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Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers

Posted by kdawson on from the i-forget-why dept.

We've discussed cellphones and cancer many times. Here's a new angle: reader olddotter sends in a Reuters article suggesting that cellphone radiation may protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. "At the end of that time, they found cellphone exposure erased a build-up of beta amyloid, a protein that serves as a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's mice showed improvement and had reversal of their brain pathology..."

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  1. Mice by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the mice that were talking on cell phones had a richer mental life, staving off the disease for reasons other than the radiation.

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    1. Re:Mice by docneuro · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe the mice that were talking on cell phones had a richer mental life, staving off the disease for reasons other than the radiation.

      Nah. There was less amyloid because the mice unfortunately crashed their cars while talking on the cell phone and just died young.

      Nothing to see here... move along.

    2. Re:Mice by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe the mice that were talking on cell phones had a richer mental life, staving off the disease for reasons other than the radiation.

      I don't know how much richer is thinking "Why does this box make noises like another mouse?"
      And they'd have a less rich mental life if they're using GPS to find their cheese in the maze.

    3. Re:Mice by supernova_hq · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's right. Between teh radiation, driving distractions and lowered mental state, they just aren't living long enough to DEVELOP alzheimers!

  2. GOATSE MAY PROTECT THE ARSE FROM HEMORROIDS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    We've discussed lemonparty.org and meatspin many times. Here's a new angle: reader first post troll sends in a Tubgirl article suggesting that Goatse may protect the arse from hemorroids.

  3. Re:Choice to Make by lorenlal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe we've got it all wrong... Can alzheimers be the cure for cancer?

  4. Of course it must be true by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 5, Funny

    The mice have been running the experiment to check the safety of cellphones for mice use by making the human beings to use them for a long time. It is quite well known and well documented actually.

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  5. Re:Choice to Make by arthurpaliden · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't remember......

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  6. Fixing Forgetfull Grandma... by jameskojiro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duct Tape, check
    Cell phones, check

    So we should go buy a bunch of those pre-paid cell phones and duct tape them to grandma's head and hope to heck her memory gets better.

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    1. Re:Fixing Forgetfull Grandma... by drater · · Score: 2, Funny

      My grandmother really has Alzheimer's, you insensitive clod!

    2. Re:Fixing Forgetfull Grandma... by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can send you some duct tape if you'd like...

  7. If you give a mouse a cell phone, by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's going to ask for a Bluetooth headset.

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  8. Re:Choice to Make by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 5, Funny

    On a long enough timeline, the rate of survival always drops to zero. Stop worrying so much.

  9. Quick! by peacefinder · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone mail their old cell phones to Sir Terry Pratchett, stat!

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  10. Re:scary by mcmonkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    Studies show that mouse heads are much smaller than human heads

    [Citation needed]

  11. Easy call by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alzheimers! I'd love to be able to hide my own Easter eggs, and every time you make love to your wife, it feels like a whole new experience! Plus, you can laugh at the same old jokes several times (like the ones my father tells over and over and over again!) Yep, Alzheimers is definitely the way to go! Uh... what was the question again?

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  12. Re:Choice to Make by dr2chase · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you can remember how to use it.

    I'm thinking, cell phones good, Tesla coils better?

  13. Oh Yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    In your face Amish!!

  14. Re:Choice to Make by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They've since stopped referring to it as Brainal Warming, instead calling it Lobal Change.

  15. Ironic by LordKronos · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, cell phones protect from alzheimers? The condition that (among other effects) causes people to forget things ? I find that quite ironic, considering that it seems 99% of people forget how to drive when they're on one.

    P.S. At least I think that's irony. Every time I think I've got it down, someone shows me a new rule for what is or isn't irony. My apologies to the grammar Nazis in advance if I have it wrong.