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Nuclear Radiation Detoxification Part 2
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Fukushima, Japan and radiation poisoning: what are the real
solutions?
A disaster has been evolving in the past few weeks at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, following the recent
earthquake. It has been difficult to assess the extent of
harm, but everyone is agreed that it is a catastrophe, and
one which some people, such as Greenpeace, are now saying is
demonstrably on a par with the Chernobyl disaster in the
Ukraine in 1986 if not potentially worse. Musically, it
calls to my mind fears of Don McLean’s “day the music died.”
As a result, the dangers of nuclear power – and the
discussion of medical solutions in terms of prevention
and/or treatment of radiation poisoning – have become all
the more essential in many people’s minds, and a real and
sensible focus, like musicians fearing the prospect of
deafness.
So my question for today’s blog is: what are the real
solutions? Read on, and below I will share what I believe to
the single most important medical observation we can make on
this topic.
In my search for answers, I have spent a few weeks
researching the topic in depth. I have a special interest in
this area, as radioactivity constitutes what we call a “key
toxin.” So I’ve prepared a longer piece for my blog slot
next week in which I will look at a number of fundamental
aspects to this topic, with a number of images, maps and
referenced links, and share a mix of mainstream facts and
personal experience, on key questions such as:
* How does radiation poisoning affect us? Why is it so
harmful to human beings?
* Is radiation poisoning under-diagnosed in general,
and to what extent? (And did Franz Schubert get the full
recognition he deserved?) Here I’ll also share my own
clinical experience in diagnosing and treating for this
condition.
* Is there a simple, easy-to-learn way of diagnosing
the effects of radiation poisoning in our internal organs,
and of treating them? Which exact remedies work best, and
why? (And how long does it take to learn some useful guitar
chords?)
* How widespread is nuclear power in the world, and in which
countries? Where are the hot-spots of concern? What are the
dangers? (And what types of music are abusive to our ears?
Apparently, plants respond well to Mozart, but not to heavy
metal music. . .)
* And what about radiation from medical diagnostic
tests, such as CT scans? Here I want to show you what a
recent mainstream cancer report to the U.S. government has
to say, as it may surprise you!
And if anyone has any other questions or thoughts on this
topic to throw into the mix, post them below. So on that
note, I want to make today’s blog relatively short and
sweet, and leave you with a fundamental burning question
which is actually the most important point I will be making
in next week’s blog, but which I want to present here in its
own right as the main topic for today – in order that it
doesn’t get lost in the other important info listed above.
Let this be the tune we choose to whistle. . . And that
point is simply this:
We have all been hearing a lot about iodine, and its medical
delivery via potassium iodide tablets, as a “solution” for
radiation poisoning. This is like a useful musical harmony,
but very far from being a whole symphony. Next week I will
discuss the exact uses – and limitations – of this line of
treatment: why and when it works, and when it is not
relevant or even harmful.
But did you know that this is really a major red herring in
the mass media at present? In the USA, for example, stocks
of iodine tablets have been reported to be depleted, due to
mass panic of people stocking up on them.
Don’t get me wrong, iodine tablets are certainly useful in
the case of acute radiation poisoning, with a partial
preventative effect on the thyroid lasting 1-3 days only.
For this, I am not denying its usefulness. But beyond that,
and for the great majority of people in the world, this is
not what we should be focusing on. When you do your next
Elvis impersonation, we’ll appreciate the rocking, but see
that things just aren’t going to work out unless we get some
rolling too. Life’s like that. . . So often we focus so much
on just one ingredient that we don’t make up a full
equation, and then the dance floor is left empty in spite of
our good intent! This is another example of the importance
of perspective in medicine.
The reason iodine is on everyone’s minds is that radioactive
iodine is one of the potential fallout compounds in nuclear
contamination, and harms the thyroid gland much more when it
is iodine-deficient, due to competitive uptake. I hope you
don’t mind that I’m having a musical day, so let’s say that
this is like breaking into a jazz concert with a didgeridoo:
it’s just not going to wash.
But what almost everyone in the mass media is totally
missing is that the thyroid is only one of a number of areas
of major concern in radiation poisoning. If we listen to
Fats Domino all day, then we’ll forget that the rock ‘n’
roll generation ever came of age. Other key areas of concern
include, among many organs and tissues, the immune system –
and notably this means the bone marrow, thymus and spleen.
This is like saying, ‘Hey, that’s not the only tune on the
radio any more, now we’ve also got Dylan, Muse and Manu Chau!‘
Radioactive iodine is only one of the various compounds
putting people at risk. Radioactive caesium is another major
concern, and this tends to invade the bone marrow and other
tissues and potentially cause a serious disturbance of
immune function. Iodine tablets are simply irrelevant to
combat this. It would be like trying to get the Beatles to
write a Punk song, or trying to get Beethoven to understand
the twelve-tone scale: you’d better put it out of your mind,
because it’s just not going to happen. (The Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry, USA, has compiled a useful
in-depth review of the health effects of radioactive and
nonradioactive caesium here. Radioactive caesium as well as
iodine have been among the main concerns at Fukushima so
far).
So the thought I want to leave you with is this:
The bone marrow is the issue we should be focusing on, even
more so than the thyroid. This is true of radiation
poisoning, and also of medicine in general. Otherwise it
would be like focusing on the lead guitarist in a band,
while totally missing out on the lead singer. Yes, the lead
guitarist is important, but the lead singer is surely a
higher first consideration when trying to form a rock band.
. .
The bone marrow is our body’s “lead singer” because it is
central to everything that happens in the body. Our three
main types of blood cell – red, white and platelet – are all
manufactured in the marrow of our bones. Let’s think of
these as being like our Lennon, McCartney and Harrison – the
songwriters without whom there would simply not be any
Beatles songs for our body’s cells to sing. These blood
cells supply oxygen and nutrients to every organ and tissue
in the body (our red cells – let’s call these the ‘McCartney
cells’), and also supply the immune system with its “fighter
cells” (our white ones – let’s call these the ‘Lennon
cells’). When toxins, including radioactive ones, get into
the bones, which is one of their ‘preferential’ places of
deposition, there is no known method in either conventional
medicine or nutritional therapy, or indeed most alternative
therapies, either to diagnose or to detoxify these
radioactive toxins in the bone marrow.
However, next week I’ll share a method which actually works
both for testing and treating the bone marrow.
I am confident that this is a step forward in modern
medicine as monumental as ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band’ and ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ were in opening
up modern music to a whole new era of creative possibilities
which had previously been unthinkable and unthought-of.
Things that weren’t possible in medicine before are becoming
not only possible but also easy to learn and implement,
although the mainstream has yet to catch on because the
techniques are so recent.
This is not a case of presenting one of various alternative
methods: this is a method to achieve something that is
literally not talked about elsewhere because there has
previously been no known method of achieving it, thus the
bone marrow is the “elephant in the living room” which most
people literally do their best to brush under the carpet but
cannot (and so they end up hiding it behind stage). That,
indeed, is why you won’t hear much about the bone marrow on
the news, and that’s why I see my role here partly as doing
my best to help us to shift our minds collectively in
pivotal ways like these.
My suggestion, from friend to friend, is that when people
talk about nuclear fallout, radiation poisoning, iodine
tablets, or even just health in general, the riff that we
don’t hear but which should really be “rocking the joint”
ought to be: Bone marrow, bone marrow… bone marrow?
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