Radiobiology and Radiation Hormesis: New Evidence and Its Implications for Medicine and Society

Description

This book presents new information on radiobiology that more clearly refutes the linear no-threshold (LNT) assumption and supports radiation hormesis. Fresh light is cast on the mechanisms of radiation hormesis and the potential benefits of low-dose ionizing radiation in preventing and treating a wide variety of inflammatory and proliferative diseases. It is proposed that these effects may derive from cellular communication via electromagnetic waves directed by DNA, with each cell acting as a quantum computer. Readers will also find close analysis of the negative impacts of radiophobia on many aspects of modern life, including attitudes to imaging technologies, licensing of nuclear power reactors, and preparedness for survival of nuclear war. The book will be of interest to researchers and scientists in radiobiology, radiation protection, health physics, medical physics, and radiology. Specifically, it will provide medical physicians, radiation oncologists, radiation epidemiologists, gerontologists, cell biologists, toxicologists, and nuclear engineers with a wide range of interesting facts and enlightening novel perspectives.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments
2. Contents
3. Movers of Radiation Hormesis
4. References
5. Radiological Weapons
6. Development of Nuclear Weapons
7. Atmospheric Tests
8. Predicted Radiation Effects of Strategic Nuclear War
9. Nuclear Winter
10. Survival of Nuclear War
11. Dirty Bomb
12. Unexpected Resources
13. References
14. The Harmful and Fraudulent Basis for the LNT Assumption
15. A Scientific Scandal of the Last Two Centuries
16. The Scan that Cures
17. Chernobyl and Fukushima
18. Statistical and Observational Malfeasance
19. Muller’s Deception and Russell’s Mistake
20. S.A.R.I.
21. References
22. Thresholds
23. Caloric Restriction
24. Radiation Deficiency
25. Radiation Hormesis-Threshold Model
26. Mechanisms of Radiation Hormesis
27. Thresholds for Animals
28. Thresholds in Humans
29. References
30. Plutonium Particle Toxicity Myth
31. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests
32. Hot Particle Problem
33. Sources of Environmental Plutonium
34. Plutonium Particle Aggregation
35. Lung Cancer in Animals
36. Plutonium Carcinogenesis in Humans
37. U.S.T.U.R.
38. References
39. Wonderful Radon
40. Continental Surveys for Radon
41. Dosimetry
42. High Background Radiation Areas
43. Uranium Mines
44. Residential Radon
45. Radon Spas and Clinics
46. Radium Therapy
47. Montana Radon Health Mines
48. Ankylosing Spondylitis
49. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis
50. Multiple Sclerosis
51. Bronchitis
52. Ulcerative Colitis
53. Hepatitis C Infection
54. Scleroderma
55. Asthma, Behcet’s Syndrome, and Psoriasis
56. Migraine, Headache, Gout, and Fibromyalgia
57. Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
58. Glomerulosclerosis
59. Carpal Tunnel
60. Radium Dial Painters
61. Thorium
62. Natural Nuclear Reactor on the Colorado Plateau: Radiological Characterization
63. References
64. Benefits in Disease Prevention, Control, and Cure
65. Lifespan
66. Radiation Hormesis in Epidemiology
67. Reverse Aging
68. Inflammation
69. Arthritis
70. Infections
71. Cardiovascular-Related Chronic Diseases
72. Neurodegenerative Disease
73. Historical Radiation Therapy
74. Neoplastic Transformation
75. Immune Therapy
76. Abscopal (Bystander) Effect
77. Low-Dose Radiation Therapy
78. Therapeutic Use of Radiation from Radioactive Pads
79. References
80. Heuristic View on Quantum Bio-Photon Cellular Communication
81. Quantum Biology
82. Quantum Mechanics
83. Properties of Light
84. Teleportation
85. DNA
86. Brain
87. Radiation Adaptive Response
88. References
89. Index

Authors Biography

Charles L. Sanders has a PhD in radiobiology and has been a professor in nuclear engineering at Washington State University (1975-1996) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2004-2010). He also carried out research involving the inhalation toxicology of transuranic aerosols at Battelle Northwest Laboratory (1969-1995). His research interest in radiation hormesis started in 2005 while in Korea. Dr. Sanders is the author of six books, including Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption,published by Springer in 2009, and about 170 peer-reviewed papers.