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this episode of Android Weekly is brought to you by domain.com now there are those people that believe that using these things too much is bad for our health no not that kind of danger I'm talking about the qualified scientists that believe that the radiation admitted from our smartphones is causing premature deaths a group of 200 biological and health scientists from around the world are trying to make this concern public knowledge and they're calling on the UN to help them out in a report published by Russian news organization RT these scientists from all different parts of the world are advocating for the United Nations World Health Organization and various national governments to help develop strict regulations concerning cell phones and other mobile devices that create electromagnetic fields dr. Martin Blanc from the department of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University warns putting it bluntly cellphones are damaging the living cells in our bodies and killing many of us prematurely we have created something that is harming us and it's getting out of control before Edison's light bulb there was very little electromagnetic radiation in our environment the levels today are very many times higher than natural background levels and are growing rapidly because of all the new devices that emit this radiation now before we move on let's talk about electromagnetic radiation for starters your cell phone does produce a certain amount of radiation you can thank your Wi-Fi Bluetooth 3G and LTE connections for all that but radiation can be found in all other aspects of our lives as well radios televisions microwaves and more the real factor here we need to look at is the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and how the two types affect us differently you see radiation that produces enough energy to move around atoms in a molecule but not enough to remove electrons completely is known as non ionizing radiation examples of non ionizing radiation include microwaves sound waves and even visible light just to name a few in contrast however ionizing radiation does have enough energy to move around tightly bound electrons from atoms which in turn creates ions this much more powerful form of radiation encompasses ultraviolet x-rays and yes even gamma rays so what about our smartphones well our smart phones produce non ionizing radiation but at an extremely low frequency level all the connections going to and from your mobile device all operate at different frequencies whether a Wi-Fi Bluetooth or a cellular connection frequencies can range from 700 megahertz up to 5.9 gigahertz now the thing is even with all these connections combined they do not even come close to the same radio frequencies found in x-rays and ultraviolet rays in fact the only effects that these types of radio frequencies have on the human body don't have anything to do with cancer or tumors but as everything to do with how hot your smartphone gets an increased amount of radio frequency energy from smartphones can actually cause some harm to your body by means of tissue heating but this doesn't take place as often as you might think most of the energy produced by frequencies from mobile phones is absorbed by the skin and other superficial tissues which results in a negligible rise in the temperature in the brain and throughout other portions of the body so now is that a cause for concern well the w-h-o doesn't think so to date research does not suggest any consistent evidence of adverse health effects from exposure to radiofrequency fields at levels below those that cause tissue heating further research has not been able to provide support for a casual relationship between exposure to electromagnetic fields and self-reported symptoms or quote electromagnetic hypersensitivity now let's be clear there may be problems with tissue heating but below that the World Health Organization makes very clear that they see no evidence for short term health effects but what about the long term health effects well therein lies the problem we have not had widespread cell phone use until the last few years now some of you are thinking Jace we've had cell phone since the late 80s yes but we've not had widespread use like we do today everyone and their mother quite literally has a cell phone nowadays so it will take some time before we can get comprehensive research on the long-term effects of these devices now far be it from me or anyone at Android authority to question the credibility of these scientists I am not qualified to do so but I do have to ask a simple question it could be interpreted that they are putting the cell phone as the primary culprit of this more damaging radiation and the science as it currently stands does not support that so why would they bring that up well if you're talking about x-rays something that people only periodically interact with you don't get much attention but if you say their cell phone is harming them you get everyone's attention now I really encourage you to read the article that today's show is based on by our own Android authority staffer Jimmy westenberg he did a great job he did lots of research thank you for all the help Jimmy let me know what you think in the comments below so if the Android army would be willing to help me out I'd be grateful you can go to my website Undivided company.com that's what I do when I'm not doing videos like this the site is new it doesn't have enough content yet but I want to hear what you think I worked really hard at trying to find the right name and making sure that I could get the dot-com cuz the dot-com matters why because no domain name extension tells your story with the same level of trust as a.com or.net domain name dot-com and dotnet 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