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

Tue Jan 9 10:23:25 CST 2007

Your point?

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:

> "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.
> > 
> 
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> 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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John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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