Subject: RE Alzheimer's related EMF bioeffect?? (guru)(Benson)..
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 052302 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:05:41 +1100
From: "Benson, Sarah (Sen L. Allison)"
To: "'Roy L. Beavers'"
Subject: RE: Alzheimer's related EMF bioeffect?? (guru)..
Roy
Alzheimers is not the only disease that is rising exponentially. High blood
pressure (hypertension) appears to be almost endemic. Not to mention short
term memory loss. In hospitals, virulent infection is becoming more
frequent, and fungal nail infections are common suddenly as well.
Interestingly, it has been reported that the cause of frog deaths worldwide
is due to a fungal infection. Is RF causing some types of organisms to grow
faster?
Are there any other conditions/diseases that people have noticed are on the
increase?
This might be an interesting area of research.
Sarah Benson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy L. Beavers [SMTP:rbeavers@llion.org]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2000 12:12 AM
> To: emfguru
> Subject: Alzheimer's related EMF bioeffect?? (guru)..
>
> Hi everybody:
>
> We have some scientists on this list who have an interest in
> EMF bioeffects which might be a cause or contributing factor
> in the incidence of Alzheimer's......
>
> Former President Reagan's daughter, Maureen, recently testified
> before a congressional committee about the increasing incidence
> (worldwide?) of this debilitating disease.
>
> The following Associated Press news report highlights the results
> of some recent research which suggests that the formation of two
> proteins in the brain, beta-amyloid and tau, may be an important
> factor. In the past, some EMF-L discussion has noted that EMF/EMR
> exposure may act upon the surface of cells - where protein formation
> takes place. Dr. Eugene Sobel (University of Southern Cal.) has
> conducted epidemiological research which showed a rather strong
> association between Alzheimer's and EMF, though the number of subjects
> was too small to allow any definite conclusion.
>
> If we had a government program (NIH or wherever) that was honestly
> seeking to explain the serious Alzheimer's illness, one would expect
> the following research to immediately trigger some serious investigation
> into the possible EMF impact on the beta-amyloid and tau proteins
> in the brain......
>
> But we don't have any such government program that is honestly seeking
> to explain the serious Alzheimer's illness -- certainly not if it would
> require INDEPENDENT scientific investigation of the product of what
> is presently the two most powerful "vested interest" lobbying industries
> in our society..... The electrical/electronic industries.....
>
> Cheerio..... (Interesting report below....)
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> roy@emfguru.com
>
> .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
> NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
> ...................People are more important than profits.................
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> $$$$$ We could have changed the corrupted system!! $$$$$
> McCain !!
>
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>
> 01:29 AM ET 03/22/00
>
> Protein Deposits, Alzheimer's Link
>
> By LINDSEY TANNER=
> Associated Press Writer=
> CHICAGO (AP) _ Certain protein deposits in the brains of
> Alzheimer's victims may be a cause of the mind-robbing disease _
> not just a symptom, researchers suggested today.
> Autopsies on 79 nursing home patients confirmed that
> beta-amyloid protein plays a role in the earliest stages of
> Alzheimer's, even before symptoms of dementia appear, the
> researchers reported in today's Journal of the American Medical
> Association.
> Sticky plaques of beta-amyloid in the brain and tangles of a
> protein known as tau inside brain nerve fibers are two of the
> distinguishing features of Alzheimer's, which affects more than 4
> million Americans.
> Scientists disagree over which feature may play a more central
> role in the destruction of brain cells. And some believe that the
> plaques and tangles are actually markers left by nerve cells killed
> by some other unknown cause.
> The study's authors favor the beta-amyloid theory because they
> found that the presence of beta-amyloid preceded development of tau
> protein in the brain's frontal cortex.
> In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Dennis J. Selkoe, a
> neurologist at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, called the
> conclusion exciting and said it could lead to new ways to diagnose
> and treat Alzheimer's.
> ``This work, coupled with early work, clearly points to amyloid
> build-up as the cause,'' said Selkoe, who holds a stake in Elan
> Corp., which is testing a vaccine aimed at preventing beta-amyloid
> accumulation.
> But an executive at the Alzheimer's Association said the study
> does not prove what causes the disease.
> ``What it doesn't tell us is which comes first, the chicken or
> the egg _ the disease or beta-amyloid,'' said William Theis, vice
> president for medical and scientific affairs at the Alzheimer's
> Association.
> The authors, led by neuroscientist Jan Naslund of Rockefeller
> University in New York, studied autopsy results on 63 patients with
> mild to severe dementia believed to be caused by Alzheimer's and 16
> mentally healthy patients.
> Increases of beta-amyloid in brain tissue were associated with
> increasing severity of mental decline, with the highest levels of
> beta-amyloid found in the brains of patients with the greatest
> degree of dementia.
> Abnormal beta-amyloid levels were also found even in patients
> without dementia. The researchers said those patients would have
> gone on to develop full-blown Alzheimer's had they lived.
> There were already significant levels of beta-amyloid found in
> early dementia patients with no tangles in the frontal cortex, said
> Dr. Joseph Buxbaum, a co-author and head of the molecular
> neuropsychiatry laboratory at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
> York. Buxbaum said that suggests beta-amyloid ``must be a cause.''
> Buxbaum said his study is a boost to research aimed at finding
> ways to block accumulation of beta-amyloid.
> ___=
> On the Net: National Library of Medicine site on Alzheimer's
> disease: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alzheimersdisease.html
> Alzheimer's Association site: http://www.alz.org
>
>
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