More on biological responses of low dose rad health benefits

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

The following paper by our friends Yamaoka, Mifune, Kojima, and others shows

the molecular responses that accompany the beneficial effects of low dose

radiation and radon therapies.



Regards, Jim Muckerheide





Basic study on radon effects and thermal effects on humans in radon therapy.



Yamaoka K, Mifune T, Mitsunobu F, Kojima S, Mori S, Shibuya K, Tanizaki Y,

Sugita K.



Chair of Medical Radioscience, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.



Because most of the diseases to which radon (222Rn) therapy is applied are

related to activated oxygen, in this study the effect of the radioactivity

of radon and the thermal effect were compared under a room or a hot spring

condition with the same chemical component using as the parameters the

activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), which is an oxidation inhibitor, and

lipid peroxide and low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol, which are

closely involved in arteriosclerosis. Results show that the SOD activity was

significantly increased, and the lipid peroxide and LDL-cholesterol levels

were significantly decreased on days 6 and 7 of study. The results were

about 2-fold larger in the radon group than in the thermo group. This

suggests that the anti-oxidation function was more enhanced by radon therapy

than by thermo therapy, and suggests that radon therapy may help to prevent

the causes of life style-related diseases such as arteriosclerosis. These

findings are important in understanding the mechanism of diseases in which

radon therapy is used as treatment, and most of which are called activated

oxygen-related diseases.



See:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list

_uids=12002687&dopt=Abstract 



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