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A recent study into the impact of exposure of electromagnetic frequencies on blood sugar regulation has uncovered some surprisingly positive benefits. In a fortunate accident, a collection of genetically altered mice borrowed from another study left researchers utterly baffled.
Sunny Huang at the University of Iowa, a research student interested in metabolism and diabetes, approached a colleague to arrange an opportunity to practice drawing blood from mice and measuring the blood sugar levels. The colleague, Carter, offered to let her borrow some mice from a study he was running on the effects of EMFs on the brain and behaviour.
Both anticipated the predictable results of high blood sugar, since the mice were genetically modified to make them diabetic. What Huang found was that the rodents exposed to EMFs had normal blood sugar levels. With this puzzling find, they designed a new study to test this revelation.
By exposing the diabetic mice to a combination of static electric and magnetic fields for a few hours per day, their blood sugar and insulin resistance was normalised, thus confirming their suspicions.
In effect, these two PhD students had stumbled upon a non-invasive method of remotely controlling type 2 diabetes.