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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. scary by StripedCow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This proves that cellphone radiation actually interacts with matter in the brain... which is something to be afraid of, in my opinion.

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  2. Re:A thought that crossed my mind about EM radiati by boojum.cat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The argument, as I understand it, is that cancer is caused by mutated DNA, and DNA cannot be mutated by radiation that's too weak to break chemical bonds. Since cell phone radiation doesn't break bonds, it doesn't cause cancer. If Alzheimer's is caused by something other than mutated DNA, the argument doesn't apply.

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