[ RadSafe ] A scientific explanation of Hormesis
John Jacobus
crispy_bird at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 13 15:15:49 CDT 2005
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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