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Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« on: February 22, 2004, 11:21:59 PM »
It's been suspected for a long time but researchers in the US have discovered that even weak magnetic fields damage brain cells and release damaged DNA - in rats. Whether it causes the same in humans is yet to be seen.

Powerlines being associated with rare cancers and leukemias has been an issue for a long time, and was thought to be associated with radioactive radon gas. But the matter seems worse in countries that use 60Hz and 110V - values chosen, ironically, because they greatly reduce the chance of death through electrocution. These values do produce stronger magnetic fields however.

So what does this mean? That every time you shave, dry your hair with a hairdryer, use a cell phone or even sit too near the TV you're damaging your DNA? Discuss.
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2004, 11:25:04 PM »
Umm, aren't we all kinda floating through space on a big magnet? ;-)
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2004, 11:26:46 PM »
Or handy's? (makes me think I wear one in my trouser pocket :nervous:)
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2004, 11:33:04 PM »
Sure, Earth is a magnet - but one that we've spent the last five billion years evolving to deal with, and one that doesn't change poles 60 times a second.
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2004, 11:40:11 PM »
Another issue I forgot to bring up - if powerlines near houses is proven to be the real cause of so many deaths, will we see a mass lawsuit explosion against the power companies?

Electricity. Weird really, so useful, but has it being slowly poisoning us since we learned how to control it?
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2004, 11:45:26 PM »
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Electricity. Weird really, so useful, but has it being slowly poisoning us since we learned how to control it?
Is it actually? So long we got it already.
For sure tis nothing alike x-ray (or is it? :nervous: I know actually a lot people who died from cancer).
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2004, 11:51:41 PM »
@KennyR

Your quite concerned when it comes to general health issues aren`t u?

Why worry? You can die of everything, you can get hit by a car, you can choke when eating carrots, you can fall down the stairs, you can get poisoned, you can be hit by lightning, bla bla bla.........

Why worry? Live the good life! Eat greasy burgers! Drink beer!  Smoke! :-D
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2004, 11:52:43 PM »
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For sure tis nothing alike x-ray.


Sure, but magnetic fields due to electricity are everwhere. We're flooded 24/7 in them, and we're not adapted to them - 100 years exposure is not enough. And at the same time as this is going on, male fertility is lowering by the decade. Connected?

I'm not trying to scare you. Without all this technology we'd be much, much worse off - that's a fact. But everything will kill ya eventually. It's a harsh universe. ;-)
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2004, 11:55:31 PM »
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Why worry? Live the good life! Eat greasy burgers! Drink beer!  Smoke! :-D
hm, you've probably never seen someone dying from cancer.
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2004, 11:57:27 PM »
@speel:

So ur so afraid of getting cancer that it affects your everyday life? why worry? thats my motto  
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2004, 11:57:43 PM »
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I'm not trying to scare you. Without all this technology we'd be much, much worse off - that's a fact. But everything will kill ya eventually. It's a harsh universe. ;-)
Bah! The only one that'll kill me is myself.
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2004, 11:59:47 PM »
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@speel:

So ur so afraid of getting cancer that it affects your everyday life? give me a break  :-P
Well, I take it easy, so in a way, yes. (okay, I smoke sometimes a cigarillo and I get drunk once in 2 months or so, but really not regularly)

Cancer IS something that you'd rather avoid.
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2004, 12:01:13 AM »
@restore2003

Well, that's the trouble with learning environmental chemistry. It turns people into wusses. :)

Cooking meat can make cancer causing compounds. So can burnt toast. Sunbathing will damage you. Cosmetics. Smoking. Drinking. Car exhaust. Cosmic rays. Digesting food. Watching TV. Lightning. Viruses. Stress. It goes on forever. In fact there's nothing much you can do that won't attack your DNA somehow.

But I'm not going to live on lentils in a cupboard in the dark and smell bad. It'll all get to me eventually, just like it got to 2000 generations of my ancestors. No point in worrying. :) Still, I'd like to at least live old enough to take an interest in golf and spontaneously sing "Please release me, let me go." Oh, and not notice how seriously unfashionable turning up my trouser hems on the *outside* is.
 

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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2004, 12:03:44 AM »
The chance of getting cancer is geneticly inherited, if your family or relatives is troubled with cancer, there chance of you getting it aswell is somewhat bigger.
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Re: Magnetic fields "damage brain cells"
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2004, 12:08:57 AM »
@KennyR:

The secret formula for a long life is:

1. NOT being overweight
2. Workout(an 1 hour walk may be enough) once a week for as long as you live

My Great grandmother smoked most of her life, she began when she was a teenager, and smoked till the day she died, she was 93 years old
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