Your Mattress Could be Acting as a Cancer-Causing Radiation Antenna

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Posted by: Dr. Mercola | August 18 2010

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The rate of breast cancer in Western countries is 10 percent higher in the left

breast than in the right. This also is true for the skin cancer melanoma

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Researchers have suggested a surprising explanation for this -- and for the

dramatic increase in rates of breast cancer and melanoma over the past three

decades.

In Japan, there is no correlation between the rates of melanoma and breast

cancer, and there is no left-side prevalence for either disease. The rate of

breast cancer in Japan is also significantly lower than in the West.

This may be due to differences in sleeping habits in Japan and Western

countries. Previous research has shown that people prefer to sleep on their

right sides, possibly as a way of reducing weight stress on the heart.

This is most likely the same in both the East and the West, but the futons used

for sleeping in Japan are mattresses placed directly on the bedroom floor, in

contrast to the elevated box springs and mattress of beds used in the West.

According to Scientific American:

" ... [A] 2007 study in Sweden conducted between 1989 and 1993 ... revealed a

strong link between the incidence of melanoma and the number of FM and TV

transmission towers covering the area where the individuals lived ...

Consider, however, that even a TV set cannot respond to broadcast transmissions

unless the weak electromagnetic waves are captured and amplified by an

appropriately designed antenna. Antennas are simply metal objects of appropriate

length sized to match the wavelength of a specific frequency of electromagnetic

radiation. "

In the U.S., bed frames and box springs are made of metal, and the length of a

bed is exactly half the wavelength of FM and TV transmissions. The maximum

strength of the field develops 75 centimeters above the mattress, so when

sleeping on your right side, your left side will be exposed to the highest field

strength.

Sources:

Scientific American July 2, 2010

Pathophysiology June 2010;17(3):157-160

Pathophysiology June 2010; 17(3):161