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Cell phone radiation may prevent or even cure Alzheimer's disease
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admin on 01/07/2010 01:08:00
 
Have researchers found a cure for Alzheimer's disease yet?
By David Liu
Exposure to cell phone radiation for a long term (more than 10 years) may
increase risk of malignant brain tumor in the users, according to early studies.
A new study now has found that cell phone radiation among other things may serve
as a therapy to treat Alzheimer's disease or as a preventative to prevent the
development of the disease.
Alzheimer's disease affects many people older than 60 and will eventually
disable the patients completely. There is no cure for it, according to the U.S.
government.
The study led by researchers at University of South Florida found mice that were
genetically prone to having Alzheimer's after exposure to cell phone radiation
for a period which is equivalent to a few years for humans performed on tests on
cognitive functions as well as those aged normal mice.
"It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood,
protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer's symptoms,"
said Gary Arendash Ph.D., lead author of the study published today in the
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
More surprising to the researchers is that impaired memory in older
Alzheimer’s mice was reversed after the treatment at the electromagnetic
wavelengths commonly used for cell phones.
The researchers were able to show the specific electromagnetic waves used in the
study erased deposits of the harmful protein beta-amyloid. Additionally, the
radiation also prevented the protein's build-up in younger Alzheimer’s mice.
The study involved 96 mice with some genetically modified in a way they would
develop Alzheimer's disease or something similar to it at a young age, and some
having no dementia.  All animals were exposed to the radiation for two one-hour
sections each day for seven to nine months.
In addition to the findings mentioned above, the researchers found another thing
that is most amazing: normal mice after irradiation boosted their memory and
other cognitive functions which can be severely impaired in Alzheimer's
patients.
The cell phone radiation levels the mice were exposed to remain unknown.  At
least the press release by the university does not mention it.  What is known is
that mice were kept in cages and the cages were placed around a centrally
located antenna generating the cell phone signal.
A health observer warned that cell phone users should not jump start to increase
their use of the modern instrument as a preventative against Alzheimer's
disease.
He suggests that it would be interesting to watch and see if incidence of
Alzheimer's disease in the United States would decrease a few years from now on
now that cell phone towers have been set up everywhere in the country and
millions of people use the modern technology.