There
are 50,000 trillion
cells in the body, and even in older people the body is still actively
creating another billion new cells every hour, so the
incorruptibility
of DNA is all-
important in our health and survival.
The blood-brain barrier is a cell layer between the blood that circulates
in the blood vessels of the brain and the actual brain tissue. Oxygen and
nutrition is let inside by the barrier while carbon dioxide and waste
products are transported out through it. The barrier hinders some medicins
and several poisonous substances to invade and injure the brain.
Phones make brain receptive to poison
New Swedish research shows that the radiation from mobile phones might
make it easier for poison to penetrate into the brain. The findings could
explain the diseases that American soldiers who have participated in
high-tech warfare are suffering from.
A rat brain has been exposed to microwave fields similar to those from a
mobile phone handset. The dark spots are albumen that has come into the
brain through the blood-brain-barrier opened by the radiation.
The microwave radiation from cell phones can open the safety barrier that
is supposed to protect the brain from being invaded by poisonous substances
contained in blood. A research team at Lund university has found that the
protein albumen leaks through the so called blood-brain-barrier into the
brain of rats that have been exposed to microwaves similar to those
irradiated by a mobile phone. Albumen is naturally contained in blood but it
can harm the brain.
- We're seeing extremely small amounts of protein and we don't know how
dangerous it is, says Leif Salford, a neurosurgeon Lund hospital.
- But other experiments, where albumen has deliberately been injected into
rat brains, have shown that very small amounts can harm the brain cells.
Amounts not much greater than the ones we have found can kill nerve cells.
It is still impossible to tell whether the leakage that the Lund research
team has found in rats actually means that mobile telephony damages the
human brain.
Leif Salford, the neuropathologist Arne Brun and the radiation physicist
Bertil Perssion still want the results to be taken seriously. The
blood-brain-barriers of humans and rats are similar in function.
Furthermore, since albumen can get into the brain there is reason to
believe that other smaller or equal sized molecules can too.
Proteins found in the blood can, if they get to the brain, cause auto
immune diseases such as MS, multiple sclerosis. Damaged nerve cells could
also lead to dementia, premature aging, and Parkinson's disease. Also,
inflamed brain cells can indirectly be linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Medication that under normal circumstances wouldn't be able to penetrate
the blood-brain-barrier could do so and cause damage.
The unexplained symptoms of American soldiers of the Kuwait war are
suspected to link to the medication they took against nerve gas. The
microwaves surrounding soldiers in high-tech warfare could have opened the
blood-brain-barrier, and the medication penetrated into the brain. The
possibility is now investigated by the US Air Force in co-operation with the
Lund scientists.
Especially worrying is the fact that even very low microwave effects seem
to affect the brain. WHO's threshold value for mobile phones is two watts
absorbed effect per kilogram of body tissue.
According to Salford and his colleges, even at 0.0001-0.001 of a Watt
there is a notable amount of albumen in the brains of 50 % of the rats
examined. The radiation from the cell phone towers would therefore be enough
to affect the brain. A person in the vicinity of someone using a cell phone
can be affected by the radiation from the phone. The very low effects are
also the ones that affect the brain the most.
At a few tenths of a watt only a third of the rats are affected, and at a
few Watts even less than that. This means that the problem can't be easily
solved, for instance, by shielding or by using earphones.
- In biological systems, there are often "windows" where the
organism is more sensitive. A weaker pulse mimics the signals of the body
and are therefore recognized.
- The WHO threshold values only consider tissue heating. The electrical
signaling of the body is affected in a completely different way, says Leif
Salford. The Lund research team has investigated microwave radiation at both
900 MHz and 1800 MHz, as used by different cell phone systems. Both
frequencies show the same results, but lower frequencies penetrate deeper
into the brain.
It doesn't seem to matter how long you talk on a cellular phone; the
blood-brain-barrier is opened at once. The albumen remains in the rat brains
for several days after exposure to microwaves. Studies to examine the
long-term effects are being planned.
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