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Mobile phone use may stave off, reverse Alzheimer's: study
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 1/6/10 | AFP

Posted on 01/06/2010 7:09:57 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alzheimers; electromagnetic; mobilephone; reverse; staveoff
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1 posted on 01/06/2010 7:09:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge; SouthTexas; glock rocks

You need to call me more often Norm if you want me to be my witty self.

However if you don’t want me to be my...errr... what were we talking about?


2 posted on 01/06/2010 7:16:48 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: NormsRevenge

I just asked my husband how one tells if a mouse has alzheimers and he said “They don’t remember where the cheese is. That’s obvious.”

*snort*


3 posted on 01/06/2010 7:20:32 PM PST by agrace
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To: NormsRevenge
"I can feel it. I can feel it.

Daisy.......Daisy........."


4 posted on 01/06/2010 7:22:25 PM PST by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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To: tubebender

HELLo
HeLLooo

slam slam slam

HELLOooo


5 posted on 01/06/2010 7:29:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: agrace

LOL


6 posted on 01/06/2010 7:30:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: tubebender

This should be a fun thread


7 posted on 01/06/2010 7:31:44 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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To: WestCoastGal
“This should be a fun thread”

Not if your Mother asked three time in one minute whom gave her the Christmas gift she was trying to open.

8 posted on 01/06/2010 7:41:11 PM PST by DAC21
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To: NormsRevenge

LOL


9 posted on 01/06/2010 7:41:38 PM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid")
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To: WestCoastGal

Just remember that little mice grow up to be brain dead rats. and the above photo does not rememblem me...


10 posted on 01/06/2010 7:46:35 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: NormsRevenge

So how come I can’t remember where I leave my cell phone?


11 posted on 01/06/2010 7:48:08 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: NormsRevenge
I am a member of a hazmat team. This last year I was assigned to work on a policy for a new piece of radiation detection equipment that we now have. While I was working on this assignment. I found that there are many studies which have shown that low level exposures to radiation are statistically beneficial to people's health. So it doesn't surprise me that low level radio radiation could have some type of beneficial effects as well. However one should keep in mind that a mouse's head and brain are significantly different from a human’s head and brain so this study may turn out to have no relevancy to human cell phone use.
12 posted on 01/06/2010 7:48:48 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15
I found that there are many studies which have shown that low level exposures to radiation are statistically beneficial to people's health.

References?

13 posted on 01/06/2010 7:51:47 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: Pharmboy
I know where your cell phone is, we always leave stuff in the bathroom window. I'll go look for it there right now.

What was I looking for?

14 posted on 01/06/2010 7:54:11 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Chuckling here...


15 posted on 01/06/2010 7:56:37 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

;9)


16 posted on 01/06/2010 7:58:13 PM PST by Ditter
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To: tubebender; NormsRevenge
...errr... what were we talking about?

I've been meaning to tell you, the microwave on your head looks kinda silly, but the improvement has been remarkable.

17 posted on 01/06/2010 7:59:05 PM PST by glock rocks (Wait, what?)
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To: Pharmboy

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


18 posted on 01/06/2010 7:59:21 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: glock rocks

What are you doing over here?


19 posted on 01/06/2010 8:00:34 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: tubebender

Excellent strategery!


20 posted on 01/06/2010 8:01:25 PM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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