re: Low Doses of Radiation Might Actually be Good for You

martinara — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:34:08 GMT

Thank you, Michael, for this information. This whole issue is an eye-opener - particularly the fact that Nagasaki survivors and radiation-exposed cows live longer and healthier lives! I have never before read such a thing and it turns the received "wisdom" squarely on its head. I've heard of the benefits of irradiated blood as an anti-viral and antibacterial agent, but had not made the connection with other kinds of radiation. Thank you once again, Dr Mercola.

re: Low Doses of Radiation Might Actually be Good for You

Michael Vilkin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:42:40 GMT

Both my wife and I have arthritis. Every year we travel to Boulder, Montana for a week, to visit a Free Enterprise Health Mine. I have no doubt that low-level radiation helps arthritis sufferers, and my opinion is based not only on anecdotal evidence of the health mine visitors.

I was born in Georgia, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union, near a small city named Tzkhaltubo. Under supervision of medical doctors thousands of visitors every year received therapy in warm springs with naturally occurring radon. It was free, - the government paid for it. Did it help? You bet. Communists would not pay for anything that did not work. Health care budget was very low.

In Europe it's common knowledge that low-level radon therapy does help arthritis sufferers, as well as some other medical conditions. There is a page in Wikipedia about radon therapy at

en.wikipedia.org/.../Radon_therapy.

Why the radon therapy is not popular in the US? The best answer I received from a visitor to a hot spring in Boulder. He is a professor in a medial school. He told me that pharmaceutical companies routinely make donations to medical schools, and teaching about radon therapy is a big no-no. Medical schools are supposed to produce medical doctors who are drug dealers promoting drugs for Big Pharma. It is no secret that pharmaceutical companies reward doctors for prescribing their pills. Rewards range from little presents to "conferences" in exotic vacation locations, with room and board in hotels paid by drug companies.

One of my relatives, an old woman, was taking about 15 different medications, paid for by Medicare. When she went to Israel, doctors told her to take only 3 medications. The rest? They said it's all fraud and milking of Medicare by doctors - drug dealers.

Is table salt good or bad? We all add some salt to our food. Salt is good, - in moderation. But too much salt will kill you. As with salt, radon is not either good or bad. It's how much.

--Michael Vilkin