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"They compared two groups of nuclear shipyard workers from Baltimore who had similar jobs except for a single key difference: one group was exposed to very low levels of radiation from the materials they handled, and the other was not. The DOE tracked the workers between 1980 and 1988, and what they found shocked everyone involved. Radiation made them healthier. The twenty-eight thousand workers exposed to radiation had a 24 percent lower mortality rate than their thirty-two thousand counterparts who were not exposed to radiation." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"One study divided thirty people who had advanced brain tumors into two groups and treated one with radiation therapy and the other with radiation therapy plus 20 mg of melatonin. After a year, only one of the sixteen (6 percent) in the radiation-only group was still alive compared to six of the fourteen (43 percent) in the radiation plus melatonin group. Reboot Your Brain Then there's melatonin's most famous use— helping to regulate sleep. Melatonin helps sets the brain's internal clock. It's terrific for jet lag and for any time that your sleep cycle is disrupted artificially." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Russell Wild Radiation and Pregnancy: Computing the Facts If even the word radiation makes you shudder, rest assured that the radiation produced by your VDT will never form a mushroom cloud around your computer, not even a little one. For one thing, says Michele Marcus, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, VDTs produce a different kind of radiation than do bombs, power plants, or even X-rays. VDTs produce electromagnetic radiation, as opposed to the much more nefarious ionizing radiation. But does less nefarious mean absolutely harmless?" - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.)

"Somehow, the toxins that everyone assumed and feared were ruining the workers' health were doing just the opposite. radiation is a stress in that it damages cells, and at high levels it kills them and can lead to the development of diseases such as cancer. In this case, the radiation dose was apparently low enough that instead of killing the cells of the exposed workers, it made them stronger. Maybe stress isn't so bad after all. But because the study "failed"— it didn't show the expected malignant effect of radiation—it was never published." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Department of Energy (DOE) commissioned a study on the health impacts of sustained radiation exposure. They compared two groups of nuclear shipyard workers from Baltimore who had similar jobs except for a single key difference: one group was exposed to very low levels of radiation from the materials they handled, and the other was not. The DOE tracked the workers between 1980 and 1988, and what they found shocked everyone involved. Radiation made them healthier." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"A microwave oven decays and changes the molecular structure of the food by the process of radiation, making it a "radiation oven." The Soviet Union banned the use of microwave ovens in 1976. Yet, more than 90 percent of American homes have microwave ovens. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are without them." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Meat should be radiation is done late in the process of free of harmful bacteria to begin with. producing meat. It allows companies to produce dirty meat and fix it later. Because irradiation changes the taste of meat, it cannot be done intensely enough to kill all of the bacteria. This means that the survivors of irradiation can multiply and the meat can be recontaminated, in turn meaning that irradiated meat still needs to be cooked and handled properly. You might as well buy meat that has not been irradiated. Still worried?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"For example, in difficult-to-believe yet completely reproducible experiments, mice subjected to low levels of radiation throughout their lives lived an average of 30 percent longer than unexposed siblings.1,2 Yes, instead of killing or weakening mice, a low dose of radiation actually made them live longer. Other experiments involving environmental stressors such as heat, cold, lack of nutrients, ultraviolet light, and toxins all come to the same startling conclusion: at the right dose, these potentially lethal factors can actually promote survival." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Minimize Your EMR (Electromagnetic radiation) Exposure We do not live in an ideal world. And it is impossible to eliminate exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Debate still rages.The research on harm from EMR is not as extensive as it should be. Yet the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just because we have not proved beyond a doubt that EMR is harmful, neither is there any evidence that it is safe." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In this case, the radiation dose was apparently low enough that instead of killing the cells of the exposed workers, it made them stronger. Maybe stress isn't so bad after all. But because the study "failed"— it didn't show the expected malignant effect of radiation—it was never published. From what we've since learned about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"One study found that over 50% of individuals treated with radiation for lymphoma developed hypothyroidism after 20 years." Other studies have shown hypothyroidism rates of 30-40% in individuals treated with radiation.12 13 14 The addition of chemotherapy with radiation therapy results in a greater incidence of hypothyroidism than occurs with either chemotherapy or radiation alone. My experience has shown that those individuals that have had chemotherapy and radiation therapy in the past have extremely high levels of hypothyroidism. G." - David Brownstein, Overcoming Thyroid Disorders (Get the book.)

"But more intense "doses" of radiation induce off tastes and smells, particularly in fatty meats. Critics charge that irradiation creates toxic chemicals in foods. This may be true, but it is not clear that these chemicals are any different from those caused by frying, baking, or any other cooking method, or whether they cause harm when you eat them. Irradiation has been used on dried spices for years, but its use on fresh meat is recent." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"The minimum radiation from a routine chest X-ray is 2 mrem. X-ray radiation accumulates in the body and it is well-known that ionizing radiation used in X-ray procedures causes gene mutation. We can only obtain guesstimates as to its impact on health from this high level of radiation. Experts manage to obscure the real effects in statistical jargon such as, "The risk for lifetime fatal cancer due to radiation exposure is estimated to be 4 in one million per 1,000 mrem."89 However, Dr." - Gary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD., Death by Medicine (Get the book.)

"After a year, only one of the sixteen (6 percent) in the radiation-only group was still alive compared to six of the fourteen (43 percent) in the radiation plus melatonin group. Reboot Your Brain Then there's melatonin's most famous use— helping to regulate sleep. Melatonin helps sets the brain's internal clock. It's terrific for jet lag and for any time that your sleep cycle is disrupted artificially. A good deal of research shows that melatonin is useful for insomnia, though there's some debate about which is best—regular melatonin or the timed-release kind." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Radiation and Iodine Iodine deficiency can result in an increased susceptibility to thyroid cancer in populations exposed to radiation. Deficiency results in an increased uptake of iodide by the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is also capable of storing ions of the radioactive form of iodide (iodine 1-131). IODINE IN FOOD The amount of iodine needed at different ages is well understood. Iodized salt has eliminated most of the iodine deficiency in the United States and Canada where intakes are now generally found to be adequate." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"According to new research by Gilda Hillman, PhD, an associate professor of radiation oncology with the Kar-manos Cancer Institute in Detroit, soy foods appear to render cancer cells more susceptible to radiation (or more radiosensitive). But here's the fascinating news that suggests to me that soy has synergy from multiple components in this mighty bean, and the best way to get soy is probably as a whole food: In lab studies, when Dr." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"However nice the sun feels warming your shoulders, overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation can have serious adverse health effects over the long term. Children overexposed to the sun might not experience these effects—which include skin cancer, prematurely aged skin, and eye damage—until much later in life, which is all the more reason to prevent the damage from ever occurring. The thinning of the ozone layer leaves kids today more vulnerable than ever to UV radiation. The Environmental Protection Agency has developed an educational program (available on the Web at www.epa." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"He called these rays "mitogenetic radiation" because they caused mitosis, and he showed that these rays alone changed the growth pattern of the receiving onion. Unfortunately, when these experiments were being performed in the 1920s, the climate for this type of information was not receptive. It was not until much later, when others followed through with his initial research, that his hypothesis of ultraviolet radiation coming from cells was discovered to be true. It was found that all living cells—plant, animal, and human—have "biophotons" or light rays that they emit." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Any and all screening that uses radiation increases the patient's risk of cancer.33 The 1996 Task Force admits that radiation probably contributed to "a small number" of new cases of cancer. Such risks may be small for the individual patient, but significant for large populations. Any invasive procedure has the potential for iatrogenesis. Colonoscopy, for example, causes perforation of the bowel—a very serious problem—in one of every 5,000 examinations." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Can this be done without radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy? 372 "Cellular Medicine in Heart Disease", http://www.drrathresearch.org/lab_ research/heart_disease.html 373 Raymond Kurzweil, The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1993) There are many different treatments for cancer that do not require surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation. Walter Last lists these in "The Diversity of Natural Cancer Cures."374 The treatments range from natural raw food diets to use of special machines to kill the cancer cells, from special herbs and teas to ozone therapy." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Arabidopsis flavonoid mutants are hypersensitive to UV-B radiation, Plant Cell 5: 171-179. Lloyd, A. M., Walbot, V., and Davis, R. W., 1992, Arabidopsis and Nicotiana anthocyanin production activated by maize regulators R and CI, Science 258: 1773-1775. Lois, R., and Buchanan, B. B., 1994, Severe sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation in an Arabidopsis mutant deficient in flavonoid accumulation, Planta 194: 504-509. Lu, Y., and Rausher, M. D., 2003, Evolutionary rate variation in anthocyanin pathway genes, Mol Biol EvolW: 1844-1853. Ludwig, S., Bowen, B., Beach, L. and Wessler, S." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"By the mid-1990s, the word was out on the street that, to maximize one's chance of recovery from cancer, a person should be prepared to undergo not just sessions of chemotherapy or radiation but also regular sessions of bonding with other cancer patients. Here is how one patient, looking back in 1999, remembered that time: When I was first diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, a number of well-meaning friends and family members suggested that I join a support group. " - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Free radicals don't live long—just a few nanoseconds to 1 or 2 seconds—but they can cause considerable cell damage during that time, similar to the damage caused by radiation. As free radicals roam the body, they scavenge electrons from other molecules. This only creates more instability, possibly setting the stage for cancer development. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of how free-radical damage occurs. 1. Free radicals damage cell walls by borrowing electrons from the LDL cholesterol on cell membranes (a process called lipid peroxidation). 2." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"The same interventions are described as alternative medicine when they are used in place q/conventional medicine (as when a person is using a special diet to treat cancer instead of undergoing surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy). Integrative medicine combines treatments from conventional medicine and CAM for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness. For more information on CAM, go to the website of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health at http://NCCAM.NIH.GOV." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"These shifts may have been triggered by long-term astronomical changes, especially in the earth's orbit around the sun, that affect the seasonal and north-south variations of solar radiation the earth receives. The last glacial episode, which lasted from about 118,000 to 15,000 years ago, was merely the most recent in a pattern of chilling and warming that continues to this day. However, it was during this prolonged cold episode that Homo sapiens sapiens, modern humanity, left tropical Africa and colonized Europe, Asia, and finally the Americas." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"I am not suggesting that people with cancer avoid chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or cancer surgery. If you have cancer, you should consult a physician to determine the best course of treatment for your particular form of cancer. Unfortunately, the current course of treatment is toxic drugs that kill disease-fighting white blood cells, harmful radiation that damages living tissue and surgery to cut out body parts. These methods of treatment expose the patient to more disease." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"One scenario involved leading the men to believe they were trapped in an airplane that was about to make a crash landing; another involved isolating the soldiers in an area they were told was about to be subjected to artillery attack; still another involved isolating them in an area that they were told had been accidentally exposed to radiation." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Did it result from a sudden change in solar radiation, as some scientists believe? Or did a sudden influx of thawed freshwater from North American ice sheets cut off downwelling in the Labrador or Greenland Seas and halt the North Atlantic heat pump for more than ten centuries? The potential villains are in place—rapid global warming, cascades of melting freshwater, northward-flowing ocean currents, and salt downwelling. The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt may have flipped suddenly and triggered a millennium of renewed Ice Age climate." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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