Serious Health Issues and Cell Phones – Cell Phone Sickness

Answering your questions on cell phone health. Although there is no definitive proof that serious health issues and cell phones are connected, many doctors and scientists have seen enough evidence pointing in that direction, to suggest setting strict limits on your teens cell phone use. In fact, many doctors suggest that to avoid cellular phone sickness, cell phones not be used at all unless it is an emergency.

Cell phone companies would have you believe that their cell phone networks are completely safe, but independent study seems to be pointing to the opposite. The truth is that cell phone and wireless technologies are still so new that we can’t possibly know if all those stray microwaves floating around in the air will cause serious health issues or cellular phone sickness, or affect us long term for many years to come.

Cell Phone Radiation and Health

When you turn your cell phone on, your cell phone begins transmitting on the cell phone network. This constant transmission keeps you “connected” and allows calls to be made back and forth on your phone.

What few people realize is that cell phones are actually transmitting pulses (or sometimes constant streams) of microwave radiation. This is how cell phones communicate on the network. When you place the phone to your head, a certain amount of radiation is absorbed through your skin and sent into your brain.

The amount of radiation absorbed by your brain depends on the cell phone you are using, your size, placement of the phone in relation to your head and body, and yes, even your age. Can this cause cellular health related sickness?

Different cellular phones emit different amounts of radiation, depending on the frequency they are set at and the specifications of the cell phone design. Although the cell phone industry follows strict policies on the amount of radiation each phone can emit safely (as far as the industry is concerned, all cell phones operate under government specifications) there has been much debate on whether even safely regulated amounts of radiation can cause cell phone sickness or damage to a users brain or nervous system.

This is especially true for teens and children, whose developing nervous systems and rapidly growing tissue are far more susceptible to radiation damage and other external and environmental factors. Cellular health can be a concern.

Although there have been no definitive studies as of yet on the dangers of long term cell phone radiation exposure, or the potential for serious health issues caused by cellular phone use, there has been some important testing done on cell phone radiation itself.

For example, the Reflex study conducted by the German research group Verum showed that cell phone radiation did indeed cause cells to break down and DNA strands to break down during exposure.

Although the test was not to see if cell phones themselves could make you sick or do this kind of damage, the clinical trials concluded that small amounts of radiation such as that emitted by some cell phones could definitely cause harm in a body’s important cells. This fact is an important distinction for the $150 billion cell phone industry, which continues to assert that their cell phones are perfectly safe and won't cause any serious health issues.

The problem with DNA when it breaks down is that it is then passed on to other cells when the cells divide. It’s like building a radio with faulty wiring then, as the new cells are created improperly and the dysfunctional cells can continue to grow exponentially.

Broken DNA is seen as a possible cause for Cancer and other genetic “malfunctions”. The fact that these cells were unable to repair the DNA strands themselves and instead passed the defects on to new cells is much cause for concern.

This study seems to corroborate a study released in 2000 that showed how rats exposed to 120 minutes of continuous cell phone radiation showed permanent serious health issues, such as, damage in 2 per cent of their brain cells and a 2.5 times greater risk to develop cancerous growths or tumours. It seems that the radiation caused the protective liner surrounding their brains to leak, and the resulting blood flow into the brain itself caused the destruction of the brain cells. This could be a serious sickness.

This study also showed that in nematode worms, a very simple form of life, cell phone radiation caused a 20 percent jump in their overall growth and caused female nematode worms to lay many more eggs than normal.

What does this tell you about cell phone radiation? It proves, for instance, that cell phone radiation is indeed a biologically active form of radiation, and if it causes changes and sickness in animals it would be naive to think that there was no change at all in the biological functions of human beings.

More studies have already shown a dramatic drop in the fertility levels of males who often wore their cell phones on their belt clips on a regular basis. It seems that the cell phone emissions were such that the close proximity to sensitive reproductive organs has caused a large percentage of sperm to die off or be created with defects that made them essentially useless.

Signs of Cellular Phone Sickness

People who use their cell phone for more than two hours a day often complain of headaches, nausea, sensitivity to light, and other problems. Migraines can also occur to people exposed to large doses of cell phone radiation.

This often occurs in the business world, where people are exposed to radiation from wireless networks, cell phones and laptops, and the hundreds of other wireless devices that make up the average office work day.

These problems can be exacerbated in teens and children, who have much more sensitive nervous systems. Children, especially, are at risk fro problems with this kind of exposure and damage because the tissue that makes up their nervous system is still growing and developing.

It would appear, from the evidence at hand, that the wise thing to do would be to not allow children to use a cell phone at all, while limiting a teens cell phone usage time to as little as possible to prevent sickness.

Unfortunately, the opposite seems to be happening.

There are over 20 million teens with cell phones in the United States alone, with children as young as 7 and 8 years old carrying the devices with no clue to potential hazards or serious health issues.

The cellular phone industry itself is worth over $150 billion dollars, and this year alone it is expected to sell a staggering 650 million cell phones world wide. This is not just existing customers replacing old cellular phones, which seems to happen about every 2 years or so, but includes new cellular phone customers as well. Over half of those new cell phone customers will be teens.

You Can Protect Yourself And Your Health

The first thing you need to do to protect yourself from cell phone emissions and possible serious health issues, is to get a cell phone headset so you can keep the handset away from your head. By simply not holding the device to your skull when you are using it you can greatly reduce the amount of radiation flowing into your brain.

Another thing you can do is to turn it off when you are not using your cell phone, and in fact to even store it away from your body if at all possible.

Digital phones produce up to 90 per cent less emissions than analog phones, so if you haven’t already upgraded to an all-digital cell phone you should do so as soon as possible.

Finally, it is easy to keep cell phones out of the hands of your children. Simply don’t allow them to use the device. If for some reason they absolutely must use a cell phone, then be sure to limit them to only a minute or two. Remember, those emissions are going into their brains!

Finally, for teens, the more time you alot their cellular phones the more they are going to use them. In order to protect your teen from potentially dangerous emissions and possible serious health issues, set a cap on the amount of monthly minutes that they have access to and stick to it. They may be angry with you now, but isn’t anger easier to deal with than a potential debilitating illness that could conceivably happen years down the road?

And remember, don’t just look out for your kids well being. Look out for yourself as well! Before you take a cell phone call, always ask yourself:

“Do I really need to take this call, or can it wait until I get home?” Your cell phone health or sickness should be your first concern.

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