Re: Laymans questions on hormesis and LNT

[John Andrews <andrewsjp@chartertn.net>]

I suspect that there is information available on this.  The TRIGA 

reactors at General Atomic in San Diego were used to do this type of 

irradiation on animals (dogs, I believe) for the military.  This was 

done rather quietly, is suspect because no one wants to see beagles 

hurt.  I have no information about who did the work or what the project 

was for.  I was just a bystander maintaining the monitoring equipment.  

This work was done in the mid-60's to the best of my memory.



John Andrews

Knoxville, Tennessee



Dimiter Popoff wrote:



>Since I have been on this list I have read words like 'hormesis' and LNT

>innumerable times and eventually - although I have no medical knowledge - I

>have some questions.

> If hormesis means provoking some self-defence reaction of the body by

>means of something it recognizes as harmful, why would hormesis and LNT

>be mutually exclusive? I would expect that our body responds to some

>quantity of detected damages over some period of time, this is how

>even the much less sophisticated systems we design today would do it.

>If I wanted to provoke this reaction, I would try pulsed doses,

>i.e. high dose rates over short moments to trigger the wanted reaction

>and then long pauses to consume the effect of that reaction.

>Have such experiments been done? Does not sound difficult to do,

>I would be curious to know about the results.

>Adversely, I could imagine that at low levels detection would

>be difficult (any system has its minimum detectable level) and

>close to and below that level (I have no idea where it may be...)

>response would not be triggered while perhaps damage would be done.

>

> Again, I am non-medical, only a tech-guy who designs equipment,

>this is just my curiousisty speaking.

>

>Dimiter

>

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