Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, Yale School of Medicine researchers have determined.
The results, based on studies in mice, are published in the March 15 issue of Scientific Reports, a Nature publication.
“This is the first experimental evidence that fetal exposure to radiofrequency radiation from cellular telephones does in fact affect adult behavior,” said senior author Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, professor and chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences.
Taylor and co-authors exposed pregnant mice to radiation from a muted and silenced cell phone positioned above the cage and placed on an active phone call for the duration of the trial. A control group of mice was kept under the same conditions but with the phone deactivated.
The team measured the brain electrical activity of adult mice that were exposed to radiation as fetuses, and conducted a battery of psychological and behavioral tests. They found that the mice that were exposed to radiation tended to be more hyperactive and had reduced memory capacity. Taylor attributed the behavioral changes to an effect during pregnancy on the development of neurons in the prefrontal cortex region of the brain.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is a developmental disorder associated with neuropathology localized primarily to the same brain region, and is characterized by inattention and hyperactivity.
“We have shown that behavioral problems in mice that resemble ADHD are caused by cell phone exposure in the womb,” said Taylor. “The rise in behavioral disorders in human children may be in part due to fetal cellular telephone irradiation exposure.”
Taylor said that further research is needed in humans to better understand the mechanisms behind these findings and to establish safe exposure limits during pregnancy. Nevertheless, he said, limiting exposure of the fetus seems warranted.
First author Tamir Aldad added that rodent pregnancies last only 19 days and offspring are born with a less-developed brain than human babies, so further research is needed to determine if the potential risks of exposure to radiation during human pregnancy are similar.
“Cell phones were used in this study to mimic potential human exposure but future research will instead use standard electromagnetic field generators to more precisely define the level of exposure,” said Aldad.
Other Yale authors on the study include Geliang Gan and Xiao-Bing Gao.
The study was funded by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, and Environment and Human Health, Inc.
Citation: Scientific Reports 2 : 312 | DOI: 10.1038/srep00312
EMF Radiation—A Cause of Breast Cancer
EMF radiation may be a cause of breast cancer, according to a growing number of studies. There are many possible environmental causes currently considered by scientists, and EMF radiation is one of the most significant as we continue to be assaulted daily by an ever-growing cloud of radiation coming from our electricity, appliances, cell phones, Wi-Fi, and cell towers.
Keep That Cell Phone Out of Your Bra
For many young women today, tucking cell phones in the bra has become a cool, hip way to have simple access to these essential devices. Most of us have no idea that cell phones are small microwave radios that should not be kept directly on the body.
The ways some people are using their phones today could increase their risk of developing breast cancer and other diseases tomorrow. Cell phone’s microwave radiation seeps directly into soft fatty tissue of the breast.
It’s too late for Andrea X, a young active mother of three from Southern California. For more than six years, this vegetarian and runner drove her children everywhere, with her cell phone tucked snugly into her sports bra. She used her hands-free headset and was on the phone for four to five hours a day. Often her chest or ear would redden, but she thought little of it. This spring she developed a malignant tumor right where her phone had sat on her breast. No one in her family has ever had breast cancer.
Could all this be a coincidence? Of course but her doctors, and the physicians of four other women under the age of 40 with similar stories, are deeply concerned that cell phones can cause cancer in women who store them on their torsos.
As of January, San Francisco will require cell phone retailers to provide the estimated Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for each phone. I am not asking anyone to become a Luddite and forgo the benefits and wonders of modern technology. I am saying — know the dangers of holding phones next to the brain and body, and be safe. Using a headset or speaker phone substantially reduces radiation exposure, as does holding a phone away from the body when it’s connected to a signal.
Interestingly, smart phones come with warnings, but these warnings are buried in the manufacturers’ instruction material that few people read. The iPhone 4 manual, for example, says that if the phone is kept in the pocket, “FCC guidelines for safe exposure can be exceeded,” and that “users are responsible for protecting themselves.”
Amazingly, today’s SARs rest on standards that were set in 1979 to prevent the warming of the large head of a 6-foot tall heavy-set man.
Our bodies are truly electric. But the steady, low electrical impulses that keep us alive may be disrupted by those pulsed signals that power today’s small microwave radio cell phones. That warm tingle from the cell phone pressed to the bosom could presage breast cancer not too far into your future. Given even the possibility of harm that can be prevented with a dollop of precaution, isn’t it time, ladies, to get a headset, and take those phones out of your pockets and bras?
Breast Cancer Epidemic
The statistics on breast cancer are alarming. Currently, the American Cancer Society states that 1 in 8 women in the US will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. Death rates are higher than any other type of cancer for women, except for skin cancer. A surprising number of men also continue to develop breast cancer.
We have seen a slight decrease in the last decade of female breast cancer patients, evidently due to the discovery that a popular hormone replacement therapy was making women vulnerable to breast cancer. However, the statistics remain high and very concerning.
Is there a link between cell phone placement and breast cancer?
What you need to know:
1. Cell phones are two-way microwave radios that should not be kept directly on the body.
2. The soft fatty tissue of the breast readily absorbs this radiation.
3. Case Reports are accumulating of young women with no family history getting a diagnosis of breast cancer. The tumors were unusually located directly underneath the skin where they placed their cell phones in their bra.
4. Doctors voice this precautionary advice: Women should not store their cell phones in their bra.
The biological impact of your cell phone is not related to its power, which is quite weak, but rather to the erratic nature of its signal and its ability to disrupt resonance and interfere with DNA repair. Serving as an illustrative warning of the potential for your cell phone to cause cancer is the case of a young woman with no other predisposing risk factors for cancer who developed multi-focal breast cancer directly beneath the area of her breast where she’d been tucking her cell phone into her bra Earlier research has shown that wearing a cell phone on your hip may weaken an area of your pelvis, and cell phone radiation has also been found to affect men's sperm count, and the quality and motility of their sperm. As a general rule, you’ll want to avoid carrying your phone anywhere on your body. The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radiation exposure, is within about six inches of the emitting antenna, especially when it is put next to soft tissue such as in your pant or shirt pocket, or worse yet, in a woman’s bra
Melatonin and Breast Cancer
So how it is that EMF radiation is a probable cause of breast cancer? It’s a bit complicated. First we have to understand melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland.
Melatonin is known to play a major role in cancer prevention and longevity. One of its primary functions is to regulate circadian rhythms in the body, which govern our waking/sleep cycle. Melatonin is also a powerful free radical scavenger, facilitating proper DNA synthesis and also cell division.
But perhaps its most important function is how it interacts with breast cancer cells. Studies have found that a low level of melatonin in the body stimulates the growth of certain breast cancer cells. When melatonin is added to these cells, their growth is inhibited. Women with breast cancer have as little as 1/10 the amount of melatonin in their bodies, compared to healthy women. (See studies by Soule 1973, Lippman 1977, Wilson 1992, Cos 1998, and Black 2005.)
In people who don’t sleep regularly at night, the pineal gland doesn’t produce enough melatonin for healthy functioning. For this reason, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has officially labeled night shift work as a probable “human carcinogen”. Breast cancer has been shown to be 60% more common among such groups as nurses, night shift workers and long-haul airline attendants. (See Boston Nurses Study 1997, Scandinavian Airlines Study 2010, and Hansen 2001.)
First World Conference on Breast Cancer
As far back as 1997, evidence of the link between breast cancer and EMF radiation was presented at the first World Conference on Breast Cancer in Canada. Data gathered from more than 100 epidemiological studies was presented, demonstrating the link between occupational or residential EMF exposure and various cancers, including breast cancer.
Studies showing how EMFs block the tumor-suppressing action of melatonin were also presented. Among them were those studying women using electric blankets, persons living within 300 meters of a cell tower, telephone technician employees, and men in the electrical trade.
EFECT OF CELL PHONE RADIATION ON PREGNANCY
The most recent topic of debate, which has been in limelight since many years, is the side-effects of cell phone radiations on the health of the pregnant females. There are ample of ill-effects affecting the physical, mental and the emotional state of a pregnant mother. The cellular radiations impart an adverse affect on the growing fetus as well as on the well being of a woman during her gradual stages of pregnancy. Further, these detrimental radiations emitted by a cell phone play their role in shaping the later life of the woman as well as the newborn.
Long Term Effects Of Exposure To Radiation
There are numerous people who are unaware of the fact that they are being continually exposed to the injurious cellular radiations around them which are negatively affecting their health. One cannot deny this fact that these invisible radiations can impart a deep-rooted ill-effect on the life plus health of the child which is yet to be born! These radiations have an unpleasant effect on the life of the developing child as well as the mother during pregnancy. They deeply affect the brain cells of mother and her child.
In addition to this, the radiations that are impacted by the cell phones can injure blood circulation system and cause cancerous or malignant growth of cells. There are many problems which are faced by the fetus during his development. These radiations can unfavorably affect the memory and result in reduced mental ability of the child in future!
Birth Imperfections
If the fetus is in the early stages of its development then the radiations emitted by these cool cellular gadgets can have a dangerous effect on his process of organ formation. If it is exposed to these radiations frequently then it can result in the mental retardation of the child thereby reducing his future development.
These radiations cause several births defects. If you are pregnant then you must make it sure that the immature fetus, respiring, inside your body must not be exposed to these cellular radiations, mainly in the first 25 weeks of pregnancy. This is the period when your would-be child is in the most delicate stage of its existence.
So, these were some common problems which are faced by some pregnant women and their budding child because of the radiations emitted by the cell phones.
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