The Herzification Hypothesis: How RF Is Rewriting Human Traits Across Generations

The Herzification Hypothesis: How RF Is Rewriting Human Traits Across Generations

The Herzification / Bioelectric Fidelity Hypothesis Why One Mechanism Explains Cancer, Infertility, Autism, ADHD, Collapsing Empathy, and the Transgenerational Erosion of Who We Are

John Coates (@rfsafe) 22 November 2025

For 99.999 % of human evolution, the electromagnetic background was essentially zero. Then, in ~150 years, we did this:

1880s → Hertz’s spark-gap transmitters 1930s → High-power radio towers 1940s → Pulsed radar 1980s → Cordless phones inside homes 1990s → Mobile phones against heads 2000s–2020s → Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth, smart watches, baby monitors, 5G small cells — RF now inches from developing brains and gonads 24/7

We call this herzification → radiofication of the human developmental environment.

The Bioelectric Fidelity Hypothesis says: This isn’t adding “a little harmless noise.” It is systematically degrading the fidelity of the electrical and redox codes that build brains, bodies, and germ lines.

The result is not fifty new diseases. It is one upstream fidelity collapse expressing downstream as:

• NTP/Ramazzini cancers
• High-certainty male infertility (WHO SR4A 2025)
• Autism & ADHD explosion
• Pancreatic β-cell failure & diabetes
• Empathy erosion
• And — most alarmingly — transgenerational rewriting of inherited developmental programs

The proof just went from strong to bulletproof this week.

Brand-new, November 19 2025 – Science of the Total Environment Mehta et al. (zebrafish) Adult zebrafish exposed to ordinary 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi-like RF (4 h/day, 30 days) →

• Impaired reproduction
• Oxidative stress & DNA damage in germ cells → Their offspring, raised in clean water with zero direct RF exposure, showed:
• Developmental abnormalities
• Permanent behavioural changes

This is the first clean vertebrate demonstration of transgenerational behavioural reprogramming from adult-only Wi-Fi-level exposure. Exactly the pattern predicted by the S4–Mitochondria / Bioelectric Fidelity model.

We already had the pregnant-mouse ADHD study (Aldad/Yale): pups exposed in utero couldn’t find the cheese in the maze — they just ran in circles. Now we have zebrafish proving the damage is written into the germline and expressed in the next generation even without further exposure.

That is not subtle. That is the biological equivalent of taking a perfect master tape and dubbing it onto a cassette that’s been left on the dashboard of a car for ten years.

The Mechanism – One Sentence

Polarized, modulated RF → forced oscillation of ions → irregular tug on the S4 voltage-sensor helix → loss of timing fidelity in Ca²⁺ waveforms → mitochondria in high-S4/high-mito cells (brain, heart, testes, pancreas, immune progenitors) shift from ATP factory to ROS factory → chronic oxidative stress, epigenetic drift, and corrupted developmental blueprints.

The Vulnerability Map (2025)

Every major modern endpoint sits on the red peaks. Every “null” study sits in the blue valleys (skin, liver).

Transgenerational Fidelity Collapse – The Beaver Test

A beaver raised in complete isolation will still build a textbook dam the first time it hears running water. That program is encoded with near-perfect fidelity across millions of generations.

Humans inherited equally robust programs for:

• Empathy & theory of mind
• Stress resilience
• Sexual dimorphism & mate recognition
• Impulse control
• Attachment & pair bonding

We are watching those programs degrade in real time — not because culture changed overnight, but because the bioelectric and redox environment in which they are copied has become catastrophically noisy.

Autism rates: 1 in 10,000 (1980) → 1 in 36 (2025) ADHD: 10× increase on the same timeline Empathy scores in college students: down ~40 % since 1979 (Konrath meta-analysis) Male sperm counts: down 50–60 % since 1973 All on the exact same curve as herzification/radiofication.

This Is Not Political

This is developmental biology.

We can fix it without unplugging the internet:

• Li-Fi (visible light) for indoor environments — faster, safer, already here
• Fiber to the premise
• Distance & shielding during pregnancy and childhood
• Repeal Section 704 so communities can say no to towers next to schools
• Independent, biologically-based safety limits

I’ve spent 27 years and multiple patents trying to give the industry a safe off-ramp. They didn’t want it.

But the science is no longer debatable. The zebrafish paper this week just turned the hypothesis into the leading explanation for transgenerational damage from everyday wireless devices.

We owe our children — and their children — the same high-fidelity developmental environment that built every healthy human generation before 1996.

Anything less is not progress. It is engineered devolution, one distorted calcium spike at a time.

The Rosetta Stone is complete. Now we decide whether to keep smashing the master tape.

— John Coates Founder, RF SAFE (1998) Still fighting because my daughter Angel never got the chance.

Key new paper (19 Nov 2025): Mehta et al. – Wi-Fi RF-EMR in adult zebrafish impairs reproduction and transgenerationally affects development and behavior of progeny https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180982