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Radioactive iodine (iodine 131)

Radioactive iodine is a dangerous fallout contaminant, like Strontium 90, but can be even more toxic. It is found mostly in milk; therefore, it is particularly harmful to children who drink lots of milk.

Radioactive iodine is readily absorbed by the body, and it concentrates chiefly in one place – the thyroid gland. When the accumulation is sufficiently large, it causes thyroid cancer.

Protection

Kelp. When the diet is amply supplemented with easily-assimilable organic iodine, as in kelp, the radioactive iodine is not absorbed by the thyroid gland.

Dose: 1 to 2 tsp. of granules daily, or 5 to 10 tablets.

X-rays

X-rays have been used and abused indiscriminately by doctors, hospitals, dentists and chiropractors for decades, ignoring their great potential danger. X-rays are cumulative, so that even small amounts, such as those emitted from a color TV, a wristwatch or an alarm clock, can be dangerous as they add to the total amount received from all sources.

Overexposure can cause leukemia, cancer, birth defects and a later development of leukemia in a

Protection

1.    Rutin. It strengthens the capillary walls and reduces hemorrhaging caused by x-rays. In animal tests, rutin (vitamin P, or bioflavonoid) reduced the death rate caused by excessive x-rays by 800 percent. Dose: 100 to 200 mg. a day as protective dose. In case of exposure: 800 mg. or more, a day. It is harmless.

2.    Vitamin С. Large doses of vitamin С, taken together with rutin, can strengthen the effect of rutin and help to protect against damaging effect of x-rays.

3.    Pantothenic acid. It prevents radiation injuries. In animal studies, the survival rate was increased by 200 percent by giving pantothenic acid prior to exposure.

Dose: Preventive – 5 mg. to 15 mg. for children; 25 mg. to 50 mg. for adults. A double or triple dose as a therapeutic after exposure. Brewer’s yeast is by far the best natural source of pantothenic acid.

4.    Brewer’s yeast. It has been established that crude yeast extract provides a definite protection against lethal radiation doses.

5.    Vitamin F (essential fatty acids), present in all crude, cold-pressed vegetable oils. Provides protection against the harmful effect of x-rays.

6.    Inositol (present mostly in lecithin, but also available in tablet form). Prevents damage from X-rays and other radiation exposure.

7.     Lemon or lemon peels concentrate. Experiments in several hospitals show that patients can withstand heavier therapeutic radiation without damage to healthy tissues if given lemon compound (undoubtedly because of bioflavonoids which are present in large amounts in lemon and lemon peel).

8.    Lecithin, 2-3 tbsp. a day, will help counteract the effects of radiation.

Note: When x-ray treatment or exposure is anticipated, large doses of the above-mentioned vitamins and special supplements will help you to prevent damage from radiation and permit higher doses of radiation with less harm.

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GENERAL HEALTH

Some years ago I was asked in public: Could a corpse on the beach sunburn? I answered this reader of who-dun-its by saying: Certainly not. Sun-burning is a physiological process and such processes stop at death. In life the local blood vessels dilate, fluid pours out from them into the tissues; all the signs and symptoms of inflammation result: calor, rubor, tumor, and dolor.  Only chemical reactions occur in the corpse.

Inflammation is the local reaction to irritation. The vessels dilate, bringing extra blood to the part, and hence we get the redness and heat and beginning of swelling. Much of the fluid of the blood passes out into the tissues, causing the major part of the swelling. Cells from the blood also work their way through the walls, the white blood cells or leucocytes being in the van. These actually eat up, as it were, the irritants. There are several kinds of leucocytes, the ones doing the bulk of the work in most acute infections being the polymorphonuclear leucocytes. They are so called because, instead of having one small nucleus in the cell, they have several of varying shapes. Medical men, as well as you, are bothered by these big words, so long before the modern alphabetical nomenclature became popular we referred to this leucocyte as p.m.l.

If the inflammation occurs on a large scale, or is of a particularly serious nature, a hurry call for more leucocytes may be sent out. You might not expect an infection at almost any part of your body to have much effect on your thigh and other bones, but blood cells are formed in bone marrow.

Your physician, finding pain and tenderness in the right side of your abdomen, may also be in a quandary as to whether he is dealing with an indiscretion in diet or acute appendicitis. He then does a white blood count. Ordinarily, there are about 8,000 white cells in a cubic centimeter of blood, 75 per cent of them being p.m.l.s. Should he find that you have 12,000 to 15,000, 90 per cent of them being p.m.l.s., you will probably be scheduled for an emergency appendectomy. The bones of your body are rushing shock troops to your aid.

There are many non-living irritants which can produce inflammation: electric and other rays, chemicals, bruises and wounds; but the living irritants would seem to be the most important and, of these, infectious bacteria lead. What I believe are the commonest, and on the whole are easiest to handle, are those which have a tendency to form pus. In a local infection caused by this type of bacteria the blood vessels become plugged with cells so that the circulation ceases and the tissues die. Then they break down and liquefy, and the p.m.l.s congregate in the liquid. The result is pus. As this increases, the pressure of the so-called abscess causes pain, which is relieved when the abscess is opened.

One of the best-known of these local inflammations is the common boil which is an abscess forming in a hair follicle or a grease gland of the skin. One of the commonest of bacteria, the staphylococcus aureus, causes boils and they are miserable afflictions. They are exceedingly miserable for the tension is great, with resulting pain and tenderness, and the tissues do not liquefy quickly but a firm core persists. Hence cutting them open does not give the expected release of pus. Closely related to a boil, and even worse, is a carbuncle, in which the infection travels along just below the skin and comes to the surface at numerous points.

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