Radiation

Wait, huh? According to Business Insider, the rumor that AirPods and other Bluetooth headphones could cause cancer stem from an article written by Markham Heid, techno-skeptic health and science writer on Medium's Elemental publication.

The article quotes Jerry Phillips, PhD, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado, saying, "My concern for AirPods is that their placement in the ear canal exposes tissue in the head to relatively high levels of radio frequency radiation, and that this is not limited to AirPods.

Existing evidence indicates potential concerns for human health and development from all technologies that operate at radio frequencies." Phillips is also quoted in a hypebeast article about the issue.

Effects include increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes to the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general wellbeing in humans.

This petition is the International EMF Scientist Appeal, written by scientists engaged in the study of biological and health effects of electromagnetic fields, also known as EMF.

Oh.

In the words of Elizabeth Kelly, the director of the International EMF Scientist Appeal, "EMF scientists have serious concerns regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to radiation from wireless devices and antennas from all sources, including the pulse digital signals Bluetooth transmits." The petition classifies these radio frequency radiation-emitting devices as cellular and cordless phones and their base stations, Wi-Fi and broadcast antennas, smart meters and baby monitors, as well as electric devices and infrastructures used in the delivery of electricity that generates extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields.

We've seen the same cancer risk scare pop up for everything, from prolonged sitting while watching TV to eating bananas.

They're 12 weeks of your body changing, your scars healing, your strength slowly coming back, and 12 weeks of trying to work out what life looks like now.

For me, it was probably the closest thing I had to a pause during my treatment.

But even during that pause, Cancer was still very much a part of my life.

You're listening to A Safe Space with me, Chloe.

Those 12 weeks gave me time to recover, adjust, and start finding my feet again.

before radiation became the next thing I had to get used to.

So, rather than jumping straight into treatment itself, I want to take you back to those 12 weeks, because a lot happened in that time.

After surgery, like I say, I had 12 weeks before I could start radiation.