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www.AbbysHealthFood.com | # 59| Page 23 As in the NTP studies, exposed male rats developed statistically higher rates of heart schwannomas than unexposed rats. They also found some evidence, although weaker, that RF exposure increased rates of glial tumors in the brains of female rats. Cellphone Radiation Can Do a Great Deal of Harm In my view, the fact that popular cellphones are exceeding the legal limit of RF is a significant health concern, as the primary hazard of cellphone radiation is not brain cancer but systemic cellular and mitochondrial damage, which can contribute to any number of health problems and chronic diseases. Cellphone radiation has also been shown to have a significant impact on neurological and mental health, contributing to and/or worsening anxiety, depression, and dementia, for example, and all of these conditions are rampant and growing more prevalent. Research also suggests excessive EMF exposure is contributing to reproductive problems. For example, researchers have found prenatal exposure to power-frequency fields can nearly triple a pregnant woman's risk of miscarriage. Studies have also shown cellphone radiation can reduce sperm motility and viability. It's really important to realize that the harms of cellphone radiation are not related to the heating of tissue. Rather, it causes a cascade of molecular events that end up causing severe oxidative damage. 5G Will Exponentially Magnify Your Health Risks The planned implementation of 5G is bound to further magnify the health risks associated with cellphones and other wireless devices. A call for a moratorium on 5G was issued in September 2017 by more than 180 scientists and doctors from countries, "until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry." The moratorium points out that "RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment," and that "5G will substantially increase exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) on top of the 2G, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, etc. for telecommunications already in place." Despite that, and an appeal for protection from nonionizing EMF exposure by more than 230 international EMF scientists to the United Nations in 2015, the U.S. and many other countries are still moving ahead without any health or environmental impact studies. At a February 6, 2019, senate commerce hearing, the FCC admitted that no 5G safety studies have been conducted or funded by the agency or the telecom industry, and that none are planned. The added concern 5G brings is the addition of the millimeter wave (MMW). This bandwidth, which runs from 30 gigahertz (GHz) to 300GHz, is known to penetrate up to 2 millimeters into human skin tissue, causing a burning sensation. Research has shown sweat ducts in human skin act as receptors or antennae for 5G radiation, drawing the radiation into your body, thereby causing a rise in temperature. This in part helps explain the painful effect. As noted by Dr. Yael Stein — who has studied 5G MMW technology (Millimeter Wave) and its interaction with the human body — in a 2016 letter to the Federal Communications Commission: "Potentially, if 5G Wi-Fi is spread in the public domain we may expect more of the health effects currently seen with RF/ microwave frequencies including many more cases of hypersensitivity (EHS), as well as many new complaints of physical pain and a yet unknown variety of neurologic disturbances. It will be possible to show a causal relationship between 5G technology and these specific health effects. The affected individuals may be eligible for compensation." Aside from pain, MMW has also been linked to eye damage, heightened stress through its impact on heart rate variability, arrhythmias, suppressed immune function and increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria. If Stein is right about being able to demonstrate a causal relationship between 5G and certain health effects, then the class action against Apple and Samsung will be just the beginning of lawsuits. Beyond its health ramifications, a global 5G network will also threaten our ability to predict weather, which will put civilians at risk and jeopardize the Navy. According to a recent paper in the journal Nature, widespread 5G coverage will prevent satellites from detecting changes in water vapor, which is how meteorologists predict weather changes and storms. Time will tell if that will be yet another avenue for legal action. The National Cancer Institute Continues to Deny the Risk The National Cancer Institute is a federal agency funded by Congress. As such its mission is to conduct and support cancer research, yet, when it comes to researching and supporting radiation dangers from cellphones, it posts studies denying the dangers on its website while studies like one published in late 2020, which found that "every 1,000 hours of cellphone use, or about 17 minutes a day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60% increase in brain cancer." This research directly contradicts the NIH's statement that "the evidence to date suggests that cell phone use does not cause brain or other kinds of cancer in humans." Another study by the former director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC concluded that there is a "high probability" that radio frequency radiation emitted by cellphones causes gliomas and acoustic neuromas, two types of brain tumors. So why would the NCI ignore safety signals? Take Precautions Sooner Rather Than Later Clearly, a key take-home message from the Tribune's testing is that you should never carry your phone in your pocket unless it's in airplane mode. Carrying it on your body while it's on is a sure way to ensure overexposure, and this appears to be true for many different models. The radiation may even differ from one phone to the next, of the same model, so even if your model happened to rate well at the 2-mm distance in this particular test, it's not a guarantee your individual phone will not overexpose you.