Cell Phone Signals Cause Nervous Disorders

Natalia Sinitsa

As experiments with rats have shown, the radio waves emitted by some cell phones lead to damage to the nerve cells of the brain of these animals.

For two hours, the animals were exposed to an electromagnetic field similar to that generated by most European-made mobile phones. The rats obviously had a hard time. As the study shows, an ordinary protein, albumin, entered the brain of animals along with the blood.

Several mobile phone users have filed a lawsuit against a number of companies, alleging that it was as a result of contact with their products that they developed brain cancer. However, the manufacturers managed to prove the safety of their phones.

Studies focused mainly on the risk of cancer, brought rather conflicting results, so a number of organisations, including the World Health Organisation, demanded more thorough work. Then, according to Jim Burkhart, scientific editor of the journal published by the US National Institutes of Health, "scientists decided to study not so much the possibility of cancer as a result of using a mobile phone, but its detrimental effect on the nervous system."

Research is all the more necessary as the mobile phone is gaining more and more fans. Back in 2003, when this decision was made, the total number of users was more than 900 million (for comparison: in 2000 the number of users was 500 million; and in 2021, 1.67 billion mobile phones were sold worldwide).

But back to our rats. According to the researchers, the nervous system of those rats that were exposed to stronger electromagnetic waves suffered more. In fact, this is exactly what the scientists hoped for. But as far as direct harm to humans is concerned, they note, absolutely nothing follows from the results of the experiment.

Meanwhile, the products of the wireless communications industry are well within acceptable levels of radio waves, and official regulations confirm the safety of cell phones.

“One single study will not give you an answer,” says Jo-Ann Basile, spokeswoman for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. “Scientists unanimously say that the use of cell phones does not affect health, opinions". 

However, Jo-Ann Basile declined to comment on the results of the rat experiment. The results of a study by Swiss scientists were also published, who registered increased blood flow to those areas of the brain that were in close proximity to the phone during just a half-hour telephone conversation.

Until recently, most research on this topic was mainly limited to comparing traditional cancer rates and cancer rates among users. However, in September 2003, one of the courts that considered the claim of the group of victims ruled that such studies were not credible.

However, a month later, four Japanese mobile phone companies expressed their willingness to conduct a joint study on the impact of radio waves generated by their products on human health.

 Pravda.ru