Radiation & Radioactivity

I have posted the following video on YouTube for those of you that prefer to receive your knowledge from video instead of reading.

Let me begin with some facts. You cannot stop ionizing radiation from entering or actually passing through your body, by taking a nutritional supplement of any kind. The word “Protection” as it applies to radiation, – is often being misused in this regard.

If you think of the radiation as a huge number of microscopic bullets passing through your tissues, you will get a better idea of what I mean.

Protection from the radiation would have to be lead or concrete walls between you and where the radiation is coming from.

If you are a billionaire hermit, I guess you could build your own castle with all sorts of protections and self sufficiencies– but this is not what this video and article are about

If we eat something which is radioactive, then the bullets are actually generated from inside our body until the substance has been completely expelled in urine, stool, or sweat, or until enough months, years or centuries have passed so that it is no longer redioactive.

By the way – this is done in hospitals all over the world– when patients are fed or injected with radioactive liquids which are used to help show up on medical scanning equipment for diagnostic purposes such as PET scans for cancer detection and radioactive iodine to kill the thyroid gland in certain thyroid conditions.

So — the issue is not protection from the radiation itself – by moving into lead and concrete self contained bomb shelters – either underground or in the middle of nowhere.

Instead,– we need to understand what and how the radiation damages in our bodies, and what if anything we can do to either reduce or minimize this harm, and/or to speed the body’s abilities to repair these tissues and organs which have been or are being harmed.

Ionizing radiation harms tissue by oxidizing it and therefore anti-oxidant nutrients would seem to be one of our best lines of defense. Different anti-oxidant nutrients have different protective jobs and so you cannot simply take a huge dose of one nutrient like vitamin C.

Doing this would be as silly as telling a workman who is building your house, – that he or she can have as many screw drivers as they want, but they cannot have any other tools. This will work as inadequately as taking lots of just one anti-oxidant.

The second problem is that certain glands and tissues-such as the thyroid, prostate, and breast – seem to possibly be more sensitive to some forms of radiation WHEN they have too little of a specific nutrient with that nutrient being IODINE. When radioactive iodine gets into areas which have numerous iodine receptors, if these receptors are lacking iodine, then the radioactive iodine latches on and begins ionizing/oxidizing or lets just say HARMING these tissues. If the receptors have had adequate dietary exposure to iodine then the receptors are already filled with iodine and they do not grab for the radioactive version just because it is the only one available.

Radioactive cesium 137 and radioactive Iodine 131 have both been reported and tested from the Fukushima disaster but the half life of the iodine is so short at 8 days, that it is much less likely to be here in the U.S. from Fukushima. Since the Cesium 137 may be the main issue, I have no idea how much benefit our tissues might derive from iodine supplements such as Modifilan seaweed extract, or other kelp or iodine products.

What would I do for the benefits of my body and the bodies of my wife and my cats? I phrase my question this way due to the FDA, so that they cannot in any way say that I am prescribing any supplements to the public on this video or its text transcription. The FDA only wants drugs to be used even though many thousands die every year as a direct result of prescription and non-prescription drugs. There have been so few deaths ever recorded from any kind of non adulterated nutritional supplements, you are more likely to die from a shark attack or by being hit by lightning.

First of all, every day I take many supplements to keep me feeling young and energetic so that in 40 years when I reach 100, I will still have my energy and my memory.

Part of these daily supplements include many anti-oxidants which will help reduce the oxidative damage from radiation in various tissues and serve to do whatever “protection” they can add to my healthy diet.

• I take about 1000mg of vitamin C 2 or 3 times each day, sometimes more
• I take 2 capsules of Unique E with my breakfast
• I take 2 capsules of Unique E with my breakfast
• I take anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 iu of real vitamin A from NOW foods or Carlson
• I take 25,000 units of mixed carotenoids called Carrotenall by Jarrow Formulas
• I take 3-4 capsules of either Modifilan brand seaweed extract or NOW kelp capsules for my extra iodine
• I take 1 tablespoon of Carlson lemon flavored cod liver oil to keep my omega 3 fats adequate so that any which become damaged will get replaced with new molecules daily
• And I take a good high potency multiple with breakfast and dinner such as Super Nutrition’s perfect Family. I take their iron free version since my blood tests show that I have adequate iron
• I also take enough vitamin D3 in liquid filled gel caps– not dry tablets or capsules– to make certain that my tested level of 25(OH) Vitamin D3 remains between 60 and 80 ng/ml on U.S. lab tests. For Canadians, who use a different lab standard, that would be about 150-200 nmols/ltr

Because of this, I am already taking enough anti-oxidants and daily iodine to give me what I want to have in my tissues in case of minor exposure to radiation.

HOWEVER

If I became more worried and heard legitimate proof rather than speculation, or if my Inspector Alert Nuclear Radiation Meter showed me that local levels had actually gone up to the point that I needed to change anything, I would do the following:

• I would raise my vitamin C from mixed ascorbates to 2000mg three or 4 times a day
• I Would raise my Unique E to 3 capsules with breakfast
• I would take 25,000 units of A most days but 50,000 units 2 days a week
• I would raise my Modifilan to 6 capsules per day or my NOW Kelp capsules to 6/day and I would add in ReadiSorb’s Liquid refrigerated Glutathione at 1/4 tsp twice a day. Glutathione is one of the strongest anti-oxidants on the planet and my body might not be making enough under those conditions so I would take more. The problem is that since it is not stable long term, and should be refrigerated for longest life, I could not keep it around in large quantities for storage
• Alpha Lipoic acid is another product I would likely add. Probably either Jarrow Formulas brand Lipoic Sustain 300 taken with breakfast and dinner or else or more special and more expensive liquid product by Geronova Research called K-RALA-10 at about 20 drops with breakfast and dinner in some water
• I would also take some type of Liver and Kidney support as I outline on my Detoxification DVD to make sure these organs can continue to eliminate whatever toxic substances may develop in my body due to the radioactivity

My wife and cats would also get similar doses reduced for their body weights, but only of some of these for my cats since some, such as lipoic acid might hurt them, and because unlike humans, cats already manufacture quite a bit of their own vitamin C. As a side note, I am 5’10” and weigh 165.

I already have a porcelain filter made by Doulton under my sink, and this should be able to remove any particles that are radioactive from my water, should this ever become a problem.

What people do not quite understand is that your body’s overall health is just as important for your ability to renew tissues and repair radiation damaged cells as is your anti-oxidant level. If your immune system is already diminished by the consumption of processed foods, boxed breakfast cereals, starchy vegetable, grains, sugars especially high fructose corn syrup and agave nectar, and artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame also known as equal®, amino sweet®, – sucralose known as Splenda®, Neotame® which may be even worse and Saccharine (Sugar Twin®), then you are going about protecting yourself BASS ACKWARDS so to speak. Stop eating this crap now if you care about your health.

When roaches and mice take over your home, the first thing you should do is NOT to call an exterminator but instead clean up your house and stop making it hospitable to these creatures. Likewise, if you want to be healthy, live along time, keep all your faculties, and never need drugs to suppress symptoms of ill heath, clean up your diet.

Try my 30 day health diet as a challenge.

Buy and watch the movie – In Search of the Perfect Human Diet from the 60 year old Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation at www.ppnf.org.

Let this worry about radiation be your call to arms and start getting your entire body healthy.

I would wish you good luck, but after 20 years of helping my patients and students get well it is extremely clear that the issue is NOT LUCK but rather education first and putting it to use second.

My web site has NOTHING for sale. All the information is free. www.Naturopath4you.com or just DavidGetoff.com will get you there.

Enjoy learning as only the facts can truly help us.

I will end with two of my favorite quotes:

First MARK TWAIN
“What gets us in trouble is NOT what we don’t know — Its what we know for sure – that just ain’t so”

Second, from Epictetus (A Greek born Roman Philosopher)
“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO BEGIN TO LEARN —WHAT HE THINKS HE ALREADY KNOWS”