[ RadSafe ] A scientific explanation of Hormesis

[John Jacobus]

Tariq,
Of course, not all things are as they seem. See
"High Doses of Vitamin C Are Not Effective as a Cancer
Treatment" at
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/c.html

--- Tariq Tahir <tariqbtahir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Radsafers,
>  We have been discussing Hormesis without any
> medical basis. However 
> recently Dr. Mark Levine, MD of NIDDK, National
> Institutes of Health, has 
> indicated that large doses of Vitamin C ( Ascorbic
> Acid) may cause to 
> inhibit cancer. However Ascorbic acid does not act
> on its own but it leads 
> to formation of Hydrogen peroxide outside the blood
> vessels in the tissue 
> which kills the cancer cells. 
> 
> Well
. radiation produces Hydrogen peroxide in the
> tissue, so this may be 
> the reason that cancer is inhibited due to low dose
> radiation !
> Please comment on this theory. Has Hormesis finally
> found a scientific 
> explanation ?
>  Tariq B. Tahir
> Manager, Health Physics,
> KANUPP


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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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