Evaluation of the mobile phone electromagnetic radiation on serum iron parameters in rats.
Çetkin M, Demirel C, Kızılkan N, Aksoy N, Erbağcı H. · 2017
View Original AbstractMobile phone radiation disrupted rats' iron transport systems during typical daily use patterns, potentially affecting energy and oxygen delivery.
Plain English Summary
Turkish researchers exposed rats to mobile phone radiation for 10 weeks, mimicking daily phone use (2 hours talking, 12 hours standby). While iron and ferritin levels remained normal, the phones significantly reduced the rats' ability to bind and transport iron in their blood. This suggests mobile phone radiation may interfere with how the body manages iron, an essential mineral for oxygen transport and energy production.
Why This Matters
This study adds to growing evidence that mobile phone radiation creates biological effects even when they don't immediately show up as obvious health problems. The fact that iron binding capacity decreased while iron levels stayed normal suggests the radiation is interfering with fundamental cellular processes before causing measurable deficiencies. What makes this particularly relevant is that the exposure levels matched typical daily phone use patterns that millions of people experience. Iron transport is critical for oxygen delivery throughout your body, so any disruption to this system could have cascading effects on energy levels and overall health. The reality is that our bodies evolved sophisticated mechanisms to manage essential minerals like iron, and this research suggests mobile phone radiation may be quietly undermining these processes.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study. Duration: Mobile phone speech (2h/day) and stand by (12 h/day)
Study Details
It was aimed to investigate the effects of an EMF created by a mobile phone on serum iron level, ferritin, unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron binding capacity within a rat experiment model.
A total of 32 male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into the control, sham, mobile phone spe...
No statistically significant difference was observed between the serum iron and ferritin values of t...
It was found that exposure to EMF created by mobile phones affected unsaturated iron binding capacity and total iron binding capacity negatively.
Show BibTeX
@article{m_2017_evaluation_of_the_mobile_1964,
author = {Çetkin M and Demirel C and Kızılkan N and Aksoy N and Erbağcı H.},
title = {Evaluation of the mobile phone electromagnetic radiation on serum iron parameters in rats.},
year = {2017},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29026392/},
}