June 19, 2008
If Top Brain Surgeons Avoid Cell Phones, Shouldn’t You?
Recently on CNN’s Larry King program, three top brain surgeons admitted they don’t put cell phones to their ears and either use the speaker phone or a special headset.
Now seeing that these are top professionals in medicine, perhaps with knowledge that is not available to the general public, and they personally avoid putting cell phones next to their heads… should we?
Dr. Keith Black, Dr. Vini Khurana and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, all involved in neurosurgery, stated they don’t hold their cell phones next to their ears.
I mean these are doctors that operate on the brain regularly. They say the risk is too high and that they don’t want to wait 10 years and find out they have a tumor.
Just last year, The American Journal of Epidemiology published results from Israel that found a 58 percent higher risk of parotid gland tumors among heavy cell phone users. And also last year, a Swedish overview of 16 studies in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine showed double the risk for acoustic neuroma and glioma after 10 years in heavy cell phone users. Glioma is the type of cancer just diagnosed in Sen. Ted Kennedy.
And in other recent research where risk was found, they identified brain tumors in areas of the head where the patient normally help their cell phone. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out the correlation, right?
The risk is particularly heavy in children where their brains and skulls are still developing and much more susceptible to EMF’s and radiation.
Here is another video with more information and commentary from Dr. Carlo, the doctor originally hired by the cell phone industry to find out the effects of cell phone use on your health.
Avoiding using a cell phone is the best defense of course, but using a speakerphone, an air tube headset that doesn’t send the emf radiation straight to your head like an antenna and keeping cell phones away from your body are recommended alternatives. Bluetooth headsets are like adding another cell frequency transmitter/receiver on your head and not recommended.
What will you decide to do?
To your best health!
Mark Idzik
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July 24, 2008
Charlotte Creamer @ 7:26 pm:
I find it interesting how some (even most) people are so hostile towards the idea that cell phone radiation can cause cancer. Even when presented with the results of studies that indicate a clear link, most cell phone users (much like smokers once did, I suppose) snarl: “Prove it!” To me, the notion that cell phones can cause cancer is common sense. But now that bigwig neuro-surgeons are coming forward and admitting that certain tumors appear to be growing precisely where users hold their phone, and that they themselves, the bigwig neuro-surgeons, won’t hold a phone to their head — well, you would think THAT would change the general public’s opinion about the cell phone/cancer link. You would think. But it hasn’t, at least not on the online forums I’ve checked out as recently as today. Most cell phone users are still adamant that cell phones are safe, even for children. Ya gotta wonder if maybe one of the early symtoms of certain cell phone-induced brain tumors is stupidity.