[ RadSafe ] Physics (heat) treatment - biology! Hormesis, as normal biology

[howard long]

"Heat speeds blood flow and healing when skin red (beware burn!)
  Microwave 4 lb dry rice knotted in pillowcase for 2 min, apply 3x/d for 20 min."
  - from my template for patients' record- advice sheet, often circled.
   
  I give away about 20 rice packs every 4 months (the record at every patient visit).
   The heat (physics, John) helps earache, abcess, bursitis, bronchitis, etc!

  Much more is done by doctors working for patients instead of for government or other insurer. More prevention is used with HSA cash payment, contrary to socialist claims that more prevention would be used with middlemen like government bureaucrats paying the bill (and keeping most of the premium). 
   
  Howard Long
  
John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Jim,
Was radiation listed? Oh, that is not a drug. Sorry.
But then again, physics is not like biology. 

--- Muckerheide wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> Re the medical applications in the last paragraph,
> low-dose radiation immune
> function stimulation: Was shown to prevent and
> treat cancer, and applied
> for infections and inflammatory conditions, from the
> 1910s to the late-40s
> and beyond. (It is still applied today for specific
> conditions.)
> 
> It was displaced by wonder drugs (serum drug profits
> in the 1930s, by FDA).
> This was reestablished after WWII by suppressing
> Manhattan Project data and
> research. NCI was a major controller since the
> late-40s.
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> ==================
> 
> Date: January 3, 2007
> 
> Measuring The Effects Of Very Low Doses: New Study
> Challenges How Regulators
> Determine Risk
> 
> Science Daily ‹ A new study of a large U.S. National
> Cancer Institute
> database provides the strongest evidence yet that a
> key portion of the
> traditional dose-response model used in drug testing
> and risk assessment for
> toxins is wrong when it comes to measuring the
> effects of very low doses,
> says Edward J. Calabrese, a scientist at the
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst. The findings, based on a review of more
> than 56,000 tests in 13
> strains of yeast using 2,200 drugs, are published in
> the journal
> Toxicological Sciences and offer strong backing for
> the theory of hormesis,
> Calabrese and his colleagues contend.
> 
> Calabrese says the size of the new study and the
> preponderance of evidence
> supporting hormesis, a dose-response phenomenon in
> which low doses have the
> opposite effect of high doses, is a breakthrough
> that should help scientists
> assess and predict risks from new drugs, toxicants
> and possibly carcinogens.
> Calabrese says, "This is a fundamental biological
> principle that has been
> missed."
> 
> Calabrese says that the field of toxicology got the
> dose response wrong in
> the 1930s and this mistake has infiltrated all
> regulations for low-dose
> exposures for toxic chemicals and drugs. These
> low-dose effects can be
> beneficial or harmful, something that the
> regulations miss because they are
> currently based on high-dose testing schemes that
> differ greatly from the
> conditions of human exposures.
> 
> In this latest study, which uses data from a large
> and highly standardized
> National Cancer Institute tumor-drug screening
> database, Calabrese says the
> evidence of hormesis is overwhelming. In the study,
> high doses of anticancer
> drugs frequently inhibit yeast growth, but at low
> doses they enhance growth,
> exactly what the hormesis model predicts.
> 
> Whether one accepts the hormesis theory is not the
> critical public policy
> issue, according to Calabrese. He says that the
> major issue is that the risk
> assessments models used by the federal Environmental
> Protection Agency and
> the Food and Drug Administration fail to accurately
> predict responses in the
> low-dose zone, that is, where people live most of
> their daily lives.
> 
> Calabrese also says challenging the existing
> dose-response model has
> profound public policy and health implications. "I
> believe the hormesis
> model is the fundamental dose-response and
> government testing and risk
> assessment procedures should reflect that,"
> Calabrese says. For example, in
> environmental regulations, it has been assumed that
> most carcinogens possess
> real or theoretical risks at low levels, and
> therefore must be nearly
> completely removed from the environments to assure
> public safety. Some would
> contend that if hormesis is the correct model for
> very low levels, that
> cleanup standards may have to be significantly
> changed. Others, however, see
> the evidence as insufficient for such radical change
> and worry about other
> factors that can influence the effects of chemicals
> in low doses. The new
> study promises to add fuel to the debate, Calabrese
> says.
> 
> Calabrese also suggests that the findings may have
> important implications
> for the pharmaceutical industry and medical
> practices. He says that hormesis
> is likely to identify new life-saving drugs that
> were missed through
> traditional testing and to markedly improve the
> accuracy of patient dosing,
> which will not only improve health outcomes but also
> reduce adverse side
> effects.
> 
> Note: This story has been adapted from a news
> release issued by University
> Of Massachusetts Amherst.
> 

+++++++++++++++++++
On Nov. 26, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline 
rationing, beginning December 1. 

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

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