Benefits from low dose radiation By Ludwig Feinendegen and Jerry Cuttler October 22, 2017 Scientific studies about low dose radiation show beneficial health effects: 1. The data show that DNA damage and other cell damage are caused overwhelmingly by oxidative attack, due to the oxygen we breath. 2. The DNA and cell damage, which is directly induced by low radiation is negligible in comparison with the internal oxygen attack. 3. The data show that radiation affects our very powerful (cell, tissue) protection systems, which include the immune system. 4.
Low doses stimulate protection, while high doses inhibit and eliminate protection.
5. We already know the dose threshold at which stimulation of protection changes increasingly with dose to loss of protection. Repeating: 1.
Most cancer is not caused by radiation; it is caused by oxidative stress.
2. Low doses stimulate protection, decreasing cancer; high doses eventually eliminate protection, increasing cancer. The 2018 ANS-HPS Conference in Tri-Cities, Washington should discuss the raising of the radiation dose limits. The conference should declare a health benefit (and no cancer risk) below the dose limits. Radiation-response models is about radiation-induced cancer, that is, about the LNT model. Even at higher doses, cancer is predominantly induced by oxidative damage and other toxic impacts, not by radiation. Recommend attending, submitting papers for the 2018 ANS-HPS conference on low dose radiation. See announcement, below. To submit papers, click here. To attend conference follow announcements from flyer below and American Nuclear Society – Eastern Washington Section.
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