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What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation
It is well-known that potassium iodide works to protect against damage from radioactive iodine by saturating our body (the thyroid gland, specifically) with harmless iodine, so that our bodies are unable to absorb radioactive iodine from nuclear accidents.
For example, the World Health Organization notes:
The thyroid gland is at particular risk from irradiation from radioactive iodine because the thyroid uses iodine to produce hormones that regulate the body’s metabolism. The thyroid gland does not differentiate between non-radioactive and radioactive iodine.
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When taken at the appropriate dosage and within the correct time interval around exposure to radioactive iodine, KI [i.e. potassium iodide] saturates the thyroid gland with stable (non-radioactive) iodine. As a result, radioactive iodine will not be taken up and stored by the thyroid gland.
However, KI only protects against one particular radioactive element, radioactive iodine, which has a half life of only 8.02 days.* That means that the iodine loses half of its radioactivity within 8 days. For example, after the initial Fukushima melt-down, radioactive iodine was found in California kelp.
But the longer-term threat lies elsewhere. As the New York Times noted – in addition to iodine-131 – the big danger is cesium:
Over the long term, the big threat to human health is cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years.
At that rate of disintegration, John Emsley wrote in “Nature’s Building Blocks” (Oxford, 2001), “it takes over 200 years to reduce it to 1 percent of its former level.”
It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.
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Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the body and can enter through many foods, including milk.
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The Environmental Protection Agency says that … once dispersed in the environment … cesium-137 “is impossible to avoid.”
Cesium-137 is light enough to be carried by the wind a substantial distance. And it is being carried by ocean currents towards the West Coast of North America.
Fortunately – while little-known in the medical community – other harmless minerals can help “saturate” our bodies so as to minimize the uptake of other harmful types of radiation.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Army Medical Department Center and School explained in its book Medical Consequences of Radiological and Nuclear Weapons (Chapter 4):
One of the keys to a successful treatment outcome is to reduce or eliminate the uptake of internalized radionuclides before they can reach the critical organ.
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The terms “blocking” or “diluting” agent can, in most cases, be used interchangeably. These compounds reduce the uptake of a radionuclide by saturating binding sites with a stable, nonradioactive element, thereby diluting the deleterious effect of the radioisotope. For example, potassium iodide is the FDA-recommended treatment to prevent radioactive iodine from being sequestered in the thyroid…. Nonradioactive strontium compounds may also be used to block the uptake of radioactive strontium. In addition, elements with chemical properties similar to the internalized radio-nuclide are often used as blocking agents. For example, calcium, and to a lesser extent phosphorus, can be used to block uptake of radioactive strontium.
The American Association of Physicists In Medicine agrees:
As does the book published in 2006 by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, called Weapons of Mass Casualties and Terrorism Response:
After the U.S. military conducted above-ground nuclear tests on Bikini Island, scientists found that adding potassium to the soil reduced the uptake of radioactive cesium by the plants:
The first of a series of long-term field experiments was established on Bikini Island during the late 1980s to evaluate potential remediation techniques to reduce the uptake of cesium-137 into plants (Robison and Stone, 1998). Based on these experiments, the most effective and practical method for reducing the uptake of cesium-137 into food crop products was to treat agricultural areas with potassium fertilizer (KCl).
John Harte – Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in Energy and Resources and Ecosystem Sciences, a PhD physicist who previously taught physics at Yale, a recipient of the Pew Scholars Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, and who has served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored over 170 scientific publications, including six books - notes:
Marine fish are usually about 100 times lower in cesium-137 than are freshwater fish because potassium, which is more abundant in seawater, blocks uptake of cesium by marine organisms.
The same is true in mammals. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry notes:
Cesium is a close chemical analogue of potassium. Cesium has been shown to compete with potassium for transport through potassium channels and can also substitute for potassium in activation of the sodium pump and subsequent transport into the cell.
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Elimination rates of cesium may be altered by potassium intake. Following the intraperitoneal injection of 137 Cs in rats, a basal diet supplemented with 8–11% potassium resulted in cesium clearance of 60 days compared to about 120 days for rats receiving the unsupplemented basal diet that contained 1% potassium
(Richmond and Furchner 1961). After 20 days on the diets, rats receiving supplemental potassium had body burdens of 137 Cs that were one-half those of the rats not receiving supplemental potassium. This finding shows that supplemental potassium reduces the uptake and increases the elimination of ingested 137 Cs.
Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt – a medical doctor with a master’s of public health, on the Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, editor of the best-seller Food and Nutrients in Disease Management – says that the same is true for humans:
Plutonium is treated like iron by our bodies. So getting enough iron will help reduce absorption of plutonium. And see this. (Plutonium is a very heavy element, and so normally cannot travel too far. Therefore, adequate iron intake is primarily important for those living in Japan.)
Here are the recommended daily allowances (RDA) for various minerals (data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture):
You can buy calcium, potassium, iron supplements. You can also buy non-radioactive strontium supplements. Or incorporate foods high in calcium, potassium, and iron.
(Selenium also helps protect our bodies from radiation. See this, this and this.)
In addition to these minerals, getting enough of certain vitamins is helpful.
A number of scientific articles conclude that Vitamin A helps to protect us from radiation. See this, this and this.
Numerous studies show that Vitamin C helps to protect the body against radiation.
Vitamin D can help repair damage to DNA, and may help protect against low-level radiation. As Science Daily reports:
Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body’s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D, may protect us from background radiation and could be used as a safe protective agent before or after a low-level nuclear incident.
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“Vitamin D by its preventive/ameliorating actions should be given serious consideration as a protective agent against sublethal radiation injury, and in particular that induced by low-level radiation,” concludes Hayes.
It takes a couple of weeks or months to build up our body’s levels of Vitamin D. You cannot just pop a bunch of pills and raise your Vitamin D level. You should never take more than the recommended dose, and – even if you did – it wouldn’t raise your vitamin D level all at once. As such, we should start now …
Vitamin E has also shown promise in protecting from low-level radiation, at least in animal studies. Here and here.
Here are the RDAs for vitamins (data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture):
You can buy vitamin supplements, or eat foods rich in vitamins A, C, D and E.
Antioxidant-rich foods also help protect you against low-level radiation. See this for the science behind antioxidant protection from radiation, tips on inexpensive, anti-oxidant rich foods ... and other valuable tips on how to protect yourself from radiation.
The bottom line: starting to saturate your body now with the right types of healthy vitamins, minerals and antioxidants can help protect you against radiation if it hits in the future.
Postscript: We only advocate taking the RDA for various nutrients, which is healthy for you anyway. We are not talking about mega-doses.
We have spent hours looking through medical journal articles for other foods which help protect against radiation. Here are the results.
For a more complete discussion of commonly-accepted scientific consensus on different prevention and treatment options, please review the Army’s Medical Consequences of Radiological and Nuclear Weapons and the The American Association of Physicists In Medicine’s Medical Management of Radionuclide Internal Contamination.
* You should not take potassium iodide supplements unless you are exposed to high doses of radioactive iodine, because it can damage some people's health. These supplements are only for short-term, high-dose ratiation protection, not for years-long low-dose exposure. For long-term exposures, a daily, baseline level of iodine is healthier.
Potassium iodide is found in most common table salt. However, if exposed to air, the iodine content can largely evaporate within a month or so. So store your salt in as air-tight a condition as possible. Also, it is important not to ingest too much potassium iodide, and most of us already get a lot of salt in our diets from processed foods. (The RDA for “sodium” – i.e. salt – is listed in the table above on the RDAs for various minerals)
Here is RDA for iodine:
And here are some iodine-rich foods.
Click here for a discussion by two medical doctors about preventative iodine doses.
Disclaimer: We are not doctors or health professionals, and this should not be taken as medical advice. Nothing contained herein is intended to diagnose or treat any condition.
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Godspeed, CW.
Wishing you all the best. I guy in my office beat Stage IV in his digestive tract, I never asked all the details. That was 10 years ago.
You know who is one of the biggest votamin and supplement haters? John McCain - the POS who is helping Al Qeada/Saudis kill Christians and other innocents in Syria. These people are so evil. I think Dick Durbin is his side kick in anti vitamin legislation.
I know someone who worked on studies for a low cost way to help a common and difficult ailment (not cancer) - they spent a lot on trials and had everything in place. They were told in a more subtle way that if they enjoyed living that they should drop it. The market for this nice on a global basis for 2015 is over $11 billion. Big Pharma is really Big Chemical and they play hardball. See the fertilizer company in TX that was blown up and burned down. They were in major litigation with you know who....a big chem company poisoning your food.
McCain is a piece of shit, but to be fair, many supplements are shit. There are no standards in the industry so you don't know what you're getting. Best to plant yourself or eat local, healthy foods. It's getting harder and harder to even try to stay healthy.
If by standards you mean government regulation to determine what is "good" and what is "bad" or "high quality" or "low quality"? How's that working with organics via The FDA?
Not well.
I'll take my chances with my brain, and my own personal efforts and evaluation thanks. It seems to work in so many other imdustries and markets. Take tech for example. Personal computers are pretty recent as far as human history goes. Coincidentally the market (tech in general) is probably one of the LEAST regulated. And yet in the span of just a couple decades we have super computers in the palm of our hands that are priced in competition with a lavish dinner for two in a Michelin starred NYC restaurant. Somehow, someway, we dodged all the sketchy, crappy machines along the way, and by some miracle now have extrodinarliy efficient, dependable, and powerful machines at our fingertips.
Thanks but I'll let those making supplements( and in a perfect world everyone else) do what they do best and leave the folks with the badges and guns as far away from them as possible. True it might mean I will have to think and evaulate for myself but I'm willing to take up the challenge.
Staying healthy is actually rather easy. And ironically quite cheap. Forget the "organic" obsession. Spend more time on avoiding GMO and wasting money on processed foods. Prepare your own food. It doesn't take all the time that everone says it does. If you have A WHole Foods in you local you are in luck. Skip the produce there buy their house brands which are usually less expensive that major national brands. Lose the bread, pasta, wheat, and most grains. Stop buying sugar laced products that are both poison and tend to be more expensive. Do not eat anything "lowfat", "diet", or the like. Do not buy juice, soda, or other pointless beverages that just all sugar and empty calories. Do not buy salad dressings. mAke your own and save bundles. Get a water filter and drink water instead of whatever it is you might be paying to drink. Eating local is good where it applies-smaller farms and ranches tend to be naturally biodynamic at least and just skip aquiring the organuc label due to the cost involved. Unfortunately no one grows olives near me so olive oil takes a pretty long plane flight to get to me.
Eggs, potatos, vegetables, beans and rice (a lesser evil as far as grains go) are still dirt cheap.
I have not been sick in decades. I have never taken a flu shot. I have only had one course of anti-biotics in the last 10 years or so ( required due to surgery). It's not that hard.
Oh, and Mclame IS a piece of shit.
I said standards, not regulations.
By standards I mean anything to show a baseline of what works, and then also show that those vitamins, minerals, etc are actually in the product. If you think those making vitamins know anything you're a fool. A great example of this is that objective data shows many tablets pass the body before anything is absorbed, and capsules only work slightly better. These companies hire bad scientists and lobby just like every other industry, only they don't have to do it as much since they aren't regulated. They usually wind up lobbying to some fake, grant-funded "organic certified" type agency that pretends to have the consumer in mind.
Ah, yes. John McStain of the S&L crisis. Mention Keating 5 to him and watch his face turn red and get all hysterical. He can claim he was only found by a Senate "Ethics" investigation to have exercised "poor judgment." But he's a crook through and through and a stain on the Constitution of the US. People of AZ, please rid of this man.
People with more knowledge than me on safe doses - or under the guidance of a healthcare professional - can do so.
I'm just trying to start a general conversation, and using mainstream ideas of RDA as a starting point ...
I thought that population control in the US was going to be by wars, nukes, bacteriological warfare and police states. Never did I ever imagine they were planning on poisoning the US population by a Gulf of Mexico oil "accident" and a Fukushima nuclear power system "accident' bonmbarding the US with radiation. Funny how the upper east coast has been left relatively unscathed.
Better than Reggie, he'd require $165/month for general 'conversation' membership. Gold 'conversation' membership is about double that. F*ing clown.
Over.
You could go with this guy, instead...
http://www.avaresearch.com/avanew/index.html?introdone=true
http://avaresearch.com/avanew/pages/5/new-announcement-panel-for-ava.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChm2z2-e1g2CPG4HXCIJRXQ/videos
Already there.
Over.
Thanks GW.
"What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation"
For starters I'd stay away from Russian Tea Rooms in London.
for those who seriously want to (or believe they might help themselves or their children) check out curcumin and pub med. there are of course a myriad of other vitamins and adaptagens (would that abraham hoffer was still whinnying with us) but really...long story short, it's only relevant for your children and theirs. the rest of us need simply thank the gods for the good fortune life has allowed.
What you should do NOW is stop reading this bullshit. Stop looking for something wrong with the world and be grateful for all you have. As for GW, I recommend getting a hobby. Way too much time on his hands ...
Or being a PLO leader. It also helps to stay out of the Zionist state crosshairs.
I cover my private parts with tin foil.
This reminds me, you can also make a statement like this russian did. But it takes balls, for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLm_63S3CCo
"What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation"
I'm going to do like the Russians do and drink more vodka. Those sumbitches are hardy people.
Nah, the oldest llving Russian is only 42 ... Russians look hardy and old, but it's the hard living that makes them that way.
Want to protect yourself from radiation ... sit in a dark corner of your basement, assuming it is not filling with radon, and take very shallow breaths.
2 steps ahead of you, son..
This is good info, but the doses recommended will do nothing. Most people have to take Vit D on the order of 5-10K units per day to get their levels up. This and other recommended doses are a joke.
Vit. D is not a vitamin at all, its more of a steroid. and it turns out to be one of the biggest NWO scams of all because it is extremely immunosuppressive. this one is burning a lot of people, better do you homework. If you dig under the avalanche of bs studies faking benefits of "vit. d", a clearer picture emerges on what it does to the immune system. for example, D3 is used as a drug to prevent organ rejection (check pubmed). How does that work? very simple, it shuts off part of your immune system. turns out, you need your immune system in these times... what a crazy concept. anyway, this guy gives a basic overview of the issue:
http://thepeopleschemist.com/the-vitamin-d-scam/
CBLB 502 is the only drug you need. Our government is incompetent, if government would get out of their own way we would hae the only countermeasure we need. Government is stupid, its unfortunate.