GSM mobile phone radiation suppresses brain glucosemetabolism.
Kwon MS, Vorobyev V, Kännälä S, Laine M, Rinne JO, Toivonen T, Johansson J, Teräs M, Lindholm H, Alanko T, Hämäläinen H. · 2011
View Original AbstractJust 33 minutes of cell phone radiation measurably suppressed brain energy metabolism in healthy young adults.
Plain English Summary
Finnish researchers used advanced brain imaging to study 13 young men exposed to cell phone radiation for 33 minutes. They found that the radiation significantly reduced glucose metabolism (the brain's fuel consumption) in specific regions of the brain on the same side as the phone exposure. This demonstrates that even short-term mobile phone use creates measurable biological changes in brain function.
Why This Matters
This study provides compelling evidence that mobile phone radiation creates immediate, measurable changes in brain metabolism. The researchers used PET scanning, the gold standard for measuring brain energy consumption, and found significant reductions in glucose uptake in brain regions closest to the phone. What makes this particularly significant is that these changes occurred after just 33 minutes of exposure to standard GSM signals at levels typical of normal phone use. The science demonstrates that your brain responds to RF radiation in real time, not just after years of cumulative exposure. While the immediate health implications remain unclear, the reality is that we now have direct evidence that mobile phone radiation alters fundamental brain processes during use.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study. The study examined exposure from: 902.4 MHz Duration: 33 minutes
Study Details
We investigated the effects of mobile phone radiation on cerebral glucose metabolism using high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) with the 18F-deoxyglucose (FDG) tracer.
A long half-life (109 minutes) of the 18F isotope allowed a long, natural exposure condition outside...
F-deoxyglucose PET images acquired after the exposure showed that relative cerebral metabolic rate o...
Our results show that short-term mobile phone exposure can locally suppress brain energy metabolism in humans.
Show BibTeX
@article{ms_2011_gsm_mobile_phone_radiation_2324,
author = {Kwon MS and Vorobyev V and Kännälä S and Laine M and Rinne JO and Toivonen T and Johansson J and Teräs M and Lindholm H and Alanko T and Hämäläinen H.},
title = {GSM mobile phone radiation suppresses brain glucosemetabolism.},
year = {2011},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323189/},
}