How Unhealthy Are Your AirPods? | Bluetooth & EMF

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[TheCronedoggy]

We spend many hours a day bombarded by non ionizing radiation from light bulbs. That's higher energy than radio waves.

[UnavoidableGarbage]

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.

[labrosts]

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.

[sky.abstract]

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 😊

[ITSecurityFTW]

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.

[Tman]

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.

[DontBeUpsettiHaveSumSpaghetti]

“Is Bluetooth actually toxic?”
*me getting the notification while literally using Bluetooth headphones 💀*

[divjotdebense]

me watchin with bluethooth head phones : 👁👄👁

[Reason_To_Heal]

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.

[nathanhodge]

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!

[novatwist]

Did he just do a thesis presentation in a YouTube video. This is extremely high quality

[valstracuga]

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

[coltonroark]

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."

[venera]

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.

[Mystery]

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!

[kaspedkk]

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.

[RagnarokLoW]

Btw even wires emit emf. It's just narrower because of the shielding around it

[KaijuKim]

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. 😂

[josiahpaez]

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.

[mallorypettersen]

I love the idea of this series!!! So much misinformation out there from many sides!