Re: Optimal Radiation

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@prodigy.net>]

Not a bad idea, but IMHO, Homeopathy is voodoo; Hormesis is science.
Nevertheless, if we could make a buck at it, why not.
jjcohen@prodigy.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Archer <captainnuke@earthlink.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Optimal Radiation


>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?
>> >
>> >===================================
>> >Bob Flood
>> >Dosimetry Group Leader
>> >Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>> >(650) 926-3793
>> >bflood@slac.stanford.edu
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