Do you put your mobile phone in your back jersey pocket while riding? If so, please consider the following for the sake of your long term health.
I used to ride with my mobile phone in my back pocket because it was a very convenient place to put my phone, not to mention that my XL-sized phone at the time didn't fit in my bike bag. By putting my phone in my jersey pocket, that means the phone was laying 0.0 cm from my body, almost directly on my kidney, for hours at a time.
Over the years, I've been hearing warnings from health professionals about incidence of cancer that strongly correlate the location of certain cancers with the location of where people carry their phones on their bodies (next to their ear, in their pocket, in their bra, etc.) and that really got me thinking and a bit concerned. In addition, I've been in the IT industry for over 20 years and the number of people I've know who have been getting brain cancer seriously concerns me since us IT people are typically very heavy mobile phone users.
I have a Google Pixel 2 and Google's Safety & Regulatory Information document states:
Note what the quote says: "at a distance of 1.0 cm from your body". Who carries their phone that far from their body? When it's in your pocket or next to your ear, it's 0.0 cm from your body! In other words, in order to meet government standards, cell phone companies test their phones at distances from the body that do not represent the distance the average consumer carries a phone from his or her body.
I now make sure that my phone is in my seat pack when I ride and I put it on airplane mode which allows the GPS function to continue to work (so Strava can track me) but turns off the WiFi and Bluetooth signals. That puts the phone several inches from my body and reduces possible radiation coming from the phone.
For an in-depth look at this topic, please view the following video:
So once again, if you ride with you phone in your jersey pocket, please consider putting the phone in your seat pack or turn the phone off. It's up to you if you want to ignore this advice, but this seems like a relatively simple change you could make to minimize the risk of some potentially awful health problems in the future.
I used to ride with my mobile phone in my back pocket because it was a very convenient place to put my phone, not to mention that my XL-sized phone at the time didn't fit in my bike bag. By putting my phone in my jersey pocket, that means the phone was laying 0.0 cm from my body, almost directly on my kidney, for hours at a time.
Over the years, I've been hearing warnings from health professionals about incidence of cancer that strongly correlate the location of certain cancers with the location of where people carry their phones on their bodies (next to their ear, in their pocket, in their bra, etc.) and that really got me thinking and a bit concerned. In addition, I've been in the IT industry for over 20 years and the number of people I've know who have been getting brain cancer seriously concerns me since us IT people are typically very heavy mobile phone users.
I have a Google Pixel 2 and Google's Safety & Regulatory Information document states:
Note that all mobile phones have similar safety documents, you probably just don't know it because it's buried somewhere and never talked about.
Note what the quote says: "at a distance of 1.0 cm from your body". Who carries their phone that far from their body? When it's in your pocket or next to your ear, it's 0.0 cm from your body! In other words, in order to meet government standards, cell phone companies test their phones at distances from the body that do not represent the distance the average consumer carries a phone from his or her body.
I now make sure that my phone is in my seat pack when I ride and I put it on airplane mode which allows the GPS function to continue to work (so Strava can track me) but turns off the WiFi and Bluetooth signals. That puts the phone several inches from my body and reduces possible radiation coming from the phone.
For an in-depth look at this topic, please view the following video:
So once again, if you ride with you phone in your jersey pocket, please consider putting the phone in your seat pack or turn the phone off. It's up to you if you want to ignore this advice, but this seems like a relatively simple change you could make to minimize the risk of some potentially awful health problems in the future.
Although you can't control what other people do with their phones, but you can control what you do with yours.
