I work in the tech department at Target. It’s mostly old people who hear these rumors and are deeply concerned about brain, cancer or brain tumors from AirPods. One of them lectured me for a good minute or two. I’m trying to be nice and not condescending and I understand their fears but sometimes misinformation gets out of control a little bit.
When I worked as a bagger at a supermarket, an older lady came through my line buying a ton of organic produce, and complaining that it was so expensive. "It is," I agreed, "the conventional produce is much cheaper, if you'd like me to go exchange those for you?" "No no," she said. She insisted she *couldn't* buy conventional, because "they have GMOs and I'm allergic to GMOs." Now, I had just graduated from uni at that point (hadn't gotten my first full-time job yet), and though my degree is in computer science, I'd switched to that from studying biomedical engineering with a focus on researching gene therapies for cancers. So I know a little bit more than non-sciency people about GMOs, and knew being "allergic to GMOs" isn't really a thing, because GMOs aren't really one thing. So I asked politely, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Which GMOs are you allergic to?" Her response, as you can imagine, was, "All of them! I get very sick if I eat any GMOs!" I didn't continue the conversation, because I decided there was no way she'd listen anyway, but... it made me sad. Someone, somewhere had manipulated this poor old lady into spending money she didn't have -- money that likely went straight into the pockets of the organic producers who perpetuate such myths -- by making her afraid that any and all fruits and vegetables that aren't made by them will make her ill. They scared an old woman out of her money with modern-day Frankenstein stories. That should be illegal. So I know the feeling of having customers think they know what they're talking about, but really don't, trying to justify their purchasing habits to themselves and to you.
As an Electronics Engineer with background on RF and a human with common sense I can say that high volume on headphones and lifestyle changes that come usually with cellphone addiction will have a much bigger impact on your health.
Another embedded systems engineer here. If you can believe that bluetooth power level devices can give you cancer, then you probably believe that microwaving your food makes it radioactive ☢️
Yeah, I'm an electrician and I'm in high RF areas regularly so you'd think if this were close to true sparkys would have higher cancer rates. And people working in television and radio. Thinking this through as I write, people living next to a cell tower or radio station should have clusters of cancer diagnosis.
This was my first thought - association. Maybe people who use phones more are also more likely to have a sedentary life, or eat an entire bag of Cheetos each night.
Please, please do a video about laundry and dishwasher detergents! I've heard so many claims that make it sound like their impact on hormones could be serious due to the fact these are used so often in our daily lives! Would love to know the truth! Thank you for doing this series, it's been awesome 😊
GASP!!! A doctor who stuck to the research without going all the way over to one side or the other and denigrating the other side just clearing stating the pros and cons of each side? Well color me impressed. Well done.
The overuse of devices like cell phones and PCs...particularly for social media, one can argue, is FAR more unhealthy and damaging to our mental/emotional health compared to risks to our physical health.
Lol I didn't get the Nofication for some reason when I have it turn on. But I just see this video being uploading today just now while I have my phone bluetooth connect to a soundbar and subwoofer and the subwoofer is connect to the soundbar wireless. So I am using two things that dangerous. Lol.
As a graduate researcher in Life Sciences, I love how you go in depth with the studies performed and discuss much of the nuance. When I hear these kinds of claims it's easy for me to want to just say "you're wrong". But these videos help me to understand more fully the claims, why they exist, and the evidence for and against and it also helps me to be better equipped to have an informed discussion with others. I look forward to watching more of these!
I just had a conversation last week with my mom who kept saying airpods put you at risk of radiation not to dunk on my mom but she believes a lot of things with very little research, so thank you for being able to clear things up for me at least
this really only takes at most an hour of research for most doctors who know where to look for the evidence they want. i doubt dr mike read thru entire papers and probably just scanned the abstracts of some of the more highly regarded papers, then maybe looked at the "findings" section if it wasn't clear enough.
I said it in the first video. This is a very important series for him to make "Doc Mike is the perfect person to make a series like this. He's educated, reputable, and he has good common sense and don't scare monger. He uses facts paird with nuance."
@@ross-carlson I reckon this is a paradox of science-and-related communicators - the more popular they grow, a higher portion of the audience is going to be anti-science and critical thinking and sail through the content on confirmation bias. Leading to high quality, high reach content, with a comment section split between thoughtful discussion and Internet tripe! My hope is that little bits of sensible & critical thinking are getting through to a few people - heck at least they're exposing themselves to content they might not agree with, I guess!
those who are too far gone will probably believe whatever the conspiracy theorists tell them; this series is for those who are _adjacent_ to the nutjobs, who sometimes get sent these facebook misinfo stuff and are too busy to look up the facts themselves. for them, being subbed to dr mike and getting the debunks in bite-sized chunks sent straight into their notifs might be the way to go.
I randomly found your channel some time ago and found your videos entertaining. And I appreciate you touching on topics like this and potentially harmful health trends. Medical misinformation and sensationalism is really bad on social media right now.
I mean, the longer you spend time with your phone, the less likely you are to have an active life, and usually people who use their phones too much ends up having their motivation and decision-making affected, leading to eating less healthy and more isolation, so I'd say EMF is one of the last thing we need to worry regarding long smart-phone use.
To be honest the way you described it phones aren't the reason for this. They are a symptom of something else. If this something else be it dissatisfaction with life or perhaps loneliness, insecurity or mental health issues, won't be dealt with people will try to fill the hole with something else.
All visible light contains more energy than 3g, 4g and 5g waves. So if your phones wifi is killing you, make sure to also throw away all your light bulbs and block your windows xD.
You forgot about blackbody radiation, things that are just at room temperature are emitting infrared radiation with 100,000x greater energy per photon than typical cell phone and Bluetooth emission. That includes yourself, including the individual molecules, cells, and organs inside your body. The inside of your skull is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into your brain, one part of your brain is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into another part of your brain, even the nuclear membrane inside every cell is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into your DNA.
@LordEide electromagnetic radiation in the visible light spectrum can't penetrate your skin though, so isn't reaching your brain, whereas longer wavelengths penetrate more deeply into tissues or pass completely through the body. bluetooth is most definitely safe as it's so low powered, it's the cell phone use over years that i'm more worried about. i try to use speakerphone or bt earbuds when i can so the phone isn't right next to my head much
I used to like this guy until this exact video. He’s a moron. He has no idea what he’s sputtering out of his mouth. Zero education in this area and he’s just done so much harm it’s laughable. One of possibly the safest technologies in cell phones he’s a proponent to block. Zero evidence backing up it’s dangerous. He claims he’s anti this exact thing in the medical field. Lmfao
I bought a 2002 Prius in 2020, and one day I started it up while my grandpa was on a phone call nearby. The moment I turned the key, the engine spooled up and the call dropped simultaneously.
If bluetooth in general is potentially dangerous, I'll take it. My medical devices use it and to have better control of my diabetes and not have burn out, it's worth it as the amount of time I have to focus on my bloodsugar and giving insulin is waaaaaaaay less time consuming after nearly 30 years of dealing with it.
I've known this forever and have been trying to tell people about this. It's annoying that they don't listen when I only try to help them. Thank you for finally bringing light to this!
Ask them to live in the dark then, Visible light is exactly the same radiation just with millions times more energy. Living beings emit higher energy and amounts of radiation all the time, that's how a lot of thermometers work
As a physicist, I have to make an important clarification. Yes, the energy of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to its frequency. But that doesn't mean low frequency waves can't be energetic : you just got to raise the amplitude of the wave. For example, infrared waves are low frequency compared to UVs. Yet an oven is infrared, so is a CO2 laser capable of cutting through wood or metal. Even lower frequency you're gonna have microwaves, which cook your meals... This is why there was regulation put into place for 4G/5G towers, because their energy is quite high despite the low frequency. The low frequency is used because the lower the frequency, the easier it can penetrate things like walls, cars, etc... This is why radiowaves are so good at being transmitted very far and through various objects, and why longer radiowaves such as AM stations will go through a tunnel and you can keep listening to them in your car, but shorter radiowaves such as FM stations won't. And at the core of the reason why it's so hard to predict cancers from EM waves : we simply cannot predict how they interact with individual cells. There is simply too much stuff we don't know yet about our own biology. We don't even know why cells produce extracellular vesicles for example. Yet if you tickle cells with EM waves or acoustic waves with sufficient energy, they're gonna produce vesicles... All we can do is have good practice with cell phones which have been recommanded for years: do not put them to your ears for a long time, especially for young children. Use speaker phone instead. For headphones and headsets, maybe don't buy bluetooth for children but wired devices, with an audio cable. Adults have a thicker cranium that usually protects them more efficiently from waves. But still, if you're gonna use them for like 10+ hours a day, maybe buy wired not wireless...
From a physics standpoint you can not exclude background radiation from man made and natural sources from any studies like it because it far out scale the energy and amount than the low range radiation from Bluetooth. Basically if RF is a cancer threat than i would be more worried about the living to close to a radio tower than my Bluetooth headset.
and also from a physics standpoint, if the em radiation emitted from phones and bluetooth devices, caused cancer, then we should be living like vampires because visible light is higher frequency therefore higher energy therefore MORE ionizing.
I'd be more worried if I didn't live in a cave away from the Sun (jk, I don't). Radio waves go right thru windows and the Sun is a giant thermonuclear bomb constantly bombarding us with RF in levels *far* higher than some piddly BT radio. It's concerning that many people have so little scientific literacy they can't adequately weigh risks.
Your lamp is more dangerous if EMF is a problem. You should avoid electrical lamps. This is totally anti-scientific ridiculous fear mongering one step above flat earthers.
This is a topic regularly on my mind. I can’t express how appreciative I am to have dr Mike (and team) to have the expertise, reputation, and awareness to address this topic that is so relevant to millions of us. Dude, thank you!
I'm sure there's a paper floating around somewhere that sets out how anything can be considered harmful by one metric or another! Too much of anything is a bad thing, it's all about moderation. But unfortunately moderation does not engaging headlines make 😂
Remember to sign the petition to ban dihydrogen-monoxide. High levels of it can be toxic, or result in oxygen deprivation. It's known to be among the most lethal substances on the planet. ^_^
Too much water can kill you. And we're not talking about drinking a bathtub, but just an amount you could easily have too much of on a hot day with too much physical activity.
This dispels many misconceptions about Bluetooth headphones. As with many things, moderation is key. Awareness about the potential risks and taking preemptive actions should be done.
The amount of time and effort that must have been put in to make this video is INSANE. I work in research and I cannot believe how fluidly he analyzes research and is able to explain it in such simple terms. It would take WEEKS for me to compile and analyze sources for a video like this. You’re awesome and thanks for inspiring me Dr. Mike!!
@@undefinederror40404 yes, higher frequency/wavelength means higher energy. Visible light is around 400nm(nanometers) to 700nm. Infrared/heat is about 780nm and 1mm microwaves are from around 1mm to 1m. And radio waves are 1m to hundreds of km. X-ray is 10nm to 0.01nm And gamma rays is everything smaller. Take this with a grain of salt. I am only a science enthusiast and don’t really know that much. This might also be very simplified.
@@undefinederror40404 Yeah! Think about the phrase "electromagnetic spectrum". Electricity, magnetism, and light are all pretty much the same thing. Radio waves are light that falls outside of our vision. So are x-rays and UV rays. When they say "waves" they mean it literally. Big waves, like radio waves and visible light, are mostly harmless. Small waves, like ultraviolet (UV) and gamma, are tighter and have more energy, which are small enough to vibrate and damage things like cells and DNA. That's why we need to wear sunblock outdoors, but not indoors. Lightbulbs don't emit highly energetic UV light, but the sun does!
Well done doctor Mike! This video was so well done! I can't tell you how many concerned mothers and aunts I've had to give this exact mini lesson to. I graduated tech school with a degree in electronics and worked with industrial machines that emitted x-rays and high level RF for a decade and your explanations and graphics were on point. The part that really helps click for them I've found is to be honest and admit that there may be danger there, but as you stated, the fact that there have been dozens if not hundreds of studies looking for danger but cannot establish a clear link suggests that it's probably not worth worrying about, there are so many other things to be more worried about first. In fact, I have a Geiger counter at home to play with as a hobby, most people are surprised to see that cell phones emit no ionizing radiation, but their granite countertops and ceramic dishes do (low/safe levels to be clear). Another thing that I find so cool and mind-blowing is that radio waves and infra red and uv and x-rays are literally the exact same thing as visible light. Uv and x-rays are dangerous because they are a high enough energy (frequency) above visible light (especially x-rays since they are ionizing). But radio (including cell phones) and IR are less energy than visible light, and nobody is running around freaking out about visible light being dangerous (unless you are a vampire). Also, to be clear, low energy light radiation (visible light and below, like IR, microwave, and radio) can still be harmful if it's wattage or your proximity to the source is close enough. For example, is the light emitting from a 60w lightbulb harmful? Most people would say no, but now hold your hand an inch away from the bulb and see how long you can keep it there before your hand heats up enough to start burning. And that effect would happen faster or from further away if you used a brighter/higher wattage bulb. For context, the wattage of a cell phone transmitter (think of it literally as a light bulb) is 3w at most during a pulse of transmission, only equivalent to 0.25w when averaged.
The real danger of Bluetooth headphones or any headphones whatsoever is the risk of losing your hearing. We are the generation with highest risk of having lost hearing at a young age. The only reason are the heavily use of headphones with high volume. If you want to know more about it, Vox has a very well explained video.
we've known about this for years. i, and many of my friends in high school, were taken to the doctor for potential hearing loss due to how much we used headphones back then (06-10). its just that on a mass scale, no one cares. we have beats to bump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's still a crazy thing to research. We are bombarded with non ionizing radio waves literally every day. The intriguing thing about radio waves is that they can not touch our cells at all. They are either too big or do not have the crazy energy ultraviolet, xrays, and gamma rays contain to damage our cells. Some radiowaves are the size of a skyscraper.
Sometimes, the most harmful thing that gets into our skull is misinformation. Sure, a high-velocity piece of rebar is bad for the skull it hits, but misinformation can be contagious.
Yah, there's at most mild heating at the site of impact but they don't go farther in than maybe an inch. If surface heating was enough to secondarily cause brain cancers, we'd all have already died from baseboard heaters or furnaces. You *can* get burns from malfunctioning radio towers (if you're a worker standing right next to it) or from idiots that pull out the magnetron from a microwave and use it unshielded. But that's levels several orders of magnitude higher than anything normal.
Microwaves are radio waves and they heat things up. The frequencies of phones and Bluetooth will heat cells up. It’s also about proximity. The local intensity of Bluetooth in your ear canal is very different to ambient radio .waves.
Dr. Mike, I’ve been watching your channel for years, and just want to say that I wholeheartedly support your efforts to fight misinformation. And I love how you approach these subjects: clearly, in an easy-to-understand manner, and with respect of your viewers and those you care for. Keep up the great work.
Whenever I use bluetooth headsets or AirPods nonstop for a while I always get massive headaches and have to take a few weeks break. I'm back to using wired again and it feels better imo, unless for certain exercise or pooping then I crack and throw in the bluetooth again.
Love your content! Small correction - 1:16 most of the Sun’s UV radiation that reaches the Earth is non-ionising as the ionising far-UV is filtered out by the atmosphere.
The age of information is truly the time to be least informed. If some people still believe the earth is flat, you bet your bum more people will believe the hoaxes
It's most likely that it doesn't do anything at all. If we weren't exposed to it as much as we are today, then I doubt further studies would be conducted.
Read the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. That grandpa that we know, who smoke all his life and lived besides the radio died at 102; really doubt the radiation of the radio was the cause. The main danger is for people who hear at a way too high of a volume, damaging the tympanic membrane. Maybe something relating with cerumen but that's more for an ENT doc to explain more.
A single phone is probably fine, but a neighbor of mine used to carry three cell phones when at work and ended up getting cancer. I always thought it was weird, but apparently, the safety measured at the uranium plant where he worked required him to carry multiple phones.
Excellent video, Dr Mike! One thing to add would be that if you look at the light (RF) spectrum, from low energy to high energy, it goes: - non-ionizing: radio waves, mirowaves, infrared, visible, UV - ionizing: UV, X-Rays, Gamma-Rays Hence, radiowaves and microwaves have lower energy than visible light! Yet, somehow, no one is afraid to turn on a lightbulb at night and i have seen no studies checking the effect of visible light on cancers. While they cannot bump electrons from atoms at these wavelengths (wavelength (m) or frequency (Hz) ~ energy; different from emission power (W) ), the thing that they can do is heat tissue (think microwaves at 1000W or ~10000x the power of a cell phone; or think a magnifying glass concentrating visible light to heat something and burn it). This is why we have VERY conservative power limits with built in safety margins (cellphones max is about 0.3W; cell towers max ~20W; microwave heats at about 1000W for 1-2mins in a cavity designed to keep everything bouncing around so as to use the waves multiple times until they dissipate; think cats' eyes). The last thing is that we typically have the emission power (power emitted at the source) and also have a formula to calculate the power at a certain point and distance away (reception power), with the emission power being the maximum, and decreasing with distance and directivity. This makes it so it wouldn't matter if the source is right next to your ear (airpods) or in your pocket (cellphones). 1W of received power next to your ear is 1W of received power no matter if the power was greater when it left the cell phone in your pocket, the cell tower down the street or your neighbour's the wifi router.
This is the reply I wanted to write, but couldn't figure out the wording. Thank you! So many people forget how the EMF spectrum actually works and just shout bullshit into the ether.
These rumors are so annoying. I used to work for a telecommunications company doing home installs and the number of times I had to run wires and put modem somewhere that would negatively affect the wifi because "we don't want the signals near the bedrooms/kitchens/etc" was surprising. And you can't tell people they're misinformed because then they'd just assume you were trying to get out of doing the work.
I was just diagnosed with breast cancer, could you do a video on invasive ductal carcinoma? This type of breast cancer is on the rise and it's also the type that affects men as well as women.
Dr. I know something is wrong with me I'm very sick. But recent doctor, an Oncologist, examination and CRT showed no sign of cancer. Name of doctor that have EMF patients in DC, Maryland, VA, or any state locations I may contact please advise ASAP. Thanks!!
No, "everything" is NOT toxic, this is the kind of bullshit that scares people for NO REASON. Very little of what is around us is actually toxic and the things that are we KNOW ABOUT - and bluetooth is NOT one of those things. Please stop making such bullshit sweeping statements like that - YOU are the problem here. YOU.
Back in my community health classes when I was finishing my bachelors degree someone had mentioned this in the preventative medicine class. The Doctor Who teaches the class who was an MD who specifically researches health trends said that there are so many other carcinogens that are much more dangerous that we’re exposed to on a daily basis, and that for the average person, the connection between severity and potential for actual cause of cancer is so low that there are other things that should be focused on like stopping smoking, decreasing pollution levels in the air, dealing with micro plastics and chemicals that are in hygiene and personal care products as well as chemicals in cosmetics. In addition, there is the problem related to antibiotics in the food we eat. There’s a lot to unpack here, but basically there’s other things we should be worrying about.
Which is hilarious bc farmers don’t sell antibiotic filled meat and animal products: they literally get in trouble for detectable levels. A test that reveals antibiotics in a truck of milk the ENTIRE TRUCK goes down the drain
@@spazzyshortgirl23 Yeah, but it still doesn't change the fact that people believe it exists. Even if something is wrong, if the public believes it is true, it is public health's job to combat that misinformation and ensure people know the facts.
Yeah, but we could decrease risk of ALL of them. I'll stick to wired earphones, turning off WiFi at night, using 4G, minimizing use of plastics, natural shampoo and body wash, Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition, and so on.
You've done a great job!!! There were complaints about magnets in telephones in the 50s through 70. The greatest danger for most children and young adults is listening to music at 100% volume for hours and not needing surgery or hearing devices before they're 40. Keep up the good work!!!👍🏾
The bottom line is that both cell phones and bluetooth headphones are in mass use in years and decades. If there was a cancer risk it would be noticeable by now. The rates of brain cancer would be surging as compare to the rates say 30 years ago. Any electromagnetic wave can be described as radiation. Phones usually emit milliwatts (can go to several watts) of RF power at around 850MHz to 5GHz (for 5G). Those frequencies are orders of magnitude lower than those of sunlight. Yet, conspiracy theorists aren't afraid exposing themselves to a high energy radiation with typical intensity of 1KW/m2 when they go to the beach, but at the same time are terrified of a cell phone or bluetooth headphones that have much lower energy, and they transmit it with much lower intensity.
Cell phones are not a cancer risk, and we know this because before about 1980 there were no cell phones, and by 2000 everyone had one. Cancer rates did not rise.
Cancer rates have most definitely risen. A simple google search will show this. But not from cell phones. Mostly likely from food and environmental factors. Bowels cancers especially are rising every year, particularly among younger people.
Yes they have risen just not from cell phone use. It’s all of the stuff we do to and put in our bodies. Even the foods and drinks that should be safe like veggies and such. You step outside and you expose yourself to carcinogens.
As part of a course I was leading a seminar on, last year I read a recent paper on effect of prolonged EMF from cell phones and headsets being used to make phone calls on stress and cardiac health using a very large British sample: Cell phone use was quantified based on ~2010 levels of use, not present day, to look at the downstream effects of high exposure. And it found headset use to make phone calls 15 years ago (not likely to be Bluetooth) was associated with present day worse health. Specifically usage to make phone calls over 30 hours a week, in people with lower SES. The main flaw (imo) in this study was that it didn't take into account why the cellphone use was so high, and it is more likely that what the study found was that having a JOB where you have to be on the phone all day (e.g. call center, operator, dispatch) is stressful. It is really hard to do this kind of population level study and I'm glad they could put the data out for others to see.
Imagine if these low frequency EMFs actually harmed us, and the moment we step out into the sun we’re like SpongeBob and Patrick looking up at the light in the nicknack shop.
This is one of the first things our professors explained to us while I was studying for my Telecommunication engineering degree. There are regulations for antennas about the radiation levels based on tons of studies and the levels are fractions of what was found as even slightly dangerous. On top of this there is a whole category of studies for everything that is in close contact with human bodies and the engineering is always around blasting as few radiation as possible towards us (even while inside those boundaries from the regulations). Phones for example reduce the radiations towards our faces (so through the screens). I'm happy to see someone with a big community sharing this knowledge and debunking these fears :)
I recently got a BT connected HA. I'm super sensitive and have some neck/head pain - cervicogenic headaches. The HA connected to BT was making my headaches worse. When I researched it and contacted the manufacturer, I found out the the BT connection uses even less energy than a BT headset. Unfortunately, I still had no choice but to not use the HA with BT. I can use a cellphone BT headset. go figure!
We have been surrounded by radio waves since the 20s. Visible light has many times more energy than radio waves. A TV remote emits higher frequency radiation than a cell phone. Radio wavelength is measured in kilometers. Way too long to do anything to a tiny human.
Pretty sure the Soviet over the horizon radar (i forget the name) was so strong that it interfered with radios all over the world (wookpecker frequency??). Yet we’re all still alive.
The wavelengths discussed here are Bluetooth, which straddle the line between microwaves and radio. Obviously something intended to send a wireless signal inside a room's distance is not going to have a wavelength of a kilometer. But nonetheless the odds of it having any kind of significant influence when it's way less powerful than a light bulb are practically nil.
@@ULTRAOutdoorsmana lightbulb ina tiny volume inside your ear would be dangerous. Don’t forget local intensity and location. I doubt it’s a worth a worry but the video made it clear…there is a slight concern that it’s possible
I find it odd when stat ranges are so wide, like I had blood work done recently and the range of normal for one of the items was an 8x from low to high. It would seem like there should be a tighter range. Maybe exponentially diminishing returns or effects? But still seems weird. If I had 10x more $$$ or 400x more $$$, I want the 400x or much closer to that lol.
The real shame is so many companies are removing headphone jacks left and right so most people have a extra step of buying a dongle if they want to use wired headphones. Even a small barrier like this turns countless people to the ewaste battery powered wireless earphones.
E-waste wireless earphones? As opposed to e-waste wired earphones? I know it's popular to complain about planned obsolescence, but the two most recent wireless head/earphones I purchased have lasted longer than any wired set I ever owned. I remember going through many pairs of wired sets, where especially the wire itself was prone to breaking.
I'm pushing 70, so I've been around for a good while. Because of health issues I've had more xrays, ct scans and mri than I can count + mammography and dexa scans. At this stage I should glow in the dark. That said I still use plug in headphones for no other reason than that I haven't found a pair of Bluetooth ones that I find comfortable. 🤷♀️
Thank you. My mom told this to me when I was like 12 and being a kid didn’t know how to do my own research, I’ve been trying to find videos and articles that are actually professionals
I admit I have learnt a lot from the cute Doc. 90% learning 10% gawking at how adorable he is. Totally makes my day especially when playing with Bear & Ribby.
Well we might not necessarily know or connect the dots properly. A lot of people didn't realize Lead was in gasoline and that has caused a lot of problems.
@@marshaltito7369 They put lead in the gasoline on purpose to act as a stabilizer and the guy who proposed it almost died from lead poisoning. They knew it was not good for you but they did it anyway for the money of the patent. Just be thankful for all of the the safety research that people do now before a product is released to the public.
Thanks for doing this. I'm an electrical engineer, extremely familiar with the tech using all of these devices, and I can't tell you how often people have asked me about this exact subject. I've debunked it every time, and people have been very appreciative that I've taken the time, but perhaps this video will just be easier and less time consuming for me to send it instead of lecturing the people I meet!
thank you very much dr mike for providing infomation to the entire commonity that is useful for many people and l hope the channel continues to progress and be successful❤
At this point in my life I'm simply tired of hearing about this, that, or the other is going to do all these bad things. It all comes down to using tech, eating certain foods, doing or not doing some type of activity, in moderation. If I had listened to even a quarter of all the stuff that was supposed to be bad for me, I'd probably be the most miserable person on earth. Common sense people, common sense.
Many people experience sickness being around large levels of EMF. I feel sick if I put my phone to my ear for more than a couple seconds, I’m gonna listen to my body over studies.
Watches this with my wireless over the ear headphones on so that I can better understand what is being said because of my auditory processing disorder, lol. I understand the implications for hearing loss concerns, but when someone like me who hears everything/too much tries to watch things without headphones it’s actually a worse experience, lol, because there’s too many competing sounds to clearly understand what is being said, proof that I need to get my but in gear on acquiring LGHAs so I don’t have to use my headphones as much. Great video!
Doc Mike, thanks for your comprehensive info on this topic. This is a concern since airpods and the like are positioned near the brain. Now I’m curious about Bluetooth wireless speakers. You gave good resources to look help do research; much thanks!
No, it's getting BETTER - if you want to live like healthcare is in the 70's go right ahead but the rest of us will enjoy the benefits of modern society and science.
@@Sabre613modern tech requires a lot of money so healthcare will continue to explode in cost as the care gets better and better. We are close to only the rich being able to afford healthcare meaningfully now.
We spend many hours a day bombarded by non ionizing radiation from light bulbs. That's higher energy than radio waves.
how dare you use logical thinking skills
This is exactly what i was thinking.....
There is an even worse thing... UV radiation from THE SUN.
Sun is a deadly laser
Exactly
sir, don't make it obvious people will start to panick. lol
I work in the tech department at Target. It’s mostly old people who hear these rumors and are deeply concerned about brain, cancer or brain tumors from AirPods. One of them lectured me for a good minute or two. I’m trying to be nice and not condescending and I understand their fears but sometimes misinformation gets out of control a little bit.
So true! When I got diagnosed with a brain tumor all I heard was my constant use of AirPods gave me the tumor 😂
It's mainly people are being gullible with the things. Although now you do have a video to prove your point.
When I worked as a bagger at a supermarket, an older lady came through my line buying a ton of organic produce, and complaining that it was so expensive. "It is," I agreed, "the conventional produce is much cheaper, if you'd like me to go exchange those for you?" "No no," she said. She insisted she *couldn't* buy conventional, because "they have GMOs and I'm allergic to GMOs."
Now, I had just graduated from uni at that point (hadn't gotten my first full-time job yet), and though my degree is in computer science, I'd switched to that from studying biomedical engineering with a focus on researching gene therapies for cancers. So I know a little bit more than non-sciency people about GMOs, and knew being "allergic to GMOs" isn't really a thing, because GMOs aren't really one thing. So I asked politely, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Which GMOs are you allergic to?" Her response, as you can imagine, was, "All of them! I get very sick if I eat any GMOs!"
I didn't continue the conversation, because I decided there was no way she'd listen anyway, but... it made me sad. Someone, somewhere had manipulated this poor old lady into spending money she didn't have -- money that likely went straight into the pockets of the organic producers who perpetuate such myths -- by making her afraid that any and all fruits and vegetables that aren't made by them will make her ill. They scared an old woman out of her money with modern-day Frankenstein stories. That should be illegal.
So I know the feeling of having customers think they know what they're talking about, but really don't, trying to justify their purchasing habits to themselves and to you.
Stop making ageist assumptions. I'm what you'd probably call old-as are many of my friends-and we don't harbor these fears at all.
@@laurahubbard6906Nobody said it applied all old people, stop looking for reasons to be offended
As an Electronics Engineer with background on RF and a human with common sense I can say that high volume on headphones and lifestyle changes that come usually with cellphone addiction will have a much bigger impact on your health.
Another embedded systems engineer here. If you can believe that bluetooth power level devices can give you cancer, then you probably believe that microwaving your food makes it radioactive ☢️
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Not only that, but I'm sure more lives get saved by having a cell phone than people die from having a cell phone.
It's just risk vs reward.
Yeah, I'm an electrician and I'm in high RF areas regularly so you'd think if this were close to true sparkys would have higher cancer rates. And people working in television and radio. Thinking this through as I write, people living next to a cell tower or radio station should have clusters of cancer diagnosis.
This was my first thought - association. Maybe people who use phones more are also more likely to have a sedentary life, or eat an entire bag of Cheetos each night.
Please, please do a video about laundry and dishwasher detergents! I've heard so many claims that make it sound like their impact on hormones could be serious due to the fact these are used so often in our daily lives! Would love to know the truth! Thank you for doing this series, it's been awesome 😊
100% it will you’re wearing it on your skin and washing your body. Endocrine disruption is legit concern
I agree I would love to see a video about this as well
Esp indirect effect of dishwasher detergent on our gut health..
Also PFAS in swim suits and period panty products
This would be very interesting to look into
an episode on endocrine disrupters as a whole would be very useful to me
GASP!!! A doctor who stuck to the research without going all the way over to one side or the other and denigrating the other side just clearing stating the pros and cons of each side? Well color me impressed. Well done.
Speak for yourself. If that were true and he were really open to having a more nuanced conversation, he would have given it a "5" rather than 3.5
The overuse of devices like cell phones and PCs...particularly for social media, one can argue, is FAR more unhealthy and damaging to our mental/emotional health compared to risks to our physical health.
Also tattoos and energy drinks?
I rarely use Bluetooth
I'm 65 and my BP is 120/80
Well said.
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“Is Bluetooth actually toxic?”
*me getting the notification while literally using Bluetooth headphones 💀*
Same!
Me too!
That delay between pressing the play button and it actually playing? Definitely toxic.
Lol I didn't get the Nofication for some reason when I have it turn on. But I just see this video being uploading today just now while I have my phone bluetooth connect to a soundbar and subwoofer and the subwoofer is connect to the soundbar wireless. So I am using two things that dangerous. Lol.
Same
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Ironically, you're actually safer wearing headphones than directly facing your screen
I just love the way Dr. Mike explains the whole truth and tries to be unbiased so you can make your own decision on the matter.
As a graduate researcher in Life Sciences, I love how you go in depth with the studies performed and discuss much of the nuance. When I hear these kinds of claims it's easy for me to want to just say "you're wrong". But these videos help me to understand more fully the claims, why they exist, and the evidence for and against and it also helps me to be better equipped to have an informed discussion with others. I look forward to watching more of these!
I just had a conversation last week with my mom who kept saying airpods put you at risk of radiation
not to dunk on my mom but she believes a lot of things with very little research, so thank you for being able to clear things up for me at least
Show her this video. Please let us know if she says something like “I don’t know if I can trust a doctor” 🤦♂️
@@HypocritesExposdI second this suggestion 😂
@HypocritesExposd those kinds of people will say he's wrong anyway. Once someone is convinced of something it's hard to convince them otherwise
@@HypocritesExposd so naive to think a proof from her intellectual rival(her offspring) will convince her.
Young people listen to dumb tiktoks and believe it and older people listen to Facebook and believe it.
Did he just do a thesis presentation in a UA-cam video. This is extremely high quality
I think you have no idea how a thesis looks like lol
I think so
this really only takes at most an hour of research for most doctors who know where to look for the evidence they want.
i doubt dr mike read thru entire papers and probably just scanned the abstracts of some of the more highly regarded papers, then maybe looked at the "findings" section if it wasn't clear enough.
You seem to watch the crappy channels. Thia format is actually very common on UA-cam in all fields. You just need to know who to watch.
People put dissertation and thesis presentations on youtube all the time goofball
I said it in the first video. This is a very important series for him to make
"Doc Mike is the perfect person to make a series like this. He's educated, reputable, and he has good common sense and don't scare monger. He uses facts paird with nuance."
Sadly read the comments - MANY are totally clueless and would rather believe in bullshit conspiracy theories.
@@ross-carlson I reckon this is a paradox of science-and-related communicators - the more popular they grow, a higher portion of the audience is going to be anti-science and critical thinking and sail through the content on confirmation bias. Leading to high quality, high reach content, with a comment section split between thoughtful discussion and Internet tripe!
My hope is that little bits of sensible & critical thinking are getting through to a few people - heck at least they're exposing themselves to content they might not agree with, I guess!
those who are too far gone will probably believe whatever the conspiracy theorists tell them; this series is for those who are _adjacent_ to the nutjobs, who sometimes get sent these facebook misinfo stuff and are too busy to look up the facts themselves. for them, being subbed to dr mike and getting the debunks in bite-sized chunks sent straight into their notifs might be the way to go.
@@ross-carlsonSome people choose being uneducated. It's sad but true.
Did you just quote yourself in a UA-cam comment?
I randomly found your channel some time ago and found your videos entertaining. And I appreciate you touching on topics like this and potentially harmful health trends. Medical misinformation and sensationalism is really bad on social media right now.
I mean, the longer you spend time with your phone, the less likely you are to have an active life, and usually people who use their phones too much ends up having their motivation and decision-making affected, leading to eating less healthy and more isolation, so I'd say EMF is one of the last thing we need to worry regarding long smart-phone use.
To be honest the way you described it phones aren't the reason for this. They are a symptom of something else. If this something else be it dissatisfaction with life or perhaps loneliness, insecurity or mental health issues, won't be dealt with people will try to fill the hole with something else.
All visible light contains more energy than 3g, 4g and 5g waves. So if your phones wifi is killing you, make sure to also throw away all your light bulbs and block your windows xD.
Mole life is for them😆😆😆
You forgot about blackbody radiation, things that are just at room temperature are emitting infrared radiation with 100,000x greater energy per photon than typical cell phone and Bluetooth emission. That includes yourself, including the individual molecules, cells, and organs inside your body. The inside of your skull is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into your brain, one part of your brain is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into another part of your brain, even the nuclear membrane inside every cell is emitting electromagnetic radiation that runs into your DNA.
@@jjohansen86 tru
@LordEide electromagnetic radiation in the visible light spectrum can't penetrate your skin though, so isn't reaching your brain, whereas longer wavelengths penetrate more deeply into tissues or pass completely through the body. bluetooth is most definitely safe as it's so low powered, it's the cell phone use over years that i'm more worried about. i try to use speakerphone or bt earbuds when i can so the phone isn't right next to my head much
I used to like this guy until this exact video. He’s a moron. He has no idea what he’s sputtering out of his mouth. Zero education in this area and he’s just done so much harm it’s laughable. One of possibly the safest technologies in cell phones he’s a proponent to block. Zero evidence backing up it’s dangerous. He claims he’s anti this exact thing in the medical field. Lmfao
Btw even wires emit emf. It's just narrower because of the shielding around it
the shielding around the wires is to stop that emf from interfering with other cables. Especially if the cables are transmitting data
We've had wires since 📻 radio
I think, energy drinks and tattoos may be more dangerous
I bought a 2002 Prius in 2020, and one day I started it up while my grandpa was on a phone call nearby. The moment I turned the key, the engine spooled up and the call dropped simultaneously.
If bluetooth in general is potentially dangerous, I'll take it. My medical devices use it and to have better control of my diabetes and not have burn out, it's worth it as the amount of time I have to focus on my bloodsugar and giving insulin is waaaaaaaay less time consuming after nearly 30 years of dealing with it.
You can reverse your T2D with Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition. Please look into it!
I've known this forever and have been trying to tell people about this. It's annoying that they don't listen when I only try to help them. Thank you for finally bringing light to this!
Ask them to live in the dark then, Visible light is exactly the same radiation just with millions times more energy. Living beings emit higher energy and amounts of radiation all the time, that's how a lot of thermometers work
As a physicist, I have to make an important clarification. Yes, the energy of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to its frequency. But that doesn't mean low frequency waves can't be energetic : you just got to raise the amplitude of the wave. For example, infrared waves are low frequency compared to UVs. Yet an oven is infrared, so is a CO2 laser capable of cutting through wood or metal. Even lower frequency you're gonna have microwaves, which cook your meals... This is why there was regulation put into place for 4G/5G towers, because their energy is quite high despite the low frequency. The low frequency is used because the lower the frequency, the easier it can penetrate things like walls, cars, etc... This is why radiowaves are so good at being transmitted very far and through various objects, and why longer radiowaves such as AM stations will go through a tunnel and you can keep listening to them in your car, but shorter radiowaves such as FM stations won't.
And at the core of the reason why it's so hard to predict cancers from EM waves : we simply cannot predict how they interact with individual cells. There is simply too much stuff we don't know yet about our own biology. We don't even know why cells produce extracellular vesicles for example. Yet if you tickle cells with EM waves or acoustic waves with sufficient energy, they're gonna produce vesicles...
All we can do is have good practice with cell phones which have been recommanded for years: do not put them to your ears for a long time, especially for young children. Use speaker phone instead. For headphones and headsets, maybe don't buy bluetooth for children but wired devices, with an audio cable. Adults have a thicker cranium that usually protects them more efficiently from waves. But still, if you're gonna use them for like 10+ hours a day, maybe buy wired not wireless...
You will take my Bluetooth earbuds from my cold dead ears. I wear them 24/7 and will not stop.
Y'all are ridiculous.
@@pjaypender1009exactly, who uses wired anymore?!
Shut up nerd
@@a-terrible-fate532meee, I'm too lazy to charge 😂
I have both types depending on what i need to do tho.
Well put
From a physics standpoint you can not exclude background radiation from man made and natural sources from any studies like it because it far out scale the energy and amount than the low range radiation from Bluetooth. Basically if RF is a cancer threat than i would be more worried about the living to close to a radio tower than my Bluetooth headset.
and also from a physics standpoint, if the em radiation emitted from phones and bluetooth devices, caused cancer, then we should be living like vampires because visible light is higher frequency therefore higher energy therefore MORE ionizing.
I'd be more worried if I didn't live in a cave away from the Sun (jk, I don't). Radio waves go right thru windows and the Sun is a giant thermonuclear bomb constantly bombarding us with RF in levels *far* higher than some piddly BT radio. It's concerning that many people have so little scientific literacy they can't adequately weigh risks.
Your lamp is more dangerous if EMF is a problem. You should avoid electrical lamps. This is totally anti-scientific ridiculous fear mongering one step above flat earthers.
What about living / working really close to or under a Cellphone Tower?
@@jayersciossame thing, safe(r than even more plentiful things like artificial light)
This is a topic regularly on my mind. I can’t express how appreciative I am to have dr Mike (and team) to have the expertise, reputation, and awareness to address this topic that is so relevant to millions of us. Dude, thank you!
If I heeded every article that presented a new study that something is bad for you I would die from either starvation, dehydration, or boredom. 😂
I'm sure there's a paper floating around somewhere that sets out how anything can be considered harmful by one metric or another! Too much of anything is a bad thing, it's all about moderation. But unfortunately moderation does not engaging headlines make 😂
Or sobriety. But that's just me. Same with the other three.
Remember to sign the petition to ban dihydrogen-monoxide. High levels of it can be toxic, or result in oxygen deprivation. It's known to be among the most lethal substances on the planet.
^_^
Too much water can kill you. And we're not talking about drinking a bathtub, but just an amount you could easily have too much of on a hot day with too much physical activity.
A new study shows: that continued belief in new studies can cause aids... It's true , a doctor on UA-cam said so (this is not a dig at Mike)
This dispels many misconceptions about Bluetooth headphones. As with many things, moderation is key. Awareness about the potential risks and taking preemptive actions should be done.
I love the idea of this series!!! So much misinformation out there from many sides!
The amount of time and effort that must have been put in to make this video is INSANE. I work in research and I cannot believe how fluidly he analyzes research and is able to explain it in such simple terms. It would take WEEKS for me to compile and analyze sources for a video like this. You’re awesome and thanks for inspiring me Dr. Mike!!
He probably didn't research it. He probably had someone compile some lobbyists paid articles that got spoonfed to him.
Nothing like a Fresh Doctor Mike Video to start off my day!
Just wait till they figure out that visible light is EMF with higher energy.
Lol facts .. people hear 'radiation' and freak out. Better get rid of my light bulbs and microwave while we're at it 😂
Wait, it is? 😅
I feel very failed by my biology and chemistry classes in highschool.
@@undefinederror40404 yes, higher frequency/wavelength means higher energy. Visible light is around 400nm(nanometers) to 700nm.
Infrared/heat is about 780nm and 1mm
microwaves are from around 1mm to 1m.
And radio waves are 1m to hundreds of km.
X-ray is 10nm to 0.01nm
And gamma rays is everything smaller.
Take this with a grain of salt. I am only a science enthusiast and don’t really know that much. This might also be very simplified.
Oh... you're right...! 😅 hmmm
@@undefinederror40404 Yeah! Think about the phrase "electromagnetic spectrum". Electricity, magnetism, and light are all pretty much the same thing. Radio waves are light that falls outside of our vision. So are x-rays and UV rays.
When they say "waves" they mean it literally. Big waves, like radio waves and visible light, are mostly harmless. Small waves, like ultraviolet (UV) and gamma, are tighter and have more energy, which are small enough to vibrate and damage things like cells and DNA.
That's why we need to wear sunblock outdoors, but not indoors. Lightbulbs don't emit highly energetic UV light, but the sun does!
Well done doctor Mike! This video was so well done! I can't tell you how many concerned mothers and aunts I've had to give this exact mini lesson to. I graduated tech school with a degree in electronics and worked with industrial machines that emitted x-rays and high level RF for a decade and your explanations and graphics were on point.
The part that really helps click for them I've found is to be honest and admit that there may be danger there, but as you stated, the fact that there have been dozens if not hundreds of studies looking for danger but cannot establish a clear link suggests that it's probably not worth worrying about, there are so many other things to be more worried about first. In fact, I have a Geiger counter at home to play with as a hobby, most people are surprised to see that cell phones emit no ionizing radiation, but their granite countertops and ceramic dishes do (low/safe levels to be clear).
Another thing that I find so cool and mind-blowing is that radio waves and infra red and uv and x-rays are literally the exact same thing as visible light. Uv and x-rays are dangerous because they are a high enough energy (frequency) above visible light (especially x-rays since they are ionizing). But radio (including cell phones) and IR are less energy than visible light, and nobody is running around freaking out about visible light being dangerous (unless you are a vampire).
Also, to be clear, low energy light radiation (visible light and below, like IR, microwave, and radio) can still be harmful if it's wattage or your proximity to the source is close enough. For example, is the light emitting from a 60w lightbulb harmful? Most people would say no, but now hold your hand an inch away from the bulb and see how long you can keep it there before your hand heats up enough to start burning. And that effect would happen faster or from further away if you used a brighter/higher wattage bulb. For context, the wattage of a cell phone transmitter (think of it literally as a light bulb) is 3w at most during a pulse of transmission, only equivalent to 0.25w when averaged.
The real danger of Bluetooth headphones or any headphones whatsoever is the risk of losing your hearing. We are the generation with highest risk of having lost hearing at a young age. The only reason are the heavily use of headphones with high volume.
If you want to know more about it, Vox has a very well explained video.
People don’t care
we've known about this for years. i, and many of my friends in high school, were taken to the doctor for potential hearing loss due to how much we used headphones back then (06-10). its just that on a mass scale, no one cares. we have beats to bump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s why I keep the volume down as low as I can hear without issues
Wait till they find out UV rays
For real. If the Karens are so afraid of these devices, they should be wearing sunscreen whenever they go outside for anything.
They’re the same people who think uv light is actually good and sunblock bad
@@immortalnub Many Karens would improve life for others by staying in their homes.
@@danamcgraw8777the only two people I know who say this are shredded and very healthy
wait until they realize that the dirt they walk on is full of naturally radioactive materials
It's still a crazy thing to research. We are bombarded with non ionizing radio waves literally every day. The intriguing thing about radio waves is that they can not touch our cells at all. They are either too big or do not have the crazy energy ultraviolet, xrays, and gamma rays contain to damage our cells. Some radiowaves are the size of a skyscraper.
Sometimes, the most harmful thing that gets into our skull is misinformation.
Sure, a high-velocity piece of rebar is bad for the skull it hits, but misinformation can be contagious.
Yah, there's at most mild heating at the site of impact but they don't go farther in than maybe an inch. If surface heating was enough to secondarily cause brain cancers, we'd all have already died from baseboard heaters or furnaces. You *can* get burns from malfunctioning radio towers (if you're a worker standing right next to it) or from idiots that pull out the magnetron from a microwave and use it unshielded. But that's levels several orders of magnitude higher than anything normal.
Microwaves are radio waves and they heat things up. The frequencies of phones and Bluetooth will heat cells up. It’s also about proximity. The local intensity of Bluetooth in your ear canal is very different to ambient radio .waves.
Dr. Mike, I’ve been watching your channel for years, and just want to say that I wholeheartedly support your efforts to fight misinformation. And I love how you approach these subjects: clearly, in an easy-to-understand manner, and with respect of your viewers and those you care for. Keep up the great work.
Whenever I use bluetooth headsets or AirPods nonstop for a while I always get massive headaches and have to take a few weeks break. I'm back to using wired again and it feels better imo, unless for certain exercise or pooping then I crack and throw in the bluetooth again.
I get pain in my ear and head shortly after wearing ear buds.
I think it's related so not using bt anymore.
Love your content! Small correction - 1:16 most of the Sun’s UV radiation that reaches the Earth is non-ionising as the ionising far-UV is filtered out by the atmosphere.
But what about ozone sphere damage, it means less filtering of UV
Thanks doc for this. A lot of people are confused by this and now we got an explanation, we won’t be confused anymore.
Oh how untrue that is - just read through the comments, you'll lose brain cells doing so...
Lol you have way too much hope if you think this will stop people from being confused
The age of information is truly the time to be least informed. If some people still believe the earth is flat, you bet your bum more people will believe the hoaxes
Video summarized
Not really. It may do a little bit but it is so small that it doesn’t matter. We need more research on the topic
This comment is actually on point!
10/10
It's most likely that it doesn't do anything at all. If we weren't exposed to it as much as we are today, then I doubt further studies would be conducted.
Thanks
Thanks
My Mom tells me this constantly so I'm so excited to hear this one!
0:58 my sound design brain thought he was talking about FM Modulation for a minute 🤣
You’re not alone 😂
It's good that we have studies on this. Tech often evolves before our medical understanding of it.
Read the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. That grandpa that we know, who smoke all his life and lived besides the radio died at 102; really doubt the radiation of the radio was the cause. The main danger is for people who hear at a way too high of a volume, damaging the tympanic membrane. Maybe something relating with cerumen but that's more for an ENT doc to explain more.
A single phone is probably fine, but a neighbor of mine used to carry three cell phones when at work and ended up getting cancer. I always thought it was weird, but apparently, the safety measured at the uranium plant where he worked required him to carry multiple phones.
😂
Well ill be
I don’t think it was the cell phone that gave him cancer. I think it was the uranium😂
@@Ericericericericericericthat's the joke ;P
Short answer: No.
Long answer:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Yes mobile is harmful than airpods😂😂
@@valitsaki1924watch the video
@@valitsaki1924 proves this is true by how stupid his comment is! Brain cancer in full form!
@@valitsaki1924the chemical makeup of our food, lotions and ointments, soaps, scents, and just about everything is also brand new.
@@valitsaki1924ur just wrong and u don’t know how cancer works
Excellent video, Dr Mike!
One thing to add would be that if you look at the light (RF) spectrum, from low energy to high energy, it goes:
- non-ionizing: radio waves, mirowaves, infrared, visible, UV
- ionizing: UV, X-Rays, Gamma-Rays
Hence, radiowaves and microwaves have lower energy than visible light! Yet, somehow, no one is afraid to turn on a lightbulb at night and i have seen no studies checking the effect of visible light on cancers.
While they cannot bump electrons from atoms at these wavelengths (wavelength (m) or frequency (Hz) ~ energy; different from emission power (W) ), the thing that they can do is heat tissue (think microwaves at 1000W or ~10000x the power of a cell phone; or think a magnifying glass concentrating visible light to heat something and burn it). This is why we have VERY conservative power limits with built in safety margins (cellphones max is about 0.3W; cell towers max ~20W; microwave heats at about 1000W for 1-2mins in a cavity designed to keep everything bouncing around so as to use the waves multiple times until they dissipate; think cats' eyes).
The last thing is that we typically have the emission power (power emitted at the source) and also have a formula to calculate the power at a certain point and distance away (reception power), with the emission power being the maximum, and decreasing with distance and directivity. This makes it so it wouldn't matter if the source is right next to your ear (airpods) or in your pocket (cellphones). 1W of received power next to your ear is 1W of received power no matter if the power was greater when it left the cell phone in your pocket, the cell tower down the street or your neighbour's the wifi router.
This is the reply I wanted to write, but couldn't figure out the wording. Thank you! So many people forget how the EMF spectrum actually works and just shout bullshit into the ether.
These rumors are so annoying. I used to work for a telecommunications company doing home installs and the number of times I had to run wires and put modem somewhere that would negatively affect the wifi because "we don't want the signals near the bedrooms/kitchens/etc" was surprising. And you can't tell people they're misinformed because then they'd just assume you were trying to get out of doing the work.
Was ready to put my phone away and enjoy a peaceful lunch break.
Dr Mike uploaded.
-> Phone back on + airpods in. 🤣
I guess I'm cooked then, literally. I use Bluetooth headphones/earbuds almost every day and wear a smartwatch.
Doctors like u should be more in this world
I was just diagnosed with breast cancer, could you do a video on invasive ductal carcinoma? This type of breast cancer is on the rise and it's also the type that affects men as well as women.
Dr. I know something is wrong with me I'm very sick. But recent doctor, an Oncologist, examination and CRT showed no sign of cancer. Name of doctor that have EMF patients in DC, Maryland, VA, or any state locations I may contact please advise ASAP. Thanks!!
I been watching you for five years and learned so much thank you dr mike 😊
Another great video from Dr. Mike. Very timely, on a practical subject.
Great job Mike!
Have you ever thought about trying to do an interview with RFK? Seems like you'd be the perfect kind of platform for it
Most phones dont even have mini jack ports anymore and you will have a job finding a nice set of headphones or plugs with a wire
Tho you can get a Bluetooth adaptor with a headphone jack 🤣 improvise adapt overcome haha!
Just use wired headphones? Instead of the 3.5mm plug they now come with USB-C
Or just use a adapter if you still have a working 3.5 wired headphone that you use
Everything's toxic nowadays, we're not living but surviving I guess..
Everything being toxic is quite true in America.
thats just your little funny country
that’s just silly little America putting too much money on the military :3 🌸🌿🍄
This is like the same thing that happened when microwave were invented.
No, "everything" is NOT toxic, this is the kind of bullshit that scares people for NO REASON. Very little of what is around us is actually toxic and the things that are we KNOW ABOUT - and bluetooth is NOT one of those things.
Please stop making such bullshit sweeping statements like that - YOU are the problem here. YOU.
Back in my community health classes when I was finishing my bachelors degree someone had mentioned this in the preventative medicine class. The Doctor Who teaches the class who was an MD who specifically researches health trends said that there are so many other carcinogens that are much more dangerous that we’re exposed to on a daily basis, and that for the average person, the connection between severity and potential for actual cause of cancer is so low that there are other things that should be focused on like stopping smoking, decreasing pollution levels in the air, dealing with micro plastics and chemicals that are in hygiene and personal care products as well as chemicals in cosmetics. In addition, there is the problem related to antibiotics in the food we eat. There’s a lot to unpack here, but basically there’s other things we should be worrying about.
Which is hilarious bc farmers don’t sell antibiotic filled meat and animal products: they literally get in trouble for detectable levels. A test that reveals antibiotics in a truck of milk the ENTIRE TRUCK goes down the drain
@@spazzyshortgirl23 Yeah, but it still doesn't change the fact that people believe it exists. Even if something is wrong, if the public believes it is true, it is public health's job to combat that misinformation and ensure people know the facts.
Yeah, but we could decrease risk of ALL of them. I'll stick to wired earphones, turning off WiFi at night, using 4G, minimizing use of plastics, natural shampoo and body wash, Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition, and so on.
You've done a great job!!! There were complaints about magnets in telephones in the 50s through 70. The greatest danger for most children and young adults is listening to music at 100% volume for hours and not needing surgery or hearing devices before they're 40. Keep up the good work!!!👍🏾
The bottom line is that both cell phones and bluetooth headphones are in mass use in years and decades. If there was a cancer risk it would be noticeable by now. The rates of brain cancer would be surging as compare to the rates say 30 years ago. Any electromagnetic wave can be described as radiation. Phones usually emit milliwatts (can go to several watts) of RF power at around 850MHz to 5GHz (for 5G). Those frequencies are orders of magnitude lower than those of sunlight. Yet, conspiracy theorists aren't afraid exposing themselves to a high energy radiation with typical intensity of 1KW/m2 when they go to the beach, but at the same time are terrified of a cell phone or bluetooth headphones that have much lower energy, and they transmit it with much lower intensity.
Me who has my headphones on 24x7 💀
Exactly
yep
Well shi- 💀🎧
He just said it’s safe
@@AlexGraves-em5mtdid he tho
Cell phones are not a cancer risk, and we know this because before about 1980 there were no cell phones, and by 2000 everyone had one. Cancer rates did not rise.
Cancer rates have most definitely risen. A simple google search will show this. But not from cell phones. Mostly likely from food and environmental factors. Bowels cancers especially are rising every year, particularly among younger people.
@@SugerSprinkledFun Probably from chemicals used in food approved by the same government that says this radiation is safe lol
Yes they have risen just not from cell phone use. It’s all of the stuff we do to and put in our bodies. Even the foods and drinks that should be safe like veggies and such. You step outside and you expose yourself to carcinogens.
They have risen astronomically
As part of a course I was leading a seminar on, last year I read a recent paper on effect of prolonged EMF from cell phones and headsets being used to make phone calls on stress and cardiac health using a very large British sample: Cell phone use was quantified based on ~2010 levels of use, not present day, to look at the downstream effects of high exposure. And it found headset use to make phone calls 15 years ago (not likely to be Bluetooth) was associated with present day worse health. Specifically usage to make phone calls over 30 hours a week, in people with lower SES. The main flaw (imo) in this study was that it didn't take into account why the cellphone use was so high, and it is more likely that what the study found was that having a JOB where you have to be on the phone all day (e.g. call center, operator, dispatch) is stressful.
It is really hard to do this kind of population level study and I'm glad they could put the data out for others to see.
Thank you, bro, it means a lot and helps a lot, may God bless you 😀👍
6:48 my early 2000s kids brain immediately went "so the FCC wont let me be, or let me be me, so let me see"
They're tryna shut me down on MTV, but it feels so empty without me
I continued it but youtube removed my content bruv :)
Imagine if these low frequency EMFs actually harmed us, and the moment we step out into the sun we’re like SpongeBob and Patrick looking up at the light in the nicknack shop.
That would be crazy😭
Hey Doctor Mike, your take on AirPods is so informative and engaging! Thanks for keeping us in the loop with your awesome content❤
Yes please keep doing these they are so good at dispelling information
This is one of the first things our professors explained to us while I was studying for my Telecommunication engineering degree. There are regulations for antennas about the radiation levels based on tons of studies and the levels are fractions of what was found as even slightly dangerous. On top of this there is a whole category of studies for everything that is in close contact with human bodies and the engineering is always around blasting as few radiation as possible towards us (even while inside those boundaries from the regulations). Phones for example reduce the radiations towards our faces (so through the screens).
I'm happy to see someone with a big community sharing this knowledge and debunking these fears :)
7:52 Now I wonder what SAR my hearing aids have.
I recently got a BT connected HA. I'm super sensitive and have some neck/head pain - cervicogenic headaches. The HA connected to BT was making my headaches worse. When I researched it and contacted the manufacturer, I found out the the BT connection uses even less energy than a BT headset. Unfortunately, I still had no choice but to not use the HA with BT. I can use a cellphone BT headset. go figure!
We have been surrounded by radio waves since the 20s. Visible light has many times more energy than radio waves. A TV remote emits higher frequency radiation than a cell phone. Radio wavelength is measured in kilometers. Way too long to do anything to a tiny human.
Pretty sure the Soviet over the horizon radar (i forget the name) was so strong that it interfered with radios all over the world (wookpecker frequency??). Yet we’re all still alive.
The wavelengths discussed here are Bluetooth, which straddle the line between microwaves and radio. Obviously something intended to send a wireless signal inside a room's distance is not going to have a wavelength of a kilometer. But nonetheless the odds of it having any kind of significant influence when it's way less powerful than a light bulb are practically nil.
@@ULTRAOutdoorsmana lightbulb ina tiny volume inside your ear would be dangerous. Don’t forget local intensity and location. I doubt it’s a worth a worry but the video made it clear…there is a slight concern that it’s possible
Bro as soon as i put my headphones in this pops up
same!
He just said it’s safe
Gracias I was looking for a credible clarification of this recently
2:23 10 to 400 that’s a huge range that could basically mean anything
I find it odd when stat ranges are so wide, like I had blood work done recently and the range of normal for one of the items was an 8x from low to high. It would seem like there should be a tighter range. Maybe exponentially diminishing returns or effects? But still seems weird.
If I had 10x more $$$ or 400x more $$$, I want the 400x or much closer to that lol.
The point is just that it is, even if it’s on the higher end, not in any way dangerous
No it could basically mean between 10-400 😽
4:45 Micah from RDR2 reference
we cant use anything anymore
dont worry, its just a clickbait title. its safe
cept ur mum
I love how all videos ultimately helps us understand what scientific evidence means, and what it does not!
Thanks for translating your videos by yourself!
The real shame is so many companies are removing headphone jacks left and right so most people have a extra step of buying a dongle if they want to use wired headphones. Even a small barrier like this turns countless people to the ewaste battery powered wireless earphones.
E-waste wireless earphones? As opposed to e-waste wired earphones?
I know it's popular to complain about planned obsolescence, but the two most recent wireless head/earphones I purchased have lasted longer than any wired set I ever owned. I remember going through many pairs of wired sets, where especially the wire itself was prone to breaking.
people really forget that visible light is radiation
Probably the same people who say the earth is flat and 5G causes cancer 💀
Trusting a Medium article is like trusting Goop.
I'm pushing 70, so I've been around for a good while. Because of health issues I've had more xrays, ct scans and mri than I can count + mammography and dexa scans. At this stage I should glow in the dark. That said I still use plug in headphones for no other reason than that I haven't found a pair of Bluetooth ones that I find comfortable. 🤷♀️
Thank you. My mom told this to me when I was like 12 and being a kid didn’t know how to do my own research, I’ve been trying to find videos and articles that are actually professionals
I admit I have learnt a lot from the cute Doc. 90% learning 10% gawking at how adorable he is. Totally makes my day especially when playing with Bear & Ribby.
I think if it was completely true everyone would be suffering from a sickness
Well we might not necessarily know or connect the dots properly. A lot of people didn't realize Lead was in gasoline and that has caused a lot of problems.
@@marshaltito7369 They put lead in the gasoline on purpose to act as a stabilizer and the guy who proposed it almost died from lead poisoning. They knew it was not good for you but they did it anyway for the money of the patent. Just be thankful for all of the the safety research that people do now before a product is released to the public.
@@marshaltito7369the health issues of lead had been known long before leaded gasoline.
Look around
Not everyone wearing bluetooth headpones and airpods watching this
Nah I got wired apple buds on. Because I'm using my laptop.
@@Franzotmu can use Bluetooth on ur laptop too?
@@danibell106 Ye but I had wired ones on and some people are saying that this won't give U a brain tumour.
@@Franzotm bro wireless ones also won't give u a brain tumor, that's explained in the video
@@danibell106 Oh ok and I didn't watch it
Thanks for doing this. I'm an electrical engineer, extremely familiar with the tech using all of these devices, and I can't tell you how often people have asked me about this exact subject. I've debunked it every time, and people have been very appreciative that I've taken the time, but perhaps this video will just be easier and less time consuming for me to send it instead of lecturing the people I meet!
thank you very much dr mike for providing infomation to the entire commonity that is useful for many people and l hope the channel continues to progress and be successful❤
Want to know what’s toxic? Stressing about everything being toxic.
why even strees about it anymore who cares anymore
Yeah, the secret to a long life is to reduce stress.
It's not
Seems like it😂
I’m pretty sure my hobby of “touching grass” is gonna kill me faster than Bluetooth.
Honestly these videos help my anxiety so thank you dr Mike ❤
I commented last time that the scale at the end was unclear to me, thank you so much for clearing that up 😁😁👍🏼
Bro you look exactly like Ben Stone from the Manifest series... 😂😂😂
I’ve said the same thing…
Bro!!! I WAS GOING TO ASK Ben Stone on his Reddit "ask me anything" if he randomly made a UA-cam video on this topic.
At this point in my life I'm simply tired of hearing about this, that, or the other is going to do all these bad things. It all comes down to using tech, eating certain foods, doing or not doing some type of activity, in moderation. If I had listened to even a quarter of all the stuff that was supposed to be bad for me, I'd probably be the most miserable person on earth. Common sense people, common sense.
Many people experience sickness being around large levels of EMF. I feel sick if I put my phone to my ear for more than a couple seconds, I’m gonna listen to my body over studies.
Same here... Brain also functions better out in the forest than in the city "for some strange reason"...
So you should join the Amish.
Placebo
Im so glad to hear! Now I’ll feel so much more comfortable about using my air pods. What a relief!
Watches this with my wireless over the ear headphones on so that I can better understand what is being said because of my auditory processing disorder, lol. I understand the implications for hearing loss concerns, but when someone like me who hears everything/too much tries to watch things without headphones it’s actually a worse experience, lol, because there’s too many competing sounds to clearly understand what is being said, proof that I need to get my but in gear on acquiring LGHAs so I don’t have to use my headphones as much. Great video!
Watching this wearing AirPods…..😂
9:15 You’re welcome🖤
not me watching this with bluetooth headphones on 😭😂
Same 😂
Doc Mike, thanks for your comprehensive info on this topic. This is a concern since airpods and the like are positioned near the brain. Now I’m curious about Bluetooth wireless speakers. You gave good resources to look help do research; much thanks!
also be sure that those studies are NOT SPONSORED by those companies in question or someone whose interest is to protect the companies
life is getting more screwed up the longer we live
No, it's getting BETTER - if you want to live like healthcare is in the 70's go right ahead but the rest of us will enjoy the benefits of modern society and science.
Societally we are definitely messed up but technologically & medicinally we’re at the best point we’ve ever been
@@Sabre613modern tech requires a lot of money so healthcare will continue to explode in cost as the care gets better and better. We are close to only the rich being able to afford healthcare meaningfully now.
So.... just say you didn't watch the video lmao.
@@reformedchinesecommunist even for the average person, right now, healthcare is better than it's ever been and it is not going down.