Cellular Phones

Wireless/cellular/mobile phones emit low levels of radio frequency radiation (RF) in the microwave range. Even the mobile phone industry will not claim that their phones are safe. According to Motorola, "It is well known that high levels of RF can produce biological damage through heating effects (this is how your microwave oven is able to cook food). However it is not known whether, or to what extent, or through what mechanism, lower levels of RF might cause adverse health effects as well." My Motorola digital wireless telephone Users Guide states that "The available science does not allow us to conclude that mobile phones are absolutely safe."
The same Users Guide goes on to list several studies showing that wireless phones can have negative consequences for the user's health. It says, for example, that "A few animal studies, however, have suggested that low levels of RF could accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals. In one study, mice genetically altered to be predisposed to developing one type of cancer developed more than twice as many such cancers when they were exposed to RF energy compared to controls [emphasis added]."
Besides these statements about laboratory animals, the Users Guide provides some studies on humans! In a paragraph on brain tumors the guide's author states: "When tumors did exist in certain locations, however, they were more likely to be on the side of the head where the mobile phone was used
[emphasis added]." The guide's author goes on to say that "...an association was found between mobile phone use and one rare type of glioma, neuroepithellomatous tumors."
Many people have explained to me that when using cellular phones they experience uncomfortable feelings on the side of their head that they are holding the phone against. In my experience, when holding a cellular phone close to my ear for more then a minute or so causes me to experience what I describe as borderline painful feelings in my head.
The Nokia 6560 User Guide states, in the section entitled Additional Safety Information, "Pacemaker manufacturers recommend that a minimum separation of 6 in. (15.3 cm) be maintained between a wireless phone and a pacemaker to avoid potential interference with the pacemaker." They suggest that users "Not carry the phone in a breast pocket" and "hold the device to the ear opposite the pacemaker." For the rest of us, consider this. The human heart beats because of an electrical impulse sent by the sinoatrial node, the pacemaker designed by God. MedicineNet.com gives the following description of the sinoatrial node. "The sinoatrial node (the SA node) is one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction system, the system that controls the heart rate. This stunningly designed system generates electrical impulses and conducts them throughout the muscle of the heart, stimulating the heart to contract and pump blood.The electrical signal generated by the SA node moves from cell to cell down through the heart until it reaches the atrioventricular node (AV node). The AV node serves as a gate that slows the electrical current before the signal is permitted to pass down through to the ventricles. This delay ensures that the atria have a chance to fully contract before the ventricles are stimulated. After passing the AV node, the electrical current travels to the ventricles along special fibers embedded in the walls of the lower part of the heart."
If cellular phones can interfere with mechanical pacemakers, it seems to me that they could also interfere with our sinoatrial node. The symptoms of this might appear as fatigue, because overcoming the interference of a cell phone would create the need for the body to exert more energy to insure proper heart rate. I suggest keeping all cellular and cordless home phones away from your body.
So, how can we make cell-phone use safer? Motorola gives the following recommendations on how to minimize your exposure to RF in the back of their Users Guide. "Those persons who spend long periods of time on their hand-held mobile phones could consider holding lengthy conversations on conventional phones and reserving the hand-held models for shorter conversations or for situations when other types of phones are not available." For car owners the author recommends switching to "a mobile phone in which the antenna is located outside the vehicle".
I prefer and recommend a high-quality hands-free speakerphone that can be placed a few feet away so that one can carry on a conversation as easily as if the person is in the same room. Another device that I use is a specially designed headset. This radiation-free headset has been designed using an air-filled wireless tube that is similar to a doctor's stethoscope. By replacing the wire type headset with a wireless tube, the electromagnetic radiation emitted from your phone can be kept a safe distance away from you instead of directly next to your brain. The device that I am currently using is from a company called Wave Shield (www.waveshield.com) and is called the RF (radiation free) headset.
There have been many reports of people living in the same apartment for many years and feeling in excellent health. Then a cellular phone transmitting and receiving antenna was installed on the roof above their apartment and their health declined to the point where they were unable to work. The only option in this case is to move.
On Tuesday, July 19, 2005, CNN TV covered the death of Johnny Cochrane, the famous lawyer from the O.J. Simpson trial. Dr Keith Black, a well known neuro surgeon from Cedars Sinai medical center in Los Angeles has determined that the brain tumor which caused Johnny's death was strongly connected to his cell phone use.