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Rat Brain Damage After ONE Cell Phone Exposure - Cost of Losing Yellowstone
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Rat Brain Damage After ONE Cell Phone Exposure
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Protecting Our Health Cell
Phones Cause Damage To Rat Brains
Protecting Our Health.org
9-19-3
Salford, LG, AE Brun, JL Eberhardt, L Malmgren and BRR Persson.
2003.
Nerve cell damage in mammalian brain after exposure to microwaves
from
GSM mobile phones. Environmental Health Perspectives 111:881-883.
Salford et al. document serious neuronal damage in rat brains
following
exposure to microwave radiation from a cell phone, at levels
comparable
to what people would experience during normal use. Damage to
nerve cells
was observed in several places within the brain, including the
cortex,
hippocampus and basal ganglia. It was associated with evidence
of
leakage of proteins through the blood-brain barrier. The authors
express
concern that "after some decades of (often) daily use, a whole
generation of [cell phone] users may suffer negative effects,
perhaps as
early as middle age."
In a companion news story in the issue of Environmental Health
Perspectives in which the research is published, the journal
comments:
"It might be time to get serious about using your headset when
talking
on your mobile phone and encouraging your family members to
do the
same."
What did they do? Salford et al. exposed rats to microwave radiation
from a GSM cell phone, varying the intensity of radiation across
a range
that would be experienced by mobile phone users. The rats were
contained
within plastic trays inside a specially constructed wooden box
that
allowed free movement, other than to prevent direct contact
with the
source of radiation. One set of animals was placed in the box
without
turning on the transmitter; they served as a control group.
The others
were exposed to peak power densities of 0.24, 2.4 and 24 Watts/square
meter (which translates to 2 milliWatts per kg, 20 mW/kg and
200 mW/kg,
respectively). Each group contained 8 animals.
After a 50-day waiting period, during which the rats were monitored
for
behavioral abnormalities, Salford et al. killed the animals,
carefully
removed their brains, and studied them by applying stains and
albumin
antibodies that allowed detection of abnormalities.
What did they find? As expected, both control and experimental
animals
had albumin within the hypothalamus. This is normal.
Exposed animals, however, were much more likely to have albumin
leaking
from blood vessels in inappropriate locations.
A closer look at the cells within the brain revealed that exposed
animals had "scattered and grouped dark neurons... often shrunken..
with
loss of internal cell structures." These altered neurons were
seen in
all locations, but "especially the cortex, hippocampus and basal
ganglia."
What does it mean? Most of the public debate about possible
health
effects of microwave radiation from cell phones has focused
on cancer.
While debate about this continues, most studies, including by
Salford's
research team, have had negative results.
This work focuses on a different mechanism which had been identified
by
earlier authors (e.g., Oscar and Hawkins 1977) but not pursued
vigorously: increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier.
These
results cleary establish an adverse impact at levels within
the range
experienced by people using cell phones.
According to these scientists, "intense use of mobile phones
by
youngsters is a serious consideration. A neuronal damage of
the kind
described here may not have immediate, demonstrable consequences,
even
if repeated. In the long run, however, it may result in reduced
brain
reserve capacity that might be unveiled by other later neuronal
disease
or even the wear and tear of aging.
We cannot exclude that after some decades of (often) daily use,
a whole
generation of users may suffer negative effects, perhaps as
early as in
middle age."
That is a cautious way of saying that Salford and his team of
scientists
are very concerned about the possible human impacts of cell
phone use.
Indeed, as noted above, the journal in which these results were
published, Environmental Health Perspectives (the journal of
the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), went so
far as to
recommend using headsets.
http://www.protectingourhealth.org/newscience/learning/2003/2003-0129salfordetal.htm
Source: http://www.rense.com/general41/rat.htm
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Cost
of Losing Yellowstone
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Although it's a long shot to happen in the next few days, over
a longer
period of time, there's a good chance that Yellowstone will
blow its top
and the simmering caldera will let rip with Mt. St. Helen's
(or greater)
magnitude. I've been watching this sort of out of the
corner of one eye
because if or when the Yellowstone Park area goes in any kind
of massive
eruption, the impacts on food supplies worldwide will be horrible.
The
plume area from Yellowstone covers a good-sized chunk of the
Midwest.
Reader reports and items which we have picked up off news groups
are
sounding pretty scary. Areas are being closed off, there
are reports of
dead animals and even fish are reported dying off in large numbers.
Against this background, the USGS says there is an increase
in
government monitoring, such as a recent news release that says
in part:
"In response to notably increased heat and steam emissions in
parts of
Norris Geyser Basin, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory will
deploy a
temporary network of seismographs, Global Positioning System
(GPS)
receivers, and temperature loggers. The temporary deployment
is intended
to document chemical and physical signals that accompany this
increased
activity, to identify the underground locations of hydrothermal
steam
sources and the relationship of the Norris geyser basin to the
background general seismicity, and crustal deformation
of the
Yellowstone caldera. It may also detect any precursory signals
to geyser
eruptions and hydrothermal explosions.
A reader sends in this interesting compilation, which augments
other
reports we have had: "fish are floating dead in the streams,
and the
lake is closed. A very strong smell of H2SO4 (sulfur). People
were
leaving due to smell --- He also mentioned that the Seismo sites
had
been shut down" and "there is a large dead zone of animals and
vegetation. Immediately outside this dead zone, vegetation has
stopped
growing and animals are migrating out of the area.
New geysers and mud pots are springing up daily. You can physically
see
the ground bulging up, not only at Yellowstone Lake, but in
several
places in the park" enclosed are 2 brief reports on this matter.
1. First report
Yellowstone is worse than we thought --The husband of my daughter's
social studies teacher is staying at the Crow Reservation in
Montana,
100 miles from Yellowstone. He said that over and above everything
we
have heard to date (which he says is absolutely true), there
is a large
dead zone of animals and vegetation. Immediately outside this
dead zone,
vegetation has stopped growing and animals are migrating out
of the
area. New geysers and mud pots are springing up daily. You can
physically see the ground bulging up, not only at Yellowstone
Lake, but
in several places in the park. They have closed more areas to
the public
than is being reported. There are several areas where the ground
temperature tops 200 degrees. And earthquakes are becoming a
daily
occurrence.
2. Second report
Anonymous warning from visitor to Yellowstone
Tue Sep 2 2003 3:10:31 pm
From: Scorpio
Subject: Yellowstone-Problems?
Hello folks, next door neighbor just got back from a weeks stay
in
Yellowstone. we talked and I was told a lot more camping areas
have been
closed off besides around the Lake. he is an avid fisherman,
said the
fish are floating dead in the streams, and the lake is closed.
A very
strong smell of H2SO4 (sulfur) People were leaving due to smell
--- He
also mentioned that the Seismo sites had been shut down!??????
Did some homework on Utah and Montana sites YEP---- looks like
things
are not being updated after Aug 29-30-----Can anyone confirm??
Anyone
out there near Yellowstone that might be able to fill us in?
Your Thoughts Folks???? Scorpio
Well, you might want to bookmark the Yellowstone recent quakes
map at
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/index.html
so you won't
have to search for it if the area pops off shortly.
The other thing to consider is how the economy of Wyoming and
the
surrounding states will do should the area become explosively
active.
Yellowstone tourism and trade contributes directly about 15%
of Wyoming
economic activity. A series of major quakes, explosions, and
volcanic
activity could put this event in the class of a "supervolcano".
As one
post I found put it:
"When Yellowstone goes off again, and it will, it will be a
disaster for
the United States and eventually, for the whole world. We volcanologists
believe it would all begin with the magma chamber becoming unstable.
Observations would begin by seeing bigger earthquakes, greater
uplifting
as magma intrudes and gets nearer and nearer the surface.
An earthquake
may send a rupture through a brittle layer similar to breaking
the lid
off a pressure cooker. This would generate sheets of magma,
which will
perhaps rise up to 30, 40 or 50 kilometers sending gigantic
amounts of
debris into the atmosphere. Pyroclastic flows would cover the
whole
region, killing tens of thousands of people in the surrounding
area.
The ash carried in the atmosphere and deposited over vast areas
of the
United States would have devastating effects. A plume
of material that
goes up into the atmosphere, globally, from the eruption would
produce
the climatic effects. This would spread worldwide and have a
cooling
effect that would most likely destroy the growing season on
a global
scale.
As Dr. Ted Nield, of the Geological Society of London, stated
once,
"When a supervolcano goes off, it is an order of magnitude greater
than
a normal eruption. It produces energy equivalent to an impact
with a
comet or an asteroid." "You can try diverting an asteroid,
but there is
nothing at all you can do about a supervolcano."
The eruption will throw out cubic kilometers of rock, ash, dust,
sulfur
dioxide and so on into the upper atmosphere, where it will reflect
incoming solar radiation, forcing down temperatures on the earth's
surface. It would be the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
The effects
would last for four or five years with crops failing and the
whole
ecosystem breaking down."
http://messagequotes.8m.net/Two%20geological%20time%20bombs.doc
Informant: Klaus H. Mueller
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Comments
from Ross Adey and Henry Lai on French/Blood study
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Back in July 2003 I send a file copy of the Peter French/Alan
Blood
mobile phone research paper to both Ross Adey and Henry Lai
for possible
comments. Their replies were received soon after which
I then sent on
to Microwave News for Louis Slesin to deal with. Unfortunately
however
as Microwave News is now closed down for the remainder of this
year I
have decided to send out a slightly abbreviated version of the
Adey and
Lai comments FYI.
Don
MESSAGE SENT TO BOTH ROSS ADEY AND HENRY LAI IN JUNE:
Dear ----------
You may be interested in the attached paper by Peter French
and Allan
Blood. It is causing a bit of controversy over here as Dr. French
stated
on the national TV "60 Minutes" program that his study" certainly
provides some comfort that the risk of adverse health effects
from
mobile phone use is likely to be very low, if at all."
The media PR boys are now pushing it for all its worth, calling
it a
worlds-first study that says mobile phones are safe.
After my reading of the paper, rather than being a worlds-first
study I
consider it as just another minor footnote in a long history
of
inconclusive studies.
Regards
Don Maisch
REPLY FROM ROSS ADEY:
24 Jul 2003 22:36:51 GMT
Dear Don:
Were it not that I consider you a careful and responsible reporter,
I
would not be taking time for what must be a foreshortened response.
Peter Finch shows a desperate lack of multidisciplinary knowledge
essential to the correct performance of these latest experiments.
How else to interpret the statement that "The exposure system
is of the
TEM cell design, which gives a homogeneous exposure over all
the cell
cultures"? This is simply untrue. Beginning in the early 1990s,
and
involving first a super-computer simulation at the University
of
Michigan, followed by extensive experimental measurements by
Kuster's
group at the Swiss National Technological University in Zurich,
there
are major field discrepancies introduced by proximity to the
TEM cell
walls, by the size and shape of the cell culture vessels, by
the depth
of the cell culture fluid, and by the orientation of the cultures
with
respect to the e-plane (electric field) within the cell.
This is simply outrageous.
A major aspect of Peter Finch's hypothesis relates to the possible
role
of heat shock proteins. Why, then, is there not a single mention
of the
benchmark pioneering studies (with positive results widely published
in
outstanding peer-reviewed journals) on mechanisms of 60 Hz magnetic
field stimulation of heat shock protein production by Riba Goodman,
Martin Blank and their colleagues, including consideration of
relevant
biochemical pathways?
Is Peter Finch's scientific reading limited to the Sydney Morning
Herald, or the Australian, or other pernicious elements of the
Murdoch
press?
Finally, there is the all-important question of intermittency
of
exposure, measured in minutes, not hours or days. May I remind
you that
an integral aspect of our life term rat brain tumor study that
successfully showed a TDMA (North American Digital Cellular
code, 50
pulses/sec,30% duty cycle) field-induced reduction in both spontaneous
and drug-induced central nervous tumors used a protocol of 7.5
min
ON/7.5 min OFF in a 2-hr daily exposure. Parenthetically, the
importance
of this finding, consistent with epigenetic cancer models, is
the
finding of an interaction with the field, not whether there
was an
increase OR a decrease in tumor numbers.
Studies from Rudiger's lab in the University of Vienna have
shown a
modulation of single- and double-DNA trend breaks in primary
human
fibroblast cultures exposed to either 50 Hz magnetic fields
or to GSM
mobile phone fields. A critical aspect of these studies exemplifying
the
importance of intermittent exposure was a protocol of 5 min
ON/10 min
OFF. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
is
currently engaged in selecting such a scheme of intermittent
exposure
for a planned life term rat study.
Peter Finch makes no reference to this work. It is therefore
not
surprising that he has also overlooked benchmark studies from
Harvard by
Murphy et al, showing how the intracellular Ras enzyme is activated
by
cell membrane surface MAP (mitogen-activated protein kinases)
ERK1 and
ERK2 in a time-dependent manner, switching between signaling
cell
differentiation or cell proliferation, if the surface stimulating
signal
changes from a few minutes to 30-45 minutes. Other recent work
at
Cambridge by Michael Berridge and Martin Bootman
(Bootman is also
engaged in mobile phone research for the British Govt) identifies
calcium as the "driver" controlling cellular cyclicities with
durations
from microseconds to hours. I might mention here that our team
was the
first to define a critical role for calcium in EM field interactions
30
years ago.
For Peter Finch to conclude that his experiments have adequately
considered the key questions outlined above is ludicrous and
irresponsible. We may say with Hamlet to the grave digger, "There
are
more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than dreamt of in
your
philosophy!" Or better yet, in G.B Shaw's immortal words from
Major
Barbara, "What price salvation now?" Or I could be crudely
accurate in
my Australian dialect which I still hold preciously, "Why don't
you get
the hell out of here and stay out?" Those of us who have suffered
so
much for so many years from the media ripples generated by the
pronouncements of the dubiously qualified are now determined
to do our
best to stamp them out at source.
I attach two recent short updates and revisions that I have
prepared for
the International Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd Edition,
Elsevier,
London. As sources of recent research literature on EM field
interaction
with the central nervous system, perhaps you may find them useful.
As a
separate note, I will send you a recent book chapter summarizing
he
time-dendence literature.
With my best wishes - Ross
REPLY FROM HENRY LAI:
Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:43:46 EDT
Status: U
Hi Don,
Thanks for forwarding Peter's paper. In my opinion, the research
is
incomplete and preliminary. Apparently, the experiment was run
only
once. There were actually some effects. He also made the wrong
comparisons between treatment groups. He needs to compare the
exposed
groups with the sham group, not the control group. I also doubt
that the
exposure system and procedures he used are good even though
he gave no
details on the system. For example, proper temperature control,
gas
mixture for the samples in the TEM cell, and it is difficult
to get
uniform exposure in a Falcon flask (I hope they considered the
meniscus
problem when they did the calculation). Anyway, I think it is
way
premature to go on national TV to talk about the data he has
in hand.
Henry Lai
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No real progress can be made.
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It seems to me that no real progress can be made in gauging
the effects
of EMF upon humans until there is a fuller understanding of
the body's
electrical system, and that is precisely what I hope my book
"Brain
Speed and the Body Electric" can do.
While EMF researchers have long been looking for connections
between EMF
energy and health problems, certainly a worthy effort, I have
been
primarily concerned with cognitive effects.
One difference between the two focuses is that health effects
could take
years to manifest themselves, while cognitive effects are established,
I
believe, the effort to find health effects will intensity.
EMF interfere with the brain function. This type for energy
slows down
nerve conduction. That is the key point. This means that every
quantifiable, measurable brain activity (verbal, computational,
reasoning, creativity, etc.) slows down. In short, one becomes
dumber.
Reaction time - a vital sign as important as temperature, blood
pressure, etc. - definitely slows down and university-level
research
should soon make this clear.
Contact with a cell phone greatly increases the negative electrical
charge on the human body and drives off the counterbalancing
positive
charge.
Thanks for all the great work you do with your EMF network.
Sincerely,
Jim Protsman
P.O. Box 381
Manitowoc WI 54220
http://brainspeed.net
Omega: see also http://tinyurl.com/o1q2
and
http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega214.htm
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Re:
Genuine appeal for help again something that is destroying me.
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Dear Maureen,
I think about your symptoms that you are simply becoming
electrosensitive.
This is perhaps a form of allergy and even a cross allergy between
electromagnetic fields and some chemical products (pesticides,
medications or heavy metals). You must first let take measurements
in
your mouth between metallic alloys. Many dentists do not believe
in this
fact, but sometimes such metal couplings give a battery effect
(up to
1000 millivolts) in the mouth and are exciting face nerves (trigeminus).
The only change of the more active metal can bring the suppression
of
the symptoms. This is the first thing to do.
Sincerely yours, J.M. Danze
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