Re: Hormesis and Radon

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

How do they know it is not a placebo effect?  



". . . The exact mechanism of radon's effect on the

human body is not completely understood. . . ."



--- Harry Hinks <Miller@nukeworker.com> wrote:

> 

> 

> I guess it turns out Dr Cohen and Long were right

> all along.  

> 

> Postepy Hig Med Dosw (Online). 2004 Mar 8;58:150-7. 

> 

> 

> [Radon and ionizing radiation in the human body]

> 

> 

> Zdrojewicz Z, Belowska-Bien K.

> 

> Klinika Endokrynologii i Diabetologii Akademii

> Medycznej we Wroclawiu. zygmunt@zdrojewicz.wroc.pl

> 

> Spa health care became a medical discipline just as

> the development of other sciences created sufficient

> grounds for it. The basic and oldest method of spa

> treatment is balneotherapy. Among the medicinal

> waters, those with radon arouse the most

> controversy, these being the source of ionizing

> radiation. Radon is the one of the most important

> natural sources of radiation on earth. The exact

> mechanism of radon's effect on the human body is not

> completely understood. The hormesis theory is the

> best explanation of the advantageous biological

> effect of ionizing radiation in low doses. Radon

> significantly influences free oxygen radical

> transformations, nucleic acid repair, immunological

> processes, etc. It is a rare gas and does not react

> chemically with any compound in the body. It is

> known that radon is effective in treating chronic

> pain syndromes, endocrine disorders, and diseases of

> the circulatory and respiratory systems.

> 

> 

>

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John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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