Mice and rats bathed in radiation lived longer and healthier

June 17, 2026

Last updated: June 20, 2026

Raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation.

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

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!

Maybe something weird was going on with the mice? Well, exact same thing happened 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)!

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 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 were also 5 significant harms, including an increased risk of hemorrhage and a few other things

So why might this be? The author argues for a sort of hormetic 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)

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.

Source: https://x.com/zanehkoch/status/2033400775762964601?s=20