Take Control of Your Health
with Joseph Mercola, M.D.
Can Cell Phones Make You Sick?
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 Tips to Limit Your Damage from Information Carrying Radio Waves
There quite simply is no safe biological threshold for exposure to information-carrying radio waves, and there is, quite honestly, little you can do to avoid them 100 percent. But you can reduce your, and your family’s, exposure by taking the following commonsense precautions:
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Limit the amount of time you spend on a cell phone or cordless phone.
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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. Wireless BlueTooth® headsets should be avoided.
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Limit your exposure to WiFi routers. Find out where they are located in your work environment and stay away from them.
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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.
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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.
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Limit calls inside buildings.
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Use the phone in open spaces as often as possible.
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Limit use by children and preadolescents, or don’t let them use cell phones at all. Children’s developing nervous systems and thinner skulls are simply too vulnerable to cell phone damage.
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Recent news from the U.K. tells of a cell phone company that recently removed its “tower of doom,” as residents call it, from the roof of a five-story London apartment building after cancer rates skyrocketed among those living on the top floor.
Unless you live in some unbelievably remote location, the odds are high that you’re being bombarded with information-carrying radio waves that can wreak havoc on your body.
These radio waves have increased dramatically and exponentially over the last few years—especially from cell phones, but also from WiFi, WiMax, BlueTooth, and other wireless devices. For most people, the damage from this 24/7 exposure will take years or even decades to surface since there is a lag time of 5 to 20 years for the health effects to become clinically apparent.
For those unfortunate people in London who were living directly below a major cell phone mast, the damage became apparent sometime between the mast’s construction in 1994 and the beginning of the resident’s campaign to have the mast removed in 2002.
You may not realize that you are likely living closer to a cell phone tower than you think. Cell “sites” can look like antennas or huge towers, but they can also be quite camouflaged. They exist on many schools, churches, firehouses, cemeteries and even in national parks. If you’re wondering why a school or park would want a cell site on their grounds, it’s because the cell phone companies pay to have them there, with fees that can range upwards of $2,000 a month.
While there are already more than 175,000 cell towers in the United States, this number is expected to increase by 48 percent to 260,000 by 2010, according to CTIA (the International Association for the Wireless Communications Industry).
If you want to know just how close you are to a cell phone tower or antenna, simply type your location into AntennaSearch.com. It will tell you all of the towers (existing and future) and antennas that are within eight miles of your address!
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