Understanding phone towers and their associated potential health affects due to the elctromagnetic energy they emit can be difficult. This site offers simple explanations and solutions.                

The easiest way to explain what is happening when you here about electromagnetic radiation from phone towers is that you are exposed to a form of electricity in the air. You cannot see or feel this electricity ( unless you are electrically sensitive ) and some people are more sensitive than others. This is easily explained in the same terms as some people being able to smoke and live well into their nineties and others develop cancer after a few years. As we all have different constitutiens we all react differently.

However , unlike smoking where there is a choice involved we do not currently have that luxury when it comes to phone towers and other wireless radio frequency transmitters ( like radio , radar , wifi etc. ). We have also never been exposed to so much electromagnetic radiation ( or electricity in the air ) in the history of the planet and it is therefore not right to say that there are no harmful effects from wireless transmitters.

In fact we are filling our homes with them. Most of us have cordless phones and if they are DECT cordless phones there is a good chance that the base station ( cradle in which the main hand set sits ) eminates microwaves 24 hours a day 7 days a week regardless of whether you are using the phone or not ( the base station simply has to be plugged in and switched on ). The frequency used to transmit is usually 2.4GHz or 5.6 GHz . Have a look at your microwave oven and see what frequency is utilised there ( usually around 2.4GHz ). 

The simple answer is because according to many studies no harmful health eafects have been proven beyond a scientific shadow of a doubt. However, in Europe and now in Australia it is being found that more people are getting headaches,  chronic fatigue , bad sleep and loss of memory and concentration. These symptoms can also be explained away by many other things like stress , lack of exercise , bad diet etc.

A company called ecolibria that visits homes and workplaces in connection with electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic radiation has done some experimenting. Over 95% percent of the time when cordless phone units and wireless internet are switched off for just a few days occupants have found that their energy levels , concentration levels  and quality of sleep have all improved. It is also interesting to note that it does not take weeks or months to notice a difference and in fact it often only takes a day or two.

There is much controversy about long term effects because no-one really knows for sure. However it seems prudent that where there is conflicting evidence and scientists and medical practitioners express great concern over evidence from more recent studies, that we should be cautious and minimise our exposure.

Building Biologists ( best thought of as building doctors passionate about healthy buildings ) enforce much stricter standards in terms of electromagnetic radiation exposure from mobile phone base stations and phone towers than the current governemnt guidelines.

The reason for this is because current governemnt standards are based on what is called thermal effects. Simply put this means that the exposure standards are based on the degree to which body tissue heats up. If one were exposed to levels of electromagnetic radiation above government standards then we know beyond doubt that this is harmful due to a strong heating effect. However, the standards do not take into account long term Biological effects. This means that how long term electromagnetic radiation exposure at low levels can effect our blood , neurological system , endocrine system (hormones) and any and all other biological system in our bodies is not considered or covered in the standard.

In Germany for example some doctors have united as they have found that they simply cannot explain certain symptoms and ailments and have found that many of these have been linked back to exposure to "low" levels of electromagnetic energy from wireless devices.

Solutions are often very simple and can have dramatic effects on general well being. It is often found that long term ailments ( headaches , bad sleep , chronic fatigue , short term memory loss , unexpalined tingling in limbs ) have been completely misdiagnosed and that when electromagnetic field ( emf ) and electromagnetic radiation ( emr ) exposure is minimised or removed that these ailments resolve quite rapidly.