Re: Optimal Radiation

[Joseph Archer <captainnuke@earthlink.net>]

I would favor a radioactive mattress pad. Radon spas deliver high LET doses to
the lung and tritiated water may not be clever because a large commercial
tritium industry raises issues like proliferation. Whole body x-rays would
require the hassle of going and getting them and would deliver doses at higher
rates. A mattress pad would give small daily and relatively accurate doses since
99% of the population sleeps 8 +/- 1 hour a day. Let me know if you would like
to collaborate on starting a business like this as homeopathic medicine.

Best Regards,
Joe Archer

Jerry Cohen wrote:

> It is interesting that you bring this up. On reviewing the literature on
> hormesis, it appears that there is a lot of evidence indicating that
> low-dose radiation stimulates resistance to various disease processes
> including cancer. It has been hypothesized that  the "optimal" dose level
> for humans would be ~10 rem/yr. When you go much above this level, harmful
> radiation effects would likely predominate. Accordingly, background
> radiation levels everywhere in the world ,including Kerala, could be
> considered "suboptimal"
>     In a  recent informal discussion regarding these phenomena, assuming
> that at some future time hormesis becomes accepted, we conjectured on
> methods that might be applied to administer "supplemental radiation" to the
> unfortunate people who reside in radiation deficient areas. Among the
> methods considered were: whole body x-ray, radon spas, uranium mines, and
> drinking tritiated water. The latter was my favorite, but I wonder if anyone
> might offer a better suggestion.                      jjcohen@prodigy.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Radiation Safety Travel Tips
>
> >At 09:49 AM 1/25/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >>>Obviously, we are going about the
> >>>business of radiation safety all wrong.  Rather than shielding people we
> >>>could be opening spas.
> >
> >Can you imagine what will happen if hormesis can be proven? Mobs at the
> >gates of our nuclear power plants demanding to be let in and given their
> >exposure? How dare you deprive me of my rightful dose?
> >
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