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Are AirPods risky? We explore radio frequency EMF from devices like AirPods, microwaves, and cell phones. Discover potential biological effects and safety tips for daily tech use. #AirPodsDanger #EMFHealth #WirelessRisks #TechSafety #MicrowaveHazards #CellPhoneRadiation #HealthTips #Wellness #BrainHealth #ElectromagneticFields
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Okay. Are you wearing AirPods on a
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flight? Never. I don't use AirPods at
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all. So, now we're into the realm of
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EMF, which is electromagnetic fields.
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And this gets complicated, but I'll try
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and keep it simple. What we're talking
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about now is radio frequency EMF. So, RF
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EMF. There's also ELF, which is extra
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low frequency EMF. That's like what's
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coming out of the outlets in your house.
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That's a different type of EMF. When
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we're talking about Wi-Fi or cell phones
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or AirPods, we're talking about radio
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frequency EMF. Now, interestingly, this
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is the same thing that's coming out of
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your microwave oven. It's ex basically
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the exact same frequency. Your cell
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phone, these AirPods, it's just like a
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microwave. So, you can get these EMF
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detectors and look at this frequency,
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this RF band of EMF, and you turn on the
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microwave and you can see a number.
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It'll tell you how many microwatts per
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meter squared are coming out of the
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microwave. When you move away from the
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microwave when it's on a few feet, and
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you'll get like a million microwatts per
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meter squared. And when you turn on your
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AirPods, right when they are pinging
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trying to uh connect with a device or
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throughout the time you're wearing them,
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you'll get similar numbers with AirPods
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in your ears. 700,000 a million
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microwatts per meter squared. The
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difference is that you might wear
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AirPods 6 hours a day. They are. And
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especially, you know, who's doing this
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is the teenagers. Yeah. Every moment of
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life, they just it's like a it's almost
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like a comfort thing. They just leave
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the AirPods in their ears. And we don't
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really know what's going on. We don't
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know what the long-term effects of this
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on humans are. We've never really
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studied it. We are living an experiment
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in so many ways. The push back that you
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get on this is people will say this is
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not ionizing radiation, right? This is
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not like X-rays or radiation that
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actually ionizes or causes direct DNA
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damage. And nobody is saying that RF EMF
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is ionizing. But just because it's not
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ionizing doesn't mean that it's not
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harmful or able to affect biological
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systems. And there are many research
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papers. The research here is a little
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bit unclear and probably isn't well
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funded for a reason. We don't really
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understand. There are certainly studies
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that suggest that it could affect
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biological systems at the level of cell
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membranes, at the level of potassium
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channels, at the level of calcium
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channels. So, we're talking about
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microscopic channels being affected. So,
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we don't really understand this and I
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think it's just the better part of
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safety to think like, should I really be
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doing that? Like, do I get headaches?
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Look, if you're not having an issue with
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any of this stuff, keep living your
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life. Keep using the AirPods and rocking
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your life. But if somebody has headaches
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or mood swings, you know, like why not
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just change and see is this affecting
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me. This may be completely in my
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imagination, but maybe you've
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experienced this too. I think about EMF
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a lot. So most of the time my phone is
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on airplane and when I do have my phone
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off of airplane and I'm using it in my
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hand, I can feel it in my hand. Really?
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Yes. Oh my gosh. And I think like what
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is going on there? Right. I don't want
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to be carrying that around like in my
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pocket of my jeans. And there's actually
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studies in men that associate cell phone
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wearing on your pants with lower sperm
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counts, too. So, there's a lot of things
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pointing in the direction that some of
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this stuff could be harmful for men at
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the level of testicles or women with
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ovaries or women with their breast
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tissue. And we don't really know. I
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mean, putting an EMF signal through your
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brain for hours a day. What's who knows?
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Recently, I had said that something
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online like I was like, "Oh, I don't
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believe in microwaves. I don't use
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them." And my audience was like, "Wait,
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what? Microwaves are bad?" So, they
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don't know. So, so what would you say
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about microwaves? So again, we're back
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to the cell phones and the the RFMF with
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the AirPods. At one level, if you turn
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the microwave on, you don't want to
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stand in front of the microwave. And
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that's what our parents were telling us
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as kids. I remember having a microwave
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in my house as a child and staring at
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the food in the microwave. And my mom
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would say, "Move away from the
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microwave." Well, that's why like you're
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getting this RF EMF at pretty high
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levels. It'd basically be like standing
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in front of a Wi-Fi router all day. And
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who we just don't fully understand how
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that's affecting biological systems.
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Then secondarily, there's this question
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of whether using microwaves to heat the
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food, which is moving the water
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molecules in the food, changes the
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molecular structure. Is it making
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healthy food less healthy? I don't know.
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I mean, intuitively, I feel like it's
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probably not a great thing, but I
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haven't seen any real solid evidence to
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say that it's like toxic if you put it
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in the microwave. I think there are
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there's just easier ways around it.
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Yeah. I also think food tastes better
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cooked on the stove, but maybe that's
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just a personal preference.
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