I am happy to announce that I WILL NOT be arrested. I was running scared there for a while. As a member of the Nemenhah Native American Tribe, I was somewhat involved in the Danny Hauser case. If you haven’t been reading the papers in the last week, he is a 13 year old boy, diagnosed with cancer, who told his mother after one chemotherapy session that he would not have another. There was a court hearing to decide if he could be forced into chemotherapy, and Danny told the judge that if they insisted on giving him more chemo, he would kick and bite anyone who tried to force him to have it.

I got involved because the family, fellow-Nememhahs who embrace the concept of using the natural world as healer, was seeking a board-certified oncologist who would treat Danny without chemo – in hopes that this would satisfy the judge. Through various contacts, I was able to find such a doc. But, of course, these physicians must operate somewhat underground because NOT giving chemo to a cancer patient is a deviation from standard medical protocol – and any physician who engages in such behavior risks losing his license.

Danny and his mother fled – presumably leaving the country. Interpol was looking for them as fugitives. I was concerned that the Feds might confiscate various computers, and find an email trail from me. Thus, my fear of arrest.

I thought it would be interesting to look up other cases of state interference of perfectly sound ideas about health – and I found a doozey that I hadn’t known about previously.

Linus Pauling – a household name. He argued in the 50′s that radioactive fall-out was dangerous. The government disagreed, and released propaganda films of American children playing in fresh radioactive ash, proclaiming it to be “safe as snow.” Pauling joined with Einstein and five other notable scientists to form the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Their mission was to inform the public about the dangerous consequences that nuclear weapon and nuclear testing held for civilization. In 1958, Pauling submitted a petition that had been signed by over 9000 scientists to the Secretary General of the United Nations; it was a plea for a ban on future nuclear testing. Pauling traveled the country, giving hundreds of lectures.

Pauling was labeled a Communist sympathizer. He was denied a passport, thus preventing him from attending international scientific conferences. He was subpoenaed twice to appear before congressional committees investigating anti-American activities. In 1960, he was threatened to be held in contempt of Congress because he refused to reveal names of those who had helped to circulate his petition to ban nuclear testing. Despite unrelenting governmental oppression, Pauling continued his crusade, and wrote letters to both Kennedy and Khrushchev. Eventually the two superpowers agreed on a limited test ban treaty. It went into effect October 10th, 1963 – the very same day that Pauling received his second Nobel Prize.

The evidence that exposure to high-level radiation affects us malignantly in various ways is now incontrovertible. When we eat food that has been exposed to irradiation, we can expect to see neurological changes – degradation of the myelin in our bodies. Also, after nuclear bomb testing, we see an upsurge in the rate of suicides. One scientist’s theory suggests that the cause of the aberrant behavior has to do with the profound changes that water goes through from nuclear testing. Wh en the explosion occurs, waves are formed which die quickly in the ground. But water continues to fluctuate for another 30 days. Swinging like a pendulum, these waves create a new and pathological ordering in the water. This change in the structure of the water covers an area many miles away from the testing grounds. And it makes no difference whether the test has been conducted in the atmosphere, on the ground, or underground. Because the brain is 85% water, malignant changes in the brain can occur; the bioplasma of the brain is disrupted. Suicide may well be the consequence of these pathological changes.

The controversy over nuclear tests and nuclear weapons is one that is dear to my heart, as my recent forays in holistic healing have led me into the unlikely territory of the therapeutic use of low-level radiation. Pauling and Einstein, like most everyone else in this country, were probably not familiar with this healing technology. But, we Americans comprise an uninformed minority. Much of the rest of the world understands the basic scientific principle of hormesis – sometimes called “the reversal effect” – which states that low-level exposure and high-level exposure have opposite effects. High concentrations are detrimental, even lethal; medium concentrations suppress or inhibit; low concentrations have a stimulatory, beneficial effect. This hormetic effect pertains to chemical, biologic or radiologic agents. The phenomenon has been reported in biomedical literature since the 1880′s, and forms the basis for all immunology, vaccines and homeopathic treatment. Specifically in terms of radiologic exposure, Japan, who was home to two nuclear blasts, for obvious reasons became seriously interested in the effects of radiation. Currently, there are six spas in Tokyo alone that give deliberate exposure to its patrons for low-level radiation – with many double-blind studies documenting the therapeutic efficacy of the exposure. In many countries, including Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Russia, state insurance pays for people to go to spas that implement low-level radiation therapies. As in Japan, these countries have documented the effect through controlled, double-blind studies.

The biomedical research, as well as the compelling story of how a former helicopter mechanic, Jay Gutierrez, re-discovered this technology is told in my recent book, Because People Are Dying. Over the 15 years that Jay has been working with low-level radioactive stones, with more than 3000 patients, he has had fairly phenomenal success with cancer, as well as many other diseases. Using Jay’s stones, mined in Utah and Wyoming, La Casa Day Spa makes low-level radiation therapy available in two separate treatments.

The third episode of my new Reality TV Group Therapy show aired last night. Again, as I did for the first airing, I had people over to watch it with, and we had a lively, smart discussion afterward – about the nature of group process, and the psychology of the particular participants. Air time is always Tuesday, 7:30 pm, channel 57. But thankfully, because of our miraculous “time is eternal” world, replay is too. Watch all episodes on youtube, posted after each episode’s TV airing. First two shows are now available in the convenience of your own home.

www.youtube.com/drjanegoldberg

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Last year, I became acquainted with Mary McGuire-Wien, who has become well-known for transforming people’s physical and mental wellness through principles that La Casa also espouses. You may have heard her name, as she has been written about in the New York Times, as well as other places.

Anyway, I knew she was launching her widely anticipated new book, The 7 Day Total Cleanse, and I was able to get my private list in on one of those “too good to be true” offers, that happens to be really true in this case. Here is the offer:

Buy her book for only $16, experience the health transformation of her famous “7 Day Total Cleanse” — and get over $500 worth of free stuff from her huge network of friends and supporters in the health and wellness field!

Why are people (including La Casa Day Spa) willing to give away or discount their products and services to help promote Mary’s book? First of all, we’re friends of Mary’s, and sincerely wish for her book to be a blockbuster (she’s a wonderful person, among other things). Most of us have benefited personally from her programs, and are ardent believers. Those of us who have not personally done her cleanse know people who have, and are impressed with the results.

Secondly, we friends of Mary’s, and contributors to her book launch, hope that you will get interested in our own products and services. We consider that we are giving you a mini-introduction to us. Perhaps you will like our products and services sufficiently to order something else from us (and pay us) in the future. But whether you do or not, the goodies are yours to keep for free – even if you return Mary’s book and want your $16 back.

La Casa’s discounted offer is called the Body/Feet Treat

and if you buy Mary’s book, you will save $80 on the package.

The package consists of:

Salt Sauna

Whole body massage (including intensive foot massage)

Pedi-detox therapy.

Why do we pay such close attention to the feet? Because a large quantity of toxins are stored in the feet. With over 4000 pores in the feet, they are an ideal place from which to both release toxins and to absorb nutrients. In La Casa’s Pedi-Detox therapy, the whole body, through the feet, is both detoxified and nourished.

Click below to read about Mary’s book, as well as the other freebies that are associated with purchase of the book. This is a limited-time offer, so don’t let it pass you by!

Click here now! http://www.thetotalcleanse.com

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And, stay tuned for La Casa’s next offer – Feet/Eat/Treat – our association with Mari Vanna – the restaurant at the bottom of our building – enjoy the Feet Treat first at La Casa, and then resume your pleasure by extending your Treat to an Eat Treat – 30% off your bill at Mari Vanna. Lovely salads for La Casa’s health conscious clientele: Beet salad with prunes, walnuts, a touch of garlic and Vegginaise; or the Sunflower Salad, all fresh veggies with lots of sunflower seeds; and more.

Be well.

For almost a year now I have been participating in an experiment which has the possibility of extending my life. The process is a bit bizarre. I lie on a mat which is energized by a contraption that makes a fair amount of noise, but most bizarrely, it makes my battery operated alarm clock go off every few minutes. Also, light bulbs held in my hand start glowing, even though they are not plugged into an outlet. Sounds kind of sci-fi – and I guess in a sense, it is.

So, here is the back story:

In 1965, a geneticist named Leonard Hayflick discovered that most cells divide about 80 times, then slow down and die. He showed that there’s an “internal clock” that ticks off the rate of division among all the trillions of cells in the body. This clock appears to “tell” each cell when to start functioning less and less efficiently, and when to launch a “pre-programmed” death (called cellular apoptosis). It’s as though your whole lifespan is repeated in miniature at the cellular level.

Hayflick’s discovery had important implications for the field of anti-aging. His work suggested that there is a mechanism inside every cell that determines longevity. If, for instance, we could manipulate this internal clock, could we simultaneously slow down the aging process? The answer was found 25 years later. The prestigious journal Nature published a groundbreaking article in 1990 that introduced the world to an explanation of the genetic mechanism that involves something called the “telomeres,” the DNA “caps” at the end of chromosomes.

In 2009, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three researchers for their investigation of telomeres and telomerase — a protein responsible for telomere length and maintenance. The research shows that longer telomeres and more telomerase activity indicates greater cellular longevity, and shorter telomeres and less telomerase activity is associated with cell death. On average, telomeres shrink 1% each year starting at birth. Thus, most individuals, with good health habits, are programmed genetically to die within 100 years. Unhealthy habits speed up telomere shrinkage. It is, then, the length of one’s telomeres that determine how long we live and how healthy we are.

For several years, we at La Casa have been investigating various ways of increasing cellular strength, resiliency and longevity, including through the use of the Magnetic Pulse Therapy, as well as the Cem Tech. Now, it seems that this mat that I lay on 4-5 times a week does the same thing: it invigorates cells, and this cellular strengthening not only extends life, but also makes life healthier.

One mouse study on telomeres was conducted by cancer doctor Ronald DePinho of Harvard University, also published in Nature. Before treatment, the skin, brains, guts and other organs of the mice resembled those of an 80-year-old person. Within just two months of being given telomerase, the mice had grown so many new cells that they had almost completely rejuvenated. Remarkably, the male mice went from being infertile to fathering large litters. Dr DePinho said: ”In human terms, it would be like having a 40-year-old person who looked 80-plus and reversing the effects to the levels of a 50-year-old.” He continues on the dilemma of aging in today’s world: “By 2025 we are going to have 1.2 billion people aged over 60, which is when you start to see cancer, Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease. We are on a collision course for a significant amount of burden to society. This (study) is the first time that aging has been reversed.”

So, I imagine that many of you will want to know where I got my mat from. Before I give you that information, I want to give you a little background on the development of the technology behind the mat. Although his name is little-known today, it is not possible to over-state the influence of Nikola Tesla on today’s world. He lived for almost a whole century, from the mid 1800′s to the mid 1900′s. His inventions, patents and theoretical work formed the basis of much of the technology we use today, from modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, wireless communication through the radio; aspects of television, X-rays, satellite transmission, and advance defense systems such as the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) were foreshadowed in Tesla’s work. His work helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Tesla coil is one of Nikola Tesla’s most famous inventions. It is essentially a high-frequency transformer. Tesla coils create extremely powerful electrical fields. Large coils have been known to wirelessly light up florescent lights up to 50 feet away, and because of the fact that it is an electric field that goes directly into the light and doesn’t use the electrodes, even burned-out florescent lights will glow.

Tesla coils have been used for medical purposes. In the late 1930′s until 1942, Georges Lakhovsky, working in a New York university hospital, reported healing many illnesses when patients were exposed to the field effect of a Tesla coil. Unfortunately, his untimely death resulted in his research being discontinued. Then, in 1982, Ukrainian nuclear physicists began studying the effects of application of human DNA frequencies to specific acupuncture points. According to Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., who visited the Soviet Union in 1992, Russian physicians had treated, to great success, over 200,000 patients with this approach. (If you are not familiar with Norm Shealy, he is one of the great minds of the century; he founded the first pain-clinic in the country, and has consistently been in the forefront of mind/body medicine and holistic health for decades.)

Norm has been instrumental in this country for moving forward the use of the Tesla coil for health purposes. The mat contains a Tesla coil built into it. Fifty of us are participating in a five year research project, agreeing to lay on the mat at least 4-5 times a week for 30-60 minutes each time. As of December 31, 2010, 34 individuals had completed at least one year of using the mat, and have been tested for the difference in telomere lengths before and after use of the mat.80% (27 of 34) had increased growth in their telomeres. (I myself have not yet been re-tested, as I started the experiment later than the others.)

There are other methods for lengthening telomeres. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association followed about 600 people over a full five years. They found that daily supplements of omega-3 significantly increased telomerase activity. The best sources for supplementing with omega-3 are cod liver oil and Sacha Inchi oil. A good dosage is 3 grams of omega-3 every day. Vitamins B12, E, D and C also increase the lifespan of cells by preventing telomere shortening.

There is also a free solution. Elizabeth Blackburn was one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize for her work on telomeres, and her work suggests an older method to telomere extension: meditation. Her research has drawn connections between the shortening of telomeres and stress reactions in the body. For example, she found that mothers with chronically ill children have shortened telomeres, indicating that chronic stress can have a huge influence on how cells divide-or fail to. The telomeres of people who feel more stressed are almost 50 percent shorter than people who say they’re less stressed. Since scientists have a rough idea what the average telomere length is for a specific age, they can estimate how much older the higher-stress group is biologically: it is a 9 to 17 years difference. Just by thinking they were aging faster, they actually aged faster. To reduce these destructive responses to stress, Blackburn suggests mindfulness meditation, a secular adaptation of traditional Buddhist meditation techniques. And there is research to back up her theory. Researchers at the University of California-Davis found that after three months, people doing meditation training had 33 percent higher telomerase activity in their white blood cells than those who weren’t meditating. The problem for us normal people is they were meditating for six hours a day. But surely a normal meditation schedule will also work, perhaps less quickly and dramatically. The implication is that if you can reduce the effects that stress has on you, through such techniques as meditation, you can increase your chance of rebuilding the telomeres and decrease the odds of having your cells die and contribute to age-related problems. Of course, as a psychoanalyst, I would submit that analysis, too, reduces stress, and thus would build telomeres – but alas, no such research has confirmed my speculation.

If you wish to purchase the Tesla coil mat, it costs $4000. You can email me back, and I can describe the process of acquiring it. Or, you can meditate – and enjoy this and many other benefits for free.

Some of you may be interested to know that my initial telomere length was the longest that Norm Shealy had ever seen. Given that my mother died of cancer at the age I am now, and that my sister died of cancer at an age seven years younger than I am now, one might speculate that my telomeres might be feeling a little challenged about now. I think this evidence of my hypothetical 100 year-long life has to be attributed to the care I have given to my body for the last 40 years (I wasn’t so careful for the first 24): eating organically; fresh veggie juice most days; daily yoga or running; lying on a slant board; continual organ and especially colon cleansing; and the various healing devices that I use on a regular basis- the Magnetic Pulse and the Cem Tech, most notably. I think it proves the important point that life-style can supersede genetics.

And as a final BTW note – Telomerase is overactive in 85 percent of cancers. Norm speculates that the over-production of the protein is the body’s way of attempting to come back to homeostasis that has been disrupted. Food for thought for further research.

I have recently seen two documentaries that are important. The first was begun by Ruth Sackman, who served as my first mentor in holistic health shortly after I moved to New York. In 1971, Ruth founded The Foundation for Advancement of Cancer Therapies, the first non-profit organization whose sole purpose was to dissiminate information about non-toxic, biological therapies for cancer (and all other abnormal bodily conditions). Ruth’s guidance saved my mother’s life as she struggled with the metastatic cancer (from breast to bone) that had afflicted her – and she was, thus, able to move from a wheel-chair to playing tennis again. Ruth died two years ago, at the age of 93, while the film was still in process. Her staff, Consuelo Reyes and Jim Oakar, finished the film, and it is now available on the FACT website, RethinkingCancer.org. I highly recommend watching it, as it is informative as well as moving – as it interviews five patients who Ruth advised, who cured themselves of cancer (and Lyme Disease). The film includes some rare footage of Ruth herself, at the end of her life, still giving out her pearls of wisdom about health and longevity (topics she knew as well as lived – her own life was a testament to that). Ruth believed, more than anything, in the body’s ability to heal itself. I remember a spell that Ruth went through – she was throwing up. It lasted days, then weeks, then a month. Her ever-faithful husband, Leon, begged her to go see a doctor. Everyone who knew and loved Ruth was concerned. She lost a lot of weight. Yet, Ruth embraced the notion that her body was detoxing – and that it would finish when it was done with its process. 40 days later – longer than most human beings would tolerate – her throwing up finally stopped – she ejected what needed to be out of her body – and, as she always said, as she always taught me, she was in better health after the detox completed itself than before that ordeal her body needed to go through. Ruth inspired me when she was alive, and my memories of her still inspire me as well as inform me about what the human body is capable of when we trust its process, and provide it with the right environments — physical, nutritional, cleansing, environmental, emotional, spiritual — for healing.

The other documentary came into my email box today from Joe Mercola. It is an easy, accessible way of understanding the revolutionary work of Dr. Burzynski, who has been curing cancer for a couple of decades.

The producers of this powerful film are allowing a full and FREE preview through June 13th! Please tell everyone you know to watch this film in it’s entirety.

This is the email Mercola sent out:

Visit the Mercola Video Library

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.

In the late 1970′s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.

His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical- and pharmaceutical industry at any cost-including the lives of millions of people.

preview link for docu:http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/burzynski-the-movie.aspx

As the co-author (with Jay Gutierrez) of a recent book, Because People Are Dying, on the healing technology of radiation hormesis – the use of low-level radiation to strength the immune system and heal diseases — I felt I should give out as much credible information as I can about the disaster that is unfolding in Japan, and what that may mean to both the Japanese and to those of us who are safely tucked away in or own homes, watching with sympathy and tears of grief for all those who are suffering.

Over the last few days, I have been deluged with emails about what steps we should take to prevent our own radiation poisoning. I want to make a couple of initial points in this Musings: 1) all the ideas about what we should be taking to protect ourselves are good ideas. I will go over one of them — the one that is suggested most frequently and 2) these ideas are good not because we need protection from radiation poisoning but because they were good ideas even before the Japan disaster began. And finally, 3) I pose the question of whether there is a significant danger of radioactive poisoning.

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The suggestion for radiation protection made most often is that we start taking potassium iodide immediately. I understand there has been a run on the stock of potassium iodide in the country.The potassium protects against radioactive cesium. Iodide is a form of iodine. Iodine is essential for your thyroid and several other tissues and organs. Your thyroid needs it most and, thus, it concentrates most heavily there. If you’re deficient, as most Americans are, your thyroid will pick up any iodine that your body finds, including radioactive iodine, which can poison your thyroid. Iodide protects your thyroid against radioactive iodine.

While it is true that potassium iodide gives some protection against radiation, it is likely that if there is high radiation, it won’t do the trick well enough. You need enough potassium in your body to prevent absorption of radioactive cesium, and, again, as most of us are deficient in iodine, similarly, most of us are deficient in potassium. There’s simply not enough potassium in any formula of potassium iodide to protect against radioactive cesium.

Further, and most importantly, you need to protect a lot more than your thyroid from radiation. The potassium iodide will give insufficient protection to other organs.
Yet, supplementing our diet with iodine is almost always a good idea. The Japanese, actually, are in good shape with this. They regularly take iodine – in the form of seaweed and algae – which are staples in their diet. At least partially because of the large amounts of iodine in their diet, Japanese women, until recently, have had the lowest breast cancer rate in the world. Iodine induces apoptosis, programmed cell death. This process is essential to growth and development (fingers form in the fetus by apoptosis of the tissue between them). But iodine is also good for destroying cells that represent a threat to the integrity of the organism, like cancer cells and cells infected with viruses. Iodine  also removes toxic chemicals – fluoride, bromide, lead, aluminum, mercury – and biological toxins; it suppresses auto-immunity, strengthens the T-cell adaptive immune system, and protects against abnormal growth of bacteria in the stomach. Click here to understand more about iodine.

The product I take, and was taking long before the Japanese radiation  threat, is Iodoral, which provides the body with both iodine and potassium iodide. One capsule a day is all you need for general protection. If there is a radiation threat, simply double that amount. So, by all means, take Iodoral. And keep taking it, even after the threat of this disaster has passed.

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But on to the most important question: is there a danger of our being radiologically poisoned. The experts disagree on this; I have read widely divergent opinions. What I am clear about, however, is what I learned from my previous explorations into the phenomenon of radiation hormesis. As long as the level of radiation exposure remains “low” (as it is currently), not only is there no danger, but there might even be some benefits accrued.

Most of us have a knee-jerk reaction to the word radiation. If we think it is near us, we want to flee for our lives. A deep fear has developed in our country about all things radioactive. The fear stems from the common belief that any dose of radiation increases the likelihood of two dreaded diseases: cancer and congenital malformations.

It was out of this concern that a MIT professor wrote an email to his family in Japan immediately after the reactors first failed to reassure them that the likelihood was that they would be safe from being over-exposed to radioactive material. Much to the surprise of the professor, the email went viral. The email is technical and very compelling – and states all the difficult-to-understand reasons why the threat for radioactive poisoning is not as great as people fear. Following that initial email, a group of MIT nuclear scientists have banded together to make commentary on the on-going situation in Japan – and they are giving up-dates as they are able to gather reliable information.  Their website is:  http://mitnse.com/. You can see there the original email by Josef Oehmen ”Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors,” as well as the group’s subsequent commentaries.

Similarly, Rod Adams, who has also had extensive experience in the nuclear field, has been blogging, giving his ideas of why the situation may be able to be stabilized. He also discusses the differences between Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the situation in Japan. He’s worth reading:

For Adams’ blog, click.

Finally, popular theoretical physicist Michio Kaku’s websitecontains his blog with a recent posting (today) on the dangers of the on-going situation in Japan.

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With all the concern about the potential danger of radioactive poisoning from the Japanese damaged reactors, it is important for us to not lose sight of the therapeutic benefits of low-level radiation. In my research on radiation hormesis, I read many research papers and I spoke to some of the leading nuclear experts in the country. The evidence is clear: as we are deficient in iodine, we are similarly deficient in radiation. As Ted Rockwell, eminent nuclear engineer, said in a recent blog in response to what is happening in Japan and the fear stimulated:

“…Life evolved on, and adapted to, a much more radioactive planet. Our current natural radiation levels – worldwide – are below optimum. Statements that there is no safe level of radiation are an affront to science and to common sense.”

Thus, according to Rockwell, and many other eminent scientists, it seems that we are deficient – not only in iodine and potassium, but we need more of the unlikely material of radiation, as well.

Rockwell continues in his article, Fukushima: It’s Not About Radiation; It’s About Tsunamis, explaining that the radiation dose that the Japanese people have been exposed to, thus far, is still insignificant in terms of a health issue.

Worldwide, the average radiation exposure is about 360 millirems per year. Scientists agree that humans can safely handle 1,000 a year. Different places on earth have different exposure rates (as we will see in a moment), and some go much higher than the average with not only no perceptible ill effects, but, in fact, these fortunate inhabitants actually enjoy better health.

There is a wealth of medical and scientific research on exposure to radiation documenting the hormesis effect: high-dose radiation kills by destroying tissue (all medical use of radiation, including x-rays is high dosage); but low-dose radiation stimulates. Specifically the immune system reacts in a positive fashion to low-dose exposure, and creates a healing response in the organism. Researcher T.D. (Don) Lucky has spent a lifetime documenting the effects of radiation hormesis: according to his, and over 3000 other medical studies, exposure to low-dose radiation results in anti-aging effects, increased fertility, mental acuity, cancer suppression, improvement of immune function, promotion of healthy growth and an increase of defense against disease.

Listen to my interview with Don Lucky.

And, to my interview with Ted Rockwell on radiation hormesis.

Of the over 3000 studies on radiation hormesis, three environmentally- induced radioactive situations are particularly compelling.

First, there is incidence of cancers induced by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were, as we now know should have been expected, large numbers of people near the bombs who subsequently developed radiologically-induced cancers. It is also true, however, that there were large numbers of people who did not develop radiologically-induced cancers. The size of this latter group has been a surprise to most scientists. Findings of several studies show that when exposure to radiation was at points distant from the blasts, radiation absorption was minimal, and leukemia deaths among these A-bomb survivors was below normal. But, this is where the data get interesting: minimally exposed survivors haven’t just not died of leukemia or other cancers; they haven’t been dying for any reason. They’re healthier than the Japanese population who lived far away from the blast and received no exposure. Dr. Sohei Kondo, in 1993, published Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation, in which he reported findings of a significantly lower death rate for those who had been exposed to low levels of the radiation fall-out than for those who had no exposure at all. As well, no adverse genetic effects in the progeny of the minimally exposed population have been detected during sixty years of study.

To put radiation exposure dosage from the bombs in contemporary perspective, according to Christopher Windham, it is now understood that the radiation dose from a full-body medical scan today can be almost as high as the dose received by some of the survivors of the bomb.

The Japanese know, as well as any peoples, the effects of radiation, for obvious reasons. But they also know about the beneficial effects of radiation hormesis. Before the recent disaster, there were at least six popular spas in Japan where people went for radiation hormesis therapy. Water bubbling up from deep within the earth  carried levels of radiation that eased pain, and promoted health. Not only do the spas offer radioactive hot baths, they also paint the walls with radioactive paint.