Re: "Hormetic" responses are intrinsic to biology

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

John, Jim and Radsafers,

Infrared, with waves just longer than visible light, is a major source of

radiant heat. Patients benefit from reflexly dilated vessels, oxygenation,

nutrition, and removal of .CO2 and other metabolic waste.. Heat (usually from

microwave pack) is usually part of my printed instruction for care of disease -

from tonsillitis to bursitis.



Anyone with a sunburn could confirm that UV effect is also dose dependent - good

with enough to prevent rickets, bad with enough UV to burn .

Quibbling about definition does not change the fact that, with just about

everything, LNT seems to be a simplistic contradiction of data. Specifically,

with wave energy, Jim's source  seems to confirm benefit for part of the dose

range at infrared wavelength. HPs will emphsize the benefit more, I hope.



Howard Long



"Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS)" wrote:



> Jim,

> Why do you think this is a hormetic response as opposed to an energy

> response?  This is like saying there is a hormetic response in the eye only

> at frequencies of 380 to 760 nm, because we cannot see energies that are

> higher (UV) or lower (infrared).  If the dose is too low, you cannot see

> (night), or if the dose is too high, you are blinded by the light.  In this

> case, it sounds like there is a cellular response rather than a neurological

> response to the photon radiation.

>

> By the way, I still have not gotten anything on the K-40 depleted potassium

> experiments?  Is there ANYTHING in the literature?

>

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> 3050 Traymore Lane

> Bowie, MD  20715-2024

>

> E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]

> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 7:18 AM

> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: "Hormetic" responses are intrinsic to biology

>

> Friends,

>

> A current report further to the fact that the biological responses

> underlying "hormesis" (taking "hormesis" as limited to the condition of an

> enhanced macroscopic endpoint) is intrinsic to biology.

> . . .

>

> A soft laser is a low-power laser emitting in the red and near-infrared part

> of the spectrum. Studies with cell cultures have shown that radiation from a

> soft laser, when used under proper conditions, promotes cell function and

> cell proliferation. However, wavelength and dose should be carefully

> adjusted to an optimum value: too low a dose does not work and neither does

> a high dose. The dose should be adjusted within an interval of about 10%. In

> a few animal studies a positive effect on wound healing has been

> demonstrated, although other studies did not show such an effect. . . .

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