Table of Contents[Hide][Show]
How close is too close to live to cell phone towers and antennas and what to do if you discover that you are living within a distance that is impacting your health according to scientific research.
Mobile phone use continues to expand rapidly around the world. Within the next year, the number of cell phone users worldwide is projected to pass 5 billion. In the United States, well over 90% of adults now have a cell phone. The rate is nearly 50% among children as young as 10!
Not surprisingly, with so many mobile devices in use, the infrastructure to support them has grown substantially as well. Cell towers are continuing to pop up everywhere. In my small town, two new applications were filed this year alone!
If you don’t see any in your neighborhood don’t be fooled. Some cell towers are now disguised to look like trees especially if the tower is in a residential area. Disney World is famous for its tree-like cell phone infrastructure that blends almost invisibly with real foliage nearby.
The good news is that a growing number of people are now taking wise precautions to protect themselves from electromagnetic radiation (EMFs).
Avoiding fitbits, wireless baby monitors and turning off wifi at night are wise steps. Opting out of digital monitoring with your local power company to avoid the health risks from smart meters is a good idea too particularly if it is on a wall near the bedroom area.
Cell Tower Radiation
But what about cell phone towers and mobile antennas attached to existing structures? You can’t easily avoid them as they are everywhere. They are even constructed right next to schools in some cases.
Scientific Research: Living Close to a Cell Tower a Likely Cancer Risk
Many people seem to not worry about living or working in close proximity to cell towers and antennas. However, German and Israeli research to date gives cause for concern.
German Research on Cell Tower Safety
In a German study, doctors examined close to 1000 patients to see if living at the same address close to a cell tower for 10 years affected cancer risk. The social and age differences within the study group were small, with no ethnic diversity.
They discovered that the proportion of newly developed cancer cases was three times higher for those living within 1300 feet (a quarter of a mile) of a cellular transmitter compared to those living further away. In addition, they found that the patients became ill with cancer on average 8 years earlier.
A distance of 1300 feet (400m) is of particular importance. This is because computer simulation and measurements used in the study indicated that the radiation at that distance or less (the “inner area”) is 100 times greater than emissions beyond that distance (the “outer area”).
Another important observation from the research is that for the first 5 years of living near a cell phone tower, the risks were no different than someone living far away from one. However, in years 6-10, the cancer risks jumped more than threefold for those living a quarter of a mile or less from a mobile tower. Even more concerning, the average age of diagnosis was much younger. Risk for breast cancer, prostate, pancreas, bowel, melanoma, lung, and blood cancer all increased substantially.
The risks for breast cancer were most significant for those living in the inner area, with an average age of 50.8 year for a cancer diagnosis compared with nearly two decades later (70 years of age) for those in the outer area.
Israeli Mobile Phone Tower Research
Israeli research conducted by Tel Aviv University confirms a similar pattern.
In this study, 622 people living 1148 feet (350m) or less from a cell phone transmission station for 3-7 years were compared to 1222 controls living further away.
Out of the high exposure group, 8 cases of cancer were diagnosed within just one year. 3 cases of breast cancer and 1 case each of ovarian, lung, bone, kidney and lymphatic cancer.
In the control group, only 2 cases of cancer occurred even though the control group was roughly twice as large as the highly exposed group.
Based on these results, the researchers calculated the relative risk of cancer to be over four times higher for those living 350m or less (about one-fifth of a mile) from a cell phone transmitter.
Women May Be More Susceptible to Cell Tower Radiation
The Tel Aviv University research found that women appear to be more susceptible to the health effects of living near a cell tower than men.
Seven out of the eight cancers that arose during the first year were females. Thus, women living one-fifth of a mile or less from a cell tower experienced a ten fold increase in cancer risk compared with controls.
Cell Phone Tower Safety. What Should YOU Do?
If this research is concerning to you as it was to me, I would recommend that you check out antennasearch.com.
This site provides information on how many cell phone towers and mobile antennas are in your area. The exact distance of each from your home address is provided as well.
Do not rely just on your visual observation of the neighborhood. Cell towers are increasingly disguised as trees. Moreover, even if no cell towers exist, there are likely plenty of cellular antennas on existing buildings and other structures.
A typical mobile phone tower will hold 10 or more cellular antennas for various companies.
If you are planning to buy a home in the near future, consideration of cellular phone infrastructure nearby is very important. It ranks right up there with schools and other positives and negatives about the neighborhood.
I fully expect that in the future, as more research concerning the effects of EMFs on human biology emerges, real estate prices will be affected by their relative proximity to cell phone towers and/or antennas.
One word of warning. Don’t be overly concerned when you initially check your home address for nearby cellular infrastructure. The number is likely to be extremely high!
Wait until you see how close the towers and antenna are first! For example, I discovered that there are 81 towers and 124 antennas located within 4 miles of my front door! This is in a rural residential community too! However, once I looked more closely, I found that none of them is closer than a half mile away.
What to Do if You Live Too Close
If you find that you live within the inner circle of cellular towers, my suggestion is to consider moving. Though inconvenient, this is by far the best option. I’ve already had one friend change homes because of extreme sensitivity to high EMFs in her area. To date, Sweden and Germany recognize electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) as an actual medical condition. I expect that to grow in the coming years. (1, 2)
If you cannot move, then you can use curtains, paint, and wallpaper that blocks 100% of EMFs including 5G.
This is the company I’ve vetted, recommend, and buy from myself for these types of products.
Another alternative are bioenergetic devices that claim to reduce the exposure and/or risks from electromagnetic radiation. Whether they work or not is up for debate. As of this writing, I haven’t found any conclusive, randomized data to suggest they are helpful one way or another. However, if you can’t move, they are probably at least worth a shot! Perhaps in the future, they might be proven beneficial.
Another thing to be aware of is that EMF exposure has the potential to increase free radical activity in the body. Thus, living near a cell tower may decrease levels of certain protective nutrients. Thus, ensuring adequate levels of antioxidants such glutathione is a very good strategy.
Have you tried Rayonex Biofield Forming Products?
These are wellness products that broadcast healthy frequencies so that you are not resonating with harmful ones which can be stressors. This is a great way to surround yourself with healthy and harmonious frequencies in a holistic way if you suffer from the effects of living near cell phone towers.
We offer products that help with geopathic stressors such as the Hartmann Curry lines and man-made frequencies from cell phones, Wifi, bluetooth, microwaves, etc. Our whole house solutions includes the Duplex IV and rayonator package which will broadcast throughout your home. The range is up to 90 feet!
I have found zero science on these types of products. Do you have any research on these products to share?
Tower erected 8/2010. First deaths end of 2015. 7 dead in 7 months. Then it turned into about a dozen dead. 3 more have died. Its the end of 2018. Transmission path of cell tower. @OakleyCellTower #OakleyCellTower Find out more here: linkedin.com/in/corinne-kuhlmann-✔lion-857a17129
How dangerous are the antenna vs the towers? Our house and the local elementary and junior high schools are safe, but there’s a multiple antenna at the high school. There’s also a single one only 36 feet high at my niece’s elementary school. My work is at least a quarter mile from a tower, but has multiple single antenna on the complex. Also, the website is copyrighted only through 2009 and doesn’t recognize some newer addresses. Are they up to date? The new one in my area was built in 2006 it said. It’s 2018.
Logic would suggest that a single antenna would be better than the 10+ antennas on a cell tower, but unfortunately, I haven’t found any research to confirm it one way or the other. If you are sensitive to EMFs and suspect you might be a person who is prone to EHS, then perhaps making plans to move in the future would be a good idea.
Regarding whether the website is up to date, I think it is as licenses for new towers and/or antennas in my area for 2018 were showing up in a search for my home address.
Does the 1300 feet safety rule apply to antennas as well? There are no cell phone towers within a mile of my house, but according to antennasearch.com, there seems to be a Single Antenna (listed as: Small (below 100ft) stand alone antenna on top of buildings, poles, etc.) two houses down the street from our house. Would this be like a satellite TV antenna or something? How dangerous are they? I assume the cell phone towers are much more powerful.
The studies were done with cell towers which would typically have 10 or more antennas mounted on them. An individual antenna would logically put out less microwaves since it is standalone, but I don’t have a definitive answer for you given that the studies were done with cell phone towers. Do you know your neighbor two houses down? Perhaps you can ask them about the antenna and what it is. Maybe it is for something else entirely as it seems odd that mobile phone transmissions would be coming from a residential location.
Hi Sarah, I encourage you to listen to Dr. Jack Kruse’s Nourished Vermont lectures (2017 &18 are available on youtube, 2018 is behind a paywall on his site). It appears the problem is infinitely more nuanced and deleterious than many of us imagine. Apparently we are not only being poisoned with non-native blue light & EMF, but perhaps worse, we are deficient in native blue light from adequate sun exposure. I agree with Dr. Kruse, Dr. Magda Havas, Dr. Martin Pall, Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and retired British microwave weapons expert Barrie Trower among others, that we are on the brink of a cataclysmic health crisis.
Government, at least the United States and ‘subordinate’ governments DO NOT care about your health and safety. Never forget that. This is why they “quietly” allow the cell towers to proliferate in the neighborhoods.
You’re going to carefully choose a location to live, far from cell towers. Before you know it, you’re going to wake up in the morning, look out the window and be staring point blank at a cell tower. As if it came out of the ground like a mushroom.
Any government or corporate accountability? Anyone to answer questions? Of course, not.
How close is too close for a cell phone tower? Is there a recommended mileage?
Yes, the article covers this. Less than 1/4 of a mile (about 1300 feet) is hugely problematic for some people.
I’ve had a different experience and will say this is what I call “Correlation does not imply causation”. I also live and lived within a 100 feet of a huge cell phone tower for many years.
What I found harmful is the screen flicker and blue light emitted from electronic screens. I now use a epson projector as a monitor with no ill effects. However LED projectors do flicker.
Air pollution during the night from diesel locomotives gave me brain cancer when I lived near a train yard for a couple years and I managed to reverse it pretty quickly with fasting(starving cancer cells) and 1L of homemade raw organic carrot juice before bed until the brain crashing symptoms went away as beta-carotene causes apoptosis of cancer cells.
Air pollution in the morning also effects me immensely during the school year as a lot of parents drive their kids to school these days. I’ve felt great for these 2 months but I know I will have problems in the morning in about a week. I’m looking to move as the house is on the main branch road.
The studies I cited in the article are randomized … they are causative studies (not correlative).
Also, no doubt some people are incredibly immune to the effects of microwave radiation at close proximity. I’m glad you seem to be one of these people. My grandfather smoked 3 packs of Camel cigarettes a day for 50 years and never got lung cancer. Does this mean cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer? Of course not.
It would be disappointing to go to all the trouble of selling one’s home and moving elsewhere only to have a new tower pop up near your new location. My workplace has just approved a tower on our property so what seemed to be at a safer distance before will no longer be so. There doesn’t seem to be a way to ensure avoiding close exposure in an urban area. My home is also about a block and a half from a tower, according to the cell phone tower map so working from home is not a better choice either.
The American Cancer Society doesn’t seem too concerned about it according to this 2016 post on their site:
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phone-towers.html I wonder if there’s some cherry picking of data going on, or do they need to update their research?
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified the microwave radiation from all wireless devices as a possible human carcinogen in 2011.
In 2016, the U.S. National Toxicology Program released results of the world’s largest, gold-standard study on wireless health risks (conducted on rats, which are the preferred animal model for studies of carcinogenicity in humans), finding cancer in 5.5 percent of the exposed group and no cancer in the control group.
Yes
I contacted a city planner. He sent the archetectural plan but No numbers. No frequency. I asked is it a 4g or 5g? He said he didnt know. I have to contact the carrier Sprint. Seems fu ny the city of Tucson gets paid to approve the plans and they dont know what frequency the switched out cells are?
By Dr. Jack Kruse: “Policy in the US has recently changed regarding 5G. Instead of putting tons of antennas all over cities the federal government seems more happy to allow rockets with liquid fuels penetrate out atmosphere and deliver 5G from satellites. Elon Musk is behind this change. What does this one single change in delivery mean for humans below on the surface of Earth? It means the ozone layer in places will thin. Just as blue light and nnEMF from 5G thin your retina to lead to AMD, Cataracts, retinal tears, and blindness, 5G from above will thin ozone to alter the quantum yield of Earth. Do you think this will have zero biologic impacts on life below? ” atmos-chem-phys.net/…/1379/2018/acp-18-1379-201…
Yes, the constant onslaught on blue light from digital devices on our eyes is very problematic to eye health over the long term. Amber tinted computer readers are a very good idea as protection. https://amzn.to/2C0QQPW