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How Cellphone Radiation Affects Your Cells

cell phone dangers, cell phone radiation, emf, rf, radio frequencies, radio waves, microwavesRadiation from cell phones is too weak to heat biological tissue or break chemical bonds in cells, but the radio waves they emit may still change cell behavior.

Scientists exposed 10 female volunteers to radiation at 900 megahertz from GSM phones to simulate an hour-long phone call.

They screened 580 different proteins in their skin cells and found that the numbers of two proteins were altered in all of the volunteers: one protein increased by 89 percent, the other decreased by 32 percent.

This study shows that even without heating, molecular level changes take place in response to exposure to cell phone frequency electromagnetic radiation.


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For the first time, researchers are able to show that molecular changes do take place in your body during exposure to information-carrying radio waves, such as those from your cell phone. Similar effects have previously been found in cultured cells, but now they’re able to show that the impact on the human body is indeed the same. 

So what is the physiological significance of these changes in proteins?

So far, no one knows for sure.

But I firmly believe that dismissing it as inconsequential would be a serious mistake, especially in light of ALL the data available, pointing to a wide variety of long-term health risks.

What Causes the Biological Damage?

Let me be VERY clear. 

Most of the danger from most land-based portable phones, cell phones and WiFi routers is not from the thermal damage produced by these devices from which typical SAR ratings are given on phones. Unless you have massive exposures like you might expect in a microwave oven, these thermal effects are insignificant.

We believe the biological damage comes both from the modulated signals that are carried ON the carrier microwave and the carrier wave itself. However, they do their damage by two entirely different mechanisms. These modulated information-carrying radio waves resonate in biological frequencies of a few to a few hundred cycles per second, and can stimulate your cellular receptors causing a whole cascade of pathological consequences that can culminate in fatigue, anxiety and ultimately cancers.

This is a MAJOR problem because in the last few years we have had an exponential increase in exposure to these waves. It took from 1984 to 2004 to reach the first billion cell phones, the second billion took just 18 months, the third billion took only nine months, and the fourth billion just six months.

And this does not factor in any of your exposure to WiFi routers (wireless internet), which are now pervasive. Since there is a lag time of five to 20 years before many of these effects become clinically apparent, now is the time to act before you or your family suffer the damage.

You May Already Suffer the ill Effects

Numerous studies claim there is no biological impact of RF radiation within the cell phone range. This latest study punches a hole in that notion.

Additionally, researchers in different countries are finding equally disturbing results that point to far greater health implications than anyone is ready for. 

Unfortunately, most people fail to correlate common symptoms and health problems to their exposure to cell phones and other radio frequencies, perhaps because these conditions can so easily be attributed to other causes as well.  

Do you suffer from any of these common illnesses and ailments, which have all been scientifically linked to cell phone information-carrying radio waves? 

  • Alzheimer’s, senility and dementia
  • Parkinson’s
  • Autism
  • Fatigue
  • Headaches
  • Sleep disruptions
  • Altered memory function, poor concentration and spatial awareness 

Although cancer and brain tumors are most often cited as the potential health risks from cell phone radiation, as you can see, cancer is not the only, or the most common, danger that you and your children face.  

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

cell phone dangers, cell phone radiation, emf, rf, radio frequencies, radio waves, microwavesA study published in the June 2003 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives was also the first of its kind; showing that EMF’s emitted by certain mobile phones damage neurons in the brains of rats.

The cross-section on top shows the healthy brain of a control sample rat.

The bottom picture gives a clear visual of how a two-hour dose of GSM cell phone radiation, in varying intensities, impacted a test rat. The dark patches are proteins that leaked through the blood-brain barrier, causing significant neuronal damage in the cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia.

They used 12- to 26-week-old rats in this study because their developmental age is comparable to that of human teenagers, who are some of the heaviest users of mobile phones. Said the study authors:

"The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern, since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable. We cannot exclude that after some decades of often daily use, a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects as early as middle age."

Is Your Headset Making Matters Worse?       

For some time, the standard recommendation to reduce your radiation exposure was to use a headset. But, newer investigations, and the emergence of wireless earpieces (like Bluetooth), turns this idea upside down. These headsets may actually intensify your exposure to harmful radiation because the headset itself acts as an antenna, which is now inserted directly into your ear canal.

Testing has indicated that your cell phone headset may actually raise the amount of radiation emitted by more than 300 percent!

It's vital that you know the pros and cons of cell phone headsets -- especially now that laws requiring "hands-free" cell phone headsets while driving are going in effect all over the United States.

The British Independent Group on Mobile Phones suggested that headsets are an ideal solution only if they were used with filters to stop the headset wire from acting as an effective antenna. One solution is an air-tube headset. These conduct sound, but prevent any radiation from traveling up the wire to your brain.

More Safety Tips to Limit Your Exposure

To date, there are few alternatives to ensure complete safety, but there are some common sense recommendations: 

  • Limit the amount of time you spend on the phone.
  • Limit your exposure to WiFi routers. Find out where they are located in your work environment and stay away from them.
  • If you have any land-based (non-cellular) portable phones, do NOT use anything other than the 900 MHz phones as the Gigahertz phones stay on continuously, blasting you with information-carrying radio waves 24/7.
  • Use the speakerphone instead of putting the phone to your ear; this is probably one of the single most important steps you can take other than not using your cell phone.
  • Use a wired headset to limit your exposure to the cell phone -- ideally, an air-tube headset that conducts sound but prevents any radiation from traveling up the wire to your brain. Also make sure the wire is SHIELDED, which prevents the wire from acting as an antenna that could attract more information-carrying radio waves directly to your brain.
  • Limit calls inside buildings.
  • Use the phone in open spaces as often as possible.
  • Limit use by children and preadolescents.


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Posted On Feb 28, 2008

Because one of the two information frequencies used by a cell phone is very close to the hertz at which your body communicates with itself (cellular, heartbeat, etc..which I believe, if I remember correctly, is around 2 hertz), the body sees this as interference ( the same as when your radio signal in your car gets scratchy when traveling under big power lines) and will take the appropriate measures to protect itself…(ie: making the cell wall “thicker/stiffer”, etc…)…on the internet somewhere, there is a picture of your brain on a cell phone and the “bloom” as they call it of the radiation and how far it penetrates into the skull….which, by the way, is the whole head for children under twelve…(sometimes just 3 inches..which is bad enough!...for adults)…Please don’t let children use cell phones…and only use yours in an emergency



This technology which began for the military was thrust into the private sector without any testing….


 
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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Connie, I do hope you have found a solution to help your daughter and many others!

Let us all remember to back up our opinions of serious claims with peer-reviewed research that can be duplicated by others. We all want to prosper and live well, but don't allow us poor, innocent souls (and our wallets) to become misguided.



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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

I guess I need to make it clear, that when your body takes it upon itself to minimize the "intereference" from your cell phone's information carrier frequency (the other frequency  your body doesn't even recognize) by making cell walls stiffer, etc..that this is a BAD thing...tumors result, etc....



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Posted On Mar 25, 2008

You are right Charisse,this technology is still in baby shoes, but it is the wrong technology to begin with, and the big companies have no idea on the effects. Now birds and bees are dying maybe because of this technology. I actually knew all this over 10-12 years ago when I interviewed a German scientist who did extensive research and tests and concluded that molecular changes (especially calcium related) do take place in your body during exposure to cell phones, so this is no news to me. If the government(s) finally disclosed Tesla's findings on Zero Point Energy we wouldn't need this antiquated cell phone technology.



 
Posted On Mar 25, 2008

Hi Charisse here‘s some more information for you...it greatly correlates with the rise in children diagnosed with Autism http://www.internalbalance.com


 
 
 
Posted On Mar 18, 2008

To CONNIE WILSON and LYNETTE BARCLAY:

#1 - If you review your "Terms of Use" on this site, under Rule # 6 in the Ten Rules for Unacceptable User Conduct, you will find the following:

"Submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, or off topic content or any other system that will result in your personal financial or commercial gain."

It is sad that BioPro representatives mislead (in most cases unknowingly) people into believing that the "chips" they apply to their phones (cordless and/or cell) are protecting them and those around them from harm.

I corresponded with the BioPro headquarters for almost 4 months and never once got a straight answer from them to any of my technical questions, just evasion and/or silence.

I tested their chip and found it literally useless (like the other "protection devices" on the market).  What is really sad is the fact that people are being misled into believing that if they can just protect THEMSELVES from the near-field effects, that all will be fine with the world and we can all "live safely with wireless".

That is just not the case.  There is NO SAFE level of any of these broadcast frequencies ... whether it be radar, TV, radio, or microwave.  They ALL affect our cellular biology negatively.  Some just faster than others.

All these people who have become addicted to cell phones and those who wish to profit from their addiction by selling them so-called "protection devices" are missing the point ... and ignoring the elephant in the living room which are the cellular base stations (their towers and/or "masts" as they are called in Europe).  These emit their harmful frequencies 24/7, and damage the health of EVERYONE ... user and non-user as well as ALL biological life forms!

There are a minimum of 6 epidemiological studies in as many countries showing the harmful health effects of these cell towers on the surrounding populations, birds, insects & animal life.  Do your homework.


 
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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Exactly! For those who are interested I am marketing the "Bioplacebo" which I guarantee is just as effective as Biopro.

Seriously tho BanEmr you've hit the nail on the head. Cell phones can be avoided but as you sit infront of your computer reading this you are experiencing the effects of pulsed microwaves from where ever the nearest mast(s) is. These are the real danger. Human rights all around the world are being violated & it is our children, in 10 to 30 years, who will suffer for it.



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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Thank you for your input…?  I quickly scanned through your lengthy and well written documents.  I won’t take the time to write out a long dissertation here…but would like to point out that if you researched and understood how our technologies work, you would know that using a Gauss meter isn’t how you test the efficacy of them.  Our technologies work at the cellular level…they change how our bodies perceive the harmful information carrying waves, they don’t cancel out, block or shield like some of the other devices out there claim to do.  As you know, that obviously doesn’t work.

And…why are 10’s of thousands of people around the world having wonderful and life changing results with these products if they are bogus…?  I’m not here to argue with you…and do understand that the picture is MUCH larger than just our cell phones.  We actually have an entire suite of products that work synergistically together to help combat living in a wireless age.  It is impossible to fight the system, technology is here to stay. We have to take charge of our own health in any way we can…and from personal experience I know that I am helping to empower people to do just that.



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Posted On Mar 19, 2008

REPLY TO CONNIE'S REMARKS (below):

As any informed person knows, a Gauss meter won't measure radiofrequency/microwaves.  Those are for EMFs emitted by electrical appliances, electrical wiring, etc.

I used a German-made GIGAHERTZ SOLUTIONS eHF E 35C Digital RF-Analyzer.  (Cost me US$900.00)  This is a professional meter that can analyze high frequency radiation from 27 MHz to 3.3 GHz.  The system contains both a Directional Antenna for 800 MHz to 2.5 GHz and a Horizontal isotropic Ultra Broadband Antenna for 27 MHz to 3.3 GHz.

It detects pulsed radiation of mobile radio, WLAN, Wi-Fi, cell phones, cell towers, wireless routers, DECT (cordless phones), Blue-tooth, etc.

Both BEFORE and AFTER the application of a BioPro "chip" and even multiple chips to both cell phone and DECT cordless, the readings and audible sound of the RF/MW was not mitigated.  Biological testing should be done to determine the exact effects on the cellular membrane, the DNA, red blood cells (agglutination) and so forth.  The testing and science in this field is still young and we know little of the effects at the sub-atomic levels ... Life is FAR more complex than we can imagine and it is foolish to create something that has never existed on Earth before ... and subject humanity and other life forms to this "experiment", all in the name of profit, control (electronic mind control) and "convenience".



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Posted On Mar 19, 2008

Before you condemn any protection device on the market, realize that you do not have the capability to conclusively determine whether any particular product works or not! Just taking a reading with a meter, no matter what type, and then applying your own interpretation of the reading, doesn't prove or disprove anything of significance.



 
Posted On Mar 25, 2008

I agree with you that the Bio Pro people should address the problems.  But let's not bash folks for wanting to get the information out!  There is a very good study out that does include this company's product the MRET  and ERT since it does respond to the noise field that then helps the body's DNA and intracellular mechanisms see the ICRW's (Information Carrying Radio Waves) as non-threatening; thereby, augmenting apoptosis keeping the cells alive and thriving.  Check out this site http://www.internalbalance.com then look up the peer reviewed article published in November of 2007 from the ACNEM organizaition on Wireless Radiation in the the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations and Mechanisms.  Hope this is helpful in us all being made more alert to what's going on... Sign Thunder and Lightning Health


 
 
 
Posted On Feb 29, 2008
I wonder if Masaru Emoto - who does those fabulous studies of water molecule structures has done any on cell phone influence on water.....the brain being 90+%  water...

I think that it would also tell a story...

 
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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Hi ZPE...:)  

See page 147, 148 and 149 of Emoto's book entitled "The True Power of Water".  On those pages you will fine photos of the effect on water from cell phones, computers and televisions...not a pretty site.  

I would welcome conversation regarding this from anyone who is interested...I can be reached at 503-616-2383 or at connieoregon@comcast.net.

Have a great day...and STAY SAFE...!



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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Masaru Emoto is not performing science. Please read the wiki on him and the sources referenced on that wiki website.


 
 
 
Posted On Mar 01, 2008
This isn't just limited to cell phones.... the environment is full of other wireless radiation that is increasing every day. Add to that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by all electrical devices, power lines and the inside of your car, and you can't imagine how much you're being exposed to these frequencies. 

Although it is hard to guage, scientists believe that we are being exposed to 100,000 times the amount of this radiation that people were 100 years ago. The human body can only take so much.

 
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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

How much?

can you be more specific!



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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

people lets move to Africa; it is more and more difficult to live here and watch for all this government junk that is sickening us ; it is a full time job to watch for yourself, it is like living in a horror movie...



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Posted On Mar 19, 2008

100,000 times is very conservative. Natural background microwave levels that we evolved with are on the order of 100 femptowatts per square centimeter - 100 quadrillionths of a watt, so the levels we all live with now, at least in cities, is more like 50 million times what those a hundred years ago lived with. The wireless industry likes to point out that the power levels are very low, but we have to see it in perspective - low compared to what? Not compared to the earth a hundred years ago.



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Posted On Mar 19, 2008

Mr.AK:

Good point, but you may want to adjust your figures "up" a little...

"In our growing dependence on wireless telecommunication systems, we increasingly find ourselves absorbing electric and magnetic wave emissions from these microwave systems.  Although the human species has evolved amidst a broad band of these same frequencies that originate from throughout the universe, in the last few decades, human exposure to artificial, repetitive signals has risen dramatically – by more than a trillion times ...

"We can only expect further quantum leaps in exposure as the plans of investors, the military and other government agencies materialize: to have every dwelling, school, office and store in the world become a microwave transmitter for wireless computers and related linkages, and to have transceivers implanted within our bodies as guardian 'digital angels'."                                

Dr. Andrew Michrowski



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Posted On Mar 21, 2008

As I come back to reading these posts...I think there is a general consensus that EMF's, microwave frequencies, radio frequencies, information carrying radio waves and the like are extremely detrimental to our health and making a huge impact on human existence.  BanEMF is very well versed in this arena and has sent me numerous documents that I have read and totally agree with.   I was triggered to do this research about 4 years ago and was exposed to much of the same research then, because of my daughters illness (see my BIO).

Until the day that technology changes , we as individuals need to focus on how we can safeguard ourselves and our loved ones.  Focus on good nutrition, work on daily detoxification and protecting yourself from electro-pollution (considered to be one of the most dangerous toxins of the 21st century). Some of the symptoms: Headaches, Insomnia, Accelerated Aging, hot head, stress, learning disorders, and more…and leading to severe illnesses such as: Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromylgia Alzheimer’s  and more.

I consider my daughters illness a wake-up call…she used to thank me for researching the problem and the intervention…but now she says “You’re Welcome Mom” …because she opened me up to a whole new world of knowledge that has enabled me to help others.  

…since my first post a few days ago I have talked to so many people that are looking for answers.  From my experiences and feedback in the last 2 years…and the new feedback from the recent people I I’ve spoken with…I’m certain you will love and appreciate the stories and knowledge I can share with you.

I’m just a passionate mom…living in a wireless age…knowing that what I’m doing is helping to save the planet, and more importantly, yourself and you loved ones. Feel free to contact me, I’m fun to talk to…?  503-616-2383



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Posted On Mar 21, 2008

Thank You...Mr. AK...!  Your body will know if you experience benefits :)


 
 
 
Posted On Feb 28, 2008
I would like to see what the proteins were like before and after cell-phone radiation exposure.  Just because it is on the opposite arm does not mean it is not affected by radiation. 

Mary

 
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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Well, I'm sorry I do not have a reference for this with me now but I was once forwarded a mail describing an experiment where an egg was placed between two OPERATING cell phones and after a certain time period the egg was boiled. I think it was just a few hours? Maybe someone could actually try this if you have two cell phones. It could be done easily.



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Posted On Mar 18, 2008

Aemit, I'm afraid the boiled egg story is an urban myth. Attempts to reproduce the result leave the egg completely cold and raw; I've seen it myself. As Dr Mercola points out above, there is no significant heating going on. Try it yourself.



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Posted On Mar 19, 2008

I see. Well, then I guess I should not believe everything that comes in a health DM... Again, I've never tried it, I only have one cell phone and try to use it as little as possible so no intention to try it from now either. Sorry for the wrong info then.


 
 
 
 
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