From: Study:
All of Western US and most of East Coast, Midwest, Canada covered
in airborne particles on March 20, Fukushima plume model shows
— Based solely on Reactor No. 1 explosion (PHOTO),
enenews.com, March 2, 2012. If
only real world fallout from Fukushima were color-coded like
on my "Aerial
Dance of Mass Death and Genetic Destruction" map series.
Instead, it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, and in the
words of British physicist Dr. Chris Busby, "Is like invisible
snakes" that bite. As it steadily accumulates in the body,
it gradually degrades the immune system and exacerbates every
pathological condition known to man, ranging from cancer to
heart disease to reduced IQs to birth defects to reduced resistance
to viral diseases -- the list is endless. Just because a large
percentage of the U.S. population is in ignorance or denial
does not mean that they will not pay a terrible price in the
decades to come. Below, sample projection map of Neptunium 239
(left) and Plutonium 239 (below) over North America listed on
the same 20-26
March 2011 radiation projection page as the illustration
above. North America also got plastered with radioactive
Iodide 131, Cesium 137, Strontium 90, and a whole witches brew
of other radioactive particles. Virtually no one in
North America was warned by either their governments or mainstream
media about the extremely serious nature of these threats or
the urgent need to take precautions. |
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The
initial impact of Fukushima radiation was bad enough, but the
experience of Chernobyl shows that its effects will get even
worse over at least the next decade as radiation continually
circles the Northern Hemisphere and accumulates within the food
chain everywhere.
The long term "survivors" will be those who
make special adjustments to their eating and living habits.
Coming on the one year anniversary, Fukushima was still spewing
out enormous amounts of radiation. It was still getting into
the jet stream. Above: Fig 2 "The dynamics of cardiovascular
diseases in the Republic of Belarus." from "Radiation
exposure and heart attacks in children of Fukushima" (pdf).
The effects of radiation are cumulative over time, and Belarus
was one of the hardest hit countries with the Chernobyl radiation
that first spread with the melt-down in April 1986. This illustration
also used at the Dr.
Chris Busby author archive. |
Individual and Group
Protection
From Radiation Contamination
and Survival Tactics in a
Highly Dysfunctional, Self-Deceptive
and Self-Destructive Society
If
only the President of the United States were honest enough to
wear a HAZMAT suit to help alert the public! In
fact, many cities across America have been periodically receiving
"hot rains" registering over 200 counts per minute (some
cities like Phoenix, AZ have been spiking over 800 counts per
minute) that qualify as HAZMAT-evacuation conditions ever since
the March 2011 Fukushima melt-downs, yet no major effort by the
U.S. Government or major media has been made to alert the public
-- even while people throughout the Pacific Northwest were breathing
in an estimated
5-10 "hot particles" a day in March and April. Please
see my "Aerial
Dance of Mass Death and Genetic Destruction" Week-by-Week
Fukushima radiation and fallout projections and accompanying articles"
series which shows EPA charts for American cities registering
well over 200 CMP in "hot rains." |
RED
ALERT! RED ALERT!!
RED ALERT!!!
Editor's
Note by William
B. Fox
Publisher, America First Books
First published 16 March 2012,
frequently updated
The
melt-downs at Fukushima confront America with the greatest environmental
catastrophe in human history -- and it is not over
yet!
The
effects of a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl (probably the closest
comparable event to Fukushima) typically grow worse over
time --sometimes decades -- as radioactive material accumulated
in the food supplies and diseases such as cancer completed their
gestation periods. According to the authoritative work Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
by Yablokov, et al, in the 25 years following the 1986 Chernobyl
meltdown, around 985,000 lives ended prematurely and no less than
8,000,000 serious injuries and chronic diseases were linked to
this event.
In
Fukushima Meltdown & Modern Radiation: Protecting
Ourselves and Our Future Generations, Dr. John W.
Apsley states " During the next 20 years my calculations
show that approximately 7,000,000 human beings scattered across
the globe will die as a direct result of the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe,
and approximately 64,000,000 will be plagued by debilitating radiation-induced
chronic illnesses, unless they learn some of the unique ways to
protect themselves...due to the associated half-lives of these
lethal toxin, my calculations also show during the following 80
years, another 7,000,000 will die and another 64,000,000 serious
radiation induced illnesses...these predictions translate into
14 times the current morbidity and mortality rates due to the
Chernobyl Catastrophe... " (pages 76-77).
The
eminent UK physicist Dr. Chris Busby and the radiation expert
Leuren Moret have estimated that the Fukushima Catastrophe could
wind up being as much as -- if not more than--
300 times worse than Chernobyl. Imagine if we multiply
Dr. Apsley's projection above by a factor of 20. Then we would
see a major extinction event. Major portions of Japan
would be rendered uninhabitable for hundreds of years. Major populations
groups in North America and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere
will very likely suffer staggering social dislocations, fatalities,
and other forms of incapacitation.
In
order to survive, most people must immediately make massive changes
in their eating and living habits. They must self-consciously
re-organize their local communities to effectively deal with all
aspects of this very grave long term threat. (For more background
on Dr. Busby and Leuren Moret, please see my Busby
author archive and Moret
archive, also please note the transcripts of interviews
I helped organized for 28 Oct 2011 posted here
for 28 Oct 2012, and for 3 Feb 2012 posted here.
Please also scroll through my series of week-by-week
radiation charts and allied stories to gain a more
visual and anecdotal understanding of the extreme seriousness
of this threat. This includes charts, articles, and reports which
show how America has been continually
receiving "hot rains," and background radiation levels
have been steadily climbing around the country. All areas of America
are suffering high rates of miscarriages, birth fatalities, over/underweight
babies (a symptom of radiation poisoning), and well above normal
death rates for the general population.
This
is a unique danger in many other ways:
a)
Radiation is colorless, odorless, impossible for ordinary human
senses to detect. As Dr. Chris Busby observed, life can appear
normal, yet everyone can be getting bit by invisible snakes that
will eventually kill them.
b)
The effects of radiation sneak up on people over time. People
who may be receiving cumulative radiation doses that will lead
to radiation sickness within one to two years may be feeling fine
today.
c)
The Federal government, major media, and military-industrial complex
have been engaging in a massive cover-up of the real nature of
this catastrophe, not only in Japan and the U.S., but many other
countries. The government has repeatedly withheld important
radiation readings. It does not even tell people to stay out of
the rain. Nor does it discuss the strong possibility that a Stuxnet
virus planted by Mossad-CIA-MI6 played a key role in causing this
disaster. Nor does it discuss how government dereliction in
handling this disaster mirrors its earlier
malfeasance in handling the BP-Gulf disaster. These indicators,
and many more, spell an obvious lesson: YOU
CAN NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO HELP OR PROTECT YOU!
d)
A large segment of the general public has been dog-trained for
decades by controlled media to engage in denial and other neurotic
defense mechanisms that can now result in mass die-offs in the
tens of millions -- all of which is completely unnecessary with
just a little bit of civil defense awareness and protection.
e)
Some of the best remedies available in abundance for relatively
little cost are discouraged by the pharmaceutical industry because
they are natural, hence, they can't patent them in order
to profit off of them. Many natural supplements have an additional
benefit where people can continuously take them without fear of
overdosing in a continuing low level radiation environment where
they may not have the radiation measuring devices necessary to
read fluctuating levels.
All
of this having been said, please don't feel completely helpless:
a)
There are many supplements that you and your family can take to
reduce the impact of radiation and aid elimination of radioactive
particles absorbed inside your body. It has been proven from Chernobyl
and other studies that these measures can keep your "radiation
load" within tolerable limits, even when it may be destroying
people around you who refuse to take preventive measures.
A
famous example regarding how diet can dramatically impact survival
involves the story of St. Francis's Hospital (Uragami Daiichi
Hospital) one mile from ground zero when the atomic bomb exploded
in August 1945. The Director of Internal medicine, Dr. Tatsuichiro
Akizuki, saved all staff members by having them adhere to a strictly
vegetarian diet of uncontaminated brown rice, fermented foods,
sea algae (to include Miso soup) and land vegetables. Another
hospital the same distance from ground zero did not follow this
diet. Everyone who followed Dr. Akizuki's regime lived. Virtually
everyone else in the other hospital died of radiation poisoning.
(Apsley, Fukushima Meltdown, page 3).
b)
There are some "silver linings amidst this grim scenario.
Protective measures to handle radiation are typically good for
enhancing overall health and prolonging life even without the
Fukushima radiation threat. Americans are inundated with so many
different types of toxins and pollutants coming from so many sources
(chemicals in foods, auto emissions, industrial waste, cigarette
smoke, chemtrails, nuclear power plant emissions, toxins in vaccines
... the list is virtually endless) that they can always benefit
from dietary changes that enhance the ability of the body to strengthen
and repair itself and cleanse out impurities. As Hippocrates,
the ancient "father of medicine" once famously
put it: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy
food"
Disclaimer:
This work constitutes only an introductory overview to familiarize
people with important topics and issues. It must not be construed
to offer specific medical advice regarding dosage or suitability.
I am not a medical professional, and I could not offer specific
dosage advice to individuals even if I was a professional because
everybody is different (for example in terms of weight, age, food
allergies, metabolism, and other criteria). Any dosage levels
recommended by different sources reported in this work are meant
to simply give rough guidelines that may not necessarily be suitable
for the reader.
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Table of Contents
The U.S has
already been "nuked" several times over prior to Fukushima
from such major sources as weapons tests and nuclear power plant
emissions. This map, taken from the Wikipedia article "U.S.
Fallout Exposure" has the following caption: "Because
of concerns about worldwide fallout levels, the Partial Test Ban
Treaty was signed in 1963. Above are the per capita thyroid doses
(in rads) in the continental United States resulting from all
exposure routes from all atmospheric nuclear tests conducted at
the Nevada Test Site from 1951-1962." The map below gives
a different interpretation of radiation spread. |
FIG.
12: ATMOSPHERIC WEAPONS TESTING FALLOUT 1952-63 The radiation
fallout map from “Under The Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear
Testing”, illustrates the effects of 1200 nuclear weapons
tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. The U.S. Government admitted
in November, 2002, that every person living in the United States
between 1958 and 1963 was exposed to fallout from nuclear weapons
testing. The United States now has an epidemic of radiation related
diseases: cancer, heart disease, autism, diabetes, Parkinson’s
Disease, Lou Gehrigs (ALS), asthma, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,
hypothyroidism in newborns, obesity, and learning disabilities.
One out of 12 children in the United States is disabled. Source:
R. L. Miller, “Under The Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing”
(1991). D.V.Conn “U.S. Counts one in 12 children disabled”,
Washington Post (6 July 2002). Reproduced from the 3
Feb 2012 transcript for the interview "Fallujah,
Fukushima, and the Global Radiation Catastrophe"
by Dr. James Fetzer with Dr. Chris Busby and Leuren Moret. |
a) The
Nature of the Threat
Threat
Overview: Editor's
Note: Most natural or man-made disasters such hurricanes, forest
fires, or petroleum refinery explosions tend to do maximal damage
up front and then subside over time. In contrast, the damage from
nuclear meltdowns typically get progressively worse
over time. Peak damage may take place 10-20 years after the
event. Contamination may continue to do substantial damage for
as long as 200-300 years thereafter, depending on the level of
long-lived radioactive fallout. As one example, according to Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
by Yablokov, et al, in major area of Belarus 25 years after Chernobyl,
only 20% of the children are born healthy.
The
following articles give a sense of the magnitude of the radiation
threat and the damage currently being wrought. A more complete
overview, complete with important charts and illustrations, can
be found at my online Aerial
Dance of Mass Death and Genetic Mutilation week-by-week radiation
charts and allied stories.
The Radiological
Threat
Amount
of Radiation Released by Fukushima
-- Or To Be Released
2011-06-17 Nuclear
Doom by Mark Sircus - Director on 17 June 2011 [Ed.
Note: During late March 2011 and all of April tens of millions
of people along the West Coast and elsewhere in America breathed
in between 5-10 "hot particles" a day -- in addition
to myriad other radionuclides -- and were never warned about
it. These "time bombs" are now ticking away inside
their lungs, very likely to overwhelm their immune systems and
cause serious cancers. However, the situation is not completely
hopeless for these potential victims of mass genocide. Please
see the nebulization section below].
"...Gundersen
says, `Well, the radiation initially comes out as a big cloud
of gases, and that’s what you can measure with a Geiger
counter. But now what we’re finding are these things called
‘hot particles,’ and in the industry it’s interesting
because in Seattle it didn’t go down much. It was about
five particles a day, because most of the time, as we talked about
in April, the wind was blowing toward the west coast.'
A hot particle is defined as an alpha-emitting particle that
contains sufficient activity to deliver at least 1000 rem/yr
to the surrounding lung tissue.
Severe
damage and disruption of tissue in the lungs are associated with
exposure to these types of nuclear particles. The most relevant
lung experiment is Bair’s Pu 23902 inhalation study with
beagles. Twenty of the 21 dogs that survived more than 1600 days
post exposure had lung cancer.
The government recommends that the maximum permissible
lung particle burden for members of the public be 0.2 hot particles,
and the average lung burden for members of the public be 0.07
hot particles, a factor of 3 less than the maximum.
Let’s
say that the official numbers were five “hot particles”
per day (10 if one is physically active outdoors) for everyone
on the west coast for the month of April. Now let us be very conservative
and say that this has dropped from the initially high post-explosion
levels at Fukushima down now to one a day. At one a day that would
still be 30 of these death particles a month. So perhaps the average
person has already absorbed in these three months approximately
200 radioactive particles into their lungs and other tissues.
When you think that if even one of these 200 is plutonium, we
have to think in terms of millions of eventual cancer deaths!"
2011-03-31 Expert
Radiation Advice from Gabriel Cousens, MD – Including 6
Principles of Radiation Protection; “A
Comprehensive Holistic Approach to the Plague of Radiation and
What To Do” by Gabriel Cousens, MD, MH (H),
DD
"...We
find in the post Chernobyl statistics for the U.S., compiled by
Dr. Sternglass and presented at the First Global Radiation Victims
Conference in New York in September of 1987, infant mortality
following the Chernobyl fallout showed a general 54% increase.
In the Pacific region of the U.S. for three months Washington
State had the highest rate in the region with a 245% increase
in deaths per thousand live births. California was next highest
with a 48% increase in infant mortality as compared to June of
the year before. The worst impact was in the Boston area, which
showed an increase of 900% per thousand live births. Massachusetts
also showed a 70% decline in newborns, and the total U.S. fertility
rate decreased 8.3% in July and August to the lowest level ever
observed in U.S. history. In the eight months following the accident,
there was a total decrease of 60,000 newborns in the United States.
This was followed by a return to the approximated average rate
of live births in September. There was an additional increase
in mortality amongst all ages during this time period, with Massachusetts
being the highest, with a total increase in mortality of 43%,
followed by California and Washington State with increased mortality
rates of 39% and 40% respectively. The statistics show 35,000
more deaths for all ages in the US in the eight months following
the arrival of Chernobyl radioactivity than would be expected
based on the normal rates for this time in previous years. The
potential plagues of the Japanese meltdowns are not a trivial
problem, no matter what the mainstream media, or even the President,
tells us. For example, the calculations from the Austrian Central
Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics expert, Dr. Gerhard
Wotawa, said the I-131 released in the first 3 to 4 days from
the Fukushima nuclear plant was about 20% of that released from
Chernobyl in its first 10 days and the cesium-137 was 50% of that
released from Chernobyl during its first 10 days. This
can be extrapolated to 120%-150% of the cesium-137 released by
Chernobyl in its first 10 days may have been released from the
Fukushima plant during its first 10 days, provided that estimated
release has remained constant."
2011-06-20 Fukushima
is the greatest nuclear and environmental disaster in human history
by Steven C. Jones, globalresearch.ca
...There's
really no way to protect yourself and your family from this new
threat, although a few precautions should be noted. First, it
has been known for years that miso soup has a way of "chelating"
radiation out of the human body. The only one's who survived after
the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (of
all places!) years ago, are those who ingested miso soup. Second,
radioactivity bio-accumulates its toxicity higher up the food
chain, so its probably prudent to stay away from milk, dairy products
and meat. And thirdly, efforts to bolster the body's immune system
with vitamins, purified water and plenty of exercise is sure to
help as well. Other than that, pray that you're not the now 1
in 2 people who will contract cancer in their lifetimes..."
2011-11-14 From
Minamata to Fukushima -- The Japanese Nuclear Crisis Isn't Over
Yet by Lyric Hughes Hale, huffingtonpost.com
"...1.
No One Knows the Magnitude of the Disaster
According to an editorial in the Japan Times on November 8th:
In
August, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan estimated that
the Fukushima accidents released a total of 570,000 terabecquerels
of radioactive substances, including some 11,000 terabecquerels
of radioactive cesium 137. But a preliminary report issued in
late October, whose chief writer is Mr. Andreas Stohl of the Norwegian
Institute for Air Research, estimates that the accidents released
about 36,000 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium 137 from their
start through April 20. It is more than three times the estimate
by Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission and 42 percent of the estimated
release from Chernobyl..."
[Editor's
Note: Leuren
Moret and Dr.
Chris Busby accuse mainstream media of continually low-balling
the magnitude of this disaster. They estimate it to be over 300
times worse than Chernobyl.]
2011-05-30 Fukushima:
Three million of millions of potential lethal doses. Thin particles
from Fukushima are coming towards us. There is no need to go over
there. (pdf) by carotradiations.fr
2011-03-20 ROM
calculation of total Uranium tonnage at Fukushima Daiichi,
POTRBlog
*
The effects of fallout are cumulative
*
Nanoparticles can go anywhere in the body; detox strategies will
not necessarily eliminate radionuclides that become embedded in
places like the brain, bones, muscles, sex organs, or lungs. Nor
will vitamin or other supplements necessarily help the immune
system in overcoming the extra "load" they put on the
body. Nor will the body necessarily be able to overcome the genetic
damage that is done. The best primary strategy is to avoid internal
contamination by radio nucleotides in the first place.
*
Be aware of contamination vectors...
Other
Macro Threat Overviews
2011-11-15
How Much Radiation Has Really Been Released in Japan?,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
Japan
Times reported on August 27 that Fukushima’s “Cesium
Leak Equal to 168 '45 A-Bombs.”[i] As of September 2011,
the situation at Fukushima continues to worsen. Dr. Chris Busby
reported on the Russian television network RT on August 17 that
air filters from Tokyo are showing levels of Cesium-137 that are
1000 times higher than the levels of that radionuclide found in
the air at the peak of atmospheric atomic weapons testing in 1963...
2011-06-17 Nuclear
Doom by Mark Sircus - Director on 17 June 2011
"....A
new report from independent scientists in Japan found a much greater
release of `hot particles” from the Fukushima power plant
than originally estimated. These include radioactive isotopes
of cesium, strontium, uranium, plutonium, cobalt-60 and many others.
The average person in Tokyo is thought to have inhaled 10 `hot
particles' per day throughout the month of April 2011. The inhabitants
of Fukushima were estimated to have inhaled 30-40 times more than
that—or up to 400 hot particles per day every day that month.
In Seattle, WA in the Northwestern U.S., it is estimated that
the average person absorbed five “hot particles” per
day during the month of April 2011, or 10 “hot particles”
per day if they are athletes who are working out. These invisible
atomic particles become lodged in your lungs, intestines, bone
or muscle.
Professor
Christopher Busby, scientific secretary of the European Committee
on radiation risks, says that fuel rods at Fukushima got blown
sky high, that concentrations of uranium and plutonium particles
had been detected in air filters in Hawaii and the Marianas Islands
by the end of April. So people knew about this but they were not
talking..."
2011-11-09 Commission
releases report on scrapping N-plant, .nhk.or.jp
[h/t "Scrapping
Fukushima" majiasblog.blogspot.com].[Ed. Note:
Fukushima remains out of control with no end in sight, and no
one knows how to handle the corium or melted-down nuclear fuel
that has seeped into the ground water].
"Japan's
Atomic Energy Commission has compiled a report saying it will
take more than 30 years to scrap the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant.
...The
schedule is based on the handling of the nuclear accident at Three
Mile Island in 1979. But the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is
far more serious because 3 reactors suffered simultaneous meltdowns.
It
could take more than 30 years to extract the nuclear fuel, dismantle
the reactors, and turn the compound into a vacant lot."
2011-09-09 High
Levels Of Radiation Showing Up In Sea And Fukushima Residents,
simplyinfo.org
"Again
flying in the face of TEPCO’s claims everything is fine,
large levels of radiation are showing up in the region.
Some
Fukushima residents based on their location after the melt downs
received large
radiation doses in the range of three times the national limit.
The more shocking part is that they are from the 30km zone, not
the 20km evacuation zone.
“The
researchers estimated that radiation levels in the area during
the two months before the evacuations came to 50 millisieverts.”
Some
residents received doses from 57 to 69 mSv. Some parts of Fukushima
City read at 3.2 mSv yet the city is trying to go on as business
as usual.
Researchers
at the JAEA have done their own estimates on sea releases during
the early months and found levels at 15,000
terabecquerels. TEPCO estimated 4,720 terabecquerels. The
JAEA readings were more complete thus the higher reading. TEPCO
has had a pattern of taking certain readings in ways that would
show a lower level of radiation as they ignore concentrating sources..."
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Radiation
Impact on Japanese, Americans,
and Others
2012-03-11 Fukushima
Anniversary: Theatre of the Absurd posted by Joy
Thomson, enformable.com, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
It’s the 1-year anniversary of the disaster at Fukushima
Daiichi. For more than a week I’ve struggled to find something
to say about it that hasn’t already been said a hundred
times in a hundred ways. I kept drawing a blank, even as the
noise level coming from industry apologists and their willing
partners in the media rose over the past week to a deafening
level. There’s some truly appalling stuff making the rounds
that would be hilarious if it were being presented with a straight
face by Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central. But
these people are serious, hence my title: Theatre of the Absurd...
...Of particular merit for absurdity was this aside from Wald’s
NYT bit of fluff:
Not that the additional radiation exposure won’t
induce a few extra cases of cancer, the experts said, but
these will be indistinguishable from the background rate of
cancer, which will eventually strike about 41 out of every
100 people.
Really? Why, just last year about this time the average lifetime
cancer rate in Japan was hovering around 33 out of 100. Now
it’s to go to 41 out of 100 according to the HPS? I’ve
got news for these sub-geniuses: that’s not a “minor”
increase. 41%… 41%… where had I seen that figure
before? Oh, yeah. It was under the heading of Health
Effects of Nuclear Testing from way back during the height
of the bad old Cold War…
In 1980, People magazine revealed some consequences
of continental nuclear testing for American citizens. The magazine
disclosed that of some 220 cast and crew who filmed a 1956 film,
The Conqueror with an unheard of 41 percent morbidity rate.
Of these, forty-six had died of cancer by 1980. Among the victims
were John Wayne and Susan Hayward, the stars of the film.
Seems that a 41% cancer morbidity rate is no longer
so “unheard of.”
This PR Campaign to Save The Nuclear Renaissance would be downright
depressing if a survey last week hadn’t demonstrated that
more
than half of Americans are now firmly against nuclear power.
The Japanese are even less impressed with nukes. The last two
plants still operating will go down this summer, and the Japanese
people may wake up the next day to find they didn’t really
need nukes in the first place...
2012-03-09 The
Endless Bummer by Michael Collins, enviroreporter.com.
[Ed. Note: Pacific coast residents are now threatened with a very
dangerous new threat floating towards America with Japanese debris,
namely radioactive "buckyballs"].
2012-02-03 interview
by Dr. James Fetzer with Leuren Moret. Ms. Moret explained
how Fukushima radiation is impacting births around America.
Dr.
Fetzer: Effects of Fukushima in Long Island?
L. Moret: On Long Island.
Dr. Fetzer: Amazing.
L. Moret: She [a nurse] said her patients are
totally unaware. She said they have had an epidemic of twinning
in the past year. She is a midwife. She said that she has had
three sets of twins recently, and she said that she almost never
has them. Three sets in one year was just astounding to her.
[Editor's note: U.S.
twin births have doubled in three decades.]
She
said that also diabetes in pregnant mothers is epidemic. She
said the normal rate is one out of 50 pregnancies, the pregnant
mother will develop gestational diabetes. That means as a result
of being pregnant. She said now, in the last year,
that has increased to three to four cases out of ten mothers.
In other words, thirty to forty out of [a hundred], instead
of one in fifty, it is fifteen to twenty out of fifty, almost
half of the mothers. She said it does disappear after birth,
but it puts the mother and the baby at additional health risks
in future years.
What
I have been seeing is an epidemic globally of conjoined twinning,
which… these are what we would call Siamese Twins. It
is an epidemic in animals and in humans, and it corresponds
to the monsoon rainout pattern globally.
Dr. Fetzer: Oh God.
L. Moret: It is just an epidemic. And we had
a huge epidemic of conjoined twinning in the United States during
the period of bomb testing.
Low
birth rate and high birth rate are also caused by radiation
exposure in utero. And she said just three weeks ago –
she was having low birth weight and high birth weight babies
both – and she said just three weeks ago she had a baby
born that was five pounds, eleven ounces, and she has had babies
as big as ten pounds, nine pounds and ten ounces, ten pounds.
And now I am getting articles out of the newspaper that fourteen
and fifteen pound babies are being born in the U.S.
2011-11-25 (Chernobyl comparable example) Japan
syndrome by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com.
"In
Ukraine, nothing happened in the first year.
In
the second year, nothing happened again. People started coming
back and re-started their normal life.
In
the third year, children started having thyroid cancer.
In
fourth year, adults started dying of cancer or cardiac infarct
(heart attack).
In
fifth year, people started panicking and everything fell into
pieces."
2011-11-15 Nuclear
Abolition and the Whole Nuclear Chain by Andreas
Nidecker, enformable.com
"New
evidence of low level radiation effects:
*
German KiKK (Kinder Krebs Studie) showed doubling of childhood
leukemia around NPPs.
*
New study by Hagen und Scherb (sic) [Ed. Note: this should be
Dr.
Hagen Scherb] shows influence on sex odds ratio. Normally
slightly more boys are being born than girls. Around NPPs this
ratio is inversed, which is likely due to a genetic effect. Observation
has been published in peer reviewed journals
*
Must consider, that it is not just the late occurring solid tumors
which are worrisome. Also a number of non-cancerous detrimental
health effects, caused by genetic or perigenetic influences. Eg.
today Cesium cardiomyopathies and vascular diseases, eye and kidney
diseases. and diabetes in children are known.
2011-10-21 LINK
TV: Physician thinks lung cancer from Fukushima will begin in
as soon as 2 years (VIDEO, Part I), enenews.com.
"At 2:00 in [Dr. Helen Caldicott stated]: We’ll start
seeing lung cancer, I think, 2-5 years from now
Here
is 1 important study I posted about a couple of weeks ago.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/radiation-and-cancer.html
Here
is the study and the relevant finding: For every 10 millisieverts
of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3% increase in the
risk of age-and-sex adjusted cancer over a mean follow-up period
of 5 year
Cancer
risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging
in patients after acute myocardial infarction. By Mark J. Eisenberg
MD MPH, Jonathan Afilalo MD MSc, Patrick R. Lawler MD, Michal
Abrahamowicz PhD, Hugues Richard MSc, Louise Pilote MD MPH PhD
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050947/pdf/1830430.pdf
[Excerpted]
The cumulative exposure to radiation from cardiac procedures was
5.3 milli Sieverts (mSv) per patient year, of which 84% occurred
during the first year after acute myocardial infarction. A total
of 12 020 incident cancers were diagnosed during the follow-up
period. There was a dose dependent relation between exposure to
radiation from cardiac procedures and subsequent risk of cancer.
For every 10 mSv of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3%
increase in the risk of age- and sex-adjusted cancer over a mean
follow-up period of five years (hazard ratio 1.003 per milliSievert,
95% confidence interval 1.002–1.004)."
2011-10 Atomic
Radiation is More Harmful to Women (pdf), Nuclear
Information Resource Service. [Editor's Note: A fetus is 100 to
a 1,000 times more vulnerable than an adult. Next most vulnerable
are the very young and very old]
2011-06-19 Tokyo
Must Be Evacuated (video), an artistic video (6:17),
mostly in French, some English, makes the point that annual "safety"
limits are often 20 millisivierts a year for nuclear workers,
but only one millisievert per year for common citizens. Geiger
counters are picking up 6 microsieverts per hour in certain places
in Tokyo, which computes annually as follows: 6 microSv/hr * 24
hr/day * 365 days/yr = 52,560 microSv/yr or 52 milliSv a year,
which is 52 times the allotment for common citizens and 2.6 times
the maximum for nuclear workers.
2011-06-06 Gunderson
- Seattle Residents Breathed Ten 'Hot' Particles A Day, Excerpts
From Arnie Gunderson Interview with Chris Martenson,
rense.com, 6 June 2011, (longer pdf version here).
Arnie Gundersen: ...The average
human being breathes about 10 meters a day of air, cubic meters
of air. And the air out in the Seattle area are detecting, when
they pull 10 cubic meters through them, this is in April now,
so we are in the end of May so it is a better situation now.
That air filter will have 10 hot particles on it. And that was
before the Unit Four issue. Clearly we all can't run south of
the equator to our second homes in Rio or something like that.
But it will stay north of the equator for anyone who has a Leer
jet and can get out. But I guess what I am advising at that
point is keep your windows closed. I would definitely wear some
sort of a filter if I was outside. I certainly wouldn't run
and exercise until I was sure the plume had dissipated. This
isn't now. This is, as you were saying, this is worst case.
If
Unit Four were to topple, I would close my windows, turn the
air conditioner on, replace the filters frequently, damp mop,
put a HEPA filter in the house and try to avoid as much of the
hot particles as possible. You are not going to walk out with
a Geiger counter and be in a plume that is going to tell you
the meter. The issue will be on the West Coast, hot particles.
And the solution there is HEPA filters and avoiding them.
2011-04-24
Four
Hundred & Eighty Two Lung Cancers from FOUR days in San Francisco
!?! by Potrblog [Editor's Note: Calculated for the
period 3-15 to 3-18].
Miscellaneous
Other Threats That Reinforce
the Radiation Threat
2011-06-08 General
Bert’s Third Risk Warning: Genocidal (& Genomicidal)
Maniacs and a Weaponized World, by MajGen. Albert
"Bert" N. Stubblebine III, USA (Ret.).
2011-04-22 General
Bert’s World Risk Assessment: Genomicide Warning #2: Nuke
Power and GMOs, by MajGen. Albert "Bert"
N. Stubblebine III, USA (Ret.).
2011-04-14 General
Bert’s World Risk Assessment: Threats to Health and Food
Freedom #1, by Albert
"Bert" N. Stubblebine III, retired Major General
in the United States Army, former commanding general of the United
States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984,
healthfreedomusa.org.
2011-03-27 A
Comprehensive Holistic Approach to the Plague of Radiation and
What To Do, by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., concernedcitizensofflorida
"Today,
although our focus is on Japan’s nuclear power plant disaster
and tsunamis, we actually have a variety of radiation exposures
that have been with us since the 1960’s. Nuclear plant meltdowns
are the most serious threat that we most immediately share, but
there are also accidents at sterilization and food radiation facilities,
which have in the past released cesium 137 as well as cobalt 60.
There are also routine leaks and emissions from common devices
and equipment that use nuclear technologies such as x-rays, mammograms,
CAT-scans, and full-body scans. We also have radiation exposure
from accidents at nuclear weapons sites, nuclear submarine accidents,
radon gas, and cigarette smoking. Microwave towers, cell phones,
and this whole new technology are additional major sources of
cancer causing radiation exposure. We are literally drowning in
a continual sea of radiation exposure. The earth changes that
have brought about the Japanese nuclear disaster have given us
another opportunity to wake up to what is happening. Our total
radiation cultural exposure is a symptom and a reflection of our
struggle between the Culture of Death and the transition into
the Culture of Life. In this context, a nuclear meltdown at a
power plant is not our sole concern, although it is a major acute
problem. Last, but not least, is the nuclear fall-out from depleted
uranium ammunition, missiles, and bombs, and nuclear war. All
are happening within these times of complicated earth and consciousness
changes.
Unfortunately,
aside from the nuclear blowouts at Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl
(1986), and now at Fukushima (2011), accidents at nuclear power
plants happen more frequently than we are aware. Over a 15-year
study, ending in 1985, there were 151 significant nuclear accidents
in 14 western countries with a total of close to 3,000 mishaps
at nuclear plants. We don’t have to wait for a mishap, when
being within 50 miles of a nuclear plant, in itself, is a serious
lifestyle mistake. The lack of civilian regulations at nuclear
military facilities adds an additional danger. These are things
worth considering in the bigger picture and not just in the immediate
crisis.
Additionally
we have increased radiation exposure at airport security checkpoints
through the backscatter x-ray devices. These are clearly dangerous
and add to the health risk, when we understand what all the serious
radiation experts have made clear: total overall radiation exposure
is an accumulative problem that may result in all levels of disease.
Radon
gas (mostly from cement) and cigarette smoking also create radiation
exposure. Cigarette smoking gives off two radioactive particles:
polonium 210 and lead 210, which are breakdown products from radium
226, found in phosphate fertilizers used in commercial tobacco
farming. Cigarette smoke is found to contain radioactive radium
226 and potassium 40. This is significant when again we are talking
about total radiation build up.
Contrary
to the popular belief, the most serious threat of radiation exposure
is not an atomic thermal blast (if you survive the heat of it),
it is low level radiation that builds up over a long period of
time. This is not a new understanding. It was discovered in 1972
through the research of Dr. Abram Petkau. Serious radiation damage
is the result of free radical activity and its destruction of
cellular structures. This free radical destructive activity may
happen from small amounts of radiation exposure as a result of
eating radioactive particles that have fallen on food and water.
These radioactive minerals are incorporated into the body’s
cellular structure. Free radical production causes radiation sickness
and contributes to higher rates of cancer, as well as cross-linking
among tissue proteins. These free radicals cause inflammations,
damage to lung cells and blood vessels (contributing to higher
rates of atherosclerosis as pointed out by world radiation expert
Dr. John Gofman, MD, PhD), produce mutations, and cause degenerative
diseases, including cancer. Long-term exposure to low levels of
radiation is extremely dangerous, which is why there is no safe
level of radiation exposure. According to Dr. John Gofman and
other top radiation physicists and medical doctors, the total
dose from our total exposure impacts us, it is accumulative.
According
to Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Professor Emeritus of Radiological Physics
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Petkau
found the free-radical effect from chronic low radiation exposure
to be one thousand times greater than from a single large exposure
from an atomic blast. In this context there is no safe permissible
level of exposure. What is called “safe” is simply
what the governments can get away with. It is actually at low
levels of radiation exposure that free radical damage becomes
more efficient according Dr. Pekau’s observation. This explains
why leukemia and other cancers are occurring at 100 to 1,000 times
more than initially predicted at Hiroshima.
In
summary, “There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation
is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs
at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable
dose and dose rate.” ~ John Gofman, Ph.D., M.D. in Radiation
and Human Health
“There
is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of radiation
so low that the risk of malignancy is zero… the genetic
risks, and especially those associated with recessive mutations,
may be as harmful and debilitating to the human race as the increases
of cancer.” ~ Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, director of the Health
Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Sept. 1978
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
The
late Dr. John Gofman, as both a physician and a physicist, was
hired by the Atomic Energy Commission to investigate the effects
of radiation on human beings. I have read all his books, and he
has published an immense amount of material. He concluded that
radiation exposure produces a direct linear correlation in the
increase of cancer incidence. His findings in 1985 indicated that
the dose of radiation allowable by nuclear plants (permissible
radiation leakage) would result in an additional 16,000 to 32,000
cancer deaths each year.
In
the book, Killing
Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic
Radiation by Harvey Wasserman, it’s reported that
following the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident the cancer
rate of those living in a 50 mile area increased sevenfold and
that 58% of the births had complications. Dr. Gofman estimates
in his book X-rays Health Effects of Common Examinations that
more than 45,000 fatal cancers are induced yearly by X-rays. Radiation
is far more toxic than chemicals and pesticides.
Another
problem the world faces is that radioactive isotopes stay active
for a long time. Strontium-90 has a radioactive lifetime of 560
years. Plutonium-239 has a full radioactive life of 500,000 years.
Cesium-137 has a radioactive lifetime of 600 years. I-131 is radioactive
for 160 days..."
Radiation
Basics
Radiation
Poisoning and Lingering Radiation
Effects (From Multiple Sources)
[undated] Biological
Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Tissues, Organs, and Systems
[Online PowerPoint presentation, h/t
Excellent
Power Point with Images on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
on Human Bodies, majiasblog.blogspot.com, April 15,
2012]
[undated] 10
Symptoms Of Radiation Sickness: "1. Nausea And
Vomiting, 2. Bruising and the Inability to Heal Wounds 3. Bleeding
of Orifices 4. Bloody Diarrhea and Vomit 5. Radiation Burns 6.
Hair Loss 7. Headaches, Weakness and Fatigue 8. Mouth Sores 9.
Seizures and Tremors and 10. Fever and Infections."
[undated] Radiation
Health Effects (Cooperative US-Japan research, Radiation
Effects Research Foundation)
[undated] Radiation
Sickness natural-health-home-remedies.com
[undated] Map
of U.S. Nuclear Reactor Locations (with 100 mile
radius rings)
[undated] NIRS
Briefing Paper: Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women (PDF)
prepared by Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office
of Nuclear Information and Resource Service,
8 pages.
2012-03-10 Women
& Children Require More Protection from Ionizing Radiation
than Men (PDF),
repared by Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office of Nuclear
Information and Resource Service,
2 pages
2012-01-10 Radiation
that Makes You Fade away..., majiasblog.blogspot.com
"Below
find a comment I read at Ex-SKF blog. I found it worth re-posting.
The
comment was made in a discussion about why the Japanese do not
rise up and demand that their government seize Tepco and TAKE
CONTROL of the Fukushima situation to protect the people of Japan.
Many
people think that the Japanese are simply too conformist.
I
have to tell you that by watching the people in my surroundings,
I've concluded Americans are just as conformist, in their own
way.
Maybe
that is the nature of most societies: people conform to expectations
even when there are risks because those risks tend to be trivialized
or ignored by `opinion leaders.'
And
most opinion leaders today are selected by advertisers and public
relations agents, rather than rising organically.
It
probably takes time and indisputable evidence before activists
(many found on the web!) can move popular opinion, especially
when authorities deny activist claims.
Real
resistance is going to be difficult if this comment below, found
posted at Ex-SKF, is accurate.
Do
people in your environment seem exhausted?
Anonymous
said...
The
problem is that this kind of internal radiation slowly saps your
strength until you have none left. It makes it nearly impossible
to protest your fate.
You
just fade away."
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/nuclear-fatigue-setting-in-japan-after.html
2011-12-19 Mutated
vegetables, by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com; see
also Hidden
fact about nuclear posted by Mochizuki on December
27th, 2011
2011-12-15 Radon
Progeny Risk? Michael Collins, enviroreporter.com,
Dec 18, 2011
"Understandably,
there has been quite a bit of discussion, and controversy, regarding
possibly false Fukushima meltdowns fallout detections because
of the phenomenon called radon progeny or radon daughters. The
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility is one of the few
readily available resources that addresses this in layman’s
terms in “Introducing the Radon Progeny (formerly called
Radon Daughters)“
2011-11-02 HIGH
RAD CLUES/MITIGATION/DIET/PETS pt2 (video), Uploaded
by ichicax4 on Nov 2, 2011
2011-11-02 HIGH
RADIATION CLUES IN NATURE pt1 (video) Uploaded by
ichicax4 on Nov 2, 2011
No
geiger? No problem. Use your observations. Images of mutations
in Japan, Alberta Canada, SE Michigan. Images of plant sickness.
Animal death, absence of earthworms during rain, large berries,
vegetables, yellow and colored skies with rays, etc...part 1
One
eyed shark in Baja:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050397/One-eyed-albino-cyclops-shark...
2011-09-25 European
Union kills legally 150,000 people each year with irradiated food
in Germany by Mikkai, /tekknorg.wordpress.com
“The
permissible limits currently set in the EU and Japan for radiation
protection mean that the population is exposed to an unnecessarily
high risk to health. If we assume that the population of Germany
were to ingest food containing the current maximum limits of contamination
permitted in the EU – equivalent to the limits applying
to imports from Japan – children and adolescents would each
be exposed to an annual effective dose of 68 millisieverts (mSv)
and adults of 33 mSv. The German radiation protection legislation
that governs the operation of nuclear power plants stipulates
that the legally permissible limit of total exposure from all
exposure pathways is 1 mSv per year for individuals. This means
that if children and adolescents ingested the amount of radioactive
contamination permitted by EU and Japanese regulations, they would
be exposed to 68 times the German limit. Even if only 2 percent
of the dietary intake were contaminated to permissible EU and
Japanese limits, the annual effective dose would already be over
the German limit of 1 mSv.
“Calculations
based on models used by the International Commission on Radiological
Protection (ICRP) show that dietary intake of the maximum amount
of radioactive contamination permitted in the EU and Japan would
lead to at least roughly 150,000 fatalities in Germany each year.
Other calculation models reach vastly higher figures. If the entire
German population were to eat foods exposing individuals to only
5 percent of the contamination currently allowed in food imports
from Japan, at least 7,700 fatalities could be expected; this
figure doesn’t even include the secondary consequences of
a wide range of greatly varying diseases and genetic disorders.”
“Other
countries have to some extent set much stricter limits and thereby
done more to protect human health. Even the limits in Ukraine
and Belarus are much stricter and have continuously tightened
over the last few years. The permissible limit for cesium-137
in milk products in Ukraine and Belarus is 100 becquerels per
kilogram (Bq/kg), whereas this value stands at 370 Bq/kg in the
EU and 200 Bq/kg in Japan.”
2011-04-15 Radiation
disease - here are the symptoms and causes by Mark
Sircus., AC, OMD
2011 [undated] Radiation
Sickness, natural-health-home-remedies.com
"The
amount of natural Cosmic radiation we are exposed to in our daily
lives is about 1 millisievert per year. Recently the Japanese
Chief Cabinet Secretary admitted that 1,500 millisieverts, per
hour, were spewing from Fukushima.
When
you multiple 365 days in a year by 24 hours in a day, you get
8,760 yearly hours.
Multiply 1,500 millisieverts, per hour, by the yearly 8,760 hours
and that is 12,690,000 times normal!
Do
you consider that safe? And that's just the figures that they
admit to. That will continue 24 hours a day until it's stopped.
Professor
Higley head of nuclear engineering and radiation health physics
at Oregon State University, said that the average person receives
about one to two millisieverts a year from natural sources in
their environments, and one chest x-ray yields about 0.2 millisievert.
According
to the World Nuclear Association fifty millisieverts is the lowest
cumulative annual dose for which there is evidence of radiation-related
cancer in adults. [Editor's Note: If the average person gets 1-2
millisieverts a year -- which averages to 1.5 millisieverts, this
implies that by age 33 and four months (or 50 millisieverts divided
by 1.5 millisieverts per year) one has received enough radiation
from ordinary [not counting Fukushima] natural sources
alone to possibly have a radiation-caused cancer]. When
you ingest or inhale radioactive material it can go anywhere in
your body and will stay there.
Can
that amount really be compared to a CT scan or X ray? In the 1950's
researched showed that a single pelvic X-ray of a pregnant woman
would double the rate of childhood leukemia in the unborn baby!
If
that X-ray were given in the first 3 months of pregnancy, that
risked increased 10 times higher.
Just
2 abdominal X-Rays to a male increase the risk of his children
developing leukemia..."
2011-03-18 Detoxify
or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With
the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown by
Gabriela Segura M.D.
A
Note on Radiation
Radiation
poisoning damages organ tissues by excessive exposure to ionizing
radiation. Ionizing radiation consists of particles or electromagnetic
waves that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms
or molecules, thus ionizing them. Direct ionization from the effects
of single particles or single photons produces free radicals,
which are atoms or molecules containing unpaired electrons, and
which tend to be especially chemically reactive due to their electronic
structure.
This
means that they become chemically unstable and highly reactive
ions as free radicals are formed. These unstable metabolic by-products
strive to stabilize by 'stealing' a replacement electron from
any neighboring molecule, leaving even more damaged molecules
in their wake. This is how free radicals in our bodies
are produced and cause inflammation, a process that is
best known as oxidative stress, oxidative damage or lipid peroxidation.
Oxidation can even cause debilitating changes to your DNA. This
is why anti-oxidants are so important. Antioxidants help
to counteract or neutralize the free radicals before they can
damage our healthy cells by lending a hand (actually, an electron)
when stabilization is needed. This is the reason why we are fond
of so many antioxidants such as vitamin C, E, carotenoids, resveratrol,
taurine, coenzyme Q10 and melatonin, to name but a few...
2009-04-20 (about non-ionising
RF/Microwaves) Rosemary
Found to Offer Best Protection against Radiation Poisoning
by Barbara L. Minton
"It
has been know for a decade that RF/microwaves from cell phones
and tower transmitters cause damage in human blood cells that
results in nuclei splintering off into micronuclei fragments.
The development of micronuclei heralds the development of pre-cancerous
conditions. Many victims of Chernobyl developed blood cell micronuclei
that rapidly turned into full blown cancers.
Numerous
animal studies have demonstrated that mobile phone radiation quickly
causes DNA single and double strand breaks at levels well below
the current federal "safe" standards. A six-year industry
study showed that human blood exposure to cell phone radiation
had a 300 percent increase in genetic damage in the form of micronuclei,
suggesting a health threat much greater than smoking or asbestos."
2008-04-24 Reasonable
Doubt: Children living near nuclear facilities face an increased
risk of cancer by Ian Fairlie, Global Research,
April 24, 2008 New Scientist
2003-12-13/14 Testimony
of Leuren Moret for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan,
mindfully.org.
The
Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) 8, a group of independent
scientists in the U.S., has collected over 4000 baby teeth from
children living around nuclear power plants. By measuring the
Strontium-90 (a man-made fission product) in the baby teeth (a
“built in dosimeter”), they have been able to correlate
Strontium-90 levels with radiation related diseases in children
living near nuclear power plants as reported by the CDC. The main
pathways for fission products from nuclear power plants are through
dairy products and drinking water.
The
Vital Distinction Between External
and Internal Radiation
Editor's Note: There are huge differences in how we can predict
the effects of external radiation from irradiation
vs. internal radiation from fallout contamination.
In many ways they are like comparing apples and oranges. It is
very important that the reader clearly understand the difference,
because disinformation artists for the nuclear industry (or a
medical establishment that benefits from various forms of "radiation
therapy") typically exploit public ignorance to tell big
lies. For example, in regard to external radiation
irradiation, there may be some very special scenarios (often
called "radiation
hormesis") where a very minute dose may benefit people,
although larger doses are always bad. "Radiation hormesis"
hypothesis is still being hotly debated in the scientific community
and is by no means a proven phenomenon. In contrast, when it comes
to internal radiation contamination, all of it,
no matter how small the dose, is bad for you. Therefore, when
someone suggests that "radiation is good for you" for
people who are susceptible to internal contamination, this is
a lie. (For example Ann Coulter said
"radiation is good for you" when Americans were getting
exposed to Fukushima fallout -- this is a lie.
Similarly, people who compare air travel with such forms of external
radiation as cosmic rays and X-rays are also lying. They are ignoring
the fact that people who fly today typically breathe in fallout
carried by the jetstream -- and hence are suffering internal
contamination).
External
radiation is fairly easy to understand. Examples include when
someone gets zapped by an X-ray machine, CAT scan, or radiation
pulse from an exploding nuclear weapon. Most of this radiation
usually consists of short bursts (or "acute exposure")
of gamma radiation, which runs straight through the body. The
amount of damage is generally proportional to the amount of radiation
one receives.
This
is the relatively simple model that has historically been fed
to the pubic. For example, the "safe" dose of radiation
is below 2 millisieverts per year.
There
is an important exception to this simple, linear model, even for
external radiation involving mostly gamma rays. When one is subject
to prolonged low level exposure (or "chronic exposure")
this can have a disproportionate damaging effect on cells compared
to short bursts. (One example is known as the "Petkau Effect").
Chronic low level external radiation becomes an increasingly serious
issue as fallout accumulates in ones environment, and starts building
up overall background radiation levels.
The
analogy here might be "slow cook" vs "fast cook."
For example, ancient Polynesians discovered that meat laid between
heated lava rocks adequately cooks meat over eight hours compared
to meat roasted over an open fire in half an hour -- except that
slow-cooked meat has a different taste and texture. As another
interesting anecdote, Mongol warriors used to "slow cook"
their meat by placing it between their saddles and horses while
on the move. When background radiation rises above a certain multiple
of normal, ones starts to get "slow cooked," except
the "slow cooking" of human cells by radiation has somewhat
different properties than the "fast cook" scenario,
comparable to Polynesian and Mongol meat preparation methods.
Now
lets talk about internal radiation that takes place from from
ingesting, inhaling, or absorbing through the skin microscopic
radioactive particles. The impact of this type of contamination
is much more difficult to predict because there are more variables
involved. Also the means of radiation delivery is different. The
gamma radiation typically involved in external radiation travels
in straight lines, and therefore tends to have "line of sight"
characteristics relative to their source. In contrast, the extremely
microscopic particles that typically comprise internal radiation
tend to spread in the air in plume formations that can travel
with jet streams around the world before they descend and envelope
their victims from all directions like a gas.
Different
types of radioactive particles tend to gravitate towards different
organs and impact the body differently. As an example, radioactive
Strontium tends to gravitate towards bones and create a much higher
rate of birth defects compared to radioactive Cesium, which tends
to gravitate towards muscles and increase the rate of heart attacks,
but not affect birth defects nearly as much as Strontium. According
to a TVA report cited by Leuren Moret, the average nuclear plant
leaks all the fission products of a nuclear blast, which can number
as many as 1,300 different radioactive isotopes. (It is very sobering
for Americans who live within fifty miles of a nuclear plant to
find out that the nuclear industry has been routinely dumping
these poisons on them without telling them. Some nuclear plants
release dangerous nucleotides as often as once every three days).
Therefore, in order to predict the damage to the body that takes
place from ingesting fallout, one needs to understand what kind
of "witches brew" one has ingested. Radiation plumes
can vary dramatically in their radionuclide composition depending
on what kinds of nuclear fuel and fission events created them;
as an example, contact with sea water during melt-down vs. contact
with fresh water, earth, or construction materials can create
a very different mix radionuclides.
Secondly,
once a radioactive particle gets embedded in cellular tissue,
it causes tissue destruction and mutations from all three
types of radiation, namely alpha, beta and gamma. According
to the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), the damaging
effects on human health of such internalized radiation is about
600 times worse than what one would ordinarily
predict by measuring the external radiation thrown off by these
particles with a Geiger counter..".
2012-05-08 Columbia
Medical Professor: Inhaling just one radioactive hot particle
can cause cancer (VIDEO), ENENews.com
2012-05-02 Internal
Versus External Exposure to Radionuclides, majiasblog.blogspot.com
We
know that ingesting some radioactive particles is particularly
bad because your body considers them nutrients.
Your
body doesn't differentiate between radioactive and stable iodine.
Moreover,
radioactive cesium is a potassium analog; strontium is a calcium
analog.
Consequently,
your body absorbs these radionuclides and "stores" them
as if they were nutrients.
(Here
is a link to some research I did on cesium absorption
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/
2012/04/bio-accumulation-of-cesium-cesium-is.html )
Paul
Langely has a very good post today describing research conducted
by the US government on the serious effects of ingestion of radionuclides,
even of minute amounts
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/the-metabolism-of-the-fission-products-hamilton-1942-on/
2011-12-05 Why
the ICRP and EPA Models for Radiation Risk Understate Risks Significantly
(pdf), epa.gov
EPA:
Cancer Risk Coefficients for Environmental Exposure to Radionuclides
"For
both internal and external exposure, a risk coefficient for a
given radionuclide is based on the assumption that this is the
only radionuclide present in the environmental medium. That is,
doses due to decay chain members produced in the environment prior
to the intake of, or external exposure to, the radionuclides are
not considered”
2011-10-31 Radiation
Exposure to the Population in Japan After the Earthquake
(PDF) by Marco Kaltofen --slide 6.
How
are people exposed to radioactive particulates?
*
Inhalation airborne particles
*
Inhalation of re-suspended dusts
*
Ingestion of contaminated food (seaweed, shellfish, beef, milk,
spinach, eggs, tea and pollock and cod)
*
Ingestion of soils and dusts (pica)
*
Dermal contact
*
The effects of certain types of contamination actually get worse
over time as they bio-accumulate According to Chernobyl
by Yablokov, a prime contaminant is Cesium 137. Given itslengthy
half-life, there are heavily contaminated parts of Russia, Ukraine,
and Belarus that will not become reasonably "safe" for
300 years.
2011-08-30 Fukushima
Is Continually Blasting All Of Us With High Levels Of Cesium,
Strontium And Plutonium And Will Slowly Kill Millions For Years
To Come by Michael Snyder, Economic Collapse Blog.
"...Unfortunately,
most people do not have any concept of just how dangerous nuclear
contamination can be.
At
this point, the vast majority of people living in the northern
hemisphere have been exposed to radioactive material from Fukushima.
We
can't see them, but radioactive particles can do an insane amount
of damage. We can breathe them in, we can eat them in our food
and we can even absorb them through our skin. Once trapped inside
our bodies, these particles can slowly "bake" us for
years and years. The following is from an opinion piece by Helen
Caldicott in the Guardian....
Internal
radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements
which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption.
Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and
other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around
Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains
(for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish,
then humans; or soil, grass, cow's meat and milk, then humans).
[2] After they enter the body, these elements – called
internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as
the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously
irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta
and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled
cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many of the
nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations,
and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and
genetic diseases over time.
One
of the most dangerous radioactive elements being released at Fukushima
is Strontium. Strontium accumulates in the bones and in the teeth.
It is also known to cause cancer in humans.
It
has been estimated that approximately 80 percent of the strontium
that was released during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster entered
the food cycle.
Considering
the vast amount of strontium that has been released at Fukushima,
that is a very frightening statistic.
The
following is what NHK
World recently had to say about the levels of strontium that
are being found around Fukushima....
The
utility detected up to 480 becquerels of radioactive strontium
90 per kilogram of soil. That's about 100 times higher than
the maximum reading recorded in Fukushima Prefecture following
atmospheric nuclear tests carried out by foreign countries during
the Cold War era.
TEPCO
reported detecting 2,800 becquerels of strontium 89 per kilogram
of soil at the same location.
Once
you absorb Strontium, it will stay in your bones for the rest
of your life. Just consider what Dr. Russell Blaylock recently
told Newsmax....
When
we look at Chernobyl, most of West Germany was heavily contaminated.
Norway, Sweden. Hungary was terribly contaminated. The radiation
was taken up into the plants. The food was radioactive. They
took the milk and turned it into cheese. The cheese was radioactive.
That’s
the big danger, the crops in this country being contaminated,
the milk in particular, with Strontium 90. That radiation is
incorporated into the bones and stays for a lifetime.
So
would you like to have radioactive material in your bones that
affects your health for the rest of your life?
It
may have already happened to you and you wouldn't even know it.
Other
deadly radioactive elements that are being released at high levels
at Fukushima include iodine, cesium, uranium and plutonium. Large
amounts of these radioactive particles have already been absorbed
in the soil and in the water in the United States.
*
The first best step is avoidance
*Second
step; bolster immune system and try to detox.
2011-05-03 U.S.
Radiation: Where Is All That Fukushima Radiation Going, and Why
Does it Matter? (VIDEO) (17:42) "Fairewinds'
founder Maggie Gundersen interviews environmental scientist and
professional engineer Marco Kaltofen about his ongoing analysis
of radioactive fallout from Fukushima."
2011-04-30 Unsafe
at Any Dose by Helen Caldicott, M.D., nytimes.com
2004 How
to Help Support the Body's Healing After Intense Radioactive or
Radiation Exposure: The Medical, Naturopathic, Nutritional,
Herbal, Commonsense External and Internal Approaches
(pdf) by Bill Bodri
"When
we’re talking about radiation exposure, there are two types
you need to differentiate between: (1) irradiation and (2) contamination.
Here are the definitions:
Irradiation
is exposure to external radiation that passes directly through
your body and can make you sick immediately, producing what’s
called “acute radiation illness” (ARS). Irradiation
does not make your tissues radioactive and it does not make
the person radioactive, but just damages your tissues. In high
doses, irradiation can even permanently damage your genetic
material (DNA) causing chronic latent disorders, such as cancer
and birth defects. Irradiation has no emergency treatment itself,
but doctors closely monitor the person exposed for the development
of various syndromes and treat the symptoms as they arise.
Contamination
means coming into contact with and retaining radioactive material,
typically in the form of a radioactively contaminated materials
that you eat, inhale, absorb through skin breaks, or which may
fall on your skin (where it can fall off or be brushed off to
contaminate other people and objects). You can have both internal
and external contamination. If it is absorbed, radioactive material
will be transported to various sites in the body, such as the
thyroid or bone marrow, where it will continue to release radiation.
“Contamination”
requires the immediate removal of the radioactive material to
prevent it from being absorbed by the body and so contaminated
skin should be scrubbed immediately with large amounts of soap
and water, small puncture wounds should be cleaned vigorously
to remove all radioactive particles (even though the scrubbing
may cause pain), contaminated hair is clipped off rather than
shaved because shaving may abrade the skin and allow the contamination
to enter the body. Just like in the James Bond movie Doctor
No (you can tell I’m a big fan), scrubbing of skin surface
areas continues until a Geiger counter shows that the
radioactivity is gone.
If
a person has recently swallowed radioactive material, vomiting
must be induced. Some radioactive materials have specific antidotes,
which we’ll get into, that can prevent the absorption
of ingested material. These antidotes are usually given only
to people exposed to significant radioactive contamination.
Potassium iodide prevents the thyroid gland from absorbing radioactive
iodine-131 and other drugs, such as DTPA, EDTA chelation, and
penicillamine can be given intravenously to remove certain radioactive
elements after they have been absorbed. Although this absorbed
radiation contaminant often will not cause “acute radiation
sickness,” it can lead to chronic disorders (such as leukemia
or cancer) over time unless it’s removed through these
methods.
"The
star in the photo is a partial image of the three-dimensional
radiation tracks from the plutonium particle, which forms
around the plutonium speck like a dandelion seed. Why? Plutonium
emits high-energy rays (called 'alpha rays') that travel
exceedingly short distances and in nearly straight lines
- the tracks in the photo only extend about 5 cell diameters
(or 35 microns). Typical 'alpha stars' form around clusters
of alpha-emitting radiochemicals, like plutonium, because
they emit multiple radiation tracks that are short and straight."
From Part
2 - Fallout Overexposes Human Cells from Nuclear
Crimes (The Book). |
The
Chronic Low Level Radiation Danger
-- "Petkau Effect"
2012-02-03 Journal:
70,000 reports of suspected health damage every year among German
nuclear workers exposed to less than 20 milliSv, enenews.com
2011-03-17 Professor:
Clear that low-level contamination is probably more dangerous
than single dose — Grasshoppers with deformed wings, gray
eyes not red — Birds with abnormal sperm, strange large
tumors (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-03-31 Expert
Radiation Advice from Gabriel Cousens, MD – Including 6
Principles of Radiation Protection; “A
Comprehensive Holistic Approach to the Plague of Radiation and
What To Do” by Gabriel Cousens, MD, MH (H),
DD
"...Contrary
to the popular belief, the most serious threat of radiation exposure
is not an atomic thermal blast (if you survive the heat of it),
it is low level radiation that builds up over a long period of
time. This is not a new understanding. It was discovered in 1972
through the research of Dr. Abram Petkau. Serious radiation damage
is the result of free radical activity and its destruction of
cellular structures. This free radical destructive activity may
happen from small amounts of radiation exposure as a result of
eating radioactive particles that have fallen on food and water.
These radioactive minerals are incorporated into the body’s
cellular structure. Free radical production causes radiation sickness
and contributes to higher rates of cancer, as well as cross-linking
among tissue proteins. These free radicals cause inflammations,
damage to lung cells and blood vessels (contributing to higher
rates of atherosclerosis as pointed out by world radiation expert
Dr. John Gofman, MD, PhD), produce mutations, and cause degenerative
diseases, including cancer. Long-term exposure to low levels of
radiation is extremely dangerous, which is why there is no safe
level of radiation exposure. According to Dr. John Gofman and
other top radiation physicists and medical doctors, the total
dose from our total exposure impacts us, it is accumulative.
According
to Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Professor Emeritus of Radiological Physics
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Petkau
found the free-radical effect from chronic low radiation exposure
to be one thousand times greater than from a single large exposure
from an atomic blast. In this context there is no safe permissible
level of exposure. What is called “safe” is simply
what the governments can get away with. It is actually at low
levels of radiation exposure that free radical damage becomes
more efficient according Dr. Pekau’s observation. This explains
why leukemia and other cancers are occurring at 100 to 1,000 times
more than initially predicted at Hiroshima.
In
summary, “There is no safe dose of radiation since
radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer
occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest
conceivable dose and dose rate.” ~ John Gofman,
Ph.D., M.D. in Radiation and Human Health
“There
is no safe level of exposure and there is no dose of radiation
so low that the risk of malignancy is zero… the genetic
risks, and especially those associated with recessive mutations,
may be as harmful and debilitating to the human race as the
increases of cancer.” ~ Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, director
of the Health Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
in Sept. 1978 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
1972 and 1982 Secret
Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima
to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, (an
online ebook). Chapter 15 Fallout
At Shippingport has a very valuable discussion of
official cover-up of the terrible damage wrought by radioactive
leakage of a nuclear reactor 25 miles north west of Pittsburgh
on the local community and how chronic low level radiation can
be more dangerous that short bursts of high level radiation. It
also describes the "Petkau Effect."
|
a) Understanding
Types of Radiation:
1).
Basic types of radioactive emitters, namely alpha, beta, or gamma
emissions. See the chart above.
"Alpha
Particle, Wikipedia "...When alpha particle emitting
isotopes are ingested, they are far more dangerous than their
half-life or decay rate would suggest, due to the high relative
biological effectiveness of alpha radiation to cause biological
damage, after alpha-emitting radioisotopes enter living cells.
Ingested alpha emitter radioisotopes (such as transuranics or
actinides) are an average of about 20 times more dangerous, and
in some experiments up to 1000 times more dangerous, than an equivalent
activity of beta emitting or gamma emitting radioisotopes."
2012-03-14 Alpha
radiation detected 50km south of Fukushima in Iwaki City —
Up to 1,000 times more dangerous than beta or gamma equivalent
(VIDEO), enenews.com
2).
Whether the emissions come from outside the body or internally
from radionuclides that have been absorbed inside ones own body
(I have already covered this in a prior
section ).
3)
The particular isotopes that are the source of radiation. Different
isotopes have different half lives and give off different radioactive
daughters. When they get ingested inside the body, different isotopes
tend to gravitate towards different organs and require different
chelating agents for the best chances of cleansing them out of
the body..."
2011-10-14 Japan
Contamination Maps: Radiation is Spreading...by Lucas
W Hixson, globalresearch.ca
"Uranium
Decay Series - The 4n+2 chain of U-238 is commonly called the
"radium series" (sometimes "uranium series").
Beginning with naturally occurring uranium-238, this series includes
the following elements: astatine,bismuth, lead, polonium, protactinium,radium,
radon, thallium, and thorium...
|
b)
Understanding Basic Measurements and Conversions.
For example, how do we convert microsieverts to millirads, microcuries
to becquerels, and counts per minute on a geiger counter with
microsieverts per hour?
In
addition, anyone who seriously delves in radiation literature
finds a variety of terms being used for the same things, and one
needs to be able to relate them to each other. For example, contemporary
books on radiation typically use microsieverts, whereas books
older than a decade use rads.
Conversion tables and calculators
http://www.radprocalculator.com/FAQ.aspx
Online
Unit Converter Pro: Radiation - Dose Equivalent Conversions, All
Radiation - Dose Equivalent Conversions,
CONVERTER http://online.unitconverterpro.com/unit-conversion/
convert-group/convert.php?cat=radiation---dose-equivalent
Conversion discussions
2011-04-21
Understanding
Becquerels, Sieverts, Roentgens, Etc by Ace Hoffman,
Rense.com. See also his 21 April 2011 blog entry Measuring
low-level radiation damage..., acehoffman.blogspot.com
Ask
the Experts; hps.org/publicinformation.
"How
do you convert a rad to a rem? I am working on putting together
a comparison list for radiation exposure to pregnant women during
radiology procedures and find different studies list rad results
and others list results in rem. I appreciate any help on this
matter.
Answer:
The older quantity and unit of radiation exposure (ionization
in dry air) is the "roentgen" (R), where 1 R is equal
to 2.58 × 10-4. The older quantity and unit of absorbed
dose is the "rad," where 1 rad = 0.01 J/kg. The material
absorbing the radiation can be tissue or any other medium (for
example, air, water, lead shielding, etc.). To convert absorbed
dose to dose equivalent, or "rem," where we now consider
the biological effects in man, one modifies with a quality factor.
For practical scenarios, with low "linear energy transfer"
(LET) radiation such as gamma or x rays, 1 R = 1 rad = 1 rem.
Basic Conversions
[Editor's Note: Many of the conversions below are "slapdash"
or "back of the envelope" conversions suitable for laymen
but are technically imprecise for physicists in that the terms
do not always have the same exact underlying concept].
1,000 Microsievert = 1 MilliSievert = .001 Sievert = .1 Rad =
.1 Roentgen |

The
positive aspect of this chart is it helps one understand how
the magnitude of different radiation doses relate to each other.
The negative aspect is that it does not make the very critical
distinction between external vs. internalized forms of radiation.
It is not true that using a cell phone is not hazardous.
|
|
|
Millisieverts |
Millirems |
|
|
|
Chest
x-ray |
0 |
.1 |
10 |
|
Two-view
mammogram |
0 |
.36 |
36 |
|
Average
annual background exposure in the U.S. |
3 |
|
300 |
|
Cardiac
nuclear stress test |
9 |
.4 |
940 |
|
CT
scan of the abdomen |
10 |
|
1,000 |
|
Coronary
angiogram |
20 |
|
2,000 |
|
Average
exposure of evacuees from Belarus after 1986 Chernobyl disaster
|
31
|
|
3,100 |
|
Annual
dose limit* for nuclear power plant workers |
50 |
|
5,000 |
|
Spike
recorded at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant |
400
|
per
hour |
40,000
|
per
hour |
Acute
radiation sickness begins |
1,000
|
(or
1 sievert) |
100,000 |
|
*Set by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Physics Society,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, International Atomic Energy
Agency
From: Radiation
risk in Japan: understanding radiation measurements and putting
them in perspective, health.harvard.edu, by Peter Wehrwein,
Editor, Harvard Health Letter, 16 March 2011 |
c)
Understanding
Basic Exposure Guidelines --
and Consequences. Some of the most common guidelines
involve microsieverts per hour and millisieverts year of exposure
and becquerels per square meter square and becquerels per liter
of contamination.
[Editor's Note: The best
case
study is Chernobyl: -- The best model for predicting
long term impact is the "Tondel model" advocated by
Professor Chris Busby; in contrast, the "ICRP" model
that only looks at non-ionizing (pass through) radiation and not
particulate ionizing radiation (radionuclides that get inside
the body) severely underestimates the total damage from dirty
nuke catastrophes like Chernobyl and Fukushima. According
to Dr. Busby "[Martin] Tondel’s findings of a statistically
significant 11% increase in cancer per 100kBq/m2 Cs-137 contamination
from Chernobyl are almost exactly predicted by the ECRR2003 model."]
2011-06 Radiation
Dosage Chart [Rense.com] [Ed.
Note: The styling of this chart is attractive; however, it is
overly simplistic because it does not distinguish between external
radiation and accumulated internal radiation]
2011-04-21
Measuring
low-level radiation damage..., by Ace Hoffman, acehoffman.blogspot.com
[Editor's Note: This is an excellent explanation regarding why
"dilution is not the solution"
when it comes to the release of radiation into the environment.
Japan has been adding to its nuclear suicide by applying the erroneous
"dilution is the solution" mantra to burning radioactive
trash in incinerators around Tokyo, which only remobilizes more
radiation into the environment (to include sending more of it
up smoke stakes and into the jet stream towards America). The
Japanese have also been blending radioactive food in with "cleaner
food" and then distributing it to its citizens as well as
anyone else around the world who will accept it, to include Americans.
Significantly, on my 2011
Great American Nuclear Facilities Crises web page
I provide background on Dr. Edward Teller, an important leader
of America's H-bomb program and a prime architect of America's
nuclear facilities policies in the 1950's. According to radiation
expert Leuren Moret, Dr. Teller pushed the "dilution is the
solution" concept to not only rationalize numerous nuclear
bomb tests and nuclear plant releases into the environment in
America, but to also "justify" dumping highly toxic
fluoride waste into public drinking water! (The process of separating
uranium 235 from uranium 238 creates uranium hexafluoride gas,
which in turn often gets processed into fluoride and depleted
uranium. Faced with the dilemma regarding how to dispose of fluoride
and depleted uranium, Dr. Teller advocated adding fluoride to
public drinking water with the mantra "dilution is the solution."
I view this as a PSYOP (Psychological Warfare) or "chutzpah"
tactic using the "the best defense is a good offense"
ploy. It conditions the public to accommodate the poisons that
come with nuclear power and nuclear weaponry -- in other words
if someone righteously and vehemently promotes a big lie that
is the exact opposite of the truth, this may so distort the public's
frame of reference that it will accommodate various forms of the
lie. In regard to depleted uranium (DU), beginning with Persian
Gulf War I in 1990, the U.S. military has exploded massive amounts
of depleted uranium and released it into the environment, not
only overseas, but also at training facilities in the United States.
Over a million U.S. military veterans since Persian Gulf War I
have become permanently incapacitated due to the likely effects
of DU poisoning, which exacerbates every disease known to man
since it disrupts the immune system and every form of bodily function
at the cellular level where DU microparticles disrupt DNA. Please
see more discussion of DU in the Leuren
Moret, Dr.
Chris Busby, and Dr.
Doug Rokke archives].
"...PM
Kan wants everyone in Japan to share in the radioactive misery
of the northern prefectures by throwing caution to the wind (literally)
and pretending everything is okay.
So
what will happen is, for example, they'll take a farm's vegetables
that are known to be highly irradiated, and mix them with vegetables
from other farms that were not so badly hit, until the average
level of radiation in the larger batch is low enough to pass inspection.
Because inspections will be looking for averages: "Becquerels
per kilogram."
The
Japanese people are being encouraged -- made to feel it's their
patriotic duty -- to slip as much of the hot stuff through as
possible! Based on Kan's remarks, and on what happened (and still
happens) throughout Ukraine after Chernobyl, and what happened
after Three Mile Island to milk supplies (including for chocolate
bars sold all around the world from nearby Hershey, Pennsylvania),
that's what they will be doing -- are already doing -- in Japan.
And
you can be sure of another rule of thumb, thank's to Kan's pronouncements:
Sell the "hot" produce to foreigners, especially! Why?
Because after all, the more you spread it around, the safer it
is, right? If it's below legal limits, it's safe, right? So spread
it around! Especially to countries that don't have a good inspection
program in place. Or that just don't care.
Prime
Minister Naoto Kan calls it a `sacrifice' while at the same time
assuring everyone it's harmless. Eat some plutonium. Plutonium-laced
spinach will make you strong. Enjoy it, even!
This
`dilution solution to pollution' will not only be legal, it will
be encouraged. Everyone is expected to figure that yes, they will
get some poisons one day, but other days they won't. So it won't
matter.
But
it does matter.
Scientists
agree that radiation is a "Linear, No Threshold" poison,
so spreading the doses out among many people doesn't stop a single
death (though it makes those deaths much harder to prove statistically,
a phenomenon which the nuclear industry finds very useful). Lest
you think LNT is fringe science, you should know that the US National
Academy of Sciences has accepted the LNT threshold "theory"
of radiation damage for many decades.
Linear
no-threshold means that if one person receives one fatal dose
of radiation, that person will presumably die. But if the same
amount of radiation is spread out among a hundred people, or,
say, a hundred thousand (a small city), or a million (a large
city), divided out and distributed to everyone somehow (diabolically),
one person (on average) will die from what would have been one
fatal dose if given entirely to one person.
Furthermore,
it doesn't matter if the total quantity is divided evenly or unevenly
-- that only determines an individual's risk, not the total "communal"
risk. According to the LNT theory, the total risk for the community
-- one death -- remains unchanged regardless of how the dose is
distributed. (NOTE: This theoretical example does NOT consider
dilution in the environment, in which even more people will be
exposed to the poison, but some of it will not come in contact
with humans at all. By the same token, it also does not consider
the billions of fatal doses that are being released from Fukushima
Daiichi, it only considers the effects of ONE theoretical fatal
dose. And it doesn't account for the many additional, non-fatal
health effects of radiation such as inflammation, dementia, deformities,
chronic fatigue syndrome, and many others.)
We
don't purposefully, (at least, not often) experiment on humans
even with tiny radiation doses, but the LNT data line has been
indicated in thousands of different studies involving millions
of lab animals who were "sacrificed" for science.
Sacrificed
and apparently then utterly forgotten by society, along with the
results of the studies they died so painfully for (the normal
technique, when experimenting with dogs, for instance, is to remove
their vocal cords first).
Because
of the statistical nature of radiation doses (and many other poisons),
even a so-called "fatal" dose may not be fatal. So for
that reason, it's usually called a "normally fatal dose."
And also for that reason, nearly all radiation damage approximations
attempt to discover, not the fatal dose, but instead, the exact
dosage that will be lethal for 50% of any exposed population (of
beagles, fish, fruit flies, or whatever (the actual level is different
for each species and each individual)). That level is known as
the LD/50, and that method is used for studying many poisons besides
just radiation.
Data
from animal experiments, is compared against some very imprecise
studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, and then used to estimate
the damage that will be caused by any particular human exposure
to radiation.
However,
in those original Hiroshima and Nagasaki studies, damage to humans
was grossly underestimated, especially for the very young. It
was politically expedient to do so. Radiation damage estimates,
especially for low levels of exposure, have been grossly (and
correspondingly) underestimated ever since.
In
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki studies, stillbirths and spontaneous
abortions were not counted for the first five years after the
bombings. This was a rather crucial oversight! For Chernobyl,
actual doses were so poorly recorded or estimated, that all studies
since then have been both difficult to design and easy to criticize
as inaccurate. Instead the original bomb studies are still used
as if they were unbiased and reasonably accurate.
(Eminent
physician and nuclear physicist, Dr. John Gofman, used statistical
studies of x-rays and subsequent patient health effects to study
low level radiation damage to humans, but the larger health establishment,
heavily reliant on x-rays and CT scans for their income, has ignored
the late scientist's (and other's) findings. However, his results
are available for consideration in several books he published
during his long and distinguished career.)
With
a poison which behaves according to the LNT model, dilution is
the ONLY solution offered for such pollution, and it's not a very
good one. Spreading LNT poisons into the environment IS premeditated
murder, so you better have a pretty good reason for doing so,
if you plan to do it. The nuclear industry excuses itself as "vital"
because they produce electricity, which most certainly is very
important..."
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Microsieverts
(or Rad or Roentgens) per hour of external exposure, or units
per year
Sample guidelines:
Editor's Note: Please see the Radiation
Risk Chart above.
2012-02-28 US
Agency: ‘Serious, long-term health effects’ posed
by 10 milliSv/yr of ionizing radiation, enenews.com
[Undated] NukAlert
Operating Manual; What is a Roentgen? A Roentgen
(R) is an amount of radiation. It is about 1% of the amount that
is the threshold for radiation sickness.? In other words, if a
healthy adult does not exceed a dose of 100 Roentgens received
in a short time (days) they are unlikely to experience radiation
sickness, which is 100% survivable, if not exceeded. "Very
few of those receiving acute doses (received within 24 hours)
of less than 100 R would become sick, even briefly." NWSS
While govt agencies advise to try to limit your normal exposure
to 5 rad per year and 25 rad for lifetime and emergency workers
to 50 rad. 10 11 (Lower limits for children & fetuses.) in
a widespread nuclear emergency staying under 100 rads for healthy
adults is survivable and does not require aggressive medical attention.
2011-09-06 Almost
500 millisieverts of radiation for some in corridor NW of Fukushima
meltdowns — Around 50/50 chance of cancer, says nuclear
engineer by ENENEWS Admin
2011-07-29 Nuclear
plant workers developed cancer despite radiation exposure below
legal limit — As little as 5 millisieverts
by ENENEWS Admin
2011-06-03 (for this date) Consequences
of the Fukushima Daiichi Accident in Japan: A substantial and
long-lasting contamination (pdf), by Bruno Chareyron,
nuclear physics engineer, Head of the CRIIRAD laboratory "...the
ICRP (International Commission for Radiological Protection) is
1 milliSievert per annum, which corresponds to 5 deaths
for 100 000 persons exposed to this effective dose..."
[Ed. Note: The aforementioned ICRP model applies only for external
radiation. The death toll from 1 milliSievert of internal
radiation is vastly higher, as noted in the aforementioned Tondel
model].
2011-04-12 Low
Level Radiation Campaign Advice for the People of Japan
by c
"Put
simply, in an area now contaminated to a level of 1 microsievert
per hour the fallout raises every individual person’s risk
of getting cancer in the next 10 years by 11%."
Sample discussions
2012-02-28 US
Agency: ‘Serious, long-term health effects’ posed
by 10 milliSv/yr of ionizing radiation — Greatly increased
chance of leukemia, organ damage, cancers when adding ingestion
of radionuclides,
enenews.com.
2011-11-14
Xenon Gas and Lethal Doses by Inhalation, majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://www.aipri.blogspot.com/
(this
site is in French so I used google translate)
The
AIPR or International Association for the Protection Against Ionizing
Radiation posted this on Nov 4 (please note it is translated from
the French)
"The
program "semi formalized" in Fukushima of 1.67 E19 Bq
133 Xe gas have meant the spread of 2.411 kg. This emission is
equivalent in terms of internal radiation lung 400.8 million in
potentially lethal doses by inhalation. As shown, 2.4 kg of material
having the power to kill only transient 400 million people, the
Xenon 133 is classified as very low radiotoxic. It's not beautiful
science!
"The
Xe 133 has a half-life of 5.244 days. It decreases in beta mode
with a decay constant of 1.52985 s-1 E-6. (Ln (2) / T1 / 2 ie
0.693147 / 5.244 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 1.52985 E-6. ) The specific
activity of E15 6.9271 Bq / g E05 Ci/gr.- -1.872 (6.0221415 E
23 / ??133 * 1.5299 = 6.9271 E-06 E15 Bq / gr.) The inhalation
dose factor is of 1.20 E-10 Sv / Bq.
A
lethal dose by inhalation of 5 Sievert E-06 weighs 6.02 gr. (6,
o2 micrograms), E10 is 4.17 Bq. One gram of 133 Xe has provided
166,249 potentially lethal doses. Fukushima has released about
2411 grams of the radioactive element has so far scattered in
the environment the innocent and very low radiotoxic equivalent
of 400.8 million lethal doses."
Hat
tip PureWater at Enenenws
http://enenews.com/just-in-harmless-xenon-cloud-is-known-to-cause-dramatic-increase-in-lung-
cancer-bombards-people-with-gamma-rays-turns-into-cesium-xenon-release-at-fukushima-most-
ever-2-5-times-chernoby
The
Enenews post where PureWater posted the link concerns rising radiation
in Japan, as discussed by Arnie Gunderson on Helen Caldicott's
show If You Love This Planet
2011-09-06 Almost
500 millisieverts of radiation for some in corridor NW of Fukushima
meltdowns — Around 50/50 chance of cancer, says nuclear
engineer by ENENEWS Admin
2011-06-20 The
Health Effects of Radiation "There is no safe threshold"
John Gofman Interview / Synapse v.38, n.16, 20 June 1994 (Synapse
is a publication of the University of California, San Francisco).
2011-05-01 Unsafe
at any dose by Helen Caldicott, M.D.
"...There’s
great debate about the number of fatalities following Chernobyl;
the International Atomic Energy
Agency has predicted that there will be only about 4,000 deaths
from cancer, but a
2009 report published by the New York Academy of Sciences
says that almost one million people have already perished from
cancer and other diseases.
The
high doses of radiation caused so many miscarriages
that we will never know the number of genetically damaged fetuses
that did not come to term. (And both Belarus and Ukraine have
group homes full of deformed children.)
Nuclear
accidents never cease. We’re decades if not generations
away from seeing the full effects of the radioactive emissions
from Chernobyl.
As
we know from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it takes years to get cancer.
Leukemia
takes only 5 to 10 years to emerge, but solid cancers take 15
to 60. Furthermore, most radiation-induced mutations are recessive;
it can take many generations for two recessive genes to combine
to form a child with a particular disease, like my specialty,
cystic
fibrosis. We can’t possibly imagine how many cancers
and other diseases will be caused in the far future by the radioactive
isotopes emitted by Chernobyl and Fukushima..."
2011-04-12 Low
Level Radiation Campaign Advice for the People of Japan
by c
To
evacuate or not? We suggest a novel scientific approach
to the problem of quantifying the health effects of radioactive
pollution.
Put
simply, in an area now contaminated to a level of 1 microsievert
per hour the fallout raises every individual person’s risk
of getting cancer in the next 10 years by 11%.
How
we know this: The Japanese authorities are publishing
data on contamination levels in the form of hourly dose rates
from Cesium137. It is therefore possible to calculate the cancer
yield using the same criteria as used by Tondel and colleagues
in a robust but conservative study of cancer in Sweden after Chernobyl.
Sweden is known to have been contaminated with Uranium fuel although
fallout mapping generally used data for Cesium, just as in Japan
now, exactly 25 years later. Tondel and colleagues found an 11%
increase in cancer incidence for each 100 kiloBecquerels Cesium137
on each square metre of ground. The cancers were expressed (diagnosed)
in a ten year period; cancers appearing later than 10 years are
of course possible but were not included in Tondel’s study.
The detailed method has been published on the LLRC
site.
The
site has simple instructions for calculating the additional risk
from fallout.
We
recommend you to download
(free) the book on Chernobyl’s effect on human, animal and
plant life published last year by the New York Academy of Sciences.
This book tells the facts as scientists have seen, measured and
counted them, free of the dogma of “dose”. This means
they have not ignored the evidence of their own eyes just because
it isn’t predicted by the ICRP model.
1975-10 The
Awful Magnitude of Destruction from a Nuclear Meltdown,
Rasmussen Report, WASH-1400, updated by Union of Concerned Scientists
The
report states that in the “worst possible case” (an
assumed 10 million people at risk) 3,300 people would die of severe
radiation damage within several days; 10,000 to 100,000 people
would develop acute radiation sickness within two to six weeks
of initial exposure.
45,000
would become acutely short of breath because the intensely radioactive
gases produce lung damage; 240,000 others would develop acute
hypothyroidism with symptoms of weight gain, lassitude, susceptibility
to cold, impaired and slow mental functions, loss of appetite,
constipation, and absent menstruation.
350,000
males would become temporarily sterile as gamma radiation damages
sperm, and 40,000 to 200,000 women would cease to menstruate,
many permanently.
In
the fetal population, up to 100,000 babies would be born as cretins
with mental retardation from destruction of their thyroid glands
by radioactive iodine, 1,500 others would develop microcephaly
(small heads) as the developing brain is highly susceptible to
the deleterious effects of radiation. There would be 3000 deaths
in utero with spontaneous abortions. Five to sixty years later
cancer would develop in various bodily organs of 270,000 people
and there would be 28,800 cases of thyroid cancer.
2011-07-29 Nuclear
plant workers developed cancer despite radiation exposure below
legal limit — As little as 5 millisieverts
by ENENEWS Admin
Multiple
of Average Background Radiation
Per hour: Sievert
(Wikipedia.org) "Average individual background
radiation dose: 0.23µSv/h [microsieverts per hour, or 0.00023millisieverts/h
or mSv/h]; 0.17µSv/h for Australians, 0.34µSv/h for
Americans"
Exposure limits:
2012-03-09 Highest
Radiation in L.A. Air Yet by Michael Collins, EnviroReporter.com.
"The California Highway patrol considers anything over three
times background, 300% of background and above, a trigger level
to a hazardous material situation."
Sample discussions:
2011-09-30 (for this date) Radiation
Cover-up in Japan: Prof. Frank Daulton: Radiation 500 Km From
Fukushima Is Ten Times Higher Than What The Japanese Government
Claims. Oct 2, 2011
Full
article here: Japan’s
3/11 Radiation Refugees (Earthfiles, Sep. 30, 2011):
‘We
in Otsu-City, Shiga Prefecture, 311 miles (500 km) from Fukushima,
are seeing readings around 0.15 microsieverts on average, which
is around five times what the Japanese government is reporting.
My wife and children will leave Japan as early as possible because
I perceive a growing exodus will come and it might become hard
to place kids in schools.’
- Frank Daulton, Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Ryukoku Univ.,
Kyoto, Japan
September
30, 2011 Otsu-City, Shiga Prefecture, not far from Kyoto, Japan
– Fukushima Prefecture (top red circle) where TEPCO nuclear
power plants exploded and melted down after the March 11, 2011,
magnitude 9.1 earthquake and giant tsunami east of Sendai. The
distance from Fukushima southwest to Kyoto and Shiga Prefectures
(lower red circle) is 500 kilometers (311 miles). Even with
the 500-kilometer-distance from Fukushima, one concerned university
professor in September 2011 near Kyoto is measuring ground radiation
where he lives in Otsu-City, Shiga Prefecture, at around .4
microsieverts/hour. That is at least ten times higher than the
0.03 microsieverts/hour background level the Japanese government
asserts. That misinformation, the professor says, is because
the Japanese government is afraid to tell the truth.
Counts Per Minute (on Geiger Counter)
Exposure Limits:
2011-12-01 Converting
CPM to MicroSieverts, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"There
is no direct equation because beta CPM (counts per minute) is
an electron count and (micro and milli) sieverts is an account
of bodily damage.
Still,
in the post below I site an EPA guideline dictating an intervention
level at 300 CPM or 10 microsieverts an hour
So,
let us for a moment presume that the two are roughly equivalent
in a hypothetical scenario that allows us to speculate on the
health implications of our current levels of exposure.
If
that were the case, exposure to 700 CPM would be roughly 23 microsieverts
an hour. That would mean that we in Phoenix yesterday would have
hypothetically received 552 microsieverts in a 24 hour period.
In
18 days at 700 CPM we would be at approximately 10 millisieverts
of exposure (there are 1000 microsieverts in 1 millisievert) just
from exposure to air alone.
We
also are exposed to radiation from the machines in our environment,
radon gas, food, etc.
These
numbers are not looking good.
The
EPA recommends that our exposure to background radiation should
not exceed 100 millirem a year, which is 1 millisievert, although
we ordinarily are exposed to about 300 millirem in the US from
background (3 millisieverts). Considerable background radiation
derives from nuclear power plants, past nuclear weapons testing
and radon gas.
There
is no "immediate" health risk from 18 days of exposure
of 700 CPM in the sense that people not will develop radiation
sickness at this level. However, cancer rates and other diseases
have been proven to increase at every 3 millisievert increment
over 10 millisieverts. See my previous post.
2011-12-01 Radiation:
What We Know, majiasblog.blogspot.com
What
we know:
Yesterday,
Phoenix’s Beta Counts per Minute was 700 CPM according to
radnet
Now
let us look at EPA responder guidelines
I.
EPA’s Emergency Response Air Monitoring Guidance Tables
2009 edition
http://www.rrt5.org/acp/docs/App6_AirMonitoringGuidelines.pdf
This
manual instructs emergency responders to consult with a health
physicist when radiation levels are at 3 times background
The
occupational action level is 300 CPM beta or 10 microsieverts
an hour
II.
Turnbacks Guidance Final MOU November 2007 Memorandum of Understanding
on Radiation Turnback Levels for EPA Personnel Responding to Radiological
Emergencies
http://www.afgecouncil238.org/local-union-websites/wp-content/blogs.dir
/18/files/2010/02/AFGE-C238-Radiation-Turnback-2007-Nov-27.pdf
[paraphrasing]
This documents stipulates that exposure must not exceed 500 millirem
during 1 year.
500millirem
is 5 millisieverts of exposure.
In
certain emergency conditions, the document states that workers
can be exposed to higher amounts if they sign waivers. Waivers
are deemed necessary because they are assuming risk.
Workers
are supposed to turn back at 10 rem per hour of gamma exposure
during the early stages of an emergency and 1.5 rem an hour during
the intermediate phase of an emergency [end paraphrasing]
Majia
here: One hour of 10 rem is 100 millisieverts! That means emergency
responders in these types of emergencies would be sacrificing
their health to assume control of the emergency.
What
do we know about cancer risks at various levels of exposure?
Here
is 1 important study I posted about a couple of weeks ago.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/radiation-and-cancer.html
Here
is the study and the relevant finding: For every 10 millisieverts
of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3% increase in the
risk of age-and-sex adjusted cancer over a mean follow-up period
of 5 year
Cancer
risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging
in patients after acute myocardial infarction. By Mark J. Eisenberg
MD MPH, Jonathan Afilalo MD MSc, Patrick R. Lawler MD, Michal
Abrahamowicz PhD, Hugues Richard MSc, Louise Pilote MD MPH PhD
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050947/pdf/1830430.pdf
[Excerpted]
The cumulative exposure to radiation from cardiac procedures was
5.3 milli Sieverts (mSv) per patient year, of which 84% occurred
during the first year after acute myocardial infarction. A total
of 12 020 incident cancers were diagnosed during the follow-up
period. There was a dose dependent relation between exposure to
radiation from cardiac procedures and subsequent risk of cancer.
For every 10 mSv of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3%
increase in the risk of age- and sex-adjusted cancer over a mean
follow-up period of five years (hazard ratio 1.003 per milliSievert,
95% confidence interval 1.002–1.004).
Limits
for nuclear workers internationally recognised limit for exposing
a nuclear industry worker (20mSv)
*The
occupational action level is 300 CPM beta or 10 microsieverts
an hour
Sample discussions:
2012-01-16 JoyB, reader comment at:
http://enenews.com/over-epa-limit-cesium-levels-in-san-francisco-area-milk-now-higher-than
-6-months-ago/comment-page-1#comment-188054, January
16, 2012 at 9:43 pm Log in to Reply
To
get CPM, just multiply becquerels by 60. Or to go the other way,
divide CPM by 60 to get CPS, a.k.a. becquerels. There is a conversion
from CPM to Rem (concentration to dose), which is probably why
American outfits still use CPM. When foreigners do CPM, it’s
mostly to cleverly disguise (by diminishment) how many becquerels
you’re breathing/eating and/or drinking. Though you can
get from becquerels to Sieverts if you have to, but the exponentials
on that one are daunting for ease of understanding. All conversions
from concentration to dose are somewhat fuzzy.
If
50 Bq/kg is enough to cause organ damage, you’d want to
say 6 CPM instead
2011-12-01 Yesterday,
Phoenix’s Beta Counts per Minute was 700 CPM according to
radnet, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"Now
let us look at EPA responder guidelines
I.
EPA’s Emergency Response Air Monitoring Guidance Tables
2009 edition
http://www.rrt5.org/acp/docs/App6_AirMonitoringGuidelines.pdf
This
manual instructs emergency responders to consult with a health
physicist when radiation levels are at 3 times background
The
occupational action level is 300 CPM beta or 10 microsieverts
an hour
II.
Turnbacks Guidance Final MOU November 2007 Memorandum of Understanding
on Radiation Turnback Levels for EPA Personnel Responding to Radiological
Emergencies
http://www.afgecouncil238.org/local-union-websites/wp-content/blogs.dir/18/files
/2010/02/AFGE-C238-Radiation-Turnback-2007-Nov-27.pdf
[paraphrasing]
This documents stipulates that exposure must not exceed 500 millirem
during 1 year.
500millirem
is 5 millisieverts of exposure.
In
certain emergency conditions, the document states that workers
can be exposed to higher amounts if they sign waivers. Waivers
are deemed necessary because they are assuming risk.
Workers
are supposed to turn back at 10 rem per hour of gamma exposure
during the early stages of an emergency and 1.5 rem an hour during
the intermediate phase of an emergency [end paraphrasing]
Majia
here: One hour of 10 rem is 100 millisieverts! That means emergency
responders in these types of emergencies would be sacrificing
their health to assume control of the emergency.
What
do we know about cancer risks at various levels of exposure?
2011-12-01 Converting
CPM to MicroSieverts, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"There
is no direct equation because beta CPM (counts per minute) is
an electron count and (micro and milli) sieverts is an account
of bodily damage.
Still,
in the post below I site an EPA guideline dictating an intervention
level at 300 CPM or 10 microsieverts an hour
So,
let us for a moment presume that the two are roughly equivalent
in a hypothetical scenario that allows us to speculate on the
health implications of our current levels of exposure.
If that were the case, exposure to 700 CPM would be roughly 23
microsieverts an hour. That would mean that we in Phoenix
yesterday would have hypothetically received 552 microsieverts
in a 24 hour period [Boldface added by Editor].
In
18 days at 700 CPM we would be at approximately 10 millisieverts
of exposure (there are 1000 microsieverts in 1 millisievert) just
from exposure to air alone.
We
also are exposed to radiation from the machines in our environment,
radon gas, food, etc.
These numbers are not looking good.
The
EPA recommends that our exposure to background radiation should
not exceed 100 millirem a year, which is 1 millisievert, although
we ordinarily are exposed to about 300 millirem in the US from
background (3 millisieverts). Considerable background radiation
derives from nuclear power plants, past nuclear weapons testing
and radon gas.
There
is no "immediate" health risk from 18 days of exposure
of 700 CPM in the sense that people not will develop radiation
sickness at this level. However, cancer rates and other diseases
have been proven to increase at every 3 millisievert increment
over 10 millisieverts. See my previous post."
2011-12-01 Radiation:
What We Know, majiasblog.blogspot.com
What
we know:
Yesterday,
Phoenix’s Beta Counts per Minute was 700 CPM according to
radnet
Now
let us look at EPA responder guidelines
I.
EPA’s Emergency Response Air Monitoring Guidance Tables
2009 edition
http://www.rrt5.org/acp/docs/App6_AirMonitoringGuidelines.pdf
This
manual instructs emergency responders to consult with a health
physicist when radiation levels are at 3 times background
The
occupational action level is 300 CPM beta or 10 microsieverts
an hour
II.
Turnbacks Guidance Final MOU November 2007 Memorandum of Understanding
on Radiation Turnback Levels for EPA Personnel Responding to Radiological
Emergencies
http://www.afgecouncil238.org/local-union-websites/wp-content/blogs.dir/18/files/2010/02/AFGE-C238-Radiation-Turnback-2007-Nov-27.pdf
[paraphrasing]
This documents stipulates that exposure must not exceed 500 millirem
during 1 year.
500millirem
is 5 millisieverts of exposure.
In
certain emergency conditions, the document states that workers
can be exposed to higher amounts if they sign waivers. Waivers
are deemed necessary because they are assuming risk.
Workers
are supposed to turn back at 10 rem per hour of gamma exposure
during the early stages of an emergency and 1.5 rem an hour during
the intermediate phase of an emergency [end paraphrasing]
Majia
here: One hour of 10 rem is 100 millisieverts! That means emergency
responders in these types of emergencies would be sacrificing
their health to assume control of the emergency.
What
do we know about cancer risks at various levels of exposure?
Here
is 1 important study I posted about a couple of weeks ago.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/radiation-and-cancer.html
Here
is the study and the relevant finding: For every 10 millisieverts
of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3% increase in the
risk of age-and-sex adjusted cancer over a mean follow-up period
of 5 year
Cancer
risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging
in patients after acute myocardial infarction. By Mark J. Eisenberg
MD MPH, Jonathan Afilalo MD MSc, Patrick R. Lawler MD, Michal
Abrahamowicz PhD, Hugues Richard MSc, Louise Pilote MD MPH PhD
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050947/pdf/1830430.pdf
[Excerpted]
The cumulative exposure to radiation from cardiac procedures was
5.3 milli Sieverts (mSv) per patient year, of which 84% occurred
during the first year after acute myocardial infarction. A total
of 12 020 incident cancers were diagnosed during the follow-up
period. There was a dose dependent relation between exposure to
radiation from cardiac procedures and subsequent risk of cancer.
For every 10 mSv of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3%
increase in the risk of age- and sex-adjusted cancer over a mean
follow-up period of five years (hazard ratio 1.003 per milliSievert,
95% confidence interval 1.002–1.004).
CONVERTER
http://online.unitconverterpro.com/unit-conversion/convert-group/convert.php?cat=radiation---dose-equivalent
Becquerels (or Picocuries) per square
meter of ground contamination, or per cubic meter
Sample guidelines:
2011-09-07 Fukushima
Crisis Is Still Hazy: Chaos and bureaucracy
hamper assessment of nuclear crisis by David
Cyranoski, Geoff Brumfiel and Nature magazine, September 7, 2011
"The
survey of 2,200 locations shows a roughly 35-kilometer-long strip
northwest of the plant where levels of caesium-137 contamination
seem to exceed 1,000 kilobecquerels per square metre. (After the
1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, areas with more than 1,480
kilobecquerels per square metre were permanently evacuated by
the Soviet authorities.")
Sample discussion:
2011-04-12 Low
Level Radiation Campaign Advice for the People of Japan
by c
"Tondel
and colleagues found an 11% increase in cancer incidence for each
100 kiloBecquerels Cesium137 on each square metre of ground. The
cancers were expressed (diagnosed) in a ten year period; cancers
appearing later than 10 years are of course possible but were
not included in Tondel’s study. The detailed method has
been published on the LLRC
site."
2011-04-05 (for this day) Portland-area
had highest Iodine-131 deposition in US at 5,100 Bq/m² by
April 5 -Gov’t Study, enenews.com, Feb 23,
2012
Becquerels
(or Picocuries) per cubic centimeter of contaminated air
Sample guidelines:
2011-03-18 (for this day) Iodine-131
in eastern US may have exceeded EPA limit, enenews.com,
Dec 29, 2011 "As the study notes, the 4.2 mBq/m3 figure `accounts
for only about 50% of the total 131I in the air' as only particulate
species were collected. Therefore, around 8.4 mBq/m3 was likely
in the air, which exceeds the EPA limit of 7.8 mBq/m3."
Sample discussion
2012-03-01 Ronald
Reagan helicopter crews found contaminated 10,000 uCi/cm3 –
Airborne plume levels at 100 nautical miles far above expected
– 10 hours would put citizen in PAG, enformable.com.
Becquerels per kilogram of ground matter
Sample guidelines
* The Japanese government’s legal limit is 10,000 becquerels
per kilogram (see source immediately below)
Sample discussion
2011-10-05 Japan
Today: Contaminated Soil, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
HAT
TIP WHOOPIE AT ENENEWS
Contaminated soil found outside Fukushima no-go zone
Oct. 06, 2011 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/radioactive-cesium-found-in-soil-
beyond-fukushima-no-go-zone?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news_on_twitter
TOKYO
— [excerpted] "High levels of radioactive contamination
have been found in soil in the capital of Japan’s Fukushima
prefecture, a study showed Wednesday, prompting calls to make
the area a voluntary evacuation zone.
Some
307,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram of soil was detected
in an independent survey conducted on Sept 14 by a radiological
engineering expert and citizens’ groups.
The
Japanese government’s legal limit is 10,000 becquerels per
kilogram...."
Becquerels
(or Picocuries) per liter of water and kilogram of food contamination
Sample guidelines:
1 litre of water = 1 kilogram. [Ed.
Note: This is a very important conversion factor to keep in mind
Curie to Becquerel conversion. To the extent
that over time the level of internal contamination tends to approximate
the weighted average level of contamination of the food and water
one ingests, then getting a feeling for becquerels per kilogram
and per liter of food and drink one ingests, and then comparing
this to a reference point can be helpful For example, Professor
Yury Bandazhevsky determined that "pathology can be seen
when cesium is accumulated in a human organism at the rate of
only 30-50 Bq/kg." (For more on Professor Bandazhevsky, please
see my Chernobyl
web page).]
1 µCi = 37 kBq, 1 mCi = 37 MBq, 1 Bq = 27 pCi,
370 MBq = 10 mCi
1 disintegration per second = 1 becquerel (Bq)
2.7 X 10-11 curie (Ci) = 1 Bq
2011-10-20 What
are officials hiding about Fukushima? "...Canadian
guideline of six becquerels per litre for drinking water."
2011-09 Foodwatch
(pdf), foodwatch.de.
"Official
Permissible Limits For Radioactive Contamination In Foodstuffs
As
a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the European
Union set maximum limits on the level of radioactive contamination
permitted in foodstuff imports from countries outside the EU;
regarding total cesium radionuclides, these limits stand at 370
becquerels/kilogram for baby food and milk products and at 600
becquerels/kilogram for other foodstuffs. These limits also apply
to food traded within the EU. In response to the Fukushima disaster,
the EU provisionally set stricter permissible limits at 200 and
500 becquerels respectively for imports from Japan."
2011-09-22 Off
by 27 times? UC Berkeley study authors claim EPA’s limit
for iodine-131 in drinking water is 81 pCi/liter — Actually
only 3 pCi/liter, enenews.com.
Sample discussions:
2012-03-19 Poisoning
Posterity, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Enenews
is reporting on a Yomiuri article about cesium detected in plankton
many, many miles from Fukushima (600 km away!)
http://enenews.com/yomiuri-cesium-134-detected-plankton-600km-fukushima
-3-months-after-meltdowns-scientists-necessary-look-bioaccumulation
The
original article can be found at Yomiuri Shimbun Mar. 18, 2012
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120317003393.htm
[excerpt
from article] "The amount of cesium detected in the plankton
was far below the government's provisional limit of 500 becquerels
per kilogram for marine products, according to the team led by
Jun Nishikawa, research associate at the University of Tokyo's
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute."
Majia
here: Eating fish with 500 becquerels per kilogram for marine
products is not safe as radionuclides can bio-accumulate in our
tissues and bones.
(e.g., see http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/cesium-tricks-life-with-potassium.html)
Previously,
Greenpeace criticized the Japanese standards by comparing them
to those in the Ukraine: "While the samples are well below
the 500 becquerel per kilogram limit set by the authorities, the
contaminated seafood still represents a health risk, especially
to pregnant women and children, and it is being distributed over
a wide area," said Wakao Hanaoka, Greenpeace Japan oceans
campaigner. The Japanese standard compares with a 150 becquerel
per kilogram limit in Ukraine after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster,
the group said."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibANHZtq9mjUNSnZV9
UJUA6wYnVQ?docId=CNG.b386ee2679a07087a13a4808dee6523f.311
It
is worth noting that the US FDA guidelines for acceptable levels
of radionuclides in our food (Derived Intervention Levels) are
even higher than Japan's.
The
specific Derived Intervention Levels are here:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/UCM251056.pdf
The
specific “FDA derived intervention level or criterion for
each radionuclide group” are as follows “for all components
of the diet” for Strontium 90, Iodine 131, Cesium 134 &
137, and Plutonium 238 & 239
Sr-90
160 Bq/kg
I-131
170 Bq/kg
Cs-134
+ 137 1200 Bq/kg
Pu-238
+ Pus 239 + Am 241 is 2 Bq/kg
What
are the health implications of these standards?
In
Nuclear Controversies by Vladimir Tchertkoff (2003), Professor
Yury Bandazhevsky (former director of the Medical Institute in
Gomel), states that "Over 50
Bq/kg of body weight lead to irreversible lesions in vital organs."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826#
2011-09-07 Fukushima
Crisis Is Still Hazy: Chaos and bureaucracy
hamper assessment of nuclear crisis by David
Cyranoski, Geoff Brumfiel and Nature magazine, September 7, 2011
"The
survey of 2,200 locations shows a roughly 35-kilometer-long strip
northwest of the plant where levels of caesium-137 contamination
seem to exceed 1,000 kilobecquerels per square metre. (After the
1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, areas with more than 1,480
kilobecquerels per square metre were permanently evacuated by
the Soviet authorities."
SOURCE:
page 5: http://foodwatch.de/foodwatch/content/e10/e42688/e44884/e44993/
CalculatedFatalitiesfromRadiation_Reportfoodwatch-IPPNW2011-09-20_ger.pdf
IT
IS 500 Bequerel / Kg in Japan – SOURCE: http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/10/
news-spreading-fear/ http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kyoiku/kyu-sokutei/20111012.html
Heart
and Cesium and Potassium: “Potassium is crucial to heart
function and plays a key role in skeletal and smooth muscle contraction,
making it important for normal digestive and muscular function”
Source: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/potassium-000320.htm
The
cesium is biological similar to the potassium and the human body
can not distinguish between the good potassium and cesium.
The
body takes it on the breath and the food. You can not protect
yourself.
After
intake, the cesium builds self into the body cells and destroys
the energy balance of cells. It does not matter whether it consists
of the liver, kidney or brain cells involved.
These
infected cell dies, after she pulls even before their neighbors
suffer.
Thus
begins a weird cycle:
How
life begins with a cell starts in this case the death. Children
are more vulnerable because their cells divide constantly.
As
they grow, they need constant energy and constant need to cope
with the damage to their cells.
25
years with Chernobyl:
The
adults at that time have survived 25 years and are now ill. In
about 4 years we’re going to see the same with japanese
children.
Quiet
Death.
The
then children are already suffering much earlier – often
with fatal consequences.
The
cesium is present in the inheritance cells.
Precarious,
is that the cesium implants in the ovaries and the eggs of women.
Because they renew, they are damaged for life.
Although
renewed in sperm, they also give more information to the injury
during fertilization. Either, it can no longer be fathered children,
or they get through father and mother misinformation in the future.
The result you can not even imagine.
The
authorities in Japan had long ago have put women and children
in the south of the country. Why they did not is, in my view,
totally incomprehensible. There will be massive leukemia. This
cesium cloud is a disaster for the Japanese, and from all other
radionuclides, we know nothing.
The
body can not distinguish between Calcium and Strontium. If it
is taken in through the food chain. It is built into the bones
and teeth, shines there and hits the bone marrow, where sit the
blood-forming organs: The stem cells that give rise to the red
and white blood cells and platelets.
These
cells are damaged by Strontium, and indeed a lifetime, because
the strontium remains where it is: irradiating with short and
beta radiation.
Nuclear
Radiation and its Biological Effects:
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/NRBEtoc.html
Germany’s
maximum limit page 28:
“...for
babies up to 1 year in age 5.0 becquerels cesium-137 per kilogram
of food
for toddlers from 1 to 2 years of age 10.7 becquerels cesium-137
per kilogram of food
for children from 2 to 7 years of age 11.5 becquerels cesium-137
per kilogram of food
for children from 7 to 12 years of age 8.3 becquerels cesium-137
per kilogram of food
for teenagers from 12 to 17 years of age 5.7 becquerels cesium-137
per kilogram of food
for adults 7.7 becquerels cesium-137 per kilogram of food”
The
appropriate Emergency Ordinance 297/2011 was on entered into force
on March 27th 2011. Safety standards for Japanese food have been
decreased. German Federal Minister of Consumer Aigner contains
important information to the public. This is an act against the
health of the people. This is not democratic. Then, the E.U. TOOK
IT partly BACK: http://www.foodwatch.de/kampagnen__themen/radioaktivitaet/
nachrichten/kommissionsentscheidung/index_ger.html
Here is the new one from April (see bottom on page for becquerel):
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:097:0020:0023:DE:PDF
reason: Massive protest of consumer organisations! JAPAN, you
can do it also!
More:
English:
http://foodwatch.de/foodwatch/content/e10/e42688/e44884/e45059/2011-09-
20pressreleasefoodwatch_IPPNW_EN_ger.pdf
http://foodwatch.de/foodwatch/content/e10/e42688/e44884/e44993/
CalculatedFatalitiesfromRadiation_Reportfoodwatch-IPPNW2011-09-20_ger.pdf
http://foodwatch.de/foodwatch/content/e10/e42688/e44884/e45038/2011-09-20Backgroundfoodwatch_IPPNWStrahlenschutznachFukushima_EN_ger.pdf
2011-10-20 What
are officials hiding about Fukushima? by Alex Roslin
"(Internet
page 1) In fact, the data shows rainwater in Calgary last
March had an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive
iodine, easily exceeding the Canadian guideline of six becquerels
per litre for drinking water. ..
...Radioactive-iodine
levels also spiked in March in Vancouver (which saw an average
of 0.69 becquerels per litre), Winnipeg (which saw 0.64 becquerels
per litre) and Ottawa (which saw 1.67 becquerels per litre), the
data shows....
(Internet
page
2) "...The level at the Seymour intake was lower than
the current Canadian and World Health Organization guideline of
0.5 becquerels per litre in drinking water. On the other hand,
the WHO guideline used to be 0.1 Bq per litre before it was adjusted
higher in the mid-2000s.."
"...The
scientific consensus is that even small amounts are unsafe. For
example, the Canadian radiation ceiling is set at a level that
causes about 500 lifetime cancers per million people over 70 years
of exposure, according to Health Canada’s website. That’s
17,000 lifetime cancers spread over 33 million Canadians..."
2011-09-22 Off
by 27 times? UC Berkeley study authors claim EPA’s limit
for iodine-131 in drinking water is 81 pCi/liter — Actually
only 3 pCi/liter, enenews.com.
2011-04-08 Vancouver,
Canada radiation tests show iodine-131 in rainwater at almost
100 times above US drinking water limit, enenews.com.
2011-03-24 (for this day) Dept.
of Homeland Security-funded Study: Up to 430 pCi/liter of radioactive
iodine found in N. California rain after Fukushima (CHART),
enenews.com
|
Becquerels
per kilogram of internal human or animal contamination
Sample guidelines:
2012-02-16 READERS
IN COUNCIL: Health threat from cesium-137 by Steven
Starr, Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility,
University of Missouri, japantimes.co.jp; h/t Senior
Scientist: Irreversible heart damage for children with 50 Bq/kg
of Cs-137, enenews, 15 April 2012
"Regarding
the Feb. 14 article reprinted from Sentaku magazine, "Put
children before politics": Thank you for endorsing this idea.
I would like to comment on one aspect of the article regarding
cesium-137, which makes up 40 percent of the long-lived radionuclides
created by nuclear power plants.
Because
cesium-137 has a 30-year half-life, the land seriously contaminated
by the Fukushima disaster will remain dangerously radioactive
for up to 300 years. There is a great deal of experience with
cesium-137 in the seriously contaminated regions of Belarus and
Ukraine. Once radioactive cesium makes its way into the soils,
it will bioconcentrate and biomagnify in foodstuffs, particularly
mushrooms, berries and wild game.
Food
grown in these regions is contaminated with cesium-137, and sadly
most of the children living there who eat this food have become
unhealthy. The Belrad Institute, after nine years of research
and hundreds of autopsies, found that cesium-137 concentrates
in the vital organs, particularly the heart and endocrine system.
Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky discovered that children contaminated
with cesium-137 that produced 50 atomic disintegrations per second
(becquerels) per kilogram of body weight caused irreversible heart
damage in a child.
Because
the Belarusian government did not want his work accepted or known,
he was put into prison.
2011-12-10 Top
Radiation Expert: 50 Bq/kg in humans leads to irreversible lesions
in vital organs — Then top UN official refutes effects of
internal radiation (VIDEO), enenews.com
2011-10-20 What
are officials hiding about Fukushima?
"Japanese
ceiling of 500 Bq per kilogram [for fish caught in Japan]"
Sample discussions:
[Editor's Note: According to one source, over
a two to three month period the average contamination level of
your body will match the average contamination level of the food
you eat! So eat only "clean food!"]
2011-12-28 Cesium
measured from 5 of 18 children in Saitama posted
by Mochizuki, fukushima-diary.com
"Riken
Analysis Center measured Cesium from the urine of 5 out of 18
children in Saitama.
1)
10 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.51 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.53 Bq/Kg
2)
9 years old, male, Cs-134 = 0.36 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.48 Bq/Kg, 4/2
~ 4/5 + 7/28 ~ 8/21 + 8/24 + 9/1 ~? evacuated to other city, drinking
bottled water for most of the time.
3)
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.20 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.24 Bq/Kg,
using water purifying system for cooking and drinking.
4)
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.18 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.26 Bq/Kg
5)
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.15 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.19 Bq/Kg,
evacuated from 8/16 to 8/21, avoided school lunch on Tuesday and
Friday, after June, ordered uncontaminated vegetables, beef, milk,
and meat, bought water from Mie for drinking.
Note:
(1) is one of the worst data out of Fukushima.
Whether
they take care about food etc or not whether they evacuate to
other city or not, they can be internally exposed.
4 of 5 are female.
2011-12-06 Breaking
News: 30.8 Bq/Kg from baby formula by Iori Mochizuki,
fukushima-diary.com
Background:
[How ingestion can sneak up on you and cause a heart attack].
Cesium
localizes in your heart and causes cardiac infarct (heart attack)
etc..
As
little as 20 Bq/kg, if you have it everyday, your body stocks
2,000 Bq in total within 200 days.
I
weigh 50kg, so 2,000 Bq / 50kg = 40 Bq/kg.
Let’s
see what happens to my body in 200 days.
The
picture below is the cell of heart. (×125)
This
person died of cardiac infarct suddenly. He was 43 years old.
His heart stocked 45.4 Bq/kg of cesium.
It
is obvious that his heart has so much space because of dead cells.
You
can see the sign of Diffuse myocardial cell lysis, Edema between
muscle fibers, Rupture of muscle fibers.
2011-10-31 New
Arnie Gunderson Video, majiasblog.blogspot.com
"Steveo
said...To clarify Anon comment.
Becquerel
is literally disintegrations per (unit) per second.
If
you are 70 kG and you have an internal Becqeurel of say 200 Bq/kG
that means every second, there are 14000 reactions where matter
changes states and in the process lets out a high energy particle,
that since it is inside your body, will be a "direct hit"
on something that you actually need, cells, DNA, you know....you!
But
that is per second, per day there will be 1.2 million high energy
releases striking direct hits within your body.
Now
lets say that there are 100 Trillion cell in the human body.
In
4 years you get 1.7 BILLION direct hits on elements of "you"
any which hit can damage DNA or start a cancer or other disease.
So
maybe in 4 years, every 1/50,000 of you takes a direct hit, any
one of which can become cancer or disease, or damage your DNA.
And
for an internal emitter, they won't be spreading out their direct
hits among all your cells equally, they will be blasting the heck
out of the cells that are nearby, and even if these cells have
reactive protective mechanisms, with a continuous onslaught, it
is easy to see how they could become damaged beyond recognition."
2011-10-31 8
year old girl has 3,000 disintegrations of radioactive cesium
every second (Bq) inside her body by ENENews
Minamisoma
City ? — [...] Inspection was conducted from October 11
until August 1. In this examination, the majority of school children
living in the city that ended the inspection. 8 years was highest
in the 45-50 girls becquerels per kilogram, 1192 becquerels of
cesium-134, -137 at 1,723 as Becquerel. That translates to 0.41
mSv radiation dose in sievert is expected to be exposed before
age 70.
2011-10-20 What
are officials hiding about Fukushima? by Alex Roslin
(Internet page
2)
"...Even
fish caught far from Japan are contaminated. One sample of skipjack
tuna caught 440 kilometres from Japan in late September had a
cesium reading of 13.9 becquerels per kilogram, according to the
Japanese fishery data.
That’s
below the Japanese ceiling of 500 Bq per kilogram, but it could
still pose a health risk, especially when added to radioactive
exposure from other fish or water." |
Overcoming Denial About Social and Political
Dysfunction
Editor's Note: Probably the main reason why so Americans are
doing absolutely nothing to follow the most basic procedures to
reduce their radiation load, to include staying out of the rain
and avoiding dairy products and other foods known to be strong
bio-accumulators is that they simply cannot believe that their
political leaders and mainstream media would continue to project
an appearance of "normalcy" if such a grave crisis were
in fact taking place.
 Why
you are on your own: psychopathic
special interests vs. the people
2012-03-01 Plume-Gate:
Media Silent Over Feds Fukushima Cover-up by Alexander
Higgins
Nearly
a week after FOIA documents revealed a massive concerted government
orchestrated Fukushima cover up, the corporate media remains silent.
The
Intel Hub, by Tony Muga, February
27, 2012
The
FOIA documents, emails and transcripts I wrote about in the NRC
cover-up article have been out for at least two weeks.
The
three groups that petitioned for them to be released have remained
quiet, very quiet, choosing instead to post the documents online
and see who runs with it.
Enformable.com
carried several editorials, but nothing that connected all the
dots together.
Let’s
see if I can put bluntly what others will not say:
The
executive branch and multiple federal agencies, agencies tasked
with keeping the American public safe, did their best to hide
and to cover-up information about a deadly radioactive plume and
ensuing fallout that was headed for the West Coast of the United
States from Japan.
The
fact it was real and did arrive is proven by samplings from milk,
vegetables and rainwater.
Even
though EPA
testing methodology and
actual capability were questioned,
independent sources verified the fallout.
To
those who say radiation does not travel in a plume or that fallout
is a local phenomenon, there is an excellent distillation of the
book ‘Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment’
at GlobalResearch.ca
that proves otherwise.
The
evidence obtained in the FOIA request indicates that right from
the start, the NRC had a clear idea of the significance of the
disaster that was unfolding, but concealed the truth from the
American public.
The
results of the plume and fallout can be measured in the rise of
infant mortality rates: cells of unborn and newborn children are
dividing at a much higher rate than those of a mature adult, thus
the amount of damage is greatly increased and hence more detectable.
Conservative
estimates place the number of stillborn following the Fukushima
accident at over 18,000. How many could have been saved by simply
warning folks to stay indoors?
Why
didn’t a FEMA emergency broadcast warn athletes to practice indoors
or not at all? What about pregnant women, why were they not given
precautionary measures?
A
word about the energy industry: technology suppression is the
name of the game. How else do you maintain an energy monopoly?
If Stan
Meyer’s water car or the Japanese
production water car had ever made it to market,
lot’s of super rich energy barons would have lost all their power
and money: history proves they will stop at nothing to maintain
this monopoly.
Why
are solar
cells restricted if they are more than 20% efficient?
Why are power systems greater than 70% efficient restricted?
Just
consider how difficult it is to control a nuclear chain reaction
that boils water, turning a turbine and generating electricity.
Einstein once said: ‘Nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil
water!’ But what if you could turn your home into a solar
generating station and bypass these monopolies?
What
if there were clean energy, but it was not in a form that could
be easily monopolized? What if the dirty and dangerous energy
sources were the ones the elite could control, thus explaining
why we continue to suffer from incidents like the BP Gulf Oil
Disaster, Three Mile Island or Fukushima and why solar cells are
restricted to 20% efficiency.
Telling
the truth about all this is very dangerous. A Japanese research
scientist
was recently found ‘suicided’ with a plastic bag
over his head after posting results of his tests online. There
are others
who have died under mysterious circumstances as well.
In
any case, the emails and conference call transcripts reveal the
cover up, there can be no other conclusion-even with heavy redaction-the
plan was to do everything possible to limit the public knowledge
and paint as positive a picture as possible.
Saving
the nuclear industry was paramount. Talking points were (are)
a big factor. They knew the plume was coming.
There
was no effort to warn Americans. No one told folks to stay indoors,
or to not be out jogging or playing sports, not even the first
3-4 weeks when the heaviest amounts were raining down on us.
Obama
and family spent some time in South
America around the 18th
of March, so they were safe during the worst of the
plume. But what about the rest of us? And what about the agencies
involved that conspired to hide this from the American public?
Agencies whose purpose is to protect Americans?
Is
their real purpose just the opposite? To protect the corporate
and protect the state at all costs? What about all the press agencies
and ‘alternative’ media that remains silent on these matters….they
have access to the emails
and transcripts like anyone else….are they bought
and paid for? Are they afraid?
Credit
must be given to
Enformable.com for posting the original editorials
and to the Intel Hub who had the courage and patriotism to run
the article and place it on the headline ticker.
Only
the Alexander
Higgins blog has followed suit. Everyone else in
the mainstream and ‘alternative’ media is silent.
2012-02 Lessons
From Fukushima Powerpoint Presentation on Media Censorship and
Crisis Communication by Dr. Majia Holmer Nadesan,
Arizona State University. PowerPoint presentation provided at
Willamette University Lessons
of Fukushima Symposium held 24-25 Feb 2002 "This paper
will demonstrate that the Japanese and U.S. Governments withheld
vital information from their citizens about the direction and
risks of Fukushima radiation plumes and the degree and consequences
of radioactive fallout. Second, the paper will demonstrate that
the mainstream news media, including The Wall Street Journal and
The New York Times, were complicit in hiding information about
fallout levels, dispersion, and plant conditions. The U.S. media
are commonly recognized as more independent from government than
Japanese media. This disaster demonstrates that the U.S. mainstream
news media censor information, even when public safety is at issue.
Finally, this paper examines the spontaneous creation of information
sharing sites and the subsequent development of a robust network
of citizen-supported information sites in Japan and the United
States."[Editor's Note: This is an outstanding summary.
Please take the time to scroll through it].
2011-12-31 Report:
NHK starting to broadcast truth — Large increase in brain
tumors and cancers near nuke plant — “Everyone died.
Just I’m alive. It’s killing me.” says 18 year
old [in Gernmany] — Gov’t kept telling them ICRP says
safe, enenews.com
2011-12-21 Nuke
Expert/MD: Japan gov’t was lying through its teeth about
Fukushima… and probably still is, by Enenews
Admin, December 21, 2011
[Includes excerpt from CMAJ Report "Public Health Fallout
From Japanese Quake"]
"This
“arbitrary increase” in the maximum permissible dose
of radiation is an“unconscionable” failure of government,
contends Ruff. “Subject a class of 30 children to 20 millisieverts
of radiation for five years and you're talking an increased risk
of cancer to the order of about 1 in 30, which is completely unacceptable.
I'm not aware of any other government in recent decades that's
been willing to accept such a high level of radiation- related
risk for its population.”
Aileen
Mioko Smith on rising radiation levels in Japan and government
denial
Green Action Japan, based in Kyoto, 6 Sept 2011
http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-reactors-continue-emit-significant-quantities-radioactive-gases-latest-figure-gigabecquerel-day-audio
...Aileen
mentions about the nose bleeds that children are having….2
out of the five people she talked to mentioned a metallic taste
in their mouths, and Aileen pointed out that people have been
and still are, reticent to tell people these symptoms…
Aileen
says there are 385,000 children in Fukushima and because of citizens
pressure the high readings in and around schools was publicised….
She is working to reduce the level of 20 millisievert per year…
...she
also said that many families took their children away from fukushima
but were forced to return when the school new year in april began…
the schools insisted that they return. Both Helen and Aileen discussed
the futility of clean up in this situation…
2011-12-02 Hormesis
and a response to it by Paul Langley, nuclearhistory.wordpress.com
[cited
at majiasblog.blogspot.com]
"Radiation
is good for you. So holds the theory of Radiation Hormesis originated
to discredit the Radium dial painters of the 1920s. AEC’s
Marshall Brucer pushed the concept strongly from the 1950s.
It
is pushed today by contractors paid by the US Department of Energy
Low Dose Radiation research project..."
2011-10-30
US
& UK: Suppression of Information is the Norm,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
"...The
deliberate suppression of information about the dangers of ionizing
radiation from nuclear plants is not a new phenomenon. For instance,
Dr. Janette Sherman, a toxicologist and contributing editor to
the book Chernobyl: The Consequences of the Catastrophe for
People and the Environment claims was quoted by Carl Grossman
in an essay on the disaster and the nuclear industry as stating:
“We’ve
known about radioactive isotopes for decades,” says Dr.
Sherman. “I worked for the Atomic Energy Commission in the
1950s and we knew about the effects then. To ignore the biology
is to our peril. This is not new science. Cesium-137 goes to soft
tissue. Strontium-90 goes to the bones and teeth. Iodine-131 goes
to the thyroid gland” (cited in Grossman
http://counterpunch.org/grossman06162011.html).
Nuclear
industry officials and captured politicians rely on the public’s
poor understanding of ionizing radiation Grossman interviews Dr.
Steven Wing, an epidemiologist specializing in the health effects
of radioactivity,
“The
generally accepted thinking about the safe dose is that, no, there
is no safe dose in terms of the cancer or genetic effects of radiation.
The assumption of most people is that there’s a linear,
no-threshold dose response relationship and that just means that
as the dose goes down the risk goes down, but it never disappears…As
the radiation clouds move away from Fukushima and move far away
to other continents and around the world, the doses are spread
out…
"But
it’s important for people to know that spreading out a given
amount of radiation dose among more people, although it reduces
each person’s individual risk, it doesn’t reduce the
number of cancers that result from that amount of radiation. So
having millions and millions of people exposed to a very small
dose could produce just as much cancer as a thousand or a few
thousand people exposed to that same dose.”...
2011-08-10 Dr.
Mark Sircus On Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Radiation Deception
Continues by Mark Sircus
2011-11-24 Busby:
We are going to take some kind of libel action against George
Monbiot’s advisers and Imperial College (VIDEO)
(9:06), embedded video by ENENEWS Staff (see also "Dr
Chris Busby turns on his attackers" on YouTube).
The
week began with several high-profile attacks on Christopher Busby,
visiting professor at the University of Ulster’s school
of biomedical sciences and scientific secretary of the European
Committee on Radiation Risk, a think-tank (Bloomberg):
Now
Busby has responded: Uploaded: Nov 25, 2011
Description:
Dr Busby talks about the recent globally orchestrated attacks
on his scientific credibility and explains their cause.
`We
are going to take some kind of libel action against imperial college…
and against the people who advised George Monbiot incorrectly
with regard to whether the pills work or don’t work…'”
2011-11-21 Post-Fukushima
'anti-radiation' pills condemned by scientists: Green
party distances itself from Dr Christopher Busby, a former spokesman
promoting products following Japanese nuclear disaster
by George Monbiot and Justin McCurry in Tokyo
2011-09-02 Arnold
Gundersen with a Fukushima update / Aileen Mioko Smith on rising
radiation levels in Japan and government denial
|
America's
"King of Cool Jive," "Queen of Mean," corrupt
election system, and the radioactive death of the U.S.A.
Obama has consistently refused to alert the public about the reality
of Fukushima radiation. Within a month after the 3-11 melt-downs,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved importation
of Japanese products without radiation checks. Please see
the Fukushima
Catastrophe Open Source Intelligence Summary page for strong
evidence that the key factor behind the Fukushima melt-downs was
sabotage by Mossad-CIA-MI6's Stuxnet virus. Please also see how
U.S. firms like General Electric designed and installed dangerously
unsafe reactors across Japan as well as in America. On many levels,
"the chickens are coming home to roost" both in America
as well as Japan. In Chernobyl's
meltdown accelerated that of the Soviet Union (Mikhail Gorbachev
Op-Ed), Daily Star, April 18, 2006, the author Mikhail
Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, stated "The
nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more
than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the
collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl
catastrophe was a historic turning point: there was the era before
the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed."
According to the authoritative work Chernobyl: Consequences
of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment by Yablokov,
et al, in the 25 years following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown,
around 985,000 lives ended prematurely and no less than 8,000,000
serious injuries and chronic diseases were linked to this event.
The radiation expert Leuren
Moret and British physicist Dr.
Chris Busby (archived at America First Books/America First
Institute) have estimated that Fukushima will likely release over
300 times more radiation than Chernobyl. The effects
actually get worse over time as radiation bio-accumulates in food
chains and as cancers mature. It does not take a great deal of
imagination to see how accumulated radiation effects in North
America (combined with other crisis pressures such as a hollowed
out economy, growing police state, and rapidly changing racial-ethnic
demographics) may help break apart the United States analogous
to the way Chernobyl helped shatter the Soviet Union. |
 How
Fukushima radiation has "evil
synergy" with other very serious problems
Editor's
Note: First, be aware that quite a few "evil synergies"
already co-exist with Fukushima radiation purely on a medical
level. I have already covered them in my other radiation
threat section.
Worse
than this, the accumulating Fukushima radiation threat
will likely create unbearable social stresses on top of all the
other serious social, political, and economic problems that plague
America. As radiation continues to bio-accumulate within water
supplies and the food chain, this will likely lead to mass food
and water shortages. On top of this, America has lost over three
quarters of its industry since the 1960's -- the real engine of
long term economic growth -- and has experienced spiraling debt
growth. I cover this and other political, economic, and social
stresses on my Tom
Chittum "Civil War Two" Archive web pages and my
Libertarianism
vs. Nationalism web page (Alex Jones, profiled on this web
page, has noted how Fukushima radiation effects on the general
population may be used by "globalists" as a pretext
to permanently install the police state and round up tens of millions
of Americans and put them in FEMA Camps -- America already has
the largest prison population in the world on a per capita basis,
and this trend is likely to become even worse, especially since
"privatized" prison industries ruthlessly "profit"
from slave labor). I also cover most of the key problems in my
Mission
of Conscience series, such as Chapter
6 "The First Crawford, TX Protest, the Angry
Letter Campaign, and 1Why We Fight,'"Chapter
23 "NAU, NSPD-51, and the Creation of the Perfect
Police State Mouse Trap," and Chapter
33 "Wall Street Coup de Etat, and Banker False
Flags Against America." The
caption for the illustration above notes "In
Chernobyl's
meltdown accelerated that of the Soviet Union (Mikhail Gorbachev
Op-Ed), Daily Star, April 18, 2006, the author Mikhail
Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, stated `The
nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more
than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the
collapse of the Soviet Union five years later.'"
To
the extent that Leuren Moret and Dr. Chris Busby are correct that
Fukushima is likely to be more than 300 times worse than Chernobyl,
it does not look like Americans have very smooth sledding ahead.
Hopefully enough Americans can wake up and act quickly enough
to avert or minimize all of the potential horrors that I have
outlined.
 Additional
References: Sinister Agendas
Beyond Bureaucratic cover-ups
Editor's
Note: As a good starting point, please see the Leuren
Moret archive for her discussion of the global depopulation
agenda, as well as her joint interviews with Dr. Chris Busby on
The Real Deal talk show. Please
see "Fallujah,
Fukushima, and the Global Radiation Catastrophe,"
3 Feb 2012, also posted in Part
I and Part
II installments at Veterans Today. Please also see
Fukushima
Radiation and Uranium Weapon Update, 28 Oct 2011,
also posted at Veterans Today, Part 1:Catastrophic
Effects of Radiation Contamination, and Part 2: New
Bombs and War Crimes in Fallujah.
Next,
please see my Overview
of False Flag Characteristics in my "Criminal
and Other Subversive Analysis" section on my Fukushima
Open Source Intelligence Overview page. There is
strong evidence that the key factor behind the Fukushima melt-downs
was sabotage by the Mossad-CIA-MI6 Stuxnet virus. Then tie all
this in with my analysis of the motives behind other likely "black
ops"covered on my Oslo-Utoya
7-22 web page (it says a lot about the likely cold-bloodedness
of Mossad-CIA that they would run a highly distractive false flag
operation against Norway at the same time that the U.S. and Japan
face the greatest man-made catastrophe in history with the continuing
Fukushima radiation threat) and also within my Mission
of Conscience series. The reader should become
aware of many well-documented and disturbing patterns.
The
"punchline" behind all of this deep background regarding
the broader social and political situation is that it should solidify
the conviction of the reader that he or she is really on his own.
Most Americans will be heavily dependent upon the resources of
ones extended family and local community. On the dark side, there
are quite a few high level recipients of ones tax money who are
not only untrustworthy, but they are also actively working against
"we the people."
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b) Individual
Self Protective Measures
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Overview
Sample
Protective Strategy Overviews
2012-08-20 How
to protect yourself from radiation poisoning by Roy
Dittman, OMD, MH, DM, naturalhealth365.com
(NaturalHealth365) Today, we are mining, concentrating, nano-sizing,
processing, weaponizing, and in the example of a nuclear melt-down,
dispersing these radioactive heavy metals into the air, where
they settle into our food chain and in our bodies. So, if you
want to defend yourself from harm – you’ll need to
know more.
Radioactive minerals have a high atomic weight. In addition,
they are ionizing, which is a fancy way of saying that they can
penetrate through various forms of matter, with the rare exception
being a thick lead shield. These radioactive minerals cause DNA,
cell, and tissue damage, crippling a cell’s defenses.
Organic Germanium
According to Japanese research, organic germanium sits outside
the blood cell and catches the released electrons and lets them
move around its own nucleus. In other words, the organic germanium
seems to trap the radioactive waves in its orbit, preventing the
waves from causing cell damage.
Organic germanium is sold as a dietary supplement and can be
found in abundance in garlic, aloe, Korean ginseng, and the shelf
fungus coriolus versicolor (a traditional Oriental and Russian
cancer remedy, which also contains beta glucan).
Active H-minus
Magnesium hydride (found in Active H-minus) works to neutralize
free radicals. Active H-minus releases three forms of hydrogen:
hydride, H2, and hydrogen nano-bubbles, which readily neutralize
oxidative stress in the body. It packs 1,000 times more punch
than a gallon of fresh blueberries, pomegranates, acai berries,
and noni juice.
Vitamin C
In Fukushima Japan, scientists and doctors are administering
high doses of vitamin C. The clinical results suggest that vitamin
C may protect the body from high dose radiation exposure by minimizing
free radical damage.
Seaweed
Seaweed contains sodium alginate, which has the ability to chelate
heavy metals like mercury and even some radioactive elements such
as strontium-90.
The following is excerpted from Brighton Baby: A Revolutionary
Organic Approach to Having an Extraordinary Child, Book One.
“Brighton’s Radiation Protection Bath Recipe”
The following bath recipe comes from the late Dr. Hazel Parcels.
In a hot bath, add the following ingredients and soak for 20
minutes. Then go directly to bed.
1 tablespoon of potassium iodide
1 tablespoon of cream of tartar
1 pound of baking soda (1 box)
1 pound of sea salt (non-iodized)
[more of this article here]
2011-11-16 How
to Protect Ourselves from Radiation, washingtonsblog.com
Self-Help:
How to Protect Ourselves Against Damage from Radiation
Now
that much
of Europe is being blanketed with radioactive iodine, high levels
of radiation in Tokyo and other areas of Japan have been confirmed
(and see this and this), and some areas of the United States and
Canada – such as the Cascades – are getting hit with
fairly significant amounts of radiation, it is time to revisit
the question: how can we protect ourselves?
The
initial answer is that we should reduce our exposure to radiation
in the first place. For example, world renowned physicist Michio
Kaku told his Japanese family and friends months ago that they
should leave if they can.
If
you live in an area receiving any radiation exposure, you should
also take
off your shoes and leave them by the door (Asian style) and use
a Hepa vacuum to get rid of excess dust.
As
nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said
in June:
[In
a worst case scenario, for example, if the fuel pool at Fukushima
reactor 4 were to topple over], I would close my windows, turn
the air conditioner on, replace the filters frequently, damp
mop, put a HEPA filter in the house and try to avoid as much
of the hot particles as possible. You are not going to walk
out with a Geiger counter and be in a plume that is going to
tell you the meter. The issue will be on the West Coast, hot
particles. And the solution there is HEPA filters and avoiding
them.
Also,
rain
is the main way that radiation is spread outside of the vicinity
of the nuclear accident. As a parent who doesn’t want to
tell my kids they can’t play in the rain, none of this is
fun to talk about … but during periods of high radiation
release, people might want to keep their kids out of heavy rain.
When
a lot of radiation is being released, we might want to avoid milk
for a
couple of weeks or so.
Supplements
Nuclear
expert Chris Busby suggested last month that people exposed to
high levels of radiation – for example, those unable to
evacuate away from Fukushima – take high doses of calcium
and magnesium to block plutonium, strontium and uranium poisoning.
Dr.
Busby suggests that adults take 800 mg of calcium and 350 mg of
magnesium per day, and that children take the appropriate fraction
of that depending on their weight.
Potassium
iodide does protect against damage from radioactive iodine, but
should
only be taken if one is directly exposed to high levels of iodine,
and you should never exceed the recommended dosage.
As
I noted in June, specific substances have been proven to protect
against poisoning from exposure to specific types of radiation:
*
Prussian blue for cesium
*
DTPA for plutonium, americium and curium
*
Sodium bicarbonate (i.e. baking soda) for uranium
In
addition, there is solid science proving that anti-oxidants help
to protect us against low-level radiation. Specifically, low-level
ionizing radiation causes our cells to produce free radicals,
which produce much of the damage from the radiation. Taking anti-oxidants
neutralizes the free radicals, helping to protect us against radiation
damage:
*
How
to Help Protect Yourself From Low-Level Radiation
*
Can
Vitamins or Herbs Help Protect Us from Radiation?
*
The
Compounds Plants Use to Protect Themselves from Damage Also Help
to Protect People From Damage
*
What
Foods Are Highest in Antioxidants? Some Inexpensive Foods Are
Higher In Antioxidants than the Newest Pricey “Superfoods”
Meditation
has also been shown to reduce
oxidative stress (i.e. to produce an anti-oxidant effect).
Note:
We should demand that fish caught of the West coast of the U.S.
and Canada is tested for radiation. See this
and this.
We should also demand regular testing of milk and water for radiation.
I
am not a health care professional and this does not constitute
medical advice. This information is general interest only. See
your qualified health care provider to obtain specific medical
advice.
2012-01-08 46
Ways to Protect Yourself from Nuclear Radiation by
Chris Roubis [Another list with many good links]
2012-01-08 What
should the average person be doing now for basic protection,
nukepimp.blogspot.com
What
should the average person be doing now for basic protection
The
biggest thing is “internal emitters” once you get
a Hot Particle in your body, it is way way more dangerous than
just walking by a radioactive zone.
Those
internal emitters can stay for quite awhile and blast away at
the particular cells they are next too. This continued bludgeoning
of nearby cells can create a double double strand break and when
they recombine they can recombine wrong, and be a start of cancer.
Rain
brings radiation down, for sure
1)
Minimize activity in the rain, wear a poncho
2)
Run 2 or 3 HEPA filters in your house, best to throw away the
filter, but you can blow it off but that re-releases particles
to your neighborhood. You should be doing this anyway, but do
it more now, run them 24/7
3)
Take anti-oxidants, they get rid of free radicals which is one
of the things caused by radiation. Vitamin C and E are common
and cheap. You should be doing this anyway
4)
Run a charcoal filter (at least) for your drinking water, really
consider doing an RO system, it doesn’t have to be for whole
house, just your drinking water supply, even for the shower is
not really needed unless for some reason you know that you got
really bad water. You should be doing this anyway.
5)
When you hear any Corporate Troll or Gov official stating “There
is no immediate danger” put your ears up like a German Shepherd
and listen hard to what they are not saying or what they are trying
to avoid saying. Go visit some tin-foil hat blogs like this one….they
got some crazies (sorry its true) but also some really info, and
the third one, an ex-nuke guy. You should be doing this anyway.
6)
Build your “Shelter in Place” box of supplies, It
is also good as a “to go” box, probably 2 big boxes
actually.
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/radiation-preparation-resources.html
also here:
http://www.box.com/shared/uvqso4xgv6
2011-10-15 Several
Plant-based Compounds Are Radio-Protective! Read On!
by Alexandra Bruce, ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com.
"Dr.
Russell Blaylock gives easy advice on how we can protect ourselves
from radiation poisoning (a.k.a. "free radical damage")
and a real assessment of how how world governments go about covering
up the reality on Rense Radio, in a video edited by Michelle Hill.
If
you don't have time to watch the whole clip, please read the abridged
transcript I made of this informative and important interview,
below. Although the escaped radiation from Fuskushima is only
3% of the reactors' uranium fuel, the fallout so far has been
400 times greater than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Jeff
Rense begins his interview with Dr. Blaylock by talking about
how the only isotope readings being discussed are those of iodine
and cesium, which have relatively short half-lives. You rarely
hear about the plutonium isotope with the 80 million-year half
life, which is also part of the Fukushima fallout.
Rense
points out this is the same pattern seen in 1986 by the Soviet
government, the UN and US monitoring agencies, all over again.
Then as now, the World Health Organization and the UN's International
Atomic Energy Agency have downplayed the effects of the Chernobyl
disaster on its 25th anniversary.
Blaylock
says Chernobyl killed hundreds, rapidly (mostly small children,
of which there is testimony in the local cemeteries) and it continues
to trigger cancers in European populations to this day, totaling
in the millions of cases, not to mention the birth defects in
tens of thousands of children.
Blaylock's
e-book, 'Nuclear Sunrise' was originally written to address the
threats of nuclear terrorism. It explains the doses to take of
these foods and supplements and how they work. The book can be
purchased for download at the website: www.blaylockwellnesscenter.com.
It
turns out that NASA has done the most research in this area. Their
scientists found that the drugs they'd developed were very toxic,
so they turned to natural compounds.
Plant
flavinoids which were shown to be radio-protective include:
-
Gingko biloba at a dose of 250-350mg per day; it was found to
protect DNA from radiation damage.
-
Ginger was found to protect animal DNA from massive exposure to
Gamma radiation, the most destructive kind.
-
Garlic has also been found to protect against ionizing radiation.
-
Curcumin (turmeric extract) was found to be enormously protective
as well as,
-
Quercitin, which is found in fruits, vegetables, leaves and grains
and
-
Punicalagins, extracted from pomegranates.
-
Alpha Lipoid Acid was found to actually reverse some effects of
radiation damage in Chernobyl, returning the levels of oxidized
protein compounds in the body caused by radiation exposure back
to normal levels and in some cases, better than normal.
-
Resveratrol, a compound most commonly associated with red wine
is also a very potent radio-protectant, in supplement doses of
200mg, twice a day.
-
Hesperidin was found to be very protective of DNA and of bone
marrow, the blood-forming organ that's the most sensitive to radiation
exposure, along with the brain and the gastrointestinal tract.
The
above-mentioned plant flavinoids are found to be much more protective
against radiation damage than Vitamins C & E. Together, these
vitamins are synergistically protective but nowhere near as powerful
as Curcumin and Quercitin.
Dr.
Blaylock's latest research has been on neurotoxic, nano-scale
metals. Many people have heard about the relationship between
aluminum with Alzheimer's disease. Nano-scale (i.e., colloidal
or aerosolized) aluminum particles are hundreds of times more
toxic to the body than non-colloidal aluminum.
It's
the same with the particles in the fallout from Fukushima: the
SMALLER the particles, the MORE harmful they are, the EASIER it
is for them to penetrate your body's cells.
Rense
says that the government loves to talk about how the exposure
to the TSA scanners and the Fukushima fallout are akin to what
one would receive in a "cross-country flight." However,
it's like mixing apples and oranges: external exposure is much
less potent than *internal* exposure to damaging isotopes, such
as strontium-90, which was measured in the US milk supply in the
States which tested for it (CA, WA & VT) and which publicly
announced their findings.
Following
the nuclear meltdowns at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant
at Fukushima, the French government issued a warning for its more
vulnerable citizens, to avoid milk products and green, leafy vegetables,
in a statement saying that consuming these foods at that time
equated to "High-risk behavior."
According
to University of California's Department of Nuclear Engineering,
French officials were furious with the US Government for not telling
Americans the truth about the ongoing radiation fallout risk from
Fukushima.
Since
the French government pays for its citizens' healthcare, they
are serious about this!
===
Original uploader: www.youtube.com/user/JRense
Video
and editing by Michelle Hill
Every
day our bodies are exposed to low-level radiation from natural
and human-made sources. Now with the unfolding nuclear disaster
at Fukushima it is even more urgent to take care of your health.You
may want to include a consistent regimen of herbs, foods and other
treatments that prevents your body from storing radioactive particles.
The
following herbs and foods have been shown to help fight the damage
of radiation and free radicals:
Kelp,
seaweed, spirulina, chlorella, dark green vegetables (these are
natural sources of iodine) cilantro, rosemary, ginseng, dandelion,
eating a macrobiotic diet, probiotics (yogurt, etc.), turmeric.
pomegranate, ginger, oranges.
Vitamin
C, D, E flaxseed oil, Alpha lipoic acid, green tea (High in Bioflavinoids),
lots of pure fluoride-free clean water especially if you have
young children.
Epsom
salts baths or baking soda baths with bentonite clay,
This
helps pull heavy metals and toxins from the body and helps with
radiation sickness. Taking baking soda internally will help to
lower the body's PH level which helps fight cancer according to
many studies.
Obviously,
you can't live in a bubble but you can do things to lower your
risks.
Important
articles dealing with natural radiation protection:
http://workingtheroots.blogspot.com/2011/03/natural-ways-to-protect-yourself-from.html
www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-maoshing-ni/radiation-protection-_b_840246.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/supplements-radiation-_b_837420.html
Finally,
limit exposure to rain as much as possible, if you are working
outdoors wear a mask especially if you have a weak immune system.
Thanks
for watching subscribe to my channel for more :)
--
Michelle Hill
2011-03-21 Can
Supplements Reduce Damage From Radiation? by Leo
Galland, M.D.
The
fallout from radioactive steam released by damaged nuclear reactors
in Japan has raised concerns about radiation exposure in Asia,
the Pacific and North America.
The
disaster at Chernobyl in the Ukraine in 1986 provides an alarming
example of how radiation can spread over long distances and in
unsuspected ways.
Risk
of Radiation Entering the Food Supply
For
people outside of Japan, the most likely risk comes from ingestion
of foods contaminated with radioactive isotopes of minerals like
iodine, strontium and cesium.
Scientists
note: "millions of people were exposed to radioactive isotopes
in the fallout from the Chernobyl accident, within the first 20
years there was a large increase in thyroid carcinoma incidence
and a possible radiation-related increase in breast cancer..."
[1]
Following
Chernobyl studies found an increase in the incidence of thyroid
cancer and childhood leukemia that extended as far as Scotland
and Wales in the United Kingdom. [2,3]
Iodine
pills have been distributed in Japan, and are one of the key therapies
used for protection against radiation. As they have been written
about extensively, I take a brief look at iodine below.
Radiation
Protection from Supplements?
Because
of the health risks of radiation exposure, scientists have searched
extensively for other dietary supplements that might help protect
healthy cells from radiation toxicity. In other words, they are
looking for supplements that could be "radioprotective."
Although there is no guarantee that the dietary supplements I
report on here will protect us from radiation, it is interesting
to know about the research done in this area.
Calcium
Because
strontium absorption is significantly blocked by calcium, high
calcium intake from food or supplements may offer protection against
absorption of radioactive strontium from food [4]. Calcium supplements
must be taken with food for this effect to occur.
Sodium
Alginate
Scientists
at the Institute of Radiation Protection in Germany examined the
effect of sodium alginate, a seaweed extract that is used as a
food thickener and is available as an over-the-counter heartburn
remedy, on the gastrointestinal absorption of strontium. Writing
in the journal Health Physics, they explain "Sodium alginate
was proven to be a potent agent for reducing strontium absorption
with high efficiency and virtually no toxicity. The data obtained
show that the uptake of ingested strontium from milk was reduced
by a factor of nine when alginate was added to milk." [5]
To block strontium absorption from contaminated food, alginate
must also be taken at the same time as food.
Ginkgo
Leaf Extract
Following
the tragedy at Chernobyl, scientists in the Soviet Union and elsewhere
studied several natural products to see if they could reverse
evidence of radiation-induced damage in responders and in people
living near the disaster site.
Most
of the research involved products not readily available outside
the Soviet Union, but one study utilized a Ginkgo biloba extract,
Egb 761, that is available in North America. According to scientists
at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris the administration
of Egb 761, 40 milligrams three times a day for two months, to
workers at Chernobyl helped to significantly decrease evidence
of radiation damage in blood, the benefits persisting for several
months after administration of the Ginkgo extract ended [6].
Italian
researchers from the University of Pisa found similar protective
effects of Egb 761 in patients exposed to high dose radioactive
iodine [7].
Learn
more about Ginkgo: Ginkgo Leaf Extract -- Know What Herbs Do What
Ginko
Warning
"Fresh
(raw) ginkgo seeds contain large amounts of a chemical called
ginkgotoxin, which can cause serious adverse reactions -- even
seizures and death. Roasted seeds can also be dangerous. Products
made from standardized ginkgo leaf extracts contain little ginkgotoxin..."
[8] according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. (NIH)
Laboratory
Studies on Hesperidin and Hawthorn
Several
other natural products have been the subject of laboratory studies
for their radioprotective effects. Three basic methods for testing
have been used but only one method is likely to be instructive
in terms of what might happen in the real world.
The
most common research methods involve adding the substance to cells
in a test tube and then exposing the cells to high dose radiation
or feeding the substance to mice and then exposing the animals
to total body radiation.
The
doses used in these studies are rarely reflective of what would
happen in a human being taking a dietary supplement, so their
relevance is questionable.
Two
substances have been studied by a technique that may be more relevant:
a human volunteer takes one or more doses of the product by mouth
and then has blood drawn at various intervals.
The
blood, now outside of the body, is then exposed to radiation and
the white blood cells are examined for signs of damage. This is
called an "ex vivo" study.
If
the blood cells from the people taking the supplements were found
to be less sensitive to the damaging effects of radiation than
those receiving placebo, that might indicate a radioprotective
effect.
Two
research studies have demonstrated the potential of dietary supplements
for ex vivo radioprotection: hesperidin and hawthorn.
One
interesting study was published in the Oxford University Press
Journal Mutagenesis. The researchers looked at Hesperidin, a flavonoid
found naturally in fruits, especially citrus, and available as
a dietary supplement. They note that "Hesperidin has been
reported to have many biological effects including anti-inflammatory,
antimicrobial, anticarcinogenic, antioxidant effects..."
and refer to their previous study "Recently, we showed the
hesperidin, a flavonoid, has powerful protection effects on DNA
damage, reducing the frequency of micronuclei induced by ?-irradiation
in mice." [9] That study was published in the British
Journal of Radiology.
In
the Mutagenesis ex-vivo study, the data suggest that a single
dose of 250 milligrams of hesperidin helped decrease radiation
damage to the blood cells tested by one-third. [10] The peak effect
was observed at one hour. It should be noted that the study was
very small, with blood samples taken from five volunteers, all
healthy non-smoking males.
The
second study, done by the same research team and published in
the journal Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, examined hawthorn
(Crataegus microphylla) an herb commonly used for cardiovascular
effects. The data from the study suggest that a single dose of
500 milligrams of Hawthorn helped reduce radiation damage to the
blood cells tested an average of 44 percent. Hawthorn also showed
its peak effect one hour after administration. (11) This study
was also very small, with blood samples taken from five volunteers.
For
general information on hawthorn, including traditional uses and
side effects, see: Hawthorn -- Know What Herbs Do What
Iodine
Therapy Used to Block Radioactive Iodine
Because
it is concentrated in the thyroid gland, the main toxicity of
radioactive iodine is to the thyroid gland. The lower the iodine
content of the diet, the higher the uptake of radioactive iodine
by the thyroid. The Japanese government has distributed iodine
tablets to people living in the region of highest radiation exposure.
The goal of high dose iodine is to shut down the thyroid, so that
radioactive iodine is not absorbed. [12]
But
researchers note that high dose iodine is only effective when
administered two days before to eight hours after radiation exposure,
so you need to know exactly when exposure occurs. [13] Prolonged
massive iodine supplementation can produce hypothyroidism, a disease
with serious health consequences.
Research
from Japan done on mice found that increasing consumption of natural
iodine from food and supplements, however, might decrease the
uptake of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. [14] The Japanese
researchers explain: "Thus, we conclude that previously fed
iodine-rich material, especially dietary seaweeds rich in iodine
and other minerals, vitamins, and beta-carotene, such as kelps
or laver supplemented with inorganic iodine, may be effective
in prevention of internal radiation injury of the thyroid."
[15]
Now
I'd like to hear from you...
What
are your concerns about radiation exposure?
What
steps have you taken to prevent or reduce exposure?
Have
you taken anything for it?
Please
let me know your thoughts by posting a comment below.
Best
Health,
Leo
Galland, M.D.
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2011-03-25 (until Dec 2011 Discussion Thread)**RADIATION
PROTECTION**- non prescription list, revised and updated,
by "emerald
eye" [Ed. Note: This lady does an excellent job of backing
up food supplement ideas with peer-reviewed medical sources].
2011-03-17 How
to Protect Yourself From Radiation Exposure by Dr.
Andrea McCreery, life-sources.com.
Protecting
the thyroid with iodine seems to be about all public health officials
are willing to recommend to the public. However, there are other
important steps every person should consider. Radiation interaction
within your body generates massive amounts of damaging free radicals,
in turn potentially inducing DNA damage that may lead to future
cancer -- often manifesting a decade or two later. This means
it is a good idea to maximize your overall antioxidant defenses.
Ideally, this system of defense should be bolstered in advance
to provide maximal defense. Unfortunately the antioxidant defense
systems of a majority of Americans are in shoddy condition. And,
we can observe this chronic condition in at least 90% of all clients
who come for their first visit to Life Sources' viewing the blood
cells at1500xs {times} magnification. One question I continually
hear about certain antioxidants is this: “Am I supposed
to take this forever”? If one takes into consider the fact
these are not fat-soluble (as with Vitamin D which is a fat soluble
‘hormone’ ((not a Vitamin)) for example) and, our
bodies’ needs are to be replenished daily with food, I would
think this product adding into one’s daily regimen would
seem a rather miniscule so-called ‘having to take a supplement’
when, in fact, upon a doctor’s prescription, no one really
questions that. In effect, pharmaceuticals not only manipulate
the immune system’s ability to perform to its optimum, it
or “they” put quite a heavy stressful load onto the
liver (see Fig. #16); the very organ needed to rid the body of
toxins, plus, a very important organ we must daily respect.
Many
nutrients contain antioxidants and many of these behave in your
vital antioxidant network to protect your DNA from damage. In
your diet these nutrients come from fruits, vegetables, whey protein,
and whole grains (with the exception for those with autoimmune
disorders pertaining to poor digestive health). Additionally,
almost any nutrient supplement with antioxidant properties, such
as vitamin C, E, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and, the most highly and efficacious
product; OPC-165® which is 20xs stronger than Vitamin C; 50xs
stronger than Vitamin E; will help bolster your antioxidant team.
We
suggest that everyone consume a broad spectrum of antioxidant
support. Indeed, a cocktail of antioxidants (selenium,
vitamin C, N-acetyl
Cysteine, alpha-lipoic acid, alpha-tocopherol and co-enzyme
Q10) started 24 hours after a lethal level of radiation exposure
has been shown to be highly protective. Oral chelation of the
body’s tissues from such things as Heavy Metal Toxicity
not only should be considered, but, during these ominous times
these recommended products are meant to assist the neuro-transmitters
of the brain such as our propriety formula, Immuzyme® and
our OPC-165®
Excessive
radiation exposure damages DNA, especially DNA relating to the
system in our bone marrow that produces all the red and white
blood cells that are vital for survival. (see Fig. #9) Therefore
radiation exposure has adverse consequences on circulatory health
and immune system competence, disturbing energy balance and increasing
the risk for cancer.
[undated] FAQ
& what we can do, radiationtruth.org
Improve
your body's response to damaging radiation with the following
regime:
* Consume 5 grams a day of vitamin C
* Reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption
* Decrease meat consumption
* You may choose to eliminate dairy products if Cesium-137 is
detected (detected on April 11 in Montpelier, VT and other places)
* Reduce sugar consumption
* Eat five servings a day of fruits and vegetables, especially
broccoli, broccoli sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower [Editor's
Note: Vegetables such as broccoli that grow on the surface are
usually much riskier to eat than root vegetables because fallout
tends to stick to the leaves].
* Increase fiber consumption via whole grains and flax-seed fiber.
Flaxseed
& radiation
* Get as much organic food as possible
* Take one drop a day of Lugol’s Solution or 1 tablet a
day of Iodoral, both of which are sources of both iodide and iodine.
Many conventionally trained physicians believe this level of iodine
supplementation can interfere with thyroid function. This belief
is not supported in the literature, and in fact, this level of
iodine supplementation appears protective against other common
cancers. In addition, these levels are lower than the levels of
potassium iodide recommended by the government.
* Take 5000 IU daily of vitamin D-3
* Take 1500 mg daily each of curcumin and green tea extract with
a minimum of 30% or more of EGCG
* Lots of lemongrass, melissa, or verbena tea
Knowing
where your produce comes from isn't always easy. If at all possible
grow as much of your own food as you can, indoors, or outdoors.
Feeling
constantly stressed is bad for your health. Whether it is yoga,
walks, or being with friends, do what you can to lower your stress
level.
On
June 3rd Dr. Mercola posted an excellent article on Vitamin D's
role in combating the effects of radiation, along with other natural
remedies:
"This
Vitamin Can Radically Reduce Damage from Radioactivity from Fukushima"
Multi-Nutrient Cocktails
2011-06-07 Miracle
herbal supplement proven to aid victims of cancer treatments
by S. L. Baker, naturalnews.com.
ArginMax
for Women
"...Wake
Forest research, funded by the National Cancer Institute, used
a supplement sold as ArginMax for Women which is made from a proprietary
blend of L-arginine, ginseng, ginkgo, and 14 vitamins and minerals.
Many of these natural ingredients
have long been used in traditional medicine to boost energy and
circulation and optimize hormonal balance.
For
the study, scientists at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake
Forest Baptist, the Derrick L. Davis Forsyth Regional Cancer Center,
and multiple other cancer centers across the country recruited
186 female cancer survivors who were at least six months past
their last treatment
for any type of malignancy. The trial was strictly controlled
so that neither the research subjects nor the investigators knew
who was receiving the supplement and who was being given a placebo
pill.
At
the start of the study and again at four weeks, eight weeks and
12 weeks after taking the supplement or placebo, all the women
completed two standardized questionnaires that measured sexual
function and quality
of life. Dubbed the FACT-G questionnaire, it measures overall
quality of life
and has been used in research of all cancer types to evaluate
physical, emotional, social and functional well-being.
Amazingly,
every single cancer survivor
who took the herbal/vitamin supplement was found to have a dramatic
boost in measures of overall quality of life.
"The
group taking the supplements experienced significant improvement
in overall quality of life, particularly physical well-being,"
Kathryn M. Greven, M.D., a radiation
oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist and the lead investigator on
the study, said in a statement to the media.
"Bothersome
symptoms
such as lack of energy, pain, nausea, and sleeplessness were all
improved, as were measures of functional well-being, for example
the ability to perform normal activities at home or work. Simply,
they reported a greater enjoyment of life, without any additional
side effects
from the supplement"...
|
Extracts
from Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
(pdf)
by Alexey V. Yablokov,
Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko, consulting editor
Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger
[Editor's
Note: This is one of the most comprehensive and scientific studies
ever conducted regarding the effects of melt-down radiation on
large civilian populations. Therefore, it is well worth taking
the time to familiarize oneself with key points made in this work
regarding the ways in which radiation impacts impacts upon people
over time, and various protective strategies].
Chapter
12: Chernobyl’s Radioactive Contamination of Food and People
In many European countries levels
of I-131, Cs-134/137, Sr-90, and other radionuclides in milk,
dairy products, vegetables, grains, meat, and fish increased
drastically (sometimes as much as 1,000-fold) immediately after
the catastrophe. Up until 1991 the United States imported food
products with measurable amounts of Chernobyl radioactive contamination,
mostly from Turkey, Italy, Austria, West Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia,
Hungary, Sweden, and Denmark. These products included juices,
cheeses, pasta,mushrooms, hazelnuts, sage, figs, tea, thyme,
juniper, caraway seeds, and apricots. In Gomel, Mogilev, and
Brest provinces in Belarus 7–8% of milk and 13–16%
of other food products from small farms exceeded permissible
levels of Cs-137, even as recently as 2005–2007. As of
2000, up to 90% of the wild berries and mushrooms exceeded permissible
levels of Cs-137 in Rovno and Zhytomir provinces, Ukraine. Owing
to weight and metabolic differences, a child’s radiation
exposure is 3–5 times higher than that of an adult on
the same diet. From 1995 to 2007, up to 90% of the children
from heavily contaminated territories of Belarus had levels
of Cs-137 accumulation higher than 15–20 Bq/kg, with maximum
levels of up to 7,300 Bq/kg in Narovlya District, Gomel Province.
Average levels of incorporated Cs-137 and Sr-90 in the heavily
contaminated territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia
did not decline, but rather increased from 1991 to 2005. Given
that more than 90% of the current radiation fallout is due to
Cs-137, with a half-life of about 30 years, we know that the
contaminated areas will be dangerously radioactive for roughly
the next three centuries.
However
much money is allocated by any government for radiation protection
(e.g., in Belarus in 2006 nearly $300 million was allocated to
reduce radioactive contamination in agricultural production),
no nation has the ability to provide total protection from radiation
for populations living in contaminated areas and eating locally
produced vegetables, forest products, and fish and game that are
contaminated with radionuclides.
Thus
it is of prime importance that radiation monitoring capability
be established on the local level so that citizens have access
to the information and the ability to monitor their own locally
produced food and to actively participate in organizing and carrying
out radiation protection. Too often, central data monitoring repositories
have little incentive to ensure that people around the country
get the information that they should have...
12.3.
Conclusion
All
people living in territories heavily contaminated by Chernobyl
fallout continue to be exposed to low doses of chronic radiation.
Human beings do not have sense organs to detect ionizing radiation
because it cannot be perceived by sight, smell, taste, hearing,
or touch. Therefore without special equipment to identify levels
of environmental contamination, it is impossible to know what
radionuclide levels are in our food and water or have been incorporated
into our bodies.
The
simplest way to ensure radiation safety in all areas contaminated
by Chernobyl is to monitor food for incorporated radionuclides.
Analysis of levels of incorporated gamma radionuclides by individual
spectrometry (IRC) and radioactive monitoring of local food in
many Belarussian locations have demonstrated a high correlation
between Cs-137 food contamination and the amount of radionuclides
in humans and, most importantly, in children.
Chapter
II of this volume detailed many cases of deterioration in public
health associated with the Chernobyl radionuclide contamination.
Many people suffer from continuing chronic low-dose radiation
23 years after the catastrophe, owing primarily to consumption
of radioactively contaminated food. An important consideration
is the fact that given an identical diet, a child’s radiation
exposure is three to fivefold higher than that of an adult. Since
more than 90% of the radiation burden nowadays is due to Cs-137,
which has a half-life of about 30 years, contaminated areas will
continue to be dangerously radioactive for roughly the next three
centuries.
Experience
has shown that existing official radioactive monitoring systems
are inadequate (not only in the countries of the Former Soviet
Union). Generally, the systems cover territories selectively,
do not measure each person, and often conceal important facts
when releasing information. The common factor among all governments
is to minimize spending for which they are not directly responsible,
such as the Chernobyl meltdown, which occurred 23 years ago. Thus
officials are not eager to obtain objective data of radioactive
contamination of communities, individuals, or food. Under such
circumstances, which are common, an independent system of public
monitoring is needed. Such an independent system is not a substitute
for official responsibility or control, but is needed to provide
regular voluntary monitoring of food for each family, which would
determine the radionuclide level in each person.
We
have to take responsibility not only for our own health, but for
the health of future generations of humans, plants, and animals,
which can be harmed by mutations resulting from exposure to even
the smallest amount of radioactive contamination.
13.
Decorporation of Chernobyl Radionuclides by Vassily
B. Nesterenko and Alexey V. Nesterenko
Tens of thousands of Chernobyl children
(mostly from Belarus) annually leave to receive treatment and
health care in other countries. Doctors from many countries
gratuitously work in the Chernobyl contaminated territories,
helping to minimize the consequences of this most terrible technologic
catastrophe in history. But the scale and spectrum of the consequences
are so high, that no country in the world can cope alone with
the long-term consequences of such a catastrophe as Chernobyl.
The countries that have suffered the most, especially Ukraine
and Belarus, extend gratitude for the help that has come through
the United Nations and other international organizations, as
well as from private funds and initiatives. Twenty-two years
after the Chernobyl releases, the annual individual dose limit
in heavily contaminated territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and
European Russia exceed 1mSv/year just because of the unavoidable
consumption of locally contaminated products. The 11-year experience
of the BELRAD Institute shows that for effective radiation protection
it is necessary to establish the interference level for children
at 30% of the official dangerous limit (i.e., 15–20 Bq/kg).
The direct whole body counting measurements of Cs-137 accumulation
in the bodies of inhabitants of the heavily contaminated Belarussian
region shows that the official Dose Catalogue underestimates
the annual dose burdens by three to eight times. For practical
reasons the curative-like use of apple-pectin food additives
might be especially helpful for effective decorporation of Cs-137.
From 1996 to 2007 a total of more than 160,000 Belarussian children
received pectin food additives during 18 to 25 days of treatment
(5 g twice a day). As a result, levels of Cs-137 in children’s
organs decreased after each course of pectin additives by an
average of 30 to 40%. Manufacture and application of various
pectin-based food additives and drinks (using apples, currants,
grapes, sea seaweed, etc.) is one of the most effective ways
for individual radioprotection (through decorporation) under
circumstances where consumption of radioactively contaminated
food is unavoidable.
There
are three basic ways to decrease the radionuclide levels in the
bodies of people living in contaminated territories: reduce the
amount of radionuclides in the food consumed, accelerate removal
of radionuclides from the body, and stimulate the body’s
immune and other protective systems.
13.1. Reducing Radionuclides in Food
Soaking
in water, scalding, salting, and pickling foods such as mushrooms
and vegetables and processing the fats in milk and cheeses can
reduce the amount of radionuclides in some foods severalfold.
Stimulation
of the body’s natural defenses through the use of food additives
that raise one’s resistance to irradiation is also useful.
Among such additives are the antioxidant vitamins A and C and
the microelements I, Cu, Zn, Se, and Co, which interfere with
free-radical formation. The additives prevent the oxidation of
organic substances caused by irradiation (lipid peroxidation).
Various food supplements can stimulate immunity: sprouts of plants,
such as wheat, seaweed (e.g., Spirulina), pine needles, mycelium,
and others. Accelerating the removal of radionuclides is done
in three ways (Rudnev et al., 1995; Trakhtenberg, 1995; Leggett
et al., 2003; and many others):
• Increase the stable elements in food to impede the
incorporation of radionuclides. For example, K and Rb interfere
with the incorporation of Cs; Ca interferes with Sr; and trivalent
Fe interferes with the uptake of Pu.
• Make use of the various food additives that can immobilize
radionuclides.
• Increase consumption of liquids to “wash away”
radionuclides—infusions, juices, and other liquids as
well as enriched food with dietary fiber.
Decorporants
(decontaminants) are preparations that promote the removal of
incorporated radionuclides via excretion in feces and urine. Several
effective decorporants specific for medical treatment of heavy
radionuclide contamination are known (for Cs, Fe compounds; for
Sr, alginates and barium sulfates; for Pu, ion-exchange resins,
etc.). They are effective in cases of sudden contamination. In
the heavily contaminated Belarussian, Ukrainian, and European
Russian territories the situation is different. Daily exposure
to small amounts of radionuclides (mostly Cs-137) is virtually
unavoidable as they get into the body with food (up to 94%), with
drinking water (up to 5%), and through the air (about 1%). Accumulation
of radionuclides in the body is dangerous, primarily for children,
and for those living in the contaminated territories where there
are high levels of Cs-137 in local foodstuffs (see Chapter IV.12).
The incorporation of radionuclides is now the primary cause of
the deterioration of public health in the contaminated territories
(see Chapter II for details), and all possible approaches should
be employed to mitigate the consequences of that irradiation.
There
is evidence that incorporation of 50 Bq/kg of Cs-137 into a child’s
body can produce pathological changes in vital organ systems (cardiovascular,
nervous, endocrine, and immune), as well as in the kidneys, liver,
eyes, and other organs (Bandazhevskaya et al., 2004). Such levels
of radioisotope incorporation are not unusual in the Chernobyl-contaminated
areas of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia nowadays (see Chapter
III.11 for details), which is why it is necessary to use any and
all possible measures to decrease the level of radionuclide incorporation
in people living in those territories. When children have the
same menu as adults, they get up to five times higher dose burdens
from locally produced foodstuffs because of their lower weight
and more active processes of metabolism. Children living in rural
villages have a dose burden five to six times higher than city
children of the same age.
13.2. Results of Decontamination by the Pectin Enterosorbents
It
is known that pectin chemically binds cations such as Cs in the
gastrointestinal tract and thereby increases fecal excretion.
Research and development by the Ukrainian Center of Radiation
Medicine (Porokhnyak-Ganovska, 1998) and the Belarussian Institute
of Radiation Medicine and Endocrinology (Gres’ et al., 1997)
have led to the conclusion that adding pectin preparations to
the food of inhabitants of the Chernobyl-contaminated regions
promotes an effective excretion of incorporated radionuclides.
1.
In 1981, based on 2-year clinical tests, the Joint Committee of
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) on Food Additives declared the pectinaceous
enterosorbents effective and harmless for everyday use (WHO, 1981).
2.
In Ukraine and Belarus various pectin-based preparations have
been studied as agents to promote the excretion of incorporated
radionuclides (Gres’, 1997; Ostapenko, 2002; Ukrainian Institute,
1997). The product based on the pectin from an aquatic plant (Zostera),
known commercially as Zosterin-Ultra is a mass prophylaxis agent
used in the Russian nuclear industry. As it is a non-assimilated
pectin, the injection of fostering into the bloodstream does not
harm nutrition, metabolism, or other functions. Zosterin-Ultra
in liquid form for oral administration was approved by the Ukrainian
Ministry of Health (1998) and the Russian Ministry of Health (1999)
as a biologically active (or therapeutic) food additive endowed
with enterosorption and hemosorption properties.
3.
In 1996, the BELRAD Institute initiated enterosorbent treatments
based on pectin food additives (Medetopect, France; Yablopect,
Ukraine) to accelerate the excretion of Cs- 137. In 1999 BELRAD
together with “Hermes” Hmbh (Munich, Germany) developed
a composition of apple pectin additives known as Vitapect powder,
made up of pectin (concentration 18–20%) supplemented with
vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12, C, E, beta-carotene, folic acid; the
trace elements K, Zn, Fe, and Ca; and flavoring. BELRAD has been
producing this food additive, which has been approved by the Belarussian
Ministry of Health, since 2000.
4.
In June–July 2001 BELRAD together with the association “Children
of Chernobyl of Belarus” (France) in the Silver Springs
sanatorium (Svetlogorsk City, Gomel Province) conducted a placebo-controlled
double-blind study of 615 children with internal contamination
who were treated with Vitapect (5 g twice a day) for a 3- week
period. In children taking the Vitapect (together with clean food)
Cs-137 levels were lowered much more effectively than in the control
group, who had clean food combined with a placebo (Table 13.1
and Figure 13.1)...
...13.3. New Principles of Radiation Protection Based
on Direct Measurements
The
BELRAD Institute’s 11 years of experience shows that for
effective radiation protection in the contaminated territories,
an intervention level—30% of the official dangerous limit
(i.e., 15–20 Bq/kg)—must be established for children.
1.
The direct whole body counting (WBC) measurements of Cs-137 accumulation
in individuals in the heavily contaminated Belarussian regions
showed that the official Dose Catalogue prepared on the basis
of the Cs-137 concentrations in 10 milk samples and 10 potato
samples underestimates the annual personal dose burden three-
to eightfold and cannot be relied on for effective radiation protection.
2.
It is obvious that a true dose catalogue of the contaminated population
should be developed on the basis of the data obtained from the
direct WBC measurements of Cs-137, which reflect the accumulated
internal dose burden. This should be done via reliable sampling
of inhabitants from each area of Belarus affected by Chernobyl.
3.
Only by combining WBC measurements of Cs-137 accumulation in the
body with medical evaluations can the causal relationship (dose
dependence) between the increase in morbidity and incorporated
radionuclides in the population be known. At this time, these
data can only be obtained in the Chernobyl-contaminated regions
of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia. This information can
be an important factor in designing radiation protection and treating
people, in persuading the world community of the need to help
Belarus minimize radiation exposures, and in understanding the
dimensions of the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
13.4. Where International Help for Chernobyl’s
Children Would Be Especially Effective
No
country in the world is able to cope alone with the long-term
consequences of a catastrophe of the magnitude of the meltdown
in Chernobyl. The countries most severely affected, especially
Ukraine and Belarus, which suffered greatly, are grateful for
the help they get from the United Nations and other international
organizations, as well as from private funds and initiatives.
Annually,
tens of thousands of Chernobyl children go to other countries
for treatment to improve their health. Doctors from many countries
work pro bono in the Chernobyl-contaminated territories to help
minimize the consequences of this most terrible technologic catastrophe
in history. The scale and the range of the consequences are so
great that there is always the question of how to make such help
even more effective.
Experience
from large-scale long-term programs to monitor foodstuffs and
the levels of incorporated radionuclides in the bodies of those
living in the contaminated territories is the basis for the following
proposals to increase the efficacy of the international and national
programs:
• Joint studies to determine the frequency and intensity
of various diseases, especially in children, correlated with
levels of incorporated radionuclides.
• Regular individual radiometric evaluation of the populations,
especially children, in all contaminated territories. To accomplish
this, Belarus will have to increase the number of mobile laboratories
from eight to twelve or fifteen. Similar to the Belarussian
system, independent, practical, science/clinical centers must
be established in Ukraine and European Russia to use the results
of such regular radiometric monitoring to identify critical
groups with high radionuclide incorporation.
• Manufacture and administer various pectin-based food
additives and drinks (based on apples, currants, grapes, seaweed,
etc.) as one of the most effective ways of providing individual
radiation protection (through decorporation) when circumstances
make using contaminated food unavoidable.
• Independent radiation monitoring and radiation control
of local foodstuffs, making use of the BELRAD Institute’s
experience in organizing local centers for radioactive control.
This does not replace, but can add to the existing official
system.
• Regular courses of oral pectin food additives for preventive
maintenance.
Twenty-two
years after the catastrophe the true situation in Chernobyl’s
heavily contaminated territories shows that the internationally
accepted individual dose limit is in excess of 1 mSv/year because
of the unavoidable consumption of local radioactively contaminated
products. Thus the most advisable way to lower the levels of incorporated
radionuclides is to consume only clean food. In those situations
where clean food is not available, decorporant and sorbent additives
should be used to remove as much as possible of the absorbed and
incorporated radionuclides.
There
are many more-or-less effective decorporants and sorbents: a wide
spectrum of products with alginic acid-alginates (mostly from
brown seaweed) promotes the reduction of Sr, iron and copper cyanides
(e.g., ferrocyanide blue) promote the reduction of Cs. Activated
charcoal, cellulose, and various pectins are also effective sorbents
for incorporated radionuclides. For practical reasons the curative-like
application of apple-pectin food additives may be especially helpful
to effectively decorporate Cs-137.
What
can be done:
• Reduce Cs-137 concentration in the main dose-forming
product—milk—by feeding cows with mixed fodder containing
sorbents and by separating the milk to produce cream and butter.
• Provide children and pregnant women with clean foodstuffs
and with food additives to increase the elimination of radionuclides
and heavy metals from their bodies.
• Inform the population about the levels of radionuclide
contamination of the local foodstuffs and the radionuclide concentration
in the bodies of the inhabitants (especially children), taking
into consideration the existing available foods and the local
way of life.
• Institute the practice of regular decorporation of radionuclides
into the lifestyle as an effective measure of radiation protection
for the population of the Chernobyl contaminated regions.
The
use of food additives, pectin preparations with a complex of vitamins
and microelements, demonstrated a high efficiency in eliminating
incorporated radionuclides.
Chapter
14. Protective Measures for Activities in Chernobyl’s Radioactively
Contaminated Territories by Alexey V. Nesterenko
and Vassily B. Nesterenko
Owing to internally absorbed radionuclides, radiation
levels for individuals living in the contaminated territories
of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia have been increasing steadily
since 1994. Special protective measures in connection with agriculture,
forestry, hunting, and fishing are necessary to protect the
health of people in all the radioactively contaminated territories.
Among the measures that have proven to be effective in reducing
levels of incorporated radionuclides in meat production are
food additives with ferrocyanides, zeolites, and mineral salts.
Significant decreases in radionuclide levels in crops are achieved
using lime/Ca as an antagonist of Sr-90, K fertilizers as antagonists
of Cs-137, and phosphoric fertilizers that form a hard, soluble
phosphate with Sr-90. Disk tillage and replowing of hayfields
incorporating applications of organic and mineral fertilizers
reduces the levels of Cs-137 and Sr-90 three- to fivefold in
herbage grown in mineral soils. Among food technologies to reduce
radionuclide content are cleaning cereal seeds, processing potatoes
into starch, processing carbohydrate-containing products into
sugars, and processing milk into cream and butter. There are
several simple cooking techniques that decrease radionuclides
in foodstuffs. Belarus has effectively used some forestry operations
to create “a live partition wall,” to regulate the
redistribution of radionuclides into ecosystems. All such protective
measures will be necessary in many European territories for
many generations.
14.3. Radiation Protection Measures in Everyday Life
Instructions
for radiation protection and self-help countermeasures can be
found in Ramzaev, 1992; Nesterenko, 1997; Beresdorf and Wright,
1999; Annenkov and Averin, 2003; Babenko, 2008; Parkhomenko et
al., 2008; and many others.
It
is very important to avoid radionuclides in food and if they are
consumed to try to eliminate them from the body as quickly as
possible. In a baby, the biological half-life of Cs-137 is 14
days; for a 5-year old it is 21 days; for a 10-year old, 49 days;
for teenagers, about 90 days; and for a young male, about 100
days (Nesterenko, 1997).
1.
The most direct way of decreasing radionuclide intake is to avoid
foods that are potentially heavily contaminated and to consume
foodstuffs with lower levels. However, this is not easy to do
because the average level of radionuclide bioaccumulation differs
in each region owing to differences in soils, cultivars, agriculture
techniques, etc.
Several
examples of differing levels of contamination are presented below.
1.1.
Vegetables: Order of decreasing Cs-137 in some areas of Belarus:
sweet pepper > cabbage >potatoes > beetroot > sorrel
> lettuce > radish > onion > garlic > carrots >
cucumbers > tomatoes. Order of decreasing levels in Gomel Province:
sorrel > beans > radish > carrots > been root >
potatoes > garlic > sweet pepper > tomatoes > squash
> cucumbers > cabbage (kohlrabi) > cauliflower > colewort
(Radiology Institute, 2003).
1.2.
Berries: Order of decreasing Cs-137 among some berries: blueberry
(Vaccinium myrtillus), cowberry (V. vitis-idaea), red and black
currants (Ribes sp.), and cranberry (Oxycoccus) usually accumulate
more Cs-137 than strawberry (Fragaria), gooseberry (Grossularia),
white currant, raspberry (Rubus), and mountain ash (Sorbus).
1.3.
Meat: Order of decreasing Cs-137 in some meats: poultry > beef
> mutton > pork. Meats from older animals have more radionuclides
that meat from younger ones owing to accumulation over time. Bones
of young animals have more Sr-90. Among visceral organs the order
of decreasing levels of Cs-137 is: lung > kidney > liver
> fat.
1.4.
Eggs: Order of decreasing levels: shell > egg-white > yolk.
1.5.
Fish: Predatory and benthic fishes (pike, perch, carp, catfish,
tench, etc.) are more contaminated, and fish living in rivers
and streams are always less contaminated than those from lakes
and ponds.
1.6.
Mushrooms: The cap usually contains more Cs-137 than the pedicle.
Agaric (Agaricales) mushrooms usually concentrate more radionuclides
than boletuses (Boletus).
2.
The biological properties of Cs-137 are similar to those of stable
K and Rb, and Sr-90 and Pu are similar to Ca. These properties
determine where they concentrate in the body so the use of stable
elements may help to decrease the absorption of radionuclides.
Foods
rich in K include potatoes, maize, beans, beets, raisins, dried
apricots, tea, nuts, potatoes, lemons, and dried plums. Ca-rich
foods include milk, eggs, legumes, horseradish, green onions,
turnip, parsley, dill, and spinach. Green vegetables, apples,
sunflower seeds, black chokeberries, and rye bread are rich in
Fe; and Rb is found in red grapes.
3.
A diet to protect against radioactive contamination should include
uncontaminated fruits and vegetables, those rich in pectin, and
those with high-fiber complexes to promote the rapid elimination
of radionuclides.
4.
High intake of fluids including fruit drinks helps promote excretion
of contaminants in urine.
5.
Daily addition of antioxidants (vitamins A, C, E, and the trace
elements Zn, Co, Cu, and Se) is recommended.
6.
Individuals exposed to radioactive contamination should consume
special food additives
such as Vitapect (see Chapter IV.13) and products made from apples,
green algae (Spirulinae), fir-needles, etc.
7.
There are several simple cooking techniques that decrease radionuclides:
boil foods
several times and discard the water, wash food thoroughly, soak
some foods and discard the water, avoid the rinds of fruits and
vegetables, salt and pickle some foods but throw away the pickling
juice! Avoid eating strong bouillon, use rendered butter, etc.
Experiences
from around the world after the catastrophe show that citizens
of countries that did not provide information and methods to counter
the effects of the radioactive fallout fared more poorly than
those in countries that did provide such help. In 1986 the effective
individual dose to the “average” person in Bulgaria,
where there was no emergency protection was 0.7 to 0.8 mSv, or
about threefold higher than the dose for the “average”
Norwegian.
The
Norwegian government placed a prohibition against eating leafy
vegetables and drinking fresh milk, destroyed contaminated meat,
maintained cattle in stalls, deactivated pastures and reservoirs,
and mandated that prior to slaughter the cattle be fed on clean
forage, etc. This disparity in contamination doses occurred even
though the level of contamination in Bulgaria was measurably lower
than that in Norway (Energy, 2008).
Since
1994, radiation exposure of individuals living in the contaminated
territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia has continued to increase
owing to internal absorption of radionuclides — the most
dangerous form of radiation exposure despite natural radioactive
decay.
Migration
of Chernobyl radionuclides into soil root zones allows plants
to absorb them, transport them to the surface, and incorporate
them into edible portions of the plant. Agricultural and forest
product radionuclides are introduced into food chains, significantly
increasing the radiation danger for all who consume those foodstuffs.
Today the most serious contaminating agents are Cs-137 and Sr-90.
In coming years the situation will change and Am-241 will present
a very serious problem (see Chapter I for details).
For
at least six to seven generations, vast territories of Belarus,
Russia, and Ukraine must take special measures to control radiation
exposure in agriculture, forestry, hunting, and fishing. So too
must other countries with areas of high radioactive contamination,
including Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, France, and Germany.
This means, that local economies will require external grants-in-aid
and donations to minimize the level of radionuclides in all products
because many areas simply do not have the funds to monitor, teach,
and mandate protection. Thus the problem of contamination is dynamic
and requires constant monitoring and control—for Cs-137
and Sr-90 pollution at least 150 to 300 years into the future.
The contamination from the wider spectrum of radioisotopes is
dynamic and will require constant monitoring and control essentially
forever.
15.
Consequences
of the Chernobyl Catastrophe for Public Health and the Environment
23 Years Later Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B.
Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko
More than 50% of Chernobyl’s radionuclides were
dispersed outside of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia and
caused fallout as far away as North America. In 1986 nearly
400 million people lived in areas radioactively contaminated
at a level higher than 4 kBq/m2 and nearly 5 million individuals
are still being exposed to dangerous contamination. The increase
in morbidity, premature aging, and mutations is seen in all
the contaminated territories that have been studied. The increase
in the rates of total mortality for the first 17 years in European
Russia was up to 3.75% and in Ukraine it was up to 4.0%. Levels
of internal irradiation are increasing owing to plants absorbing
and recycling Cs-137, Sr-90, Pu, and Am. During recent years,
where internal levels of Cs-137 have exceeded 1 mSv/year, which
is considered “safe,” it must be lowered to 50 Bq/kg
in children and to 75 Bq/kg in adults. Useful practices to accomplish
this include applying mineral fertilizers on agricultural lands,
K and organosoluble lignin on forestlands, and regular individual
consumption of natural pectin enterosorbents. Extensive international
help is needed to provide radiation protection for children,
especially in Belarus, where over the next 25 to 30 years radionuclides
will continue to contaminate plants through the root layers
in the soil. Irradiated populations of plants and animals exhibit
a variety of morphological deformities and have significantly
higher levels of mutations that were rare prior to 1986. The
Chernobyl zone is a “black hole”: some species may
persist there only via immigration from uncontaminated areas.
The
explosion of the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
in Ukraine on April, 26, 1986 was the worst technogenic accident
in history. The information presented in the first 14 parts of
this volume was abstracted from the several thousand cited scientific
papers and other materials. What follows here is a summary of
the main results of this meta-analysis of the consequences of
the Chernobyl catastrophe...
15.1. The Global Scale of the Catastrophe
1.
As a result of the catastrophe, 40% of Europe was contaminated
with dangerous radioactivity. Asia and North America were also
exposed to significant amounts of radioactive fallout. Contaminated
countries include Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland,
Romania, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Iceland,
and Slovenia, as well as wide territories in Asia, including Turkey,
Georgia, Armenia, The Emirates, China, and northern Africa. Nearly
400 million people lived in areas with radioactivity at a level
exceeding 4 kBq/m2 (=0.1 Ci/km2) during the period from April
to July 1986.
2.
Belarus was especially heavily contaminated. Twenty-three years
after the catastrophe nearly 5 million people, including some
1 million children, live in vast areas of Belarus, Ukraine, and
European Russia where dangerous levels of radioactive contamination
persist (see Chapter 1).
3.
The claim by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
(UNSCEAR), and several other groups that the Chernobyl radioactive
fallout adds “only”2% to the natural radioactive background
ignores several facts:
• First, many territories continue to have dangerously
high levels of radiation.
• Second, high levels of radiation were spread far and
wide in the first weeks after the catastrophe.
• Third, there will be decades of chronic, low-level contamination
after the catastrophe (Fig. 15.1).
• Fourth, every increase in nuclear radiation has an effect
on both somatic and reproductive cells of all living things.
4.
There is no scientific justification for the fact that specialists
from IAEA and the World Health Organization (WHO) (Chernobyl Forum,
2005) completely neglected to cite the extensive data on the negative
consequences of radioactive contamination in areas other than
Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia, where about 57% of the
Chernobyl radionuclides were deposited...
15.3. Health Consequences of Chernobyl
1.
A significant increase in general morbidity is apparent in all
the territories contaminated by Chernobyl that have been studied.
2.
Among specific health disorders associated with Chernobyl radiation
there are increased morbidity and prevalence of the following
groups of diseases:
• Circulatory system (owing primarily to radioactive
destruction of the endothelium, the internal lining of the blood
vessels).
• Endocrine system (especially nonmalignant thyroid pathology).
• Immune system (“Chernobyl AIDS,” increased
incidence and seriousness of all illnesses).
• Respiratory system.
• Urogenital tract and reproductive disorders.
• Musculoskeletal system (including pathologic changes
in the structure and composition of bones: osteopenia and osteoporosis).
• Central nervous system (changes in frontal, temporal,
and occipitoparietal lobes of the brain, leading to diminished
intelligence and behaviorial and mental disorders).
• Eyes (cataracts, vitreous destruction, refraction anomalies,
and conjunctive disorders).
• Digestive tract.
• Congenital malformations and anomalies (including previously
rare multiple defects of limbs and head).
• Thyroid cancer (All forecasts concerning this cancer
have been erroneous; Chernobyl-related thyroid cancers have
rapid onset and aggressive development, striking both children
and adults. After surgery the person becomes dependent on replacement
hormone medication for life.)
• Leukemia (blood cancers) not only in children and liquidators,
but in the general adult population of contaminated territories.
• Other malignant neoplasms.
3.
Other health consequences of the catastrophe:
• Changes in the body’s biological balance, leading
to increased numbers of serious illnesses owing to intestinal
toxicoses, bacterial infections, and sepsis.
• Intensified infectious and parasitic diseases (e.g.,
viral hepatitis and respiratory viruses).
• Increased incidence of health disorders in children
born to radiated parents (both to liquidators and to individuals
who left the contaminated territories), especially those radiated
in utero. These disorders, involving practically all the body’s
organs and systems, also include genetic changes.
• Catastrophic state of health of liquidators (especially
liquidators who worked in 1986–1987).
• Premature aging in both adults and children.
• Increased incidence of multiple somatic and genetic
mutations.
4. Chronic diseases associated with radioactive contamination
are pervasive in liquidators and in the population living in
contaminated territories. Among these individuals polymorbidity
is common; that is, people are often afflicted by multiple illnesses
at the same time.
5. Chernobyl has “enriched” world medicine with
such terms, as “cancer rejuvenescence,” as well
as three new syndromes:
• “Vegetovascular dystonia” — dysfunctional
regulation of the nervous system involving cardiovascular and
other organs (also called autonomic nervous system dysfunction),
with clinical signs that present against a background of stress.
• “Incorporated long-life radionuclides”—
functional and structural disorders of the cardiovascular, nervous,
endocrine, reproductive, and other systems owing to absorbed
radionuclides.
• “Acute inhalation lesions of the upper respiratory
tract” — a combination of a rhinitis, throat tickling,
dry cough, difficulty breathing, and shortness of breath owing
to the effect of inhaled radionuclides, including “hot
particles.”
6. Several new syndromes, reflecting increased incidence of
some illnesses, appeared after Chernobyl. Among them:
• “Chronic fatigue syndrome”— excessive
and unrelieved fatigue, fatigue without obvious cause, periodic
depression, memory loss, diffuse muscular and joint pains, chills
and fever, frequent mood changes, cervical lymph node sensitivity,
weight loss; it is also often associated with immune system
dysfunction and CNS disorders.
• “Lingering radiating illness syndrome”—
a combination of excessive fatigue, dizziness, trembling, and
back pain.
• “Early aging syndrome” — a divergence
between physical and chronological age with illnesses characteristic
of the elderly occurring at an early age.
7.
Specific Chernobyl syndromes such as “radiation in utero,”
“Chernobyl AIDS,” “Chernobyl heart,” “Chernobyl
limbs,” and others await more detailed definitive medical
descriptions.
8.
The full picture of deteriorating health in the contaminated territories
is still far from complete, despite a large quantity of data.
Medical, biological, and radiological research must expand and
be supported to provide the full picture of Chernobyl’s
consequences. Instead this research has been cut back in Russia,
Ukraine, and Belarus.
9.
Deterioration of public health (especially of children) in the
Chernobyl-contaminated territories 23 years after the catastrophe
is not due to psychological stress or radiophobia, or from resettlement,
but is mostly and primarily due to Chernobyl irradiation. Superimposed
upon the first powerful shock in 1986 is continuing chronic low-dose
and low-dose-rate radionuclide exposure.
10.
Psychological factors (“radiation phobia”) simply
cannot be the defining reason because morbidity continued to increase
for some years after the catastrophe, whereas radiation concerns
have decreased. And what is the level of radiation phobia among
voles, swallows, frogs, and pine trees, which demonstrate similar
health disorders, including increased mutation rates? There is
no question but that social and economic factors are dire for
those sick from radiation. Sickness, deformed and impaired children,
death of family and friends, loss of home and treasured possessions,
loss of work, and dislocation are serious financial and mental
stresses.
15.4. Total Number of Victims
1.
Early official forecasts by IAEA and WHO predicted few additional
cases of cancer. In 2005, the Chernobyl Forum declared that the
total death toll from the catastrophe would be about 9,000 and
the number of sick about 200,000. These numbers cannot distinguish
radiation-related deaths and illnesses from the natural mortality
and morbidity of a huge population base.
2.
Soon after the catastrophe average life expectancy noticeably
decreased and morbidity and mortality increased in infants and
the elderly in the Soviet Union.
3.
Detailed statistical comparisons of heavily contaminated territories
with less contaminated ones showed an increase in the mortality
rate in contaminated European Russia and Ukraine of up to 3.75%
and 4.0%, respectively, in the first 15 to 17 years after the
catastrophe.
4.
According to evaluations based on detailed analyses of official
demographic statistics in the contaminated territories of Belarus,
Ukraine, and European Russia, the additional Chernobyl death toll
for the first 15 years after the catastrophe amounted to nearly
237,000 people. It is safe to assume that the total Chernobyl
death toll for the period from 1987
to 2004 has reached nearly 417,000 in other parts of Europe, Asia,
and Africa, and nearly 170,000 in North America, accounting for
nearly 824,000 deaths worldwide.
5.
The numbers of Chernobyl victims will continue to increase for
several generations.
15.5. Chernobyl Releases and Environmental
Consequences
1.
Displacement of the long half-life Chernobyl radionuclides by
water, winds, and migrating animals causes (and will continue
to cause) secondary radioactive contamination hundreds and thousands
of kilometers away from the Ukrainian Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Station.
2.
All the initial forecasts of rapid clearance or decay of the Chernobyl
radionuclides from ecosystems were wrong: it is taking much longer
than predicted because they recirculate. The overall state of
the contamination in water, air,and soil appears to fluctuate
greatly and the dynamics of Sr-90, Cs-137, Pu, and Am contamination
still present surprises.
3.
As a result of the accumulation of Cs-137, Sr-90, Pu, and Am in
the root soil layer, radionuclides have continued to build in
plants over recent years. Moving with water to the above-ground
parts of plants, the radionuclides (which earlier had disappeared
from the surface) concentrate in the edible components, resulting
in increased levels of internal irradiation and dose rate in people,
despite decreasing total amounts of radionuclides from natural
disintegration over time.
4.
As a result of radionuclide bioaccumulation, the amount in plants,
mushrooms, and animals can increase 1,000-fold as compared with
concentrations in soil and water. The factors of accumulation
and transition vary considerably by season even for the same species,
making it difficult to discern dangerous levels of radionuclides
in plants and animals that appear to be safe to eat. Only direct
monitoring can determine actual levels.
5.
In 1986 the levels of irradiation in plants and animals in Western
Europe, North America, the Arctic, and eastern Asia were sometimes
hundreds and even thousands of times above acceptable norms. The
initial pulse of high-level irradiation followed by exposure to
chronic low-level radionuclides has resulted in morphological,
physiological, and genetic disorders in all the living organisms
in contaminated areas that have been studied— plants, mammals,
birds, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, bacteria, and viruses.
6.
Twenty years after the catastrophe all game animals in contaminated
areas of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia have high levels
of the Chernobyl radionuclides. It is still possible to find elk,
boar, and roe deer that are dangerously contaminated in Austria,
Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and several other
countries.
7.
All affected populations of plants and animals that have been
the subjects of detailed studies exhibit a wide range of morphological
deformities that were rare or unheard of prior to the catastrophe.
8.
Stability of individual development (determined by level of fluctuating
symmetry — a specific method for detecting the level of
individual developmental instability) is lower in all the plants,
fishes, amphibians, birds, and mammals that were studied in the
contaminated territories.
9.
The number of the genetically anomalous and underdeveloped pollen
grains and spores in the Chernobyl radioactively contaminated
soils indicates geobotanical disturbance.
10.
All of the plants, animals, and microorganisms that were studied
in the Chernobyl contaminated territories have significantly higher
levels of mutations than those in less contaminated areas. The
chronic low-dose exposure in Chernobyl territories results in
a transgenerational accumulation of genomic instability, manifested
in cellular and systemic effects. The mutation rates in some organisms
increased during the last decades, despite a decrease in the local
level of radioactive contamination.
11.
Wildlife in the heavily contaminated Chernobyl zone sometimes
appears to flourish, but the appearance is deceptive. According
to morphogenetic, cytogenetic, and immunological tests, all of
the populations of plants, fishes, amphibians, and mammals that
were studied there are in poor condition. This zone is analogous
to a “black hole”—some species may only persist
there via immigration from uncontaminated areas. The Chernobyl
zone is the microevolutionary “boiler,” where gene
pools of living creatures are actively transforming, with unpredictable
consequences.
12.
What happened to voles and frogs in the Chernobyl zone shows what
can happen to humans in coming generations: increasing mutation
rates, increasing morbidity and mortality, reduced life expectancy,
decreased intensity of reproduction, and changes in male/female
sex ratios.
13.
For better understanding of the processes of transformation of
the wildlife in the Chernobyl-contaminated areas, radiobiological
and other scientific studies should not be stopped, as has happened
everywhere in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, but must be extended
and intensified to understand and help to mitigate expected and
unexpected consequences.
15.6. Social and Environmental Efforts to Minimize the
Consequences of the Catastrophe
1.
For hundreds of thousands of individuals (first of all, in Belarus,
but also in vast territories of Ukraine, Russia, and in some areas
of other countries) the additional Chernobyl irradiation still
exceeds the considered “safe” level of 1 mSv/year.
2.
Currently for people living in the contaminated regions of Belarus,
Ukraine, and Russia, 90% of their irradiation dose is due to consumption
of contaminated local food, so measures must be made available
to rid their bodies of incorporated radionuclides (see Chapter
IV.12–14).
3.
Multiple measures have been undertaken to produce clean food and
to rehabilitate the people of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia.
These include application of additional amounts of select fertilizers,
special programs to reduce levels of radionuclides in farm products
and meat, organizing radionuclide-free food for schools and kindergartens,
and special programs to rehabilitate children by periodically
relocating them to uncontaminated places. Unfortunately these
measures are not sufficient for those who depend upon food from
their individual gardens, or local forests, and waters.
4.
It is vitally necessary to develop measures to decrease the accumulation
of Cs-137 in the bodies of inhabitants of the contaminated areas.
These levels, which are based upon available data concerning the
effect of incorporated radionuclides on health, are 30 to 50 Bq/kg
for children and 70 to 75 Bq/kg for adults. In some Belarus villages
in 2006 some children had levels up to 2,500 Bq/kg!
5.
The experience of BELRAD Institute in Belarus has shown that active
decorporation measures should be introduced when Cs-137 levels
become higher than 25 to 28 Bq/kg. This corresponds to 0.1 mSv/year,
the same level that according to UNSCEAR a person inevitably receives
from external irradiation living in the contaminated territories.
6.
Owing to individual and family food consumption and variable local
availability of
food, permanent radiation monitoring of local food products is
needed along with measurement of individual radionuclide levels,
especially in children. There must be general toughening of allowable
local food radionuclide levels.
7.
In order to decrease irradiation to a considered safe level (1
mSv/year) for those in contaminated areas of Belarus, Ukraine,
and Russia it is good practice to:
• Apply mineral fertilizers not less than three times
a year on all agricultural lands, including gardens, pastures,
and hayfields.
• Add K and soluble lignin to forest ecosystems within
a radius up to 10 km from settlements for effective reduction
of Cs-137 in mushrooms, nuts, and berries, which are important
local foods.
• Provide regular individual intake of natural pectin
enterosorbents (derived from apples, currants, etc.) for 1 month
at least four times a year and include juices with pectin daily
for children in kindergartens and schools to promote excretion
of radionuclides.
• Undertake preventive measures for milk, meat, fish,
vegetables, and other local food products to reduce radionuclide
levels.
• Use enterosorbents (ferrocyanides, etc.) when fattening
meat animals.
8.
To decrease the levels of illness and promote rehabilitation it
is a good practice in the contaminated areas to provide:Annual
individual determination of actual levels of incorporated radionuclides
using a whole-body radiation counter (for children, this must
be done quarterly).
• Reconstruction of all individual external irradiation
levels from the initial period after the catastrophe using EPR-dosimetry
and measurement of chromosomal aberrations, etc. This should
include all victims, including those who left contaminated areas
— liquidators, evacuees, and voluntary migrants and their
children.
• Obligatory genetic consultations in the contaminated
territories (and voluntary for all citizens of childbearing
age) for the risks of severe congenital malformations in offspring.
Using the characteristics and spectra of mutations in the blood
or bone marrow of future parents, it is possible to define the
risk of giving birth to a child with severe genetic malformations
and thus avoid family tragedies.
• Prenatal diagnosis of severe congenital malformations
and support for programs for medical abortions for families
living in the contaminated territories of Belarus, Ukraine,
and Russia.
• Regular oncological screening and preventive and anticipatory
medical practices for the population of the contaminated territories.
9.
The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly shows that it is impossible
to provide protection from the radioactive fallout using only
national resources. In the first 20 years the direct economic
damage to Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia has exceeded 500 billion
dollars. To mitigate some of the consequences, Belarus spends
about 20% of its national annual budget, Ukraine up to 6%, and
Russia up to 1%. Extensive international help will be needed to
protect children for at least the next 25 to 30 years, especially
those in Belarus because radionuclides remain in the root layers
of the soil.
10.
Failure to provide stable iodine in April 1986 for those in the
contaminated territories led to substantial increases in the number
of victims. Thyroid disease is one of the first consequences when
a nuclear power plant fails, so a dependable system is needed
to get this simple chemical to all of those in the path of nuclear
fallout. It is clear that every country with nuclear power plants
must help all countries stockpile potassium iodine in the event
of another nuclear plant catastrophe.
11.
The tragedy of Chernobyl shows that societies everywhere (and
especially in Japan, France, India, China, the United States,
and Germany) must consider the importance of independent radiation
monitoring of both food and individual irradiation levels with
the aim of ameliorating the danger and preventing additional harm.
12.
Monitoring of incorporated radionuclides, especially in children,
is necessary around every nuclear power plant. This monitoring
must be independent of the nuclear industry and the data results
must be made available to the public.
15.7. Organizations Associated with the
Nuclear Industry Protect the Industry First—Not the Public
1.
An important lesson from the Chernobyl experience is that experts
and organizations tied to the nuclear industry have dismissed
and ignored the consequences of the catastrophe.
2.
Within only 8 or 9 years after the catastrophe a universal increase
in cataracts was admitted by medical officials. The same occurred
with thyroid cancer, leukemia, and organic central nervous system
disorders. Foot-dragging in recognizing obvious problems and the
resultant delays in preventing exposure and mitigating the effects
lies at the door of nuclear power advocates more interested in
preserving the status quo than in helping millions of innocent
people who are suffering through no fault of their own. It need
to change official agreement between WHO and IAEA (WHO, 1959)
providing hiding from public of any information which can be unwanted
of nuclear industry.
15.8. It Is Impossible to Forget Chernobyl
1.
The growing data about of the negative consequences of the Chernobyl
catastrophe for public health and nature does not bode well for
optimism. Without special large-scale national and international
programs, morbidity and mortality in the contaminated territories
will increase. Morally it is inexplicable that the experts associated
with the nuclear industry claim: “It is time to forget Chernobyl.”
2.
Sound and effective international and national policy for mitigation
and minimization of Chernobyl’s consequences must be based
on the principle: “It is necessary to learn and minimize
the consequences of this terrible catastrophe.”
15.9. Conclusion
U.S.
President John F. Kennedy speaking about the necessity to stop
atmospheric nuclear tests said in June 1963:
. . . The number of children and grandchildren with cancer
in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison
in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison
with natural health hazards, but this is not a natural health
hazard—and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of
even one human life or the malformation of even one baby—who
may be born long after we are gone—should be of concern
to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics
toward which we can be indifferent.
The Chernobyl catastrophe demonstrates that the nuclear industry’s
willingness to risk the health of humanity and our environment
with nuclear power plants will result, not only theoretically,
but practically, in the same level of hazard as nuclear weapons.
|
This
illustration was taken from the article "Food Safety = Peaceful
Extinction" by Mikkai, 28 May 2012 posted on a blog
page of Jan Hemmer, a health care professional who has devoted
himself to helping Chernobyl victims. The dosage levels depicted
in red above were calculated in "Radiation
Risk by Consumption of Contaminated Food after the Catastrophe
at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (PDF),
by Thomas Dersee, German Society for Radiation Protection, 12
April 2011, based upon new allowable limits of radioactivity in
food imported from Japan. The paper states "The German Federal
Minister for Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has
announced that the European Commission and the EU member states
have agreed on April 8 to adopt the valid Japanese allowable limits
for maximum contamination by radionuclides as new limits for food
and animal feed from Japan imported into the European Union."
These new dosage levels are so shockingly high that they are almost
guaranteed to cause radiation sickness, cancers, and serious maladies
within a few years among individuals who incorporate imported
foods into a regular diet. The European Commission appears to
be somewhere between criminally incompetent to intentionally genocidal.
All of this dramatizes how common citizens are on their own in
much of Europe and North America to protect themselves. Please
see the discussion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision
to relax import standards for Japanese food products
below. |
Controlling
Radiation Contamination
Avoiding
and/or Purifying Contaminated Air
[undated] SECTION
6: RADIATION PROTECTION GUIDELINES, Protection Guidelines
from RADNET,
davistownmuseum.org.
All
situations requiring evacuation are characterized by the following
safety precautions:
* Access control to the contaminated area.
* Control and sheltering of livestock.
* Control and sheltering of animals if not already evacuated.
* Food and water controls.
* Decontamination efforts.
* Relocation.
Sheltering:
* Seek immediate shelter.
* In the likely event that no stocked fallout shelter is available,
the safest option is usually sheltering within one's own residence.
o If you are still outside and you haven't been able to seek
shelter yet, or for some urgent reason you must go outside during
plume passage, remember that a simple particulate respirator
(dust mask) is an essential first line of protection against
inhaling plume pulse particulates...
o As soon as you reach shelter, close all windows and doors
to minimize inhalation of passing plume.
o Avoid using surface water supplies and rainwater.
o Avoid exposure of children to contaminated surface water (puddles
and rain) and ground contamination.
o Avoid tracking in ground deposition: remove contaminated clothing
and footwear.
o Avoid consumption of foods contaminated with surface deposition,
especially leafy vegetables with foliar contamination. Also
avoid fruits such as raspberries, which are difficult to wash
and food which rapidly bioaccumulates contamination, such as
mushrooms and sea vegetables. Otherwise wash and peel vegetables
(such as root crops, e.g. carrots, potatoes) which would not
otherwise be contaminated.
o Avoid consuming foods subject to rapid secondary ingestion
pathway contamination, e.g. forage - cow (sheep, goat) - milk
(cheese) pathway. Use food products produced and/or packaged
prior to plume passage whenever possible.
o Shelter livestock and pets; use uncontaminated feeds.
o Avoid exposure to surface ground contamination by staying
indoors as much as possible.
o Cover garden sites with tarps prior to plume passage if time
permits.
o Utilize greens grown in a greenhouse situation whenever possible.
o Package, box or bag contaminated clothing and footwear and
remove from immediate vicinity of the living quarters if possible.
o Vacuum rugs, sweep floors and package or box resulting detritus
as a contaminated substance and remove from immediate vicinity
of living quarters if possible.
o Due to filtering and/or diluting all subsurface water sources
and most public drinking water, sources will remain relatively
safe after most types of nuclear accidents.
o In the days after a nuclear accident, if you have avoided
inhalation of the passing plume and if you can avoid extensive
exposure to ground deposition, your principal pathway of exposure
will be the ingestion pathway.
[Undated] Shelter
in Place by steveo, using ideas from CDC, and other
members of HawaiiTrading.
2012-01-16 15
Ways to Limit Radiation Exposure, topmastersinhealthcare.com.
"This article was written by experts. Specifically, the health
physics team in charge of protecting workers, monitoring releases
and recording doses at Three Mile Island during the month after
the worst nuclear accident in American history."
2011-09-29 WHAT????????????,
majiasblog.blogspot.com.
LOOK
AT THIS BALONEY
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201109280345.html
Asahi:
"Ministry sets radiation levels requiring decontamination"
"The
Environment Ministry will decontaminate areas with an estimated
annual dose of 5 millisieverts or more from the accident at the
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, which the government will shoulder
as its burden in cleaning up the mess.
All
the areas recording 5 millisieverts or more are in Fukushima Prefecture
and encompass 1,778 square kilometers, or 13 percent of the prefecture's
area.
"Five
millisieverts in an annual dose is equivalent to about 1 microsievert
per hour based on the assumption that people spend eight hours
outdoors and the rest of the time indoors...."
MAJIA
HERE: (1 microsievert an hour) 24 hours X 365 days = 8.760 MILLISIEVERTS
A YEAR!
The
Japanese are ARBITRARILY reducing the level by saying that people
don't spend all of their time outside so the total exposure is
less than 8.7 millisieverts and voila it is 5 millisieverts a
year.
THIS
IS NOT JUST ARBITRARY, IT IS CRIMINAL.
Arnie
Gunderson of Fairewinds pointed out that people's HOUSES TEND
TO GET MORE CONTAMINATED THAN OUTSIDE because people track radioactive
contamination into their houses with their clothes, shoes, hair,
etc. To reiterate, houses become more contaminated over time than
outside areas.
FURTHERMORE,
this entire calculation FAILS TO ADDRESS EXPOSURE TO INTERNAL
EMITTERS that occurs as the Japanese (and North Americans) inadvertently
inhale and ingest radionuclides in their air, rice, water, vegetables,
etc.
2011-11-04 Red
Sky At Night: Solar Flares Spawn Fukushima's Deadly Delight
Ms.
X said...
Trying
to answer that question for ourselves is one of the reasons we
share our findings/data and the resultant conjectures/theories
publicly.
Given
the levels of uncertainty, the most Darwinian action is cost effective
risk mitigation. Namely, recognize the potential threat, attempt
to quantify the threat in terms of impacts and likelihoods, and
take risk mitigation actions that won't cause more damage if the
threat matrix turns out incorrect.
For
us that means we have purchased everything on the shown in the
Amazon widgets. Mostly that comes down to minimizing risk through
controlling water and food sources (especially those food sources
that concentrate radioactivity, like dairy products)
Since
our analysis indicates a likelihood of radioactive iodine, we
try to monitor our bodies' iodine "thirst". We stay
out of the rain. If we have to drive through the rain we turn
the environmental controls to recirculate. Moreover, given the
I-133 indications, we wear N-95 carbon filter masks if we have
to drive through the rain.
We
make sure the cars are washed before we allow them to be pulled
into the garage, and we attempt to do much the same with the rain
gear. And, we have started using HEPA filters in the house in
addition to high filtration HVAC filters.
That
is the limit of our current cost effective risk mitigation actions,
however given what we believe is occurring those actions may be
too minimal in the long term.
And
in regard to that last aspect, the biggest non-nuclear risk is
that at some point enough people become aware of the risk that
further risk mitigation actions become difficult to execute because
of competition over limited resources..."
2011-03-15 Staying
indoors best way to limit radiation exposure: experts by
Bronwyn Herbert
Air Travel
2012-01-09 Seasons
Readings, by Michael Collins, enviroreporter.com.
"Home
for the holidays takes on a whole new glow when flying for the
first time through Fukushima fallout to our family in Michigan.
Packing
gets peculiar and precise. Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor
– check. N-95 approved valved respirators to wear during
flight – check. Apple pectin – check. Miniature lab
to collect samples in a part of the country hammered by high fallout
in rain, sleet and snow since March 11, 2012 – check. One
pissed off newlywed wife having to endure
this nightmare in a country of oblivious people now being forced
to wear an N95-rated respirator on the plane because of her enviroreporter
husband – check.
This
was first time Denise Anne and I had flown since the triple meltdowns
– now melt-throughs – had begun spewing astronomical
amounts of radioactive goo into the air and ocean and across lands
from Japan to Europe. For months, the readings of high radiation
have rolled in from across the country where places like St. Louis
have been irradiated by
rainfall repeatedly over 170 times normal background radiation.
Other
areas reporting in to Radiation Station Central, the monitoring
assemblage created March 15 to show folks 24/7 radiation readings
in the Los Angeles Basin, have sampled and tested rain and snow
finding it dozens of times over background. Courtesy of the jet
stream pipeline from Fukushima to North America, places like Toronto,
Utah, Arizona, North Carolina, Virginia and the Pacific Northwest
have all seen high levels of ionizing precipitation....
...Hot
rain and snow were an acceptable risk. Flying through fallout
was another matter entirely which we found to be much hotter than
even what the manufacturers of our radiation monitor have measured
pre-Fukushima.
Not
surprisingly, no one aboard the aircraft we boarded at LAX December
23 was wearing a mask to interdict hot particles in fallout from
the triple meltdown and burning of 550,000 tons of radioactive
debris in Tokyo incinerators. No one even in first class had any
protection on not only from the airborne radiation that is circling
the northern half of the globe, but from the volatile organic
compounds and low-level fumes airing the jet cabin as well as
the recirculating viruses from hundreds of passengers some of
whom were coughing and sneezing.
We
decided to grin and breathe it to get to our Midwest homeland
but not by holding our breath. Though worried that we would alarm
crew and passengers by donning 3M 8511 particulate respirators
N95, wearing the masks was a must since it would afford us the
only prevention possible against the trillions of becquerels of
ionizing radiation spewing into
the atmosphere for over nine months. Our concerns were unfounded,
however, as no one thought twice about the masks which we removed
when eating our meals and going to the restroom.
While
the respirators aren’t 100% effective against inhaling fallout
– and can offer no protection against gamma radiation man
made or otherwise – they certainly reduce the amount of
non-filtered air intake to nearly zero. Radiation bioaccumulation
can be greatly reduced by wearing N95-rated masks regardless,
making their use essential when flying through Fukushima fallout
now mostly confined to the Northern Hemisphere. Even though we
were and are a tiny percentage of the 800 million passengers who
take to the skies annually worldwide who wear respirators, we
were glad we had even before we landed and tested the masks for
any hot particles they may have prevented us from breathing.
As
the airliner crossed over the Colorado River into Arizona, we
were completing our first ten-minute average using one of our
Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitors which can detect alpha,
beta, gamma and x-ray radiation. The Inspector is made by Tennessee-based
SE International, Inc. (which advertises on EnviroReporter.com
through Google AdSense which controls who advertises on the website
in some of the ads). Since 1979, this company has expanded in
size and distribution as the worldwide demand for radiation detectors
has
mushroomed.
The
captain came on the loudspeaker and announced that we were at
28,000 feet heading up to 38,000 feet. SE International’s
“Radiation Basics” page says “When you fly in
an air plane at 30,000 feet your rate meter is getting 200 CPM
[Counts Per Minute] for anywhere between 2 to 5 hours.”
Our
reading was 1,035 CPM which was over five times higher. Two hours
later we took another ten-minute average approaching the Missouri
River north of St. Charles, Missouri – 1,238 CPM or over
36 times the background in the jet at the terminal. Descending
into Chicago the count was 586.2 CPM or 17.40 times previous background
in the jet.
Once
in our southwest Michigan lodgings, Denise Anne and I tested the
two masks we had worn after taking a new background. One respirator
was 44% above normal and the other 69% higher than background...."
Relocation
outside the U.S.
Editor's
Note: Please see Figure 4
of Strontium 90 fallout at different latitudes in the late 1950's
from atomic bomb testing included on the transcript page for the
28 Oct 2011. Dr. James Fetzer interview with Leuren Moret and
Dr. Chris Busby "Fukushima
Radiation and Uranium Weapon Update." However,
please also be aware that there are complicating factors that
make even certain Southern Hemisphere locations unattractive,
such as heavy rainfall areas that still rain out considerable
amounts of radiation, and also areas contaminated by military
tests and training exercises. As one example of the latter, according
to Leuren Moret a large percentage of the Tasmanian
Devil population (found on the Island of Tasmania south of
Australia) has been wiped in recent decades from military DU exploded
during during training exercises added on top of British nuclear
tests in Australian deserts. Last, but not least, there are usually
important social, political, economic factors one should also
consider prior to making a decision to relocate. It is possible
that one could wind up with many very unpleasant surprises --
particularly if one has never lived in a particular relocation
country and one lacks a friendly support network there and the
financial strength to help keep influential people "friendly"
-- all of which could make simply "bunkering down" here
in the U.S. the "least bad" option. However, as noted
in
Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America, in which
I wrote the 2007 Publisher's
Preface, there are certain parts of the U.S. that could turn
into complete hellholes. Therefore, it may matter a great deal
where one decides to bunker down if one remains in America.
Last, but not least, the future we get in America still depends
largely upon how determined Americans are at the grass roots level
to create their own future rather than passively sit
back and let their future be dictated by high level malefactors.
Even if America implodes or shatters, what remains will still
be an important factor on the world stage, and we will still need
men of good will to guide the recovery.
[Undated] Survival
in Argentina blogspot.
2011-03-25 Natural
Health: Radioactive Pollution In New Zealand From Japan Nuclear
Disaster, merrilynhope.com. [Ed. Note: This article
makes the point that one can find in seemingly "safe zones"
heavily contaminated fish that have swum in from highly contaminated
zones thousands of miles away].
2009 (about this time period) Chapter
14 - Environmental Dangers from Cold War Legacy Radiation - Dust
storms; nuclearcrimes.org, Australia, dust
storms and the fallout Britain left behind: Australia's worst
dust storm in 70 years just got worse
|
Avoiding
and/or Purifying Contaminated Water
Purifying water
[Undated] How
to Protect Against Radiation Exposure (pdf) An overview
hosted at tuberose.com of unknown authorship and without citations.
However, it makes many good points and lists a good bibliography.
Tuberose.com also has many
extended online discussions that pertain to the general topic
"Detoxifying
the Body."
"For
radionuclides in a municipal drinking water system, the water
can be cleaned relatively affordably. Depending on the specific
contaminant, the water can be treated with reverse
osmosis, activated carbon, distillation, ion exchange, or
better: all four.".
2011-06-15 How
to Get Radiation Out of Your Water, survival-spot.com
"...For everyday, saving money, and ease of use, Reverse
osmosis is a great start. Then …. Read on….All experts
recommend an under-the sink model by OxygenOzone Inc. out of Los
Angeles (oxygenozone.com). A basic water filtration of course
you need to use a minimum 5-micron carbon block for the shower
or countertop filter, – and if there is a fair amount of
dirt or solids in the water, then one needs to use a 5-micron
sediment filter before the carbon to protect the carbon block..."
2011-04-14 What
To Eat and Drink letter by Dr. Rosalie Bertell to
Ace Hoffman, acehoffman.blogspot.com
"...If
you have distilled water available, or are able to prepare your
own, use it for cooking vegetables that are from contaminated
areas. This is clearly true in Japan, but also in the US since
our bread basket is in California! It will leach out heavy metal
debris. Throw out the waste water! You could also soak fruit in
distilled water for the same reason. This is safe even for a pregnant
woman and her fetus. If you live in or near to the contamination,
use distilled water also for drinking. You can do this safely
for up to two years. This was the only thing mentioned as helpful
by the atomic veterans, that were deliberately exposed to nuclear
radiation after WW II to see if they could function in a nuclear
war...."
2011-03-22 Dangers,
Properties, possible Uses and Methods of Purification of radioactively
contaminated (drinking) Water (e.g. in Japan), crisismaven.wordpress.com.
"Most
methods and tools being recommended here on the Internet such
as purification by filtration will not lead to your desired result
of decontaminating radioactive water...You can only either try
to demineralise that water (e.g. by reverse osmosis) or purify
it by distillation”
2011-03-14 Fighting
Radiation Exposure – Naturally by Dr. Loretta
Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP, CH, oasisadvancedwellness.
"Distilled
Water - Dr. Kenneth Sutter recommends drinking lots of distilled
water for radiation poisoning. A tiny pinch of good quality sea
salt in several glasses of distilled water each day will provide
one with all the minerals and trace elements they need to stay
healthy."
Adding elements
to contaminated water
2011-06-14 Dairy
Farmers Fight Radiation with Boron posted By Dr.
Mercola
"According
to an article published on EurActiv.com,
CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity, published
this paper stating risks associated with iodine-131 contamination
in Europe are no longer "negligible." They reportedly
have warned children and pregnant and breastfeeding women to avoid
eating vegetables with large leaves and creamy cheese, as well
as drinking fresh milk, due to radiation contamination risks.
And
it was reported
that:
"Data for the west coast of the United States, which
received the Fukushima radioactive fallout 6-10 days before
France, reveals that levels of radioactive iodine-131 concentration
are 8-10 times higher there, the institute says."
Meanwhile,
a letter posted by organic dairy farmers in Hawaii, posted on
HawaiiHealthGuide.com,
states milk from two large dairies has shown "elevated levels
of radiation, from 400 to 2,400 times the recognized safe levels."
As a result, the farmers are taking matters into their own hands
and using a natural mineral, boron, to help reduce any related
risks.
How
Does Boron Fight Radiation?
Boron
(sodium borate) is the mineral in the popular natural multipurpose
cleaner Borax (Borax is about 11 percent boron). Some organic
dairies in Hawaii are now adding this mineral to cow and goat
feed and water, as well as applying it directly to pastures
and neighboring pastures, because it acts as a non-toxic radiation
absorber.
According
to the farmers:
"Boron
is the only mineral capable of accepting ionizing radiation
that never changes the innards or the nucleus of the cell.
Spoken simply, boron can take radiation and release it without
upsetting its own very delicate balance.
Boron
is used extensively in the nuclear industry. Sodium borate
is regularly used for standby liquid control systems, in case
of emergencies. It was used in Cheronbyl in 1986 mixed with
sand to prevent further radiation leakage. It was also used
in 1999 in Tokaimura, Japan, to absorb the massive amounts
of radiation after an accident at a plant. Currently it is
being dumped on fuel rods and in surrounding waters of the
Fukushima plant.
Boron
is widely recognized as extremely safe and can be used to
capture radioactivity on our soils, gardens, orchards, etc.
It also can be safely ingested by humans and animals. Boron
will accept radiation and ionize it within our bodies, after
which our bodies will safely excrement the boron and radioactivity."
Once
radioactive components have contaminated farmland and crops,
there is not much you can do about it. But using boron may be
one simple way to actually help clean up some of this radioactive
mess.
As
an aside, though I do not believe the risks at this time have
proven to be significant except to those in the general vicinity
of Japan's damaged Fukushima plant, boron can also be taken
in supplement form; you can read more
about its uses as a supplement here. Boron is also found
in varying levels in certain foods, such as coffee, avocados,
nuts, red grapes, apples and pears.
2011-05-10 Dairy
Farmers fight radiation with Boron by By Britton
& Shekinah,
Hawaii Health Guide, /foodfreedom.wordpress.com
"...Boron
is used extensively in the nuclear industry. Sodium borate is
regularly used for standby liquid control systems, in case of
emergencies. It was used in Cheronbyl in 1986 mixed with sand
to prevent further radiation leakage. It was also used in 1999
in Tokaimura, Japan, to absorb the massive amounts of radiation
after an accident at a plant. Currently it is being dumped on
fuel rods and in surrounding waters of the Fukushima plant. Boron
is widely recognized as extremely safe and can be used to capture
radioactivity on our soils, gardens, orchards, etc. It also can
be safely ingested by humans and animals. Boron will accept radiation
and ionize it within our bodies, after which our bodies will safely
excrement the boron and radioactivity.
We
have begun feeding our cows and goats sodium borate at milking
times, as well as adding it to free choice kelp and water troughs.
In the past years we have monitored boron and other minerals in
the soil and have added as necessary to bring levels up to recognized
healthy levels. As a safety measure we are planning to implement
a boron dosage to all of our pastures, as well as neighboring
pastures. For humans, boron can safely ingested at a dosage of
4-10 mg per day. Borax, 11% boron, can be used as a tea and sprayed
on your gardens, or land surrounding your home, at a rate of 10#
of Borax per acre, 1#, if using elemental boron. Borax can also
be ingested at 1/8 tsp to 1 litre water for women, ¼ tsp
to 1 litre water for men. Fortunately, red wine and coffee are
significant sources of boron, as well as non-citrus fruits, red
grapes, plums, pears, apples, avocados, legumes and nuts! Boron
is known to be non-carcinogenic, non-mutagenic and has been used
internally to protect the astronauts in space as they leave the
earth’s protective magnetic field.
Other
things we can do to protect our bodies are to consume zeolites,
use potassium iodine, receive plenty of glutathione, the best
source of which is whey!, eat plenty of supergreens, such as kale,
but including chlorella and spirulina, maintain healthy mineral
levels, and eat lots of good healthy fats, including raw butter,
and coconuts, which offer a fantastic layer of protection for
our cells. Baking soda has been known to diminish the severity
of change produced by uranium to the kidneys, which are the first
to show radiation damages of uranium. Dosage is 1 tsp to 8 oz
water for adults and ¼ tsp in 4 oz water for children.
According
to Cheryl McCoy, Aboutclay.com, Calcium Bentonite Clay acts as
a magnet absorbing anything with a positive charge, i.e. radiation
and toxicity.
She
suggests washing all produce which may be considered radioactive
in 1 part clay to 8 parts water in a non-metallic bowl, soaking
for 10 minutes, then rinse and dry as usual.
Bentonite
clay can be added to catchment tanks, drinking water or raw milk
to isolate radioactivity, which will not be released once captured
by clay. Also, the body cannot digest clay, but will rather release
clay through excrement.
Clay
can be added to milk or drinking water at a dosage of 1 oz liquid
calcium bentonite to 1 gallon raw milk or drinking water.
Either
allow to settle and pour off or mix and consume clay and liquid.
1-2 oz liquid bentonite clay can be safely consumed per day by
an adult, with significant detox abilities. |
Avoiding
and/or Purifying Contaminated Food
[Editor's Note: The growing presence of radiation in our food
has given a macabre new meaning to the phrase "you are what
you eat" --over a two month period. According to one source,
your body will eventually become as irradiated as the average
contamination level of the food and water you ingest over a two
month period. So if you steadily ingest food and water which is
contaminated on average at a level of 20 becquerels per kilogram,
in two months your body will roughly be contaminated at the same
level].
Foods
to Avoid: Dairy Products
2011 Radioactive
Iodine in Pennsylvania Thread (pdf) by author
of "Nuclear Crimes"
"...History
tells us that agricultural products, specifically dairy products,
tend to accumulate higher contamination levels than tap water.
Radioactive
dairy products: Tainted rainwater is going to make ordinary pasture
grass and row crops slightly radioactive in all affected U.S.
states, not just California - and even in parts of Europe and
Canada. But the slightly radioactive water that will be soaked
up via roots or via drenched leaves, resulting in very minor food
contamination, will have the worst impact on the dairy product
mix. Cows graze an enormous area of grass and accumulate fallout's
iodine-131 in their milk such that the dose to the human thyroid
gland from cow milk will be 1,000
times the dose received by simply breathing radioiodines in the
pasture's air - this is according to a report in 1976 by two
Berkeley scientists. This air-grass-cow-milk-human chain is worsened
when rains deposit extra radioactive iodine to the ground because
the grass in the 'air-grass-cow-milk-human chain' is that much
more contaminated. Thus, the potential of elevated radiation levels
in California dairy milk, especially for recent rain-impacted
areas, should be a concern. This effect, called bioaccumulation,
also applies (although to a lesser extent) to cesium-137, strontium-89
and strontium-90 in milk. In America's Cold War-era environmental
radiation monitoring efforts, the presence of strontium-89 in
milk was a high short-term health concern because this milk-to-bone
traveling radioisotope emits very strong beta energies in internal
organs.
Appreciating
the full scope of the air-rain-grass-cow-milk-human-thyroid chain
is important to comprehending that sustained, elevated environmental
inputs of radioactive iodine, for example, can result in quickly
emerging public health problems. Rapidly rising milk contamination
levels could result from daily rainouts from Fukushima plumes
over California at current levels. If the plumes become more concentrated
in radioiodines, we could see something like 'the summer of '62'
in Utah."
2011-03-29 Radiation
Particles In Food Are A Slow-Release Health Threat by
Shafiz Qaadri, MD, Globe and Mail, [Rense.com]
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
"Sea
food will concentrate the plutonium
`Mollusks
will accumulate plutonium in their edible tissues at concentrations
3,000 times higher than the surrounding water, edible seaweed,
2,000 times higher than surrounding water, crustaceans 300 times
and fish 40 times.'”
2012-03-14 Nuclear
Insider: Surprise at how much cesium is moving through environment
— Crops with no direct contact to Fukushima fallout still
highly contaminated (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-03-13 Food
Sunday: Food News You Can Use, the Glow in the Dark Edition
by: TobyWollin Sunday March 13, 2011
Sort of tough for people who buy their fresh fruits
and veggies at the grocery store:”California produces more
than half the nation’s fresh fruits and is the leading producer
of fresh vegetables…California plants more than
80% of the nation’s broccoli acreage. California also produces
75% of the nation’s spinach, 75% of the nation’s fresh
tomatoes, and 95% of tomatoes used for processing….Apples,
strawberries, grapes, oranges and peaches made up 69 percent of
the value of US fresh market production. California is the leading
producer of all these fruits except apples; Washington State accounts
for half the nation’s supply.”
Assessing
the Food Contamination Danger, Finding and Preparing Relatively
Safe Food
2012-05-11 Cost
Effective Fallout Friendly Radioactive Gardening (YouTube)
(5:02) Potrblog
2012-01-12 Japanese
Struggle to Protect Their Food Supply by Marvin Fackler,
NYT
"...No
one trusts the national government’s safety standards,”
said Ichio Muto, 59, who farms organic mushrooms in Nihonmatsu,
25 miles northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. “The
only way to win back customers is to tell them everything, so
they can decide for themselves what to buy.”
Mr.
Muto is one of 250 farmers in Nihonmatsu who started a makeshift
radiation-testing center at a local truck stop. On a recent morning,
he and a half-dozen other farmers gathered in the truck stop’s
tiny kitchen. There, they diced daikon, leeks and other produce
before putting them separately into a $40,000 testing device that
was donated by a nongovernmental group.
The
farmers test samples of every crop they grow, and then they post
the results on the Internet for all to see. Mr. Muto knows firsthand
how painful such full disclosure can be: he destroyed his entire
crop of 110,000 mushrooms after tests revealed high radiation
levels.
2012-01-01 Nuclear
Awakening DIY cesium scanning store may be 'new normal'
by Jun Hongo, Staff Writer
2011-12-20 Food
in Japan, survivaljapan.wordpress.com "Safe
food is getting scarcer in Japan."
2011-09-29
Interview With Japanese Radiation Protection Expert,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
Asahi
journalist interviews Ikuro Anzai, professor emeritus at Ritsumeikan
University who specialized in radiation protection. He offers
pointed insights. I recommend reading the entire article. I am
including only his last words:
ASAHI:
"Radiation expert believes more food testing needed"
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201109280303.html
Prof.
Anzai: "The actual condition of radiation contamination is
spreading nationwide in such a manner that will not allow for
easy acceptance. I believe everyone should be prepared to face
living in a troublesome time."
Also,
becquerels rising in American farmlands...
2011-09-28 Dr. James Fetzer interview
with Leuren Moret and Dr. Christ Busby "Fukushima
Radiation and Uranium Weapon Update,"
hr 1, [Ed. Note: Leuren Moret described how Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton approved the importation of contaminated Japanese
food. See Hillary
Clinton Imports Japan's Nuked Food To America, by
Deborah Dupre, 15 April 2011, agoracosmopolitan.com].
Dr.
Fetzer: "What in God's name is going on there Leuren?
Leuren, this is so irresponsible, I mean you know I have viewed
Hillary Clinton in various ways and at various times, sometimes
with great admiration,but this is a villainous act. This is a
form of treachery in my opinion. This is utterly irresponsible,
this Hillary Clinton thinks she can intuit the safety level of
food being imported from an area that is subjected to vast nuclear
contamination?"
2011-09-24 Radioactive
Food, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"I
feel very discouraged reading about rice contamination in Japan
High
levels of radiation in rice from Obama district — “Set
off alarm in the Japanese media”
http://enenews.com/high-levels-of-radiation-found-in-japanese-rice-set-off-alarm-in-the-japanese-media
The
original story and link at Mainichi
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110924p2a00m0na017000c.html
"The
Fukushima Prefectural Government said on Sept. 23 that it had
detected 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram --
the government-set allowable limit -- in a sample of "Hitomebore"
rice collected in Nihonmatsu's Obama district...."
Blogger
Ex-SKF is also running the story
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-instance-of-radioactive-rice-with.html
Someone
named "Robert" posted an important comment at Ex-SKF's
blog post about this issue:
Robert
said...
"These
standards of 500 or 200 are arbitrary. Less than 200 becquerels
per kg due to radiocesium in rice does not make it safe to consume
the rice. If the Government of Japan were honest they would publish
a table showing the risk of cancer as odds of getting cancer for
every kg of rice consumed for people of every age from 5 to 90
years old. World renowned late physicist and physician John Gofman
published such a table of risks of getting cancer from common
medical x-ray exams in a book he wrote with a similar title. The
risks were in the form of odds such as 1 in 500,000, or 1 in 87.
He tabulated these risks, and they varied widely depending on
the type of exam and the age of the person. The youngest people
including children had the highest risk, because risk is greater
for the people with the statistical greatest continued life span.
While obviously double blinded studies are unethical to study
cesium, enough data can be obtained from data from previous accidents
and other sources to enable an educated estimates. THIS WILL ALLOW
PEOPLE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY CONSIDER IT DANGEROUS OR NOT
BASED ON THEIR OWN VIEWS OF LIFE. Another thing Dr. Gofman discovered
is that there is no safe threshold for radiation. He also discovered
the fact that, low radiation is more dangerous than the proportional
numbers would indicate. That is consuming rice at 50 becquerels
per kg is more than 50 percent as dangerous as consuming it at
100 becquerels per kg. So learn the facts and beware and don't
depend on arbitrary standards that are moved up and down like
a yo yo to accommodate the current economic viewpoint of the big
interests."
Majia
here: consuming radioactive food is a big problem. Rice is just
the tip of the iceberg because beef, vegetables and water have
also been contaminated in Japan. Let me provide some examples
of reports of contaminated food that occurred earlier in the disaster
plus an assessment of the dangers of radioactive food, which supports
comments made above by Robert.
2011-09-04 Rense
& Michael Collins - Fukushima Radiation in our Food! (talk
show soundtrack on video)
2011-07-15 Eat
Me by Michael Collins, enviroreporter.com.
"When
Denise Anne and I started Radiation Station exactly four months
ago today, we had no idea how much the ongoing meltdowns at the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex were going to change our lives.
Within
days, we began live-streaming ambient interior and exterior radiation
readings 24-7 in the western Los Angeles Basin where millions
of people live. We equipped ourselves with High Efficiency Air
Particle (HEPA) filters and a countertop
reverse osmosis water purification system* which
we use along with a previously purchased Berkey water filter...
...While
the ambient air readings have been generally benign, our tests
of rain water, so-called June Gloom mist, HEPA filter dust, some
powdered milk, chocolate and fruit have shown preliminary indications
of elevated radiation levels that point to a culprit upwind of
us, Fukushima. Astronomical amounts of highly fissile radioactive
material have been spewing out of Fukushima unceasingly since
three reactors melted down March 15.
Generally,
Los Angeles has been the beneficiary of being south of where the
jet stream across the Pacific has flowed since March. Fukushima
is upwind of the United States, however, and other regions like
the Bay Area, Northern California, the Northwest and Midwest have
been hammered by high radiation. Potrblog
in St. Louis has repeatedly tested rainwater coming in at 62 times
background radiation, a level that is dozens of times more than
what the Environmental Protection Agency considers harmful.
GO
TO EAT ME RECEIPTS
So
where is the EPA in testing your food for Fukushima fallout contamination?
They tested for it from March 11 through June 30 and then said
sayonara to enhanced monitoring even though many of their readings
were abnormally high.
The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission has repeatedly discounted any possibility
that Fukushima fallout could impact America. This week, the NRC
released its Near-Term
Task Force report on Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century.
Scanning
this report we discovered that it includes a dedication to individuals
who responded to the Fukushima disaster for their efforts that
have resulted in “no fatalities and the expectation of no
significant radiological health effects” from the disaster.
The
amount of radiation that has oozed into the ocean and steamed
into the air at Fukushima is huge and will most certainly have
significant radiological health effects. To dare to print such
dangerous nonsense belies either incomprehension of science or
another agenda driven by money and power. Neither is acceptable.
The
government’s take on this is that it’s over even though
just one of the destroyed reactors contains enough Plutonium-239
to kill every person on the planet six times over. The deliberately
misleading head-in-the-sand policy adopted by the government has
put the citizenry at risk without their consent.
The
EPA decision to halt testing came over a week before the Japanese
owner of the stricken reactors, TEPCO, admitted that three of
the six reactors melted down on the first day. The EPA didn’t
reconsider resumed fallout testing upon learning this nor did
it when it was subsequently informed through the media that these
reactors have undergone something much more terrifying and uncontrollable
which is called a melt-through.
A
melt-through is when the molten goo of a reactor in full meltdown
burns its way through its containment vessel of steel and concrete.
Now TEPCO says it won’t even be able to fix the destroyed
fuel rods for at least ten years as if these “rods”
even were intact.
And
the EPA has not even made a peep about resumed and more robust
radiological testing across the nation that has already seen environmental
contamination of air, water and food. Finds in foodstuffs and
rainwater by the University of Berkeley have shown extensive impacts
from radionuclides associated with meltdowns. Fukushima’s
fingerprints are all over the place.
The
American people are on their own, ‘reassured’ by people
claiming authority to posit what on the face of it is a complete
falsehood: that this out of control situation, which is getting
worse by the day, could in no way affect the health and well being
of the creatures that inhabit this land. It already has. It could
take years or decades to see the tragic results.
Geiger
counters are virtually impossible to obtain. Most Americans haven’t
a clue about the threat that this silent and growing menace poses
to our water supply, crops, animals, land, environment, health
and gene pool. Even now, with two reactor complexes threatened
with flooding from the Missouri River and another back east spewing
water from its reactor, most folks carry on as if there aren’t
three meltdowns upwind of us, three melt-throughs that threaten
an ecological calamity the likes of which humanity has never seen.
They
won’t see it either because radiation is invisible. It’s
also tasteless and doesn’t smell. That makes foraging for
fallout-free food so challenging.*
Even
though Denise Anne and I have radically adapted our diet to the
new realities of radiation contamination, searching out pre-March
11 produced items, finding food grown south of the Equator, growing
our own and knowing which foods currently on the grocery shelves
were made with last summer’s harvest, most corn being an
important example.
We
still consume items that aren’t guaranteed to be fallout
free. These items have to be tested.
Lucky
for us we have an Inspector nuclear radiation monitor which I
have used for nearly a dozen years in my role as an environmental
investigative reporter. While it may not catch everything due
to limitations beyond my control, it sure does catch a lot.
When
we go shopping, we first aim to shop rad-smart and then test the
items upon returning home. Sometimes, however, I will test items
in stores to save me the problem of buying something I know could
be impacted by Fukushima. Other times, I’ll test the groceries
out in the car before driving off.
The
EPA is not testing our food adequately. Our answer to that is
Eat Me.
We want to share with you our purchases in an effort to let you
see what we have found to be rad-free. It’s no guarantee
that these items are totally rad free – to better elucidate
that we would need this Ludlum
Isotopic Identifier which only costs a mere $15,678.57. (Of
course, if you’d like to help us move towards our goal of
purchasing this radionuclide identifier, please see the PayPal
button on the sidebar of this site.)
But
you can damn well bet the farm that I’m not serving up anything
contaminated to my bride. And I will work to the best of my ability
to find food that’s not hot and test the stuff that may
be.
The
receipts we’re sharing are from post-Fukushima purchases
and do not include everything we eat (we are fortunate to be stocked
up on plenty of pre-Fukushima food). You may notice we aren’t
exactly gourmet diners and it’s possible you’ll not
share our preferences.
We
simply want to put our money where our mouth is and our mouth
where our money is so to speak. You can too – please feel
free to share your discoveries and tips in our Comments section
below.
One
last thing – if you use these receipts to better judge food
options open to you, you agree to abide by our Disclaimer.
We
will update Eat Me with receipts every time we shop.
Bon
Appétit!
GO
TO EAT ME RECEIPTS
*We
bought our reverse-osmosis machine from Southern California-based
Advanced Purification Engineering Corp. and were so impressed
that we became an affiliate. If you buy
through us the company will pay us a commission which
will be used to run EnviroReporter.com’s Radiation
Station and our multiple investigations."
2011-07-12 Food
Testing Data Made Public; Find Radiation Levels By Food And Region,
simplyinfo.org.
2011-05-27 Feel
like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the
problem, farmwars.info
"Treating
Veggies and Fruits
Clay
According
to the CRIRAD “Spinach, salads, cabbage and other vegetables
with large surface areas are among those food products that are
particularly sensitive to iodine-131 contamination, if they are
cultivated outside and exposed to rainwater. Washing vegetables
does not help, as iodine-131 is quickly metabolized by the plants.”
Calcium
Bentonite clay has been proven to remove radiation. Not only can
the clay remove radiation but it can also remove pesticides and
toxins.
Because
Calcium Bentonite Clay has a strong, negative ionic charge, it
will act like a magnet when activated with water, adsorbing* and
absorbing radiation, pesticides and toxins. The clay grabs these
substances which get removed when the clay is washed off.
How
to Wash Your Vegetables:
Mix
1 part Calcium Bentonite Clay to 8 parts of water. In a large
bowl (non-metallic), mix ¼ cup of liquid clay with 1 quart
of water. Toss your produce in this clay water, ensuring complete
coverage, and let sit for about 10 minutes. (for a large batch
of produce, use more clay/water). Rinse, dry and store. (Vites)
2011-04-26 Bioaccumulation:
Why Fukushima Matters by Lucas Hixson, lucaswhitefieldhixson.com
2011-04-25
[Personal
Healthy] Solutions to the Fukushima Disaster, joyenergyandhealth.com.
2011-04-21 My
"safe" foods list, nuc.berkeley.edu. "I
have been calling and emailing companies to get food production
dates to avoid foods produced in California that might have been
affected by radiation from the nuclear accident. I share these
in case others might be doing something similar."
2011-04-21
Areas
Where Food May Already Have Radioactive Fallout,
Vesica.org [Rense.com]
2011-04-11 Independent
French radiation commission warns Europe that health risk from
Fukushima fallout is “no longer negligible” —
Says US west coast has 8-10 times more contamination,
enenews.com.
Radiation
risks from Fukushima ‘no longer negligible’, EurActive,
April 11, 2011:
[Emphasis
Added]
The
risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe
are no longer “negligible,” according to
CRIIRAD
[Commission de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes
sur la Radioactivité], an independent French research body
on radioactivity. …
The
document, published on 7 April, advises against consuming rainwater
and says vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant
or breastfeeding women should avoid consuming vegetables with
large leaves, fresh milk and creamy cheese.
The
risks related to prolonged contamination among vulnerable groups
of the population can no longer be considered “negligible”
and it is now necessary to avoid “risky behaviour,”
CRIIRAD claimed. …
[This]
is applicable to other European countries, as the level of air
contamination is currently the same in Belgium, Germany, Italy
and Switzerland, for instance.
Data
for the west coast of the United States, which
received the Fukushima radioactive fallout 6-10 days before France,
reveals that levels of radioactive iodine-131 concentration
are 8-10 times higher there, the institute says.
What
level of radiation can be a risk?
The
Euratom
[European Atomic Energy Community] Directive of 13 May 1996 establishes
general principles and safety standards on radiation protection
in Europe. …
Beyond
[ten micro sieverts per year], possible measures should be considered
to reduce exposure, it says. …
CRIIRAD
notes that the amount of iodine-131 capable of delivering a dose
of 10 [microsieverts] varies greatly depending on the age of consumers.
Children up to two years old are the most vulnerable and
ingestion of 50 becquerel (Bq) is enough to deliver to the body
a dose of 10 [microsieverts], according to the institute.
If
the foods (leafy vegetables, milk etc.) contain between one and
10 Bq per kg or more, it is possible that the reference
level of 10 [microsieverts] may be exceeded within two to three
weeks, the institute added. …
Read
the article here.
Read
the CRIIRAD report here.
2011-03-29 Radiation
Particles In Food Are A Slow-Release Health Threat by
Shafiz Qaadri, MD, Globe and Mail, [Rense.com]
2011: Chapter
11 -Fukushima Daiichi: Where to go and source
food in a world increasingly made radioactive, nuclearcrimes.org
2008-08-02 Survivalist
Forum: Supermarket foods with the longest shelf life? [Thread],
How to Read Dates on Cans and Packaged Food, 7:53 PM blog
entry by "Mary" [scroll about a fourth the
way down the web page to pick up her entry], survivalistboards.com.
The following is a sample shelf life code analysis:
"Campbells Soup 1-800-442-7684
Shelf Life After Packed: 2 yrs
Date on Item Is: Expiration date (and canned date)
Example: SEP 00 10028 (expires 9-2000, canned 10-02-98)"
2006-01-23 Sweetened
Condensed Milk Question [discussion
thread], 01:13 PM entry by "Kitchen Witch Master
Chef," More discussion of Manufacturer’s Date Packaged
(DP) code systems used by different manufacturers.
1999-01-14 Food
Shelf Life Recommendations [scribd document]
1989-10-12
Radiocaesium
contents of meat in Italy after the Chernobyl accident and their
changes during the cooking process by
M. Lofti, M. Nataro, S. Piermattei, L. Tommasino,
D. Azimi-Garakani, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Abstract
Levels of radioactive contamination in meat have been studied,
along with ways of decreasing them. Specifically, radiocaesium
concentrations in a range of samples of different types of meat
collected throughout Italy since April 1986 are presented here.
The samples are of beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey and rabbit.
It was found that the radiocaesium content of lamb is higher than
that in any of the other meat types considered here. Studies of
the decrease in the radiocaesium content of meat during cooking
showed that, when the meat is cooked in salt water (1%), the activity
decreases by as much as 80% relative to uncooked samples.
[Undated] Candy
Questions: Candy Life and Storage [Shelf Life], scoops-scoops.com
[Undated] Food
Storage Guidelines for Consumers, pubs.ext.vt.edu.
[Undated] Family
Survival Planning Food Storage Guidelines, family-survival-planning.com
[Undated] Survival
Food, globalsecurity.org
Recovering
Farmland and Decontaminating Farm Animals
2010-07-30 A
Quarter Century after Chernobyl Radioactive Boar on the Rise in
Germany by Charles Hawley, spiegel.de. [Use of Giese
Salt]
...Contaminated
Wild Pig
Wild
boar are particularly susceptible to radioactive contamination
due to their predilection for chomping on mushrooms and truffles,
which are particularly efficient at absorbing radioactivity. Indeed,
whereas radioactivity in some vegetation is expected to continue
declining, the contamination of some types of mushrooms and truffles
will likely remain the same, and may even rise slightly -- even
a quarter century after the Chernobyl accident.
"In
the regions where it is particularly problematic, all boar that
are shot are checked for radiation," reports Andreas Leppmann,
from the German Hunting Federation. There are 70 measuring stations
in Bavaria alone.
In
addition, for the last year and a half, Bavarian hunters have
been testing ways to reduce the amount of caesium-137 absorbed
by wild boar. A chemical mixture known as Giese salt, when ingested,
has been shown to accelerate the excretion of the radioactive
substance. Giese salt, also known as AFCF, is a caesium binder
and has been used successfully to reduce radiation in farm animals
after Chernobyl. According to Joachim Reddemann, an expert on
radioactivity in wild boar with the Bavarian Hunting Federation,
a pilot program in Bavaria that started a year and a half ago
has managed to significantly reduce the number of contaminated
animals..."
[Undated] Rhizofiltration,
hawaii.edu. "Rhizofiltration
refers to the use of plant roots to absorb, concentrate, and precipitate
toxic metals from contaminated groundwater. Initially, suitable
plants with stable root systems are supplied with contaminated
water to acclimate the plants. These plants are then transferred
to the contaminated site to collect the contaminants, and once
the roots are saturated, they are harvested. Rhizofiltration allows
in-situ treatment, minimizing disturbance to the environment."
[Undated] Directory:Nuclear
Remediation, "Index of technologies that neutralize
or mitigate radioactive waste. With such technologies developed,
nuclear power once again becomes attractive, because the spent
fuel no longer is a hot issue. U.S. DOE knows of this technology
but chooses to not promote it for some reason that they are not
disclosing." [Editor's Note: I do not know enough about these
alleged technologies to vouch for their validity, but list this
site for future investigation]
[Undated] Bio
-Remediation - The Natural Way (pdf)
"Sunflowers
(Helianthus sp.) have the ability to remove radioactive and toxic
metals from soil and water. Some strains of sunflowers can remove
up to 95% of toxic contaminants in 24 hours and will remove all
contaminants in longer time frames. One test in Ohio showed that
water containing 350 PPB uranium entered the test plot and emerged
at 5 PPB or less, well below the EPA standard of 20 PPB. A test
at Chernobyl in Russia found that sunflower growing on styrofoam
rafts had roots that registered 8,000 times more cesium and 2000
times more strontium than surrounding water.Wall Street Journal."
|
Radiation
Measurement and Protection Equipment
Radiation
Measurement Devices
Civil
Defense geiger counters (wikipedia)
Whole
body counting (wikipedia)
[Undated] radiationnetwork.com
(discusses geiger counter models)
[Undated] geigercounters.com,
carries many different models. [During his 15 Oct 2012 interview
with Michael Collins of EnviroReporter.com
(MP3 download here),
Jeff Rense of Rense.com recommended
the Inspector
Plus with its rubber cover at 17:00 in. This detects
alpha and beta as well as gamma radation which is necessary to
check levels of food
contamination].
[Undated] Low
Cost Geiger Counter, From Quarta Radiation Monitor,
measures gamma radiation
[Undated] SE
International, manufacturer of the Inspector
Handheld Digital Radiation Alert® Detector. Also has a
good discussion of radiation
basics.
[Undated] Build
Your Own Geiger Counter
[Undated] The
RADALERT INSPECTOR Nuclear Radiation Monitor & Alarm.
This is the model used in potrblog videos. Operating manual pdf
Here.
[Undated] NukAlert
Operating Manual; "The NukAlert™ is a
calibrated radiation meter that alarms when exposed to dangerous
levels of nuclear radiation. It does not respond to relatively
safe, low level radiation. Its primary utility is to aid in the
location and evaluation of shelter during a radiation emergency.
It may also be used to verify the reduction of radiation during
evacuation. The NukAlert™ indicates radiation exposure by
producing groups of audible alarm chirps about twice per minute.
The number of chirps per group is easily counted. The approximate
radiation intensity is indicated by the number of chirps produced
per group. The lowest indicated level of radiation (0.1 Roentgen
per hour) will cause a single chirp every 35 seconds. With each
doubling of the radiation intensity an additional chirp is added
to each alarm chirp group. At 0.2 R/hr the unit will double chirp
every 30 seconds. At 0.4 R/hr it will chirp three times in a row,
repeating every 25 seconds, etc. At the highest level (above 50
R/hr) the alarm will change to an uninterrupted series of siren-like
sounds that become shorter and more frequent if the exposure rate
continues to increase?
2011-12-12 NOW
Is an Excellent Time To Buy A Geiger Counter!, Potrblog.com,
"Right
now is a good time to order a Surface Contamination Meter type
Geiger Counter such as the Medcom Inspector Geiger Counter. The
current "bird in the hand" sweet spot of public apathy/ignorance
combined with a supply chain that has met initial high demand
Geiger counter demand has led to situation where you can order
a good "pancake" style Geiger counter with minimal waiting.
The "two in the bush" pricing scenario would be about
6 months to a year out assuming nothing happens in Fukushima to
increase demand (or hyper inflation hits).
Because
of this improved scenario we have finally added a Geiger counter
to our "Risk Mitigation widget". At the moment the very
best deal seems to be the Inspector with an extreme boot protective
case for $555. That is the best price we have seen in a long time.
Act now if you think you need a Geiger counter. (If you don't
have a water filter yet, your money would be better spent buying
one)
Here
is a link
to the best deal we have seen on the Inspector + Extreme Boot
$555
2011-11-30 Inspector
Alert Case Study Update, survivaljapan.wordpress.com.
"This
post is an update of Geiger Counter Case Study: Inspector Alert
published on SurvivalJapan in which some questions remained open,
mainly about the relatively high values (although still in the
safe range) which I measured with the system kindly lent to me
by Safecast and from whom I received some further advice.
The
Safecast bGeigie system is designed to measure mainly gamma rays
(high energy protons, akin to X-rays) and hence is used at least
one meter above ground in their radiation maps. Since I live in
the monitored land, several hundred miles away from Fukushima,
gamma radiation is low and not really a concern. Therefore I had
measured instead beta radiation (high energy electrons or positrons
which are emitted back from the ground after radioactive fall-out)
at about one foot above ground. For convenience, I monitored the
level of radiation with the Safecast display which communicates
by radio with the Inspector Alert safely cast in its lunchbox
style (in Japanese “bento”) box, along with the GPS
and SD memory card to geo-locate and store results. The Safecast
team advised against this methodology for beta radiation pick-up
and advised me to use the Inspector Alert alone for that matter
– which I did...
2011-10-15 Mid-October
Status and Rationale, survivaljapan.wordpress.com.
"1.
Improved environment radiation monitoring
The
general lack of information and action is a temporary psychological
relief but it is also dangerous. Besides previous recommendations
about food made in SurvivalJapan (cf. tag “food”),
we should monitor radiation on following sites in every prefecture
of the monitored land and nuclear-free land:
*
near each incineration plants
*
on sites in the mountains where citizens and businesses alike
illegally dump their garbage (old TV sets, stolen bikes, etc.
– where all the great Japanese electronics companies products
usually end up their life)
*
near sites where construction-related companies and so-called
“gumi” (associations) park their trucks in the mountains,
usually hidden behind corrugated sheet metal walls like entrenched
forts, with or without dogs (careful with these people)
*
at each garbage disposal sites
*
near cement companies (careful again with construction-related
workers…)
*
near companies that specialize in construction material recycling
(same remark as construction sector)
Lakes
and ponds were also always favored to dispose of hazardous material
(Lake Geneva in Switzerland is filled with all kinds of weapons,
nerve agents, etc., the Baltic Sea is littered with Russian nuclear
waste and Biwako lake in Japan is heavily polluted too as a few
examples). Streams should also be monitored. As it is difficult
to measure radiation in liquids, fresh water fish, shells and
algae like aonori should be monitored as to give an indication.
2.
Example of unsuspected and widespread food contamination : irradiated
seaweed extracts
Besides
this constant environmental monitoring which is completely lacking
in these regions, radioactivity ingestion risks exists in forms
that are not well-known to the general public and which are difficult
to avoid (in order to grasp the extent of the issue, read for
instance Exa-Becquerel
Now In Pacific Ocean? on SurvivalJapan and related posts).
For example, seaweed yields:
*
alginic acid (slimming aids, appetite suppressants, etc.),
*
agar (many Western and Asian desserts alike including delicious
Japanese yokan – but also used in dentistry, modeling clay
for kids, etc.),
*
carrageenan (desserts, ice cream, cream, milkshakes, sweetened
condensed milks, sauces, beer, pâtés and processed
meats like ham, etc. fatty foods without fat, toothpaste, fruit
gushers, as a excipient in pills / tablets, in soy milk, diet
sodas, but also fire fighting foam, shampoo and cosmetic creams,
air freshener gels, fabric marbling, shoe polish, pet food, personal
lubricants and sexual lubricants, etc.).
Ocean
radiation spill has further increased the risk of eating processed
food, but also of using cosmetics, etc.
Here
is a link to hydrocolloids producers worldwide, among which a
few Japanese companies of course, for example:
*
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma subsidiary named DSP Gokyo Food &
Chemicals,
*
Fuji Chemical Industry Co Ltd
*
Kimica Corporation
*
Kirin Kyowa Foods Inc. (the Japanese products page is much more
detailed… – and yes, a sister company of Kirin Breweries
– cheers to a “healthy” beer!)
*
Shimizu Chemical Corporation
*
Etc. etc. (food processing is an endless topic and a worldwide
industry, Cf. the movie The Informant! for a fun introduction
and bon appétit! if you like prawns)
A
positive side of the Japanese nuclear crisis in Japan is that
it may have raised the awareness of the multiple dangers of the
nuclear industry of course, but also of industrial food, etc.
Conclusion
Although
it is of course impossible to avoid every risk, we should remain
on our guard and probably purchase and use a Geiger counter anywhere
in the world now, as some industrial countries soils are as irradiated
as in Japan “monitored land” from wild dumps of uranium
extraction waste, nuclear bomb testings, nuclear plant spills
and wild waste dumps – including from medical and research
facilities, etc. Leaving Japan is not necessarily the solution
as it might be worse in your home country without you never having
realized it for lack of any large-scale disaster happening yet.
Education, positive action and life choices, citizen monitoring
are part of the solution to a multi-dimensional problem which
is bigger than just a nuclear issue.
2011-03-24 You
won't detect radiation from Japan in the U.S. with old Civil Defense
Radiation Detectors,
"PLEASE
READ! Here's a semi-coherent attempt I made to describe the old
Civil Defense Geiger counters that are now selling on ebay for
ridiculous prices. You won't be able to detect the very slight
radiation that might make it here from Japan with these old detectors.
I try to explain that in the video. Hope it makes sense. The old
civil defense high-range detectors CD V-710, CD V-715, CD V-717,
CD V-720s are very high range gamma radiation detectors. They
ARE NOT Geiger Counters as they are being called on ebay. These
high-range detectors were designed to detect levels of radiation
hundreds of times higher than a geiger counter. Please don't waste
your money on one thinking you'll be able to detect radiation
from Japan in the United States with these. Also any radiation
that might make it to the U.S. will be so diluted that the CD
V-700 Geiger Counters most likely will not detect it either. If
you do get a geiger counter keep in mind that there is background
radiation everywhere. Just because you get a slight reading doesn't
mean it's radiation from the nuclear plant in Japan."
Food radiation detection and broad spectrum
measurement devices
[Undated] Ludlum
Model 711 Radiation Isotope Identifier; EnviroReporter.com
started an Isotopic
Identifier Fund to raise $22,750.00 around Feb 2012 stating
"Labs are too expensive to test numerous samples for radiation,
costing $500 to $700 easily for a small suite of radionuclides
per sample. This add up very quickly." In a Jeff Rense interview,
Michael Collins said this would be especially handy for testing
food in grocery stores. Regular geiger counters just test for
gamma radiation, and miss alpha and beta. Nor do regular geiger
counters tell you the witch's brew of radioactive isotopes that
typically accompany such major forms of fallout as I-131 and Cs-137.
[Undated] Atomtex gamma
spectrum analyzer
[Undated] Measuring
radiation in food with a geiger counter, geigercounters.com.
[Undated] Whole
Body Counter Laboratory, the Institute of Radiation
Safety "BelRad."
[Undated] Radiometric
Devices, the Institute of Radiation Safety "BelRad."
|
Misc.
Radiation Protection Equipment
Respirator
Respirator,
Wikipedia.org
[Undated] Cheaper
Than Dirt (supplier) N95 respirator
[Undated] Grainger.com
(supplier) reusable respirator
[Undated] N-95 Respirator and
P100
Respirator,
"For
air purifying respirators (APRs) there are nine classes of particulates
filters (three levels of filter efficiency, each with three categories
of resistance to filter efficiency degradation). The most common
commercially available cartridges are the "N-95"(not
oil resistant and 95% efficient) and "P-100 (oil-proof and
100% efficient).
The
three levels of filter efficiency are 95%, 99%, and 99.97% and
are labeled either as 95, 99 and 100. Higher filter efficiency
means lower leakage, hence greater protection. Since there are
no safe or threshold levels where exposure to a biological agent
(bacteria, virus, or spore) is considered safe, the particulate
filter that offers the highest level of protection must be used.
The 99.97% (100) filter efficiency recommendation is consistent
with NIOSH recommendations for emergency response to biological
agent incidents."
2011-06-02 Is
Your Lawn Radioactive Too? N95 Dust Mask Test (video)
by potrblog
"I
mowed the lawn on Memorial Day, and wore the N95 dust mask shown
in the video. After roughly 2 hours in the backyard mowing, the
Geiger counter readings of the mask showed radioactive contamination
as high as 0.03 mR/hr. Normally I would call that 3X background,
but background levels were a little more variable the day of the
test making the reading less precise. To be conservative, the
contamination readings from the mask varied from 1x to 2x background
radiation. The grass was dry to the touch in the yard, but slightly
damp in the bag. No visible dirt or dust was kicked up from the
mowing. I have performed the same test a few times over the last
several weeks, and there has been indications of radioactive contamination
every time."
Air
Filtering Devices
2011-08-11 HEPA
Filters – August 11, 2011, by Michael Collins,
enviroreporter.com (reporting from Los Angeles).
HEPA
PART 1
2:15
pm 10-minute INTERIOR average of HONEYWELL HEPA FILTER HOT SPOT
FROM 7/19/11 = 23 DAYS OF USE IN RADIATION STATION: 85 CPM which
is 237% of PREVIOUS INTERIOR BACKGROUND OF 35.8 CPM
When
the Honeywell HEPA filter air cleaner’s Pre-Filter light
came on, it was time to vacuum out the barrel-shaped device and
test the contents. Even without any rain and just 23 days of service
since the last cleaning and testing, one spot on the pre-filter,
as this video shows, came in approximately 85 CPM in this spot
check, much like the one done on those two peaches 208% of background
that caused quite a reaction. Unlike those peaches, which you
can choose to consume or not, the air is something you must breathe.
And even here in sunny Southern California, south of the jet stream
that is transporting fallout across the U.S., Canada and beyond,
this filter saved our lungs from inhaling fissile radionuclides,
an important reduction in our overall radiation burden reduction
efforts.
HEPA
PART 2
3:00
pm 10-minute INTERIOR average of HONEYWELL HEPA FILTER AGGREGATE
FROM 7/19/11 = 23 DAYS OF USE IN RADIATION STATION: 80.0 CPM which
is 229% of PREVIOUS INTERIOR BACKGROUND OF 35.8 CPM
Radiation
Station is generally upwind of most of the Greater Los Angeles
Basin and close to the Pacific Ocean. Even with the sea breezes,
the dust you see collected and compressed from the Honeywell HEPA
machine is substantial, especially considering that the station
is dusted and vacuumed regularly. By vacuuming out the HEPA machines,
they return to higher flow rate efficiency and the aggregate dust
and debris can be analyzed. The ten-minute average gives a much
more credible number than spot checking. That said, the close
values of the aggregate average and the hot spot checking indicate
accurate spot checking technique.
The
high 237% of previous background reading indicates that even without
rain, fallout is still impacting our area brought in, in part,
by our season “June Gloom” which we have found to
have had elevated radiation readings. We reduce how much radioactivity
we track into Radiation Station by removing our footwear and keeping
the floors squeaky clean.
HEPA
PART 3
3:50
pm 10-minute INTERIOR average of KENMORE PLASMAWAVE AIR CLEANER/HEPA
FILTER AGGREGATE FROM 7/19/11 = 23 DAYS OF USE IN RADIATION STATION:
68.1 CPM which is 190% of PREVIOUS INTERIOR BACKGROUND OF 35.8
CPM
Reducing
and eliminating exposure to radioactivity in the air and dust
is enhanced by use of HEPA filters in the home and office. Even
with a heavy duty ionizer in a second room of Radiation Station,
the Kenmore Plasmawave machine still picked up 190% of background,
significant relatively dry weather Southern California has been
experiencing. Other HEPA filter readings in the region, including
nearby Glendale, also show heightened ionization.
Fukushima
Daiichi fallout is not run of the mill ‘natural’ radioactivity
like the uranium and radium found in many soils. It is made up
of five months’ worth of three nuclear reactors melting
down and spewing astronomical amounts of radiation into the atmosphere
and Pacific Ocean. The jaw-dropping recent rain readings in Oklahoma
City, North Carolina, western and central Canada do not evaporate
with the rain. They remain and are effecting our water supplies,
crops, livestock and this continent’s wildlife forced to
feed and drink upon this disaster’s fallout.
These
videos show that even out of the hottest zones (and that’s
not even including Japan, wide swaths of which are massively irradiated),
significant radiation is being found in sunny Southern California
in the mists and air.
Radiation
suit
[Undated]
DEMRON
Full body suit for radiation protection
|
Supplements
to Counter Radiation Effects
Overview
According
to many sources, the best overall strategy is to use all of the
following approaches simultaneously:
1) Preemptive strategy
a)
Absorb radionuclides in food before serving it; For example, many
sources claim that Zeolite and Bentonite clay can absorb radionuclides
in milk.
b)
Bind radionuclides in food as it passes through the GI tract to
prevent it from being absorbed into the body. For example, according
to many sources clay and Zeolite help in this process. Also, aid
absorption of heavy metals being excreted into the GI tract by
the liver and other organs to make sure they are excreted and
not reabsorbed back into the blood stream.
c)
Saturate vital organs with key nutrients before they absorb radionuclide
mimickers. For example, load thyroid with healthy iodine to preempt
absorption of radioactive iodine. Load body with healthy forms
of calcium and magnesium to reduce uptake of cells of radioactive
calcium and magnesium mimickers.
2) Excretory Strategy: Stimulate the body's natural processes
of binding and excreting heavy metals to reduce the density of
radionuclides in ones body and the time period in which they can
cause damage through internal radiation.
a
) Bolster the health and functioning of the liver and other organs
which filter and excrete heavy metals.
b
) Improve the ability of other heavy metal excretory organs (such
as the skin) to get rid or radionuclides.
3). Overall health system enhancement strategy: Boost
immune system and other defenses to reduce the damage being wrought
by internal radiation.
This
is probably the most open-ended of all areas, because it can encompass
almost all "health food" and "healthy lifestyle"
options. It can include improving the ability of the body to handle
and repair damage from the internal radiation "load"
that has already gotten inside the body. This can include taking
adequate nutrients necessary to maximize healthy antioxidants
in ones system.
2012-06-19 Fukushima
radiation cover-up continues, here’s how to protect yourself
by Popeye, federaljack.com.
2011-03 Medicine
and Nutrition for Survival -- March 2011 (pdf), Authored and/or edited by:
David Vaughan, CN, Christopher Hussar, DO, DDS,
Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD
"... there is an even more critical piece of the diet puzzle that must be sorted out.
And that has to do again with optimizing cellular metabolic efficiency. The best
method we have found for doing this is a system called Metabolic Typing. It can identify what
the dominant force behind your individual metabolism, measure it, then recommend the exact
foods and nutrients required to bring it into optimal function. There is no other system we have
found that can do this. This method can determine whether you will do best on a vegetarian
diet, a high protein diet, or somewhere in between. No one diet fits all and no other system
recommends the right diet specific to the individual from a whole spectrum of different diets
styles. There is a book title The Metabolic Typing Diet that can explain the principles behind this
approach, and the book does have a questionnaire in it that can help you determine a piece of
your metabolism, but the professional level questionnaire that will determine your exact
Metabolic Type and the correct diet and nutritional supplements for you is available here for a
small fee: www.metabolictypingonline.com
With this system you will avoid the trap that many fall into of reading that for instance, that
zinc is good for immune function, then buy some zinc only to unknowingly be worsening their
metabolic efficiency and undermining dozens of metabolic functions for the sake of improving
one not-so-important and minor function that is ultimately controlled by the ones they just
suppressed. Dietary nutrition really requires a full “systems approach” to be effective and get to
the ultimate goal of all medicine and nutrition, namely (and again) the optimization of the
metabolic functions that control absolutely everything in your body."
|

(Short list version) |
Isotopes
of Interest: Properties, Treatment, and Fact Sheets
From: Radiation
Emergency Medical Management, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services
pdf download here
|
Isotope |
Ionizing
radiation
decay mode |
Radioactive
half-life |
Biological
half-life |
Major
exposure
pathways |
Focal
accumulation |
Treatment:
References for use |
Fact
sheets
(CDC,
ATSDR,
EPA,
Argonne
Natl. Lab) |
Americium
(Am-241) |
Alpha |
458 years |
73,000 days |
Inhalation
Skin |
Lungs
Liver
Bone
Bone marrow |
DTPA
1 * |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Californium
(Cf-252) |
Alpha,
Gamma |
2.6 years |
N/A |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Bone
Liver |
DTPA
* |
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Cesium
(Cs-137) |
Beta,
Gamma |
30 years |
70 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Follows potassium;
renal excretion |
Prussian
blue, insoluble 1 * |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Cobalt
(Co-60) |
Beta,
Gamma |
5.26 years |
9.5 days |
Inhalation |
Liver |
Succimer
(DMSA) 1 (DailyMed)
DTPA
*
EDTA§
N-Acetyl-L-cysteine§ |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Curium
(Cm-244) |
Alpha, Gamma,
Neutron |
18 years |
Liver:
7,300 days
Bone:
18,250 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Liver
Bone |
DTPA
1 * |
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Iodine
(I-131) |
Beta,
Gamma |
8.1 days |
138 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion
Skin |
Thyroid |
Potassium
iodide1
Saturated solution of potassium iodide§
Propylthiouracil§
Methimazole§
Potassium iodate§ |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 39 KB) |
Iridium
(Ir-192) |
Beta,
Gamma |
74 days |
50 days |
N/A |
Spleen |
Consider DTPA*
Consider EDTA§ |
CDC
Argonne
(PDF - 95 KB) |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Beta |
14.3 days |
1,155 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion
Skin |
Bone
Bone marrow
Rapidly replicating cells |
Hydration +
Phosphate drugs
Sodium
glycerophosphate§
Sodium
phosphate§
Potassium
phosphate§
Calcium
carbonate§
Aluminum
hydroxide§
Aluminum
carbonate§
Sevelamer§
(DailyMed) |
|
Plutonium
(Pu-239) |
Alpha |
2.2 x 10^4
years |
73,000 days |
Inhalation
(limited absorption) |
Lung
Bone
Bone marrow
Liver
Gonads |
DTPA§
DFOA§
EDTA§
DTPA + DFOA§ |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 58 KB) |
Polonium
(Po-210) |
Alpha |
138.4 days |
60 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion
Skin |
Spleen
Kidneys
Lymph nodes
Bone marrow
Liver
Lung mucosa |
Gastric Lavage
Dimercaprol
(BAL)*
Succimer
(DMSA)§ (DailyMed)
D-Penicillamine§
(DailyMed) |
CDC
Argonne
(PDF - 41 KB)
HPS (PDF
- 492 KB)
NRC
More
references |
Radium
(Ra-226) |
Alpha,
B eta,
Gamma |
1,602 years |
16,400 days |
Ingestion |
Bone |
Aluminum
hydroxide*
Barium
sulfate*
Sodium
alginate§
Calcium
phosphate§ |
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 52 KB) |
Strontium
(Sr-90)
|
Beta |
28 years |
18,000 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Bone |
Inhalation:
Calcium
gluconate§
Barium
sulfate§ Ingestion:
Rx is the same as for radium (see above). Additional Rx may include
stable strontium compounds:
Strontium lactate§
Strontium gluconate§ |
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne (PDF
- 39 KB) |
Thorium
(Th-232) |
Alpha |
1.41 x 10^10
years |
Bone:
8,030 days
Liver/total body:
700 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Bone |
Consider DTPA* |
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne (PDF
- 49 KB) |
Tritium
(H-3) |
Beta |
12.5 years |
12 days |
Inhalation
Ingestion
Skin |
Whole body |
Water
diuresis* |
EPA
Health
Protection Agency (UK) |
Uranium
(U-235) |
Alpha |
7.1 x 10^8
years |
15 days |
Ingestion |
Kidneys
Bone |
Sodium
bicarbonate* For
high level intake consider off-label diuretics and/or dialysis§
|
CDC
ATSDR
EPA
Argonne
(PDF - 46 KB) |
Yttrium
(Y-90) |
Beta |
64 hours |
N/A |
Inhalation
Ingestion |
Bone |
DTPA*
EDTA§
|
Argonne
¶ (PDF - 39 KB) |
References
for use
1 FDA
approved:
Countermeasures so marked have been approved as treatment for
internal contamination with the listed radioisotope by the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
*
NCRP preferred: Countermeasures so marked have
been listed as preferred treatments for internal contamination
with the listed radioisotope by the National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements [Management
of Persons Contaminated with Radionuclides: Handbook (NCRP
Report No. 161, Vol. I)]. Except where noted, use of these countermeasures
has not been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
§ NCRP suggested: Countermeasures so marked
have been listed as suggested treatments for internal contamination
with the listed radioisotope by the National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements [Management
of Persons Contaminated with Radionuclides: Handbook (NCRP
Report No. 161, Vol. I)]. Use of these countermeasures has not
been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |
Supplements
Sorted by Radioactive Isotope or Condition Treated
Commonly
Encountered Radionuclides, epa.gov
Radiation
Induced Illness at GreenMedInfo.com
*
Mucosal
Damage: Radiation Induced
*
Radiation
Induced Illness: Bone Marrow
*
Radiation
Induced Illness: Dermatitis
*
Radiation
Induced Illness: Enteritis
*
Radiation
Induced Illness: Hemorrhagic Protopathy
*
Cataract:
Radiation-Induced
*
Radiation-Induced
Illness: Cesium-137 Exposure
*
Radiation-Induced
Illness: Radioiodine (Iodine-131)
*
Radiation-Induced
Illness: Plutonium
*
Radiation-Induced
Illness: Strontium 90
Radiation Induced Illness is a Sub-Topic
to the follow Topics
*
Chemotherapy
and Radiation Toxicity
*
Radiation
Disaster Associated Toxicity
Radiation
Emergency Medical Management, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
* Isotopes
of Interest: Properties, Treatment, and Fact Sheets table
* Radiation
Countermeasures for Treatment of Internal Contamination table
Cesium 137
[Undated --author unknown] Potassium –
Cesium-137, cesium-134, potassium-40, and potassium-42 are radioactive,
competitive sister elements of natural potassium, all of which
are in the same chemical family. These radionuclides are absorbed
by the body when there is a deficiency of natural potassium. They
concentrate primarily in the reproductive organs and the muscles.
Cesium-137 is common in nuclear fallout, and can often be detected
in our food, soil, and water. The authors of one study described
our biosphere as “contaminated with radiocesium.”
Researchers
discovered that after the accident at Chernobyl, iodine-131 and
cesium-137 were the most prevalent radionuclides in samples of
food from the USSR and from Poland, Hungary, and other parts of
Eastern Europe. Cesium-137 is also already being used in some
countries to irradiate foods as a means of extending their shelf
life at the supermarket. Research by the Food and Nutrition Board
of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that natural
potassium decreases the concentration of radiocesium. Begin to
add potassium rich foods such as bananas, potatoes+peels, etc.
[Editor's Note: Leuren Moret and other radiation experts advocate
peeling all potatoes and other vegetables that may come from contaminated
areas since radionuclides tend to accumulate and stick in the
outer layers]. If a nuclear event escalates in which cesium is
being released, then also adding supplemental potassium is recommended.
Potassium regulation is affected by magnesium. For magnesium deficiency
include leafy green veggies, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and
black beans.
2012-03-14 Cesium
Tricks Life with Potassium Disguise?, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
2011-04-26 Bioaccumulation:
Why Fukushima Matters by Lucas Hixson, news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com.
"Cesium-137 has chemical properties that are similar to potassium.
Because the cells in plants, animals and in the human body cannot
distinguish between cesium-137 and potassium, cesium-137 can be
mistaken by the body to be potassium and absorbed as such. Because
most potassium in the human body is found in the blood, cesium-137
can be found in all parts of the human body."
Plutonium
2012-02-21 Interesting
Article About Plutonium Transport, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
[at]
https://str.llnl.gov/OctNov11/kersting.html.
"[excerpt] `Thanks to the research, the most perplexing
element on the periodic table is slowly losing some of its mystery
about how it travels underground faster and farther than anyone
at first expected...'"
2011-03-30 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated
by "emerald eye" page 4, by "emerald eyes."
I
have been searching for something that might decrease the risk
of cancer from inhaled plutonium. Vitamin C seems to be
the best candidate that I have found to date.
"However,
the incidence of squamous cell carcinomas in animals exposed to
plutonium and vitamin C decreased with increasing dose of vitamin
C. The authors stated that vitamin C may interfere with
the progression of squamous cell metaplasia to squamous cell carcinoma.”
[Ed. Note: See p. 130].
(This
PDF contains everything you would want to know about plutonium):
2011-03-15 Plutonium:
Not Our Friend, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
2010-12 Toxicological
Profile For Plutonium (pdf), U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Public Health Service Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, November 2010, at atsdr.cdc.gov.
[Editor'
Note: page 134: "...Topical applications of DTPA solution
have been used to remove plutonium from skin and wounds after
accidental dermal exposure (Khokhryakov et al. 2003). In extracellular
fluid, the chelating agent, DTPA (a polycarboxylate compound),
forms stable water-soluble complexes, which can be excreted in
the urine (Durbin 1973; Taylor 1973). Both Ca-DTPA and Zn-DTPA
complexes are used to decrease the risk of calcium and zinc depletion.
Based on animal experiments, it appears that administered DTPA
aerosols would form stable complexes with soluble forms of inhaled
plutonium in the lung, thus reducing the amount of plutonium available
for systemic deposition following absorption (Gervelas et al.
2007; Ménétrier et al. 2005; Sérandour et
al. 2007; Stradling et al. 2000b)....DTPA has been used as a chelating
agent to accelerate the urinary excretion of plutonium in humans
who were accidentally exposed to plutonium. In one case of accidental
exposure to plutonium nitrate, absorption into the blood from
a skin wound reached 4.3% of the amount deposited on the skin;
as a result of prompt and repeated intravenous injections of DTPA,
most of the absorbed plutonium was excreted in the urine (Khokhryakov
et al. 2003)....Editor's Additional Note: What all this
means in plain English is that when the general U.S. population
was hit with plutonium plumes in March and April 2011, for example
please see Plutonium and Neptunium 239 dispersion charts for 11-19
March 2011 here
and for 20-26 March here,
Federal and State authorities not only had a public duty to warn
people to stay indoors and wear respirators, but to also offer
free mass testing of the general population for plutonium and
neptunium poisoning (not to mention a whole witches brew of other
radionuclides that typically come with them, to include radioactive
Cesium -137 and Iodine-131) and to make DTPA widely available
to victims. According to Dr. Helen Caldicott,
during medical testing for the Manhattan project, there was no
experimental dosage level given to dogs that was so low that it
did not give them cancer! Plutonium is so extremely dangerous
that one must make a heroic effort to purge it out of ones body
as quickly as possible. Allowing the general population to breath
or otherwise ingest plutonium and radioactive substances without
them even knowing it is totally criminal.]
More
info:
"The
primary plutonium hazard is considered to result from Inhalation
of the aerosol. "
"Modes
of entry into the body other than Inhalation are considered to
be less hazardous. These include abortion through the intact skin,
deposition in open wounds and Ingestion via foods grown or produced
on contaminated ground."
[link
to www.dtic.mil]
Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium
1994: Extract
from Appendix C, Management
and disposition of excess weapons plutonium (online Google
book) By National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Committee on International
Security and Arms Control
Strontium
Strontium,
epa.gov
"What
does strontium-90 do once it gets into the body?
When
people ingest Sr-90, about 70-80% of it passes through the body.
Virtually all of the remaining 20-30% that is absorbed is deposited
in the bone. About 1% is distributed among the blood volume, extracellular
fluid, soft tissue, and surface of the bone, where it may stay
and decay or be excreted.
[Undated -regarding strontium] radiationdetoxification.com,
Sea Vegetables – According to a 1964 McGill University study
published in the “Canadian Medical Association Journal,”
sodium alginate from kelp reduced radioactive strontium absorption
in the intestines by 50% to 80%. The sodium alginate allowed calcium
to be absorbed through the intestinal wall while binding most
of the strontium, which was excreted out of the body. Some of
the more popular sea vegetables to consume are kelp, arame, wakame
and kombu.
[Undated, author unknown] Magnesium – Like
Calcium, magnesium prevents the uptake of strontium-90 and other
radioisotopes. It helps to eliminate already absorbed strontium-90
as well. One study has shown that exposure to gamma radiation
can decrease calcium and magnesium levels in the blood. As a result,
optimal levels of both minerals in the diet are essential after
one is exposed to higher amounts of radiation
Uranium
2011-05-27 Feel
like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the
problem, farmwars.info
"Baking
soda, or sodium bicarbonate is by far the least expensive addition
to our defense against radioactive contamination.
The
oral administration of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity
of the changes produced by uranium in the kidneys. The kidneys
are usually the first organs to show chemical damage upon uranium
exposure. Old military manuals suggest doses or infusions of sodium
bicarbonate to help alkalinize the urine if this happens. This
makes the uranyl ion less kidney-toxic and promotes excretion
of the nontoxic uranium-carbonate complex. The oral administration
of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity of the changes produced
by uranium in the kidneys. (IMVA)"
2011-03-13 How
to Detox Your Body of Depleted Uranium Residues, the Effects of
Radiation, and Radioactive Contamination, posted
by Vatic
2008-01-01 Bicarbonate
enhances the effects of uranium-chelating agents. - GreenMedInfo
Summary Abstract Title: The effects of bicarbonate
and its combination with chelating agents used for the removal
of depleted uranium in rats. Abstract Source: Hemoglobin. 2008;
32(1-2):191-8. PMID: 18274996.
Abstract Author(s): Satoshi Fukuda, Mizuyo Ikeda, Mariko Nakamura,
Akira Katoh, Xueming Yan, Yuyuan Xie, George J Kontoghiorghes
"The effects of bicarbonate and its combination with the
chelating agents, deferiprone (L1), 4,6-dimethyl-1-hydroxypyrimidin-2(1H)-one
(AK-4), catechol-3,6-bis(methyleneimino-diacetic-acid) (CBMIDA),
and ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-bisphoshonate (EHBP) in removing depleted
uranium (DU) for radiation emergency medicine were examined. After
the intramuscular injection of DU in rats, various time schedules
of bicarbonate and chelating agent administration were tested.
The results indicate that the bicarbonate helps increase significantly
the effects of LI and AK-4, while there were no effects of using
bicarbonate alone. The effects of bicarbonate on CBMIDA were unclear,
and the effects of EHBP were negative."
|
|
Medical
countermeasures |
Administered
for |
Mechanism
of action |
Route
of
administration |
Dosage |
Duration
of treatment |
References
for use |
Aluminum carbonate |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Phosphate binder |
PO [per
os
or
Latin for "by
mouth"]
|
600 mg tablet
TID or
400mg/5 cc TID |
|
NCRP-suggested |
Aluminum
hydroxide |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90)
|
Blocks intestinal
absorption |
PO |
Adults: 60-100
mL (1200 mg)
Children: 50 mg/kg,
not to exceed the adult dose
|
Give one dose
within 24 hr of radionuclide intake to block intestinal absorption;
administer before absorption occurs |
NCRP-preferred |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Phosphate binder |
PO |
600 mg tablet
TID or
320 mg/5cc TID
|
|
NCRP-suggested |
Barium sulfate |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90)
|
Blocks intestinal
absorption |
PO |
100-300 g (as
a single dose in 250 cc water) |
Give one dose
within 24 hr of radionuclide intake to block intestinal absorption;
administer before absorption occurs |
NCRP-suggested |
Calcium
carbonate |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90)
|
Competes for
bone binding sites |
PO |
Use as directed
on label |
Begin therapy
within 12 hr of radionuclide intake if possible |
NCRP-suggested |
Calcium
gluconate |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90)
|
Competes for
bone binding sites; phosphate binder |
IV |
5 ampoules
(500 mg Ca/amp) in 500 cc 5% dextrose in water (D5W); infuse over
4-6 hours |
6 days; begin
therapy within 12 hr of radionuclide intake if possible |
NCRP-suggested |
Calcium
phosphate |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90)
|
Increases excretion |
PO |
1200 mg |
Give one dose
within 24 hr of radionuclide intake to block intestinal absorption;
administer before absorption occurs |
NCRP-suggested |
Deferoxamine
(DFOA) |
Plutonium
(Pu-239) |
Chelating
agent |
IM
(preferred route) [Intramus-
cular injection] |
IV (slow infusion) |
* Give a single dose, then obtain bioassay to assess residual body
burden of Pu-239
* Repeat as indicated: 500 mg IM (preferred) or IV q4 hr x2 doses,
then 500 mg IVq12 hr for 3 days
|
NCRP-suggested
DFOA is FDA-approved
for Rx of acute and chronic iron poisoning only |
IV (slow infusion) |
2 ampoules
(500 mg DFOA/amp) at 15 mg/kg/hr |
DTPA
(calcium & zinc) |
Americium
(Am-241)
Californium (Cf-252)
Cobalt (Co-60)
Curium (Cm-244)
Plutonium (Pu-238 and
Pu-239)
Yttrium (Y-90)
|
Chelating
agent |
IV (give once
daily as a bolus or as a single infusion, i.e., do not fractionate
the dose) |
Adults:
1 g in 5 cc 5% dextrose in water (D5W) or 0.9% sodium chloride (normal
saline, NS) slow IV push over 3-4 minutes or 1 g in 100-250 cc D5W
or NS as an infusion over 30 minutes
Children
< 12 years: 14 mg/kg/d slow IV push over 3-4
minutes (not to exceed 1 g/day)
|
*
Begin treatment with Ca-DTPA , then change to Zn-DTPA for maintenance,
as indicated
* Duration of therapy depends on total body burden and response
to treatment
|
DTPA
is FDA-approved
for intravenous Rx of known or suspected internal contamination
with Am, Cm, and Pu only
DTPA is FDA-approved
for nebulized inhalation in adults only, and if the only route
of contamination is through inhalation
DTPA is NCRP-preferred
as Rx of the other isotopes listed and NCRP-suggested
as a wound irrigation fluid
|
Nebulized inhalation
(for use in adults only) |
1 g in 1:1
dilution with sterile water or NS over 15-20 minutes |
Wound irrigation
fluid |
1 g Ca- or
Zn-DTPA and 10 cc 2% lidocaine in 100 cc 5% dextrose in water (D5W)
or 0.9% sodium chloride (normal saline, NS) |
* Irrigation
can be accompanied by IV or inhaled DTPA
* Amount of DTPA absorbed by wound tissues cannot be measured
* Avoid overdosing with DTPA and/or 2% lidocaine
|
Dimercaprol
(BAL) |
Polonium (Po-210) |
Chelating agent |
IM (300 mg/vial
for deep IM injection only) |
2.5 mg/kg QID
x2 days (days 1 & 2), then BID x1 day (day 3), then QD (days
4-10) |
10 days |
NCRP-preferred
Dimercaprol (BAL) is
FDA-approved for Rx of arsenic, gold and mercury poisoning and
when used together with EDTA for Rx of acute lead poisoning only
|
EDTA |
Cobalt
(Co-60) |
Chelating
agent |
IV |
1000 mg/m2/day
in 500 cc 5% dextrose in water (D5W) or 0.9% sodium chloride (normal
saline, NS); infuse over 8-12 hours |
Given as a
single dose |
NCRP-preferred
EDTA is FDA-approved
for Rx of lead poisoning only |
IM |
Divide IV dose
equally into two doses and administer 8-12 hours apart |
Given as a
divided dose |
D-Penicillamine
(DailyMed) |
Polonium (Po-210) |
Chelating agent |
PO |
Adults:
0.75-1.5 g (250 mg/capsule) QD
Children:
30 mg/kg/day (250 mg/capsule) divided into 4 doses |
* Obtain bioassay
to assess
* Continue only if clinically indicated
* D-Penicillamine has a narrow therapeutic index; use is associated
with high risk of toxicity
|
NCRP-preferred
D-Penicillamine
is FDA-approved for Rx of copper poisoning only |
Potassium
iodide (KI) |
Iodine (I-131) |
Blocking agent |
PO |
Adults
>40 years: 130 mg/day (For projected thyroid dose =500
cGy)
Adults 18 -
40 years: 130 mg/day (For projected thyroid dose =10
cGy)
Pregnant or
lactating women of any age: 130 mg/day (For projected
thyroid dose =5 cGy)
Adolescents
=70 kg: 130 mg/day (For projected thyroid dose =5 cGy)
Children &
adolescents 3 - 18 years: 65 mg/day (For projected thyroid
dose =5 cGy)
Infants & toddlers
1 month - 3 years: 32.5 mg/day (For projected thyroid dose =5
cGy)
Neonates from birth
- 1 year: 16 mg/day (For projected thyroid dose =5 cGy)
|
* Some incidents
will require only a single dose of KI.
* Incident managers may recommend additional daily doses if ongoing
radioactive iodine ingestion or inhalation represents a continuing
threat.
* See also: Potassium
Iodide (KI): Duration of Therapy.
|
FDA-approved
NCRP-preferred
|
Potassium phosphate |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Phosphate binder |
PO |
600-1200 mg,
given in divided doses |
|
NCRP-preferred |
Potassium
phosphate, dibasic |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Phosphate binder |
PO (take with
full glass of water with meals and at bedtime) |
Adults:
1-2 tablets (250 mg/tab) QID Children >4 years:
1 tablet (250 mg/tab) QID |
|
NCRP-preferred |
Propylthiouracil |
Iodine (I-131) |
Blocking Agent |
PO |
Adults: 2 tablets
(50 mg/tab) TID |
8 Days |
NCRP-preferred |
Prussian
blue, insoluble |
Cesium (Cs-137) |
Ion exchange;
inhibits enterohepatic recirculation in GI tract |
PO |
Adults,
children >12 years: *1-3 g (2-6 capsules;
0.5 g insoluble Prussian blue per cap) TID; up to 10-12 g/day
(based on Goiânia incident data)
*3 g (6 capsules; 0.5 g insoluble Prussian blue per cap) TID (see:
FDA Package Insert )
Children 2 - 12 years:
*1 g (2 capsules; 0.5 g insoluble Prussian blue per cap) TID
*Capsules may be opened and contents mixed with food
*See: FDA Package Insert for pediatric prescribing information
Children <2 years: Prussian blue is not FDA-approved
for use (IND or EUA may be required) |
*Minimum
30 day course per FDA
*Obtain bioassay and whole body counting to assess treatment of
efficacy
*Duration of therapy depends on total body burden and response to
treatment |
Prussian blue,
insoluble, is FDA-approved
and NCRP-preferred
for Rx of known or suspected internal contamination with radioactive
Cs and/or radioactive or non-radioactive thallium; FDA-approved
for ages > 2 years old only |
Sevelamer
(DailyMed) |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
Phosphate binder |
PO |
* 2-4
tablets (400 mg - 800 mg/tab) TID
* Not to exceed 1600 mg TID |
5 days if possible;
first dose is the most important |
NCRP-suggested |
Sodium
alginate |
Radium (Ra-226)
Strontium (Sr-90) |
Blocks intestinal
absorption |
PO (take with
a full glass of water) |
5g BID x1 day,
then 1 g QID |
|
NCRP-suggested |
Sodium
bicarbonate |
Uranium
(U-235) |
Facilitates
increased renal excretion |
IV |
* 2
ampoules (44.3 mEq bicarbonate/ ampoule) in 1000 cc 5% dextrose
in water (D5W) or 0.9% sodium chloride (normal saline, NS)
* 250 cc (1-2 mEq/kg) slow infusion |
Administer
therapy until urine pH is 8-9 ; continue Rx for 3 days |
NCRP-preferred |
PO |
2 tablets Q4
hr |
Sodium glycerophosphate |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
|
PO |
600-1200 mg,
given in divided doses |
|
NCRP-suggested |
Sodium phosphate |
Phosphorus
(P-32) |
|
PO |
600-1200 mg,
given in divided doses |
|
NCRP-suggested |
Succimer
(DMSA) (DailyMed) |
Polonium (Po-210) |
Chelating agent |
PO |
* 100
mg capsules
* Administer 10 mg/kg or 350 mg/m2 every 8 hr for 5 days, then reduce;
safety and efficacy in children <12 years has not been established
|
Reduce frequency
of administration to 10 mg/kg or 350 mg/m2 every 12 hr for an additional
2 weeks of therapy; typical treatment course: 19 days |
NCRP-suggested |
Water |
Tritium (H-3) |
Facilitates
excretion |
PO |
>3-4 liters/day |
3 weeks |
NCRP-suggested |
Supplements
Sorted by Scientific Research Data Base
Listings
Overview
1)
The first line of defense must be avoidance, particularly the
ingestion of radioactive materials. Any amount of low dose radiation
is bad for you. Once it gets inside your body, it can go anywhere
and get inside the nucleus of almost any cell, to include inside
brain cells, heart muscle, and bones cells. The tiniest of particularly
toxic molecules like plutonium or neptunium that winds up in a
strategic location in your body can kill you. It is foolish to
think that once Strontium has lodged itself in ones bones, or
plutonium gets into your testicles, that passing a "natural
remedy" such a "Bentonite clay" is somehow going
to leech out all the dangerous nucleotides that have spread throughout
your body. In addition, once inside the body, nucleotides start
causing DNA damage. Once DNA is broken, and cell functioning is
ruptured
2)
This having been said, one can make incremental improvements to
reduce the absorption of radionuclides into vital organs of the
body, or increase the turnover of radionuclides
3)
Radiation degrades everything, to include the immune system. The
immune system is perpetually taking out cancerous cells. By having
better nutrition, one bolsters ones immune system and indirectly
fights cancers. However, this is different than expecting to have
the ability to extract all radionuclides out of the body (lungs,
brain, heart, etc) and eliminate their ability to create cancers.
4)
Herbal remedies have the advantage that it is usually hard to
overdose, and they are generally good for you anyway even if there
was no radiation threat. Hence, taking them regularly can provide
a sustained level of defense against radionuclides while freeing
up some worries about timing issues.
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Supplements
Sorted by Nutritional Type:
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* Amino
Acids
[undated] Nutritional
Program for Environmental Pollution and Radiation
by Elson M. Haas MD
The
sulfur-containing amino acids have a protective and detoxifying
effect. L-cysteine, the primary one, may help neutralize many
heavy metal toxins and toxic by-products (aldehydes) of smoking,
smog, alcohol, and fats through its precursor role in the formation
of glutathione, a tripeptide essential to the action of several
important enzymes, particularly glutathione peroxidase. Since
glutathione itself is not very stable or thought to be well utilized
as an oral supplement, L-cysteine appears best utilized for this
protective purpose. Methionine, another sulfur-containing amino
acid, also has mild detoxification and protective functions.
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
Nucleic
acids: RNA and DNA increase the survival rate of mammals exposed
to irradiation. Bee pollen, nutritional yeast and certain sea
algae such as chlorella contain relatively large percentages of
nucleic acids. Onions contain RNA.
Cysteine:
A natural amino acid helps counteract several kinds of radiation.
Caution: Do not take as a separate supplement. Can be a dangerous
excitotoxin like glutamate (MSG) or aspartate in abnormal quantities.
Occurs in sulfur containing vegetables most of which are in the
cabbage family. Kale is by far the best source with watercress
and Brussels Sprouts good sources too. Make sure you get non-irradiated
vegetables.
Pantothenic
Acid: Prevents radiation injuries. In animal studies, the survival
rate was increased by 200 per cent by giving pantothenic acid
prior to exposure. Brewers yeast is by far the best source of
this substance. Dose: Preventive—5 mg. to 15 mg. for children,
25 mg. to 50 mg. for adults. Use a double or triple dose as a
therapeutic after exposure.
[Undated] radiationdetoxification.com,
Dried, Primary-Grown Nutritional Yeast – Besides having
Vitamin E, it also contains the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, both
of which have been shown to have radio protective qualities. It
has been shown to help rebuild and regenerate cells damaged by
radiation, and also to produce relief from radiation poisoning
and it’s many horrible symptoms. Nutritional yeast has a
good amount of many important nutrients. Primary – grown
yeasts bonds with and absorb heavy metals such as uranium, lead
and mercury!
|
* Antioxidants
Overviews
[Undated] How
to Protect Against Radiation Exposure (pdf) observes:
"...Diseases and mutations [from radiation]
don't stop with us. If ionizing radiation
enters our genes, not only does it cause irreversible damage to
this generation, but to future generations.
* Cesium 137 accumulates in fatty tissues, liver,
spleen and muscles
* Iodide-131 accumulates in Thyroid, breast and ovaries
* Strontium-90 concentrates in your bones and liver
* Barium-140 causes bone tumors up to 30 years later
* Tellurium-132 causes cell mutations, repeatedly via replication
* Yttrium-0 damage to liver and respiration
* Putonium-244 concentrates in your liver
* Uranium 235 accumulates in your bones and liver
In
1972 Dr Abram Petkau discovered that low levels of radiation,
over a longer period of time, were more damaging than higher doses
over a short period of time. Once you ingest or inhale
even very low levels of radioactive particles the Petkau effect
immediately starts potentially lethal tissue ionization. The Petkau
effect basically means that you are ionizing or irradiating
yourself continuously from the inside out. This insidious
burning at your molecular level will impair your body
long before there is a diagnosable disease.
Free radicals are generated during long-term exposure
to extremely low levels of radiation, which will exhaust our defenses
unless our body has an abundant reserve of antioxidants.
Free radicals, or radicals, are atoms, molecules or ions with
unpaired electrons. These highly reactive, molecules are unstable
and contribute to the weakening of the body by destroying our
cellular structure and making us more vulnerable to disease. When
molecules in the body oxidize they become free radicals.
Without
sufficient antioxidants to combat the extreme low levels of radiation
you will suffer from gene mutation, birth defects, infertility
and increased risk for immune related disease and cancers.
Damage
Attributed To Free Radicals
* degenerative disease
* memory loss
* neurological diseases
* atherosclerosis
* Alzheimer’s
* Parkinson’s
* arthritis or other joint disorders
* heart disease or stroke
* diabetes
* HIV
* cataracts
* cancer
* aging
2011-04-07 How
to protect yourself from radiation poisoning by Randall
Neustaedter OMD
Overview
"Glutathothione
is the body's primary antioxidant. It can be produced in every
cell of the body, but the liver is the primary source. Glutathione
is capable of breaking down carcinogens and heavy metals. Supplements
including N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and alpha lipoic acid (or R-lipoic
acid) will support glutathione production. A reduced, liposomal
glutathione supplement can also be used to increase glutathione
directly.
Milk
thistle, or its active extract sylimarin, supports liver cell
synthesis and promotes glutathione production...
...In
addition to supporting the body's own production of antioxidants,
various supplements can provide additional support. These supplements
include vitamin C, coenzyme Q 10, grape seed extract (or resveratrol),
astaxanthin (from krill or other sources), beta-carotene, and
others. Of course many fruits and vegetables provide significant
amounts of antioxidants, especially those with red, orange, or
purple color.."
Specific anti-oxidants
Alpha
Lipoic Acid (anti-oxidant)
Alpha-Lipoic
Acid, umm.edu, (University of Maryland Medical Center)
Overview:
Alpha-lipoic acid is an antioxidant that is made by the
body and is found in every cell, where it helps turn glucose into
energy. Antioxidants attack "free radicals," waste products
created when the body turns food into energy. Free radicals cause
harmful chemical reactions that can damage cells in the body,
making it harder for the body to fight off infections. They also
damage organs and tissues.
Other
antioxidants work only in water (such as vitamin C) or fatty tissues
(such as vitamin E), but alpha-lipoic acid is both fat- and water-soluble.
That means it can work throughout the body. Antioxidants in the
body are used up as they attack free radicals, but evidence suggests
alpha-lipoic acid may help regenerate these other antioxidants
and make them active again...
...Diabetes
In
several studies, alpha-lipoic acid appears to help lower blood
sugar levels. Its ability to kill free radicals may help people
with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, who have pain, burning, itching,
tingling, and numbness in arms and legs from nerve damage.
Alpha-lipoic
acid has been used for years to treat peripheral neuropathy in
Germany. Most of the studies that have found it helps have used
intravenous (IV) alpha-lipoic acid, however. It' s not clear whether
taking alpha-lipoic acid by mouth will help. Most studies of oral
alpha-lipoic acid have been small and poorly designed. One 2006
study did find that taking alpha-lipoic acid for diabetic neuropathy
reduced symptoms compared to placebo.
Taking
alpha-lipoic acid may help another diabetes-related condition
called autonomic neuropathy, which affects the nerves to internal
organs. One study found that 73 people with cardiac autonomic
neuropathy, which affects the heart, showed fewer signs of the
condition when taking 800 mg of alpha-lipoic acid orally compared
to placebo.
Brain
Function and Stroke
Because
alpha-lipoic acid can pass easily into the brain, it may help
protect the brain and nerve tissue. Researchers are investigating
it as a potential treatment for stroke and other brain problems
involving free radical damage, such as dementia. So far, there'
s no evidence to say whether it works or doesn't.
Other
Some
preliminary studies suggest alpha-lipoic acid may help treat glaucoma,
but there is not enough evidence to say for sure whether it works.
In one study on aging skin, a cream with 5% lipoic acid helped
reduce fine lines from sun damage.
Dietary
Sources:
If
you are healthy, your body makes enough alpha-lipoic acid. It
is also found in red meat, organ meats (such as liver), and yeast,
particularly brewer's yeast.
Available
Forms:
Alpha-lipoic
acid supplements are available as capsules. Your health care provider
can also give it by injection.
How
to Take It:
Pediatric
Alpha-lipoic
acid has not been studied in children, so it is not recommended
for pediatric use.
Adult
There
aren' t any established doses for alpha-lipoic acid. You can buy
it in doses of 30 - 100 mg tablets.
*
General antioxidant support: 20 - 50 mg per day
*
Diabetes and diabetic neuropathy: 800 mg per day in divided doses
Precautions:
Because
of the potential for side effects and interactions with medications,
you should take dietary supplements only under the supervision
of a health care provider.
Alpha-lipoic
acid hasn' t been studied in pregnant or breastfeeding women,
so researchers don' t know if it' s safe.
Side
effects are generally rare and may include skin rash...
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Is
a nontoxic but effective radioprotector and it is reported that
alpha-lipoic acid confers considerable radio-protective effect
in mouse tissues when given prior to x-irradiation. It also helps
to protect the neural tissue from radiation injury. Adults may
safely consume 300 mg daily unless there is an allergy or medical
problem.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18006086
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17145083
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17094020
2011-03-17 How
to Protect Yourself From Radiation Exposure by Dr.
Andrea McCreery, life-sources.com.
"...Lipoic
acid is a very small and versatile fat- and water-soluble
antioxidant. Animal studies show that it helps maintain the antioxidant
defense system in multiple body tissues upon radiation exposure,
especially protecting the brain, liver, spleen, kidney, and testes.
The
health status of some 6,000 workers from Latvia who went to clean-up
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has been followed for several
decades. These workers suffered higher-than-normal rates of problems
in their nervous, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine
system (especially thyroid) and immunological systems. A study
conducted on some of these workers 10 years after the fact showed
that 600 mg of lipoic acid for two months was able to normalize
many, but not all, of their lab abnormalities. Too bad they didn't
have protection prior to and during exposure. Pretreatment with
OPC-165®
has been shown to significantly reduce radiation exposure damage
to the brain..."
2011-03-16 Supplements
Shown to Help Prevent Effects of Radiation Fall-Out
by Dr. Melissa Patterson, ND
"Beta-1,3
glucan- In a controlled study done at the US Armed Forces Radiobiology
Institute, 70% of rats given a lethal dose of radiation were completely
protected from radiation effects when given a dose of yeast beta
glucan by mouth after the radiation exposure. Beta glucan is a
free radical scavenger. It is able to protect blood macrophages
from free radical attack during and after the radiation allowing
these cells to continue to function in the irradiated body and
release factors important to the restoration of normal bone marrow
production. This supplement is very expensive, but worth it. Reishi
mushroom is high in beta 1,3 glucan if you just want to take that.
Recommended
Dose - 500 mg cap/1 time a day"
Coenzyme Q10
Coenzyme
Q10, umm.edu, University of Maryland Medical Center
"Coenzyme
Q10 (CoQ10) is a substance that' s found naturally in the body
and helps convert food into energy. CoQ10 is found in almost every
cell in the body, and it is a powerful antioxidant.
Antioxidants
fight damaging particles in the body known as free radicals, which
damage cell membranes, tamper with DNA, and even cause cell death.
Scientists believe free radicals contribute to the aging process,
as well as a number of health problems, including heart disease
and cancer. Antioxidants, such as CoQ10, can neutralize free radicals
and may reduce or even help prevent some of the damage they cause...
...Heart
damage caused by chemotherapy
Several
clinical studies suggest that CoQ10 may help prevent heart damage
caused by certain chemotherapy drugs, adriamycin, or other athracycline
medications. More studies are needed, however. Talk to your health
care provider before taking any herbs or supplements if you are
undergoing chemotherapy...
...Dietary
Sources:
Primary
dietary sources of CoQ10 include oily fish (such as salmon and
tuna), organ meats (such as liver), and whole grains. Most people
get enough CoQ10 through a balanced diet, but supplements may
help people with particular health conditions (see "Uses"
section) or those taking certain medications (see "Interactions"
section).
Available Forms:
CoQ10
is available as a supplement in several forms, including soft
gel capsules, oral spray, hard shell capsules, and tablets. CoQ10
is also added to various cosmetics...
DMSO
2011-03-18 Detoxify
or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With
the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown by
Gabriela Segura, M.D.
"DMSO
is available in various formats.
Sulfur
has a long history of use as an antidote for acute exposure to
radioactive material. Antioxidants have the capacity to reduce
toxic effects of radiation in our bodies. Early research identified
sulfur-containing antioxidants as among those with the most beneficial
therapeutic effects.
Dimethylsulfoxide
(DMSO) is the classical sulfur compound and a powerful anti-oxidant,
exactly what we need for detoxification and protection from radiation.
A Japanese study showed that even low concentrations of DMSO had
radio-protective effects through the facilitation of DNA double-strand
break repair, providing protection against radiation damage at
all cellular levels in the whole body. The information and experience
on DMSO is so fascinating that it can be described only as miraculous.
Due to its importance, we have dedicated an entire article to
it. See DMSO: The
Antidote for Radiation Poisoning."
2011-03-15 DMSO:
The Antidote for Radiation Poisoning by Gabriela
Segura, M.D.
"...Quick
Guide and Ailments
DMSO
is generally applied to the skin in a gel, cream, or liquid. It
can be taken by mouth or as an intravenous injection, in many
cases along with other drugs. It has also been administered subcutaneously,
intramuscularly, intraperitoneally, intrathecally, by inhalation,
instilled into the eye, on the mucous membranes, and into the
urinary bladder. Strenghs and dosages vary widely.
If you are just dealing with pain or an injury, use a topical
application. Don't drink it. Drinking it is for serious detoxing
and other internal necessities. If you use a rose scented DMSO
cream, chances are that nobody will be able to smell DMSO's garlic-like
smell.
The
usual oral dose of DMSO is one teaspoon per day of DMSO 70% (Morton,
1993). But since it can trigger detoxification reactions and DMSO's
total excretion from the body can take several days, it is best
to do it only once a week. Start with half a teaspoon of DMSO
50% and increase to a teaspoon of DMSO 70% only if any possible
detoxification reaction is well tolerated....
[Undated] Frequently
Asked Questions: About DMSO: Natural Chemo, International
Wellness Directory
[Undated] The
Human Toxicology Of Dimethyl Sulfoxide by Richard
D. Brobyn, Bainbridge Medical Center Bainbridge Island, Washington
"CONCLUSION: A very extensive toxicology study of DMSO was
conducted at 3 to 30 times the usual treatment dose in humans,
for 3 months. DMSO appears to be a very safe drug for human administration,
and in particular, the lens changes that occur in certain mammalian
species do not occur in man under this very high prolonged treatment
regimen. I am very glad to be able to present these data at this
time, so that we can permanently dispel the myth that DMSO is
in any way a toxic or dangerous drug. After considerable work
in evaluating thousands of cases that were treated in 1964 and
1965, and after this special toxicology study, I feel that we
can unequivocally say that DMSO is quite safe, and now the only
necessary task is the proof of its efficacy in specific indications."
[Undated] DMSO Information
Center at dmso.org. Site developed by Dr. Stanley
W. Jacob, a leading researcher into the versatile properties of
DMSO
Glutathione
2011-03-17 Protocol
for Nuclear Contamination: Iodine, Glutathione, Chelation, Clay,
Baking Soda, by Mark Sircus., AC, OMD.
...A
normal misconception is restated here - namely that the sulfur
compounds in the broccoli family bind the heavy metals?
Actually the sulfur compounds trigger increased expression of
your glutathione system, which results in both metal detoxification
and free radical neutralization. The other group of food compounds
that do this is the polyphenolic antioxidants - pine bark extract,
green tea extract, grape seed extract, and my favorite Haritaki
or terminalia chebula, an Ayurvedic fruit that is the basis for
many medicines including the intestinal detoxifier Triphala. This
fruit is used extensively in Tibetan Medicine where it is pictured
being held by the Medicine Buddha and call the "King of Herbs".
It has potent effects on the glutathione system and on expression
of other intracelluar antioxidants such as superoxide dismutase.
Haritaki is one of the superpowers in Clear Way. Clear Way also
includes other polyphenolics such as Pine Bark extract, large
amounts of liver cleansing dandelion root extract, natural iodine
and minerals from fucus extract (or what is known as bladderwrack,
a sea vegetable), the metal chelator and super antioxidant R-Lipoic
acid, nerve protectors gotu kola and bacopa monniera, and B-vitamins
1, 5, and 6..."
2011-03 Medicine
and Nutrition for Survival -- March 2011 (pdf), Authored and/or edited by:
David Vaughan, CN, Christopher Hussar, DO, DDS,
Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD
Chemical Detoxification
Having adequate levels of a naturally produced antioxidant called glutathione is critical for
removing the most common yet most dangerous chemicals and all metals (especially uranium
and other radioactive molecules) in the body. Glutathione is called the Mother of all
Antioxidants because it is not only the most powerful one, but it is also the only one that does
not itself turn into a toxin if you have too much of it.
Taking oral glutathione is proven to not be effective, and intravenous glutathione is not
practical. One single company has created and patented a method of maximizing your body’s
own glutathione dramatically by providing all the necessary building blocks for glutathione in a
way that does not disturb basic metabolic efficiency but rather helps optimize it. This company
sells through a multi-level marketing scheme that would usually leave bad taste the in author’s
mouths, but in this case they are a reliable, reputable and honest company with a real patent
behind their product. To get the wholesale price from them you must use the code of one of
their associates. David Vaughan, one of the authors of this article, is an associate and his code is
302342. You can place an order for the specific product called “Max GXL” here:
http://www.max.com/page.php?page=gxl
Because removing metals and chemicals is a long term project, you should select the option for
“auto ship”. This option lowers the cost to $69 per month from $85 per month. If you wish to
try to copy their formula you can do that but we have found it is far more expensive to do this
than to just order directly from the patent holder.
2011-05-30 Dairy
Farmers fight radiation with Boron, by Britton &
Shekinah, Hawaii Health Guide
...Other
things we can do to protect our bodies are to consume zeolites,
use potassium iodine, receive plenty of glutathione, the
best source of which is whey!, eat plenty of supergreens,
such as kale, but including chlorella and spirulina, maintain
healthy mineral levels, and eat lots of good healthy fats, including
raw butter, and coconuts, which offer a fantastic layer of protection
for our cells.
Melatonin
Melatonin
(wikipedia)
[Undated - on Melatonin] Nuclear
Radiation Remediation for Thinking People, radiation-remedies.com.
"Melatonin
is a safe and effective facilitator of tissue repair processes,
required for recovery from radiation-induced injury. Research
findings support the idea that melatonin may be used as an anti-irradiation
drug due to its potent free radical scavenging and antioxidative
efficacy. A radioneuroendocrine approach utilizing radiotherapy
with melatonin supplementation in brain glioblastoma patients
showed that the likelihood of survival at one year was significantly
higher in those who received melatonin with radiotherapy versus
radiotherapy alone. Melatonin also calms and quiets the mind allowing
for uninterrupted sleep. Sleep is very important for immune support
and good health so always sleep 8 to 9 hours without medication.
Natural killer cells are produced while sleeping which protect
against illness. Melatonin is also produced while sleeping which
is a strong defender against radiation."
2011-11-01 Melatonin
as Protection Against Radiation, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"The
disaster in Japan: utility of melatonin in providing protection
against ionizing radiation. Journal of Pineal Research; May2011,
Vol. 50 Issue 4, p357-358, 2p. Authors Reiter, Russel J.1 Tan,
Dun-Xian1 Korkmaz, Ahmet1 Manchester, Lucien C.
[excerpted]
"What is needed for radiation exposures such as that which
occurred in Japan, where large numbers of individuals were involved
and the radiation persisted over time, is a broadly protective,
readily available, easily self-administered, low-cost radiation
protector that can be used for days, weeks, or years with little
or no significant side effects.
Melatonin,
a natural antioxidant that the body normally produces in small
amounts, meets many if not all of these criteria. When taken exogenously,
melatonin distributes throughout the body where it prevents damage
that results from toxic levels of radiation. Its function in reducing
molecular and cellular damage from ionizing radiation in both
animals and humans is well documented [1–9] and its protective
actions exceed those of other commonly used radioprotectors.
"Melatonin
has been shown to prevent the death of animals given what would
normally be a lethal dose of ionizing radiation [10]. It can safely
be self-administered via any route, for example, orally, sublingually,
as an intranasal spray, etc., over long periods at even high doses
by means of an easily understood schedule. Melatonin has a long
shelf life even at room temperature, can be obtained in pure form,
and is inexpensive. The side effects are negligible over a very
large dose range, it does not make the individual sick, and no
lethal dose has been defined despite attempts to do so in animals.
"When
melatonin was compared with amifostine, a well-known synthetic
radioprotective agent that must be administered intravenously
(unlike melatonin), melatonin was found to be far superior [11].
After recent studies conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
in the USA, the authors of the paper concluded that it (melatonin)
is an excellent candidate as a countermeasure against radiation
exposure_[12]."
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
"Helps
to protect from damage due to ionizing radiation. Adults may take
up to 9 mg a day. Start before exposure. There is also
evidence for protection of the testes from radiation in rats.
(Stock up now guys!)
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19578641
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20139262
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17713655
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16793135
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14646223
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17439555
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18762261
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
"Melatonin:
“As melatonin administration reversed oxidative organ injury,
as assessed by biochemical and histopathological findings, it
is suggested that supplementing cancer patients with adjuvant
therapy of melatonin may have some benefit for successful radiotherapy.”
Melatonin
protects against ionizing radiation-induced oxidative damage in
corpus cavernosum and urinary bladder in rats
Journal
of Pineal Research
2011-03-18 Detoxify
or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With
the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown by
Gabriela Segura, M.D.
Melatonin,
other than being our "sleeping hormone", also has powerful
antioxidant properties. Animals subjected to whole-body irradiation
and given melatonin exhibited increased survival and the protection
against radiation-induced oxidative damage was apparent throughout
the body. More importantly, melatonin administered orally results
in higher circulating levels and more rapidly increasing tissue
concentrations. As soon as an exposure occurs, depending on the
wind direction after radiation explosion, people living at a distance
could protect themselves by oral administration of melatonin,
which can be ingested repeatedly as required.
N-acetylcysteine
[Undated] radiationdetoxification.com.
"N-acetylcysteine – A glutathione precursor. As a source
of sulfhydryl groups, NAC stimulates glutathione (GSH) synthesis,
enhances glutathione-S-transferase activity, promotes liver detoxification
by inhibiting xenobiotic biotransformation, and is a powerful
nucleophile capable of scavenging free radicals. Studies at the
Louisville School of Medicine have shown that Glutathione possesses
a unique ability to slow the aging process. While Glutathione
aids in the protection of all cells and membranes, a study at
Harvard Medical School found that glutathione is especially able
to enhance immune system cells, protecting against damage from
radiation and helping to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy,
x-rays, and alcohol. As a detoxifier of metals and drugs, glutathione
also aids in the treatment of blood and liver disorders."
Resveratrol
2011-04-24 Jeff
With Dr. Blaylock - Supplements That Protect Against Radiation
- Video
Dr.
Blaylock interview - Resveratrol, a compound most commonly associated
with red wine is also a very potent radio-protectant, in supplement
doses of 200mg, twice a day.
[Undated] Your
Radiation Free Kitchen, radiation-remedies.com.
Red
Wine; Numerous studies have found that red wine protects against
radiation exposure.
Italian Study; Italian researchers at the Catholic University
and the National Research Council in Italy found that women who
drank just one glass of red wine on days when they were to undergo
radiation therapy for cancer had a 75% reduced rate of toxic effects
from the radiation than women who didn’t drink wine. Colorado
State University Study; Researchers at Colorado State University
found that resveratrol is a radioprotective agent. They orally
administered resveratrol to mice two days prior to irradiation.
The mice who received the resveratrol had a statistically significant
reduction in total chromosome aberrations of the bone marrow cells
compared to mice who did not receive resveratrol.
Bulgarian
Advice; Many people in Russia and surrounding countries such as
Bulgaria drank red wine after the Chernobyl disaster because it
was believed to protect against radiation. Professor Donka Baykova
of the Bulgarian Nutrition Association says that red wine protects
against radiation and is more powerful than iodine in doing so.
She also says that one study found that Bulgarian wines were especially
protective against radiation.
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/red-wine-protects-against-radiation-exposure.html
"Red
Wine Protects You From Radiation"
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/05/04/natural.protection.against.radiation
(Unfortunately the amount of resveratrol used in some lab
experiments is the equivalent of hundreds of bottles of red wine).
Public
Library of Science One; researchers report that low doses of resveratrol
in the diet of middle-aged mice has a widespread influence on
the genetic levers of aging and may confer special protection
on the heart.
|
* Enzymes
[Undated] Enzymes,
tuberose.com.
"You
have at your disposal, more than 700 different kinds of miracle
health builders called enzymes, each performing a separate function
and you have millions upon millions of each kind in your body,
without which you'd perish. Enzymes are protein chemicals, which
carry a vital energy factor needed for every chemical action,
and reaction that occurs in our body. There are approximately
3000 different enzymes found in the human cell. These enzymes
can combine with co-enzymes to form nearly 100,000 various chemicals
that enable us to see, hear, feel, move, digest food, and think.
Every organ, every tissue, and all of the 100 trillion cells in
our body depend upon the reactions of metabolic enzymes and their
energy factor. Nutrition cannot be explained without describing
the part that enzymes play. These are obtained from two sources:
within your digestive system and in the foods you eat. Just as
with vitamin, mineral or protein deficiencies, the state of your
mental and physical health is dependent on them. Enzymes are substances
that make life possible. There are about 3,000 different enzymes
in a cell. They control nearly every chemical reaction; influence
every aspect of cell activity, from the construction of membrane
parts, to the hoarding of energy in food molecules. They are needed
for every chemical reaction that takes place in the human body.
No mineral, vitamin, or hormone can do any work without enzymes.
As we age, our bodies' ability to produce enzymes decreases. Nuts
that are raw contain an enzyme inhibitor (as do most beans). Grains
and flour are processed, robbing them of their enzymes. Enzyme
supplements assure an adequate enzyme supply...
....The
immune system can be viewed as a cohesive network of tireless
workers constantly screening cellular boundaries to maintain both
an internal quality control and a strategic defense system. When
the immune system discovers the presence of foreign matter from
undigested foods, it dispatches agents to neutralize it. Digestive
leukocytosis (increased white blood cells) occurs from the ingestion
of manufactured and cooked foods (foods void of enzymes with high
acid ash values) and raw food produces no increase in the white
blood cell count. Leukocytes, rich in enzymes are transported
to the stomach and other areas to aid the digestive process. As
a result, the body's immune response is being mobilized to effectively
compensate for the lack of naturally occurring food enzymes. The
health consequences of this drain on the body's enzyme reserves
are staggering and lead to the depletion of the body's antioxidant
enzymes, designed to remove free radicals from the body before
they can do any damage. Free radicals result from cellular energy
production and chemical stress, which results in the deposition
of pesticides, insecticides, heavy metals, radioactive substances
and other pollutants in tissues and organs of the body. These
cell damaging toxins and free radicals stress the immune response,
resulting in inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and extensive
damage to the vessel wall, opening holes to which water, calcium
and other active toxins can penetrate the tissues. Highly reactive
chemicals, free radicals, have been implicated in recent studies
in more than 60 disorders, including Heart disease, Cancer, Alzheimer's
disease, Parkinson's disease, Cataracts, Rheumatoid arthritis
and Autoimmune disorders.
Enzymes
can disarm free radicals and block their destructive chain reactions.
The primary antioxidant enzymes that remove free radicals are
superoxide dismutase or SOD, glutathione peroxidase, methionine
reductase and catalase. These enzymes provide the front line of
defense against free radicals, converting them to less toxic substances
like water and oxygen. Enhancing our antioxidant reserves requires
compensation for abnormal states of digestive physiology. Ingested
enzymes reach all tissues and are transported by the circulating
blood by bypassing the liver after penetrating the venules of
the lymphatic system. The generation born today and in the past
few decades is the most toxic in the history of our planet. Suffering
under the strain of a chemical world, we need to provide quantic
nutritional-enzymatic support that will replenish the enzyme/alkaline
reserves and restore immune and digestive competence."
1999-11 Pancreatic
Cancer, Proteolytic Enzyme Therapy and Detoxification
by Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, excerpted from Clinical Pearls News.
"... During the first two decades of this century, a number
of physicians, both in Europe and in the United States, used injectable
pancreatic enzymes to treat advanced human cancer, often times
(depending on the quality of the product) with great success.
I have collected a number of reports from that time in the major
medical journals documenting tumor regression and long-term survival
in patients treated with enzyme therapy."
|
* Fatty
Acids
Flaxseed
[Undated] Does
ground flaxseed have more health benefits than whole flaxseed?
by Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D., mayoclinic.com.
"Most
nutrition experts recommend ground flaxseed because your body
is better able to digest it. Whole flaxseed may pass through your
intestine undigested, which means you won't get all the health
benefits.
Flaxseed
is high in fiber, omega-3 fatty acids and phytochemicals called
lignans. Flaxseed is commonly used as a laxative (to improve digestive
health or relieve constipation). Both flaxseed and flaxseed oil
have been used to help reduce total blood cholesterol and low-density
lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels and,
as a result, may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Although
flaxseed oil also contains omega-3 fatty acids, it doesn't have
the beneficial fiber that the seeds have.
You
can purchase raw flaxseed in bulk — whole or ground —
at many grocery stores and health food stores. Whole seeds can
be ground in a coffee grinder and then stored in an airtight container
for several months. Refrigerating whole seeds may also extend
their freshness.
Although
the Institute of Medicine has not set a recommended daily intake
for omega-3 fatty acids, it has established adequate intake amounts
of between 1.1 and 1.6 grams a day for adults. One tablespoon
of ground flaxseed provides 1.6 grams of omega-3 fatty acids."
2011-08-10 ScienceDaily:
Flaxseed May Be Effective in Protecting Against Harmful Effects
of Radiation, garynull.com
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110809111821.htm
ScienceDaily
(Aug. 9, 2011) — Flax has been part of human history for
well over 30,000 years, used for weaving cloth, feeding people
and animals, and even making paint. Now, researchers from the
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
have discovered that it might have a new use for the 21st century:
protecting healthy tissues and organs from the harmful effects
of radiation. In a study just published in BMC Cancer, researchers
found that a diet of flaxseed given to mice not only protects
lung tissues before exposure to radiation, but can also significantly
reduce damage after exposure occurs.
"There
are only a handful of potential mitigators of radiation effect,
and none of them is nearly ready for the clinic," says the
principal investigator Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, PhD, research
associate professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical
Care Division. "Our current study demonstrates that dietary
flaxseed, already known for its strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
properties, works as both a mitigator and protector against radiation
pneumonopathy..."
...Dr.
Christofidou-Solomidou and her colleagues are focusing further
research on the bioactive lignan component of flaxseed, known
as SDG (secoisolariciresinol diglucoside), which is believed to
confer its potent antioxidant properties. The lignan component
also "regulates the transcription of antioxidant enzymes
that protect and detoxify carcinogens, free radicals and other
damaging agents," she says.
Flaxseed
boasts many other qualities that make it particularly attractive
as a radioprotector and mitigator. "Flaxseed is safe, it's
very cheap, it's readily available, there's nothing you have to
synthesize," Dr. Christofidou-Solomidou notes. "It can
be given orally so it has a very convenient administration route.
It can be packaged and manufactured in large quantities. Best
of all, you can store it for very long periods of time."
That makes it especially interesting to government officials looking
to stockpile radioprotective substances in case of accidental
or terrorist-caused radiological disasters.
Co-author
Keith Cengel, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Radiation Oncology
at Penn, explains that in such cases, "a big issue is the
'worried well' -- all the folks who probably weren't exposed but
are concerned and want to do something." Many potential radioprotectors,
however, could have risky side effects. Dr. Christofidou-Solomidou
adds, "When you give something to 4 or 5 million 'worried
well,' you have people with preexisting medical conditions. You
can't give just anything to people with heart disease, for example.
But this is absolutely safe. In fact, it is known to increase
cardiovascular health, a finding shown by another group of Penn
investigators a few years ago. It's loaded with omega-3 fatty
acids"...
...The
researchers are already convinced enough to incorporate flaxseed
into their own routine. "I actually eat it every morning,"
says Dr. Cengel, noting, "The potential health benefits are
significant and there is no known toxicity -- it just makes good
sense to me"...
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
The
protection afforded by flaxseed oil may be attributed to the constituents
of the oil, which include omega-3 essential fatty acids and phytoestrogenic
lignans, which appear to play an important role in free radical
scavenging and singlet oxygen quenching. There is not an accepted
dosage for flaxseed oil; doses ranging from 40 mg to 300 mg have
been used daily in adults.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17486687
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18981722
2007-06-03 Flaxseed
Stunts The Growth Of Prostate Tumors, ScienceDaily
"...Study
participants took the flaxseed in a ground form because flaxseed
in its whole form has an undigestible seed coat, she said. Participants
elected to mix it in drinks or sprinkle it on food, such as yogurt.
"The
results showed that the men who took just flaxseed as well as
those who took flaxseed combined with a low-fat diet did the best,
indicating that it is the flaxseed which is making the difference,"
Demark-Wahnefried said.
Flaxseed
is thought to play a part in halting the cellular activity that
leads to cancer growth and spread. One reason could be that as
a source of omega-3 fatty acids, flaxseed can alter how cancer
cells lump together or cling to other body cells, both factors
in how fast cancer cells proliferate, Demark-Wahnefried said.
The researchers also suspect that lignans may have antiangiogenic
properties, meaning they are able to choke off a tumor's blood
supply, stunting its growth.
"We
are excited that this study showed that flaxseed is safe and associated
with a protective effect on prostate cancer," Demark-Wahnefried
said...."
Sea Life Oils
Cod
Liver Oil
[Undated] Cod
Liver Oil overview, westonaprice.org. This has links
to many insightful articles such as "A
Response to Dr. Joe Mercola on Cod Liver Oil,"
by Sally Fallon Morell, April 30, 2009
2011-03-25 How
to Protect Yourself From Radiation, helladelicious.com
...For
information about the types of fatty acids which are useful to
eat or avoid check out the work of the famous cancer doctor Emanuel
Revici, MD. In a lecture entitled “The Influence of
Irradiation Upon Unsaturated Fatty Acids” he goes over the
effects of severe radiation poisoning on fatty acids…according
to his research abnormally conjugated trienic fatty acids (leukotrienes)
induce radiation illness. With fatty acids a small amount of radiation
damage will grow worse over time until the effects are unstoppable.
Revici developed a oxalic acid index to measure the abnormal fatty
acids in the body. He felt the best antidote was a fatty acid
antagonist and he developed a product, n-butanol. He also developed
Perse and Bionar, drugs that can detoxify drug addicts without
any side-effects whatsoever. But there isn’t much research
done on this topic. [Editor's Note: I am highlighting
cod liver oil because I have always been a big fan of using it
as a nutritional supplement. I am glad to see what may be good
news here about its additional benefits]. Cod liver oil were one
of the fats he found that helped with preventing cancer and mice
exposed to large doses of radiation lived 50-100% longer when
fed cod liver oil. Also look up Dr. Johanna Budwig’s
work on cold-pressed flaxseed oil and cottage cheese, also called
the Budwig
Protocol. Again, more information can be found in this Radiation
Detox PDF.
Krill
Oil
2011-Summer Freeing
Ourselves From Free-Radical Damage: Be Radiant -- Not Radioactive
(pdf) by Joe Marcello
"THE
FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
In
[Dr. John] Apsley’s view, the best tools to prevent membrane
damage during the initial stages of contamination are, in order
of potency, krill oil, or 'reduced' co-enzyme Q10 [CoQ10(H)],
melatonin and natural vitamin E. CoQ10(H) and vitamin E would
neutralize the ionizing effects onsite, with melatonin removing
radioactive particle from the body via the bile route of elimination
if one takes adequate fiber). But he feels that the vitamin E
complex should provide adequate protection if taken ahead of exposures,
while melatonin is a “superior multitasking nutrient and
so serves purposes beyond the others.”
If
one’s budget is limited, Apsley mandates krill oil in favor
of vitamin E, and
advises eliminating NAC in favor of extra chlorella, substituting
spirulina for
chlorella to lower costs.
According
to Dr. Apsley, radiation toxicity from any source can be detoxified
or
lessened – even reversed – through the use of colloidal
Regeneration Factors or cRFs, but these should be taken after
radio ablative therapy has been 18 completed or is discontinued.
cRFsTM
derive from select raw foods that contain high amounts of RNA
or nucleoproteins as found in organ meats, nuts & seeds, sprouts,
food-grade algae and bee pollen.
DR.
APSLEY’S LONG TERM RADIATION ANTIDOTES:
Bone meal (protects against radioactive Strontium)
Chlorella (protects against most radioactive metals)
Kelp (protects against radioactive iodine & other radioactive
metals)
Probiotics – several billion per meal protect against
radioactive Strontium
The best source of these, according to both Donna Gates, founder
of Body
Ecology (http://bodyecology.com/),
is still fermented foods – bioactive
cultures in sauerkraut, miso, kefir and fermented vegetables.
Dr. Natasha
Campbell-McBride, a specialist in the restoration of gut flora,
highly
recommends -- and uses in her practice – BioKult
(http://www.gutandpsychologysyndrome.com/)
Shark
Liver Oil
2005-08 Anti-Cancer
Benefits of Shark Liver Oil by Dale Kiefer, LE Magazine
"...Centuries
ago, Scandinavian practitioners of folk medicine adopted the habit
of consuming shark liver oil as a general health tonic. In recent
decades, scientists have observed that tumors are remarkably rare
in sharks, and that these predatory fish are notoriously resistant
to infections.1 This amazing imperviousness to disease doubtless
inspired the folk remedy.
Admittedly,
fighting disease with shark oil sounds far-fetched. The very notion
evokes unsavory images of cure-all tonics and unscrupulous charlatans
from centuries past. But in 1952, Dr. Astrid Brohult stumbled
upon remarkable proof that shark oil actually works. The fascinating
story of her discovery, related by some of her colleagues in the
book Shark Liver Oil: Nature’s Amazing Healer,2 provides
a glimpse at the happy serendipity that occasionally results when
science and intuition mix...
...a
team led by Dr. Brohult’s husband, a research biochemist,
isolated the active ingredient in calve’s marrow that normalizes
white blood cell production. The chemical was actually a group
of compounds, now known as alkylglycerols, or AKGs. Chemically
speaking, AKGs are glyceryl ether lipids. Principal alkylglycerols
are chimyl, batyl, and selachyl alcohols.1 Ironically, two Japanese
scientists, who evidently did not appreciate the importance of
their discovery, had discovered AKGs in deep-water sharks as early
as 1922.
AKGs
occur naturally in various mammalian tissues, including most organs
responsible for producing blood cells, such as the bone marrow
and spleen. Interestingly enough, AKGs are also found in human
breast milk, and are now thought to contribute significantly to
an infant’s immunity, especially while the immature immune
system is at its most vulnerable. In fact, human breast milk contains
up to 10 times more AKGs than does cow’s milk.4
Coming
full circle, Dr. Brohult’s team eventually determined that
none other than the Greenland shark—found off the shores
of their native Sweden—is a perfect source of concentrated
AKGs. We now know that AKGs occur naturally in the human body,
albeit in far smaller amounts than are found in shark liver. The
reason for sharks’ abundant supply has to do with an ancient
evolutionary adaptation to a literally crushing problem: how to
maintain buoyancy at extreme depths of 5,000 feet or more.
Primitive
sharks evolved an ingenious ballast system: a specialized liver
that allows them to maintain neutral buoyancy at a range of crushing
depths. Sharks’ livers are unusually large, bulging with
a carefully orchestrated mixture of complex lipids. Known collectively
as shark liver oil, this cocktail of compounds allows the shark
to rise and fall throughout the depths with relative ease.
A Potent Antioxidant.
Dr.
Brohult and other scientists continued to study AKGs and quickly
discovered that they inhibit cancer proliferation1 and prevent
radiation sickness.5 The latter finding is especially significant.
Radiation slices through cells like hot knives through butter,
damaging the cells at the molecular level and generating free
radicals that propagate destruction in a kind of chain reaction.
Most antioxidants do a good job of neutralizing free radicals
in the bloodstream and within the tissues, but few are capable
of penetrating the cell membrane to enter individual cells. AKGs
appear to act within individual cells, as suggested by clinical
studies of patients receiving AKGs in combination with ionizing
radiation.5-8...
The
ability of AKGs to protect people against the harmful effects
of ionizing radiation was discovered more or less by accident.
At about the time Dr. Brohult first began experimenting with AKGs
on the children’s cancer ward, a nurse in Stockholm was
accidentally exposed to radium, receiving a dangerously high dose
of radiation. Her white blood cell count plummeted to unhealthy
levels, and for more than a year she struggled with numerous infections.
After receiving supplemental AKGs, her white blood cell count
returned to normal and remained stable thereafter.9
In
subsequent research, doctors found that administering shark liver
oil orally before, during, and after radiation treatment for cervical
cancer reduced the incidence of radiation-induced injuries by
about 50% compared to control patients who received radiation
alone.5,6,8 While such injuries are an often-unavoidable consequence
of aggressive radiation treatment, most do not affect survival.
So-called complex injuries due to the combination of tumor growth
and radiation, however, are another story. Mortality for these
patients ranges from 90% to 100% at five years, depending on tumor
stage. Compared to control patients, the incidence of these complex
injuries in patients supplementing with shark liver oil was significantly
reduced, by about one third.5,6,8.."
Vegetable
Oils
Olive
Oil
2010-09-08 Add
a Little Olive Oil and Help Fight Breast Cancer Naturally
by Anthony Gucciardi
2005-08 (as pertains to olive oil) Anti-Cancer
Benefits of Shark Liver Oil by Dale Kiefer, LE Magazine
Squalene
Also Counters Cancer
"Squalene
is another major component of shark liver oil. Common in nature,
squalene is a hydrocarbon that makes up a significant portion
of the oily secretions that preserve the integrity of our outer
layers of skin. It is also found in olive oil, and is believed
to be responsible for some of the benefits of the Mediterranean
diet, which, according to epidemiological studies, include a significantly
lower incidence of cancer and heart disease.23, 24
In
Greece, for instance, women with a high olive oil intake have
a breast cancer rate that is only one third that of American women.
It is estimated that some individuals may consume up to 400 mg
of squalene per day in countries where olives and olive oil play
an indispensable role in the diet.24,25 Laboratory research on
animals and human cancer cells confirms squalene’s cancer-fighting
effects.26-31"
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
"Oils:
Dr. James Ashikava found that mice will survive normally lethal
doses of x-rays if they are given common edible unprocessed vegetable
oils—especially olive or peanut oils. It is reported from
Mexico, that those who work or live near sources of radiation,
such as atomic labs or nuclear power plants, eat or rub vegetable
oils on their skin for greater protection.
In
one mice study, olive oil taken internally fully protected rats
against progressive doses of x-rays ranging from 300 to 2,400
roentgens. The olive oil provided optimal protection when is comprised
about 15 percent of the total calories of the diet. Olive oil
and sesame oil are more resistant to breaking down from heat while
cooking and have a longer shelf life." |
*
Herbs
Burdock Root
2011-03-16 Supplements
Shown to Help Prevent Effects of Radiation Fall-Out
by Dr. Melissa Patterson, ND
"Burdock
Root (Arctium lappa)- removes radioactive isotopes from the body.
Recommended
Dose - 1-4 ounces/300-120 grams of cooked fresh root, up to a
pint of infusion daily, or several large spoonfuls of vinegar
but only if made with fresh roots. Tincture - 15-20 drops 3 times
a day.
Contraindications
- do not use Burdock during the first trimester of pregnancy."
Chaparral
Editor's Note: An interesting "folk medicine indicator"
that has drawn attention to Chaparral is the fact that it is one
of the very few plants that continues survive and thrive despite
massive fallout near Nevada nuclear test sites; in other words,
does it have some kind of chemical inside it that protects its
own cells against radiation whose radioprotective properties could
possibly also be used to benefit humans? Radiation degrades the
cell function of plants and animals alike, for example the cover
of a book on Chernobyl shows how ring growth of trees following
the catastrophe changed in color and size, therefore substances
that help protect plant cells might also possibly help benefit
animal cells.
[Undated] Nuclear
Radiation Remediation for Thinking People, radiation-remedies.com.
"Chaparral
contains a potent anti-oxidant known as NGRA. It was one of the
few plants to survive atomic testing in Nevada. The common chaparral
plant can live up to 12,000 years! The fact this waxy-leaved bush
can thrive in the harsh Arizona desert and dominate it's neighbors
without being eaten or infected is testimonial to the potency
of its chemical arsenal. The Native Americans of the Southwest
long ago discovered this medical resource and used chaparral to
treat everything from respiratory infections to arthritis. Chaparral
may have an advantage over drug therapy for treatment of viruses
by inhibiting the viral genes without damaging your living cells."
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
Chaparral:
Also known as the creosote bush, one of the active ingredients
is NDGA. One thing it does is inhibit the tumor electron transport
system, which denies such growths the electrical energy they require.
It also corrects malignant melanoma in many cancer patients. Chaparral
is an excellent antibiotic and helps purify and detoxify the blood.
Use with caution and supervision. Dose: If taken in tablet form
take an extra 300-750 mg. of vitamin C per day to help the body
process the concentrated resins and gums in the herb.
Cilantro
[Undated]
Cilantro
Pesto Said to Remove Heavy Metals
2011-03 Medicine
and Nutrition for Survivial -- March 2011 (pdf),
authored and/or edited by: David Vaughan, CN, Christopher Hussar,
DO, DDS, Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD
Chlorella
[and Cilantro].
Several
Japanese practitioners used the well-known radioprotective effects
of a special subtype of the nutritional algae Chlorella pyrenoidosa
to save thousands of lives in the nuclear aftermath of Nagasaki
and Hiroshima. D. Klinghardt MD, PhD recommends at least 5-7 grams
of a selected chlorella to be taken 3 times a day 30 minutes before
a meal, depending on the quantity of exposure even more. Chlorella
has been shown to bind and aid the excretion of uranium, cesium,
methyl mercury and lead -- all metals which are -- or can become
-- radioactive after an exposure. In recent years an extract of
the kitchen herb cilantro has been studied by the nuclear industry
for it phenomenal ability to help the excretion of radioactive
metals. 15 drops 3 times a day 30 min before meals do the job!
Both available in the correct form from: www.BioPureUS.com "Removal
and preconcentration of inorganic and methyl mercury from aqueous
media using a sorbent prepared from the plant Coriandrum sativum"
D. Karunasagar, M. V. Balarama Krishna, S.V. Rao, J. Arunachalam
(National Center for Compositional Characterization of Materials
(CCCM), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre), Journal of Hazardous Materials
B118 (2005) 133-139.
Ginkgo
Bilboa
2012-02-10 Ginkgo
Biloba: The Living Fossil, greenmedinfo.com.
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Ginkgo
biloba extract protects against ionizing radiation-induced oxidative
organ damage in rats.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16412663
2007-11 J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Nov; 92(11):4286-9.
Epub 2007 Aug 21. PMID: 17711926
Ginkgo
biloba protects against radioiodine genotoxicity.
- GreenMedInfo Summary
Ginseng
2005-07 Radioprotective
potential of ginseng by Lee TK, Johnke RM, Allison
RR, O'Brien KF, Dobbs LJ Jr., Department of Radiation Oncology,
Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, Brody School of Medicine at East
Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA, Mutagenesis. 2005
Jul; 20(4):237-43. Epub 2005 Jun 14
Ginseng,
Panax
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye"
"CONCLUSION:
From this study, it is clearly evident that PGE (Panax ginseng
root extract) provides protection against radiation-induced hematological
and biochemical alterations in Swiss albino mice."
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20702497
Also,
American Ginseng:
"American
Ginseng Modifies 137Cs-Induced DNA Damage and Oxidative Stress
in Human Lymphocytes"
*
http://thescholarship.ecu.edu/bitstream/handle/10342/3037/
ginseng%20DNA%20damage.pdf?sequence=1
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
Panax
Ginseng: Studies have found this Asian version is effective against
radiation as well. Researchers observed, ginseng increases the
rate of production of serum albumin and gamma-globulin as well
as DNA and RNA protein, and lipid synthesis in bone marrow cells.
Also, human subjects taking ginseng root were able to acclimatize
more easily to oxygen-deficient air. Both types can be taken daily
as they build up in the body in a positive way. Best to take small
amounts over a long period...
2002 Surviving
Radiation the Wise Woman Way by Susun S. Weed
In
clinical trial with humans, those who took ginseng extract (Panax
quinquefolium) for thirty days following exposure to radiation
showed hastened recovery from injuries to their bone marrow, organs,
skin, and blood cells according to Paul Bergner in The Healing
Power of Ginseng, The Enlightened Person's Guide, Prima, 1996.
He quotes Japanese researcher Dr M. Yonezawa as saying that "ginseng
appears to be the most useful agent available for protection against
radiation damage.
"Panax
ginseng root extract might be another alternative to protect the
hematological system from radiation."
Gingseng,
Siberian
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
...Siberian
Ginseng: Eleutherococcus senticosus is the best for medicinal
purposes. Soviet researchers reported that eleuthero extract has
radio protective qualities, and can be used in conditions of acute
or chronic radiation sicknesses such as hemorrhaging, severe anemia,
dizziness, nausea, vomiting and headaches due to x-rays. It can
lengthen survival time after exposure. The list is too long. Do
some research. It is almost miraculous protecting against infections.
poisons, etc. It increases human resistance to a remarkably wide
variety of stressors.
Adult
extract treatment doses: 20 to 40 drops before meals, two or three
times per day. Children: single dose one drop per each year of
age, repeated twice a day.
Holy
Basil
Ocimum
tenuiflorum, (wikipedia) "Ocimum tenuiflorum,
Holy Basil (also tulsi, tulasi), is an aromatic plant in the family
Lamiaceae which is native throughout the Old World tropics and
widespread as a cultivated plant and an escaped weed..."
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye".
Indian
holy basil:
“Orientin
(Ot) and Vicenin (Vc), two water-soluble flavonoids isolated from
the leaves of Indian holy basil Ocimum sanctum have shown significant
protection against radiation lethality and chromosomal aberrations
in vivo”
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11673069
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11495275
2011-03-16 Supplements
Shown to Help Prevent Effects of Radiation Fall-Out
by Dr. Melissa Patterson, ND
Holy
Basil/Tulsi Aerial Parts (Ocimum sanctum)- preliminary research
shows evidence that Holy Basil protects against radiation-induced
peroxidation, thus helping to protect against the detrimental
effects of low-level radiation. It also increases glutathione
and superoxide dismutase which are important mediators in the
liver in helping the body deal with radiation.
Recommended
Dose - Tincture: 40–60 drops, three times per day. Tea:
add 1 tsp. dried leaf to 8 oz. hot water, steep, covered, 5–10
minutes. Take 4 oz. of tea up to three times per day. Capsules:
various forms of capsulated products are available. These include
extracts in gelcaps, dried or powdered herb in capsules, and standardized
extracts (2 percent ursolic acid) in capsules.
Contraindications
- Holy Basil should not be taken while pregnant or nursing or
for an extended period of time. Use caution if you have high blood
pressure or rheumatic heart disease.
2011-03-16 Supplements
Shown to Help Prevent Effects of Radiation Fall-Out
by Dr. Melissa Patterson, ND
Milk
Thistle (Silybum marianum)- helps the liver deal with the effects
of toxicity of radiation poisoning.
Recommended
dose -1-3 dropperfuls of tincture per day
Milk
Thistle & Liver Support
Milk
Thistle at Wikipedia.org
[Undated] radiationdetoxification.com.
Milk Thistle & Liver Support - A report suggests that milk
thistle may prevent radiation toxicity. It enhances liver regeneration
after exposure to heavy metals, radiation, or toxic chemicals.
It reduces DNA damage and extends survival in animals exposed
to dangerous levels of radiation. Silymarin’s free radical
scavenging and direct antioxidant effects are credited with producing
these results. You can order Milk Thistle Extract 2X-300mg, 200
Vcaps by Now Foods.
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Milk
thistle (silymarin marianum):
"Silybum
marianum or milk thistle (MT) is the most well-researched plant
in the treatment of liver disease.
"In
animals, silymarin reduces liver injury caused by acetaminophen,
carbon tetrachloride, radiation, iron overload,
phenylhydrazine, alcohol, cold ischaemia and Amanita phalloides.
Silymarin has been used to treat alcoholic liver disease, acute
and chronic viral hepatitis and toxin-induced liver diseases."
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20564545
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20653235
Mint
2010-07/08 Radioprotective
potential of mint: a brief review by Baliga MS, Rao
S., Research and Development, Father Muller Medical College, Father
Muller Hospital Road, Kankanady, Mangalore, India, J Cancer Res
Ther. 2010 Jul-Sep; 6(3):255-62..
Rosemary
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye"
"Rosemary:
“The
present study suggests the possible radioprotective ability of
rosemary extract.”
"The
present study demonstrates that Rosemarinus officinalis leave
extract is a good radioprotector."
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20162088
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17433646
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303324
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17341204
2009-04-20 Rosemary
Found to Offer Best Protection against Radiation Poisoning
by Barbara L. Minton, naturalnews.com
"....In
two separate studies, scientists in Spain found that nothing fights
radiation damage to micronuclei like a simple garden herb known
as rosemary. They noted that ionizing radiation causes the massive
generation of free radicals that induce cellular DNA damage. They
studied the protective effects of several compounds against gamma
ray induced chromosomal damage in micronuclei testing by adding
various compounds to human blood before and after irradiation.
When the compounds were added after gamma-irradiation treatment,
the protective effects relied not on scavenging ability, but on
activity against free radicals already present in the cells, such
as lipoperoxy radicals which are mainly responsible for continuous
chromosomal oxidative damage.
The
fact that carnosic acid and carnosol found in rosemary are fat
soluble allows them to provide highly a significant protective
anti-mutagenic activity. Even the most powerful water-soluble
antioxidants lack the capacity to protect against gamma ray induced
damage. This study can be found in the British Journal of Radiology,
February 2 edition.
In
their second study, the generation of radiation induced cellular
DNA damage to skin from free radicals was the focus. The researchers
sought to demonstrate that rosmarinic acid from rosemary would
act as a photo-protector both by acting as a scavenger of free
radicals and as an inducer of the body's own endogenous defense
mechanisms by regulating tyrosinase activity and stimulating melanin
production. They found that formulation of toxic malonyldialdehyde
was delayed by the use of rosmarinic acid, and the protection
factor was 3.34 times greater than for other compounds studied,
as measured in micronucleus testing. In vivo testing showed the
capacity of orally administered rosmarinic acid to inhibit skin
alterations as a result of UV radiation exposure. This study was
reported in the February edition of Food and Chemical Toxicology..."
Tumeric
(Curcumin is the natural extract).
2012-01-29 Tumeric,
Cucumin Naturally Block Cancer Cells by Anthony Gucciardi,
2012-01-18 Turmeric
Offers Powerful Anti-Cancer Benefits Without Side Effects
by Andre Evans,
..turmeric
has been found to reduce
tumors by an astounding 81%.
In
turmeric is also something known as curcumin, a natural phenol.
Named for the plant from which it’s derived, curcumin is
the pigment that gives turmeric its distinctive color. It is thought
to be the source of the many medicinal effects turmeric is being
known to have. Curcumin alone is known to positively impact over
560 diseases according to peer-reviewed research.
2011-04-06 Doctor:
Fukushima’s effects may be worse than those suffered in
Chernobyl — “Anti-radiation” herbs like turmeric
can help, enenews.com.
2011-04-03 The
Most Exhaustive Turmeric Research Archive on the Internet (video):
GreenMedInfo.com; Uploaded by patienthealthyself,
"Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo.com, discusses his findings
after reviewing all 3900 study abstracts on Turmeric (and its
primarily polyphenol Curcumin) on the US National Library Medicine's
database (pubmed.gov). GreenMedInfo.com now houses 1500 carefully
indexed studies on this plant, indexed across 589 diseases and
152 pharmacological actions."
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
"Turmeric
or Curcumin:
Found
to be effective in protecting the cells against radiation-induced
suppression of glutathione peroxidase, catalase and superoxide
dismutase (SOD) activities. This is used in many curry dishes,
and may be safely ingested by adults and children. This is particularly
important to use before exposure to protect the lymphocytes (blood
cells).
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973408
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16196208
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Radio-protective%20tumeric
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Hormone
Supplements
2010 Healthy
Tips: The Anti-Radiation Diet; Recommended Foods and Supplements
to Help Protect Your Health and counter the effects of radiation,
safespaceprotection.com, Information for this report was excerpted
from Fighting Radiation and Chemical Pollutants with Foods, Herbs
and Vitamins, by Steven Schecter, N.D., and Radiation Protection
Manual, Lita Lee, Ph.D.
DHEA:
The most dominant hormone in the body, DHEA is considered the
“Fountain of Youth” hormone because it can help extend
life span. DHEA helps counteract the negative effects of stress,
boosts the immune system, regulates blood cholesterol and lowers
blood pressure. It rebalances the hormones in the body, especially
during menopause, slows the production of free radicals, and inhibits
the growth of cancers and carcinogens. A good food source of DHEA
is wild yams.
|
*
Minerals and Elements
Overview
Mineral
(Wikipedia.org)
Electrolytes;
nlm.nih.gov
"Electrolytes
are minerals in your blood and other body fluids that carry an
electric charge.
Electrolytes
affect the amount of water in your body, the acidity of your blood
(pH), your muscle function, and other important processes. You
lose electrolytes when you sweat. You must replace them by drinking
fluids.
Common
electrolytes include:
*
Calcium
*
Chloride
*
Magnesium
*
Phosphorous
*
Potassium
*
Sodium
Electrolytes
can be acids, bases, and salts....
Boron
[Undated] Additional
Radiation Protection from Boron, Bentonite Clay and Fulvic Minerals,
newparadigmdigest.com.
"In
the entire table of elements, including subatomic particles, there
is only one mineral that is capable of accepting and ionizing
radiation that never changes the innards or the nucleus of the
cell — boron. The protons and the neutrons do not change
under any conditions in the boron molecule. Boron can take radiation
and release it without upsetting this very delicate balance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron).
That
makes Boron an excellent candidate to have into your system, whether
the radiation be from excessive sunlight or spent uranium bullets
that’s being ionized and released into the atmosphere. When
that mineral is present in your system, your DNA creates a much
better buffering system to ward off radiation. Even when chromosome
breaks do occur, they are much more easily repaired and maintained
by the system.
DOSAGE
Suggested
Boron Capsule form: 4- 10 mg/day. If it is in a multivit, it just
2 mg.
....NATURAL
SOURCES OF BORON
Fruits
like apples, oranges, almonds, red grapes, pear, plum, kiwi, sultanas,
dates, vegetables, soybeans and nuts are rich sources of Boron.
Chickpeas, borlotti beans, hazel nuts, currants; peanut butter,
red kidney beans, tomato, lentils, olive, onion, potato wine,
beer, etc., are also notable sources of Boron (http://www.truehealthyproducts.com/tag/natural-sources-of-boron).
TOXICITY
Boron
is very safe. The LD 50 (lethal dose in 50% of animal subjects)
is about 3-6g per Kilo of body weight. This means that doses up
to 18 mg of boron daily appear to be safe for adults even if taken
for prolonged periods of time. This is double the dose of even
the most liberal amounts suggested by advocates of boron use.
There is also no evidence to suggest that boron is either carcinogenic
or mutagenic.
In
1904, human volunteers consuming greater than 500 mg of boric
acid daily (this is equivalent to about 180 mg of elemental boron)
showed symptoms of poor appetite and digestive problems. Symptoms
of acute toxicity typically include nausea, diarrhea and abdominal
cramps...
2011-05-30 Dairy
Farmers fight radiation with Boron, by Britton &
Shekinah, Hawaii Health Guide
"....We
have begun feeding our cows and goats sodium borate at milking
times, as well as adding it to free choice kelp and water troughs.
In the past years we have monitored boron and other minerals in
the soil and have added as necessary to bring levels up to recognized
healthy levels. As a safety measure we are planning to implement
a boron dosage to all of our pastures, as well as neighboring
pastures. For humans, boron can safely ingested at a dosage of
4-10 mg per day. Borax, 11% boron, can be used as a tea and sprayed
on your gardens, or land surrounding your home, at a rate of 10#
of Borax per acre, 1#, if using elemental boron. Borax can also
be ingested at 1/8 tsp to 1 litre water for women, ¼ tsp
to 1 litre water for men. Fortunately, red wine and coffee are
significant sources of boron, as well as non-citrus fruits, red
grapes, plums, pears, apples, avocados, legumes and nuts! Boron
is known to be non-carcinogenic, non-mutagenic and has been used
internally to protect the astronauts in space as they leave the
earth’s protective magnetic field..."
Boron
and Fulvic Minerals http://newparadigmdigest.com/5706/additional-radiation-protection
-from-boron-bentonite-clay-and-fulvic-minerals/
2011-03-13 Treatments
for Nuclear Contamination Iodine –
Glutathione – Natural Chelation – Clay – Baking
Soda by Mark Sircus
Calcium
Calcium
in diet - overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland
Medical Center overview]
Calcium
in biology, Wikipedia.org
2011-03-25
RADIATION
PROTECTION - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald eye."
Calcium:
Blocks uptake of stronium-90. Adults may take 1500 mg daily.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15167119
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12075684
|
Calcium
and Magnesium
2011-10-15 Prof.
Chris Busby update on Supplements to block Fukushima radioactivity
effects (3:45) "...Get away If you can; but
if not not then you can reduce the access of these radionuclides
to the DNA. It is basic Physical Chemistry that increasing the
Calcium concentration, (Calcium which stabilises the DNA phosphate
backbone), will inhibit the equilibrium binding of radionuclides
like Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium and other high DNAP affinity
elements and complex ions. The Iodine thyroid blocking method
is based on the same thermodynamic chemical equilibrium idea.
A number of web sites have been selling pills based on his ideas
and more are being set up but it is straightforward, he says,
to buy Calcium/ Magnesium tablets from health food shops where
they are not expensive. The adult dose is about 800mg Calcium
and 350mg Magnesium. Reduce the dose for children in proportion
to their relative weight, so for a 10-year old, about 400mg Calcium
and 175 mg Magnesium. This is a critical issue: it will save lives
and it is so simple and is absolutely harmless."
2011-11-05 Magnesium
& Calcium Protect DNA From Radiation by Dr. Mark
Sircus "This informal video of physicist and distinguished
nuclear expert Dr. Chris Busby has him recommending magnesium
and calcium supplementation to everyone concerned about the radiation
exposure from Fukushima. Nuclear particles do have a strong propensity
to bind with DNA and that is why we see cancers develop, even
after low exposure, and that is also why we see drops in fertility
and the onset of sterility.
Dr.
David Brownstein and I have made a similar universal call for
iodine in that the nutritive type of iodine protects the thyroid
from the radioactive type of iodine. One has to be a fool not
to be taking iodine because 95 percent of us are deficient in
iodine, thus making our thyroids sitting ducks (sponges) for the
radioactive type. A thyroid deficient in iodine becomes like an
intense vacuum cleaner hungry for anything even looking like a
halogen (fluoride, bromide, chlorine, rocket fuel). Because so
much blood goes through the thyroid it has a fantastic capacity
to concentrate radioactive iodine and these halogens no matter
how low the concentration is of them in the blood.
Exposure
to radiation causes a cascade of free radicals that wreak havoc
on the body. Radiation decimates the body’s supply of glutathione.
We
are even greater fools though if we are not taking magnesium with
an equal amount of calcium (though most often that equal amount
of calcium is already supplied by the diet) as the radioactive
clouds and rain circle the northern half of the globe. Though
I would say the same for iodine and selenium (selenium is not
only essential for glutathione production but is also important
to take with iodine), magnesium and calcium will protect us and
our children from some of the nastiest long-term effects of radiation
exposure.
Without
sufficient magnesium, the body accumulates toxins and acid residues,
degenerates rapidly, and ages prematurely.
....Conclusion
Dr.
Busby is correct in his recommendation but he does not have intimate
experience with the best way to absorb magnesium into the body.
The inexpensive pills available in most pharmacies definitely
are not a good way of absorbing these minerals. Absorption rates
of solid minerals taken in pill form are not nearly as effective
as liquid minerals and there is nothing like transdermal magnesium
therapy for effective and quick results. Most peoples’ diets
are already too high in calcium and too low in magnesium so it
is really the magnesium that needs to be stressed, especially
in the first months of supplementation. It takes three or four
months of heavy transdermal magnesium therapy with magnesium oil
to top off cellular levels of magnesium but a year or more if
administration is only given orally. Transdermal applications
include direct body spraying, medicinal baths as well as magnesium
massage.
2011-05-30 Magnesium
and Radiation Protection by Dr. Mark Sircus, theintelhub.com.
Iodine
Potassium
Iodide, Wikipedia
Iodine
- overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland Medical
Center overview]
Iodine
in biology, Wikipedia.org
Editor's Note: One of the first things that people think of when
it comes to handling nuclear fallout are Iodine tablets. The good
news is that there are ways to handle this that are part of a
healthy lifestyle. Leuren Moret has made the point that most people
are iodine deficient, and they can absorb enough iodine through
the skin to help protect their thyroids with risking an iodine
overdose. In addition, Dr. John Apsley has pointed out that Iodine
supplements can help the body secrete harmful elements like fluoride
that are placed in public drinking water in many cities across
America. Therefore, building up the body's tolerance to a steady
maintenance dose of Iodine can be a good thing. One of the cheapest
and most effective ways to use iodine, particularly in an environment
where Americans are periodically receiving "hot rains,"
and where most people are not continuous monitoring their dosage
levels with radiation detection equipment, is to simply rub tincture
of Iodine on ones skin every day.
[Undated] Iodine
prophylaxis at llrc.org
"...Taking
iodine is no protection against external irradiation or any type
of radioactive pollution other than radio-iodine.
...If
you live in a place which the plume seems likely to contaminate,
and if you have access to potassium iodide or preferably potassium
iodate, then use it. After Chernobyl, increases in thyroid cancer
were reported in the USA and UK in addition to the well-known
increase in the territories nearer to the scene of the disaster...."
[Undated] Bring
Back the Universal Nutrient Medicine, by International
Medical Veritas Association
[Undated] Iosat
Potassium Iodide Tablets, nukepills.com.
"Thyroid
cells are unique among all cells of the human body as they are
the only cells which have the ability to absorb Iodine. The thyroid
gland absorbs it from the bloodstream and concentrates it inside
the cell to produce hormones. For radiation that is not immediately
lethal, the thyroid is your body's most sensitive organ to the
effects of radiation. The Radioactive Iodine is absorbed by the
thyroid and can cause thyroid disease and cancer later on..."
[Ed.
Note: Also discussion of general civil defense issues.]
[Undated] FDA: Home
Preparation Procedure for Emergency Administration of Potassium
Iodide Tablets to Infants and Children Using 65 Milligram (mg)
Tablets (pdf)
[Undated] The
Unfounded Iodine Phobia (pdf), boisevoicebio.com.
"...It
is guestimated that more people have died from iodine deficiency
(potentially spawned by the false premise of this 1948 study)
compared to the deaths in both world wars combined! Iodine deficiency
has been further exacerbated by “halogen displacement”.
Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine are called “halogens”
or “salts” in Group 17 on the Periodic Table and they
all have exactly 7 electrons in their outer shells. Based on atomic
weight, fluorine, chlorine and bromine are able to “displace”
iodine because they can attach to the same receptor sites. E.g.,
an important thyroid hormone called thyroxine, comprised of one
tyrosine molecule plus 4 iodine molecules (hence it also being
named T4), can be constructed with 4 molecules of fluorine, bromine
and/or chlorine instead of iodine--but it renders the T4 absolutely
useless. Since our current environment is flooded with fluorine,
chlorine and bromine with a deficiency in iodine, we have a lot
of catching up to do...."
Not
my favorite links, but both have some good info
http://www.nukepills.com/potassium-iodide.htm
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp
[Undated] Potassium
Iodide (KI) discussion at the Centers for Disease
Control web site
[Undated] Iodine4health.com
recommended on 13 March 2011 Officer Jack McLamb RBN show.
[Undated] Iodine,
homeremedycentral.com.
[Undated] Radiation
Sickness, by Toni Reita, natural-health-home-remedies.com.
What
Is Iodine?
Iodine
comes from the Greek Word ioeides which means violet. Iodine is
the largest of the 25 elements that make up the human body. Our
depleted soils and poor diets cause many people to be iodine deficient.
Iodine is a water soluable essential trace element that is fairly
rare in our soils, but abundant in the sea.
Because
Iodine is water soluable it travels in the lymph fluid and delivers
this critical element to every cell of our body. Iodone has the
highest vibratory rates of all elements. It is usually one of
the 4 most critically missing elements in humans.
What
Does Iodine Do?
Iodine
is required by the thyroid which regulates your emotions, metabolsim,
hormones, ovaries, mammary glands, protein synthesis, strengthens
the immune system, enzymatic activity. Your brain, skeletal and
nervous system require Iodine. 30% of Iodine is utilized by the
Thyroid gland, the remainder is used by the mammary glands, eye,
gastric mucosa, cervix, thymus and salivary glands.
Iodine
also destroys viruses, cancerous cells and removes toxic chemicals,
such as aluminum, mercury, fluoride, bromide and from the body.
Stress depletes your body of iodine.
During
an infection Thyroid hormones gathers in damaged or diseased tissue,
and it mobilizes when your immune systems does battle with toxins
or bacteria. This suggests that iodine is mobilized for critical
defensive health battles.
Who
Should Take Iodine?
Really,
almost everyone is probably deficient in Iodine Iodine and certain
natural healthy foods are goitrogens.
When
these goitrogenic foods are eaten raw, they prevent iodine uptake
by the thyroid gland, cooking does diminish this problem. Until
Radioactive Iodine quits circling the earth, I'll skip these foods.
It's important to consider adding Iodine rich foods If you eat
a lot of the following:
* Broccoli, Chinese broccoli, Bok Choy, Bamboo shoots
* Cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, Cabbage,
* Kale, Collar greens, Mustard greens, Spinach
* Pears, Peaches
* Peanuts, Pine nuts
* Sweet Potatoes, Turnips
* Radishes, Rutabagas
* Soy anything
How
Much Iodine Do I Need?
According
to the World Health Organization there are iodine deficiencies
in 54 countries. Processed foods lose their iodine content, and
refined sugars have no iodine. Iodized salt can provide excess
amounts.
The
thyroid and other organs can't store iodine so your body need
to have a little every day, about 150 microgram as a daily requirement.
Too much iodine can be toxic.
Potassium
Iodide (KI)
Potassium
iodide is available without prescription and may protect the thyroid
against exposure to radioactive iodine if a sufficient amount
is taken before or within 24 hours of the radiation exposure.
It must continue to be taken every 24 hours until the emergency
has passed. KI will not help with radiation damage to other parts
of your body.
The
FDA has approved two different forms of KI, tablets and liquid,
that people can take by mouth after a nuclear radiation emergency.
Tablets come in two strengths, 130 milligram (mg) and 65 mg. According
to the FDA, the following doses are appropriate to take after
internal contamination with, or likely internal contamination,
with radioactive iodine:
* Adults should take 130 mg tablets OR two mL of solution
* Breastfeeding women should take the adult dose of 130 mg
* Children 3 and 18 years of age should take one 65 mg tablet
OR 1 mL of solution
* Children who are adult size >150 pounds should take the
full adult dose
* Infants and children between 1 month and 3 years of age should
take 1/2 of a 65 mg tablet OR 1/2 mL of solution
* Newborns from birth to 1 month of age should be given 1/4
of a 65 mg tablet or 1/4 mL of solution
If
you're unable to find an oral source of iodine, you can still
put Betadine or other Iodine tincture on your skin. DO NOT DRINK
IT! This method is said to block thyroid radioactive iodine uptake
up to 99 percent. You can paint a patch on the abdomen, or on
your throat above your thyroid, it will be absorbed into your
skin.
Personally,
I prefer super saturated Potassium iodide (SSKI) on the soles
of the feet. Your body will absorb the amount that is needed and
will deliver the KI to all organs of your body, including the
thyroid gland. This is easy to do, can be done just before bed,
you don't have to worry about taking too much. The acupuncture
meridian lines loop through the feet and are very effective for
delivery of herbs, oils & natural remedies.
[Undated] Incorporation
of Iodine 131 by Ingestion [pdf fact sheet] by the
French nuclear agency CRIIRAD
[in English]. "With an equal incorporation, a toddler receives
a radiation dose 8 times over that of an adult. This is due to
the smaller size of the child’s organs: the dose expresses
the quantity of energy delivered by the radiations per mass unit
of tissue."
2011-12 Guidance:
Potassium Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies
(pdf), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
[Recommends 130 mg for adults -- has dosage chart].
2011-11-15 Why
Is Taking Iodine and Consuming Iodine Rich Foods So Important?,
by Daren6688, survive2thrive.net, "The toxicity of modern
life is impacting iodine levels and in the countries that fluoridate
their water this impact is maximized. It is well known that the
toxic halides: fluoride and bromide, having structure similar
to iodine, can competitively inhibit iodine absorption and binding
in the body. All the halogens use the same receptors in the body
so fluoride’s danger for people is centered in great part
on this fact."
2011-11-05 (about Iodine) Magnesium
& Calcium Protect DNA From Radiation by Dr. Mark
Sircus
"Dr.
David Brownstein and I have made a similar universal call for
iodine in that the nutritive type of iodine protects the thyroid
from the radioactive type of iodine. One has to be a fool not
to be taking iodine because 95 percent of us are deficient in
iodine, thus making our thyroids sitting ducks (sponges) for the
radioactive type. A thyroid deficient in iodine becomes like an
intense vacuum cleaner hungry for anything even looking like a
halogen (fluoride, bromide, chlorine, rocket fuel). Because so
much blood goes through the thyroid it has a fantastic capacity
to concentrate radioactive iodine and these halogens no matter
how low the concentration is of them in the blood.
blogger
here
Here is an article that goes into some good detail about
the subject. "The bioavailability of iodine applied to the
skin" http://www.optimox.com/pics/Iodine/updates/UNIOD-02/UNIOD_02.htm
It
is a technique the the Russians used on numbers of people after
Chernobyl; but given the overall medical nature of the issue,
it is something that individuals should discuss with their doctors.
2011-09-20 Thyroid
Cancer & Iodine, by Dr. Mark Sircus
"...When
faced with a radioactive cloud, as is everyone in the northern
hemisphere thanks to Fukushima, it is absolutely imperative that
we take iodine, whatever iodine you can get your hands on. If
the only iodine available is topical iodine that is not suitable
for oral use then you should paint your body and your children’s
bodies with it. Few people have ready access to the Nascent iodine
so will not enjoy its ease of application in repeated measured
dosages that are more gentle to the system, thus yielding fewer
side effects. Because Nascent
is in the atomic form (I¹), it is absorbed faster and that
can also be advantageous in emergency situations when fighting
infections with it. Its only downside is the expense of having
to use so much of it, so for those who cannot afford it and cannot
get their hands on it, I recommend Lugol’s,
which has been around and used heavily for 150 years.
Dr.
Brownstein writes, “If there is enough inorganic, non-radioactive
iodine in our bodies, the radioactive fallout has nowhere to bind
in our bodies. It will pass through us, leaving our bodies unharmed.
It is important to ensure that we have adequate iodine levels
before this fallout hits.”
Dr.
Michael B. Schachter says, “The treatment dose when a person
is iodine insufficient is generally between 12.5 mg and 50 mg
daily. Preliminary research indicates that if a person is iodine
insufficient, it takes about three months to become iodine sufficient
while ingesting a dosage of 50 mg of iodine daily and a year to
achieve that while ingesting a dosage of 12.5 mg of iodine daily.
Because
of the continuing radiation, it behooves us to start taking the
highest dosages tolerable to protect not only our thyroids but
also all the glandular tissues as well. Iodine protects the thyroid,
breasts, prostate and ovary glands as well as other tissues in
the body from radioactive iodine whether used by mad doctors or
ingested from the environment."
2011-04-07 How
To Remove Radioactive Iodine-131 From Drinking Water,
by Jeff McMahon, forbes.com. "...The Environmental Protection
Agency recommends reverse osmosis water treatment to remove radioactive
isotopes that emit beta-particle radiation. But iodine-131, a
beta emitter, is typically present in water as a dissolved gas,
and reverse osmosis is known to be ineffective at capturing gases..."
2011-03-31 Japan
must distribute iodine tablets now: expert, zimbio.com.
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated.
Potassium Iodide, Iodate and related products, page
1, by "emerald eyes."
Potassium
Iodide: (KI)
Blocks
uptake of radioactive Iodine 131. Adults 130 mg/day. Must
start before or immediately upon exposure. Children between
3 -18 years of age should take one-half of a 130-mg tablet (65
mg). Children between 1 month and 3 years of age should take 1/4
of a 130-mg tablet (32 mg).Infants from birth to 1 month of age
should be given 1/8 of a 130-mg tablet (16 mg). Women who are
breastfeeding should take the adult dose, and their infants should
receive the recommended infant dose. Children who are approaching
adult size (greater than or equal to 150 pounds) should take the
adult dose regardless of their age. Do not use unless you know
that you are being exposed or about to be exposed to dangerous
levels of radiation.
Another
option is potassium iodate (KIO3)
An
adult dose for potassium iodate (KIO3) is 170 mg per day during
and preceding exposure.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health references:
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8225995
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10832925
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19054795
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11349833
Topical
iodine as an alternative to oral KI or KIO3.
Don’t
drink the Lugols solution or betadine as both are toxic when taken
orally, but to paint on your skin. Lugols solution and betadine
are both still readily available! According to research
by Ken Miller, health physicist at the Hershey Medical Center,
using 24 healthy adult male test subjects he found that an adult
could get a blocking dose of stable iodine by painting 8 ml of
a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm approximately
2 hours prior to I-131 contamination.
Although
there were large variations within each subject group in regard
to serum-I levels and thyroid uptakes, the increase in serum-I
concentration after topical-I application was effective in reducing
the thyroid uptake of I131. The authors conclude that
in the absence of KI, most humans would benefit from topical application
of tincture of-I, and that in some the effectiveness would equal
that of oral KI.
Don’t
try to drink or swallow iodine such as iodine water purification
tablets, tincture of iodine, or Povidone-iodine solutions (like
the Betadine® brand solution). If you do that you are going
to get sick because iodine is a poison. That’s
why iodine bottles are marked poisonous!
The
abstract of his study is titled "Effectiveness of Skin Absorption
of Tincture of I in Blocking Radioiodine from the Human Thyroid
Gland" from Health Physics, June 1989, Vol. 56, No. 6, pages
911-914.
Although
the amount given is for an adult male, around 160-170 lbs, I don’t
see why a proportionate amount could not be used on the skin of
a child as long as they could not lick it off (maybe place on
the skin of the lower back). We use Betadine surgical prep on
young children, so it would not be contraindicated as a topical
application unless there is an allergy or the child is very young
such as a newborn.
So
in essence, For adults, paint 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of
Iodine on the abdomen or forearm each day, ideally at least 2
hours prior to possible exposure. For children 3 to 18, but under
150 pounds, only half that amount painted on daily, or 4 ml. For
children under 3 but older than a month, half again, or 2 ml.
For newborns to 1 month old, half it again, or just 1 ml. Betadine
surgical prep is readily available in feed and supply stores for
animal use, so as long as the animal couldn’t lick it off
and it was in a non-hair area (painted inside the ear flaps in
rabbits or dogs) it might also work for pets.
Uptake
Competing With Iodine Absorption by the Thyroid Gland Following
Povidone-Iodine Skin Application (pdf)
by Sen-ichi Furudate et all, Kitisato University at jstage.jst.go.jp
Calcium
iodate:
Calcium
iodate is possibly another effective blocker of radioiodine uptake
by the thyroid gland. From the study listed below:
"Ca(IO3)2
is permitted by the FDA as a food additive and is "generally
regarded as safe" (GRAS, CFR No.1206). We have also
compared the efficacy of Ca(IO3)2 with KIO3 in blocking thyroidal
uptake of radioiodine, which could be important considering the
better shelf life of Ca(IO3). The results of the present
study provide us with evidence that Ca(IO3)2 can serve as another
promising radioiodine blocker, and is as equipotent as KI/KIO3
in protecting the thyroid gland. We have not found any
studies that examined the property of Ca(IO3)2 in blocking radioiodine
uptake by the thyroid gland and the present study is an attempt
in this direction."
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15951696
Kelp
Kelp
is high in iodine, and one of those naturally protective substances
fro the thyroid gland in protecting it against radioactive I 131.
As kelp concentrates iodine, it is imperative to make sure that
the kelp did not come from waters contaminated with radioactive
I 131 or other radioactive elements.
“Suppression
of 125I-uptake in mouse thyroid by seaweed feeding: possible preventative
effect of dietary seaweed on internal radiation injury of the
thyroid by radioactive iodine.”
“We
conducted an animal experiment to determine how dietary seaweeds
rich in iodine and dietary fibers suppress radioactive iodine
uptake by the thyroid, using mice and four kinds of experimental
diets, three with 1% or 2% powdered fronds of the kelp Laminaria
religiosa and 2% powdered laver Porphyra yezoensis, and one with
cellulose.”
"The
degree of the suppression was observed to depend on the amount
of iodine in the diet or in the injected sample, no matter whether
organic or inorganic, judging from the results of an additional
experiment. Thus, we conclude that previously fed iodine-rich
material, especially dietary seaweeds rich in iodine and other
minerals, vitamins, and beta-carotene, such as kelps or laver
supplemented with inorganic iodine, may be effective in prevention
of internal radiation injury of the thyroid."
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1344008.
2009-05-14 The
Dark Side of The Alternative Health Movement: Promoting Ingested
Iodine
written by Sarah Cain
2005-12 Oral
potassium iodide is an effective means of reducing thyroid irradiation
from environmentally dispersed radioiodine but is effective only
when administered within 2 d before to approximately 8 h after
radioiodine intake.--GreenMedInfoSummary, Chest.
2005 Dec;128(6):3817-27. PMID: 10832925, abstract Author(s):
P
B Zanzonico, D V Becker
"...In
euthyroid adults receiving iodine-sufficient diets (250 microg
d(-1) in the current analysis), KI administered up to 48 h before
131I exposure can almost completely block thyroid uptake and therefore
greatly reduce the thyroid absorbed dose. However, KI administration
96 h or more before 131I exposure has no significant protective
effect. In contrast, KI administration after exposure to radioiodine
induces a smaller and rapidly decreasing blockade effect. KI administration
16 h or later after 131I exposure will have little effect on thyroid
uptake and absorbed dose and therefore little or no protective
effect..."
[Editor's
Note: For a situation such as we face today, where iodine fallout
is continually coming at us on a sporadic basis, and those of
us without geiger counters and weather monitoring information
have almost no capability to predict when and how we will get
dosed, the lesson should be clear. Every day that the Fukushima
disaster continues, rub lots of iodine on your body and keep yourself
saturated!]
2004 How
to Help Support the Body's Healing After Intense Radioactive or
Radiation Exposure: The Medical, Naturopathic, Nutritional,
Herbal, Commonsense External and Internal Approaches
(pdf) by Bill Bodri, 2004
"...we
find that over 18 million doses of potassium iodide (KI) were
administered to 97% of the children, and there has been no similar
increase in thyroid cancer in the country. Part of this successful
result is due to Poland's radioiodine protective strategy, which
involved an aggressive ban of radioiodine contaminated food stuffs
and milk. Approximately 10.5 million children under age 16 and
7 million adults received at least one dose of KI in Poland.
That,
in short order, is why KI then becomes useful in certain types
of radioactive emergencies. In fact, the FDA has stated that "
the increase in thyroid cancer seen after Chernobyl is attributable
to ingested or inhaled radioiodines. A comparable burden of excess
thyroid cancers could conceivably accrue should U.S. populations
be similarly exposed in the event of a nuclear accident. This
potential hazard highlights the value of averting such risk by
using KI as an adjunct to evacuation, sheltering, and control
of contaminated foodstuffs."
Here’s what else you have to remember though …
People
keep concentrating on taking potassium iodide tablets, but KI
tablets only protect the thyroid gland and do not provide protection
from any other radiation exposure! Once again, KI does not prevent
the effects of other radioactive elements … using KI will
only protect the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine but it
will not protect other parts of the body from other radioactive
materials that may be released.
There is no medicine that will effectively prevent nuclear radiations
from damaging the human body cells that they strike. KI itself
only provides protection from radioiodines for the thyroid --
and only if taken in time. It has no impact on the uptake by the
body of other radioactive materials and provides no protection
against external irradiation of any kind.
Please
remember that.
Please
also note that radioactive fallout can travel hundreds of miles
on the winds and remain a threatening concern even though the
radioactive isotopes start becoming dispersed and diluted along
the way, and even though their likelihood of causing harm diminishes
with this dispersal.
...you
cannot count on the arrival of new government potassium iodide
(KI) supplies to come to your family if there really is an emergency.
For instance, one report said, "In the immediate aftermath
of Three Mile Island, officials prepared 237,000 doses of potassium
iodide, but the drug didn't make it to the scene for six days
-- too late to do any good."
So
what do you do if you don’t have any KI handy when there’s
an accident and you cannot leave the area?
According
to research by Ken Miller, health physicist at the Hershey Medical
Center, using 24 healthy adult male test subjects he found that
an adult could get a blocking dose of stable iodine by painting
8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm
approximately 2 hours prior to I-131 contamination.
The abstract of his study is titled "Effectiveness of Skin
Absorption of Tincture of I in Blocking Radioiodine from the Human
Thyroid Gland" from Health Physics, June 1989, Vol. 56, No.
6, pages 911-914. The author wrote,
Although
there were large variations within each subject group in regard
to serum-I levels and thyroid uptakes, the increase in serum-I
concentration after topical-I application was effective in reducing
the thyroid uptake of I131. The authors conclude that in the absence
of KI, most humans would benefit from topical application of tincture
of-I, and that in some the effectiveness would equal that of oral
KI.
Don’t
try to drink or swallow iodine such as iodine water purification
tablets, tincture of iodine, or Povidone-iodine solutions (like
the Betadine® brand solution). If you do that you are going
to get sick because iodine is a poison. That’s why iodine
bottles are marked poisonous!
In
Nuclear
War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny, (Original
Edition Published September, 1979, by Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
a Facility of the U.S. Department of Energy, Updated and Expanded
1987 Edition, p. 115) the author states:
Elemental
(free) iodine is poisonous, except in the very small amounts in
water disinfected with iodine tablets or a few drops of tincture
of iodine. Furthermore, elemental iodine supplied by iodine tablets
and released by tincture of iodine dropped into water is not effective
as a blocking agent to prevent thyroid damage. If you do not have
any potassium iodide, DO NOT TAKE IODINE TABLETS OR TINCTURE OF
IODINE..."
2001 Stable
Iodine Prophylaxis: Recommendations of the 2nd UK Working Group
on Stable Iodine Prophylaxis [Editor's Note: This
has recommended sustained dosage levels].
Iron
Iron
in diet -
overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland Medical
Center overview]
Human
iron metabolism, Wikipedia.org
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald eye."
Blocks
the uptake of plutonium. Too much iron can be toxic, especially
for children. Don't overdose on this one. Adults take
up to 300 mg daily if no medical problems, and iron deficient
children may receive 4 to 6 mg/kg elemental iron daily in 3 divided
doses. A fatal dose for children could be as little as 600 mg
so this is one to consult your pediatrician on.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407921
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
Iron:
A number of studies indicate exposure to radiation significantly
decreases levels of iron in the body. Radioactive iron and plutonium,
isotopes similar in structure to iron, can be carried to iron
storage sites such as liver, bone marrow, ovaries or testes, and
lungs if the body is deficiency in iron. The National Research
Council recommends a daily intake of 18 mg. for women, 30 to 60
mg. daily if pregnant or more if lactating; 10 mg. for men, and
10 to 18 mg. for children. After exposure to radiation or loss
of blood, supplementation of approximately 10 to 18 mg. daily.
Magnesium
Magnesiuin
in diet -overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland
Medical Center overview]
Magnesium
in biology, Wikipedia.org
[Undated] magnesiumforlife.com
"... Magnesium medicine saves patients from a considerable
amount of pain and suffering and is a subject worth mastering
if one is a doctor or alternative healthcare professional...
"...Magnesium
chloride is and excellent medicine that is fast acting and safe.
Magnesium chloride is also very flexible in terms of methods of
application as it can be nebulized, applied orally, transdermally
and intravenously in emergency situations..."
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Always
take with other supplements to help with absorption. A good way
to absorb magnesium is with an Epson salts bath or foot soak so
that it does not cause GI upset.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2290996
2010-02-23 Magnesium
Oil Therapy - Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD (YouTube Video)
(5:35)
Manganese
Manganese
- overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland Medical
Center overview]
Manganese,
Wikipedia.org
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
"Radioprotective
effect has been observed in mice which have subcutaneously received
a single dose of abundant inorganic zinc or manganese 24 hours
before gamma-ray irradiation with a sublethal dose."
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15203198
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2290996
Potassium
Potassium
in diet - overview, umm.edu [University of Maryland
Medical Center overview]
Potassium
in biology, Wikipedia.org
2011-03-25
Radiation Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Reduces
uptake of cesium-137. Adults may take up to 100 mg daily, unless
they have decreased renal or kidney function. In that
case, the dose should be decreased or avoided. Eating potassium
rich foods, like meat broths is usually still OK, even with decreased
renal function.
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15167119
2011-03-14 Fighting
Radiation Exposure – Naturally by Dr. Loretta
Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP, CH, oasisadvancedwellness.
"Potassium
– Cesium-137, cesium-134, potassium-40, and potassium-42
are radioactive, competitive sister elements of natural potassium,
all of which are in the same chemical family. These radionuclides
are absorbed by the body when there is a deficiency of natural
potassium. They concentrate primarily in the reproductive organs
and the muscles. Cesium-137 is common in nuclear fallout, and
can often be detected in our food, soil, and water. The authors
of one study described our biosphere as “contaminated with
radiocesium.” Researchers discovered that after the accident
at Chernobyl, iodine-131 and cesium-137 were the most prevalent
radionuclides in samples of food from the USSR and from Poland,
Hungary, and other parts of Eastern Europe. Cesium-137 is also
already being used in some countries to irradiate foods as a means
of extending their shelf life at the supermarket. Research by
the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences
demonstrates that natural potassium decreases the concentration
of radiocesium. Begin to add potassium rich foods such as bananas,
potatoes+peels, etc. If a nuclear event escalates in which cessium
is being released, then also adding supplemental potassium is
recommended. Potassium regulation is affected by magnesium. For
magnesium deficiency include leafy green veggies, pumpkin seeds,
sunflower seeds and black beans."
Selenium
Selenium,
wikipedia
article
[Undated] radiationdetoxification.com
"Selenium – 200mcg per day with a meal. Selenium
is an essential constituent of a number of enzymes, some of which
have antioxidant functions. Selenium activates an antioxidant
enzyme called glutathione peroxidase, which may help protect the
body from cancer. The most important study on selenium and cancer
was conducted by researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer
Center. When all the results were tabulated, it became clear that
the selenium-treated group of patients developed almost 66% fewer
prostate cancers, 50% fewer colorectal cancers, and about 40%
fewer lung cancers as compared with the placebo group."
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection- non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Selenium:
This
is an anti-oxidant with activity as a free radical scavenger.
Populations with high blood selenium levels are found to have
lower death rates due to cancer. Selenium toxicity can occur and
the dose of selenium should be close to 100 MICROGRAMS (not milligrams)
per day in adults.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19763408
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12821279
2011-03-19 Radiation
Protection From Nuclear Accident or Attack: Some
tested ways to protect against radiation in the environment and
possible fallout from dirty bombs or nuclear explosions;
by Sam Baxter
Selenium;Wonderful
element. Does so many positive things impossible to list. It fortifies
the immune system, reduces the rate of cancer in humans and helps
to alleviate leukopenia, (abnormal decreases of white blood cells).
The RDA is 50 to 200 micrograms per day. Some recommend as much
as 100 to 300 micrograms per day, but more should be under medical
supervision. It is most effective when taken with vitamins A and
E.
Zeolite
Zeolite-related web sites:
zeohealth.com
offers an FAQ
and research
articles section
Zinc
Zinc,
umm.edu (University of Maryland Medical Center) (Mineral, Antioxidant)
Overview:
Zinc
is an essential trace mineral, so you get it through the foods
you eat. Next to iron, zinc is the most common mineral in the
body and is found in every cell. It has been used since ancient
times to help heal wounds and plays an important role in the immune
system, reproduction, growth, taste, vision, and smell, blood
clotting, and proper insulin and thyroid function.
Zinc
also has antioxidant properties, meaning it helps protect cells
in the body from damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals
may contribute to the aging process, as well as the development
of a number of health problems, including heart disease and cancer.
Antioxidants can neutralize free radicals and may reduce or even
help prevent some of the damage they cause.
Your
body doesn't need a large amount of zinc. The recommended daily
allowance for adults is 8 - 11 mg. It' s common to have slightly
low levels of zinc, but taking a multivitamin, plus eating a healthy
diet, should give you all the zinc you need.
It's
rare for people in industrialized countries to be seriously deficient
in zinc. Low zinc levels are sometimes seen in the elderly, alcoholics,
people with anorexia, and people on very restricted diets. People
who have malabsorption syndromes, such as Crohn's disease or celiac
disease, may also be deficient in zinc.
Symptoms
of zinc deficiency include loss of appetite; poor growth; weight
loss; lack of taste or smell; poor wound healing; skin problems
such as acne, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis; hair loss; lack
of menstrual period; night blindness; white spots on the fingernails;
and depression.
Zinc
reduces the amount of copper your body absorbs, and high doses
of zinc can cause a copper deficiency. For that reason, many doctors
recommend that you take 2 mg of copper along with a zinc supplement...
[Undated] Nutritional
Program for Environmental Pollution and Radiation
by Elson M. Haas MD
Zinc
is probably most important as an immune strengthener and tissue
healer that is needed for the functioning of many detoxifying
enzymes, thus helping to protect the cells from pollutant toxins.
As an example, zinc, as well as copper and manganese, function
in the superoxide dismutase system to detoxify oxygen free radicals
which might be generated from ozone and photochemical smog. Calcium
and magnesium help to neutralize some colon toxins and decrease
heavy metal absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.
2011-03-25 Radiation
Protection - non prescription list, revised and updated,
page 1, by "emerald
eye."
Zinc
- Reduces uptake of radioactive zinc-65. The recommended dose
is 100 mg per day in adults unless medical conditions prohibit.
US
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
*
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16617389
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