Mobile phone use may stave off, reverse Alzheimer's: study

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/6/10 | AFP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Long suspected of causing brain tumors, mobile phones are now being eyed as key allies in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said Wednesday in a study.

Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) found, to their surprise, that 96 mice they zapped twice daily for an hour each time with electromagnetic waves similar to those generated by US mobile (cellular) phones benefited from the exposure.

Long-term exposure to the electromagnetic waves in mobile phones wiped out deposits of beta-amyloid -- a protein fragment that accumulates in the brain of Alzheimer's sufferers to form the disease's signature plaques -- in older mice and improved their memories, the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease showed.

Young adult mice with no apparent signs of memory impairment were protected against Alzheimer's disease after several months' exposure to the mobile phone waves, and the memories of normal mice with no genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's disease were boosted after exposure to the electromagnetic waves.

No one was more surprised than the researchers themselves, who had embarked on the tests several years ago, convinced they would show "that the electromagnetic fields from a cell phone would be deleterious to Alzheimer's mice," lead author Gary Arendash, a USF professor, told AFP.

"When we got our initial results showing a beneficial effect, I thought, 'Give it a few more months and it will get bad for them.'

"It never got bad. We just kept getting these beneficial effects in both the Alzheimer's and normal mice," Arendash said.

It took several months of exposure before the benefits were seen in mice, and that would be the equivalent of many years in humans, Arendash said.

[glock rocks]

I don’t remember.

[NormsRevenge]

One month to aahhemm..

Hope the FReepathon is over by then. ;-)

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BTTT

[fireman15]

Sorry I didn’t keep up with the thread. It has been several months since I was working on the assignment. A google search on radiation health benefits will come up with numerous examples.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/nuclear.html

[Mrs. Don-o]

Uh-oh, we’re not the only ones...

[don-o]

We have 3 cordless phones... two to lose and one to find them

Doesn't everyone do that?

You ok tork? Heard of a l'il shakin' goin' on near you yesterday.

[neverdem]

thanks bfl