 residents near towers had immune markers above clinical limits

⚠️More than half of heavy mobile phone users (4–6 hrs/day) showed the same abnormal immune signal

⚠️The majority affected were under 30 years old

White blood cells rise when the body detects stress from toxins, inflammation, or environmental exposures. When these immune markers cross clinical limits, it signals the body is reacting.

As the authors concluded:

“These results indicate human biological systems are under stress from both mobile phone use and local mobile phone tower exposures.”

03/03/2026

The RF from cell towers cause DNA damage at levels considered safe by the 1996's antiquated, non biologically based FCC guidelines.

This needs to change. Not in a year, or five years, but now. Doctors are speaking. We need to listen and take action.

03/02/2026

NEWS ALERT! Sutherland Elementary School parents in South Chicago said NO to Cingular/AT&T and Verizon cell tower lease renewals. The Local School Council voted 10-0 to protect their children from the constant radiation they were exposed to during the school day.

Parents are Powerful - JUST SAY NO to wireless antennas on
school properties!

https://www.beverlyreview.net/news/community_news/article_c7be4104-997a-11ec-9d49-8bc5438dd3e8.html

03/02/2026

Verizon disabled comments after customers posted warnings to other subscribers that this was a lie.

The matter escalated when Verizon dragged T-Mobile to court.

Gosh, sounds familiar...

PhoneArena

T-Mobile is accusing Verizon of luring customers into stores with false promises to upsell them on pricey products.

03/01/2026

Shelburne, MA can do it, anyone can, too. It is the same FCC, but Shelburne's legal council is pro residents protecting their homes, health, residential zoning, property values and viewshed. Great Barrington and West Stockbridge MA have protective setbacks, too!

Every municipal lawyer should be obligated to tell a municipality exactly what it can and should do to protect its constituents.

Read Shelburne's telecom ordinance here (start at section 16):
https://townofshelburne.com/files/A__Shelburne_Zoning_Bylaw_May_2018.pdf

03/01/2026

02/28/2026

When a father loses his daughter due to a brain tumor and he is the Editor of Integrated Cancer & Oncology News and he calls for wireless protections, we need to listen and take action.

Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens

02/28/2026

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine found people living close to cell towers and wireless base station network antennas had higher radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposures, along with measurable changes in certain white blood cells, suggesting a biological stress response and altered immune activity.

No towers near homes. It is that simple. Period.

https://www.ehn.org/cell-phone-radiation-blood-cells?fbclid=IwdGRzaAQPINhjbGNrBA8g02V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrrV1s0XERzErRxA06AwZC2uUH4ktPQbXkY81rE5k3RBpFcCQMInlRW7SK48_aem_Bc4c0-P4bRN3ZOO39oyUqw

A recent study published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine found people living close to cell towers and wireless base station network antennas had higher radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposures, along with measurable changes in certain white blood cells, suggesting a biological stress response...

02/28/2026

Shacktown does not want the tower in their neighborhood injuring folks.

We are halfway to our goal of raising enough money to move it.

Thank you good people for caring, sharing & donating!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/z9ze96-stop-the-tower

02/27/2026