[ExI] Evidence-based medicine lacks solid supporting evidence

[William Flynn Wallace]

>From Adrian:  Our bodies were designed to function in the slightly
radioactive natural world.  It is entirely possible - and arguably is being
done in many parts of the world - to overprotect in the drive for zero
radiation, and get an intake below what is healthy.


Is it established that we actually need some radiation?  I mean just
because it's been going on forever doesn't mean we need it.

bill w

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2015 11:07 AM, "Dan" <danust2012 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Something to ease your worries: there seems to be some evidence that
> radiation insults can have beneficial effects. Supposedly, they stress the
> body causing a Herut reaction -- in similar fashion to how eating plants
> does the same.
>
> In low doses, it must be said.
>
> Our bodies were designed to function in the slightly radioactive natural
> world.  It is entirely possible - and arguably is being done in many parts
> of the world - to overprotect in the drive for zero radiation, and get an
> intake below what is healthy.
>
> Of course, it is also possible to radically overdose.  Ask any
> anti-nuclear activist.  So do not blindly increase your dose just for the
> sake of getting enough; that is a good way to overdose and die.
>
> Read the literature and find what the safe doses are...and maybe eat
> another banana or two, or sleep with someone.  (The human nervous system
> naturally produces trace radiation, so just being next to someone all night
> gives you and your partner an increased dose from each other.)
>
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