#217 Is Your House Wiring Making You Sick? | Andrew McAfee on EMFs, Grounding & Sleep

<p>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.<br /><br />Measure first. Fix the wiring. Then worry about supplements.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />If you’ve been chasing mitochondria, light, and minerals and still feel wired-and-tired at home, this is the missing layer.<br /><br />ANDREW<br />Website: <a href="https://homeemftracing.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://homeemftracing.com</a><br />Work: home assessments, wiring diagnostics, NCB / grounding safety education<br /><br />WHAT WE COVER<br />• Why a “new home” can still be electrically dirty<br />• Bed maps and why the sleeping environment matters more than most supplements<br />• Kids as the canary — they don’t have language for the load<br />• Why outlet grounding sheets and earthing mats can put current on your body<br />• Utility ground current moving through soil and plumbing<br />• Isolation transformers and property-level mitigation<br />• Quick wins: Wi-Fi off, phones out, breaker test at night<br />• Measure electric fields, magnetic fields, and RF before you buy anything<br />• Logan’s signals-and-receivers frame vs Andrew’s field work<br /><br />CHAPTERS<br />02:00 Andrew’s shift from musician to electrician after getting sick in a new home<br />07:57 Electrosentience — the body reacting to man-made fields<br />09:15 Environmental contaminants and electromagnetic exposure<br />12:27 Understand the problem before chasing cures<br />14:24 Radio quiet zones, health, and privacy<br />16:02 Signals-and-receivers and how it maps to wiring<br />18:58 Stress, tech, and the wake-up call<br />21:22 Quick wins: Wi-Fi, phones, and breakers at night<br />22:27 El Salvador vs a dirty electrical environment<br />23:55 Why grounding sheets can backfire<br />24:17 How Andrew started building grounding mitigation<br />26:12 Why home grounding is dangerous on compromised wiring<br />28:50 Outdoor grounding still looping with indoor wiring<br />34:54 Ground current through soil and isolation transformers<br />37:28 Th