{"id":58238,"date":"2012-06-17T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=58238"},"modified":"2012-06-17T09:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T13:50:20","slug":"its-time-talk-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/technology\/its-time-talk-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to talk about cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wNNSztN7wJc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"633\" height=\"475\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong><em>&#8220;We have information here that suggests we that have a big problem.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I recently got back onto Joe Mercola&#8217;s email list; <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2012\/06\/16\/emf-safety-tips.aspx?e_cid=20120616_DNL_art_1\" target=\"_blank\">this article about cell phone dangers came today<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard this at least every year for 10 years. Now you can know the details of how factors like proximity of the phone, where it&#8217;s carried, how it&#8217;s used and other factors (including the impact on a fetus) influence the outcome. She also accounts for why so many cell phone studies get negative (no effect) results, describing significant problems with the methodology of many studies.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is not just a cancer problem &#8212; according to Devra Davis in the video above, it involves what happens when the brain is heated and irradiated, which influences brain reserve (how long your brain lasts). There&#8217;s also a central issue of whether cells repair themselves &#8212; Davis says, &#8220;the inhibition of repair may be the critical mechanism here. Cell phone radiation may be an epigenetic carcinogen insofar that it inhibits repair.&#8221; That is, the real issue cell phone radiation may be how it interferes with our cells&#8217; ability to repair their DNA.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot in this discussion &#8212; including the exposure to EMFs in the workplace. In case you&#8217;re inclined to think oh there&#8217;s so much I cannot get out of it, that&#8217;s not a valid argument; exposure is about proximity to the source &#8212; <strong>holding the phone, which is a microwave transmitter, to your head soaks your brain in radiation<\/strong>. It also weakens the blood-brain barrier. And phones have a direct result on sperm &#8212; the more time you keep your phone on your hip, the lower your sperm count will be (by up to 50%, they died faster and the sperm were damaged).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one last thing. Part of the problem may involve the erratic way in which cell phones work. The level of exposure is constantly changing (for example, as the phone sends out bursts of radiation looking for a signal), as well as the diverse and constantly varying type of exposure since the phones are working on numerous frequencies at once. She explains how most studies use constant exposure rather than erratic (and study the resistant kinds of cells rather than the vulnerable ones).<\/p>\n<p>Teenagers are especially vulnerable to all of these problems. And there is a big problem with exposing fetuses.<\/p>\n<p>Upshot on how to reduce problems? Keep the phone as far from your head and the rest of the body as possible. Keep it in airplane mode when possible. Use wired &#8212; not Bluetooth &#8212; headsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have information here that suggests we that have a big problem.&#8221; I recently got back onto Joe Mercola&#8217;s email list; this article about cell phone dangers came today. I&#8217;ve heard this at least every year for 10 years. Now you can know the details of how factors like proximity of the phone, where it&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"It&#8217;s time to talk about cell phones\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/technology\/its-time-talk-cell-phones\/\" aria-label=\"More on It&#8217;s time to talk about cell phones\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}