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🇨🇿 Czech Academy Researcher Calls EMF a 'Very Mild Stressor' — But Says Weak Magnetic Fields on Free Radicals Are 'Most Interesting'

Apr 26, 2026 (EMFS)
Apr 15, 2026 (original)
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Michal Cifra, head of the Bioelectrodynamics team at the Czech Academy of Sciences, discusses how living cells generate electromagnetic fields across the frequency spectrum and explores the controversial question of whether these fields play functional roles in biological communication and coherence — and shares his views on EMF health effects, calling anthropogenic radiation a 'very mild stressor' while pointing to weak magnetic field effects on free radical chemistry as the most promising area of research.

"[We are] doing both experimental research and [...] theoretical research on interaction of electromagnetic field and biology [...] both sides, because fields affect biology and biology generates fields."

— Michal Cifra, Head of Bioelectrodynamics Team, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

"What people typically know is that light emitted by [...] specific organisms like [...] fireflies or jellyfish — they glow to the level that you can see it by naked eye. What people know less, but is very well established as well scientifically, is that basically any organic matter [...] when it's in contact with oxygen glows. So that means for example that also humans glow, and this is measurable, and this was actually part of my master thesis."

— Michal Cifra

"There is still a huge area in [...] microwave, terahertz range, bit of [...] infrared, where [...] it is not firmly established whether cells and tissues generate electromagnetic field or electromagnetic activity."

— Michal Cifra

"Microtubules [...] do have rather exceptional electrical properties [...] tubulin has few-fold higher charge than the [...] average protein and also few-fold higher [...] dipole than the average protein."

— Michal Cifra

"Anthropogenic electromagnetic radiation is a very mild stressor and we have myriads of them. I believe our lifestyle choices are much more profoundly affecting our health quality than the anthropogenic electromagnetic radiation."

— Michal Cifra

"This particular community in bioelectromagnetics is very careful to actually publish even the negative findings because it's so important as we are so swamped by electromagnetic radiations which we produced, for the safety perspective. This is one of the best examples across different research fields where the community makes an effort to publish negative results, and thanks to that we don't have such a large bias in the knowledge compared to other research fields. [...] I know people who tried really hard to find any effect and they could not in certain different setups. So we are not speaking of one or a few papers, it's now thousands of papers studying the effects of weak electromagnetic radiation on the cells or tissues, and the consensus is that you don't usually see the effects."

— Michal Cifra

"However, what is interesting — if you hit certain particular parameters, then you might get to the region where the field doesn't need to be strong to do something. And that's exactly where I see the most interesting way going — effects of magnetic fields which are not that strong on the chemistry of free radicals, because there is the strongest evidence both from theory and experiments that magnetic fields can affect the spin of electrons in free radicals."

— Michal Cifra

Source

Ricci Flow Nutrition — Michal Cifra: Fields & Biological Coherence youtube.com
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