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Research like this is why smart people are switching to wired headphones now.
You probably don't know, but your AirPods connect to Bluetooth at 2.45 GHz.
This is a type of radiation frequency that's a potential carcinogen, and it hits your skull and goes straight through your brain every time you're using them.
In this study, researchers exposed rats to this 2.45ghz frequency for four hours a day for a month and a half.
At first, there were minimal changes, and they were behaving fairly normally. That's the big problem: this kind of exposure builds slowly, silently, in the background, often undetected for many years.
But - when they started running memory tests, they found the rats were no longer able to navigate properly, and they showed levels of anxiety.
And when they looked inside the brains, things got really concerning:
- The antioxidants that usually protect neurons were all depleted (glutathione, catalase).
- Lipid peroxidation had increased.
- The branching between the neurons declined.
- Protein that's responsible for cell death was increased.
Yes, we aren't rats, and this research is still building, but you've got to consider the exposure you're getting from these things, hours a day, continuously, over the weeks and over the years.
You have to ask yourself, "What sign are you going to need to recognise?" That radiation isn't doing you any favours.
We have actual long-term human research when you develop health issues yourself, and there are some easy spots to make here that don't run the same kinds of risks.
You probably don't know, but your AirPods connect to Bluetooth at 2.45 GHz.
This is a type of radiation frequency that's a potential carcinogen, and it hits your skull and goes straight through your brain every time you're using them.
In this study, researchers exposed rats to this 2.45ghz frequency for four hours a day for a month and a half.
At first, there were minimal changes, and they were behaving fairly normally. That's the big problem: this kind of exposure builds slowly, silently, in the background, often undetected for many years.
But - when they started running memory tests, they found the rats were no longer able to navigate properly, and they showed levels of anxiety.
And when they looked inside the brains, things got really concerning:
- The antioxidants that usually protect neurons were all depleted (glutathione, catalase).
- Lipid peroxidation had increased.
- The branching between the neurons declined.
- Protein that's responsible for cell death was increased.
Yes, we aren't rats, and this research is still building, but you've got to consider the exposure you're getting from these things, hours a day, continuously, over the weeks and over the years.
You have to ask yourself, "What sign are you going to need to recognise?" That radiation isn't doing you any favours.
We have actual long-term human research when you develop health issues yourself, and there are some easy spots to make here that don't run the same kinds of risks.
