My Electric Vehicle was Making me Sick

Here’s a little story time/PSA for ya. TLDR: don’t buy an electric car, it could make you very sick.

In the fall of 2020 we had just opened North Star Gatherings and things were looking quite promising (pre-cvd, haha).

So we decided it was time to trade in my little Hyundai that was barely making it up to work in the mountains and make more room for baby #2 who was on the way. After shopping around I was very excited to land on the Audi e-tron. I hated getting gas (still do), and it drove so smooth and fast, it felt so fun-and safe!

Fast forward to 3.5 years later, and I abruptly stop sleeping. I’ve really never had trouble sleeping before this, so it was especially odd for me. I threw everything I could at this problem. Saw all my holistic practitioners, read tons of books, watched the sunrise and sunset every day, turned our power off at night, tried all the supplements.

Nothing seemed to change it.

This went on for almost a year.

I was running a business, raising two small kids and homeschooling, and homesteading all on very broken sleep. Most nights I’d fall asleep fine but inevitably I’d wake for at least an hour starting around 3am, and after that I’d never string more than 30-60 minutes together. On the worst nights I’d wake an hour after laying down.

Sometimes I’d wander the house at night, try reading on the couch or eat snacks, whatever the latest advice was. 

This went on or months until for some reason, despite my exhaustion, I planned a trip to spend all of February in our camper driving down the Baja peninsula. Over that month my sleep got better and better until I was sleeping 7-8 hours a night easily. I was overjoyed!

Within days of returning my night wakings returned. I scoured the house for causes-tested for mold, had an EMF expert come take measurements, kept my room the perfect coolness, sleep in 100% organic bedding, tried sleeping in the guest room, swapping mattresses, the list goes on. One of the biggest insults to injury was that in every book I opened on sleep, the entire first chapter(s) were on the importance of sleep (aging, insulin, weight, brain function, cancer, eeeverything). I KNOW, that’s why I’m here, bro. 

Finally, after seeing some posts online about other people getting sick from their Tesla’s, Barry mentioned maybe it was my car.

We immediately switched cars and I drove his truck for a week.

Every night that week I slept 7 hours straight again. It seemed immediately clear. We did have the EMF expert come back and measure our vehicles, but when we told him the story he said clearly you know before even measuring what’s going on. My car measured close to 100x the EMF readings in the truck. Electric cars are designed with EMF shielding on the batteries, but we’re guessing over time that could degrade and that’s why it took so long to cause a problem. I got in that car one more time for barely 10 minutes after that and that night I slept poorly again.

We immediately traded it in for a gas car and it’s been a gradual and continual improvement since. Eliminating that stressor and eventually adding on mineral balancing, now I don’t even worry about my sleep any more, and most nights I sleep 8-9 hours. 

I share this to warn others-we don’t all respond to stressors like this in the same way, but regardless if you notice something or not, it’s impacting your body.

Different people can get very different symptoms from the same stressors, so anything you’re experiencing at all could be linked to EMF over-exposure.

My son also had a chronic cough every winter for his first 3 years of life that we couldn’t for the life of us get to the bottom of. This was part of my reason for escaping to Baja in the winter. Last winter after ditching the car he was totally normal, he got sick a few times but fully recovered between. I try not to think about his little body just getting pummeled with radiation every time we drove. I hope with a nutrient dense diet, mineral balancing, and plenty of barefoot outside time we can reverse whatever damage was done.

EMF also reacts strongly to heavy metals (and mold) in the body, and most people are dramatically under-mineralized which goes hand-in-hand with heavy metal poisoning. The solution for heavy metals-mineral balancing! I’ll soon be re-opening my nutrition practice and offering hair tissue mineral analysis bc it’s totally changed my health and my life.