[ RadSafe ] Low-level radiation benefits

[John Jacobus]

Dr. Parthasarathy
You did not misquote the ICRP.  Rather, Jim is
correcting the ICRP as they do not view the data
regarding the benefits of radiation to cure every
biological illness.

His contempt for many of the scientific and advisory
committees is well known.  

--- parthasarathy k s <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 'Dear Dr.Muckerheide,
>  
> Thank you very much for the comments on my article
> "Is low level radiation beneficial?" in todays Hindu
> Newspaper. The  quotation from ICRP  refers to para
> 47 from ICRP publication No 60. Frankly, I could not
> locate any error in the quotation.
>  
> There were some omissions. I had included the full
> title of Dr Cameron's paper.I referred to Marshall
> Brucer's comments which also got omitted during
> editing. 
>  
> I made a mistake in typing my e-mail ID in the
> article. The correct ID is ksparth at yahoo.co.uk
> Because of the lapse I have not received any
> feedback om my article so far!
>  
> Regards,
>  
> K.S.Parthasarathy
> 
> "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? 
 . . .
> In 1991, the International Commission on
> Radiological Protection stated:
> "There is some experimental evidence that radiation
> can act to stimulate a
> variety of cellular functions including
> proliferation and repair. Such
> stimulation is not necessarily beneficial. In some
> circumstances, radiation
> appears also to enhance immunological responses and
> to modify balance of
> hormones. 
> 
> 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." 
> 
. . .

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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