[Music]
I’m here to talk to you about something
that at first may sound like a Saturday
Night Live routine but it’s really not
it’s a matter that merits the most
serious attention two of the fastest
working and fastest-growing parts of the
body the brain and sperm but what they
have in common is something in which the
future of our species depends how many
of know that one in six American couples
is unable to have a child when they want
to how many of you know that last year
the birth rate in this country dropped
the most that it ever has in recent
history according to the CDC three
percent in a single year now I want to
let you in on a dirty secret phones are
not tested in the way they’re used
they’re tested in a holster away from
the body you may remember the diesel
engine scandal Volkswagen engines which
were revealed to be rigged so that when
the engine was hooked up to a computer
it automatically reduced the emissions
and as a result when the engines were
running in the real world they emitted a
lot more pollution the results of that
are evident in European cities today
where you’ve got smoke and pollution
because those cars are on the road so
what happened you could rig the test but
you can’t rig the real world now
the French have done something different
they often do they’ve tested phones in
real-world conditions that means they
actually tested them next to the body
and they did something amazing
they took 400 phones off the shelf put
them through a test system and they
found that nine out of ten phones failed
to pass the current European standards
you can see the bar there showing you
that when the Apple iPhone 5 was tested
according to manufacturers it easily
passed the test when it was test
with five millimeter distance it’s still
passed but when it was tested directly
next to the body you can see that it
exceeded the standard by more than
double now would you want to fly an
airplane that had 20 year old safety
standards and yet the safety standards
for our phones today are based on tests
that were developed 20 years ago they
were developed for military and medical
uses of with people who didn’t speak too
much six minutes
an average call that’s how our phones
are in fact tested today off the body
not realistically now the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation decided to test
phones under real-world circumstances
and their premiere newscaster
investigative journalist wendy mess lee
put together a six figure investigation
going to the FCC approved laboratories
in the United States with the three most
popular phones and this is what they
found this is a special edition of
marketplace most of us carry our phones
next to our body and why wouldn’t we
science tests and the hidden message in
your cell phone
so the tests are all done tests are all
finished and the number exceeded the
limit it went up significantly with each
one of the phones that’s right the
phone’s exceeded the safety limit when
they were moved right against the body
the radiation absorbed increased three
to four times that’s right three to four
times when phones were tested the way
you all have been using them until today
when you have a phone in your pocket
it’s a two-way microwave radio it’s
sending and receiving a signal a
handshake 900 times a minute and so long
as it’s on whether you’re using it or
not it’s sending that microwave signal
and this is why the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation decided to do
the testing now what about the u.s. well
this video shows you what’s in your
phone right now those phones that you’ve
been carrying you can see here that if
you go to your home screen and you
click on your settings there and from
settings you click on general and from
general you go to the top to about and
from about you go all the way down to
something you’ve probably never seen
called legal and yes when you click on
legal you get to RF exposure and when
you click on RF exposure there you see
it you raid through all of that and it
tells you that when phones were tested
they were kept 5 millimeters away from
the body now 5 millimeters is not very
big distance but it’s big enough to make
a huge difference in how much radiation
gets into you and that is why you’ve all
been warned you just didn’t know it we
think we can do a better job and that’s
why I’m delighted to be here with you
and the Ted audience tonight to talk
about how you can take more precautions
we know in Jackson Hole because the town
council passed a resolution in 2010
letting people know about cell phone
safety and we if you happen to live in
Berkeley you know about it because the
City of Berkeley has passed a right to
know law but otherwise you’re out of
luck unless you know how to operate your
phone now let’s go back to those
fast-moving sperm they are fast they’re
amazing they grow at the rate of 90
thousand times a minute 90,000 cells a
minute are produced in the natural way
they can swim when they’re made the
equivalent from Los Angeles to Hawaii at
10 miles an hour it’s really quite
amazing why do you need so many of them
because we want the healthiest sperm to
survive we want the survival of the
fittest of course you may wonder why you
need so many of them and you can see
here they don’t really swim in a
direction and you know the reason you
need so many is really quite simple
sperm don’t know how to ask for
now the fast cells of the brain are even
faster than the sperm they grow at a
quarter million neurons a minute and at
Birth the baby’s brain is a marvel of
metamorphosis it is a hundred billion
neurons at birth it’s a third of the
size of an adult and by the time that
baby has reached two years of age their
brain is 80 percent the size of an adult
while it’s grown in size the brain of a
baby is not fully myelinated myelin is
fat fat is critical to the functioning
of neurons it protects the neurons with
a fatty sheath that insulates them from
damage and actually is thought to be
critical to the development of impulse
control and judgment which is why it
won’t surprise those you who survive
teenagers to understand that myelination
is not complete until the mid 20s when
we look at what we know about both the
sperm and brain they’re both fast and
fatty and the fat is really important
because fat has been called a natural
hazardous waste site it attracts a lot
of organic garbage to it and one of the
things we know is that toxic agents can
get into fat they’re attracted to it and
they can get either through the skin or
through inhalation a toxic agent can get
into the body where it can be
distributed and all of the agents on the
screen behind me solvents ionizing
radiation metals and pesticides are
tracked into fat but guess what
microwave radiation enhances the
absorption of any toxic material in your
body that is why it’s so important to
understand that you want to keep these
devices off your body and especially
away from your children because the fat
loving brain and the fat happy sperm
both are storage sites for toxic agents
now the younger brain is going to absorb
more exposure than the older brain
these images come from work that
environmental health trust scientists
have done at Porto Alegre a federal
university in Brazil Claudio Fernandes
Alvaro de Salle’s and their teammates
have produced this imaging work with us
and we can show you she’s seen with the
yellow white part showing the highest
exposures that the cellphone radiation
gets all the way through into the eyes
of a child aged six that might have a
phone next to their brain the
consequences remember that brain is not
protected with myelin and therefore the
exposures of anything to it are going to
have a greater impact this is work done
by the head of the National Institute of
drug abuse and published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association this
is a PET scan very sophisticated slice
of the brain developed by Nora Volkov
she shows that just 50 minutes of
holding a cell phone directly next to
the head increases the production of
glucose metabolized into the brain even
if the phone is not making any sound and
the person in the study is not aware
that the phone is turned on it produces
more sugar in the brain what’s wrong
with that we all like sugar drugs sex
rock and roll light up the brain so does
sugar but what is the consequence of
having sugar in the brain when you’re
not producing it deliberately nobody can
tell us and we need to find out and in
the meantime you need to protect your
brain because what we do know is it’s
cellphone radiation
microwaves radiation can damage brain
cells this is work published by my
colleagues in Turkey and I and we have
done this work you can see the increased
white spaces in here means more damage
from electromagnetic field exposures
that were modeled by a computer to mimic
cell phone radiation now the good news
part of this is you get less damage if
there’s melatonin in the system
melatonin is what you make when you
sleep in the dark at night it’s
why nobody should try to go to sleep
just after checking into their device or
for example falling asleep with watching
a movie on your body that’s interfering
with your ability to make melatonin and
melatonin is what you need to prepare
damage throughout the body
both melatonin and omega-3 fatty acids
on the bottom two cells behind me give
you less damage then you will get from
electromagnetic fields alone but still
you get the damage into the brain and be
very much aware of that when you’re
using your devices from now on we also
can show damage to the testes and this
is work again done with colleagues both
in Turkey and Brazil and you can see the
testicular cells are having loss of
borders there when exposed to cell phone
radiation and what I want to tell you is
that the Cleveland Clinic has been
warning its patients for years to keep
phones out of their pockets if they want
to have healthy babies the same advice
comes from the Mayo Clinic and the
reason is there’s a recognition that
cell phone radiation can damage
testicular function the highest exposure
you can see in this image there goes
into the penis and the testes and there
may be a role as well for a reptile
dysfunction that’s a matter that’s being
studied right now at both those
institutions so where are we there’s a
news flash from California from
yesterday
it says poor cellphone reception
week bars don’t use your phone it can
give you 10,000 times more exposure then
when you have a strong signal and be
aware of that but also be aware that
this advice about how to use phone
safely has been issued by the California
Department of Public Health the American
Academy Pediatrics the Cleveland Clinic
the Mayo Clinic the government of France
the government of Israel and a number of
other groups that all say keep the phone
off the body put it on airplane mode
avoid using it when signals are weak now
I want to close by sharing with you a
short message
of simple advice that comes from my dear
friend Keith Phillips Keith died two
years ago but he left us with this
important message that I want to share
with you now
[Music]
hi I’m Keith Phillips I’m a musician
I’m a piano player and I’m a brain tumor
survivor and I just want you to be
careful
remember distance is your friend keep
your cell phone away from your head
thank you [Applause]
I’m here to talk to you about something
that at first may sound like a Saturday
Night Live routine but it’s really not
it’s a matter that merits the most
serious attention two of the fastest
working and fastest-growing parts of the
body the brain and sperm but what they
have in common is something in which the
future of our species depends how many
of know that one in six American couples
is unable to have a child when they want
to how many of you know that last year
the birth rate in this country dropped
the most that it ever has in recent
history according to the CDC three
percent in a single year now I want to
let you in on a dirty secret phones are
not tested in the way they’re used
they’re tested in a holster away from
the body you may remember the diesel
engine scandal Volkswagen engines which
were revealed to be rigged so that when
the engine was hooked up to a computer
it automatically reduced the emissions
and as a result when the engines were
running in the real world they emitted a
lot more pollution the results of that
are evident in European cities today
where you’ve got smoke and pollution
because those cars are on the road so
what happened you could rig the test but
you can’t rig the real world now
the French have done something different
they often do they’ve tested phones in
real-world conditions that means they
actually tested them next to the body
and they did something amazing
they took 400 phones off the shelf put
them through a test system and they
found that nine out of ten phones failed
to pass the current European standards
you can see the bar there showing you
that when the Apple iPhone 5 was tested
according to manufacturers it easily
passed the test when it was test
with five millimeter distance it’s still
passed but when it was tested directly
next to the body you can see that it
exceeded the standard by more than
double now would you want to fly an
airplane that had 20 year old safety
standards and yet the safety standards
for our phones today are based on tests
that were developed 20 years ago they
were developed for military and medical
uses of with people who didn’t speak too
much six minutes
an average call that’s how our phones
are in fact tested today off the body
not realistically now the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation decided to test
phones under real-world circumstances
and their premiere newscaster
investigative journalist wendy mess lee
put together a six figure investigation
going to the FCC approved laboratories
in the United States with the three most
popular phones and this is what they
found this is a special edition of
marketplace most of us carry our phones
next to our body and why wouldn’t we
science tests and the hidden message in
your cell phone
so the tests are all done tests are all
finished and the number exceeded the
limit it went up significantly with each
one of the phones that’s right the
phone’s exceeded the safety limit when
they were moved right against the body
the radiation absorbed increased three
to four times that’s right three to four
times when phones were tested the way
you all have been using them until today
when you have a phone in your pocket
it’s a two-way microwave radio it’s
sending and receiving a signal a
handshake 900 times a minute and so long
as it’s on whether you’re using it or
not it’s sending that microwave signal
and this is why the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation decided to do
the testing now what about the u.s. well
this video shows you what’s in your
phone right now those phones that you’ve
been carrying you can see here that if
you go to your home screen and you
click on your settings there and from
settings you click on general and from
general you go to the top to about and
from about you go all the way down to
something you’ve probably never seen
called legal and yes when you click on
legal you get to RF exposure and when
you click on RF exposure there you see
it you raid through all of that and it
tells you that when phones were tested
they were kept 5 millimeters away from
the body now 5 millimeters is not very
big distance but it’s big enough to make
a huge difference in how much radiation
gets into you and that is why you’ve all
been warned you just didn’t know it we
think we can do a better job and that’s
why I’m delighted to be here with you
and the Ted audience tonight to talk
about how you can take more precautions
we know in Jackson Hole because the town
council passed a resolution in 2010
letting people know about cell phone
safety and we if you happen to live in
Berkeley you know about it because the
City of Berkeley has passed a right to
know law but otherwise you’re out of
luck unless you know how to operate your
phone now let’s go back to those
fast-moving sperm they are fast they’re
amazing they grow at the rate of 90
thousand times a minute 90,000 cells a
minute are produced in the natural way
they can swim when they’re made the
equivalent from Los Angeles to Hawaii at
10 miles an hour it’s really quite
amazing why do you need so many of them
because we want the healthiest sperm to
survive we want the survival of the
fittest of course you may wonder why you
need so many of them and you can see
here they don’t really swim in a
direction and you know the reason you
need so many is really quite simple
sperm don’t know how to ask for
now the fast cells of the brain are even
faster than the sperm they grow at a
quarter million neurons a minute and at
Birth the baby’s brain is a marvel of
metamorphosis it is a hundred billion
neurons at birth it’s a third of the
size of an adult and by the time that
baby has reached two years of age their
brain is 80 percent the size of an adult
while it’s grown in size the brain of a
baby is not fully myelinated myelin is
fat fat is critical to the functioning
of neurons it protects the neurons with
a fatty sheath that insulates them from
damage and actually is thought to be
critical to the development of impulse
control and judgment which is why it
won’t surprise those you who survive
teenagers to understand that myelination
is not complete until the mid 20s when
we look at what we know about both the
sperm and brain they’re both fast and
fatty and the fat is really important
because fat has been called a natural
hazardous waste site it attracts a lot
of organic garbage to it and one of the
things we know is that toxic agents can
get into fat they’re attracted to it and
they can get either through the skin or
through inhalation a toxic agent can get
into the body where it can be
distributed and all of the agents on the
screen behind me solvents ionizing
radiation metals and pesticides are
tracked into fat but guess what
microwave radiation enhances the
absorption of any toxic material in your
body that is why it’s so important to
understand that you want to keep these
devices off your body and especially
away from your children because the fat
loving brain and the fat happy sperm
both are storage sites for toxic agents
now the younger brain is going to absorb
more exposure than the older brain
these images come from work that
environmental health trust scientists
have done at Porto Alegre a federal
university in Brazil Claudio Fernandes
Alvaro de Salle’s and their teammates
have produced this imaging work with us
and we can show you she’s seen with the
yellow white part showing the highest
exposures that the cellphone radiation
gets all the way through into the eyes
of a child aged six that might have a
phone next to their brain the
consequences remember that brain is not
protected with myelin and therefore the
exposures of anything to it are going to
have a greater impact this is work done
by the head of the National Institute of
drug abuse and published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association this
is a PET scan very sophisticated slice
of the brain developed by Nora Volkov
she shows that just 50 minutes of
holding a cell phone directly next to
the head increases the production of
glucose metabolized into the brain even
if the phone is not making any sound and
the person in the study is not aware
that the phone is turned on it produces
more sugar in the brain what’s wrong
with that we all like sugar drugs sex
rock and roll light up the brain so does
sugar but what is the consequence of
having sugar in the brain when you’re
not producing it deliberately nobody can
tell us and we need to find out and in
the meantime you need to protect your
brain because what we do know is it’s
cellphone radiation
microwaves radiation can damage brain
cells this is work published by my
colleagues in Turkey and I and we have
done this work you can see the increased
white spaces in here means more damage
from electromagnetic field exposures
that were modeled by a computer to mimic
cell phone radiation now the good news
part of this is you get less damage if
there’s melatonin in the system
melatonin is what you make when you
sleep in the dark at night it’s
why nobody should try to go to sleep
just after checking into their device or
for example falling asleep with watching
a movie on your body that’s interfering
with your ability to make melatonin and
melatonin is what you need to prepare
damage throughout the body
both melatonin and omega-3 fatty acids
on the bottom two cells behind me give
you less damage then you will get from
electromagnetic fields alone but still
you get the damage into the brain and be
very much aware of that when you’re
using your devices from now on we also
can show damage to the testes and this
is work again done with colleagues both
in Turkey and Brazil and you can see the
testicular cells are having loss of
borders there when exposed to cell phone
radiation and what I want to tell you is
that the Cleveland Clinic has been
warning its patients for years to keep
phones out of their pockets if they want
to have healthy babies the same advice
comes from the Mayo Clinic and the
reason is there’s a recognition that
cell phone radiation can damage
testicular function the highest exposure
you can see in this image there goes
into the penis and the testes and there
may be a role as well for a reptile
dysfunction that’s a matter that’s being
studied right now at both those
institutions so where are we there’s a
news flash from California from
yesterday
it says poor cellphone reception
week bars don’t use your phone it can
give you 10,000 times more exposure then
when you have a strong signal and be
aware of that but also be aware that
this advice about how to use phone
safely has been issued by the California
Department of Public Health the American
Academy Pediatrics the Cleveland Clinic
the Mayo Clinic the government of France
the government of Israel and a number of
other groups that all say keep the phone
off the body put it on airplane mode
avoid using it when signals are weak now
I want to close by sharing with you a
short message
of simple advice that comes from my dear
friend Keith Phillips Keith died two
years ago but he left us with this
important message that I want to share
with you now
[Music]
hi I’m Keith Phillips I’m a musician
I’m a piano player and I’m a brain tumor
survivor and I just want you to be
careful
remember distance is your friend keep
your cell phone away from your head
thank you [Applause]
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