Cellphones, Brain Tumors & Chronic Disease

Just about everyone that you know carries a cellphone, so if cellphone radiation causes brain tumors, why doesn't everyone have a brain tumor?

Every year approximately 80,000 Americans are diagnosed with a brain tumor, which seems like a small number as compared to the 787,000 people who die each year from heart disease.

91% of the adult Americans carry a cellphone, but less than 0.02% develop a brain tumor.

These statistics may make you to believe that your cellphone is safe.

An Italian court recently ruled in favor of a longtime telecommunication employee, Roberto Romeo, who claimed a benign brain tumor resulted in hearing loss in one ear. In 2012, the Italian Supreme Court upheld a ruling linking an executive's cellphone use to a tumor on the same side of his head he held his cellphone five to six hours a day for over 12 years.

That is Italy, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has long held to the safety of cellphone use, as has the Federal Communications Commission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Environmental Health Science and the National Cancer Institute. The consensus appears to be: "The majority of studies published have failed to show an association between exposure to radiofrequency (RF) from a cellphone and health problems."

Could these government agencies all be influenced by the multi-billion dollar telecommunications industry?

The primary pathology related to cellphone use is the reactive nitrogen species peroxynitrites, which damage your mitochondria, which provide energy to every cell in your body.

Cellphone companies warn users to keep the phone at least 1 inch from their body and to minimize the amount of time you spend with the phone up to your ear. This warning can usually be found in tiny print buried in the manual.

It is better to keep the phone at least 2 feet from your body or head, which is very difficult to do.

Physicians from Yale and Harvard also warn pregnant women to limit their exposure to cellphones to reduce the impact RF radiation may have on their child's developing neurological system.

The full damage of a lifetime of cellphone radiation may not be fully realized for another 20 to 50 years, since the majority of the population has been using this technology for only about 15 years.

The largest danger to the population exists for children with developing brains, who use their phones more frequently and for longer periods of time each day than do adults.

Dr. Jonathan Samet, a pulmonary physician and epidemiologist at the University of Southern California, supervised the report from the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer that classified cellphones as a Class 2B carcinogen, which is "possibly carcinogenic to humans".

What Can You Do?

1. Keep the phone away from your head

2. Increase your distance from radio frequency emitting devices

3. When not in use, turn off your Wi-Fi routers

4. Purchase a EMF cancelling device that actually works, such as the Q-Link.

5. Increase your intake of antioxidants and spices, such as; cloves, rosemary, turmeric, cinnamon and ginger root.

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