There are over 5 billion operating cell phones on the planet. These phones exchange signals with millions of cell phone towers.

In your home, your favourite coffee shop, your local library and certainly in your office, you have WI-FI.

You probably also have a sprinkling of other wireless technologies, like a cordless phone, a wireless baby monitor or alarm system, or maybe even a USB-powered device that gives your cell phone Web access, which has been referred to as a "cell-phone tower for your pocket."

-- Your environment is filled with wireless technologies and the frequencies they emit - and you're being impacted whether you realize it or not

-- Evidence is mounting that 'electromagnetic loads' may lead to cancer, concentration problems, ADD, tinnitus, migraines, insomnia, arrhythmia, Parkinson's and even back pain, among other health problems

-- It is estimated that 3-8 percent of populations in developed countries experience serious electro hypersensitivity symptoms, while 35 percent experience mild symptoms

-- Even if you don't use a cell phone and your home is wireless-free, you can be exposed to microwave radiation from your neighbour's wireless devices or while visiting "hot spots" or traveling near cell phone towers. Steps are outlined to help you reduce your exposure to EMFs as much as possible

Even if you have opted out of such conveniences, there's a good chance your neighbourhood has not.

This means that, essentially, your environment is saturated with wireless technologies and the frequencies they emit - and you're being impacted whether you realize it or not.

The simple answer to this question is, no one knows.

How could they? The technologies that have become so intertwined with what it means to live in the 21st century - cell phones, laptops, iPads, and so on - have never-before existed. And as a species, we have embraced them fully, without understanding what types of risks they may ultimately present.