{"id":63808,"date":"2026-03-04T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63808"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:37:26","slug":"living-near-a-cell-tower-linked-to-white-blood-cell-elevation-comparable-to-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63808","title":{"rendered":"Living Near a Cell Tower Linked to White Blood Cell Elevation Comparable to Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mobile_Phone_Tower_Danger.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile Phone Tower Danger\" width=\"1100\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mobile_Phone_Tower_Danger.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mobile_Phone_Tower_Danger-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mobile_Phone_Tower_Danger-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mobile_Phone_Tower_Danger-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>24% of residents living within 60 meters of a tower had abnormally high immune cell counts and over 50% of heavy phone users had abnormal immune cell counts \u2014 a signal of biological stress.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/petermcculloughmd\/p\/breaking-study-living-near-a-cell\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/petermcculloughmd\/p\/breaking-study-living-near-a-cell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24% of residents living within 60 meters of a tower had abnormally high immune cell counts and over 50% of heavy phone users had abnormal immune cell counts \u2014 a signal of biological stress. Source:\u00a0https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/petermcculloughmd\/p\/breaking-study-living-near-a-cell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63810,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63808\/revisions\/63810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}