Radiation Detox Manual by Bill Bodri

HOW TO HELP SUPPORT THE BODY’S HEALING
AFTER INTENSE RADIOACTIVE OR RADIATION

EXPOSURE
The Medical, Naturopathic, Nutritional, Herbal,

Homeopathic and Commonsense
External and Internal Approaches
By Bill Bodri
Top Shape Publishing, LLC

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How to Detox Radiation and Radioactivity from Your Body
How to Support the Body’s Healing After Intense Radioactive or Radiation Exposure
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Health Disclaimer
This information should not be construed as medical advice or instruction, and is

not intended to replace the attention or advice of a physician or other health care
professional. It is published for educational and informational purposes only
under First Amendment rights.
No actions should be taken based solely on the contents of this book. The
journalistic information within is for education purposes only, and should not be
interpreted as a recommendation for a specific treatment plan, nor should this
information be used in place of the medical opinion of a qualified health care
professional.
Anyone who wishes to embark on any dietary, drug, exercise, or other lifestyle
change or protocol intended to treat or prevent a specific condition should first
consult with and seek clearance from their doctor; readers who fail to consult
appropriate health authorities assume the risk of any injuries.
Radiation and/or radioactive exposure is an extremely serious affair. Do not try to

treat yourself after exposure to radiation or radioactive substances. Please call a
physician. Anything you do for radiation/radioactive exposure should be done
under the care and approval of a physician.
The author and publisher are not responsible for any errors or omissions in this
book. Please call a health professional immediately if you think you may be ill.
Table of Contents
Health Disclaimer ............................................................................... 3
Table of Contents ............................................................................... 4

The Effects of Radiation Exposure on Human Health ........................ 5
Potassium Iodide .............................................................................. 21
The Radiation Detox Bath ................................................................ 31
Spirulina, Chlorella, and Seaweed ................................................... 35
Bathable and Edible Clays for Radiation Detox................................ 53

Homeopathics for Radiation Injury ................................................... 59
Eat A “Nucleotide Rich” Diet to Maximize Cellular Repair ................ 69

Foods, Herbs and Supplements That Are Radioprotective .............. 74
Revici and Fatty Acids ...................................................................... 99
Prussian Blue, DTPA and Neupogen ............................................. 103
Summary ........................................................................................ 113
Appendix 1: Emergency Procedures for Isotope Exposure............ 117
Appendix 2: Tasty Sea Vegetable Recipes ................................... 121
The Effects of Radiation Exposure

on Human Health
For years I have been collecting materials on how you can partially or fully
detoxify the body from the effects of radiation and radioactivity exposure.
Why?
Search the literature on the internet and you’ll find hundreds if not thousands of
articles that basically say, “Radiation is bad for you. In high doses it can kill you.”
In today’s world, we have a big risk of radiation exposure but no one has put
together any information on what to do about it. Go to the internet and you’ll find
all these articles about how radiation affects us in negative ways, but you’ll find
hardly any information on the detoxification of radiation exposure.
To me, it seems the emphasis has been misplaced!
Fine, we know that radiation can kill or impair you, so the big question is, “What
do you do to save your own life after you’ve been exposed?”
Study after scientific study keeps going on to investigate radiation from one angle
or another, but it seems that barely a word is said on what you can do … and
MUST do … if you are exposed to excessive radioactivity or ionizing radiation
and want to take the logical step of detoxing yourself … to prevent cancer or
save your life.
It irks me to no end that there are millions spent every year on radiation research,
any yet it seems there is no one out there controlling the funds who realizes what
these studies should be focusing on.
In other words, let me phrase it again another way.
How do you detox yourself of radiation and radioactive exposure … and

because excess radiation can cause cancer, what do you do to help your
cells so that they can revert back to normal once you’ve been exposed to
high doses of radiation or radioactivity?
To find any answers to this for you, I have gone to a variety of sources over the
years.
Let’s see, we have background studies on ionizing radiation, radiation toxicity

studies, FDA and CDC documents on radiation drugs, information on the
Chernobyl disaster and radiation treatments after Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
scientific studies on supplements noted to have radioprotective effects or proven
usefulness in RNA/DNA repair, NAVY and ARMY manuals on nuclear disaster
preparedness and medical treatment, Homeland Security directives on radiation
emergency medicine, information on coping with cancer radiotherapy for survival,
radiation exposure on space flights … there are too many sources for me to
mention and go into.
Besides, if you are like me, all you want are the results. If there’s an emergency,
you don’t want theory -- you just want what’s happening, what works and you
want answers quickly.
Basically, you and I both want to know what to do about excessive radiation
exposure of all types and radioactive contamination, so that’s what you’re going
to get.
Not too much theory, just the results of what has been reported to work.
As one famous radiation researcher wrote to me, “There are many good ideas in
the lab [for radiation cellular detox or repair supplements], but there have not
been the resources needed to establish these approaches as safe and effective
in humans. The research says that radiation effects can be treated after
exposure. The problem is that it is very difficult to move the research from the lab
to clinical availability: (1) how do you test it? (2) who wants to spend the money
developing something for which there may be no market?”
I’m always pulling together information that we need as a national concern and
as a strategic imperative even though there is no market for it. That’s just my vow
as a form of contribution and service, which is why I’ve also produced a volume
on “Antibiotic Alternatives for Doctors and their Patients.” This is another such
project, and hopefully you will never need it to save your life.
If you are buying it, hopefully it’s for preparation or because you were exposed to
some form of radiation in a non-lethal situation and simply want a set of detox
protocols to help you get well.
Much of the information in this manual is undocumented from the standpoint of

double-blind studies and so forth for the very reasons the radiation scientist has
just mentioned -- there’s been no money to fund any studies, so all we have in
many cases are theories and anecdotal instances.
They may be anecdotal, but if I found any radiation detoxification strategies that
embody some commonsense and might save someone’s life, I’ve taken it as my
responsibility to tell you about them and let you decide. If you find any that are
missing, then let me know, too, so we can add them to the manual.
As the normal disclaimer you’d expect for any health related topic, nothing within
this manual is to be construed as medical diagnosis or advice, so I am simply
empowering you with journalistic information to start the search for your own
answers.
Therefore let’s start -- and let’s start with the scary stuff.
Remember that nuclear or ionizing radiation (radiation that penetrates the body)
can affect your body in a number of different ways, and the adverse health
effects of extreme radiation exposure may not be apparent for many years.
Those adverse health effects can range from mild results, such as a simple
reddening of the skin, to permanent genetic alterations and serious effects such
as leukemia, cancer and death.
That’s a good reason for wanting methods on radiation detoxification.
Here’s the rule for determining what will likely happen to you upon radiation
exposure:
The results you experience due to radiation exposure will

entirely depend on the amount of radiation your body absorbs
(the dose), the type of radiation you’re exposed to, the route of
exposure (the susceptibility of the tissue), and the length of
time over which you are exposed.
The three basic ways to reduce radiation exposure are therefore through
decreasing the amount of time you spend near a source of radiation, increasing
your distance from the radiation source, and increasing the shielding between
you and the radiation.
Persons working with radioactive materials or X rays protect themselves from

excessive radiation exposure by lead shields and special clothing that contains
lead. Processes involving radioactive substances (such as manufacturing and
manipulation) are observed through thick plates of specially prepared lead glass
that exclude the harmful radiation, too.
A dosimeter, which is a device that measures the amount of radiation to which a

person has been exposed (Remember James Bond checking radiation shields
posing as “Klaus Hergersheimer” in Diamonds are Forever?), is always worn by
persons working in radioactive areas.
Radiation can damage every tissue in the body but the most vulnerable tissues
are the fastest growing tissues because radiation can go so far as to triple its
effects during the growth phase of cells. That means that a fetus in the womb is
very sensitive to radiation just as are bone marrow cells (which make blood)
since they are the fastest growing cells in the body. Children are very vulnerable
to radiation because their body cells are dividing rapidly due to growth.
The cells in the testes and ovaries are only slightly less sensitive and as most
people know, they can be rendered sterile with very small doses of radiation. The
lining cells of the body, such as the skin and in the intestines, are much more
resilient while the most resistant cells are the brain cells because they grow the
slowest.
The relative sensitivity of various body tissues gives a good idea of the wide
range of symptoms the body would likely experience due to heavy doses of
radiation. The radiation exposure numbers below represent the minimum
damaging doses for body tissues. The unit of dose is the “gray” (abbreviated Gy)
which is roughly equivalent to a sievert. The gray represents the absorption of an
average of one joule of energy per kilogram of mass in the target material and
this new unit has officially replaced the “rad,” an older unit (One gray equals 100
rads):
• Fetus--2 grays (Gy).
• Bone marrow--2 Gy.
• Ovary--2-3 Gy.
• Testes--5-15 Gy.
• Lens of the eye--5 Gy.
• Child cartilage--10 Gy.
• Adult cartilage--60 Gy.
• Child bone--20 Gy.
• Adult bone--60 Gy.
• Kidney--23 Gy.
• Child muscle--20-30 Gy.
• Adult muscle--100+ Gy.
• Intestines--45-55 Gy.
• Brain--50 Gy.
The length of exposure to radiation, and its intensity, makes a big difference in
what happens to an exposed individual.
Exposure to very large doses of radiation can cause death within a few hours
while exposure to lower doses of radiation may lead to leukemias, cancers of the
thyroid, brain, bone, breast, skin, stomach, and lung, cataracts or other adverse
health effects much later on in life.
Basically, the survival rate after radiation exposure depends on the radiation
dose. For those who do survive, full recovery typically takes from a few weeks to
2 years.
Over time the accumulating radiation damage from prior exposure, if it is not
enough to simply kill body cells, distorts cell growth and causes scarring and/or
the cancers just mentioned. The damage done also depends on the ability of the
affected tissues to repair themselves.
Some tissues and some types of damage produce much greater consequences
than others. Basically, our job in this book is to go over the various ways to
eliminate radiation poisoning and buttress the body’s health so that the tissues
can achieve full recovery whenever possible. So let’s jump in and start with the
thing people fear most, which is a discussion of severe radioactive exposure.
We’re just starting, so later we’ll talk about radiation detox methods for more
gentle degrees of exposure, too.
The source of heavy radioactive exposure can be due to all sorts of reasons -- a
nuclear power plant incident, nuclear/atomic bomb, fallout from another type of
nuclear incident, eating food that has been radioactively contaminated, work in
uranium mines or at a nuclear processing facility, and even exposure to the
depleted uranium used in the military.
There is also radiation exposure from radon gas in basements, excessive

cigarette smoking, X-ray, CT scanner and fluoroscope exposure, usage of
nuclear medicine for imaging, working with radioactive products, or even extreme
radiation exposure due to cancer radiation therapy.
A variety of products contain radioactivity such as potassium chloride salt

substitutes (which contain radioactive isotope potassium-40), some smoke
detectors (which contain Americium-241), some 1940’s spark plus (which
contained polonium), 1936-43 Fiestaware from the Homer Laughlin China Co. of
Newell W. Va (which contained uranium oxide in the glazing), vaseline glass
(contains uranium dioxide), old glow in the dark radium dial watches (which have
produced countless cases of radium poisoning), tritium glow lights, thoriated
tungsten electrodes welding rods (which contain thorium dioxide), and thorium
camping lanterns. Porcelain dental crowns and dentures containing uranium will
expose some people to three times the total amount of radiation absorbed
annually by the average American per tooth.
We also have exposure to ionizing radiation from living at high altitudes or from
frequent airplane flights. For instance, did you know that living at 5,000 feet
altitude in Denver, Colorado doubles your exposure to radiation? Did you know
that a commercial airliner flight increases your radiation exposure 150-fold by
lifting you above 80% of the atmosphere?
When we’re talking about radiation exposure, there are two types you need to
differentiate between: (1) irradiation and (2) contamination. Here are the
definitions:
Irradiation is exposure to external radiation that passes directly

through your body and can make you sick immediately, producing
what’s called “acute radiation illness” (ARS). Irradiation does not
make your tissues radioactive and it does not make the person
radioactive, but just damages your tissues. In high doses,
irradiation can even permanently damage your genetic material
(DNA) causing chronic latent disorders, such as cancer and birth
defects. Irradiation has no emergency treatment itself, but doctors
closely monitor the person exposed for the development of various
syndromes and treat the symptoms as they arise.
Contamination means coming into contact with and retaining

radioactive material, typically in the form of a radioactively
contaminated materials that you eat, inhale, absorb through skin
breaks, or which may fall on your skin (where it can fall off or be
brushed off to contaminate other people and objects). You can
have both internal and external contamination. If it is absorbed,
radioactive material will be transported to various sites in the body,
such as the thyroid or bone marrow, where it will continue to
release radiation.
“Contamination” requires the immediate removal of the radioactive

material to prevent it from being absorbed by the body and so
contaminated skin should be scrubbed immediately with large
amounts of soap and water, small puncture wounds should be
cleaned vigorously to remove all radioactive particles (even though
the scrubbing may cause pain), contaminated hair is clipped off
rather than shaved because shaving may abrade the skin and allow
the contamination to enter the body. Just like in the James Bond
movie Doctor No (you can tell I’m a big fan), scrubbing of skin
surface areas continues until a Geiger counter shows that the
radioactivity is gone.
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If a person has recently swallowed radioactive material, vomiting

must be induced. Some radioactive materials have specific
antidotes, which we’ll get into, that can prevent the absorption of
ingested material. These antidotes are usually given only to people
exposed to significant radioactive contamination. Potassium iodide
prevents the thyroid gland from absorbing radioactive iodine-131
and other drugs, such as DTPA, EDTA chelation, and penicillamine
can be given intravenously to remove certain radioactive elements
after they have been absorbed. Although this absorbed radiation
contaminant often will not cause “acute radiation sickness,” it can
lead to chronic disorders (such as leukemia or cancer) over time
unless it’s removed through these methods.
Now the first emergency worry from radiation exposure is whether you develop
acute radiation sickness, or ARS. We therefore need to know how to identify it,
detox yourself if you get it, and recover if at all possible. Emergency
detoxification should always be performed by physicians, but I’m going to tell you
what to expect. Later we’ll talk about home detoxification methods such as when
you work at a nuclear facility or live in a high radiation area in general.
Acute radiation sickness is the scary stuff you see in movies like The Day After,
so while this probably isn’t your situation, I want you to know the worst and then
we’ll come back to the common situation of detoxing simple ionizing radiation or
radioactive exposure.
Radiation exposure produced two types of radiation injury: acute (immediate)

and chronic (delayed). Radiation sickness, known as “acute radiation sickness
(ARS),” generally occurs in people whose entire body (or a large portion of it) has
been exposed to radiation, usually over a short period of time.
Many survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and many of the
1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident firefighters became ill with acute
radiation sickness because of their heavy radiation exposure. The signs and
symptoms or radiation sickness naturally vary according to the dose of radiation
and tissues exposed, but the general symptoms include:
• Nausea and vomiting

• Diarrhea
• Skin burns (skin reddening)
• Weakness
• Lethargy and fatigue
• Loss of appetite (anorexia)
• Fainting
• Dehydration
• Inflammation of tissues (swelling, redness or tenderness)
• Hemorrhages under the skin

• Bleeding from your nose, gums or mouth
• Anemia (low red blood cell count)
• Hair loss (usually from just the scalp)
• Decrease in platelets
This information was initially compiled mostly from survivors of the atomic bomb
blasts over Japan in 1945, so let’s revisit history and go over what happened in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to Japanese observations, the early symptoms of radiation injury

closely resembled the same symptoms observed in animals (and humans) who
received extremely large doses of X-rays. That’s how we first got these symptom
models. The initial symptoms reported by the Japanese and (later by American)
observers were the loss of hair from the scalp, bleeding into the skin,
inflammation of the mouth and throat, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
Nausea and vomiting that appeared within a few hours after the explosion was
frequently noted and while it usually subsided by the following morning,
occasionally it continued for 2-3 more days. Diarrhea of varying degrees of
severity was also observed and in severe cases, it was frequently bloody. For
reasons which are not yet clear, the diarrhea in some cases was quite persistent,
perhaps due to changes in the intestines.
Lesions of the gums, the oral mucous membrane, and the throat were often
observed. The affected areas usually became deep red in color and in many
instances ulcerations and necrosis (tissue breakdown) followed. Blood counts
done on such patients by the Japanese commonly showed leucopenia (low-white
blood cell counts) and in extreme cases the white blood cell count fell below
1,000 (whereas a normally healthy WBC count is around 7,000).
In association with the oral symptoms, a variety of other infective processes were
then seen.
Wounds and burns which were healing adequately later developed pus and
serious necrosis. Ulcerations were observed to appear in the larynx, bowels and
in the genitalia for females. Fever frequently accompanied these lesions. Eye
injuries consisting of retinal hemorrhage and exudation were observed while 75%
of the patients showing them had other signs of radiation injury.
The medical community says that people exposed to radiation will succumb to
acute radiation sickness only if:
• The radiation dose was high (doses from medical procedures such as
chest X-rays are too low to cause ARS; however, doses from radiation
therapy to treat cancer may be high enough to cause some ARS

symptoms),
• The radiation was penetrating (that is, able to reach internal organs),
• The person's entire body, or most of it, received the dose, and
• The radiation was received in a short time, usually within minutes.
That’s exactly what happened at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl in 1986.
From further studies over the years, the syndromes of acute radiation illness
have been divided into three categories,
The cerebrovascular (brain) syndrome occurs when the total

dose of radiation is extremely high, exceeding 20 to 30 Gy. A
person with radiation sickness cerebrovascular (brain) syndrome
rapidly develops confusion, nausea, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and
shock. Within hours their blood pressure falls due to heart and
circulatory damage, accompanied by the inability to coordinate gait,
seizures and coma. Patients often die within hours (usually within
the first two days) after severe radiation exposure.
In particular, the cerebrovascular syndrome has 3 phases: the first

period of nausea and vomiting; then listlessness, drowsiness,
apathy and confusion; and finally, tremors, convulsions, seizures,
coma, with death usually within a few hours. Since the
cerebrovascular syndrome is always fatal, treatment is geared
toward providing comfort by relieving pain, anxiety, and breathing
difficulties.
The gastrointestinal syndrome occurs when the radiation dose is

smaller but still high, and is due to the effects of radiation on the
cells lining the digestive tract. Doses in the 10-20 Sv range affect
the intestines, stripping their lining and leading to death within 3
months due to causes of vomiting, diarrhea, starvation, and
infection. Victims receiving 6-10 Sv all at once usually escape an
intestinal death, but instead face bone marrow failure and death
within 2 months from loss of blood coagulation factors and the
protection against infection provided by white blood cells.
The symptoms of people suffering from gastrointestinal syndrome

include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that can lead to severe
dehydration, diminished blood plasma volume and vascular

collapse that can result in death within 3-10 days. Severe nausea,
vomiting, and diarrhea begin 2 -12 hours after exposure to 4 Gy or
more of radiation and the symptoms may lead to severe
dehydration, but they usually resolve themselves after 2 days.
During the next 4 or 5 days, the person usually feels well but this is
misleading as the cells lining the digestive tract, which normally act
as a protective barrier, die and are shed off. The amino acid L-
glutamine is standardly used by nutritionists to help rebuild
intestinal walls, and preclinical studies by Fasano (2002) suggest
glutamine might be useful in treatment of radiation injuries to the
gastrointestinal tract.
After this period of feeling well, severe diarrhea (often bloody)

returns, once more producing a state of dehydration. As the
intestines deteriorate, the bacteria inhabiting the digestive tract start
to invade the rest of the body producing severe infections.
People with the gastrointestinal syndrome require intravenous fluids

and sedatives. They need to be kept isolated so that they do not
contact infectious microorganisms. Oral antibiotics, such as
neomycin, are given to kill intestinal bacteria that may invade the
body and antifungal and antiviral drugs are also given intravenously
when necessary.
The hematopoietic syndrome is caused by the effects of radiation

on the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes, which are the
primary sites of blood cell production (hematopoiesis). Between 2-6
Sv gives a fighting chance for survival if victims are supported with
blood transfusions and antibiotics. One or two Sv in exposure
produces a brief, non-lethal sickness with vomiting, loss of appetite,
and generalized discomfort.
The hematopoietic syndrome is characterized by loss of appetite,

apathy, lethargy, nausea and vomiting that usually begin 2-12
hours after exposure to 2 Gy or more of radiation and may be
maximal within 6-12 hours from this yet smaller radiation exposure.
The symptoms typically subside completely within 24-36 hours after
the exposure, and the person typically feels well for a week or
more.
However, during this symptom-free period the lymph nodes, spleen

and bone marrow begin to waste away leading to a severe
shortage of white blood cells, which are the body's main defense
against infection, followed by a shortage of platelets and then red
blood cells. Anything you can do nutritionally during this time to
build blood cells and increase immunity would help the individual,
otherwise many hematopoietic patients die within 30-60 days after
exposure.
When the blood producing organs atrophy due to the radiation, this
dramatically raises the susceptibility to infection, hemorrhage and
anemia, all of which pose potentially lethal threats. Mushroom
supplements (from JHS Naturals) can help rebuild the immune
system during this period. The shortage of red blood cells (anemia)
causes fatigue, weakness, paleness, and difficulty breathing with
physical exertion. Bee pollen may also be useful as it helps
increase RBC and WBC counts, enhances vitality and energy, is a
general immune stimulant, and has been found to protect people
from radiation sickness.
Blood transfusions and injections of growth factors (such as

erythropoietin and colony-stimulating factor) that stimulate blood
cell production are given to decrease bleeding and increase blood
counts. If the bone marrow is severely damaged then these growth
factors may be ineffective, and sometimes a bone marrow
transplantation is performed although the success rate is low. See
the information on Revici for a discussion of this.
The shortage of platelets, which cause blood clotting, may cause

uncontrolled bleeding, although a natural remedy for increased
platelet production (often used in chemotherapy) is shark
alkyglycerols which you can buy in health food stores. Panax
ginseng has also prevented hemorrhaging after radiation
exposure, prevents bone marrow death and stimulates blood cell
formation, so it’s another supplement to add to one’s protocol.
After 4 to 5 weeks, if the person survives, blood cell production

rises once more, but the person feels weak and tired for months.
Nutritional supplements and herbs that can help regenerate the
affected organs and increase the production of blood cells (such as
beets) are warranted for this type of condition.
In an emergency involving many people, medical science has no way of telling

the difference between people who have received fatal doses and who will
certainly die -- despite all efforts -- and others who received less radiation and
can be saved. From this information, it becomes clear that in a radiation
emergency with limited resources, there is a great need to have some idea of the
radiation dosage received by individuals as early as possible so that attention
can be directed to those victims in the 2-10 Sv range that might survive with
treatment.
Blood transfusions, infection control, and possibly the use of bone-marrow
transplants (to rejuvenate the supply of white blood cells) or newer stimulants to
blood formation can save many victims in this category.
Basically, people who survive from radiation exposure or suffer disorders caused
by radiation therapy receive treatment directed at their symptoms. Even if they
survive hematopoeitic and gastrointestinal injury, they often experienced delayed
complications including interstitial pneumonitis (respiratory failure), renal failure,
cataracts and developmental abnormalities.
We’ve just gone over the three categories or types of acute radiation sickness,
but this is so important that I want to take the time to summarize it in another way
to make it clearer because lives may one day be at stake.
To summarize the stages of ARS another way, acute radiation illness progresses
through several stages beginning with early symptoms followed by a symptom-
free period (latent stage).
Various patterns of symptoms follow which depend on the amount of radiation

the individual received. The greater the amount of radiation people were exposed
to, the more severe their symptoms and the quicker they progress from the early
symptoms to the actual radiation syndrome. The chances of survival decrease as
someone’s radiation dosage increases.
The symptoms and their progression for acute radiation toxicity are consistent for
a given amount of radiation exposure, and doctors can usually predict a person's
radiation exposure from the timing and nature of the symptoms that express.
Doctors divide acute radiation syndromes into the three groups we just
mentioned based on the main organ system affected, although there is some
overlap of symptoms among these groups
Once again, the early symptoms of ARS typically involve nausea, vomiting,
headache and diarrhea which will start within minutes to days after the exposure,
last for minutes up to several days, and may come and go. The person will
usually look and feel healthy for a short time -- mistakenly thinking they are all
well -- after which they will become sick again with loss of appetite, fatigue, fever,
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and possibly even seizures and coma. This seriously
ill stage may last from a few hours up to several months.
People with ARS typically also suffer some kind of skin damage which can start
to show within a few hours after exposure and can include swelling, itching, and
redness of the skin (like a bad sunburn). Various homeopathic remedies can
help with this type of condition. A mainstream treatment of radiation injury is the
use of Aloe vera preparations on damaged areas of skin because it has
demonstrated remarkable healing properties even for chronic ulcerations
resulting from radiation exposure.
As with the other symptoms, the skin may heal for a short time and then the
swelling, itching, and redness can return days or weeks later. There can be skin
atrophy and ulceration, thickening of skin, breaking of surface blood vessels, and
ultimately squamous cell carcinomas (skin cancer). The complete healing of the
skin may take anywhere from several weeks up to a few years depending on the
radiation dose the person's skin received and the efforts one puts into
detoxification and rebuilding. The supplement Vitalzym, which contains the
enzyme serrapeptase, may help with reverting fibrosis.
There also can be hair loss as well, just as there is due to cancer radiation or
chemotherapy treatments. Other delayed effects resulting from exposure to
radiation include cessation of menses, decreased fertility and libido, and anemia.
Remember, most people who do not recover from acute radiation syndrome will
die within several months of exposure. The cause of death in most cases is the
destruction of the person's bone marrow, which results in infections and internal
bleeding. The important thing is to help rebuild the immune system and blood.
For the survivors, this recovery process may last from several weeks up to two
years.
Obviously, this book is meant for these individuals and for very mild cases of
radiation poisoning that can benefit from home detoxification protocols.
Nevertheless, you can use MUCH of this information in an area-wide emergency.
This is the only manual out there telling you what you can do.
For severe cases of radiation exposure, all treatments can and should be done
under the care of physicians. Overall, the prognosis of a radiation sufferer
depends upon their radiation dose, dosage rate and the physical distribution of
their radiation exposure.
The conventional treatment for radiation exposure involves the immediate

removal of the radioactive materials. Skin contamination is handled through
copious water washing of the exposed areas, and special chelating solutions
containing EDTA should be used for skin contamination when available, though
there must be vigorous treatment of any wounds to prevent radioactive materials
from entering the body.
Ingested material is removed promptly by induced vomiting if the exposure is

recent and if the radiation is inhaled, solutions to block thyroid uptake are given
and treatments to increase urination are administered. You can see Appendix 1
for the details on the emergency detoxification of various radioactive isotopes.
In the most severe cases of Acute Cerebral Syndrome, the medical treatment is
usually directed towards administering comfort, relieving pain and anxiety,
treating shock and giving sedation for the control of seizures and convulsions
because death is believed to be inevitable. There’s very little that can be done.
After modest exposure producing Gastrointestinal Syndrome patients, doctors

usually apply sedation and medication to reduce nausea and vomiting along with
intravenous fluids, electrolytes and blood plasma. When the person can eat, a
bland diet is usually prescribed, but please see all the information we’ve collected
on the diet and give it to your doctor. Antibiotics may be given to victims of this
category in the first week to prevent infection of the vulnerable intestinal tract.
As to management of Hematopoietic Syndrome victims, it primarily involves the

use of antibiotics, anti-nausea medications and oral chelating agents to promote
the excretion of radioactive materials. Once again, see our diet
recommendations, especially as regards miso soup, seaweeds, and
spirulina/chlorella. Anemias are treated with whole blood transfusions and
bleeding tendencies with platelet transfusions. Various herbs and nutrients can
be taken to help rebuild the blood and immune system. Radiation sores or ulcers
can be removed or repaired surgically and the use of high-pressure (hyperbaric)
oxygen therapy can help heal them, or homeopathy, aloe vera and other
alternative treatments.
Medications to stimulate bone marrow production and bone marrow transplants

can be implemented. Investigators are currently exploring ways to prevent or
reduce radiation-induced normal tissue injury using cytokines, growth factors,
and various other therapies which we’ll briefly mention so you’re informed. We
will also go into the specific use of alternative medicine treatments for radiation
exposure, including free radical treatment, for some radiation conditions.
Of course the long term chronic effects for radiation exposure survivors can
include cellular changes resulting in cancers such as leukemia, thyroid cancer,
skin cancers, bone cancers as well as cataracts and sterility. No treatment can
reverse sterility, but doctors will prescribe hormonal supplementation for sterility
and decreased libido.
As to cancer, it usually strikes 4.5% of people exposed to radiation in the 1-Gy

range, and one-quarter of those individuals will likely contract leukemia. Data
from Hiroshima residents showed an increased frequency of lymphocyte
chromosomal mutations after the blast and workers involved in the Chernobyl
cleanup showed a 20% increase in mutation frequency.
Okay, that’s how bad it is. I have not hidden the truth from you -- now you know
the chances of survival if something serious ever happens.
We’re going to be talking about effective ways of radiation detox in just a

moment, but we should still be responsible and answer one more important
related question -- how can you protect yourself during a radiation
emergency?
Here’s what you do, though the most appropriate course of action will naturally
depend on the situation.
First, tune your radio or TV to the local news station or emergency response
network and monitor it for information and instructions. The authorities will know
best. After any release of radioactive materials, the local authorities will definitely
be monitoring the levels of radiation and determining what protective actions you
should take.
If a radiation emergency involves the release of large amounts of radioactive

materials, officials may advise you to “shelter in place,” which means to stay in
your home or office. You might also be advised to leave the area and move to
another location.
If you are advised to shelter in place, you should do the following:
• Close all doors and windows and fireplace dampers (exposed to outside
air)
• Turn off all fans, air conditioners and heating units that bring in air from the
outside (since it may be contaminated)
• Bring the family and pets inside
• Move to an inner room or basement because it affords much higher
radiation shielding
• If you are advised to evacuate, follow the directions provided and leave
the area as quickly as possible. Take along a flashlight, portable radio,
batteries, first-aid kit, supply of sealed food and water, can opener,
medicine, and sufficient cash and credit cards
That’s it.
That’s the chapter I didn’t want to right because I wanted to move right on into
various detoxification techniques, but now you know about the seriousness of
radiation exposure, the stages of radiation sickness, what you should do in a
radiation emergency, and you’ve had a little fore-taste of alternative treatments
for radiation exposure.
Let’s now begin.
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Potassium Iodide
The amount of information out there on taking potassium iodide (KI) tablets
after a radioactive incident -- in order to block the thyroid gland and protect it
from absorbing radioactive iodine -- is overwhelming. In fact, sometimes I think
that taking potassium iodide tablets is the only thing people know to do in case of
an emergency involving radioactive fallout.
The reason officials recommend taking potassium iodide (KI) is because this
substance, which we add to salt to make it “iodized,” contains 76.5% iodine. The
thyroid gland will use any iodine that’s in your bloodstream for its functioning and
it cannot tell the difference between regular iodine and radioactive iodine.
Because of this fact, it will readily absorb any radioactive iodine that comes to it
in the blood, such as any radioactive iodine-131 that is absorbed from the fallout
of a nuclear accident, which in turn may lead to thyroid cancer a few years later.
When you “stuff” the thyroid with natural iodine, however, there is less chance
that the thyroid will absorb any radioactive iodine from the food, air or water that
might become contaminated with radioactive iodine. That’s the purpose of taking
KI tablets during some types of radiation emergencies.
Saturating your thyroid with non-radioactive iodine can therefore possibly limit the
risk of damage to your thyroid gland because the KI (potassium iodide) supplies
enough non-radioactive iodine that your thyroid glands absorbs it and becomes
saturated before any radioactive iodine (from fallout or other contamination)
presents itself.
When it is saturated, the thyroid cannot absorb too much extra iodine, so you
take the KI tablets at the first sign of a radiological disaster.
When the thyroid becomes saturated with iodine due to KI, it is said to be
“blocked” and any excess iodine in the blood -- either radioiodine or stable iodine
-- is quickly eliminated from the body. However, that happens only after the
thyroid has become saturated with one or the other type of iodine, so get the KI
stuff in there first! Scientists say that only about l% as much additional iodine
can be readily absorbed after the thyroid is blocked.
Hence, KI will saturate the thyroid gland with iodine if you ingest it in time, thus
decreasing the amount of harmful radioactive iodine that can be absorbed by
your thyroid.
Potassium iodide isn’t the only substance that can do this, for you can also buy
potassium iodate (KIO3) tablets that are cheaper, have an extended shelf life,
and no bitter taste compared to KI tablets. A 1999 World Health Organization
report showed that KI and KIO3 are equals in terms of the bioavailability of stored
iodine.
The big worry to radioactive iodine is that when it is ingested or inhaled, iodine-
131 tends to persist in the body and since it concentrates in the thyroid, this will
provide such a large radiation dose to thyroid cells that thyroid cancer, loss of
thyroid function, or nodules in the thyroid will eventually develop.
The individuals most likely to see the worst effects of radioactive iodine-131
exposure are growing children rather than adults. Children have top priority for
the tablets.
For instance, many of the Chernobyl children who have now grown up are
presently experiencing thyroid cancers. In the area affected by the Chernobyl
accident, by July of 2002 there have already been at least 1,800 cases of thyroid
cancer in children who were under 15 years of age when the explosion occurred,
which is a far higher incidence of occurrence than normal.
Beginning approximately 4 years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, which

sent clouds of radioactive contaminants into the air, the first sharp increase in the
incidence of thyroid cancer among children and adolescents in Belarus and
Ukraine (areas covered by the radioactive plume) was observed. In some
regions, for the first four years after the accident the observed cases of thyroid
cancer among children aged 0-4 years exceeded expected numbers by 30- to
60-fold. During the ensuing years, in the most heavily radiated areas the
incidence of thyroid cancer increased as much as 100-fold compared to pre-
Chernobyl rates (Robbins and Schneider 2000; Gavrilin et al., 1999; Likhtarev et
al., 1993; Zvonova and Balonov 1993).
So there we have about 2,000 "excess" cases of thyroid cancer in Ukraine,

Belarus and nearby areas which have already been attributed to Chernobyl
radiation and according to the World Health Organization, that particular
radioactive incident is likely to cause 50,000 new cases of thyroid cancer among
young people living in the areas most affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Putting the numbers another way, researchers have found that in certain parts of
Belarus, 36.4% of children, who were under the age of four at the time of the
Chernobyl nuclear accident, can expect to develop thyroid cancer and experts
now contend that as much as 40% of the thyroid nodules that develop are
cancerous with 5-10% of the cancers becoming fatal. Thyroid cancer can usually
be treated, but that may require surgery, regular monitoring and lifetime
medication.
If we turn to Poland, however, we find that over 18 million doses of potassium

iodide (KI) were administered to 97% of the children, and there has been no
similar increase in thyroid cancer in the country. Part of this successful result is
due to Poland's radioiodine protective strategy, which involved an aggressive ban
of radioiodine contaminated food stuffs and milk. Approximately 10.5 million
children under age 16 and 7 million adults received at least one dose of KI in
Poland.
That, in short order, is why KI then becomes useful in certain types of radioactive
emergencies. In fact, the FDA has stated that " the increase in thyroid cancer
seen after Chernobyl is attributable to ingested or inhaled radioiodines. A
comparable burden of excess thyroid cancers could conceivably accrue should
U.S. populations be similarly exposed in the event of a nuclear accident. This
potential hazard highlights the value of averting such risk by using KI as an
adjunct to evacuation, sheltering, and control of contaminated foodstuffs."
Here’s what else you have to remember though …
People keep concentrating on taking potassium iodide tablets, but KI tablets

only protect the thyroid gland and do not provide protection from any other
radiation exposure! Once again, KI does not prevent the effects of other
radioactive elements … using KI will only protect the thyroid gland from
radioactive iodine but it will not protect other parts of the body from other
radioactive materials that may be released.
There is no medicine that will effectively prevent nuclear radiations from

damaging the human body cells that they strike. KI itself only provides protection
from radioiodines for the thyroid -- and only if taken in time. It has no impact on
the uptake by the body of other radioactive materials and provides no
protection against external irradiation of any kind.
Please remember that.
Please also note that radioactive fallout can travel hundreds of miles on the
winds and remain a threatening concern even though the radioactive isotopes
start becoming dispersed and diluted along the way, and even though their
likelihood of causing harm diminishes with this dispersal.
I’ve been told the story of a radio-chemistry class at Rensselaer Polytechnic

Institute (located in Troy, New York) where students studied the fallout from an
atmospheric bomb blast (code named Simon) detonated 300 feet above the
desert in Nevada. Remember -- Nevada!
Even though they were 2,300 miles away, the students could measure the
radioactive fallout carried by the winds on the paved streets, roofs and even
plants of New York. Just a few hours after the explosion, the students reported
that the average radiation readings in nearby towns were 20-100 times higher
than usual and found that concentrated hydrochloric acid was only partially
effective in removing the radiation from many surfaces!
That’s how widespread and dangerous the fallout from an atomic detonation can
be. You should stock up on one or two bottles of KI even if you never need them.
What people usually overlook is the fact that there will also be many other types
of dangerous radioisotopes released along with the radioiodine in an atomic
explosion or nuclear meltdown. The thyroid blocking activity of potassium iodide
tablets is geared to just one type of radioactive contaminant -- iodine-131.
Frankly, you don’t want to be exposed to any type of radioactive cloud

whatsoever and when exposed, KI is not going to do everything … just protect
your thyroid a bit. Even for the thyroid, KI may not provide people with 100%
protection against the absorption of radioactive iodine. Its effectiveness will
depend on a wide variety of factors, including
• when a person starts taking it (and for how long),

• how much iodine is already stored in the person's thyroid,
• how fast the body processes the KI, and
• the amount of radioactive iodine-131 the person becomes exposed to.
The FDA emphasizes that the use of KI should be as an adjunct to evacuating a

contaminated area, sheltering away from any radioactive clouds (that’s why you
close your windows), and controlling the foods you eat so as to eliminate the
likelihood of eating products that are contaminated with Iodine-131. Of all
measures, in a radiation emergency evacuation is usually your best bet.
I’m not going to wax eloquent on this subject other than to say you should pre-
stock 1-2 bottles of KI in your house because once there’s a nuclear emergency,
experience has shown this stuff flies off the shelves and you will have practically
no way of buying it. Seriously!
Only a few companies manufacture KI and every time there’s a nuclear

emergency somewhere, their inventory stock becomes instantly depleted so you
have to order it ahead of time and keep it in ready storage yourself. KI tablets
can be stored for at least 5 years without losing their potency, and LIO3 even
longer.
Furthermore, if there ever was an emergency and you needed it, then even
assuming it was available for purchase, waiting for a package to arrive by mail (if
mail service was available) would usually prove too late for the KI to be of much
us. It’s said that even the government would not be able to distribute enough of it
because its “better-late-than-never” inventory stockpiles are currently tiny and
woefully insufficient.
So you cannot count on the arrival of new government potassium iodide (KI)
supplies to come to your family if there really is an emergency. For instance, one
report said, "In the immediate aftermath of Three Mile Island, officials prepared
237,000 doses of potassium iodide, but the drug didn't make it to the scene for
six days -- too late to do any good."
So what do you do if you don’t have any KI handy when there’s an accident and
you cannot leave the area?
According to research by Ken Miller, health physicist at the Hershey Medical

Center, using 24 healthy adult male test subjects he found that an adult could get
a blocking dose of stable iodine by painting 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of
Iodine on the abdomen or forearm approximately 2 hours prior to I-131
contamination.
The abstract of his study is titled "Effectiveness of Skin Absorption of Tincture of I

in Blocking Radioiodine from the Human Thyroid Gland" from Health Physics,
June 1989, Vol. 56, No. 6, pages 911-914. The author wrote,
Although there were large variations within each subject group in

regard to serum-I levels and thyroid uptakes, the increase in serum-
I concentration after topical-I application was effective in reducing
the thyroid uptake of I131. The authors conclude that in the
absence of KI, most humans would benefit from topical application
of tincture of-I, and that in some the effectiveness would equal that
of oral KI.
Don’t try to drink or swallow iodine such as iodine water purification tablets,
tincture of iodine, or Povidone-iodine solutions (like the Betadine® brand
solution). If you do that you are going to get sick because iodine is a poison.
That’s why iodine bottles are marked poisonous!
In Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny, (Original Edition Published

September, 1979, by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a Facility of the U.S.
Department of Energy, Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition, p. 115) the author
states:
Elemental (free) iodine is poisonous, except in the very small

amounts in water disinfected with iodine tablets or a few drops of
tincture of iodine. Furthermore, elemental iodine supplied by iodine
tablets and released by tincture of iodine dropped into water is not
effective as a blocking agent to prevent thyroid damage. If you do
not have any potassium iodide, DO NOT TAKE IODINE TABLETS
OR TINCTURE OF IODINE.
Iodized table salt will not provide enough iodine to protect the thyroid either in a
nuclear emergency either and should not be used as a substitute for potassium
iodide. You’d need 5 cups per day of iodized salt to equal the iodine content in
one KI tablet. Forget it! Kelp tablets are not going to help you either.
Moral? Buy 1-2 bottles and keep them in stock.
Okay, time for dosing and usage indications.
Some people are allergic to iodine and should not take KI. Pregnant and nursing
women and babies and children may also take it. You can also take potassium
iodide if you are taking medicines for a thyroid problem (for example, a thyroid
hormone or anti-thyroid drug) but in this case you should check with your doctor.
In general, always check with your doctor about any concerns you have about
taking potassium iodide.
As to adverse reactions, based on the FDA adverse reaction reports and an

estimated 48 million, 300-mg doses of potassium iodide administered each year
the NCRP (National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements)
estimated it has an adverse reaction rate of from about 1 in a million to 1 in 10
million doses.
Potassium iodide (KI) should only be taken in a radiation emergency that

involves the release of radioactive iodine, such as an accident at a nuclear power
plant or the explosion of a nuclear bomb. A “dirty bomb” most likely will not
contain radioactive iodine.
Local emergency management officials will tell people when to take KI, so in an
emergency, stay tuned to your TV or radio for information. If a nuclear incident
occurs, officials will have to find out which radioactive substances are present
before recommending that people take KI.
If radioactive iodine is not present, then taking KI will not protect people. If
radioactive iodine is present, then taking KI will help protect a person's thyroid
gland from the radioactive iodine.
Remember, taking KI will not protect people from other radioactive substances
that may be present along with the radioactive iodine. If public health officials tell
you to take KI, then take it as soon as possible after the announcement. You
should take one dose (130 mg) every 24 hours.
More than one tablet will not help you because the thyroid can only "hold" limited
amounts of iodine and will wash the rest out of the body. In fact, taking larger
doses will only increase the risk of experiencing side effects. You will probably be
told not to take the drug for more than 10 days.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that KI be taken as soon
as the radioactive cloud containing iodine from the explosion is close by.
Potassium iodide may still have some protective effect even if it is taken 3-4
hours after exposure to radioactive iodine, so it’s better to be late rather than
sorry. Because the radioactive iodine will be present in the initial blast and
decays quickly, a single dose of KI may be all that is required.
The FDA has posted recommendations on KI that an be reviewed at Potassium

Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies.
KI comes in 130-mg tablets and for adults, a one-time dose at the levels
recommended according to the following information is usually all that is
required. However, if a person expects to be exposed to radioactive iodine for
more than 24 hours, another dose should be taken every 24 hours. Remember to
listen to emergency management officials for the particular instructions to follow
after a radioactive incident.
In general, according to the FDA and CDC,
• Adults should take just one 130-mg tablet of KI.

• Children between 3 -18 years of age should take one-half of a 130-mg
tablet (65 mg).
• Children between 1 month and 3 years of age should take 1/4 of a 130-mg
tablet (32 mg).
• Infants from birth to 1 month of age should be given 1/8 of a 130-mg tablet
(16 mg).
• Women who are breastfeeding should take the adult dose, and their
infants should receive the recommended infant dose.
• Children who are approaching adult size (greater than or equal to 150
pounds) should take the adult dose regardless of their age.
People should remember that taking a higher dose of KI, or taking KI more
often than recommended, will not offer more protection and can cause
severe illness and death due to allergic reaction.
The high concentration of iodine in KI can be harmful to some people. People

allergic to iodine (and possibly to shellfish -- ask your physician or pharmacist),
who have certain skin disorders(such as dermatitis herpetiformis or urticaria
vasculitis) or individuals who have had thyroid disease (such as hyperthyroidism,
thyroid nodules, or goiter) should consult their doctor about taking KI because it
may or may not hurt them.
That pretty much concludes what you need to know about potassium iodide in
case of a nuclear emergency. This entire manual is about radiation detoxification,
but I thought I’d throw this in there about radiation protection in order to make
things complete.
The story you need to know is the following:
1. You should stock up on KI tablets before a nuclear emergency

2. They cannot protect you from other types of radiation
3. You should follow the direction of public health officials on how much KI to
take in case of an emergency
4. Don’t take other forms of iodine and poison yourself, though if no KI (or
KIO3) is available you can try swabbing your skin according to Ken Miller’s
instructions
5. Evacuation or shelter so there’s no exposure are always the best options
Now on to the real ways to detox your body of radioactive contamination and
exposure.
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The Radiation Detox Bath
The first thing people commonly recommend for detoxing any exposure to
radioactive material is a hot Epson salt and Salt bath, or a Clorox water bath.
What? … you’ve got to be nuts!
Nope, here’s the scoop.
After a radioactive incident, doctors will usually rub you down with copious
amounts of water to wash off any contaminants. They’ll even vigorously scrub
wounds with a special chelation agent in order to prevent radioactive materials
from entering your body.
But what do you do at home?
What do you do if you’ve been working in a nuclear facility without gross

contamination and just want to do as much as possible to detoxify the body of
radiation exposure?
If we’re talking about a nuclear accident, you get the scrub down as well and the
shower washing to wash off contamination. I used to work in a chemical factory
and they had emergency showers everywhere in case of contamination like this.
At home, however, I’m presuming the emergency or exposure is over and you’re
trying to detox yourself from contamination over years or months, so you take a
therapeutic bath to try and pull any heavy metal toxins out of your skin!
Therapeutic bathing is another form of detox cleansing, especially as our skin is
the major organ of elimination for the body.
Some people even suggest niacin flushes after radiation exposure to drive
contaminants out from the skin but there’s no evidence that niacin works to do
that. Of course, since a niacin flush is pretty harmless (except for people with
liver troubles) you always have that option to try if you are interested.
The idea behind therapeutic baths for radiation exposure was popularized by
naturopath Dr. Hazel Parcells (Live Better Longer), "Grande Dame of Alternative
Medicine."
Dr. Parcells had a medical degree in naturopathy and another in chiropractic

(and two PhD.s -- one in nutrition, the other in religion), and lived to be 106. Over
the course of her life, she invented a number of “kitchen chemistry” remedies for
all sorts of health conditions and having lived in New Mexico, she was particularly
concerned with radiation and detoxed quite a few people of radiation exposure.
The idea of a therapeutic hot water bath is to first wash off any radioactive debris
that might be clinging to the skin, and to also flush out of the skin cells any heavy
metals they have absorbed through radioactive contamination.
Hot water bathing will draw toxins to the surface of the skin because of the
change in temperature … and as the water cools, the cool water will draw those
toxins out of the skin. That’s why you always have to stay in the water until it
cools to get the benefits of this mechanism of therapeutic cleansing.
The Epson Salt Bath
Here’s the typical Epson salt bath formula for detoxifying the body from general
radiation exposure, such as from Cobalt-60 irradiated food, X-rays, or air flights
where you are subject to high levels of ionizing radiation.
Dissolve 1 pound of sea salt or rock salt and 1 pound of baking

soda in a hot bath -- as hot as can be tolerated -- and soak into the
water until the bath becomes cool. This usually takes about 20-25
minutes. Afterwards, do not shower or rinse the salt off your body
for 4-8 hours.
The Clorox Heavy Metal Bath
If you’ve been exposed to heavy metals or carbon compounds (carbon

monoxide), insecticide sprays and chemicals, you can also take a hot water
Clorox bath which tends to eliminate metallics from the body.
Just add 1 cup of regular Clorox bleach to a tub of hot water -- as hot as can be
tolerated -- and once again soak in it until the water becomes cool or body
temperature. Again, don’t wash off for at least 4 hours and make sure you’re
using sufficient water.
Don’t worry -- this amount of bleach in a large amount of water won’t hurt you (be
sensible and use lots of water and don’t increase the bleach) but it will remove
toxins from your skin, and you’ll usually feel the energizing effects of the bath in a
few hours.
For Extra Pull
If you’ve been exposed to low-grade radioactive materials from the atmosphere,

you can dissolve 2 pounds of baking soda in a tub of hot water, and follow the
previous instructions by staying in the water until it cools.
When taking this type of bath, you should also be sipping certain teas or
alkalizing your body by mixing ½ teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of warm
water and sip it during the bath.
With radioactive fallout, Parcells recommended a stronger mixture of drinking an

8-ounce glass of water containing ¼-teaspoon natural sea salt (Chico-san
brand) and ¼-teaspoon baking soda. According to the severity, this was to be
drunk every 2-3 hours and each glass was to be taken with 3 tablets of calcium
lactate, which is a very easy to absorb form of calcium.
If an individual seemed to be experiencing symptoms in the head, sinuses, chest,

glands, neck, throat, they were to add ¼-teaspoon of cream of tartar to the
mixture. Once again, don’t shower for at least 4 hours after the bath.
Dr. Parcells claimed that the best time for this type of bathing was at night when
the body was geared to detoxification, and said you should only do one bath per
day. Don’t mix the ingredients from different baths together, but follow the
Parcells instructions for one bath at a time. You can alternate the baths on
different evenings if you feel you have need for them all, though in a severe case
you might do a baking soda bath in the morning and Clorox bath at night.
The radiation detoxification baths can be continued until you feel relief from
radiation symptoms though you should remember to use common sense and cut
back or discontinue them if they are too strong or unpleasant.
Regardless of what you think as to their usefulness, the baths are harmless yet
recommended by a number of doctors and naturopaths to help detoxify the
exposure to radiation from nuclear testing, nuclear accidents and leaks from
nuclear power plants which is in our air, food, and water. Why? Because they
help you shed excess heavy metals in the skin, and radioactive contaminants are
heavy metals.
After radiation exposure I certainly would have nothing to lose from following this
Epson salt or Clorox bathing routine, which I once heard a student of Dr. Parcells
explain was particularly effective in helping detoxify nuclear workers. The student
said that her husband had a high level of radiation exposure and Dr. Parcells just
kept him taking the baths, and drinking tea, until a few days later his radiation
levels had dropped.
This is your first home radiation detox strategy, which is both cheap and easy
and can be kept at until you feel better.
Though I cannot find any specific medical references verifying the treatment
history, I’ve also been told that radiation detoxification baths containing specialty
clays were used at Chernobyl and were found to help remove radiation from the
body more quickly.
The idea of clay baths is also that the clay draws out heavy minerals from the
skin, and the radioactive metals are the heaviest metals of all. Any type of
internal or external heavy metal detoxification routine will probably prove useful
for radiation detoxification, though of course some protocols will be more
effective than others.
One new and interesting heavy metal detoxification protocol is the current use of
the ionCleanse or Befe (Bio Electric Field Enhancement) device for foot baths
that is supposed to draw heavy metals out of the body through the feet.
There are supposed to be laboratory reports available on the effectiveness of

these ionic foot baths in reducing toxic metals from human blood and tissues, but
I have not seen them and do not know whether -- even if the results were
accurate -- the devices would be suitable for radioactive detoxification.
Nevertheless I’m reporting on these devices because they may indeed work and
the foot bath is an enjoyable experience.
Soon we’ll turn to the clays as a form of radiation detoxification, but for now we’ll
turn to several well proven radiation detox techniques.
References:
Blazickova, S., Rovensky, J., Koska, J., Vigas, M., “Effect of Hyperthermic Water Bath on Parameters of
Cellular Immunity,” International Journal of Clinical Pharmocology Residents 20. 1-2 (2000): 41-6.
Boyle, Wade, ND and Saine, Andre, ND, Lectures in Naturopathic Hydrotherapy, Sandy: Eclectic Medical
Publications, 1988: 17-18, 135.
Dispenza, Joseph, Live Better Longer, (Harper SanFrancisco, San Francisco, 1997).
Ernst, E., Pecho, E., Wirz, P., Saradeth, T., “Regular Sauna Bathing and the Incidence of Common Colds,”
Annals of Medicine, 22.4 (1990): 225-7.
Ioncleanse, http://altcancer.silvermedicine.org/ioncleanse.htm
Spirulina, Chlorella, and Seaweed
After the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a great many people died
from radiation poisoning.
Strange enough, many hospital patients at St. Francis’s Hospital in Nagasaki

survived radiation sickness even though the hospital was only one mile from the
blast site!
How?
Nagasaki Doctor Saves Hospital Patients and Staff with Sea Vegetables
At the time of the atomic bombing of Japan, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D. was
Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis's Hospital in
Nagasaki and fed his staff and patients a strict diet of brown rice, miso and
tamari soy soup, wakame, kombu and other seaweed, Hokkaido pumpkin,
and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets.
Sugars and sweets were forbidden because they suppress the immune system!
Because of this diet -- which was rich in sea vegetables -- he saved everyone in
his hospital while many other survivors perished from the radiation sickness.
(Tatsuichiro Akuziki, M.D. Nagasaki 1945, London Quarter books, 1981).
Spirulina Saves Children of Chernobyl from Radiation Poisoning
Now let us turn to the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Belarus which produced
radiation sickness in countless people.
When disaster struck with the 1986 reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the
Ukraine, approximately 134 plant workers and firefighters battling the fire at the
Chernobyl plant were exposed to high radiation doses -- 80,000 to 1,600,000
mrem (800 to 16,000 mSv) -- and suffered from acute radiation sickness. Of
these, 28 died within the first 3 months from their radiation injuries. Two more
patients died during the first days as a result of combined injuries from the fire
and radiation.
Not just the Ukraine, but the neighboring state of Belarus was also affected. It
received 70% of the radioactive fallout and 23% of its territory became
contaminated with radioactivity.
In total, over 160,000 children and 146,000 cleanup workers became victims of
radiation poisoning that produced higher incidents of birth defects, leukemia,
anemia, cancers, thyroid disease, degeneration of spinal fluids, liver and bone
marrow, and severely compromised immune systems.
A British company, Earthrise UK, is reported to have sent shipments of spirulina

tablets and spirulina powder (spirulina is a super green sea algae) to clinics in
Belarus for the treatment of children suffering from radiation sickness after
Chernobyl. Earthrise sent shipments to the Children of Chernobyl Committee in
Minsk and Soviet physicians used the supplements in clinics in Minsk and
Grodno, Belarus as well as in Kiev, Ukraine.
By taking 5 grams of spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation

Medicine in Minsk found that the children showed enhanced immune systems
and T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity.
The Institute also reported regeneration of bone marrow, spinal fluids, blood and
the liver. Dangerously low white blood cell counts of about 1000, typical of
leukemia, rose to an average of 3000 in 20 days, and the spirulina produced
rapid improvements in the health of treated children compared to others who did
not receive the algae.
In particular, spirulina reduced urine radioactivity levels by 50% in only 20

days time and so the Institute developed a special program to treat 100 children
every 20 days with spirulina. Amazingly, health restoration was reported even
when radiation sickness was so advanced that the children’s eyeballs were
bulging out of their sockets. Furthermore, the healing occurred during the
continuous presence of radiation as well as the presence of radiation
contaminated food and water sources.
Based on the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk results, the Belarus

Ministry of Health concluded that spirulina accelerates the evacuation of
radionuclides from the human body.
In particular, spirulina given to children with accumulated high doses of

radionuclides reduced radioactive cesium. No side effects were registered. The
Ministry of Health considered spirulina advisable for the treatment of people
subject to radiation effects and requested more spirulina from overseas.
The reports on these spirulina studies by the Belarus Hospital of Radiation

Medicine can be found in BSSR Mission to the UN. "The Chernobyl Tragedy and
the Children of Byelorussia" National Paper, World Summit for Children, Sep.
1990. and Correspondence from the Children of Chernobyl Committee, Minsk.

5/15/90.
A 1993 report confirms the 1990-91 research with spirulina on children with
radiation sickness and concluded:
Use of spirulina decreases radioaction dose load received from

food contaminated with radionuclides, Cesium-137 and Strontium-
90. Spirulina is favorable for normalizing the adaptative potential of
children's bodies in conditions of long-lived low dose radiation.
As a result of this and other successes in treating radiation poisoning, in 1994 a

Russian patent was awarded for spirulina as a medicine to reduce allergic
reactions from radiation sickness.
There is also a report that children, aged 3 to 7 years old in Beryozovka (near
Grodno on the Polish border), also suffered from the radioactivity released from
the Chernobyl accident. The children were also victims of lead poisoning due to
the presence of a strong local leaded glass industry. When spirulina was given to
49 of these children for 45 days, the physicians also found T-cell suppressors
and beneficial hormones rose. In 83% of the children, the radioactivity of the
urine once again decreased.
To date, we don’t really know why or how protection from radiation is exactly
achieved by consuming spirulina. We just know it works. It has a high content of
beta carotene that reduces free radical damage to cells and has even been used
for treating cancer.
Spirulina is also extremely rich in highly bioavailable iron, which helps people
recover from anemia. A significant portion of radiation sickness concerns the
development of anemia, so eating anything that can help build the blood after
radiation exposure would be helpful to the body.
Because it is extremely digestible, the super green algae spirulina also allows
victims of malnutrition and malabsorption to absorb food more effectively and
stems off those conditions. That’s an important concern in radiation sickness as
well, and a reason this should become part of the standard diet. It’s chock full of
nutrients and easy to digest and absorb when the body’s abilities in these areas
are their weakest.
Spirulina has also been shown to reduce kidney poisoning in rats from heavy
metal poisoning and pharmaceutical drugs (“The effect of spirulina on
nephrotoxicity in rats,” Yamane Y, et al. Chiba Univ. Presented at Annual
Symposium of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, April 15, 1988), and
perhaps this heavy metal protective effect has a tie-in with binding and
eliminating radionuclides.
The kidneys are usually some of the first organs to suffer damage in radiation
toxicity, and research suggests when spirulina is taken with anti-cancer, antibiotic
and painkilling drugs, toxic side effects to the kidneys can be significantly
reduced and shorter recovery times may be possible.
That’s another radioprotective tie-in.
Spirulina and other algae also contain high amounts of metallo-thionine

compounds, which scientists think may strip the body of radioactive metals and
protect against radiation damage. That may be the major beneficial process
we’ve been looking for in order to put a name on it.
Research presented in Japan showed proteins combined with metals (metallo-

thionine) had a strong protective effect from radiation, and since spirulina is a
source of these compounds, that may help to explain its protective effects
(Matsubara et al. "Radioprotective effect of metallo-thionine," presented at Radial
Rays Conference, Tokyo Japan 1985).
Research from China in 1989 also showed that an extract of spirulina had a
positive protective effect from gamma radiation, too (“Radioprotective effect of
extract from spirulina in mouse bone marrow cells studied by using the
micronucleus test,” Qishen P, Kolman et al. Toxicology Letters 1989; 48: 165-
169).
So we now have definite cases here where -- beyond the shadow of a doubt --
seaweeds and spirulina algae were found to help detoxification in cases of
radiation poisoning.
The reasons, of course, are complicated but involve the presence of rich sources
of iodine, an overabundance of minerals and vitamins that promote healing and a
healthy immune system, and the ability of compounds within these sea plants to
bind heavy radioactive substances and eliminate them from the body.
Here, now, is the specific research we’ve been seeking regarding other related
foods you should eat that specifically bind radioactive substances within, and
which will thereby help someone who suffers with immediate radiation poisoning.
Seaweeds Contain Sodium Alginate Which Binds Radioactive Compounds
In 1968 a group of Canadian researchers at McGill University of Montreal,

headed by Dr. Stanley Skoryna, studied the question as to whether seaweed
could help rid the body of radioactive toxins (Skoryna S.C. et al, "Intestinal
Absorption of Radioactive Strontium," Canadian Medical Association Journal
191: 285-88, 1964).
Dr. Skoryna and his team were trying to devise a method to counteract the
effects of nuclear fallout and reported that sodium alginate from brown algae
"permitted calcium to be normally absorbed through the intestinal wall while
binding most of the strontium. The sodium alginate and strontium was
subsequently excreted from the body. The experiments were designed to devise
a method to counteract the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation."
The key finding of this study was identifying that sea vegetables contained a
polysaccharide substance -- called sodium alginate which is present in large
quantities in brown algae such as Laminarae (kelp), Fucus (bladderwrack) and
Ascophyllum (fertilizer seaweed) -- that selectively bound radioactive strontium
and eliminated it from the body.
Sodium alginate (Alginic acid) is one of the important intercellular

polysaccharides found in large brown algae like Kelp and Alaria, and was found
to reduce the amount of strontium 90 absorbed through the intestinal wall. The
study reported:
In laboratory experiments, sodium alginate prepared from kelp,

kombu (Laminaria) and other brown seaweeds from off the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts was introduced, along with strontium and
calcium, into rats. The reduction of radio-active particles in bone
uptake, measured in the femur, reached as high as 80% with little
interference with calcium absorption.
So let’s get this straight …
Scientists at the Gastro-Intestinal Laboratory at McGill University in Montreal

demonstrated that alginates derived from Laminaria could reduce by 50-80% the
amount of radioactive strontium absorbed through the intestine.
We therefore have another winner … another thing you should eat to detox your
body of radiation exposure.
Sodium alginate, from sea vegetable sources, is something you definitely should
be eating after exposure to radiation. When we look again at Tatsuichiro
Akizuki’s success in protecting his hospital staff and patients from radiation
sickness, we now know part of the reasons why he was so successful.
In his book Fighting Radiation with Foods, Herbs and Vitamins (East-West Health
Books, 1988), Steven Schecter, N.D. reports that the U.S. government has also
performed research on the abilities of Kelp alginates to detoxify the body, and
has produced findings similar to the Canadian research.
The EPA's own Environmental Toxicology Lab found that alginates from kelp
could bind and help eliminate radionucleides such as Strontium 90 and heavy
metals such as cadmium.
One example of an EPA experiment, conducted by J.F. Stara, showed that

sodium alginate significantly reduced the amount of radioactive strontium in the
bones of cats. Stara reported that radioactive strontium from the bones was re-
secreted into the intestines, bound by the alginates, neutralized and then
excreted in the feces:
The chemical pollution in air, soil and water is particularly serious,

since the pollutants find their way into the food chain and their
absorption into the body can be hazardous ... Our investigation has
shown that alginate can bind radioactive strontium .. binds with
other metal pollutants such as excess barium, cadmium and zinc.
This is why alginates have become a key component of many heavy metal
detoxification supplements. Sodium alginate binds tightly to such substances as
strontium, calcium, barium, cadmium and radium.
Cows have been fed sodium alginate, which binds to radioactive strontium 90,
causing it to pass out of the body without any of it getting absorbed. Sodium
alginate has also been used to treat the “ouch-ouch” or Itai-Itai-Byo disease of
Japan (which causes painful joints) that scientists believe is caused by cadmium
poisoning due to cadmium-containing water used to irrigate rice.
More important than cows, a combination of sodium alginate and egg-shell

powder was also used in Russia to prevent radiation damage in children who had
been exposed to cesium-137 (Sukhanov, B.P., et al. "Medical and biological
evaluation of new food products for children exposed to excessive radiation." Gig
Sanit, 1994 Sept-Oct; (8):24-26), once again proving the effectiveness of the
ingredient.
In short, the ingredients within kelp can help alleviate past as well as present
toxic contamination. In his book, Steven Schecter also said:
There is no family of foods more protective against radiation and
environmental pollutants than sea vegetables ... sea vegetables
can prevent assimilation of different radionuclitides, heavy metals
such as cadmium, and other environmental toxins.
Schecter explains:
Alginate is non-toxic and is not reabsorbed into the rest of the body
from the gastrointestinal tract. Alginate is specific and consistent in
its reaction, is resistant to stomach acidity and the enzymes present
in the intestinal tract ... it has also been shown to have no adverse
effect on the ability of humans to assimilate calcium and other
natural minerals.
Additionally, Yukio Tanaka et. al. reported the following in "Studies on Inhibition
of Intestinal Absorption of Radio-Active Strontium," (Canadian Medical
Association Journal 99:169-75):
The evaluation of biological activity of different marine algae is
important because of their practical significance in preventing
absorption of radioactive products of atomic fission as well as in
their use as possible decontaminators."
In 1974 a report was published by I. Yamamoto et. al. in the Japanese Journal of
Experimental Medicine, (44: 543-46) wherein the scientists reported that several
varieties of Kombu Mojaban (common sea vegetables eaten in Asia and
traditionally used as a decoction for cancer in Chinese herbal medicine) were
effective in the treatment of tumors in laboratory experiments:
In three of four samples tested, inhibition rates in mice with
implanted sarcomas ranged from 89-95%.
In fact, the researchers reported that, "The tumor underwent complete regression
in half of the mice in each treated group." Similar experiments on mice with
leukemia have also shown promising results.
What this is suggesting is that all sorts of seaweeds can help after radiation
poisoning.
If you asked me which one seaweed product I would take in case of an
emergency. One stands out first and foremost. MODIFILAN. This is the one you
should look into.
Made from kelp, it contains organic iodine, alginate and is a heavy metal chelator
extraordinaire that boosts the immune system, helps decrease high blood sugar,
detoxifies heavy metals such as heavy radioactive contaminants. And it’s even
made in the United States!
Seaweed Sales Skyrocket After Radiation Disasters
Some people already know all this, so after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
occurred in Russia, sea vegetable companies’ sales shot up, especially sales of
Kelp. Two weeks after the accident, all miso and seaweed disappeared from
European store shelves. As to America, Shep Erhart, of Maine Coast Sea
Vegetables (www.seaveg.com) told me that not only did sales jump about 20%,
but both East and West coast seaweed producers collaborated to send a CARE
package of brown algae to the survivors of Chernobyl.
Now you know why customers were so interested in consuming kelp and other
sea plants … It’s because the studies have proven that the sodium alginate
found in sea plants in the kelp family (kombu, sea palm, wakame, and others)
can bind with radioactive strontium to pass it out of our intestinal tracts with the
stool.
The Russians since then have been seriously researching the use of their own
kelps from Vladivlostok, from which they have isolated the polysaccharide U-
Fucoidan, another radioactive detoxifier.
U-fucoidan is a polysaccharide found mainly in brown seaweed, and you can

easily buy it as a supplement on the internet. Many seaweeds and sea plants --
such as wakame, mozuku, and hijiki1 -- contain U-fucoidan but kombu
(Laminaria japonica) seems to be the richest in this substance.
Research has shown that U-fucoidan, when administered to cancer cells

multiplying at uncontrolled rates, caused them to dissipate within 72 hours and
helps the immune system in many ways.
Two American studies also found that fucoidan increases and mobilizes stem
cells, which have the potential to transform into 200 different types of cells. Stem
cells enable your body to replace dead cells, thereby enabling tissue and organ
regeneration and slowing down the aging process. You want faster healing and
repair after radiation exposure, so these facts may prove useful.
Now, you already know about the usefulness of potassium iodide (KI) in
preventing the absorption of radioactive iodine after a radiation emergency, so
the following information will be easy to understand.
Another very important function of the sea vegetables in helping our bodies fight
radiation poisoning is the fact that they contain Iodine-127 which will be absorbed
by our thyroid and thus prevent the uptake of radioactive, toxic Iodine-131.
Radioactive Iodine-131 has a constant background presence in our food, air and
water supplies since it is given off from nuclear power plant emissions … and
because we are also regularly imbibing radioactive isotopes from the total world
continual radioactive fallout from all nuclear weapons facilities and past nuclear
"tests."
By therefore "loading" the thyroid with healthy iodine in the diet through sea
vegetables like kelp, we can maintain our health even if fallout levels increase
dramatically. This is how to help detoxify or protect your body even if there isn’t a
radiation disaster.
Most seaweeds are a very good nutritional source of Iodine-127, which is the
form of iodine our thyroid gland needs for its proper functioning. Ryan Drum,
Ph.D., points out that bladderwrack (Fucus species) provides di-iodotyrosine
(DIT), which is a precursor to forming the essential thyroid hormones thyroxine
(T-4) and tri-iodothyronine (T-3). By providing the immediate precursors for T-4
and T-3, Fucus seems particularly effective in treating both hypothyroidism and
Graves hyperthyroidism.
Previously I recorded that after the Nagasaki bombing, people who ate a strict
macrobiotic diet -- including brown rice and miso soup with sea vegetables -
- did not suffer from radiation poisoning even though they were within a mile of
the explosion. The high iodine content of their diet must have been extremely
helpful on this account because if proper amounts of natural “healthy” iodine
already exist in the thyroid gland, then it cannot absorb any other forms of iodine,
such as the radioactive iodine contaminant. They were already exposed to the
blast, so it was too late to give KI tablets, and yet this “home remedy” produced
remarkable results.
Perhaps the Edgar Cayce supplement, Atomidine (iodine trichloride or

“detoxified iodine”), can be useful here as an iodine supplement as well. In any
case, during nuclear war or atomic disasters, it is therefore wise to keep our
thyroids full of natural, organic iodine by eating sea vegetables (and in particular
kelp), which are the best food source of iodine.
The sea vegetables also show strong, heavy metal detoxifying properties and
can eliminate a wide range of radioactive particles from the body, including
Strontium-90 and Cesium-137. In short, they contain natural substances that can
protect us from radiation-induced damage.
Other Benefits of Sea Vegetables
There are all sorts of non-radioprotective benefits as well that merit adding sea
vegetables to your diet … and starting it now so you know how to buy and
prepare the products before an atomic emergency. Appendix 2 contains several
recipes so that you can start to learn how to cook them.
Having lived in Asia for years, I have to tell you that once you get used to them,
the sea vegetables are quite delicious.
Dr. Ryan Drum, Ph.D., states that our friend fucoidan is found in brown sea
vegetables like kelp and bladderwrack and "is … extremely anti-proliferative
against cancer cells. It also interferes with every stage of viral attack such as cell
attachment, cell penetration, and intracellular virion production." He also notes
that it’s interesting that all human cells actually have receptor sites for the end
sugar group on the fucoidan molecule (from his papers “Sea Vegetables and
Seaweeds,” and “Seaweed Therapeutics,” PHWHS 2001).
Therefore, kelp and bladderwrack are on the list of probable consumables.
Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus), Kelp (Laminaria sp.) and Sargassum also

contain calcium and sodium alginates, that gel-like substance we’ve discovered
binds to heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, barium, radium,
plutonium, strontium and cesium in the gastrointestinal tract to form insoluble
salts that are excreted in the stools (Tanaka, Y. et al. "Application of algal
polysaccharides as in vivo binders of metal pollutants." Proc Seventh Int
Seaweed Symp, 602-607, Wiley and sons, 1972.).
That’s another reason for their ingestion.
Sea vegetables also provide the dietary benefit that they are10 -20 times higher
in vitamins, minerals and amino acids than plants grown on land, which makes
them ideal foods to eat -- if you suffer from radiation sickness -- just from the
absorbability factor alone.
Here are the nutritional specifics on several of these seaweeds.
Wakame is a long, thin seaweed -- about 20% protein by content -- that turns
translucent green when cooked …and you’ve probably seen it if you eat at
Japanese restaurants because it is used in miso soup.
Arame is a thin, wiry, dark seaweed that is sweet to the taste that contains
niacin, calcium, iodine, potassium and sodium whereas hijiki is a thicker, darker
seaweed (with long black strands) that has a deep, ocean aroma and strong
flavor.
Hijiki (or hiziki), arame and wakame contain 10 times the calcium of milk. Hijiki,
by the way, has 8 times more iron while wakame and the other kelps four times
more content.
There is also sea lettuce which has 25 times more iron available than beef,
which would be useful in cases of radiation anemia.
Nori, which is the paper-thin, dark green seaweed sheet used at sushi bars for a
sushi wrap or nori rolls, has a protein content as high about 30% of its weight
(the highest of any ocean vegetable) and it is also high in vitamin A. It can be
toasted or added to soups, stews, casseroles or crumpled over salads and put
into dressings, spreads or desserts.
Dulse is a very common, reddish-purple sea plant native to the Atlantic seaboard
that should also be considered. It is so commonly eaten in the Canadian coastal
areas that you can always find it in grocery stores. It is rich in vitamin A, C, iron
and beta carotene. It has a nutty flavor and can be used like spinach or another
leafy vegetable.
Kombu and Kelp (Laminaria species) are thicker, darker yellow-brown

seaweeds that are the longest of the sea plants. They are tasty delicacies you
can put in any soup, are used for thyroid troubles in China and Japan, and are
known for containing alginic acid that absorbs toxic elements out of the body.
They are known as the brown seaweeds.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission recommends that we consume two to

three ounces (wet weight) of sea vegetables per week, or two tablespoons
daily to protect from radiation toxicity. This should be increased fourfold
during or after direct exposure to radiation (US Dept Health and Human Services.
"Dietary aspects of carcinogenesis," Nov. 1981).
Thus, you’ve got another official source telling you to increase your seaweed and
sea vegetable consumption during radiation emergencies.
An ounce of caution is in order — remember that too much of a good thing can
be no good. When you consume excessive quantities of kelp over a long time it
can cause acne, or an autoimmune thyroid condition known as Hashimoto’s
thyroiditis. Also, health authorities in America discourage people from collecting
kelp and other seaweeds along the shoreline because they could be
contaminated by industrial pollution.
Some seaweeds are contaminated with lead or arsenic so you only want to
consume seaweed that is deep ocean harvested or has been tested to be free of
metal toxicity (such as kelp from the west coast of South Africa), and should not
exceed eating two tablespoons daily over the long-term.
Start to eat the seaweeds now before a nuclear emergency and find out where to
buy them because I guarantee that in the time of an emergency, by the time you
find them the store inventories will be deleted. You’ll have to visit a Japanese or
Korean restaurant and ask them for seaweed-miso soup to get your dose.
Here are some sources you might consider for the seaweeds and seaweed
cookbooks to get started on this culinary quest:
• Maine Coast Sea Vegetables, 207-565-2907, www.seaveg.com

• Rising Tide Sea Vegetables, 707-964-5663, www.loveseaweed.com
• Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company, 707-895-2996, www.seaweed.net
• Sea Vegetable Celebration by Shep Erhart
• Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Vegetables by Jil
Gusman
Chlorella
While we’ve mentioned spirulina, there’s one other algae that deserves some of
our attention -- chlorella.
Chlorella is honestly a natural wonder food. It is the most researched algae in the
world, and countless studies show it has a radioprotective effect to gamma-ray
induced chromosomal damage as well as antitumor properties.
Listen to what chlorella can do for you: chlorella builds your immune system,
detoxifies heavy metals, normalizes blood sugar and blood pressure, balances
your body’s pH and fights cancer, protects against ultraviolet radiation and due to
its high chlorophyll content helps detoxify the liver, bowel and bloodstream.
People commonly mention five grass superfoods as being able to rejuvenate

your body when you get sick or get cancer: chlorella, spirulina, blue-green
algae, wheat grass and barley grass.
These are all excellent sources of nutrients, but chlorella has the highest
chlorophyll content than these others. In fact, it has the highest chlorophyll
content of any known plant! It has 5-10 times the chlorophyll content of spirulina,
wheat grass and barley grass.
Chlorophyll should interest our attention because animal tests have been
performed in that past that indicate a chlorophyll rich diet increases the
survival of experimental animals after lethal doses of radiation. In 1950,
Lourau and Lartigue reported that cabbage supplement (chlorophyll) increases
the resistance of guinea pigs to radiation an further research by Duplan in 1953
confirmed these findings. Later still, the US Army has found that cabbage,
broccoli and alfalfa reduced the effects of radiation on guinea pigs as well. Of
course spirulina and chlorophyll have high chlorophyll contents, too.
Bingo, another winner!
The protein content of chlorella is also significantly higher than these other foods
as well. Chlorella is about 60% protein while spirulina is 73%, blue green algae
56%, barley grass 14% and wheat grass about 18% protein. Gram for gram, it
might be the most dense nutrient on earth, and since digestion is impaired after
radiation exposure, chlorella is supplying your body with a lot of readily available
nutrients for rebuilding purposes.
Chlorella and the other algae are also abundant in beta-carotene, which is known
to prevent cancer and fight cancer in high doses.
Besides the abundance of a high chlorophyll content, chlorella's tough cell wall
offers advantages not found in these other four algae or grasses, including
spirulina. Its cell wall has an outstanding ability to eliminate toxins,
pesticides, and heavy metals from the body … which may extend to
radioactive contaminants as the cellulouse cell wall can bind with these particles
and flush them out of the body.
Research has primarily been done on spirulina in this regard, but what I would do
is take both of these supplements together upon radioactive exposure. In fact,
the best standalone heavy metal remover I’ve ever found is called NDF (available
from www.PureHealthSystems.com) and is made from chlorella cell wall
concentrates, cilantro (proven heavy metal chelator), mushroom extracts (for
immune boosting properties), and cell wall lysates and enzymes from beneficial
bacteria also proven to be extremely powerful heavy metal chelators.
This stuff eliminates 920% more heavy metals per month than DMPS, the
standard heavy metal chelator most nutritionists and naturopaths use, and in
addition to eating chlorella and spirulina tablets or green powder drinks, it’s
exactly what I’d be taking to trap heavy radioactive metals and escort them out of
my body. If I was in a battlefield situation or living near an atomic testing range,
I’d be taking this stuff every day along with zeolites, as well, to bind any heavy
metals.
Just as with eating the seaweeds, taking both chlorella and spirulina is a key
portion of any radiation detox that I would include in any mini-protocol.
Chlorella’s cell wall also has the ability to induce interferon production, which
helps with immune function (which is extremely important during radiation
sickness), but the most important thing is that its nucleus contains “chlorella
growth factor” (CGF) that possesses fantastic rejuvenating effects and sets it
apart from these other four superstars.
Experiments have shown that CGF stimulates both plant and animal cells to
reproduce at a faster rate, which stimulates healing and would be critical after
radiation exposure. After radiation exposure, you want new blood cells to be
produced as rapidly as possible.
What’s promising along these lines are two studies by Devi and a team of
researchers demonstrated the ability of algae diets to stimulate the regeneration
of blood serum and liver proteins in rats. (Devi M et al. “Serum protein
regeneration studies on rats on algal diets.” Nutrition Research International.
1979; 19:785 and Lahitova, N, Doupovcova M, Zvonar J, Chandoga J, Hocman
G. “Antimutagenic properties of fresh-water blue-green algae.” Folia
Microbiologica. 1994; 39(4):301-3). Other studies show a hematopoietic effect as
well.
As to the CGF, scientific experiments have found that CGF has incredible
rejuvenating effects, which is what we want after radiation exposure. Chlorella is
also extremely rich in the nucleic acids, RNA and DNA, and has a high content of
nucleotides. We’ll get to the importance of nucleotides in a later chapter.
If I was to eat anything at all after radioactivity exposure, I’d double up on this
with spirulina and the other sea vegetables to eliminate radioactive contaminants
from my system.
That would be my main strategy, but wait … there’s more.
Just for your general information, laboratory mice that were fed chlorella have
obtained significant life span increases of over 30%, which many researchers
feel is due to the CGF content.
In Japan, where chlorella is the most common supplement taken, it is frequently

added to tea, soup, milk, juice, noodles, yogurt and just about anything else.
Japanese physicians have found that ulcers heal faster when you eat it, and that
wounds which were unresponsive to various treatments finally healed rapidly
when the patients took oral doses of chlorella and Chlorella Growth Factor.
That’s of use with radiation burns.
Several years ago, Japanese doctors also discovered that giving chlorella to
cancer patients going through radiation therapy helped prevent leucopenia,
which is a sudden drop in your white blood cell count and a major problem with
radiation illness!
We went over this previously, so you already know that leucopenia leads to low
resistance to infections, fatigue, low energy and respiratory conditions.
Doctors found that if chlorella was given in advance of the radiation (or
chemotherapy) treatment, the white blood cell count would not drop as low and
would bounce back toward normal more quickly than usual.
In short, upon exposure to radiation I would emphasize the algaes and seaweeds
for a whole variety of reasons. They’ve been proven in studies, in Nagasaki and
Chernobyl, and in radiation therapy.
This is the way to go.
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Bathable and Edible Clays

for Radiation Detox
We want to know about all sorts of substances useful in the management of

radiation detoxification, so we now come to the topic of edible clays.
Clays are particularly known for their ability to remove toxic metals from the air,
water, and soil because of their unusual structure of “pores” (channels and holes)
that allows them to absorb huge amounts of contaminant materials.
Toxic gases, chemicals, mold, heavy metals, and other toxins are drawn by the
natural negative electrical charge into the crystal micro pores of the clay. The
unique structure of clay provides literally millions or pores or sieves -- “shape-
selective catalysts” -- that catch only molecules small enough to fit into the
cavities while excluding larger molecules.
The unique structure of clays therefore gives them unusual filtering capabilities
for absorbing toxic wastes, including radioactive contaminants.
In just one gram of zeolite clay, for instance, the three dimensional structure of
the channels in its crystalline structure provide up to several hundred square
meters of surface area on which absorption (and chemical reactions) can take
place. The zeolites are particularly useful for removing heavy metals and
radioactive species from water.
The way zeolite chelates out heavy metals is that within the structure of the
zeolite molecule there are certain “structural cages” with positive ionic charges.
The ionic charges within these cages attract heavy metals – such as cesium,
strontium, uranium, mercury, etc. -- and the caged structure of zeolite tightly
binds them. Next, these caged and binded heavy metals are excreted from the
body without getting deposited in other places.
For an edible purified zeolite product like “Natural Cellular Defense,” it’s
reported that 40% of ingested zeolite binds the heavy metals in the
gastrointestinal tract, and 60% binds toxins in the bloodstream. At the Chernobyl
disaster site, the crystalline structure of zeolites was used to trap and remove
radioactive cesium and strontium-90 from the system of affected individuals.
While you can take an Epson salt or Clorox bath, you can also take a radiation
detox bath of zeolite clay that’s formulated with special herbs for the process. At
www.blessedbaths.com you can find ordering information for the Zeo-rad Detox
Bath which contains zeolite clay.
Clay has been used as a medium for air filters and water filters for ages. It is
environmentally friendly for waste dump sites and has been used as a filter
medium not only for the removal of heavy chemical toxins and heavy metals such
as iron, zinc, cadmium, lead, and copper from individuals but for the removal of
radioactive wastes. But what we really want to know is that clay has been used
successfully for the extraction of radionuclides from human beings and animals
as well.
First a bit about radioactive disposal.
All nuclear waste is mixed with zeolite clay before packaging and stored
underground because it helps prevent radioactivity from seeping into the ground
after prolonged storage. Surprisingly, zeolite clays are stable even under the
highest levels of radiation, a fact proven after the fission reactor meltdowns at
both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl where zeolites were used to mop up the
waste caused by the accidents. In some cases they even become stronger.
The British Nuclear Fuels (BNF) also uses a specific type of zeolite clay to
remove radioactive strontium and cesium-137 and, therefore, reduce the
radioactivity of liquid waste discharged into the Irish Sea. The Hanford,
Washington nuclear weapons facility uses clay to prevent contamination as well.
Basically, nearly all nuclear storage facilities are lined with clay to prevent
contamination. Why? Because clay can absorb radioactive toxins and bind them.
A Swedish study showed another kind of zeolite could decontaminate live

animals and meat affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Many people have heard about the dietary or edible clays (bentonite, Kaolin,
Red Clay, Fuller’s Earth, French Green Clay, Montmorillonite, etc.) and in
particular bentonite clay, which is often part of colon cleansing routines because
it can absorb heavy metals and contaminants in the intestines. You can easily
buy liquid bentonite (hydrated bentonite) in health food stores for these
purposes.
There are over 200 different types of bentonite clay, and the problem with many
of these bentonites is that they have an extremely high aluminum content, so you
do not want to be ingesting them on a frequent basis. Years ago the same high
alumina content problem existed with various colloidal mineral solutions in that
they were chock full of heavy metals that people were ingesting. I had some
spectroscopic studies of these performed and found the alumina contents at the
time were off the charts!
As to the clays, some bentonite clays are composed of 65-75% aluminum, but
once again it depends on the clays.
Putting that particular concern aside, the composition of the bentonite clay
particles creates a large surface area in proportion to the volume of the clay and
the greater the surface area, the greater its power to pick up positively charged
particles or toxins … including heavy metals … and to suck them out of the body.
That’s why you would use them in a detoxification bath.
It’s been reported that Russian scientists also used bentonite clay to protect their
bodies from radiation when working with nuclear material. What I heard is
ingenious. They would first coat their hands and bodies with a hydrated
bentonite mush mixture before donning radiation suits, and presumably
the clay would help trap and stray radiation particles. Afterwards they
would just wash it off.
Bentonite adsorbs radiation so well that it was the material used to dump on top
of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the nuclear meltdown in the former
Soviet Union.
The fallout after Chernobyl in other countries was so great that livestock kept out
in some areas were deemed not eatable at the radiation level. It’s reported that
by feeding the cattle bentonite clay for some time before “harvesting,” farmers
were able to get the level down to normal and acceptable levels.
Internet sites report that U.S. Army studies also show that bentonite may be a
successful treatment for exposure to chemical warfare and that one Army
emergency livestock protocol calls for immediate administration of bentonite
internally to counter effects of radiation poisoning in livestock. However, I have
not been able to track down these specific reports and studies or any confirming
reports on clay’s usefulness in post-radiation exposure treatment though its
medicinal properties are well recognized.
As a side comment, I have also seen recipes for dogs and cats composed of
water, aloe vera juice, powdered dulse or kelp, Brewer’s yeast, apple cider,
ground rosemary and vitamin E that are recommended as a radiation detox
cocktail, too. So clay isn’t your only option. The big option is chlorella and
chlorella cell wall extracts, which also bind heavy metals.
Bentonite will bind and take out a great number of nasty stuff from anything
living, but you have to be careful about using clays for baths or internal
consumption when they have a high alumina content.
LL's Magnetic Clay Baths has a superior Environmental Detox Bath,

composed of bentonite clay with less than .5% aluminum content and no
emulsifiers, that is useful for heavy metal detox and also to remove radiation.
With bentonite clays, you can even form thick clay compresses to wrap around
certain locations of the body.
As with all clays, the more you use, the quicker you tend to detox. The
Environmental Detox Bath is another possibility for any heavy metal
detoxification routine you decide to undertake and is actually stronger than Zeo-
rad Bath. This type of general purpose detoxification bath is usually taken just
once a week for 6-10 weeks.
There’s also French Green clay, which like bentonite clay has been used as an
internal detoxification supplement for hundreds of years to remove disease
symptoms. It has the ability to remove toxic metals and chemical residues,
bacteria, and blood toxins with virtually no side effects of constipation, diarrhea,
or stomach cramping and is also known to remove radiation, arsenic, lead,
mercury, and aluminum amid other toxic metals in less than six weeks.
It’s said that after the meltdown of the Chernobyl Soviet nuclear power plant in
1986, the Soviet Union put French Green clay in chocolate bars and dispensed
them freely to the masses to remove radiation they may have been exposed to.
Whether it was truly French Green clay or a zeolite or bentonite clay I cannot
confirm, but the point is that clay can be consumed for internal detoxification of
radioactive particles because it tends to trap the particles in the gut and escort
them out the body. The problem with most French Green clays is the frequently
high alumina content once again, which most people do not check for yet which
can create problems for environmentally sensitive people. For emergency
situations, however, I think the point is moot.
If I had to ingest an internal clay and I had my choice, however, I would use a
very pure Pascalite clay for internal detoxification consumption, or Aulterra clay
if available. Aulterra Clay, which you can buy from www.spiritsupplements.com
is also said to assist in the removal of the effects of radiation. You only need a
few capsules or one teaspoon in a glass of water for internal detoxification
purposes.
So there you have it -- another way to help detox after radioactive exposure is to
eat the consumable clays which will bind radioactive particles in your intestine.
They’ll bind all sorts of other things as well, as does charcoal and all sorts of
other supplements like chitosan (which latches on to heavy metals, amino acids
and fat, which you may or may not want if you are trying to recover from radiation
exposure) or even pectin. Charcoal, for instance, is known to be able to filter
radioactive iodine from the air in air filter and medicinal charcoal that’s ingested is
often used to treat poisonings because it can absorb toxins.
Clays are sometimes fed to livestock when contaminated, and the consumption
of clays by humans has been used for centuries to help remove toxins from the
body. Clay consumption certainly won’t hurt when you eat the right type, and
offers the potential to trap some toxic materials when other alternatives are not
readily available.
One more thing -- a few more words on clay baths …
In Using Energy to Heal, Wendell Hoffman claims that a special bentonite clay
used in a bath can actually draw out toxic chemicals through the pores of the skin
and after many experiments, he came to the same conclusions as Hazel Parcells
in that the optimum results are obtained by soaking in a tub of very warm water
mixed with a special bentonite clay for 20 minutes!
For a clay bath to be of any use, not just any clay will do. There are hundreds of
different bentonite clays -- ranging from health store brands such as AZTEC
Healing Clay to expensive green clays -- and each one has different chemical
compositions and purposes as I have stated. Many clays sold at health food
stores contain chemical emulsifiers, defeating the whole purpose of the bath and
many clays are very high in aluminum. Bentonite clays can vary tremendously in
their ability to pull out toxic metals and chemicals.
Which one is best?
Without studies in front of me, all I can tell you is that specially formulated clay
baths have been shown to be able to literally pull pollutants out like a magnet,
getting rid of years of toxic accumulation in just one bath.
Usually you’ll see a dark residue in the clay after the very first time you use it in a
bath, and people normally take 6-10 baths (once per week) for regular
detoxification purposes. Try www.magneticclay.com and www.blessedbaths.com
for two options you can consider.
Various detoxification results can be achieved much more quickly when you use
baths (whether clay or Epson/Clorox) together with seaweed/chlorella/spirulina
consumption.
Therefore, you might want to take a clay bath now just to see what they are like
because they can really help your body as part of an overall detoxification
regime.
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Homeopathics for Radiation Injury
And now we come to homeopathics, or more properly, “homeopathic remedies”

for radiation protection and treatment.
Homeopathy is a branch of medicine based on the principle of "like cures like." In

homeopathy, the symptoms of a sick person are treated with extremely small
doses of a medicine (doses so small they are “non-existent” by normal allopathic
standards) that would bring about the same symptoms in a healthy person who
received a full dose of that medicine.
In other words, homeopathic microdoses of a substance act with an oppositizing

effect to the full dose of that substance.
Most homeopathic remedies are made from products found in nature. The
medicines are extremely diluted with each dilution termed a “c” or “x”
(representing the Roman numerals for a 1/100th or 1/10th dilution), so that only
minute amounts are administered.
In homeopathy, the treatment is very individualistic and people presenting with

the same condition may be treated differently according to the individualistic
needs of their bodies. Learning homeopathy is extremely demanding, and people
are not advised to self-administer homeopathic remedies except for very simple
cases.
There are literally hundreds of hospitals in India that primarily use homeopathics
to cure patients, the Royal Family of England depends upon homeopathic
physicians, and the United States used to be crawling with homeopathic doctors
until the AMA did everything possible to eliminate them (it vehemently pursued
chiropractors as well).
Obviously, somebody thinks (or knows) that homeopathic medicine works!
In actual fact, countless replicated double blind studies -- the gold standard of the
medical establishment -- prove beyond the shadow of a doubt the usefulness of
homeopathic medicines. These studies cannot be ignored, unless you try, which
is what people do because they cannot explain them.
You can also take a homeopathic remedy yourself and get results that are
definitely NOT a placebo effect and yet, the regular medical establishment still
ignores and disparages these reports as nonsense … despite various studies
that prove the effect of microdoses on physiological functions beyond the bounds
of placebo, etc.
Why deny that they work?
People tend to reject whatever they cannot understand (homeopathics being one
such item because they do not work according to the presently accepted
allopathic medical paradigm), and therefore the medical establishment rejects
them entirely rather than broaden its own paradigm.
That’s what happens when people don’t know why something works (Gosh, we
didn’t know why aspirin worked for over 100 years until the 1990’s). The fact that
homeopathic medicines are dirt cheap -- and I mean cheap -- probably plays
some role in this as well since they represent a threat of an extreme kind to the
pharmaceutical establishment if they caught hold.
How and why do homeopathics work?
This is not the place to go into that. There are hundreds of internet articles and
books that offer explanations. Frankly, all you and I are interested in are practical
results and in particular, how to use homeopathic remedies for radiation
detox or protection if indeed they can be helpful -- and there’s hope on those
accounts.
That’s what we’re going to concentrate on, but first, I want to go into just one
interesting homeopathic study where a thyroid hormone homeopathic remedy,
Thyroxine 30c, was placed in water containing developing tadpoles.
When they compared these homeopathic-exposed tadpoles to those tadpoles
who were exposed to a placebo, the study showed that the morphogeneic
transformation of the tadpoles into frogs was actually slowed for those who were
exposed to the homeopathic doses!
This is what one would expect if homeopathy indeed worked because the
homeopathic remedy would produce the opposite effect of the originating
substance. In other words, because thyroid hormone is well-known to speed up
morphogenesis, it makes perfect sense -- from a homeopathic perspective -- that
homeopathic thyroid hormone doses would slow it down.
In treating radiation, we’d also similarly want to take the homeopathic potencies
(preparations, remedies or cures) of the radioactive substances to which we were
exposed because it would tend -- if homeopathics do indeed work in this field --
to produce the opposite effect.
There’s another interesting aspect to this hormone study in that when a glass
bottle of the homeopathic thyroid hormone dosages was simply suspended in the
water with the lip of the bottle above the water line, the same results were
produced.
This research was replicated at several other laboratories, which confirmed the
same amazing results!
What this all implies is that the biological effects of homeopathy might in part be
due to some type of radiational effect through the glass, which suggests some
new areas of research if scientists ever wanted to look this way. While
homeopathic remedies are certainly not radioactive, homeopaths have theorized
that the method of succussion or trituration that produces the remedies releases
some force from drugs analogous to radioactivity, although it works on the level
of the “chi” or life force.
Well enough of that. Time for “radiation therapy” using homeopathy.

There’s been quite a bit of homeopathic research to explore its possibilities in
protecting against radiation. (Khuda-Bukhsh AR, Banik S, “Assessment of
Cytogenetic Damage in X-irradiated Mice and its Alteration by Oral
Administration of Potentized Homeopathic Drug, Ginseng D200," Berlin Journal
of Research in Homeopathy, 1991, 1, 4/5:254. Also Khuda-Bukhsh AR, Maity S,
"Alteration of Cytogenetic Effects by Oral Administration of Potentized
Homeopathic Drug, Ruta graveolens in Mice Exposed to Sub-lethal X-radiation,"
Berlin Journal of Research in Homeopathy, 1991, 1, 4/5:264).
For instance, in one famous study albino mice were exposed to 100 to 200 rad of
X-rays (sublethal doses) and then evaluated later after a period of 24, 48, and 72
hours. Two homeopathic medicines -- in particular Ginseng 6x, 30x, 200x and
Ruta graveolens 30x and 200x -- were administered to the mice both before and
after the radiation exposure. When those radiation exposed mice were compared
with mice simply given a placebo as treatment, it was found that the homeopathic
treated mice had significantly less chromosomal or cellular damage, which is
exactly what we’re after.
Another study involved homeopathics and albino guinea pigs.
The guinea pigs were exposed to small doses of X-rays, which caused reddening
of the skin as radiation exposure normally does. The studies showed that Apis
mellifica 7c or 9c had a radio-protective effect and a roughly 50% curative effect
on X-ray-induced skin redness skin.
That’s fine and dandy for tadpoles, mice and guinea pigs, but what about specific
homeopathic remedies for a radiation reaction or injury?
Some of the following homeopathic remedies we’ll go over can be used for
radiation and uranium workers, but first a note about dosing.
Homeopathic Doses
Generally speaking, 30c and 200c are good homeopathic potencies to use,
though you do not have to limit yourself to them as both higher and lower
potencies may be employed. The actual potency a homeopath will use will
depend on many factors too long to discuss, so we are only providing general
emergency indications.
The 30c potency is a common dosage but for any homeopathic remedy … and
especially as regards a complicated case such as radiation exposure or
poisoning … you have to consult an experienced homeopathic practitioner for the
right dosing option. Homeopathics, with self-treatment, can produce severe
reactions despite what allopathic doctors say is nonsense as to their
effectiveness.
In general, 30c or 200c homeopathic potencies can usually be taken +/- 3 times
daily so long as the symptoms seem to improve as per the laws of homeopathy.
According to standard homeopathic expectations, generally improvement in
conditions should be seen with a correctly chosen remedy within 2-3 days in
order to continue the chosen remedy.
Although some remedies require a single dosage repeated once a month for
several months, and some will recommend several doses a day for a week or
two … possibly repeated a couple months later if there is no full recovery. If no
improvement is seen you must consult your practitioner or medical doctor. Your
homeopathic practitioner should be consulted for any questions regarding
dosage or choice of remedy in individual cases.
The general ionizing radiation detox remedy I recommend for most people is N-4
Radiation Antitox, produced by Apex Energetics (1-800-736-4381), for
symptoms related to radiation exposure (X-rays, geopathic stress, and
electrodynamic stress). If there is no radiological emergency (such as a nuclear
accident or atomic detonation) and you just want to do a radiation detox, this is a
great first thing to try.
Along these lines of too much normal radiation exposure, many people are
sensitive to working under fluorescent lights because of a specific kind of
radiation they give off. The famous light researcher, Dr. John Ott, found that
replacing fluorescent bulbs with full spectrum bulbs (which have been shielded
with lead tape on the ends because of a harmful radiation given off), can often
solve headaches, learning problems and other problems.
Some people who work under fluorescent lights all day long complain of aching
legs, and a bath containing a hand of sea salt has been anecdotally known to
help cure aching legs in 2-3 days.
Now with uranium exposure, the kidney is usually the first organ to show signs of
chemical damage. In hospitals for emergency radiation treatment, oral doses or
infusions of sodium bicarbonate help alkalinize the urine, thereby promoting the
excretion of the nontoxic uranium carbonate complex, and are therefore used.
The homeopathic drainage formula made by Pekana, Renelix, which is probably

the best kidney drainage formula in the world, can be used at this time to help the
kidney with excretion and without interfering in any allopathic modalities. You can
order it from DrNatura.com (800-877-0414) or from other internet sites.
The Apex kidney R-4 Kidney REGENRX formula is also useful for rebuilding
the kidneys afterwards, and is one of the most powerful kidney rebuilding
formulas I know of.
As to specific radiation remedies, the following guide to homeopathic provings

will be useful in selecting a particular remedy for the problems of radiation
sickness:
RADIUM BROMATUM (radium bromide) can be used for illness resulting from
radium, radiation burns and X-ray exposure. It can be used in the event of a
radioactive release in your area because it can be helpful in counteracting the
effects of exposure as well as in treatment of any radiation injuries you may
sustain.
In the event of radioactive release, homeopaths recommend taking one daily

dose of a 30c or 12c potency as long as the threat of radiation exposure exists,
although naturally the best option is to evacuate the area immediately. Some
homeopaths recommend up to 10 drops or 5 pellets taken three times a day with
severe radiation exposure.
This remedy may be useful for all sorts of skin affections including x-ray caused
radiation burns, dermatitis, radium burns, eczema, psoriasis, scleroderma,
ulcers, and cancers. Radiation exposure will often cause skin burns, so this
remedy may be of assistance in those cases. It is often prescribed for the
depletion of energy and burning sensations of the skin after X-rays or radiation
therapy to help counteract any side-effects of the treatment.
In general, symptoms calling for this homeopathic remedy involve cases of skin
itching all over the body with burning skin, swelling and redness, necrosis and
ulceration -- an itchy burning of skin, as if on fire (burning heat), often with

swelling, small pimples and ulceration that takes a long to heal.
When homeopathic radium bromatum is used because of an atomic or nuclear

blast, the dosing schedule depends on how close you were to a source of
radiation, such as an explosion. If you feel your skin burning, have a fever,
nausea, vomiting or diarrhea then your condition is probably severe and you can
put 5-8 pellets in a bottle of water and take a tiny sip every 10 minutes for the
next 4 hours. Thereafter, take a sip every half hour for the next 4 hours, then
every hour for the next 4 hours. You should try to do this even if you are being
taken to a hospital for treatment and continue daily doses of the homeopathic
remedy for two weeks.
If you have no radiation related symptoms but winds are blowing radiation into
your neighborhood, then take one dose daily until the radiation drops to a safe
level and continue taking the remedy on a daily basis for 2 weeks even after the
radiation levels have dropped to acceptable.
Remember to take potassium iodide and the detox baths and algae diets as well.
Basically, stay out of the way, take preventative measures and stay in tip-top
shape.
URANIUM NITRICUM (nitrate of uranium) can be used in cases of uranium

exposure, exposure to depleted uranium or uranium poisoning. Uranium miners
and radiation workers may find it quite useful.
Usually people given this remedy experience symptoms of great emaciation with
ravenous appetite, debility, weakness and general edema (swelling with fluid
retention), excessive thirst and appetite.
Other keynote symptoms this remedy treats include burning gastric pain,
flatulence and vomiting. There can be a feeling of general burning internally and
a tearing away or ulcerations in the mouth; stomach and duodenal ulcers with
indigestion.
If you remember, these were all the symptoms seen at Nagasaki. Cases of
copious burning urination with incontinence, gland swelling, liver degeneration,
heat flushes, dry mucous membranes and dry skin, nausea and vomiting are also
indications for usage.
I once heard of the case of a child who fell into a uranium mining pit and
survived, but later developed fibrosis all over his body. His buddy who fell in with
him died a few days later after the exposure, and the man who pulled him out of
the pit died from cancer five years later. This boy survived but developed scar
tissue all over his body, inside and out, because radiation tends to cook you. A
doctor gave him the enzyme formula Vitalzym, containing a high concentration
of serrapeptase fibrin-eating enzyme, and this seemed to help his fibrosis.
You probably aren’t in this category, but I want you to store this “uranium fact”
away for general purposes if someone needs it.
As to the use of PLUTONIUM NITRICUM, there is not much information

available on this remedy but some of the preliminary provings are that individuals
experiencing a polarity between feeling very light and elated and feeling heavy,
desperate and isolated might benefit from the remedy. Naturally, exposure to
plutonium is the number one reason for its usage.
ANACARDIUM is a remedy that can be used to help alleviate the effects of

radiation exposure, and is especially appropriate when there are skin ulcerations,
general weakness and debility, and when other symptoms match. You can check
a homeopathy book for more detailed symptoms that match its usage. It has
been useful in smallpox because its keynote symptoms for application include
intense itching and swelling of skin that becomes worse with scratching; the
individual is absent-minded and easily offended with contradictory impulses;
special senses alternatingly acute or lost; there is nervous exhaustion; sensation
of a plug in all effected parts. Eating temporarily relieves all discomforts.
The homeopathic remedy X-RAY can also be used in the event of radiation
exposure when the other symptoms correlate. Like radium bromatum, this is a
very good homeopathic remedy to keep in stock as well, and is recommended
after X-ray exposure.
Low vitality is a major symptom calling for the usage of X-ray along with slow
wound healing, decreased white blood or platelet count, anorexia with nausea,
dry, itchy or scaly skin and redness around nail roots, aching pains, chills with
night sweats, and sudden neck ‘cricks’ on alternating sides.
Patients who can benefit from the remedy usually feel better with hot applications
and worse in bed, in the open air, in the cold, or in moving. The remedy tends to
arouse the reactive vitality both mentally and physically.
PHOSPHORUS may be used for symptoms produced after radiation exposure

that include degeneration of tissue and bleeding. You use it when it matches
other symptoms such as there being sudden great weakness, oversensitivity to
external impressions, ready bleeding from the skin and any orifice, tissue decay,
exhausting diarrhea or vomiting, burning pains, the feeling of a tightened chest,
palpitations and trembling, an empty feeling. The individual may crave cold drinks
and feel worse lying down on their left side.
CAUSTICUM can be used after acute radiation exposure when the radiation
burns are slow to heal and other symptoms for the remedy’s usage match. The
keynote symptoms for using the remedy include burning, rawness or recurring
soreness of burns, loss of muscular strength or paralysis of single parts,
emaciation and weakness, unsteady walking where it’s easy to fall down,
incontinence. The individual feels better with cold drinks, bed warmth and gentle
motion but feels worse during clear weather, dry cold air, and in the evening.
It’s also been suggested that remedies like Plumbum (lead) can be taken after
radiation exposure to help those who feel overwhelmed and in need of
protection. Belladonna might also prevent and relieve radiation burns and pains
-- even long after the immediate exposure, and Granite might prove to be a lifting
remedy.
The number of possible remedies is endless and to properly pick the right
homeopathic remedy for an individual requires much skill. These are just the
general indications to follow, and you should always consult a homeopath for
what to take.
There are more extensive selection criteria than these which you can use to
select between one particular remedy or another, and you can find them in a
homeopathic “repertoire” or on the internet.
The Homeopathic Schuessler Cell Salts
Another form of homeopathy concerns the Schuessler cell salts, invented in

1873 by W.H. Schuessler MD, that are readily available in health food stores as
tiny tablets or pellets, and which contain the essence of minerals necessary for
healthy cell growth. They are basically micro dose cell foods prepared
homeopathically.
Dr. Schuessler found that when cells were deficient in these minerals, then an
abnormal (diseased) condition was produced and so he developed these
homeopathic substances to help a body heal itself.
The twelve cell salts, which some homeopaths claim are missing in people after
nuclear exposure, include:
• Calcarea Phosphorica (Phosphate of Lime), abbreviated as Calc. Phos
• Kali Phosphoricum (Phosphate of Potash or Potassium) or Kali. Phos.
• Magnesia Phosphorica (Magnesium Phosphate) or Mag. Phos.
• Natrum Phosphoricum (Phosphate of Soda) or Nat. Phos.
• Ferrum Phosphoricum (Phosphate of Iron) or Fer. Phos.
• Natrum Sulphuricum (Sulphate of Soda) or Nat. Sulph.
• Kali Sulphuricum (Sulphate of Potash) or Kali. Sulph.
• Calcarea Sulphurica (Sulphate of Lime) or Calc. Sulph.
• Kali Muriaticum (Chloride of Potash) or Kali. Mur.
• Natrum Muriaticum (Sodium Chloride) or Nat. Mur.
• Calcium Fluorica (Fluoride of Lime) or Calc. Fluor.

• Silicea (Silica)
In particular, it is said that Kali. Phos., Nat. Sulph., Mag. Phos., Calc. Fluor.,
Silicea, Calc. Phos., Kali. Sulph. and Ferrum Phos. are deficient in the blood of
those who suffer from radiation sickness.
You can order a full set of these 12 cell salts or take an all-in-one product called
Hyland's Bioplasma as an overall corrective or preventative measure to
maximize your healing forces.
The cell salts are not drugs, but usually take months to show results that can be
quite subtle in nature. The tablets should not to be washed down with water but
dissolved dry on your tongue.
All in all, if you are just interested in a general radiation detox -- for instance
because of X-ray exposure, high altitude living or extensive airplane flights -- I
would use the Apex Energetics Radiation Antitiox formula along with the Epson
salt baths.
Naturally, I would be adding chlorella and spirulina to my diet anyone because of

all the health advantages they bring.
As to other foods to eat or supplements to take to help in DNA/RNA repair due to

radiation exposure, that’s the next topic for discussion.
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Eat A “Nucleotide Rich” Diet to

Maximize Cellular Repair
For over thirty years I have watched a variety of foods being praised by health
advocates for their special health, anti-aging, and repair characteristics:
spirulina (blue-green algae), chlorella (a green algae), brewer’s yeast,
lentils, most beans, oysters as well as animal liver, sardines, anchovies and
mackerel.
The juicing of fruits and vegetables was another remedy often stressed when
the body needed radical healing, and yet I could never make the connection
between any of these foods.
I always thought their ability to help rebuild the body was based on independent
factors …
… until I read the June 2004 issue of the Alternatives newsletter published by Dr.
David G. Williams!
The missing factor that “clicked” for me was the presence of a high concentration
of nucleotides in these foods.
What are they?
Nucleotides are the building blocks or sub-unit molecules that make up RNA and
DNA, which carry your genetic code. Nucleotides also carry out several essential
functions needed for cell replication and perform the following functions in your
body:
• Neutralize toxins
• Increase cellular metabolism
• Increase the production of cellular energy
• Improve the response and efficiency of the immune system
• Enhance the effects of antioxidants
• Increase the body’s ability to heal and repair
I could never understand why some of the “miracle” foods I previously mentioned
were so useful in treating cancer, anti-aging and cellular repair -- and why some
of them had built such fantastic reputations over the years as cures in
themselves (chlorella, spirulina, Brewer’s yeast, and liver) -- until I made the
nucleotide connection.
Think about it …
If you want to help RNA/DNA repair (and post-radiation exposure would be one
such instance where you want this), it makes sense to include foods in your diet
that contain abundant levels -- and I mean really abundant levels -- of
nucleotides since they are the building blocks from which your body builds DNA
and RNA.
You want to repair cells that may have been damaged, or are cancer prone due
to radiation?
Eat lots of nucleotides!
Basically, eat lots of foods that contain RNA and DNA nucleic acids because
both have also shown radioprotective qualities (Ebel JP, Beck G, Keith G, et al.
“Study of the therapeutic effect on irradiated mice of substances contained in
RNA preparations,” Intl Jour Radiat Biol 1969, no 16, 201-209). Various studies
have born out that nucleic acids have prolonged the survival rate of animals
exposed to radiation. All sorts of animals have shown these effects -- mice, rats,
and dogs.
Now we have just uncovered another reason to consume spirulina and chlorella
… but consider yeast and sardines as well. As we get older it’s harder to digest
the foods we eat but these two foods are extremely easy to digest and offer lots
of health benefits.
Most importantly, however, are the foods that contain large proportions of nucleic
acids: sea algae (like chlorella and spirulina), liver, nutritional yeast, and even
bee pollen, which we haven’t yet mentioned.
Let’s just talk about yeast as an example because it’s one of these foods and is
given to cancer patients undergoing radiation and chemotherapy treatment. That
means it’s given to people subject to radiation.
Yeast is extremely helpful for radiation from a preventative, detoxification and

physical rebuilding aspect. It has been proven to help recovery from radiation
damage and can be made quite palatable by mixing it with tomato juice or
fermented beet juice (that also aids the body after radiation exposure) which
creates, in effect, a drink with two benefits instead of one.
Russian researchers have reported that radiation damages could be influenced

favorably by yeast, which they found could help build and regenerate cells
damaged by radiation (Dokl. Akad., Nauk S.S.D.R., BD. 126, p. 417). In
Germany, researcher Holger Metz found that feeding patients certain types of
beer yeast -- while they underwent radiation therapy -- prevented an entire list of
systems usually associated with acute radiation syndrome: skin redness, hair
loss, depression, inflammation of the mucus membranes (in the throat and
gullet), and other sorts of radiation damage.
A study performed at Montefiore Hospital in New York involved giving cancer

patients heavy doses of yeast daily before undergoing radiation treatment, and
those patients receiving the yeast remained free of radiation symptoms while
similar patients, untreated, experienced anemia, a decrease in hemoglobin and
vomiting (Samachson et al. Arch Biochem Biophys 1960, 88: 335).
So we have yeast preventing radiation syndrome as well.
Part of yeast’s protective and cancer fighting effects come from its high vitamin
content and sulfur content which is the key element found in glutathione, NAC
and alpha lipoic acid, which are powerful body antioxidants. It also is a great
provider of the mineral selenium, which seems to play an anti-cancer role in the
body, and iron, which can help prevent anemia and inhibit the uptake of
plutonium isotopes.
By the way, for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, I also
often recommend the product SeaCure, which is a pre-digested protein
supplement made from fish fillets. SeaCure is extremely easy to digest and
absorb and helps reduce the side effects of chemotherapy like nausea and
sickness. I’m mentioning it here because -- as with the nucleotide foods -- it si
extremely easy to digest and helps rebuild the body.
In the case of radiation recovery, this is a perfect type of food.
Seacure also has a sister product, SeaVive, made especially for cancer patients
because it contains Seacure along with immune boosting stimulants added in --
colostrum and beta-1,3- glucan -- which are known for immune enhancing
properties.
In cases of severe radiation sickness where the immune system is at risk, this
easy-to-digest and easy-to-assimilate food, with extra immune boosting and
infection fighting factors, may be a life saver.
As stated, those foods with high nucleotide concentrations include breast milk
(infant formula is now fortified with nucleotides because they substantially help
the infant fight infection), sardines, brewer's yeast, anchovies, mackerel, lentils,
most beans, animal liver, oysters, chlorella and spirulina.
A diet rich in nucleotides, meaning rich in these foods, is what I recommend for a
radiation repair diet.
Animal studies show that when nucleotides are increased in the diet, there is a
remarkable rise in the ability to fight infections.
Bingo!
Cancer patients who increase their consumption of nucleotides also show greater
strength and ability to deal with the disease.
Bingo!
Hospital stays are reduced when you eat nucleotides and ill patients show
stronger immune responses and quicker healing times.
Bingo!
Radiation causes cancer and when you are treating cancer, many current
therapies try to deliver precursor compounds to the body that your cells can then
use to "build" nucleotides. Why not just deliver the nucleotides in the diet,
especially as these foods are healthy and easy to digest?
That’s my feeling, especially when we can readily observe the effects of this
strategy on health and anti-aging.
The high nucleotide content, combined with their easy-digestability, is why these
foods have developed near legendary reputations over the years. So after a
radiation disaster, increase your diet of nucleotide containing foods, increase the
juicing, and one more thing …
It is necessary to remove excess acidity from your system so that your tissues
become aerobic and the DNA self-repair mechanism can function. That means
plenty more vegetables, less meat and increase your calcium intake after
radiation exposure.
And as to the nucleotides, while they keep emphasizing the algae and yeast,
consider sardines and mackerel for their fatty acid content. We haven’t talked
about fatty acids yet, but if you want radiation repair, you need the right type of
fatty acids in the body, and these are two foods that can help you get them.
References:
Langendorgg H, “Der bisherige Beitrag der Radiobiologie zur Therapie von Strahlenschaden (The
contribution to date of radiobiology to the therapy of radiaiton lesions), Roentgenpraxis 20, 1967, no. 1, pp.
3-8.
Libinzon RE et al, “Effectiveness of the High-molecular DNA in the treatment of acute radiation sickness,”
Radiobiologiza, 1963, 3: 111-116.
M. Suvrem. Med. 21, 1970, no. 6, pp. 12-18.
Marinescu C, Popla M and Covulea O, “Radioprotective Experiments with Nucleic Acids,” Rev Sanit Mil,
Jan-Feb 1969, 72; 61-64.
Metz Panaktiv, “Hefe - ein natürlicher Gegenspieler der Krebszelle,” Der Naturarzt, No. 10, October,
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Foods, Herbs and Supplements

That Are Radioprotective
Miso Soup Several Times A Week
Remember the Nagasaki Dr. Shinichiro Akizuki, who saved his St. Francis
hospital staff and patients from acute radiation sickness being only one mile from
the atomic blast? Here’s some further information about that story.
Another hospital that was farther away from the blast site (University Hospital)
had 3,000 patients who suffered greatly from leukemia and disfiguring radiation
burns while Dr. Akizuki’s hospital, which was closer to the blast site, had almost
no individuals who suffered from radiation poisoning.
The difference was that he fed his patients and workers brown rice, miso soup,
vegetables and seaweed every day whereas University Hospital fed its patients
sugar, white rice, and refined white flour products.
By 1972, Dr. Akizuki and his co-workers still had not experienced any side effects
from the radiation exposure … whereas others who had been farther away from
the blast had the opposite experience.
Well, one food he relied upon was miso broth, which is the classic food for the
prevention of radiation damage and which he maintains was key to helping his
crew.
The evidence that miso soup is key to fighting radiation exposure also comes to
use from the Soviet experience. For instance, since the 1950s the Soviet
weapons factories had been dumping wastes into Karachar Lake in
Chelyabinsk, which is an industrial city east of Moscow. Many of the local
residents accordingly started suffering from radiation symptoms and cancer.
In 1985 the medical doctors changed their approach to patients suffering from
leukemia and other disorders associated with exposure to nuclear radiation and
began incorporating miso soup into their diet. Doctors Lidia Yamchuk and Hanif
Sharimardanov wrote: "Miso is helping some of our patients with terminal cancer
to survive. Their blood improved as soon as they began to use miso daily."
In another Japanese study that spanned a 25-year period, the Japanese Cancer
Institute tracked 260,000 subjects and divided them into three groups. The first
group ate miso soup daily, the second group consumed miso 2-3 times a week,
the third group ate no miso at all. The results showed that those who had not
eaten any miso had a 50% higher incidence of cancer than those who had eaten
miso.
Basically, the regular consumption of miso products helps protect the body from
some of the toxic effects associated with radioactivity exposure due to the
presence of an ingredient called zybicolin, discovered in 1972, which acts as a
binding agent to detoxify and eliminate radioactive elements (such as strontium)
and other pollutants from the body.
Because of the presence of zybicolin, miso has been found to counteract the
adverse effects of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and environmental pollution.
You can increase the protective qualities of miso soup even more if 1/4-ounce (5
grams) of dried kelp seaweed is added to the soup for as you know, scientific
studies found that seaweed was able to neutralize radioactive isotopes in the
human body because they bind to the brown seaweed sodium alginate and
increase their excretion from the body by about 80%.
For patients receiving radiation treatment, you can even use an external plaster
of miso mixed with aloe vera extract on the irradiated area being irradiated to
help prevent or heal burns.
So now you know how to add several approaches together.
Another food to add to the diet for radiation effects is tempeh, which is a
fermented soy bean product known to help build red blood cells. It also blocks
the intake of radioactive cobalt-60 and zinc-65, and strengthens the immune
system.
Of course the various seaweed products such as kelp and nori also offer
protection against the effects of radiation and you should consider taking these
items several days before and after any diagnostic x-rays.
A big point of this discussion is also the injunction to avoid sugar, wheat and milk
after radiation exposure. If you want healing and protection against infection,
avoid sugar and things that turn into sugar quickly in the body (wheat flour). Milk
is primarily a sugar, and allergic causing foods should also be avoided since they
usually put a burden on your immune system when it needs all the help it can
get.
Black and Green Tea to Remove Radioisotopes and Protect Against Cancer
In Fighting Radiation and Chemical Pollutants with Foods, Herbs, and Vitamins
(Vitality Inc, 1992), author Steven Schecter wrote that both black and green tea
showed "radioprotective effects" whether consumed either before or after

exposure to radiation. This anti-radiation effect was observed in several
Japanese studies, and studies from China also suggest that the ingredients in
tea are radioactive antagonists.
One of the reasons that tea offers anti-radiation effects similar to seaweeds is
that the tea catechins absorb radioactive isotopes and removes them from the
body, just like the active ingredient sodium alginate in kelp seaweed. Epigallo-
catechin-gallate (EGCG), which is found in some green tea extracts, has also
been shown to protect the body’s cells against the free radical damage caused
by radioactivity.
In other words, much like seaweed the ingredients in green tea absorb
radioactive isotopes so that the body can excrete them, and it also contains the
cancer fighting compound EGCG.
Rooibis tea, which contains the flavonoid compound luteolin, also helps the
body withstand radiation (“Radioprotective effect of antioxidative flavonoids in
gamma-ray irradiated mice,” Carcinogenesis 1994 Nov;15). In particular, it
protects DNA from radiation-induced free radicals.
When Japanese researchers gave mice pure luteolin, it dramatically protected

their bone marrow and spleen against radiation damage, and this flavonoid’s
radioprotective properties were better than any other plant compound ever
tested.
You might consider trying Rooibis. I was first introduced to it at a Chinese

medicine training retreat I took some years ago and was surprised how tasty it
was compared to green tea, and it doesn’t give you the green tea “high.” It’s the
only tea that doesn’t have a high content of tannins which makes it safe to give to
children to drink.
A High Fiber and Mineral Rich Diet
To deter the absorption of radioactive particles and improve its excretion, it

makes sense that a high fiber diet of easily digested leafy vegetables is
recommended (but not of produce exposed to fallout radiation). The purpose
behind eating clay, kelp, and pectin is basically the idea of binding radionuclides
in the gut, which you also accomplish through a high fiber diet.
The fibrous product chitosan, which is made from crab shells, can also be used
to bind heavy metals and radioactive particles. Chernobyl victims given chitosan
were also able to eliminate a large degree of radioactivity in only a few weeks.
The problem with chitosan, however, is that it can also bind amino acids and
lipids which you might need to help repair your body after radiation exposure, so
this is not a top recommendation.
Basically, after radioactive exposure you want to be eating almost any type of
heavy metal chelating formula, and many nutritional supplements have been
developed for this purpose, most of which contain the algaes and plant fibers and
other binding substances.
You also want to eat foods or supplements high in calcium and potassium
because they also aid in the excretion of radioactive particles, particularly
cesium-137.
Potassium has a chemical composition similar to Cesium-137 (a nuclear

byproduct often ingested via fruits and vegetables grown in contaminated soil).
Just as with iodine, because of this similarity, your body will tend to absorb any
available Cesium-137 if there’s a potassium shortage in the diet whereas when
the body is fed a good supply of potassium, it will be much less likely to absorb
the radioactive particles.
Strontium-90 also competes with calcium and lowers vitamin D, so taking extra
calcium and vitamin D during radiation exposure can help prevent radioactive
strontium from being stored in your bones. The calcium will help alkalize your
body which will be useful for healing purposes.
Natural iodine, of course, helps prevent the uptake of iodine-131 while iron
inhibits the absorption of plutonium-238 and plutonium-239, vitamin B-12 inhibits
cobalt-60 uptake (used in nuclear medicine), sulfur is preventative for sulfur-35
(a product of reactors) incorporation by the body, and zinc inhibits zinc-65
uptake.
Getting a ready supply of highly absorbable minerals is essential for radiation

therapy, and is something the algaes and yeasts supply perfectly. Sorenson (JRJ
Sorenson, “Essential metalloelement metabolism and radiation protection and
recovery,” Radiat. Res., 132, 19-29, 1992.) has reviewed the field of
radioprotection by metals and minerals and states,
“Understanding the metabolism of essential metalloelements and

its role in responding to radiation injury as mediated by
immunomodualting cytokines offers a new approach to protection
against hematopoietic and gastrointestinal syndromes and perhaps
cardiovascular and central nervous system syndromes. Copper,
iron, manganese, and zinc compounds have radioprotective
activity...”
Hence, many minerals can help with radioprotection and they certainly help
repair the body after radiation exposure. When your body is mineral deficient, the
absorption of these radioactive “sisters” becomes highly likely so it’s best to have
absorbable high mineral diets upon radioactive exposure. That’s something
achieved by eating the algae and sea vegetables. As to the higher sulfur intake
required by nuclear workers, that is achieved by eating thiol supplements such
as cysteine, lipoic acid and glutathione.
Basically, you need metals for the formation of various enzymes in your body and
having the metal ions present assists the body in resisting and repairing radiation
damage. Minerals, such as selenium, show radioprotective effects and eating
foods that help us easily obtain minerals is key after radiation exposure.
Selenium (found in yeast), in particular, has been shown to protect human DNA
from radiation damage and helps prevent skin damage, too. We could write a
book just on the relationship between selenium and cancer and radiation alone,
but why bother? Just know it’s important.
Here’s a key fact-- good sources of selenium include green and black teas, and
garlic as well as many mushrooms while the best sources however are nettles
(2200 mcg per 100 grams), kelp (1700 mcg/100 g), burdock (1400 mcg/100 g),
catnip (Nepeta cataria), ginseng, Siberian ginseng, and astragalus.
Did you notice that we keep coming up with the same foods to concentrate on?
What foods supply an abundance of minerals in an easily digestible, absorbable

form? The seaweeds along with spirulina and chlorella.
Do you see how everything keeps concentrating on the same remedies?
Consume More Lycopene and Foods Rich in Beta Carotene
What about vegetables?
After exposure to radiation, another product to add to the diet is cooked tomato
sauce because it has a high lycopene content. Lycopene, which gives tomatoes
their red color, has been shown to protect against cancer formation, prevents the
destructive and mutagenic effects of gamma radiation, and protects against the
effects of ultraviolet irradiation of the skin. It is a carotenoid and like other
carotenoids, lycopene enhances your general immunity and may be particularly
effective in improving the action of T-cells and inhibiting cancer.
From a number of studies, beta carotene has also been shown to be especially
helpful for fighting radiation and studies have found that it definitely strengthens
the immune system. For instance, researchers have reported the radio-protective
effect of beta-carotene from a study conducted on over 700 children exposed to
the Chernobyl radiation. Japanese researchers found that diets high in carotenes
significantly reduced DNA damage in humans exposed to radiation. Natural beta-
carotene protects against the lipid oxidation and acts as a fatty acid antioxidant
radioprotector.
To increase your natural consumption of carotenes after radiation exposure you

can eat more yams, squash, carrots, swiss chard or spinach. Eating lots of
orange and dark green foods (sweet potatoes, winter squash, beets, carrots,
kale, collards, chard, and spinach, for example) is what protects you from
radiation effects that might damage your DNA. While supplements of beta-
carotene did not show this effect, you can consume products with mixed
carotenoids to help increase your carotenoid consumption.
Eat More of the Cabbage family and Sulfur Containing Compounds
Foods from the brassica (cabbage) family daily — cabbage, broccoli,

cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, collards, arugula, turnips, radishes, mustard
greens, bok choy -- are particularly beneficial for their radioprotective effects and
their abilities to help repair radiation damage.
We mentioned previously that guinea pigs bombarded with radiation lived a lot
longer if they ate cabbage or broccoli. In fact, cancer researchers have found that
all the brassica family plants protect your cells from the damaging effects of
radiation. Of course, when guinea pigs were supplemented with high doses of
vitamin C with bioflavonoids (like humans, guinea pigsa cannot make vitamin
C within their bodies), they were also able to withstand double the known lethal
doses of radiation, too.
One of the benefits of the brassica plants is that they are rich in sulfur
compounds, and it’s the sulfur-bearing contents of onions, garlic, and beans
which is part of the reason they are prescribed in various natural healing diets.
Three sulfur-rich anti-oxidant substances in particular are given to cancer

patients and individuals exposed to high levels of radiation because they help
quench the formation of free radicals in the body. Those supplements, which
quench free radical damage and promote healing are glutathione, NAC, and
alpha lipoic acid.
Whey and soy protein powder, which contain high amounts of cysteine, are
also often given to cancer patients (one tablespoon daily) because of their high
cysteine content which allows the body to make more glutathione.
Since we are talking about antioxidants a bit, here is the accepted scientific
mechanism of radioprotection offered by antioxidants …
When living cells are exposed to radiation this induces the production of free
radicals, which leads to the breaking of chemical bonds and various forms of
cellular damage. Radioprotectants -- of whatever type -- are substances that
scavenge the free radicals before they can do much cellular or molecular
damage, and allow repairs to take place to the original damaged molecules.
Antioxidants do just that.
There is a limit to the effectiveness of free radical scavengers as radioprotectors,

however, so don’t get carried away.
According to Hall (E. J. Hall, Radiobiology for the Radiologist, 4th Ed., J. B
Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1994 , p. 185), “they are effective against the
indirect action of x-rays and have little effect with high linear energy transfer
radiations in which direct action is dominant. Since the indirect action accounts
for about two thirds of the biological effect of x-rays, a perfect protector that
scavenged all of the free radials could have a dose reduction factor approaching
3 … [Also] This simple description of the mechanism of action of sulfhydryl
radioprotectors is intellectually satisfying, but it is clearly not the whole story
since radioprotectors of this class have more effect with densely ionizing
radiations (such as neutrons) than would be expected. Other factors must be
involved that are not fully understood.”
While we have been focusing on radioactivity, what this book is talking about is
protection from or repair to the body necessitated by ionizing radiation such as X-
rays, cosmic rays, background radiation and so forth. What this quote says is that
while the sulfur containing antioxidants and radioprotectors are useful, we don’t
know the full reasons for their radioprotective mechanisms. But let’s put that
aside.
What we do know, aside from this, is that various studies show that thiol (a side-
chain sulfur-containing component of the amino acid cysteine) compounds help
stop free radicals caused by ionizing radiation, and thiol antioxidants (NAC,
SAMe, glutathione) should therefore be taken before and after radiation
exposure, especially X-ray scans, to protect cells from antioxidant damage. Thus
we find that the main antioxidants the body depends on -- NAC, alpha lipoic acid
and glutathione -- can play a role in radiation protection and repair.
Cysteine itself, which contains the thiol side-chain has helped counteract the
effects of several different types of radiation in animal studies. Japanese,
Indonesia, Netherlands, Hungarian, German, Puerto Rican, Russian and
American researchers, through numerous studies, have found that cysteine helps
animals survive massive doses of radiation. In particular, the studies have shown
that the sulfur component of cysteine provides part of its radioprotective effects.
Sulfur helps the mitochondria in cells resists radiation, helps repair DNA
molecules, and prevents the absorption of radioactive sulfur-35. Most of the
sulfur containing vegetables contain cysteine and those with the highest sulfur
contents are, of course, the members of the cabbage family. Here’s a list of
sulfur-rich vegetables in descending order: kale, watercress, brussel sprouts,
cabbage, turnips, cauliflower, raspberries, spinach, and kelp.
The moral of this is that upon radiation exposure, one should increase their
consumption of sulfur-containing vegetables, kelp, and cysteine (thiol)
antioxidants.
Dried Beans or Lentils in the Diet
Do you remember that list of food rich in nucleotides ?
Dried beans, especially lentils, were in that short category and studies have
indeed proved that they can reverse DNA damage done by radiation. Now
there’s yet another reason to include them as part of the anti-radiation diet.
Three members of the legume (bean) family in particular -- lentils, red clover
(Trifolium pratense) and astragalus (Astragalus membranaceous) -- are
particularly known for their anti-radiation and cancer-fighting effects and help
reverse the damaging effects of radiation. Astragalus, in particular, is an
ingredient in most Chinese strengthening formulas.
Cancer patients are usually advised by nutritionists to drink red clover tea and
commonly take astragalus supplements, but their exact use is outside the scope
of this discussion. It’s the beans in general I want you to concentrate on, yet I
want you to know of these other two members of the bean family used for anti-
cancer purposes.
Eat Red Beets, Alkyglycerols, Liver and Spleen Extract to Rebuild the
Blood
When you are exposed to radiation, it can effect your body’s ability to produce
red blood cells. A well known American holistic remedy for quickly rebuilding the
blood and fighting anemia, which Europeans also use, is the consumption of
either raw or fermented beet juice which helps build blood hemoglobin. Beet root
is also consumed as a natural remedy for nerve cell inflammation which is
another bonus since severe radiation exposure affects the nervous system.
What do most naturopaths recommend when presented with the challenge of

rebuild your blood counts quickly? Juice beets and carrots and drink the
combination -- it tastes great!
Spleen extract, which naturopaths says can help regenerate the spleen that
builds our blood, also counteracts the damage to the immune system caused by
exposure to radioactivity, and can help regenerate the blood. Organic liver
extract or eating liver (remember it’s a high nucleotide content food) can also
help build the blood as well as eating bone marrow soup, such as you find in
Korean restaurants.
You already know about shark oil, which contains alkyglycerols. Any pure
alkyglycerol combination can cause platelet counts to jump dramatically within
two weeks, which always shocks the heck out of oncologists who could not think
it possible.
Reishi Mushrooms, Glucans and Polysaccarides to Bolster Immune Health
Time for mushrooms.
Eating Reishi mushrooms is a proven way to reduce the damage from radiation
and to bolster your immune system after radiation exposure. It’s been used to
decrease radiation sickness in animals and help them recover faster (Hsu HY et
al, “Radioprotective effects of Ganoderma lucidum (Leyss. Ex. Fr.) Karst after X-
ray irradiation in mice,” Am J Chin Med 18 (1-2):61-69, 1990), and human
patients have experienced similar results. Cancer therapists commonly know
about this, so you’ll often find cancer patients on various types of mushroom
supplements.
After extensive research, the only mushroom brand I recommend, however, is

from JHS Naturals (particularly their Reishi capsules) because of the
manufacturing process of the product that are guaranteed to capture and
concentrate the active ingredients. If you buy mushrooms manufactured from any
other company -- and especially if you take liquid extracts (which always should
be avoided) -- then you’re probably wasting your money. You can reach JHS at
888-330-691 (www.jhsnp.com).
Taking mushrooms slowly boosts the immune system, and this is one of the
wisest things you can do after radiation exposure. Reishi and Coriolus
mushrooms (which fight cancer) would be the mushrooms of choice, though I
would also consider eating Cat’s Claw (from Phytotherapy Research
Laboratories in Lobelville, Tennessee 800-274-3727) because it’s known to help
prevent damage to DNA and repair damaged DNA as well. Thymus extract is
also a well known immunological stimulant.
The beta glucan polysaccaride, which is manufactured from yeast, has also
shown post-radiation protective effects on mice. Mice injected with the glucans
before radiation had a 100% survival rate compared to a 100% lethal rate for
mice without treatment. As with the mushrooms, it is suspected that the glucans
stimulate the immune system and protect the blood-forming cells that are
otherwise very susceptible to radiation damage.
Acemannan, which is an aloe vera extract, has shown a similar radioprotective

effect when ingested and another polysaccharide similar to acemannan,
mannuronan, increased the survival rates of irradiated mice also because of the
immune system and repair system factors that repair the damage from radiation.
The firm Mannatech is one of the acknowledged leaders in producing

polysaccaride compounds and glyconutrients as immune boosting nutritional
supplements. They have one product Ambrotose -- which contains
arabinogalactan, Manapol, aloe vera gel extract and other glyconutrients -- and is
popular as an immune stimulant.
There are quite a few reports of the radioprotection abilities of polysaccharides

and also of the radioprotective effect of cytokines, which we’ll get into. However,
the use of polysaccharides instead of the pharmacological cytokine drugs is likely
to be a more economic and safer method of radioprotection because the
cytokines are both costly and toxic at radioprotective doses.
The aloe vera extract acemannan does not show such toxicity and is often
discussed as a possibility for radioprotection usage for humans in space travel.
In short, aloe vera is something you want on hand if you are expecting radiation
exposure.
Lastly, Russian researchers -- due to orders by the Russian military to develop

protection against biological warfare agents -- discovered a lactobacillus bacteria
that that immune-stimulating properties. The cell walls and cell wall fractions of
Lactobacillus bulgaricus have been developed into a product called Del-Immune,
available from Allergy Research. Known as Blastolen in Russia, the product has
demonstrated antiradiation and antitumoral properties: “Clinical results shows
the stimulation effect of hemopoiesis and immunity system, increase of white
cells, decrease the anemia and stabilization of immunity factors.” The product
can be used for cancer patients and patients suffering from radiation exposure.
Ginseng for Energy and Strength
People who receiving cancer radiation treatment often benefit greatly from taking
Siberian ginseng, also known as Eleuthero.
Though the full dimensions of the protective mechanism is still unknown, Siberian
Ginseng also exerts a definite radioprotective effect and has been demonstrated
to lessen the side effects of radiation. In fact, it was widely distributed by the
Soviet Union to those exposed to radiation during the Chernobyl accident to
counteract the effects of radiation and is commonly used to help cancer patients
undergoing radiation therapy.
In The Road to Immunity (Pocket Books, 1997), Kenneth Block quotes cancer
doctor Dharmananda as saying, “cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy
who receive ginseng have higher recovery rates and report a greater sense of
well-being than patients who receive radiation alone.”
In The Healing Power of Ginseng, The Enlightened Person's Guide (Prima,

1996), Paul Bergner states that in human clinical trials, people who took
American ginseng extract (Panax quinquefolium) for 30 days following radiation
exposure had a quicker recovery from injuries to their bone marrow, organs, skin,
and blood cells. Bergner quotes Japanese researcher Dr M. Yonezawa as
saying that "ginseng appears to be the most useful agent available for protection
against radiation damage."
Another Japanese researcher, K. Hirashima, has been quoted in Fighting

Radiation & Chemical Pollutants, by Steven Schechter, as saying, “Since
recovering of blood-forming stem cells is a fundamental requirement for a
radioprotective substance, this result would confirm the efficacy of ginseng
extract as a radioprotective substance.”
In animal studies, when ginseng was given to radiation exposed animals a far
greater proportion survived in the ginseng-supplemented group compared with
the control group exposed to radiation without ginseng (Yonezawa et al. 1981;
Rhee et al. 1991; Kim et al. 1993, 1996).
In one study, it doubled the life span of rats exposed to prolonged radiation and
when it was combined with antibiotics, the life span of irradiated rats increased
threefold (Ben Hur E. and Fulder S. “Effects of Panax ginseng saponins and
Eleuthrococcus senticosus on the survival of cultured mammalian cells after
ionising radiation.” Am J Clin Med Vol 9. pp 48-56, 1981). Ginseng provided a
definite protection against damage to healthy cells, which suggests its value
during radiation therapy.
Panax ginseng, in particular, has been known to accelerate the recovery of red
and white blood cells after radiation injury, help prevent hemorrhaging during
post-radiation exposure, prevent bone marrow death and stimulate bone marrow
growth -- all of which protect against hematopoietic syndrome.
Siberian ginseng, also known as eleuthero, has been used for well over 2,000
years in China, particularly to prevent respiratory tract infections as well as colds
and flu. It was also believed to provide energy and vitality. In Russia, eleuthero
was originally used to increase stamina, endurance, performance to decrease
infections and to prevent stress-related illness.
The short of it is that ginseng can not only help give you energy, but can revive
blood cells damaged by radiation exposure and minimize cell damage to the
bone marrow, skin and internal organs from radiation. It’s an adaptogen, which
means it increases the general resistance of an individual and helps increase
your body’s ability to adapt to internal or external stresses. It is well known for
inhibiting the metastatis of cancer and the growth of new tumors so it’s
something I recommend after heavy radiation exposure.
With over 1,000 studies behind it, Siberian ginseng can definitely help you
protect your body from the various stresses caused by radiation exposure.
Aloe Vera for Radiation Burns and Healing
Aloe Vera has a long history for treating serious radiation burns and offering
radioprotective effects.
In 1953, Lushbaugh and co-workers at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (C.
C. Lushbaugh, J. B Storer, and D. B. Hale, “Experimental acute radiodermatitis
following beta radiation. I. Its pathogenisis and repair,” Cancer, 6 (4), 671-7,
1953; C. C. Lushbaugh and D. B. Hale, “Experimental Acute Radiodermatitis
following Beta Radiation. V. Histopathological Study of the Mode of Action of
Therapy with Aloe Vera,” Cancer, 6, 690-9 , 1953) found that fresh aloe vera gel
was very effective in helping to heal beta radiation-induced skin burns on rabbits
exposed to radioactive strontium, and cut healing times to less than half.
This government discovery has led to the isolation of the active component of
aloe vera gel, acemannan, which we previously mentioned. In more recent years
studies have shown that acemannan has strong radioprotective effects in rats
subjected to sublethal doses of radiation (S. F. Egger, G. S. Brown, L. S. Kelsey,
K. M. Yates, L. J. Rosenberg, and J. E. Talmadge, “Hematopoietic augmentation
by a beta-1,4-linked mannan,” Cancer Immunol. Immunother., 43, 195-205,
1996; R. W. Fogelman, J. M. Chapdelaine, R. H. Carpenter, B. H. McAnalley,
“Toxicologic evaluation of injectable acemannan in the mouse, rat and dog,”
Veterinary and Human Toxicology, 34, 201-5, 1992).
Roberts and Travis (“Acemannan-containing wound dressing gel reduces

radiation-induced skin reactions in C3H mice,” International Journal of Radiation
Oncology Biology Physics, 32 (4), 1047-1052, 1995) have also found that an aloe
vera wound dressing gel reduces acute radiation-induced skin reactions in mice if
applied daily for at least 2 weeks beginning immediately after irradiation.”
The authors noted that “acemannan ... induces secretion of several cytokines,
including tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-1. Some of these cytokines are
thought to regulate wound healing and might also affect acute radiation injury.”
Another theory, however, is that chlorophyll will promote radiation wounds as

well. Since radiation burns have been repaired by quite a few plants that contain
a significant amount of chlorophyll, scientists wonder whether this could be the
active ingredient in some cases (Holmes GW and Mueller HP, “Treatment of
post-irradiation erythema with chlorophyll ointment,” Am J Roentgenol Rad Ther,
50 210-213, 1943). Strange how the importance of chlorophyll content keeps
popping up in radiation repair (ex. Spirulina, chlorella, etc.).
Without making a long story of it, the various aloe vera results … and others
still… show that acemannan has a strong post-irradiation radioprotective effect.
Radiation tends to cook your tissues, and people often drink aloe vera gels by
mixing it into drinks or eat various aloe vera supplements to help heal internal
injuries.
For radiation burns, aloe vera gel (which you squeeze out of the cut plant onto
the skin) is a definite recommendation though it doesn’t work for all types of
radiation injuries and should be used within 5 days of the appearance of burns.
R Pur Aloe International (800-888-2563) is one of the few aloe companies I can
recommend because its products are extremely pure, non- contaminated and
absent of fillers. I recommend them. When purchasing aloe supplements, be
careful of buying highly diluted aloe products because in many cases the actual
aloe content of what you buy is near zero despite “aloe vera” on the label.
Because they are so handy, you can also buy a few aloe plants and keep them
around the house for when you ever need them. Another plant, the spiderwort,
is so sensitive to changes in radiation levels that you can also plant it and use it
as a natural radiation detector (dosimeter), just as they use canaries in mines as
detectors of poisonous gas.
Whenever the spiderwort plant is exposed to even low levels of radiation, its
normally blue petals start to turn pink and the greater the radiation exposure, the
greater the mutation. That’s cool -- a silent warning system!
Since 1974, the Spiderwort plant has been successfully tested in Japan as a
reliable indicator of radiation and the Biology Department of Brookhaven National
Laboratory (in Upton, New York) has also shown that it can detect low levels of
radiation in the environment.
Various Herbs
Mint extract has protected mice against the gastrointestinal death and bone
marrow deaths caused by radiation sickness (“Influence of the leaf extract of
Mentha arvensis Linn. (mint) on the survival of mice exposed to different doses of
gamma radiation,” Jagetia GC, Baliga MS, Strahlenther Onkol. 2002
Feb;178(2):91-8).
Chaparral, which can be highly toxic, chelates heavy metals in the body and also
protects against the harmful effects of radiation and the formation of tumors and
cancer cells. In folk medicine, chaparral has been used to treat leukemia and
many different types of cancers. Many people with cancer have claimed tumor
shrinkage or complete remission using only chaparral capsules or tea. The plant
contains immune stimulating polysaccharides and a key that has strong
antitumor properties.
Burdock root, which has been used as a blood purifier for centuries, and which
is also included in the famous Hoxsey formula and Rene Caisse's Essiac cancer
formulas, is said to remove radioactive isotopes from the body as part of its
ability to neutralize and eliminate poisons from the body. Essiac tea, by the way,
is a famous cancer preventative whose constituents (burdock root, sheep sorrel,
slippery elm bark, turkey rhubarb root) tend to clean the body and help dissolve
tumors.
Burdock also supports the bladder, kidney and liver, contains niacin and an
abundance of minerals, particularly iron. Hungarian studies have shown
considerable antitumor activity in burdock and Japanese scientists at Nagoya
University have isolated an anti-mutation property in burdock, which they call the
“B factor,” that is uniquely capable of reducing cell mutation in either the absence
or the presence of metabolic activation.
Turmeric, which contains the ingredient curcumin that makes curry and
mustard yellow, is said to substantially decrease the damaging effects of
radiation. While the herb has low toxicity and strong antioxidant activity, the
verdict is still out on whether curcumin does or does not protect against cellular
damage from radiation, for the effect may be dose dependent.
Animal tests by Paul Okunieff and Ivan Ding at the University of Rochester’s
Wilmot Cancer Center have shown that curcumin protects the skin during
radiotherapy. Administering turmeric prior to a dose of radiation led to far fewer
radiation burns than occurred among laboratory mice which didn’t get turmeric.
Other herbs have been known to treat radiation, or cancer (leukemia) or protect
against radiation as well. The list is so extensive it can make your head spin.
Red clover, Periwinkle (Vinca rosea) and autumn primrose (Colchicum
officinale) are used in leukemia treatment as examples.
Basil, which contains two water soluble flavonoids called orientin and vicenin,
has also been proven to protect the white blood cells, chromosomes and bone
marrow from radiation poisoning (“Protection against radiation-induced
chromosome damage in mouse bone marrow by Ocimum sanctum,” Mutat Res.
1997 Feb 3;373(2):271-6; “Enhancement of bone marrow radioprotection and
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Frankly, there are just too many herbs with reported radioprotective effects and
to make such a list would be to create a “worthless cookbook “of this and that
without any order to it.
If you have radiation exposure, you need to go to an herbalist, Chinese doctor,

nutritionist or naturopath with lots of herbal experience to know which herbs to
take for whatever are your specific symptoms. The ones I’ve mentioned are just
to give you a sample of the findings out there.
What I would do, however, is eat the miso soup, the brassica vegetables, and the
mushrooms as an immune stimulant. As to various supplements, they’re next …
Various Supplements
The medical literature has an incredible number of reports on the radioprotective

effects of nutritional substances and their abilities to repair RNA and DNA
damage caused by radiation.
In short, commercially available nutritional supplements that remarkable health
benefits and definite radioprotective effects.
But which ones?
The studies suggest that there is a synergistic radioprotective effect from
taking a variety of these supplements together because the combined effects
of these supplements will exceed the radioprotective effect of any single
individual supplement alone.
That’s a key finding that has come out of several studies -- A. I. Gaziev, A. J.
Podlutsy, B. M. Panfilov, and R. Bradbury, “Dietary-supplements of antioxidants
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Brezani, and N. Mackova, “The invivo effects of culture-medium— 1.
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medium in mice,” Physiol. Res., 40 (5), 493-502, 1991; J. R. Maisin, “Protection
against ionizing-radiation by combinations of radioprotectors,” Pharmacol.
Therap., 39 (1-3), 189-193, 1988.
Actually, what this suggests is that taking a good multivitamin-multimineral
supplement like Supernutrition Perfect Blend or Patrick Quillin’s
Immunopower is the way to go to maximize your health, immunity,
radioprotective and healing abilities rather than pick specific individual
supplements.
I could cite study after study championing the benefits of cysteine, SOD
(superoxide dismutase, which has been studied as a radioprotector), vitamin E,
vitamin C, carnosine, lecithin, thymus extract, melatonin, silymarin (milk thistle),
ginkgo, abana, beta carotene, lycopene, EGCG and other factors with proven
radioprotective effects, immune stimulating properties or proven abilities to help
repair damaged RNA/DNA.
You can read a study by Weiss and Landower (“Protection against ionizing
radiation by antioxidant nutrients and phytochemicals,” Toxicology 189, 1-20,
2003) for just a short review of relevant findings.
I could tell you that a deficiency of vitamins and minerals can mimic radiation
exposure because the deficiencies can damage DNA via the same mechanism
as radiation (Ames BN. “DNA damage from micronutrient deficiencies is likely to
be a major cause of cancer,” Mut Res 2001;475:7-20).
I could also list minerals and supplements like zinc, magnesium, the B-vitamins
and so on that are necessary for cellular repair and countering RNA/DNA
damage. Boy that list would be long!
I could make list after list until you are confused and don’t know what to take, but
what’s the point when you get all of them in a good multivitamin-mineral, as
recommended, and in foods such as chlorella, spirulina, seaweeds, brassica, and
so forth.
The key after radiation exposure is to eat easily digestible, high quality foods that
can supply you with these nutrients … or to take green powder mixtures of foods
(like ProGreens, Emerald Greens, Living Fuel Rx) that can supply you with
these nutrients in an easily absorbable form.
Incidentally, that’s why people do juicing, which helps after healing, and while no
studies have been done it may help for healing after radiation exposure. Why?
Simply because by juicing you are making the feed easy to digest and absorb,
and that’s the key to repairing the body. After radiation you want to be supplying
your body with immune-stimulating and repair supplements, and whether that’s
by spirulina, chlorella, seaweeds, miso soup, sardines, or juicing, that’s exactly
what you want to be doing.
With this whole list of foods, you now know what to concentrate on and most of
all, you know to stay away from sweets, wheats and sugars.
That’s a key part of the anti-radiation diet.
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Revici and Fatty Acids
In the field of radiation therapy, there is a man whose work is hardly known,
famous cancer doctor Emanuel Revici, MD.
In a lecture entitled “The Influence of Irradiation Upon Unsaturated Fatty Acids,”

presented in London in 1950 to the Sixth Annual Congress of Radiology, Dr.
Revici went over the fact that the effects of severe radiation poisoning tend to
increase over time due to a cascading effect of more and more fatty acids
becoming abnormal. His paper shows that abnormally-conjugated trienic fatty
acids (leukotrienes) induce radiation illness.
Revici was one of the first ones to do substantial research in this area,
concentrating on the study of lipids and radiation. It’s a topic we barely touched
upon so far but in this particular lecture and in his monographs, Revici correctly
described the inflammatory effects of leukotrienes (trienic conjugated fatty acids)
and their derivation from arachidonic acid, research that was paralleled decades
later by Bengt Samuelsson, who won a Nobel Prize for the discovery.
What happens is that if there is a fatty acid imbalance, a small bit of radiation
damage will actually grow worse over time until the effects are unstoppable.
Revici developed a oxalic acid index to measure abnormal fatty acids in the
body, and determined that once this index reached a critical level, death was
certain.
When the USSR suffered the Chernobyl accident and many doctors were
volunteering their services to perform bone marrow transplants for the radiation
victims, Revici felt that the approach of using bone marrow transplants to save
Soviet radiation victims would not work but was actually doomed to failure
because, ”So long as (abnormal fatty acids) are in the body, they will act against
transplanted bone marrow cells.”
In other words, for the acute radiation sickness hematopoietic syndrome where
bone marrow transplants are considered, Revici basically said you have to check
fatty acid conditions to see whether that approach would be successful.
Research on animals have suggested that a variety of cytokines might be useful

for the hematopoietic syndrome that often requires this bone marrow therapy, but
most of them are not currently available or yet approved for human use. We’ll get
to them soon.
Anyway, Revici believed that the best antidote for the radiation poisoning was a
fatty acid antagonist and he developed a product, n-butanol, which has been
proved particularly useful in treating radiation burns.
Here’s the point of this whole short chapter, however, which is why I wrote this
up.
If you suffer from radiation poisoning and you don’t do anything to correct the
fatty acid imbalance in your body, then even if you take neutropenia (white blood
cell) stimulating growth factors, as just discussed, you may still die because you
are not treating a crucial part of the equation. You need to work on your fatty
acid imbalance.
I only wish to point out this major area of concern because further research
should be done in this area that I believe has been greatly overlooked.
Furthermore, I’m mentioning this because it would be beneficial if we all saw

more research done on n-butanol and its uses in radiation detoxification as well
as on Perse and Bionar, two drugs Revici developed that can detoxify drug
addicts without any side-effects whatsoever!
Despite fruitless requests to contact the Revici Foundation, very little information
has been available to me on the fatty acid antagonists that Revici developed for
radiation injury, or the specifics of his testing mechanism. So while we’ve talked
of seaweeds, miso, clays and baths, etc. I don’t want you to overlook this topic of
fatty acids and the need for clean sources of fatty acids in the diet after the free
radical damage of radiation exposure.
In the literature, there is very little information on fatty acid rancidity due to
radiation exposure and how to counter it other than through the use of
antioxidants (such as vitamin E, the thiol antioxidants, vitamin C, etc.), many of
which you will naturally get through the radiation diet. We do know that natural
beta-carotene protects against the lipid oxidation and acts as a fatty acid
antioxidant radioprotector, but the big thing is the fatty acid imbalance itself.
There’s one more big thing of interest along these lines.
Dr. Revici's, years ago, stated that cod liver oil fatty acids had a high
anticancer value and this received corroboration at the 1987 American Cancer
Society Science Writers Seminar, where Dr. Otto Plescia (Professor of
Immunochemistry at Rutgers University) concluded that a diet with "inclusion of
omega-3 fatty acids abundant in certain fish oils, reduces the risk of breast
cancer." In terms of radiation, mice exposed to large doses of radiation survived
50-100% longer than normal if fed cod liver oil.
When you follow the writings of modern complementary physicians such as

Julian Whitaker, David William or Joseph Mercola (www.Mercola.com ) and
others, you will find a consistent recommendation to eat cod liver fish oil and flax
seed oil, evening primrose, borage, olive and other similar oils to help restore
proper fatty acid balance in the body.
Just as Revici predicted, cod liver oil is one of the most often recommended oils
for the purposes of rebuilding one’s health. Another often cited oil is olive oil,
and two sets of experiment in Spain (Ilbanez and Castellanos) showed that olive
oil fully protected rats against increasing doses of damaging X-ray irradiation.
Carlson’s and Nordic Naturals are trustworthy brands for cod liver oil. Olive oil
has many producers, but the Omega brands of cold pressed oils are particularly
good for vegetable oils. For olive oil, you want the virgin cold pressed oil.
Like Revici, Hopewell has also studied polyunstarturated fatty acids as a means
of treating chronic radiation injuries (Hopewell, JW. 1999 “Modifying radiation
injury to normal tissues: new opportunities,” Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and
Oncology, 32, 9-20) but perhaps the most interesting work in this area has been
performed by the German biochemist, Dr. Johanna Budwig, who was an expert
on fats and oils.
Dr. Johanna Budwig worked for 30 years to discover the importance of fatty acids
in the diet and is world famous for the development of a diet that uses organic,
raw, cold-pressed flaxseed oil and low-fat cottage cheese to treat cancer.
The Budwig diet formula uses a ratio of two tablespoons of flaxseed oil mixed
with one-quarter cup of low-fat cottage cheese over approximately a three-month
period to reduce tumors, fight weakness and treat the anemia that often
appeared in cancer patients. Therefore it treats symptoms similar to those who
suffer from radiation injury.
Whatever you do -- whether it’s cod liver oil or flax seed oil -- remember that you
can also get fish oils through the nucleotide rich sardines, mackerel, and
anchovies that are rich in nucleotides that we previously recommended, but for
an even stronger detox and rebuilding potential the supplementation of cod liver
oil to your diet is most likely merited after radiation exposure.
In any case, you now know what oils to be consuming for an anti-radiation diet.
The right oils will help you build strong cells and fight infection, so they are
merited for the diet in general.
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Prussian Blue, DTPA and Neupogen
If someone is a victim of radiation exposure, they require prompt medical

attention. Patients should be stabilized and then assessed for radiation injury on
the basis of dose, isotope, and whether there is internal contamination by
radioactive substances.
The medical management of patients with moderate to severe radiation exposure

should emphasize treatment of radiation-induced neutropenia and the prevention
of infections. The term “neutropenia” describes the situation where the number
of neutrophils in the blood is too low.
Neutrophils are the most common type of white blood cell (comprising 50-70% of
circulating white blood cells) that are very important in defending the body
against bacterial infections, and therefore, a patient with too few neutrophils is
more susceptible to infections, which is one of the big worries after radiation
exposure.
In fact, infection is one of the leading causes of mortality after whole body
radiation exposure. This suggests one avoid sugars and sweets in the diet, which
depress the immune system, and take immune boosting supplements after
radiation exposure. To bolster the immune system, you can take mushroom
products or beta-glucans.
The level of neutropenia may vary considerably. In general, the blood of healthy
adults contains about 1500 to 7000 neutrophils per mm3. In children under 6
years of age the neutrophil count may be lower. The severity of neutropenia
generally depends on the absolute neutrophil count (ANC) and is described as
follows:
• Mild neutropenia, when the ANC falls below a lower limit of 1500 per mm3
but remains higher than 1000 per mm3
• Moderate neutropenia, when the ANC falls between 500 per mm3 and
1000 per mm3 (which suggests moderate radiation exposure)
• Severe neutropenia, when the ANC falls below 500 per mm3 (which
suggests severe radiation exposure)
Upon severe radiation exposure, the initial care should focus on reducing the
chances of infection through isolation and provision of low-microbial-content food
and water, selective use of GI decontamination, and prevention of opportunistic
viral and fungal infections.
An infection in the neutropenic patient, which can develop when not enough
white blood cells are available to fight bacteria, is managed in the same manner
as for chemotherapy patients. These patients who develop febrile neutropenia
(neutropenia plus a fever) must then be hospitalized and treated with intravenous
antibiotics in an effort to eliminate the infection.
Since folic acid and vitamin B-12 deficiencies can cause neutropenia, their
supplementation after radiation exposure is warranted along with vitamin B-6 as
well.
A new drug, HE2100 (Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals), is under development in

conjunction with the US Department of Defense for neutropenia and while there
have not yet been human trials, it shows promise in treating whole body radiation
exposure.
In animal studies, HE2100 speeds up the body’s ability to produce new white
blood cells and lowers the risk of neutropenia. The company’s pilot study
indicated that when HE2100 was given 24 hours before or 2-4 hours after
radiation exposure, there was a statistically significant reduction in neutropenia in
test animals compared to controls.
If internal contamination is suspected, the medically stabilized patient should be

evaluated for internal contamination through a history of the event, 24 hours
urine/fecal bioassay, and/or in vivo counting. Suspected isotopes should be
identified, if possible.
Prussian Blue
If there is evidence for significant intake of radioactive isotopes, the most

appropriate means for minimizing the impact of contamination s determined on
the basis of the isotope’s chemical properties.
After a significant review of cases in the published literature, the FDA issued a
news release on January 31, 2003 (P03-06) where it stated that 500-mg
Prussian blue capsules would be a safe and effective treatment for treating
patients with internal contamination of radioactive thallium, non-radioactive
thallium, or radioactive cesium.
Prussian Blue, which has been used as an industrial pigment since the 1700’s, is
not routinely available for radioactive detoxification. People should not take
Prussian Blue artist’s dye in an attempt to treat themselves. This type of Prussian
blue is not designed to treat radioactive contamination and is not manufactured in
a germ-free area. People who are concerned about the possibility of being
contaminated with radioactive cesium or thallium should go to their doctors for

advice and treatment.
When approved for medical use, Prussian Blue is supplied in 500-milligram

capsules that are manufactured by HEYL Chemisch-pharmazeutische Fabrik
GmbH & Co. KG (HEYL). HEYL uses the trade name Radiogardase-Cs for its
500-mg capsules of Prussian Blue, which can be swallowed whole or mixed in
liquid for children to drink. It is only approved for limited use. The amount to be
taken depends on how badly a person is contaminated.
Prussian Blue must be taken 3-4 times a day for up to 150 days, depending on
the extent of the contamination, under the supervision of a doctor. The drug is
safe for all adults, children, and infants, including pregnant women and women
who are breast-feeding their babies. Prussian Blue may not be recommended for
people who have had constipation or blockages in the intestines.
The main effects of Prussian Blue are constipation and upset stomach. People
will have blue feces during the time that they are taking Prussian Blue.
Prussian Blue is probably the first internal therapy that would be useful in
reducing the body’s exposure to radioactive particles by removing the
contaminants from the body. Radioactive cesium and thallium, whether ingested
or inhaled, end up in the intestines and Prussian Blue works by binding the
particles in the gut -- trapping these materials in the intestines -- and keeps them
from being absorbed by the body. The radioactive materials then move through
the intestines and are excreted in bowel movements so that they are eliminated
from the body.
Prussian Blue reduces the biological half-life of cesium in the body from about
115 days to about 40 days. Prussian Blue reduces the biological half-life of
thallium from about 8 days to about 3 days. Because Prussian Blue reduces the
time that radioactive cesium and thallium stay in the body, it helps limit the
amount of time the body is exposed to radiation.
Prussian Blue has been long used since the 1960s as an orally ingested drug to
increase fecal excretion of cesium and thallium from the body without itself being
absorbed by the intestines in the process. People are therefore commonly
prescribed Prussian Blue during an emergency when cesium or thallium has
entered their bodies.
Thallium, which occurs naturally, is very toxic and used in rat poisons, ant
poisons, and in manufacturing semiconductors, photocells and optical glass.
Thallium-201, a radioactive isotope, is used in small doses as a radio-imaging
agent in clinical diagnostic procedures. Exposure to high doses of radioactive or
non-radioactive thallium causes severe gastrointestinal symptoms followed by

neurological symptoms, which may cause death.
Cesium-137 is a radioactive product found in the fallout of nuclear weapons and

in the waste discharge of nuclear power plants. It is sometimes used as a source
of radiation for cancer treatment and is a worrisome isotope in the sense that it
could be a potential component of “dirty bombs” designed to spread radioactive
contamination.
For Cesium-137 contamination, the most effective detoxification (“decorporation”)

therapy is oral administration of Prussian Blue (PB), which enhances excretion of
cesium by means of ion exchange and reduces the biological half-life to
approximately one-third of its normal value. The FDA reports,
In reaching our determination on the effectiveness of Prussian blue,

we evaluated published reports of a 1987 incident in Goi[acirc]nia,
Brazil, where approximately 250 people were contaminated with
cesium-137 that had been abandoned after use in a cancer clinic
(see International Atomic Energy Agency, 1998). Forty-six patients
with heavy internal contamination were treated with Prussian blue.
Data on the whole-body effective half-life of cesium-137 during
treatment and after treatment with Prussian blue was completed on
33 of the 46 patients. The untreated mean whole-body effective
half-life of cesium-137 is 80 days in adults, 62 days in adolescents,
and 42 days in children. Prussian blue reduced the mean whole-
body effective half-life of cesium-137 by 69 per cent in adults, by 46
per cent in adolescents, and by 43 per cent in children (see
International Atomic Energy Agency, 1998). Data from additional
literature articles, including a study of 7 human volunteers
contaminated with trace doses of cesium-137 and reports on 19
patients contaminated with cesium-137 in other incidents, show a
similar reduction in whole-body effective half-life after
administration of Prussian blue (see Madhus, 1968 and National
Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement, 1979).
We also evaluated reports in the literature that describe
33 patients who were treated with Prussian blue for nonradioactive
thallium poisoning. Prussian blue treatment reduced the mean
serum biologic half-life of thallium from 8 days to 3 days (see
Barbier, 1974; De Groot, 1985; Van Kesteren, 1980; and Vrij,
1995).
PB now has new drug status with the FDA and is to be included in the National
Strategic Stockpile.
Sodium Bicarbonate
With uranium exposure, the kidney is usually the first organ to show chemical
damage. Oral doses or infusions of sodium bicarbonate help alkalinize urine,
makes the uranyl ion less nephrotoxic and thereby promotes excretion of the
nontoxic uranium carbonate complex.
DTPA Chelation
For inhalation of actinides, the treatment of choice is chelation therapy using

calcium trisodium Ca-DTPA and zinc trisodium Zn-DTPA, preferably within six
hours of exposure.
Since the 1960s, doctors have successfully used DTPA to treat people who have
been internally contaminated with certain radioactive materials, such as
americium, plutonium, californium, curium, and berkelium. With special
permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), DTPA also may
be used to treat people who have been internally contaminated with the following
radioactive materials: cerium, yttrium, lanthanum, promethium, scandium,
zirconium, and niobium.
Basically, DTPA is a calcium (Ca) or zinc (Zn) salt that has been used for more
than 40 years to perform medical imaging of the brain, kidneys, and lungs. Both
forms of DTPA -- calcium (Ca-DTPA) and zinc (Zn-DTPA) -- are capable of
binding to certain radioactive materials and accelerating the release of these
materials in the urine, thus reducing the amount of internal radioactive
contamination.
Ca-DTPA is safe for most adults, but it should not be taken by people who have
kidney disease or bone marrow depression. Also, Ca-DTPA should not be taken
by children younger than 18 years of age, by pregnant women, or by people who
have bone marrow problems.
Children and pregnant women who are under a doctor’s care can take small
doses of Zn-DTPA. DTPA should not be used to treat people who are internally
contaminated with the radioactive materials uranium or neptunium.
Most DTPA is excreted (released) in the urine within 12 hours after it is given, so
it does not build up in the body or cause long-term health effects. Side effects of
treatment with DTPA can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, fever, itching
skin, and muscle cramps, but these symptoms decrease between treatments.
Also, although DTPA increases the loss of the mineral zinc from the body, zinc
supplements can be taken to offset this loss.
As an intravenous chelation therapy, DTPA is injected into a vein in the arm over
a 2-hour period in a slow drip of liquid from a bag, or over a 3- to 5-minute period
using a syringe. DTPA can also be injected into the muscle, however, injecting
DTPA directly into muscle causes significant pain in the area of the injection.
EDTA chelation has often been utilized in the past on various medical
emergencies where nuclear workers were exposed to radiation materials, so this
is a tried and tested procedure.
The intravenous chelation fluid usually contains not only DPTA but 25-50 grams
of vitamin C along with calcium gluconate to prevent excess calcium loss. A
number of other antioxidants, such as glutathione or alpha lipoic acid, may also
be warranted in the mixture to help with healing and free radical damage.
Because Ca-DTPA causes the body to lose some necessary minerals, such as
zinc and magnesium, people usually are given Ca-DTPA only during the first
several days of the treatment. During these first several days, doctors collect
urine and blood samples from the people who are undergoing treatment because
they provide information about levels of radioactive materials in the body. Zn-
DTPA is used after the first several days, because it does not cause the body to
lose minerals as quickly.
DTPA may need to be administered as often as 5 days a week for a period of

several years to ensure that the body excretes as much radioactive material as
possible.
Neupogen
We have previously mentioned the use of cytokines for radiation treatment, but
now we’ve finally reached the point where we are going to discuss them in detail.
When a person has received a very high dose of radiation, destruction of the
bone marrow, which can potentially result in uncontrolled bleeding and infection,
is a major medical concern. To help the recovery of the bone marrow, doctors
can administer growth factors to a patient in order to stimulate the blood cells to
multiply faster.
Filgrastim (trade name Neupogen®) is a drug that was approved for use by the
FDA in 1991 for cancer patients with bone marrow damage due to chemotherapy
or radiotherapy, and it fits this bill. It is a specific type of cytokine -- a hormone-
like protein that acts as a communicator between immune system cells relaying
messages, telling them to grow or stop growing or move to a trouble spot -- that
stimulates the growth of white blood cells.
Clinical experience shows that cancer patients treated with Neupogen have had
fewer infections, less need for intravenous antibiotics, and shortened hospital
stays than those who did not receive the drug. Neupogen may also be useful for
patients who have bone marrow damage from accidental exposures to high
doses of radiation and it is expected to provide similar benefits.
Just like a cancer patient who has received radiation therapy, a person who has
been exposed to a high dose of radiation may experience bone marrow
destruction, which can possibly result in uncontrolled bleeding and infection.
They are often are left with very few white blood cells because of the radiation
damage. The patient’s own bone marrow will eventually create new blood cells,
but this is a slow process and until the white blood cell counts rise sufficiently, in
the meantime patients are at a high risk of death from infection.
Since Neupogen has been used successfully on cancer patients to stimulate the
growth of the white blood cells, making them less vulnerable to infections, it is
expected to help patients who have bone marrow damage from very high doses
of radiation in much the same way. Neupogen can speed up the process of white
blood cell creation, reducing the time that the patient is vulnerable to infection.
Neupogen is safe for most adults, but should not be taken by people who have
known hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived proteins, filgrastim, or any component of
filgrastim. Children and pregnant women should take Neupogen with caution. It is
not known if Neupogen is excreted in human milk, so breastfeeding women
should take Neupogen with caution as well.
The possible side effects of Neupogen include fever, diarrhea, skin rash and
weakness. The most common side effect is mild to moderate bone pain.
Neupogen is given by injection under the skin or through intravenous infusion.

The treatment plan is to give 5 micrograms per kilogram of patient weight
(mcg/kg) of G-CSF filgrastim (Neupogen) daily for up to 2 weeks, either by
injection or intravenous infusion.
While filgrastim (Neupogen), a granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is

probably the most cited hematopoietic growth factor for radiation damage, there
is also sargramostim Leukine®, a granulocytemacrophage colony-stimulating
factor (GM–CSF) and the long-acting cytokine Neulasta®.
All of these drugs are based on cytokine research and stimulate the production of
T-lymphocytes, macrophages, and other immune system cells and shorten the
time to recovery of neutrophils. In other words, they shorten neutropenia caused
by radiation exposure and thereby help bolster the immune system. They are
readily used on cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy because they prevent
or reduce the number of severe infections.
In addition, the yeast glucan natural supplements (such as beta-1,3-D-glucan)

also have well documented bone marrow protective effects and hematopoietic
recovery abilities.
For maximum clinical response in the case of radiation exposure, it’s reported
that the various pharmaceutical growth factors should be started 24 to 72 hours
after radiation exposure. Moreover, irradiated animal tests have demonstrated a
survival advantage when animals are given early cytokine treatments (<24 hours)
as compared to those receiving delayed therapy or no treatment at all.
A Summary of Therapeutic Possibilities
We’ve just gone over a few of the post-radiation therapeutic possibilities, but
there are many more options that belong totally in the hands of medical
professions. The gamut of possibilities includes:
• ACE inhibitors for the kidney, lung and CNS)
• Growth factors (G-CSF, GM-CSF, KGF, EPO) to treat the bone marrow,
whole body
• Chelating and isotope-competing agents (Prussian Blue, 7 DTPA, EDTA,

potassium iodide, penicillamine, alginates) for the thyroid and bone
marrow
• Pentoxifylline, Vitamin E and SOD to treat fibrosis
• Antiemetics to target the GI tract and CNS
• Pentoxifylline for fibrosis
• Amifostine (anticarcinogenic effects) for mutagenesis carcinogenesis

(given within 3 hours of exposure).
• Tempol and other nitroxides for the whole body and fibrosis
• Stem cell transplants (bone marrow, umbilical cord blood, peripheral

blood, liver, CNS) for the bone marrow, CNS, liver.
You’ll note that rather than emphasize radioprotectors in this manual, I’ve spent
much time talking about specific mechanisms of radiation detoxification and
radiation treatment after radiation exposure.
There are a number of reasons for this emphasis, primary of which is the fact that
you probably obtained this manual for detox purposes rather than for the
purposes of prevention or even emergency care. In a wide scale radiation
emergency, the emergency care will probably be done at the hospital.
The problem with developing chemical radioprotectors in the past (that might be
taken prior to entering a radioactive area) is that nothing has yet been found that
produce long lasting protective results, and any substances that were discovered
were usually toxic at doses that were truly radioprotective.
That’s why the cytokines and growth factors are especially valuable for their
ability to prevent radiation damage and to help accelerate the recovery of
damaged tissues. We’ve mentioned Neupogen as one such substance, but there
are a whole list of other inspiring candidates including G-SCF, GM-SCF, SCF,
IL11, MGDF, Flt-3 ligand, IL7, and new epithelial cell specific growth factors,
such as KGF (keratinocyte growth factor).
These offer promising areas of research for pharmaceutical drugs though by now
you can see that the natural detoxification and rebuilding protocols also hold
much promise, and are often extremely accessible and much cheaper than
pharmaceutical options.
As we improve our skills to treat acute radiation syndrome, we will also in time
develop better means to treat the long term consequences of radiation injury
which will have ramifications for various forms of cancer treatments. Until then,
you are once again advised to seek a physician’s help for any of the short term
and long term protocols necessary to handle acute radiation exposure and
chronic radiation induced illness.
I’ve tried my best to piece together whatever can be found on the topic of
radiation detoxification, but as a journalist must stress once again that none of
this information is to be construed as medical diagnosis or advice or a
prescription for medical treatment.
References:
“Facts About DTPA,” CDC, http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/dtpa.asp
“Facts About Neupogen,” CDC, http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/neupogenfacts.asp
“FDA Approves First New Drug Application for Treatment of Radiation Contamination due to Cesium or
Thallium,” FDA Press Release, Oct 2, 2003.
“Prussian Blue,” CDC, http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/prussianblue.asp

2003.
Coleman CN, William F. Blakely, John R. Fike, Thomas J. MacVittie, Noelle F. Metting, James B.
Mitchell, John E. Moulder, R. Julian Preston, Thomas M. Seed, Helen B. Stone, Philip J. Tofilon, and
Rosemary S. L. Wong, “MEETING REPORTMolecular and Cellular Biology of Moderate-Dose (1–10 Gy)
Radiation and Potential Mechanisms of Radiation Protection: Report of a Workshop at Bethesda,
Maryland, December 17–18, 2001,” Radiation Research 159, 812–834 (2003).
Coleman CN, Moulder J, et al. “Modulation of Radiation Injury,” Science, vol. 304, Apr 30, 2004, pp.693-
694.
Moulder, JE. “Post-irradiation approaches to the treatment of radiation injuries in the context of
radiological terorism and radiation accidents: a review,” Int J Rad Biology, Jan 2004, vol. 80, no. 1, 3-10.
Voelz GL, “Assessment and treatment of internal contamination: General principles.” In Medical
Management of Radiation Accidents,2nd ed. (I. A. Gusev, A. K. Guskova and F. A. Mettler, Eds.), pp.319–
336. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2001.
Voelz GL, “Current approaches to the management of internally contaminated persons.” In The Medical
Basis for Radiation Accident Preparedness (K. F. Hubner and S. A. Fry, Eds.), pp. 311–325.Elsevier/North
Holland, New York, 1980.
Ward, Joyce, “Radiation Protection for the 21st Century,” Advance Newsmagazines for Imaging and
Oncology Administrators, Aug 1, 2003.
Summary
That completes this short manual on radiation and radioactivity detoxification
procedures.
I wish it was longer with more information, but very little information is actually
available on this topic. What you’re reading right now is the largest compilation to
date on natural and medical detoxification procedures for radiation exposures.
As I started previously, most of the research is focused on the fact that radiation
is bad for you, and there’s little on how to detox from its effects and save
yourself. I hope this manual has helped fill some of those gaps. The information
on Dr. Akizuki alone, along with the references, may help save some lives.
The amazing thing is that what you must do always usually comes back to the
same supplements, foods or procedures. For instance, to bind radioactive
particles and excrete them out of your body, you are advised to eat chlorella and
spirulina as two options. For a high nucleotide diet you’re also advised to
consume to eat chlorella and spirulina again. To rebuild your blood quickly, give
yourself energy and boost your immunity, once again we find chlorella and
spirulina can help.
The same goes for miso soup, eating kelp and other seaweeds, fatty acids, …
Having worked in the nutritional field for ages, I was amazed to discover the
same basic strategies performing all the functions we want, which is probably
why Dr. Akizuki was able to save all of his staff and patients while only one mile
away from an atomic bomb detonation.
Perhaps the shortness of the text is best since it therefore makes the following
recommendations simple.
Here’s the final summary of well-known radiation detox procedures:
For External Contamination:
If the radioactive exposure just happened, doctors will flush the exposed areas
with copious amounts of water and clipping the hair may be warranted if there is
radioactive contamination (such as a bomb blast). In emergencies like this, you
have to wash wounds vigorously (scrub them) to make sure no radioactive
contaminants can enter the body, and sometimes this is done with special
chelation solutions.
Later at home, clay baths may pull out radioactive heavy metals from the skin
and Epson/Clorox baths are possible for this type of heavy metal detox as well.
They are used at home for general detoxification purposes and tend to energize
the body.
Internal Contamination:
If you’ve been exposed to radioactive particles, the emergency procedures can

include EDTA chelation therapy, Prussian Blue or the use of other binding
agents. Potassium iodide is taken at the first warning to block the thyroid from
radioiodide uptake, but the big worry is detoxification of internal contamination.
Appendix 1 reviews the military detox emergency procedures for radiation

exposure, and dietwise, at home people can help bind and eliminate radioactive
particles using products such as the following:
• Spirulina, chlorella and the seaweeds

• Charcoal or clay
• Green and black teas
• A high fiber diet, or chelating substances (pectin, alginates, …)
To Rebuild Immunity:
• Yeast and yeast beta glucans

• Mushrooms
• Ginseng (for energy as well) and Bee Pollen
• SeaVive
• Rebuilding the blood strategies
• A good multivitamin/multimineral supplement
• Avoid sweets and sugars, and high glycemic foods like wheat
To Rebuild the Blood (Combat Anemia):
To build the blood for the hematopoietic syndrome, beet juice, liver extract,
spleen extract, alkyglycerols and cytokine factors, like Neupogen, are warranted.
You’ll also need a good multivitamin/mineral supplement as you need trace
minerals and adequate supplies of folic acid, B-12, B-6 and other ingredients to
combat anemia and create strong blood cells.
Fish oils (cod liver oil) can help suppress levels of proinflammatory cytokines
which might cause systemic inflammation and may damage red blood cell-
forming proteins. Nettle leaf extract can be helpful.
Here’s something you probably did not know. Melatonin deficiency has been
linked to anemia, it is a well-known radioprotector and cancer fighting agent, and
can help you sleep at night. Considering that a radioactive emergency will
produce lots of stress where you cannot sleep, and factoring in all its
radioprotective and anti-cancer benefits, its use is probably highly warranted
after a radiation emergency.
Nettles leaf and yellow dock (and in some case red root) are herbs specific to
anemia as well.
We have not gone into the many naturopathic community protocols available for
quickly rebuilding the blood, but the foremost strategy is to basically to supply the
body with all the ingredients necessary to build blood cells including vitamins and
minerals and fatty acids.
You can do this through vegetable juicing, green powders, spirulina, chlorella,
seaweeds and other easily digestable foods, especially those containing large
sources of chlorophyll which can help build the blood (the chlorophyll molecule
looks extremely similar to the heme molecule of red blood cells).
As to specific herbs and formulations you can use, just as with homeopathy you
should go by the advice of a skilled practitioner.
These are the various factors that may help with hematopoietic syndrome, and
for the gastrointestinal syndrome you need to look into glutamine usage as well.
The Anti-radiation Diet:
An anti-radiation diet will focus on the following food factors:
• Avoid sugars and sweets and wheat!

• Miso soup
• Spirulina, chlorella and the algaes (kelp, etc.)
• Brassica vegetables and high beta carotene vegetables
• Beans and lentils
• A potassium, calcium and mineral rich diet
• High nucleotide content foods for repair including spirulina, chlorella,
algae, yeast, sardines, liver, anchovies and mackerel
• Cod liver oil and olive oil
• A good multivitamin/multimineral supplement; thiol antioxidants
• SeaCure or SeaVive
For Radiation Burns:
• Homeopathy
• Aloe vera
• Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
• Increase your intake of chlorophyll
• Clay plasters or wraps on the area
• Serrapeptase (Vitalzym) for fibrosis
Special Herbs and Supplements:
• A good multivitamin/multimineral supplement

• Thiol containing antioxidants (NAC, glutathione, alpha lipoic acid)
• Homeopathic remedies
• Special herbs, chosen by professionals, based on your individual condition
Appendix 1:
Emergency Procedures for Isotope Exposure
The following information is summarized from the Armed Forces

Radiobiology Research Institute’s (http://www.afrri.usuhs.mil) “Medical
Management of Radiological Casualties Handbook,” and describes the
emergency treatment for various radiation exposure scenarios:
AMERICIUM-241
• Used in smoke detectors

• In large quantities can cause whole body radiation
• When inhaled, 75% is absorbed into the bloodstream, 10% retained as
particles in the lung
• Treat using DTPA or EDTA chelation in the first 24-48 hours after
respiratory exposure
CESIUM-137
• Used in medical radiotherapy equipment

• Completely absorbed by the lungs, GI tract and by wounds
• A potassium analog
• Can be excreted in the urine
• Can cause death due to acute radiation syndrome
• Treat using Prussian blue and ion exchange resins; if early after ingestion,
induce vomiting and copious washing with water
COBALT-60
• Used in medical radiotherapy equipment and commercial food irradiators

• Can be found after improper disposal, or in abandoned hospitals
• Rapidly absorbed by the lungs, <5% absorbed in the GI tract
• Can cause whole body irradiation and acute radiation syndrome
• Treat by gastric lavage and purgatives; chelation using penicillamine for

severe cases
DEPLETED URANIUM (DU)
• Found in armor-piercing munitions, armor, and aircraft counterweights

• Inhaled compounds may be excreted through the urine
• DU fragments in wounds result in gradual whole body irradiation,
especially to the bone and kidney
• Treat with sodium bicarbonate; clean wounds to remove any particles;
laboratory analysis should monitor urinanalysis, serum BUN, creatinine,
24-hour uranium bioassay in urine, beta-2-microglobulin, creatinine
clearance, and liver function studies.
IODINE–131, 132, 134, 135
• Found after nuclear reactor accidents; a normal fission product in nuclear

fuel rods
• Thyroid uptake concentrates toxicity in the thyroid gland
• Treat expected exposure with daily administration of 130 mg of sodium or
potassium iodide (NaI, KI) will prevent uptake; Post-exposure, 300 mg NaI
or KI daily x 7 -10 days will prevent thyroid uptake. Oral propylthiouracil
100 mg q8 hours x 8 days or oral methimazole 10 mg q8 hours x 2 days,
then 5 mg q8 hours x 6 days, may also be used.
PHOSPHORUS-32
• Found in research and medical labs as a tracer

• Completely absorbed from all entry sites
• Deposited in the bone marrow and in rapidly replicating cells
• Local irradiation causes cellular damage
• Treat with copious washing, aluminum hydroxide and oral phosphates
PLUTONIUM-239, 238
• Produced by uranium used in nuclear reactors, and the primary material in

nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon accidents
• Always contaminated with americium
• Easily inhaled which produces toxicity

• Stool specimens will show “positive” after 24 hours, urine specimens
“positive” after 2 weeks
• Treat by washing from the skin; Nebulized or IV: 1 g CaDTPA within 24
hours of exposure; follow by 1 g ZnDTPA qd monitoring urine levels (IND).
RADIUM-226
• Found in former Soviet Union equipment as instrument illumination, used

in industrial applications and in older medical equipment
• Exposure by ingestion with 30% absorption rate
• Will become deposited in bone calcium
• Produces leukemia, aplastic anemia, sarcomas
• Treat by inducing immediate washing with 10% magnesium sulfate
followed by saline and magnesium purgatives after ingestion. Ammonium
chloride may increase fecal elimination.
STRONTIUM-90
• A fission product of uranium

• Readily absorbed by lungs and GI tract
• Up to 50% of dosage will be absorbed into calcium matrix of the bone
• Immediately after ingestion, the oral administration of aluminum
phosphate can decrease its absorption by as much as 85%.
Administration of stable strontium can competitively inhibit the metabolism
and increase the excretion of radiostrontium-90. Also, large doses of
calcium and acidification of the urine using ammonium chloride will
additionally increase excretion.
TRITIUM (Hydrogen-3 or 3H)
• Used in nuclear weapons, luminescent gun sights and muzzle velocity

detectors
• As a gas, it rapidly diffuses into the atmosphere
• Tritium water is excreted in urine
• Urine sample test “positive” 1 hour after exposure
• Because the half-life is 10-12 days, increasing the oral fluid intake can
reduce this by 50%, though care must be taken not to overhydrate the
individual
URANIUM-238, 235, 239
• Found in depleted uranium, natural uranium, fuel rods, weapons grade

material
• In critical mass, can produce lethal radiation levels
• After absorptions, can be excreted in the urine but cause renal failure
• Same treatment as for depleted uranium: Sodium bicarbonate makes the
uranyl ion less nephrotoxic. Tubular diuretics may be beneficial.
Laboratory evaluation should include urinalysis, 24-hour urine for uranium
bioassay, serum BUN creatinine, beta-2-microglobulin, creatinine
clearance, and liver function studies.
Appendix 2:
Tasty Sea Vegetable Recipes
The following recipes have been reprinted through the kind permission of Shep
Erhart, owner of Maine Coast Sea Vegetables (www.seaveg.com) and author of
the Sea Vegetable Celebration cookbook.
As you know, a key factor to survival and recovery from radiation exposure is to
eat foods high in natural iodine, calcium and potassium. You optimally want
foods rich in minerals and vitamins that are easily absorbed, and which can bind
radioactive wastes and wash them out of the body.
Seaweeds fit this bill, with kelp in particular.
One of the ways to incorporate the sea vegetables into your diet is through miso
soup. Here are two miso recipes, as well as a recipe for kelp potatoes:
Basic Miso Soup with Alaria
One 12-inch section alaria, soaked

1 medium onion, sliced or diced
1 teaspoon sesame oil
4 cups water
scallions or chives, chopped, for garnish
1 ½ to 2 ½ teaspoons hacho or mugi miso
Soap the alaria for 10 minutes. Chop it into bite-size pieces and saute with the
onion in the sesame oil until the fronds turn bright green.
Add the water and simmer for 30 minutes, or pressure cook for 20 minutes (cut
these times in half if the midribs have been removed).
Ladle out some soup into a bowl, stir in the miso. Pour and stir the miso mixture
back into the pot. Turn off the heat. Taste and add more miso, as desired.
Garnish with scallions or chives, and serve.
Kelp Dashi Miso Soup
2 ½ ounces kelp (2 ½ cups)

4-5 dried black mushrooms
5 quarts cold water
2 1.2 ounces sake or Xiao Xing wine
3 tablespoons taman or soy sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
One 8-ounce package somen noodles
1 bunch greens (mizuna, mustard greens, spinach, chard)
6 tablespoons barley or rice miso
2 large scallions, sliced
8 ounces silken tofu, cut into bite-size cubes
1 sheet toasted nori, cut into thin strips (optional)
Soap the kelp and mushrooms in the after for 6 hours in a 6- to 8-quart stockpot.
You can do this in the morning and finish the dashi later that day.
With a strainer spoon or tongs, take out the mushrooms. Discard the tough
stems, cut the mushroom caps into thin julienne strips, and put them back into
the pot.
Bring the kelp, mushrooms and water to a boil. Turn the heat off and let it steep
for 10 minutes. Then strain the kelp out of the stock.
Add the wine, soy sauce and sugar. Bring the dashi back to a boil and add the
somen noodles. Stir the noodles for about 2-5 minutes until they are tender. Turn
off the heat and add the greens. Ladle out some broth into a soup bowl, and
mash in the miso, then stir the miso broth back into the pot.
Serve garnished with the tofu and scallions. Floating some strips of nori on to
adds extra beauty.
Kelp Hot Potatoes
3 tablespoons soy sauce

1 tablespoon honey
6 potatoes (white or sweet)
2 ½ to 3 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup tightly packed kelp (about 1 ounce), lightly rinsed
1 cup water
Combine the soy sauce and honey in a small bowl. Mix well and set aside.
Cut the potatoes into bite-size pieces, and saute in the oil until golden, stirring
often.
Cut the kelp into pieces approximately 1 inch long, and add to potatoes. Add the
soy-honey mixture and stir thoroughly. Add the water, cover and simmer for 15-
20 minutes.
Anti-Radiation Soup
A recipe for miso “anti-radiation soup” that serves two, by Bethany Arglsle, can
also be found in an article by Elson M. Haas (“Nutritional Program for
Environmental Pollution and Radiation” excerpted from Staying Healthy With
Nutrition).
It can be found at http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?id=1276&action=print .

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HOW TO HELP SUPPORT THE BODY’S HEALING

AFTER INTENSE RADIOACTIVE OR RADIATION

The Medical, Naturopathic, Nutritional, Herbal,

Top Shape Publishing, LLC

Copyright © 2004, William Bodri

First edition 2004.

Top Shape Publishing, LLC

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

This information should not be construed as medical advice or instruction, and is

Radiation and/or radioactive exposure is an extremely serious affair. Do not try to

Health Disclaimer ............................................................................... 3

Table of Contents ............................................................................... 4

Bathable and Edible Clays for Radiation Detox................................ 53

Eat A “Nucleotide Rich” Diet to Maximize Cellular Repair ................ 69

Appendix 2: Tasty Sea Vegetable Recipes ................................... 121

The Effects of Radiation Exposure

To me, it seems the emphasis has been misplaced!

In other words, let me phrase it again another way.

How do you detox yourself of radiation and radioactive exposure … and

Let’s see, we have background studies on ionizing radiation, radiation toxicity

Much of the information in this manual is undocumented from the standpoint of

That’s a good reason for wanting methods on radiation detoxification.

The results you experience due to radiation exposure will

Persons working with radioactive materials or X rays protect themselves from

A dosimeter, which is a device that measures the amount of radiation to which a

• Fetus--2 grays (Gy).

• Bone marrow--2 Gy.

• Lens of the eye--5 Gy.

• Child cartilage--10 Gy.

• Adult cartilage--60 Gy.

• Child bone--20 Gy.

• Adult bone--60 Gy.

• Child muscle--20-30 Gy.

• Adult muscle--100+ Gy.

There is also radiation exposure from radon gas in basements, excessive

A variety of products contain radioactivity such as potassium chloride salt

Irradiation is exposure to external radiation that passes directly

Contamination means coming into contact with and retaining

“Contamination” requires the immediate removal of the radioactive

If a person has recently swallowed radioactive material, vomiting

Radiation exposure produced two types of radiation injury: acute (immediate)

• Nausea and vomiting

• Hemorrhages under the skin

According to Japanese observations, the early symptoms of radiation injury

therapy to treat cancer may be high enough to cause some ARS

The cerebrovascular (brain) syndrome occurs when the total

In particular, the cerebrovascular syndrome has 3 phases: the first

The gastrointestinal syndrome occurs when the radiation dose is

The symptoms of people suffering from gastrointestinal syndrome

dehydration, diminished blood plasma volume and vascular

After this period of feeling well, severe diarrhea (often bloody)

People with the gastrointestinal syndrome require intravenous fluids

The hematopoietic syndrome is caused by the effects of radiation

The hematopoietic syndrome is characterized by loss of appetite,

However, during this symptom-free period the lymph nodes, spleen

Blood transfusions and injections of growth factors (such as

The shortage of platelets, which cause blood clotting, may cause

After 4 to 5 weeks, if the person survives, blood cell production

In an emergency involving many people, medical science has no way of telling

Various patterns of symptoms follow which depend on the amount of radiation