Cellphone Radiation May Protect Brain From Alzheimers

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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Mice

[maxume]

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

Re:Mice

[docneuro]

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.

Of course it must be true

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

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.

scary

[StripedCow]

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

Re:scary

[dr2chase]

Yes, but. Cellphone radiation (.85-1.9Ghz) does not penetrate that far into your body, just as microwave radiation (2.45Ghz) does not penetrate that far into a potato.

Studies show that mouse heads are much smaller than human heads, therefore they are getting a much larger dose to their brain, for a given external exposure.

Re:scary

[mcmonkey]

Studies show that mouse heads are much smaller than human heads

[Citation needed]

Re:Choice to Make

[TooMuchToDo]

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

Re:A thought that crossed my mind about EM radiati

[Attila Dimedici]

Why accept this, but not the original arguments regarding microwave radiation?

Because this is based on a scientific, reproducible study that shows an actual effect, whereas, the claims that there were negative effects were contradicted by all of the scientific, reproducible experiments that were run to test them.

Re:A thought that crossed my mind about EM radiati

[boojum.cat]

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.