The debate on cell phone safety has reached a conclusion.
I remember when cell phone use started getting more and more mainstream and we all had our clunky flip phones, my mom always told me to not sleep near my phone because many people already knew that the radiation could not be good. This was almost 10 years ago.
Flash-forward to smart-phones, almost everyone has one and we spend excessive amounts of time on them. I even sleep with mine only a few inches from my head on my nightstand. A recent study says the average American spends about 5 hours a day on their smartphone, but I know I (and probably most of us) spend way more than 5 hours on our phone.
Cell phone use has presented us with a multitude of new problems in society like texting and driving. There is now the necessity to utilize “text-stops” on the highway and issue tons of warnings, but are cell phones causing cancer too?
A huge government study worth $25 million has found cancer and pre-cancerous lesions in the brains and hearts of male rats that were exposed to cell phone radiation. The results were released by the National Institutes of Health. Thousands of rats were exposed to the radiation in periodic doses for 9 hours per day.
BTW - This is Dr. G. - I had a female patient who was a massage therapist and she kept her phone in her breast pocket and Voila she developed breast cancer in that breast. There was no doubt in her mind that the electromagnetic field exposure was a major cause of her cancer.
The rats in the study had tumors on their brain and heart. According the authors of the toxicology report, with such widespread use, a small increase in disease incidence could have broad implications for the health of the global population.
The study found “low incidences” of malignant gliomas in the brain and schwannomas in the heart. The rats were exposed to two types of radiation that are currently used in U.S. wireless networks.
These findings are concordant with the International Agency for Research on Cancer regarding the carcinogenic potential of the radiation. They also provide powerful evidence that the radiations from our cell phones are increasing incidence of cancer.
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