for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my...
Zane Koch@zanehkoch
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Mar 16, 2026
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for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain
this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it
what i found was...not what I expected?
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this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it
what i found was...not what I expected?
🧵
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for 2 years 820 mice & 859 rats lived in specially designed metal enclosures that scatter radiofrequency signals uniformly, so every animal gets a consistent whole-body dose
they were exposed to .9 – 1.9 GHz radiation, 9 hours a day
for context:
- this is the same radiofrequency used in your phone's 2G/3G signal – and is similar to the 2.4 GHz frequency used in bluetooth
- the intensity of radiation is roughly 100x more powerful than that emitted by something like airpods and 10x a cell phone
they were exposed to .9 – 1.9 GHz radiation, 9 hours a day
for context:
- this is the same radiofrequency used in your phone's 2G/3G signal – and is similar to the 2.4 GHz frequency used in bluetooth
- the intensity of radiation is roughly 100x more powerful than that emitted by something like airpods and 10x a cell phone
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so what happened in the study?
THE RADIATED MICE LIVED SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER
they had a 53% LOWER risk of death (HR=.475, p=0.003) than the mice dosed with no radiation!!!
THE RADIATED MICE LIVED SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER
they had a 53% LOWER risk of death (HR=.475, p=0.003) than the mice dosed with no radiation!!!
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maybe something weird was going on with the mice?
nope! exact same thing for the rats.
the rats that got the HIGHEST dose of cell phone radiation lived the longest
and this is not some tiny study, there were 210 mice/rats in each group (almost 2,000 total)!
nope! exact same thing for the rats.
the rats that got the HIGHEST dose of cell phone radiation lived the longest
and this is not some tiny study, there were 210 mice/rats in each group (almost 2,000 total)!
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so what happened with cancer rates?
the rats had a increased risk of heart malignancies, but decreased risk of liver adenomas
the mice had no significant change in cancer risk at all
the rats had a increased risk of heart malignancies, but decreased risk of liver adenomas
the mice had no significant change in cancer risk at all
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the cell phone radiation led to 28 significant health improvements including:
- decreased inflammation
- less brain cell death (necrosis)
- less kidney disease (nephropathy)
- less mineralization of organs
there was also 5 significant harms, including an increased risk of hemorrhage and a few other things
if this was a pill, i'd be buying
- decreased inflammation
- less brain cell death (necrosis)
- less kidney disease (nephropathy)
- less mineralization of organs
there was also 5 significant harms, including an increased risk of hemorrhage and a few other things
if this was a pill, i'd be buying
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so why might this be?
my guess is its a sort of hormesis effect, where a little of a bad thing ends up being good
kind of like exercise: wear and tear on your muscles causes them to grow back bigger and stronger
maybe here, the amount of DNA damage and other harms from the radiation is slight enough that is causes cells to upregulate repairs proteins and such, leading to net good effects
(side note: we know from a companion study that there really was an increase in DNA damage from the radiation PMID: 31633839)
my guess is its a sort of hormesis effect, where a little of a bad thing ends up being good
kind of like exercise: wear and tear on your muscles causes them to grow back bigger and stronger
maybe here, the amount of DNA damage and other harms from the radiation is slight enough that is causes cells to upregulate repairs proteins and such, leading to net good effects
(side note: we know from a companion study that there really was an increase in DNA damage from the radiation PMID: 31633839)
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tldr: the mice/rats were bathed in radiofrequency radiation at doses 10-100x higher than airpods, 9 hrs/day, for 2 years.
and. lived. longer. and. were. healthier.
and. lived. longer. and. were. healthier.
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at thanksgiving this year you can tell your crazy uncle that the cell phones are actually making him live longer
full analysis + code: github.com/zanekoch/airpo…
original paper (mice): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56452…
original paper (rats): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56173…
full analysis + code: github.com/zanekoch/airpo…
original paper (mice): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56452…
original paper (rats): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56173…
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