[ RadSafe ] Low-level radiation benefits

[John Jacobus]

Jim,
Is there any proof that radiation repairs "all" prior
damage?  Your comment implies an claim that needs to
be supported by facts that have addressed every
possible biological and medical study.  If it was
true, why does 50% of the population develop cancer if
we are all exposed to low levels of radiation?  Why
are there metabolic diseases like diabetes?  Are you
implying that radiation some "magic pill" that will
cure all diseases?

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> This article is by our friend Dr. Parthasarathy in
> India, quoting our friends
> Don Luckey and John Cameron. Note the error in the
> quote from ICRP: "In
> particular radiation may be able to stimulate the
> repair of prior radiation
> damage, thus decreasing its consequences or may be
> able to improve
> immunological surveillance, thus strengthening the
> body's natural
> mechanisms."  This should delete "radiation," to
> correctly reflect that
> radiation is shown to "stimulate repair of (all)
> prior damage," which is
> overwhelmingly caused by the much greater sources of
> normal metabolic damage
> to DNA and cells, especially from food and exercise.
>  This successfully
> reduces pre-cancerous lesions and cells, resulting
> in lower cancer rates in
> LDR-exposed organisms.  Of course, this is not
> expressed in most cellular
> studies, which do not have the essential cellular
> and DNA repair mechanisms,
> including stimulation of cell removal through
> necrosis and apoptosis, that
> exist in immunologically-whole organisms and
> animals.
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
>  
> 
>
http://www.hindu.com/seta/2005/09/29/stories/2005092900601600.htm
> 
> 
> Is low-level radiation beneficial? 
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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