Mary Jerard, retired accountant of Seattle, Washington: "I have had good hearing all of my life. I recently suffered a drastic change in my hearing soon after I parked my car in a grocery store parking lot to wait for a friend. While sitting in the lot, I noticed a cell tower with many antennas about 100 feet from my car. My friend forgot to show up, although I waited for over one hour. After that day, I found it difficult to clearly understand what people were saying and my hearing has gotten progressively worse. Later, an acquaintance with an EMF detector showed me that the radiation from that cell tower activates her detector in a very loud way. If cell tower radiation can so radically affect
the microwave measuring device, I am wondering what it might have
done to my hearing?”
HEARING DAMAGE IN THE MICROWAVE AGE
Among the many pathological symptoms and conditions reported by people
living in close proximity to cell tower antennas are negative changes in
both eyesight and hearing. In 2013, residents of an apartment
complex in Mumbai, India --one of them a famous singer-- made
international headlines when they complained to the media that eighteen roof-mounted cell phone antennas above their apartments were the suspected cause of a cancer epidemic among residents of the complex. They also reported constant headaches and nausea, in addition to newly acquired hearing problems. [1]
Several published epidemiological health studies of people living near
microwave antennas have likewise reported visual disturbances and hearing disruption as common complaints. [2] In 2005, a group of doctors in Bavaria, Germany, conducted a study of 356 sick people in several regions who had suffered long-term radiation exposure from nearby cell towers and/or DECT cordless phones. As a result, 175 doctors signed a letter to the prime minister of Bavaria. Known as the Bamberger Appeal, this document states that microwave antennas erected for cellular communications across Germany are creating a widespread public health emergency. [3] Among complaints of the heavily-irradiated Bamberger study group were:
Sudden and abrupt hearing loss
Gradual hearing loss
Bothersome noise within the inner ear/brain (tinnitus)
Some of these antenna-irradiated people also reported dizziness and loss of balance, plus symptoms of other pathologies affecting the inner ear. As a side note, here is an interesting bit of recent German history: ♦ In 2006, fifty-five percent of Germans polled admitted that their cell phones plus environmental "electrosmog" is "slowly killing them." [4] ♦ In 2010, the German media reported that cancer rates in Germany had increased by 90% in men and 40% in women since 1990, an era when Germans began using wireless phones with a vengeance. [5] Now we have to wonder how, after all these years, is their eyesight, hearing and brain function? Medical science confirms that man-made RF/microwave radiation from cell tower and Wi-Fi antennas flows as electrical and magnetic currents through human flesh [6], subjecting molecules and cells to abnormal oscillations at millions to billions of times per second. Unfortunately, these high-frequency signals
are not usually audible to human beings. Wireless antenna radiation is out of normal hearing range because humans only process sounds up to about 20,000 hertz. An RF/microwave detector
with audio capabilities can translate megahertz and gigahertz microwave signals into impressively
audible tones. Such equipment confirms that intense, man-made microwave energy now flows perpetually through our
environment everywhere, both indoors and out. As documented at this website, low-level microwave radiation efficiently: Rips apart the DNA and chromosomes in human cells Weakens cell membranes, causing calcium imbalance
Interrupts communication processes between cells
Induces red blood cells to clump, leading to abnormal circulation Such drastic bio-effects are logically as devastating to the human auditory system as they are to other biological systems of the body. Both the membranes and DNA of inner ear cells are critical to robust
hearing. The human hearing apparatus is exquisitely sensitive to changes in the
blood supply. When inner ear cells communicate with other cells, they
depend on proper calcium balance to get the job done.
Two generations of North American cell and cordless phone lovers have received no official warning about wireless hearing damage. Most people are shocked when an audio microwave detector reveals to them the noise
and power of microwave energy hissing from a cell phone or from a Bluetooth device pressed to the ear canal. This energy, capable
of propagating voice and data signals for miles, penetrates the ear deeply, as it does
the eye and the brain. Research conducted at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated that mobile phone devices
held to the head produce random thermal spikes which can literally burn
brain tissues. [7] Could not these radiation heat spikes, bursting through the ear canal, also impact inner ear mechanisms, including the ultra-sensitive
"hair" cells vital to normal hearing?
Microwave
radiation from wireless phones is a confirmed cause of acoustic neuroma, a type of tumor which forms on the nerve leading
to the brain. Cell phones, cordless phones, wireless headsets and Bluetooth
devices are all mentioned in risk statistics for this type of tumor, a common cause of
deafness. Using microwave devices on the ear for
several years at least doubles the risk for acoustic neuroma. [8] Surgery is necessary for these tumors and the surgery itself causes varying degrees of permanent deafness.
Adequate research on critical
audiological issues related to wireless technology has not
been undertaken in the United States since the wireless revolution
began. As confirmed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), most of the scant wireless bio-research conducted
in the United States is undertaken by the Wireless Radiation Industry itself. [9] This situation is akin to tobacco companies conducting research on the health effects of cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has neither manpower nor political will to scientifically review the safety of radiation-emitting consumer
products. The FDA has never issued adequate health warnings based on the latest medical science
related to wireless technologies. Therefore, no wireless device on
the market has ever been U.S. government-certified for hearing
safety. Information about ludicrous levels of wireless radiation permitted by U.S. regulators is provided by Louis Slesin,
editor of Microwave News: “Not long ago, a well known microwave researcher pointed out that when
you put a cell phone next to your ear, the radiation exposure will often
exceed the current safety standard. That is, the ear gets overexposed.
Keep in mind that the standard is not particularly strict, indeed it was
written by the military and the cell phone industry. What happened
next? The standards committee exempted the ear. Suddenly, the ear was
not very important. It was a piece of cartilage that
could withstand 10-20 times more radiation. I am not aware of a single
medical doctor who was consulted during the process of relaxing the
standard, but I do know that the change sailed through. This is the way
the system works.” [10]
Therefore, Americans who wish to protect their hearing in the Microwave Age must rely on
scientific evidence offered by independent researchers working in
other nations:
♦ In 2005, a Spanish medical study conducted at the University of Valencia
reported hearing loss among 323 healthy volunteers who were followed
during three years of cell phone use. [11] ♦ In 2005, researchers in Saudi Arabia conducted a study on the link between cell phone usage and eye and ear damage. A total of 873 subjects who used mobile phones answered a detailed questionnaire on their medical history. About 35% of problems reported involved hearing problems, ear ache and/or warmth on the ear. The study stated: "It is concluded that the use of mobile phone is a health risk factor, and thus it is suggested that excessive use of mobile phones should be avoided and social awareness increased through health promotion activities, such as group discussions or public presentations.... " [12] ♦ In 2006, a study published by the Department of Otolaryngology at the Medical
School of Dicle University in Turkey concluded: “This
study shows that a higher degree of hearing loss is associated with
long-term exposure to electromagnetic (EM) fields generated by cellular
phones.” [13] ♦ In 2007, medical
research presented by the American Academy of Otolaryngology found
that microwave phone radiation incrementally damages the inner ear,
causing high frequency hearing loss. This study, conducted by a
research institute in New Delhi, India, followed 100 people who
used mobile phones for over one year and who incrementally suffered hearing loss as a result. Researchers found that those who kept a microwave-emitting
device on their ear for an hour a day or more, sustained the most inner
ear damage. [14]
♦ In 2010,
doctors in India reported a 50% hearing loss among some cell phone
users in a case-control study which compared the hearing of 112 cell
phone users compared to 50 controls who had never used a mobile
phone. Employing a battery of audiological investigations, the study
concluded: "High
frequency loss and absent distortion product otoacoustic emissions [sounds generated by the inner ear] were
observed with an increase in the duration of mobile phone use, excessive
use of mobile phones, and age more than 30. Additionally, users with
some complaints during mobile phone use demonstrated...abnormalities in
auditory brainstem response. Long-term and intensive mobile phone use
may cause inner ear damage." [15]
♦
In 2011, a follow-up case-control study on a different group of subjects by the
same Indian research group again found numerous audiological problems in
cell phone users compared to the control group. The study reported: "More
than three years of mobile phone usage emerged as a risk fact. The
damage done was bilateral, with the quantum of damage being the same for
both GSM and CDMA [modulation technologies]." The report concluded: "Long-term and intensive GSM and CDMA mobile phone use may cause damage to the cochlea as well as the auditory cortex." [16]
♦ In 2013, researchers
with the Department of Otolaryngology at King Saud University in Saudi
Arabia published a study which concluded that test subjects who used a
3G mobile phone for sixty minutes at a time [a fraction of the time
American youth spend talking on wireless phones] suffered an immediate effect on
their hearing threshold levels and they suffered other negative otological symptoms. [17]
♦ In 2013, an epidemiological study published in Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine tabulated
data from a medical questionnaire given to 350 Turkish cell phone
users. Many users reported hearing loss and tinnitus along with
headaches and vertigo/dizziness related to their wireless exposure. [18]
♦ In 2014, scientists from Nepal and South Korea exposed mice to radiofrequency signals administered at a specific absorption rate (SAR) typical of cell phone power density (1.6W/kg). Irradiated mice suffered a significant decrease in two vital auditory chemicals needed to maintain hearing health. These chemicals are BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) and GDNF (glial-derived neurotrophic factor). BDNF and GDNF are crucial for protection against acoustic trauma and they help prevent hearing defects. The conclusion of this study was a "detrimental effect of RF exposure in the auditory nuclei." [19] ♦ During a 2015 Turkish study of auditory neurons, a team of scientists exposed rats to
electromagnetic radiation for only 30 days. The rats suffered severe degeneration of their auditory systems, including: edema (tissue swelling), the
development of cochlear vacuoles (abnormal holes) and pyknosis
(degeneration and shrinking of cells) in the cochlear nucleus. [20] ♦ Again in 2016, scientists reported that 2.1 gigahertz cell phone radiation causes an increase in neuron degeneration and apoptosis (cell death) in the auditory system of rats. Especially damaged was the cochlear nuclei. [21] The 2.1 frequency is within the realm of today's 4G/LTE smart device radiation and Wi-Fi signals.
Microwave damage to the human cochlea, an inner ear structure, as discussed in the radiation studies cited
above, is bad news. The majority of people with hearing loss have
suffered some degree of damage to the cochlea. Below are pictures under magnification from the House Ear Institute showing the miraculous and fragile “hair” cells lining the cochlea. These fantastic little microprocessors have everything to do with either
hearing well-- or going deaf. They are organized into three rows of outer
hair cells, and one row of inner hair cells. Inner hair cells send
auditory information to the brain, while outer hair cells act to
stabilize or intensify the vibrations transmitted throughout the
cochlea.
The loss of hair cells is irreversible and results in permanent degrees
of deafness. The most common type of hearing loss related to hair cell
die-off is known as sensorineural deafness. It is characterized
initially by high-frequency hearing loss, affecting the ability to
hear and understand speech, especially the consonants s, f, t and z. Loud noises and repeated exposure to sounds at or above 85 decibels are thought to over-stimulate the hair cells,
leading to over-production of cell-damaging chemicals called free
radicals. Could the vibratory radiation from cell tower antennas, Wi-Fi signal generators and wireless phones be as traumatic to ear cells as loud noise? Recent science confirms that the
answer is YES.
Wikipedia reports that even at very low, non-thermal
power densities, microwaves can cause abnormal
over-heating and expansion of parts of the human ear in and around the
cochlea: “The
microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect
or the Frey effect, consists of audible clicks induced by
pulsed/modulated microwave frequencies. The clicks are generated
directly inside the human head without the need of any
receiving electronic device…. During the Cold War era, the American
neuroscientist Alan Frey studied this phenomenon and was the first to
publish…information on the nature of the microwave auditory effect; this
effect is therefore also known as the Frey Effect." [22]
And there is more: "Research
by NASA in the 1970s showed that this effect occurs as a result of
thermal expansion of parts of the human ear around the cochlea, even at
low power density. Later, signal modulation was found to produce sounds
or words that appeared to originate intracranially. It was studied for
its possible use in communications, but has not been developed due to the
possible hazardous biological effects of microwave radiation." [23] The Wireless Radiation Industry has amassed so much power over the human psyche that it now cons millions of people into destroying a personal asset as valuable as hearing. Unregulated Wi-Fi pollutes nearly every building in America, both public and private. Seldom turned off, Wi-Fi is propagated at 2.45 to 6 billion hertz. Some Wi-Fi systems batter victims with dual band radiation, that is, with 2.45 and 5 gigahertz simultaneously. This pulsed energy radically vibrates inner ear nerve cells, continually flipping their polarity at 2.45 to 6 billions times per second! No one knows what will happen to human hearing when myriad and compulsory 5G antennas are perpetually slamming the human inner ear at 24-100 billion hertz! Professor Vittorio Colletti, M.D., an Italian expert on the human auditory system, explains: "Just a two minute call on a mobile phone already stresses the auditory nerve to extremes. It sets the nerves' electrical action potential vibrating and it is not until seven or eight minutes thereafter that it settles down again. Over a period, these effects can add up to long term disorders...." [24] So what does perpetual auditory assault mean for a population that never gets a rest from the violent vibrations of cell tower, Wi-Fi, 5G radiation permeating our environment, indoors and out? Tinnitus, which manifests as persistent ringing,
roaring, hissing or clicking in the ear, is a hallmark of
microwave radiation exposure. It is also a recognized symptom of inner
ear damage and one of the first signs of hearing loss. Tinnitus
often results from hair cell die-off after damage to the auditory system. Prolonged mobile phone use is definitively linked to tinnitus by
a case control study published in 2010 in the journal Occupational
and Environmental Medicine. The study found that regular use of a mobile
phone is associated with double the risk of developing chronic
tinnitus. Researchers who conducted the study "suggest
there is a plausible explanation for a potential link between mobile
phones and tinnitus as the cochlea and the auditory pathway absorb a
considerable amount of energy emitted by a mobile." [25]
Therefore, the inescapable effects of cellular and Wi-Fi pollution everywhere have to be potent factors. According to the American Tinnitus Association, an estimated 50 million Americans suffer some degree of tinnitus; an estimated two million Americans suffer chronic and debilitating tinnitus severe enough to prevent normal daily function. The impairment of acute and unrelenting tinnitus can lead to crippling depression, as well as thoughts of, or consummation of suicide. [26] North American babies and children have long been encouraged by their culture to begin wireless phone use at a very early age. By 2010, a study on adolescent hearing had been conducted at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston. Published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, the study reported that one in five US adolescents were suffering some level of
hearing impairment. It also found that 31 percent more of today's
microwave-addicted teenagers had some level of hearing loss compared to
their peers of the late 80s and early 90s when wireless exposure was
not an issue. Dr. Lawrence Lustig, director of otology and neurotology
at the University of California San Francisco, noted that national statistics on hearing impaired youngsters
reveal a "huge jump in hearing loss." [27] During the last decade, as smart technologies have exponentially increased microwave exposure, researchers in the USA have dropped the ball. How much worse might the situation be today when young people are even more addicted to powerful, multi-antenna smart devices than youth studied a decade ago?
There have been numerous media reports about young Americans
suffering tinnitus and other symptoms of hearing damage from media players, such as iPods and
MP3 players with Wi-Fi capabilities. Unless the wireless
component is disabled, these addictive devices can emit continuous
microwave energy spikes into the ear canal. This radiation also freely travels through
unshielded ear wires and Bluetooth headphones commonly used for hands-free
application. Could the combination of continuous, too-loud volume along with pulsed microwave signals be a root cause
of hearing damage epidemic among America's young? The medical studies cited above indicate that successive armies
of young digital cyborgs, always plugged in for their daily
"dose" of wireless carcinogen, are destined to join in waves (pun intended) the forty-eight million Americans who suffer hearing disabilities.
An additional tragedy concerns the auditory damage that ubiquitous
microwave assault is likely inflicting upon fetuses and infants caught in the Wireless Age. It may be a
long time before medical science
understands the full extent of the damage to hearing and brain function being
suffered by these vulnerable populations, forced to swim in a sea of
carcinogenic wave radiation long before their auditory systems are fully
developed. What we do know is that microwave radiation, with its affinity for water, easily travels through the amniotic fluids of the uterus where this toxic energy is then amplified. [28] And we know that RF/microwave radiation is a gross teratogen (causes birth defects) by virtue of its ability to destroy DNA and alter genes. [29]
Each year, over 12,000 babies are born in USA
with hearing impairment.
Many American school children require speech-language
pathology services and special education to compensate for their hearing disabilities. The latest federal numbers are for 2014-2015, confirming that 76,000 children, ages 3-20, received services for hearing disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). [30]
In
2009, a study published by the Nanomedicine Research Laboratory in
Ankara, Turkey, showed that microwave radiation has a devastating
effect on the hearing function of baby rabbits. Two groups of
rabbits, punished with GSM cell phone radiation (1.8 gigahertz) during
the first 14 days of their lives, suffered a “significant increase in hearing impairment when compared to both the control group and the group exposed only before birth." [31]
This study is fair warning about
microwave-saturated hospitals, homes and day care centers that abuse
infants and toddlers with ultra-destructive
radiation emanating from numerous wireless devices and wireless hotspots. If only from an audiological standpoint, microwave-based
technologies, including hospital IT and security systems, wireless
baby monitors, DECT phone systems, household Wi-Fi networks and personal Wi-devices, are
NOT child-friendly. Ironically, wireless technology is often
incorporated into hearing aid equipment. Some hearing aids send wireless
signals back and forth between the ears. Other systems offer wireless
connectivity between the hearing aid and personal devices or
entertainment equipment. Such wireless exposure from implements affixed
on or in the ear has to be incrementally deleterious to those already
afflicted with hearing problems.
For
those who wish to AVOID further microwave ear damage for young and
old, good advice from the latest science is to keep all
wireless devices off the body and to keep living and working
spaces free of toxic RF/microwave radiation. People who attempt to
mitigate brain and ear damage with a wired headset plugged into a
wireless device should know that unshielded wires, and even some
air tube headsets, transmit plenty of information-carrying radio waves into the inner ear. In
addition, wired headsets cause device users to hold a microwave transceiver right next to the
body, thereby blasting wave carcinogen into the hand, gut and reproductive
organs.
If forced to use wireless equipment, the least deadly alternative is to use --only minimally-- speaker phones widely separated from the body. However, people are so habituated to slamming wireless carcinogen into their faces, that should one nag them to try using speaker application, some will dutifully put their wireless phone on speaker mode (after much travail), then put the device on speaker up to their ear! Another oddity of mass current psychology is that many people, when warned about wireless hearing damage, will reply that their hearing is already so damaged there is no use to take precautions. In their infinite wisdom, they can't fathom that bad hearing can progress to zero hearing!
In 2018, scientists once again confirmed that human test subjects who assault their ear canals with mobile phone radiation, even for short periods per day, suffer obvious DNA damage to the irreplaceable follicle hair cells inside the ear canal. [32] Yet, Microwave Man/Woman/Child
continue to commit "hairy kari" with networking wireless devices placed
directly against the head. At least prudent money managers know to invest heavily in hearing aid technology and medical intervention
for deafness and other auditory pathologies since hearing loss is undeniably a growth industry with momentum! Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth ear buds infuse the human auditory system with billions of carcinogenic microshocks per second! Judging from the
astronomical variety of these gadgets available for wireless
connectivity with the latest smart phones and entertainment systems, it is certain that the
exploited iGeneration is irrevocably programmed to stream a steady torrent of destructive mechanical energy into the ear canal for hours each day. To those who
willfully and endlessly gratify themselves by pumping pulsed microwave frequencies --or the more violent 5G millimeter wave frequencies-- directly into their ears and brains, all we can say is:
Good Luck, Suckers!
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