[ RadSafe ] howard Long - Fly for radiation hormesis!

[howard long]

John,
  Thank you for the fine-tuning (0.002 rem/chest x-ray over 0.001rem).
   
  My 3 sacks of KCl are here in my consultation room, 6' away, not close enough or active enough (double background at contact) to do much good. My wife doesn't want them replacing the mattress (nor do I).
   
  On them is the belt with thorium welding rods giving a hormetic dose of over 0.5 rem/yr - if I were to wear it, but it is too much trouble (heavy and bulky).

  I am promoting an essential trace energy (hormesis) experiment by Raabe et al at Carlsbad Caverns or LLNL Whole Body Counting Chamber (expensively very low background rad.) or in an enlarged lead brick whole body counting chamber like Helgeson Nuclear uses commercially.
   
  Howard Long
  
John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Dr. Long,
The effective dose of AP chest x-ray for an adult is
about 2 mrem (0.002 rem)
http://hps.org/documents/meddiagimaging.pdf

Are you still sitting on your bags of KCl ice melting
salt? I would expect the background exposure rate to
be higher. 

--- howard long wrote:

> Numbers, Reuven? The airport screen has been said
> here to be less than a chest x-ray (~0.001 rem?) My
> counter here says 0.00001 rem/hr.background. 
> 
> Viva 10x USA background radiation for better
> health!
> 
> Howard Long MD MPH (epidemiology and statistics.
> 
> 
> 
> Reuven wrote:
> Fly for radiation hormesis!
> 
> I bet that Mr. H. Long is unfamiliar with the 
> now classic "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell
> Huff,
> Otherwise he would be more cautious and guarded in
> his
> unequivocal endorsement. [radsafe Digest, Vol 74,
> Issue 10]
> 
> One does not need to resort to the expensive flying
> mode
> of prolonging one's life - A "healthy" (and
> "hefty!") 
> dose of low energy radiation can be currently
> absorbed 
> at the "new" x-ray total body booths at
> the near airport.
> 
> Reuven Zach
> 
> 
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John Jacobus, MS
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