and a Health Alert this morning
scientists have a warning about a
popular product making waves across the
country they're called the Apple earpods
this product has been taking on a life
of its own on social media however
experts on the World Health Organization
are concerned that wireless devices such
as these pose a cancer risk so here to
talk about the potential risk is a leak
as Ryan and so what about this product
makes it prone to cancer so this
actually isn't a very new question or no
new new concern is we've been discussing
the risk of cell phones in cancer so
it's do these do these technologies emit
radiation so here they've they've now
raised the question where with the air
pots so when you're putting these small
headphones essentially the the Bluetooth
technologies the wireless earbuds in
your ear due to their location in the
ear canal and the proximity to your head
and the brain are you exposing your
brain to radiation and does that
potentially increase health risks risk
including cancer so they're a bunch of
studies that have been done over the
years with cell phones particularly that
having conclusively shown that people
that that are exposed to cell phone' and
that increased radiation have increased
risk of either benign tumors you know
one ones that cancer called or a tumor
called the acoustic neuroma which is a
nerve cell related to hearing but also
cancers and one way to kind of think
about that is cell phones have been
around for a long long time
so if that was the case we see a
significant increase in the number of
brain cancers
during that time and we really don't see
that we've actually seen a slight
decrease in the number of brain cancers
over the past decade that's great I
think the concern with the the air pods
is that people keep them in their ears
all day long maybe while they're working
or whatever so it's an extended use may
be sure and and you're getting the
exposure so what what would the people
arguing on the other side of the fence
from the from the scientific aspect it's
the amount of radiation that you're
getting from that is actually a little
bit less than the cellphone but actually
you know the jury's out you know the
studies that have been done haven't
shown any air buzz haven't been around
the airbox haven't been around enough to
be study from that one takeaway from
this would be if you are concerned one
simple thing to do is one either don't
use them secondary you can use a wired
earphone I was gonna add an alternative
would just be like normal headphones
there's normally a headphone so that's
an easy thing to do from that you may
not be as cool but but you eliminate the
concern that you have from that aspect
of things other things from just
generally using cell phones you can use
the speakerphone so you're not that's
actually the safest thing to do right
because you're not you don't have it
close to your face don't have it close
to your face forever from that
standpoint when you're in the car you
can use the hands-free devices because
truly you know one big takeaway you can
get from from from this discussion is
the most dangerous thing that you did
that there is associated with cell
phones and text texting is distracted
driving in a motor vehicle accidents
associated with it yeah so we're talking
about the risk for cancer but you're
like hey your likelihood of you know
getting in a car accident is a lot
higher than cancer so if you have the
choice between using the air pods
although the concern is you can't hear
what's going on so you don't want to be
a lot less than it's a lot less from
that same foot so the thing to think
about for from from this standpoint is
that according to the World Health
Organization in the CDC right now the
studies are mixed from that standpoint
they are doing ongoing studies the
studies are scarce however this is not a
new discussion it was they've been that
this controversy has reemerged with cell
phones this is a new discussion that
came out of study in a journal called
the medium where a professor from
biochemistry from the University of
Colorado again due to the proximity of
these these wireless earphones in the
ear and the proximity to the brain
increasing what called electromagnetic
deforest radiation could this
potentially have health hazards related
to it we will learn more as more studies
are done from the same point but if
you're concerned is the wire the wired
headphones don't use them if you're
using a cell phone use a speaker phone
in the car use the hands-free devices
because that actually decreases your
risk of the most important issue related
to cellphones and you know these type of
technologies is distracted driving from
at any point so those are things that
are the takeaway from this standpoint
however you know 2015 over 250
scientists and from 40 countries did put
a petition to the UN and the World
Health Organization raising concerns for
the radiation associated with this so
there are people that are looking at
this and hopefully we get science that
helps us so be mindful be careful and be
smart for your own own concerns from
this take a break from the smart phone
every now and again anyways it's good
for you you know your phone you can
actually look and see it gives you that
how much now I think it's every Sunday
get the report it's very scary how much
time we spend on the phone these days
and so it may be good to take some time
to not be on the phone and enjoy our
life and moments like this may be a good
time to take a step back and not be so
connected to our phones absolutely well
thank you so much for sure