The first MRI machines subjected a human patient to a static magnetic field in excess of 20,000 times the earth’s background radiation. The newer machines have almost tripled this level.

Doctors and scientists will tell you that these machines are perfectly harmless, because unlike X-Rays, they use non-ionizing radiation. However, neither the doctors nor the scientists really know the long-term effects of this procedure. For example, has anyone determined what percentage of Alzheimer’s patients have received MRIs?

About 20% of people undergoing MRIs demonstrate or report terrifying panic attacks. Doctors will tell you that these attacks are the result of claustrophobia. But many of these patients never before experienced such symptoms. And it’s questionable that 20% of the general population suffers from claustrophobia. Many patients lose consciousness and suffer memory loss. No one can actually tell you what effect this radiation will have on your brain, heart, nervous system, blood composition and endocrine glands

Powerfully interfering with the electro-magnetic field of a human being in several different ways for almost an hour obviously affects one. What we do not know is how seriously and permanently these adverse effects are, and over what period of time they will manifest. As is the case with pharmaceuticals, we seem to be overusing this technology, which we know, at the very least, greatly disturbs the brain, the mind, the memory and consciousness.

– Raphael O’Suna,  Haiku