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"The cells were treated before and after radiation exposure with a combination of the following antioxidants: N-acetylcysteine, vitamin C (ascorbic acid and sodium ascorbate), CoQIO, alpha-lipoic acid, selenium (1-selenomethionine), and vitamin E. These substances are all commonly available as nutritional supplements in health food stores. The researchers concluded that antioxidants appear to be "promising" countermeasures for protection from adverse biologic effects caused by radiation." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"In a report by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, issued in 2006, experts estimated that a sixty-year-old who undergoes an annual whole-body CT scan over the next fifteen years has a 1 in 220 risk of dying from cancer due to radiation exposure. The risk of dying in a car accident, by way of comparison, is nearly the same, 1 in 200. According to another estimate, out of about six hundred thousand children a year under the age of fifteen who receive a head or abdominal CT scan, five hundred could ultimately die in adulthood from cancer due to the radiation they received as youngsters." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The amount of radiation exposure is inversely related to the square of the distance from the television set. For example, there is 16 times as much radiation exposure at a distance of 1 foot from the set as there is 4 feet away, and 36 times as much radiation at a distance of 1 foot as there is at 6 feet. Dietary Considerations Dietary factors and nutritional supplements also play an important role in the treatment of ADHD. Some children are exquisitely sensitive to refined sugars, and they improve greatly when all of the sugar is removed from their diet." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (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.)

"In a 2005 trial of green tea extracts published in the journal Derrnatologic Surgery, it was revealed that topical and oral formulations of green tea polyphenols can prevent or modify skin damage caused by UV radiation exposure. Forty women with moderate photoaging of the skin were randomly assigned to either a placebo group, where they drank a harmless but inactive potion, or a group that followed a regimen of 10 percent green tea cream and 300mg twice-daily green tea oral supplements. The clinical trial lasted for eight weeks." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Environmental Factors Information about environmental influences on endometriosis in humans has been gleaned by observing the negative effects of environmental exposures to rhesus monkeys. radiation exposure and dioxin exposure have lead to higher frequency of developing endometriosis in monkeys.25- 26 It would seem plausible to extend this consideration to environmental effects on women, especially when it was reported that the highest dioxin pollution in the world was in Belgium, which also has the highest incidence of severe endometriosis." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"According to a test tube study eleuthero also helps protect the body duting radiation exposure.11 Preliminary research in Russia has suggested that eleuthero may help alleviate side effects and help the bone marrow recover more quickly in people undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy for cancer (page 87).12 Eleuthero may be useful as a preventive measure during the cold (page 129) and flu (page 269) season. However, it has not yet been specifically studied for this purpose." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Death from radiation exposure is rarely as swift. If the result of exposure is cancer, sickness and debility can extend for years. In the interim, treatment can involve surgery, pharmaceutical chemicals and ironically, more radiation. Still there is no guarantee of cure, and the cancer plus the "treatment" can severely disable or kill the person. . . . The U.S." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Despite the presence of numerous studies indicating the overwhelming health risks of cellphone overuse, wireless industry representatives met at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1999 and unanimously approved to raise the radiation exposure limit (for increased "range" and "reception" of course). Obviously, wireless companies want to protect their interests and they consistently cover-up the documented scientific evidence implicating the serious health risks of their products. It amazes me what some people will do for money." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "By following the recommendations in the chart below, I believe you can reduce your daily radiation exposure by up to 80%. How to Reduce Toxins from Radiation • When using a cellphone, use the speaker or an extension with an earpiece instead of holding the phone next to your head. • Carry the phone in a bag away from the body, but not in your pocket or on a belt-clip. • Everyone should have an EMF protection device on his or her cellphone. I use the Safe Space™ brand. • Turn off electronics such as TV's and computers when not in use." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "Wireless companies are also protected in that insurance companies will not pay out for illnesses caused by prolonged low frequency radiation exposure! I think we should be asking, what is so special about cellular service providers that they should be permitted to continuously market harmful products while simultaneously being protected from prosecution under established law? That's like committing murder legally with no repercussion. Well, as usual, there's another radiation culprit to consider. The antennae on top of cellular base towers emit RF radiation at extremely high power." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Thete was one relevant exception to this. radiation exposure was very well accepted as the environmental and occupational cancer-causing agent par excellence. For radiation, the link to several types of cancer, especially leukemia, could not be disputed. This established association went back as far as case reports among the first researchers in the field, scientists and physicians who were victims of their own early experiments." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Solar radiation exposure is also greater in Black Americans who have better survival rates for cancer.60 It is obvious that lack of sunlight is even more disastrous for blacks than for whites. Dr. Edward Giovannucci and colleagues have recently completed an assessment of 48,700 men whose rates of cancer and cancer deaths were compared with their rates of vitamin D intake and their production of vitamin D by sunlight exposure.61 Those with the highest vitamin D levels as predicted by sunlight exposure had a greatly reduced risk of cancers compared to those with the lowest predicted D levels." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Leukemia is the end-stage, cancerous manifestation of cell proliferation caused by radiation exposure. Documenting the same dual effect of benzene took only a matter of time. In 1928, a French medical journal reported the first case of leukemia developing because of workplace exposure to benzene. The forty-one-year-old patient had been heavily exposed to benzene over a number of years while working in a chemical manufacturing plant. Admitted to the hospital on Bastille Day in 1927, he died only three days later." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"The effects of radiation exposure can be acute, following a single, relatively high-intensity exposure, or they can be delayed or chronic. Acute reactions to radiation are extremely dangerous. They cause symptoms of listlessness, nausea, vomiting, weakness, and loss of coordination, leading to dehydration, convulsions, shock, and even death. Fortunately, the amount and type of exposure that causes such serious reactions is extremely rare. Radiotherapy treatment for cancer involves the administration of fairly high doses of radiation specifically targeted at cancerous cells." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The report, published by the Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action and peer-reviewed by leading scientists, also identifies radiation exposure, such as nuclear radiation and X-rays, as the "longest-established environmental cause of breast cancer."2 Among chemicals of concern, suspicion focuses on substances that act like estrogen in the body. There is broad agreement in the scientific community that higher exposure to estrogens over a woman's lifetime leads to a higher risk of developing breast cancer." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Ginseng is used in the treatment of adrenal deficiency, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, anemia, appetite loss, atherosclerosis, chemotherapy side effects, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, diarrhea (chronic), drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, heart palpitations, infertility (male and female), insomnia, low libido, low sperm count, malabsorption, memory loss, menopause symptoms, night sweats, organ prolapse, post-traumatic stress (physical and emotional), radiation exposure, shortness of breath, stress, stroke, and tuberculosis." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"I explained to her that we know that radiation exposure to the chests of girls before puberty increases the chances that breast cancer will develop later on. The woman looked at me as if I were slightly insane. Many physicians have no idea how much radiation their patients are exposed to from regular diagnostic procedures. A major pediatric journal reported that one in every three procedures ordered for children was not appropriate.19 Infants are at greatest risk, because the impacts of radiation have that much more time to become evident." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"In a report by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, issued in 2006, experts estimated that a sixty-year-old who undergoes an annual whole-body CT scan over the next fifteen years has a 1 in 220 risk of dying from cancer due to radiation exposure. The risk of dying in a car accident, by way of comparison, is nearly the same, 1 in 200. According to another estimate, out of about six hundred thousand children a year under the age of fifteen who receive a head or abdominal CT scan, five hundred could ultimately die in adulthood from cancer due to the radiation they received as youngsters." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Some health authorities prematurely called for the government of Iran to evacuate Ramsar because of the potential hazard posed by natural radiation exposure. Ramsar has areas with some of the highest recorded levels of natural radiation measured on the earth. The radioactivity is brought to the surface of the earth by hot water springs. The concentrations of radium in these hot springs are 18 times higher than found in other water sources in the same country." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "There were hardly any differences in radiation exposure between healthy women and women with lung cancer. But researchers incredulously concluded that "this indicates that residential radon exposure is a significant cause of lung cancer." Maybe that's because the politically correct answer preserves everybody's job and keeps grant money flowing for more radon risk studies. The presumed link between radon and lung cancer was initially based upon a study in Sweden, but subsequent studies elsewhere have not shown a consistent link. Flaws were also found in many radon studies." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Radiation upsets the environment surrounding cells and promotes tumors, an effect that lasts for 14 days following radiation exposure. By re-establishing the matrix of supporting tissue, tumors and pre-tumorous cell processes can be reversed, even in the presence of grossly abnormal, genetically-damaged cells. [Cancer Research 60: 1254-60, 2000] Barcellos-Hoff notes that conventional thought is that the ionizing radiation promotes cancer by its ability to damage DNA." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Healthy cells are better able to recover from radiation exposure than cancerous cells; consequently, radiation therapy can leave healthy parts of the body comparatively undamaged. An additional advantage of radiation over surgery is its ability to destroy tiny pockets of cancerous growth that the surgeon's knife might miss. Radiation also has less traumatic effects on older, frailer patients who might have a difficult time recovering from surgery and anesthesia." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"Free-radical injury to the sperm, due to extreme exercise, exposure to environmental toxins, poor nutrition, and radiation exposure, can damage the genetic material that contributes to future life. Adequate free-radical protection demands good nutrition in terms of antioxidant minerals, vitamins, and plant flavonoids. One of the most harmful things a young man can do to his future children is to expose his sperm to the damaging effects of illicit drugs." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "For example, cells that divide very rapidly, such as bone marrow or liver cells, can suffer devastating effects from high free-radical generation, as is seen with radiation exposure. Conversely, cells that do not divide at all are less vulnerable to DNA damage but in other ways are even more susceptible since the same cells must endure an ongoing attack throughout the life of the organism. For example, neurons generally do not divide after maturation of the brain is complete, sometime after birth." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Also linked to bladder cancer are exposure to certain chemicals, such as benzidines, aniline dyes, and naphthalenes; radiation exposure; heredity; possibly extremely high consumption of saccharin; a history of schistosomiasis (a tropical disease); chronic urinary tract infections or inflammation; and working in the dye, chemical, rubber, and leather industries. Signs and Symptoms Often symptoms do not appear in the early stages. The first warning sign is usually blood in the urine." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Stone wrote that anything that helps to retain the viscosity (consistency) of HA increases the body's resistance to tumors whereas enzymes that break down HA, like hyaluronidase, which is stimulated by infection or radiation exposure, encourage tumors. [Medical Hypotheses 20: 117-24, 1986] Previously the connective tissue was believed to be an unin-volved bystander to cancer. It is now obvious that disrupted connective tissue permits the initial tumor cells to proliferate." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Promotes excretion of fluids, increases energy, protects against harm from radiation exposure, and regulates hormones. Useful for frigidity, hives, impotence, infertility, nervous system disorders, premenstrual syndrome, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and disorders caused by blood impurities. Also called Chinese root, small spikenard. Saw palmetto Berries, Phytochemicals: Beta-carotene, beta-(Serenoa seeds. sitosterol, ferulic acid, mannitol, repens) myristic acid, tannins, vanillic acid, vanillin. Acts as a diuretic, urinary antiseptic, and appetite stimulant." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"For example, there is 16 times as much radiation exposure at a distance of 1 foot from the set as there is 4 feet away, and 36 times as much radiation at a distance of 1 foot as there is at 6 feet. Dietary Considerations Dietary factors and nutritional supplements also play an important role in the treatment of ADHD. Some children are exquisitely sensitive to refined sugars, and they improve greatly when all of the sugar is removed from their diet. Some children react to artificial colorings, particularly tartrazine (Yellow Dye #5) and other synthetic chemical additives." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"However, radiation exposure depresses the immune system. Q Because there are so many conditions that can occur over time with MS—including bowel and bladder problems, chronic fatigue, depression, headaches, impotence, pain, problems with vision and hearing loss, seizures, urinary tract infections, and vertigo—it is advisable to read the sections that cover these individual conditions in this section of this book. Consult the Table of Contents to look for sections that may be relevant for you." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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