How does long term exposure to base stations and mobile phones affect human hormone profiles?
Eskander EF, Estefan SF, Abd-Rabou AA. · 2012
View Original AbstractLong-term RF exposure from phones and cell towers significantly reduced stress, thyroid, and reproductive hormones in study participants.
Plain English Summary
Researchers in Egypt studied how long-term exposure to radiofrequency radiation from cell phones and cell towers affects hormone levels in people. They found significant decreases in multiple critical hormones, including stress hormones (ACTH and cortisol), thyroid hormones, and reproductive hormones like testosterone and prolactin. This suggests that chronic RF exposure may disrupt the body's delicate hormonal balance, particularly affecting the pituitary-adrenal system that controls stress response and metabolism.
Why This Matters
This study adds to mounting evidence that RF radiation affects far more than just heating tissue. The researchers found disruptions across multiple hormone systems, including those controlling stress response, metabolism, and reproduction. What makes this particularly concerning is that these hormones regulate fundamental bodily functions - from your ability to handle stress to your reproductive health and metabolic rate. The study examined people living near cell towers and using mobile phones, exposures that mirror what millions experience daily. While the study lacks specific exposure measurements, the hormone disruptions occurred at real-world exposure levels, not just laboratory conditions. The reality is that your endocrine system appears vulnerable to the very RF signals that surround us constantly in our wireless world.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Study Details
This study is concerned with assessing the role of exposure to radio frequency radiation (RFR) emitted either from mobiles or base stations and its relations with human's hormone profiles.
All volunteers' samples were collected for hormonal analysis.
This study showed significant decrease in volunteers' ACTH, cortisol, thyroid hormones, prolactin fo...
The present study revealed that high RFR effects on pituitary-adrenal axis.
Show BibTeX
@article{ef_2012_how_does_long_term_2067,
author = {Eskander EF and Estefan SF and Abd-Rabou AA.},
title = {How does long term exposure to base stations and mobile phones affect human hormone profiles?},
year = {2012},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22138021/},
}