Protecting Yourself from Radiation-Two States Now have Found Radiation in Meat and Dairy

A couple of weeks ago Japan’s nuclear reactors near Tokyo  went haywire in Fuchishima I started to call around to order some extra Iodoral. This is the lower dose of Potassium Iodine that can be taken on a daily basis. Not that I felt I was in immediate danger but making sure that at least my thyroid was saturated with iodine.

Much to my surprise all of the suppliers were OUT! At least for the most part except those enterprising souls who were scalping Iodoral for $120 and $170 dollars a bottle on Amazon. Normally this products sells for $40 give or take a couple of dollars either way.  Some people make a buck no matter what.

I know when I had some tests done at Dr. Brouse’s clinic he did a urine Iodine Pre- loading and post loading tests. The test determines if your body has adequate iodine levels. We don’t realize how important that is to have adequate levels. Thyroid hormones regulate growth and metabolic rate, body heat and energy production and even protect women against fibrocystic breast disease and cancer and much more.

When you take this test you receive a couple of tablets of Iodoral which is potassium Iodine.You are to make sure you do not have any fish that day because it skews the results with you iodine levels. So the more iodine you secret in your urine the better. This means that your body has plenty. And I tested fine. However, according to Dr. Brouse many people do not have enough. If you are interested in testing for your iodine levels you can call Dr. Brouse’s office at 503-654-3255 to set up a test. You will get one in the mail to use and mail back to his office.

So for people that are low they would usually take Iodoral and for children there is Lugoil that can be taken. Children are the most susceptible to thyroid cancer because of their fast growth cells.

Okay so you may ask what is the difference between Ioderal or Potassium iodate? Potassium Iodate can be purchased if you can get any now… when you are need quick emergency dose near radiation. Ioderal can be used on a regular basis if one needs to up their iodine.

So Are we at risk for radiation here in the states? The answer yes. I  do believe there are some places more at risk such as California and Washington state. Now CNN is reporting that radiation has been found in meat and dairy in these two states. And today they found radioactive iodine in drinking water in San Francisco and Anaheim, CA.

The New Scientist had a article and it stated the concerns of Iodine and Caesium. Both are water soluble carried by rain and wind and ultimately  into plants that is eaten.  So knowing cows eat 100 lbs of grass and therefore milk and cheese are usually an issue during high levels of radiation.

The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk – especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl. Unlike other elements, he says, they were carried far and wide by the wind.

Moreover the human body absorbs iodine and caesium readily. “Essentially all the iodine or caesium inhaled or swallowed crosses into the blood,” says Keith Baverstock, former head of radiation protection for the World Health Organization’s European office, who has studied Chernobyl’s health effects.

So What is the Difference in this and Everyday Radiation?

So you are asking well I go to the dentist and get dental X-Rays or some have had and MRI . That is different. You get the larger dose at once does not have the long lasting effects nor is as harmful as  getting lower doses over a period of time.

Dr. Apsley writes about this effect and calls it the Petkau Effect. He goes on to explain this effect:

A long term exposure of extremely low radiation (i.e., one-ten millionth of a rad per minute) was found to be 100 BILLION times MORE lethal than a short term exposure to exceedingly high level radiation (i.e., 10,000 rads per minute). As it turns out, Petkau discovered that at exceedingly high radiation levels, the abundant free radicals generated in tissues tended to cancel each other out before they could do cellular damage. But at extremely low levels of radiation, these same free radicals – produced in minuscule quantities – remain unchecked. And any steady stream of unchecked free-radicals will efficiently and lethally cleave lipid cellular membranes like a hot knife slicing through butter once they overwhelm and exhaust cellular antioxidant defenses. This dramatically illustrates the non-linear aspects of dose (rads) to lethality. Most scientists specializing in the field of nuclear medicine are unaware of this fact. And most think strictly in terms of genetic damage, while the above presents its lethal affects upon cell membranes and only secondarily to the genetic core.

You can read more about these effects on his website at: http://doctorapsley.com/RadiationTherapy.aspx

According to the article we also need to make sure we protect our genetic damage. If you will look at Dr. Brouse’s PDF on this article he thinks that Shaklee Vivix is an excellent way to do that. Vivix will repair DNA damage.

For those who wish to make sure that they are protected please look at the information by Dr. Richard Brouse from Sunnyside Health Clinic put together a helpful document on how to protect yourself from radiation fall out.

Radiation Fallout If you will click on the link it will open a PDF by Dr. Brouse on how to protect yourself from radiation fallout.