Cell phone exposure prevents or reverses Alzheimer in mice
A new study by researchers at the University of South Florida in Tampa found that radio waves from cell phones can prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Mice that were genetically predisposed to developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life were used for the study, and the results stunned the researchers who were expecting just the opposite to occur.
Young mice that were exposed to 0.25 watts per kilogram of 918 MHz radio waves avoided developing Alzheimer and they were able to perform well on maze tests just like normal mice. The Mice that weren’t exposed to the radio waves lost their memory due to Alzheimer’s disease later in life. Even more interesting was the fact that mice that had already developed Alzheimer’s experienced a reversal of the disease after being exposed to the daily doses of cell phone radio waves for more than 8 months. Autopsies of the exposed mice revealed that they had less build up of Amyloid Plaque, the protein responsible for Alzheimer’s disease.
The researchers are careful to point out that these results are very preliminary and that treatments which work for mice don’t necessarily apply to humans. More testing must be conducted on other types of animals before human testing can be initiated, but the initial results certainly look promising. In the context of several other large scale studies that show no correlation between brain cancer and cell phones, cell phone appear to be completely safe and possibly even helpful.
I thought you would love this article. And while I am not one to go teach my grandfather to use a cellphone to help him prevent his mind getting worse.
Still the thought of this being the case, we may see the end of Alzheimer’s with out intentionally trying to get rid of it. Who would have thought that would happen.
Well, it’s too early to tell if this translates to humans or not. It’s clearly something that they’re going to be doing a lot more research on. We all hope that this (or anything else) does cure this disease.
A lot of discoveries in science and medicine were accidental. Researchers may be researching one thing and they stumble across something else. But at the end of the day, who cares how we cure the disease? We’ll take anything we can get including a little dumb luck.
The real issue with this study is not that it suggests that radiation from mobile phones may be beneficial under some circumstances but that this radiation is biologically active. If radiation can induce a measurable physiological effect, then you have to consider whether allowing this radiation to induce an effect in an uncontrolled environment is an acceptable risk.
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