Researchers say cell phone waves can reverse Alzheimer’s

Posted Jan 30, 2012 by Lindsay Peterson

Updated Jan 31, 2012 at 11:45 AM

Two years ago we told you about researchers who found evidence that they could beat back Alzheimer’s in mice by exposing them to electromagnetic waves – the kind emitted from cell phones.

Mice were exposed to cell signals for two hours a day for several months

Now they think they know why it works and they’ve published their findings in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinsonism.

It’s important to say they’ve tried this only with mice. They envision human studies one day,  but they don’t know when.

What they do know is that the treatment speeds up nerve cell activity in a part of the brain called the entorhinal cortex.

It’s the hub of a network of brain functions that creates memories. It’s also one of the first areas to be affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

The researchers, Gary Arendash, of USF and Takashi Mori, of Saitama Medical Center in Japan, also found that the EM treatments revived diseased neurons and helped remove from the brain the toxic protein believed to be a root cause of Alzheimer’s.

They have a long way to go before something like this is publicly available and they don’t recommend self-treatment with cell phones.

But Arendash says they don’t think it will take as long to get this on the market as it would to develop a new drug.

You can go here to read more about it.