[ RadSafe ] Re: Radiation deficiency remediation

[John Jacobus]

So, why don't you move to Denver and increase your
dosage?  Do you sleep on the sacks?

--- howard long <hflong at pacbell.net> wrote:
> My 3, 40 lb sacks of KCL for water softener ($9
> each) give only a doubling of background radiation
> (0.030mrad/hr) on contact. I have given KCL up as an
> added source of radiation, although about as much
> comes to most of us from the KCL already in our
> bodies as usual USA coast background, according to
> Luckey's book.
>  
> Howard Long 
> 
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Because iodine would concentrate in the thyroid.
> Also,
> the concentration of KI is too small to be an
> effective dosing agent even in the event of a
> radiologial release from a nuclear power plant.
> 
> Again, you are assuming that additional radiation
> would have a beneficial effect. KCl helps to reduce
> sodium in the body, which lowers blood pressure.
> High
> blood pressure is a greater health risk to the
> average
> human than too little radiation, which is ill
> defined
> to say the least. 
> 
> --- dckosloff at firstenergycorp.com wrote:
> > Why not use salt substitute, potassium chloride? 
> > It is readily available
> > in grocery stores and has other benefits as well.
> > 
> > Don Kosloff,
> > Perry, OH and Shippingport, PA
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> > "jjcohen" 
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> > > "radsafe" ,
> > , "yuan-chi luan" 
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> > shliu at iner.gov.tw 
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> > radsafe-bounces at r 
> > Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: LDR extends lifespan, and
> > immune competence (again, 
> > adlab.nl 
> > still) 
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> > 04/03/2005 03:15 
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> > PM 
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> > FYI, a few years ago there was a string on radsafe
> > on the possibility of
> > administering supplementary radioactivity to those
> > with "radiation
> > deficiency" in order to achieve "optimal dosage".
> In
> > discussing the best
> > radionuclide for the purpose, as I recall, those
> > that tend to concentrate
> > in single organs such as the radioiodines should
> be
> > avoided. I don't think
> > any consensus was reached on what the "best"
> > radionuclide should be, but
> > because of its uniform distribution, tritium would
> > seem to be a good bet.
> > 
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> Hugh Blair, 1783
> 
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com
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"Embarrassed, obscure and feeble sentences are generally, if not always, the result of embarrassed, obscure and feeble thought."
Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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