Experts Corner
Warning: 50 Minutes with This Daily Gadget Can Alter Your Brain and DNA
Posted By
Dr. Mercola
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January 19 2012
Story at-a-glance
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Health
Canada is proposing to adopt a precautionary principle approach and
guidelines for limited cell phone use. Other countries that have already
done so to some degree or another include Russia, the UK, Israel,
Belgium, Germany, India, Finland and France.
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In
May of 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO)/International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued a report admitting cell phones
might cause cancer, classifying radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as
“possibly carcinogenic to humans” (Class 2B).
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Researchers
have identified numerous mechanisms of harm, which explain how
electromagnetic fields impact your cells and damages your DNA.
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A
study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published in JAMA
early in 2011, led by leading brain imaging researcher Nora Volkow,
found conclusive evidence of altered brain activity after just 50
minutes of cell phone exposure. This study, along with others, decimates
the old notion that non-ionizing (non-thermal) radiation is incapable
of having a biological effect.
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An
important new analysis from Sweden, just published in Neurology &
Neurophysiology, projects a very large increase in brain cancer
incidence resulting from widespread mobile phone use beginning in
approximately 15 years. The projections are based on well-established
known effects of this radiation on DNA:that mobile phone use decreases
the efficiency of the repair of mutated DNA and that mobile phone use
increases the rate of DNA mutations.
