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The Minimalists

Are AirPods bad for your health?

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss the possible harmful effects of wireless devices on the human body with author, podcaster, and fitness expert Ben Greenfield. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

Transcript

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0:00.0

the minimalist

0:02.6

The minimalist are once again going on tour this is our tenth tour in ten years

0:07.7

It is called the less coast tour we'll be hitting eight cities across the west coast of the United States and Canada

0:14.7

For more details head on over to the minimalists.com slash tour. We'll see you soon

0:24.8

Oh, er you mentioned AirPods a second ago. Oh, yeah, I was gonna ask them to okay

0:29.1

I'm asking so so what do you think about AirPods man? Are they are they gonna give us brain cancer?

0:35.7

Well, I've been using my less ever since Josh sent me an article, but I still use them every once in a while

0:39.9

Really been wanting an Apple watch

0:41.7

We were talking about this earlier and I still haven't gotten one even though I really like that can monitor

0:46.4

ECG and I can just load my

0:48.9

Podcasts or audiobooks up onto that and have a smaller interface and less to carry around my phone

0:53.8

The warning label on it says to keep it at least 10 millimeters from your skull

0:57.9

Face because like Apple knows the biological impact of radio frequency and

1:03.8

Shore cell and Wi-Fi signals are a little bit more damaging in terms of their power and the ability of that frequency to impact tissue

1:12.1

Or you know in your pocket to lower sperm quality or anything else that these things have been shown to do

1:17.0

But there are a few studies that you can find on PubMed that show an impact of

1:21.2

Bluetooth on cell membranes particularly class one Bluetooth

1:24.8

Which a lot of these devices emit and if the Bluetooth can be

1:30.5

Disabled such as say, you know, I'm wearing a self-quantification ring right now as are you Josh this this aura ring

1:37.0

Then you can go to your app and put it into into airplane mode and keep the Bluetooth off

1:43.7

But considering that the ear pods do not have a Bluetooth function that can be disabled

1:48.7

I would defeat the purpose of them being wireless headphones and they're in your ears next to your brain

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