#217 Is Your House Wiring Making You Sick? | Andrew McAfee on EMFs, Grounding & Sleep
Licensed electrician Andrew McAfee explains how home wiring, magnetic fields, and ground current can wreck sleep, mood, and kids’ health — and why grounding products can make it worse. Measure first. Fix the wiring. Then worry about supplements. Andrew went from principal French horn with the North Carolina Symphony to full-time home EMF investigator after he and his wife got sick in a brand-new house. In this conversation we cover bed maps, electrosentience, utility ground current, isolation transformers, why Romex radiates, and the first tests you can run tonight without buying a gadget. If you’ve been chasing mitochondria, light, and minerals and still feel wired-and-tired at home, this is the missing layer. ANDREW Website: https://homeemftracing.com Work: home assessments, wiring diagnostics, NCB / grounding safety education WHAT WE COVER • Why a “new home” can still be electrically dirty • Bed maps and why the sleeping environment matters more than most supplements • Kids as the canary — they don’t have language for the load • Why outlet grounding sheets and earthing mats can put current on your body • Utility ground current moving through soil and plumbing • Isolation transformers and property-level mitigation • Quick wins: Wi-Fi off, phones out, breaker test at night • Measure electric fields, magnetic fields, and RF before you buy anything • Logan’s signals-and-receivers frame vs Andrew’s field work CHAPTERS 02:00 Andrew’s shift from musician to electrician after getting sick in a new home 07:57 Electrosentience — the body reacting to man-made fields 09:15 Environmental contaminants and electromagnetic exposure 12:27 Understand the problem before chasing cures 14:24 Radio quiet zones, health, and privacy 16:02 Signals-and-receivers and how it maps to wiring 18:58 Stress, tech, and the wake-up call 21:22 Quick wins: Wi-Fi, phones, and breakers at night 22:27 El Salvador vs a dirty electrical environment 23:55 Why grounding sheets can backfire 24:17 How Andrew started building grounding mitigation 26:12 Why home grounding is dangerous on compromised wiring 28:50 Outdoor grounding still looping with indoor wiring 34:54 Ground current through soil and isolation transformers 37:28 The 101: measure E-fields, magnetic fields, and RF 38:59 Finding and cutting wireless sources 41:43 Appliance noise, VFDs, and EV concerns 45:56 Why meters beat guesses 48:08 Family life and why people resist changing the house 52:27 Where to start with Andrew’s work FIRST STEPS (from the episode) • Flip the main breaker for one night as a test • Kill Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cordless phones at bedtime • Measure before you buy filters, sheets, or “EMF stickers” • Do not plug a grounding sheet into an untested outlet • Change one variable at a time This is education, not medical or electrical advice. Hire a qualified electrician before you open a panel. Subscribe for more on light, water, magnetism, food, and the environments that actually let a body recover.
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