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Wireless technology always makes people a little leery about how healthy it is for us.
With 5G wireless technology making its way across the world, government agencies and organizations are stressing that there is no need to worry about the radiofrequency waves on our health. However, some experts tend to disagree.
5G promises to bring faster browsing, streaming, and download speeds to bring better connectivity in a fast-driven world. It is supposed to increase capacity and reduce latency, which will be instrumental in allowing robotics, self-driving cars, and medical devices to communicate with other devices quickly.
With all of these positive additions, concerns over how safe the electromagnetic radiation that comes along with 5G have arisen. An electromagnetic field is the field of energy that leads to the production of electromagnetic radiation, which occurs as a result of the flow of electricity. The electric fields exist when there are power lines or outlets. Magnetic fields are created only when there is a flow of electric currents. Together, they form an electromagnetic field.
In recent studies, it was determined that these radiofrequency waves are possibly carcinogenic to humans. The study showed that the causal interpretation between mobile phone RF-EMF exposure and glioma is possible. In an article written by Dr. Agostino Di Ciaula, he said the following:
“Evidences about the biological properties of RF-EMF are progressively accumulating and, although they are in some case still preliminary or controversial, clearly point to the existence of multilevel interactions between high-frequency EMF and biological systems and to the possibility of oncologic and non-oncologic effects.”
Even though there is evidence that ties RF-EMF to the risk of developing certain cancers, the jury is still out on how serious of a threat it poses. Of course, to reduce our exposure to the RF-EMFs, we can simply reduce the amount of time we spend on our phones and create more distance between devices and our heads.
