New Cell Phone Radiation Facts Emerge
In a time when people use their cellphones so much, they might as well surgically attach them to their ears, it’s a pain that after all these years, we still shouldn’t know for certain if pressing a powerful radio transmitter to your ear causes cancer.
There are times when scientists seem to believe that it doesn’t do any harm; and then again, there are scientists who believe it definitely does. So where exactly do we stand? What are the cell phone radiation facts that really matter?
For now, new cell phone radiation facts state that radiation from a phone could actually change the way your brain works. And it’s pretty credible stuff – published in the Journal of the American Medical Association as it is.
How exactly does it change the way the brain works? Well, as far as research at the National Institutes of Health goes, they’ve found that using a cellphone for an hour makes your brain metabolize glucose differently – more quickly.
Is this actually bad for you? Well, no one’s sure just yet. But just to know that using a cell phone makes your brain do things differently is spooking people.
The scientists behind the study aren’t really asking anyone to throw away their iPhones just yet. But they’re asking them to use them far less for conversations.
And if you do need to be on your phone a lot, you don’t have to give the cell phone up and switch to a landline just yet.
Using something like a wired hands-free headset would be a great way around the problem. If that’s just too cumbersome for you, you could go with a Bluetooth headset.
The Bluetooth headset isn’t completely radiation-free of course; but its transmitter is so weak, it is close enough.
When people look up cell phone radiation facts, they just think about how there is this “radiation” that they need to run away from.
Not all radiation is the same. For instance, radiation that’s even slightly less powerful – as from a Bluetooth headset – is far less risky.
And every single hair’s breadth that you manage to put between your ear and your cellphone, the less harmful the radiation becomes.
A good way to stay safe if you don’t have a headset handy, would be to try turning the speaker on and holding the phone an inch away from your ear.
Basically, it would be a good idea to never press your phone tightly to your ear to be able to hear better in a noisy room. A far better idea would be to get outside for the duration of such a call.
But it isn’t by any means just your head that’s sensitive to cell phone radiation. Facts points to how carrying your phone anywhere on your person could be risky.
In your shirt or pants pocket, it could still be quite risky. Basically, you want use any means available to you to put at least an inch between your body and any part of your phone.
The sad part in all of this is that the radiation problem is only getting worse. As phones become more complex, they need to put out stronger signals than ever before to make sure that all the information they try to communicate gets through. Smartphones do that a lot.
But there things you can do to minimize your exposure to radiation. Make sure that you don’t ever put the phone to your ear until the call actually goes through and it starts ringing. It’s that period of time that every phone emits the strongest signal.
And once you do start talking, you could hold the phone away from your ear when you do some actual talking and put it close to your ear when you listen. This kind of back-and-forth motion does a lot to protect you.
You could also stop moving when you talk. Walking and talking, your cell phone has to work harder to keep up. And that means a stronger signal.
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