Radiation Protection: A Holistic Health Approach

Radiation effects:

            • Anti-oxidant depletion- leads to various types of cancer

• Nausea, vomiting, diarreah, fatigue, fever, loss of appetite,

skin damage (swelling, itching, redness, and hair loss)

• Long-term effects: loss of IQ, mental illness, esp. depression

Clean Radiation Free Water

• Reverse Osmosis combined with an Ion exchange filter

• Water Distillation combined with an Ion exchange filter

Clean Food- Foods lower on the food chain

• Animals and dairy concentrate radioactive particles 30 times higher than plants

• Anti-oxidants packed in fruits and vegetables can reduce damage caused by radiation.

• Increase the intake of cruciferous vegetables, cabbage, and beets

• Eat alkalizing foods

Natural Cellular Defense Liquid Zeolite

• Removes almost all radioactive materials out of the body

• Removes heavy metals, herbicides and pesticides, free radicals, cancer cells, viral particles, alkalizes the body

• Increases immunity, helps with nutrient absorption, reduces allergy symptoms; a good source of anti-oxidants, calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, and iron

• Dosage: Take 10 drops of Liquid Zeolite 4 times daily for at least 3 months, preferably longer.

Main Radioactive Isotopes from Nuclear Fall-out

Radioactive Iodine-131

            • Half-life is 8 days, therefore more dangerous right after radiation exposure

            • Linked to thyroid cancer and thyroid disease

• Iodine deficient people (est. 72-99% of the population) will uptake radioactive iodine into their thyroid instead of the healthy iodine that keeps thyroid, breasts, ovaries, uterus, and prostate healthy.

Natural Healthy Iodine: potent anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal that increases our body’s ability to fight infections

            • Increase intake of healthy iodine to protect against radioactive Iodine

            • High occurring sources of iodine:

• Sea Vegetables: Kelp, Arame, Hiziki, Kombu, and Wakame. Kelp has the highest amount of Iodine on the planet and one serving offers 4 times more than a daily minimum requirement.

• Strawberries, potatoes, navy beans, cranberries, Himalayan crystal sea salt, seafood, and dairy all have naturally occurring iodine

• Also helps regulate estrogen production, protects hormones that stabilize mental health and body weight, keeps

Radioactive Strontium-90

1.   Behaves like calcium in the body

2. 70-80% passes through the body
3. 20-30% deposits in bone and bone marrow

• Reduces the body's supply of white blood cells and platelets.

• This renders people more prone to infection as well as uncontrolled bleeding

4. Linked to bone cancer and leukemia
5. Increase Ca intake through leafy green veggies and/or Cal Mag

Radioactive Cesium-134 and 137

1.     Behaves like potassium in the body

2.     Taken up by cells throughout body, esp. muscle tissue

3.     Increased risk of cancer due to high gamma radiation   

4.     Increase high-potassium foods to prevent Cesium uptake:

• avocados, sea vegetables, leafy green veggies, coconut water

• Prussian Blue helps body to excrete Cesium 137

Other superfoods that help the body to fight radiation:

Bee pollen: increases anti-bodies that help fight radiation

Spirulina, and chlorella

Siberian ginseng, chaparral, and aloe vera taken at 1oz twice daily

gotu kola, and ginko biloba.

Holistic Doctor Gabriel Cousens’ blog:

http://www.treeoflife.nu/DRCOUSENS/DRCOUSENSBLOG/tabid/364/language/en-US/~/Default.aspx?tabid=364&PostID=153&language=en-US

Week 14: Cognition

Is to live to know?

To live is not to know. To live and to seek, to meditate, study, and to love is to know. There are plenty of ignorant and useless consumers walking around like emotional zombies, spiritually devoid of any greater truth than their next fix or fleeting satisfaction or struggle, vamping other people of their emotional energy who in turn spread the heart-break and headache like an emotional virus that goes around and around until the whole planet is filled with victims and predators in some vicious, cancerous cycle….what do these people know other than scripted patterns that keep them knowing their true power and intrinsic divinity?

Memory & Magic

Our brains filter out a huge amount of information and see what they expect to see- which means magicians- by manipulating what we expect to see- can influence our minds towards certain events and away from others. Distraction is a way of influencing the sensory input we experience so that we only see what the magician wants us to see.

Cell Biology Quiz

I myself was forced to call myself a molecular biologist because when inquiring clergymen asked me what I did, I got tired of explaining that I was a mixture of crystallographer, biophysicist, biochemist, and geneticist, and explanation which in any case they found too hard to grasp,” Francis Crick

How would you now describe yourself?

1. Simply speaking, I am a shamaniacal energy exorcist (and actual exorcist which is a job only a true Scorpio could really ENJOY), which is another way of saying I’m a mad genius artist healer philosopher mystic rebel crystal shaman whose taken to Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism, yoga, writing, music and dance. You could get even more complicated (which is an occasional underpinning of a highly complex being) and say that my true self (without this Earthly body) is an ancient alien tantric cat warrior spirit from Sirius B who is just passing through Earth during this 3^rd to 5^th dimensional shift to code the grid and its inhabitants with novel and secret information to wake people the fuck up. My methods are many and my motives are vast. I believe in love, truthful wrath, and unconditional forgiveness. I’m like a ghetto Jesus as a foxy femme fatale.

Why might it be wrong to maintain that genes contain the information that specifies a human being?

2. When we say that DNA has the only role in specifying the information responsible for making a human being, we are mistakenly separating DNA from the rest of the organism’s autopoetic and interrelated network of interactions that comprises and composes the total human organism. Nothing in an interrelated autopoetic system is separated from anything else in the system. An organism does express certain qualities based on its genetic composition, but that DNA and genes aren’t the only factor in the different expressions and behaviors of cells and interactions in the holistic human being. The complex set of interactions.

How close do you feel we are to reaching a sustainable population level?

3. A large portion of the human race is going to have to die due to any number of causes, including but not limited to: nuclear fall-out, cancer, solar storms, ice age, starvation, and other geological, health, and government created disasters before the human race is anywhere close to reaching a sustainable population level. While human population is growing at a rate of 10,000 per hour, right-wing activists are picketing “Abortion is Murder,” signs, as if the human species is any more sacred than the hundreds of thousands of species our collective presence is helping to destroy completely. Humanity is responsible for causing at least half the creatures of Mother Earth to become extinct, creatures that are responsible for the diversity that keep ecosystems functioning. With hundred of species becoming extinct every year for the last 400 year since the Industrial Revolution, ecosystem services formerly provided by such species cause a loss of ecosystem services like recycling waste, providing fresh oxygen, food, clean water, new clothes, food to eat, and other crucial services that help sustain us.

Biochemistry Week 13: Living Diversity

 1. In what ways do you feel we have changed our attitudes to ecosystem services?

The kind of wreckless dominate nature tendency man has had is starting to crack and give birth to an interest in creating a global network of biodiversity science to study the intricacies of different ecosystems and what is needed to keep it all in balance so that we have a healthier relationship to nature which in turn will take care of us. Scientists are taking not just a scientific look at biodiversity, but an economic and practical one too to see how to best prioritize biodiversity issues and how to promote individual human behavior to intervene or adapt to ecosystem losses. A global network of biodiversity conscious warriors would at its best not just include scientists but indigenous peoples and participants in all interdisciplinary fields (including the social realm to spread awareness).

We are waking up to the fact that it is going to take a group effort based on The Law of One to save the planet, her species, and out health which is dependent on the health of the  different ecosystems’ species.

2. Discus why top predators are a healthy sign in an ecosystem.

Top predators like sharks are a healthy sign in an ecosystem because they naturally keep the balance of other wildlife ocean as it should be. In one study of a part of the Atlantic where sharks were virtually eliminated, 12 species that they fed upon became more abundant and caused great harm to the ecosystem. For example, the cownose rays- which the sharks usually fed upon- grew to out of control numbers and destroyed the population of bay area scallops. There were less scallops available for human consumption and no scallops to help clean and filter ocean water.

Sharks tend to hunt efficiently, which means they eat the sick and old fish of other species. This is actually good for the prey fish species as it helps prevent the spread of disease amongst the fish, outbreaks that are potentially devastasting. Sharks strengthen the gene pool of prey fish species by eating is weakest and sickest members, which leads towards greater numbers of strong and healthy fish who in turn reproduce greater numbers of strong and healthy fish for human consumption, keeping everyone healthier.

3. Chocolate’s health effects?

In health cases where the heart is not getting enough blood flow, dark chocolate eaten regularly can help coronary blood flow. The less sugar and fat the chocolate has, the better its impact on your health, especially if heart attack is a risk, in which case saturated fat would be best kept to a minimum in chocolate treats. However, chocolate is a hot food, and so a person has excess heat, eating chocolate in smaller quantities may be advised.

Biochemistry Week 13: Living Diversity

Examine your own immediate environment for diversity of species.

Okay, so technically I know this challenge has more to do with species outside the human race, but I cannot help but take this golden ghetto opportunity to shed light on the peculiar diversity of creatures of San Francisco’s 16^th and Mission barrio. Just this past week, I have seen hookers, crackheads, a tough Mexican homie with a mohawk checking me out, fashionistas, crazy schizophrenics (or maybe meth heads?) screaming at people who didn’t exist, skinny pissed off crackheads, Jesus freaks trying to save the crackheads, sweet Mexican women serving me huevos con nopales, Occupy yoga girls serving free food and teaching free yoga on the crackhead corner, revolutionary squatting roommates who have given up on capitalism and have a Free Store, alterna girls with tattoos, bike punk clown types downstairs at the experimental venue “The Lab,” and my favorite star of the ghetto- whom my boyfriend and I lovingly refer to as “Homie.” Homie is our wheel-chaired beggar friend outside of Walgreens who sounds like he had his vocal chords half ripped out of his throat and who won our hearts with his “I love my Mom” tattoo on his chest and the day he lovingly ushered me into Walgreens like the Queen of the Ghetto. Other than that, I’d say the only other “species” that live in my immediate environment are my tattooed Colombian rockstar boyfriend and the mold that lives under the fridge. There’s probably some microscopic bacteria and other things I don’t want to know about that live in our studio apartment in the Red Brick Building on 16^th St.

May Chocolate help keep people slim?

Whose to say if the catechins in chocolate that improve lean muscle mass and reduce weight- balance out the amount of saturated fat and sugar in the chocolate that most people eat? I think a more informative article would have included what percentage dark chocolate bars in the standard dark chocolate bars that people eat still helps reduce weight. Obviously, ingesting a raw cacao treat with low glycemic agave nectar is going to have different effects on the body than a 60% dark chocolate bar loaded with cocoa butter and sugar. And let’s not even talk about the abomination of chocolate known as milk chocolate. I think adding raw chocolate to smoothies with banana, kefir, almond milk, almond butter, green food powder, and protein powder is one of the best combination of ingredients I ever thought up to put in a blender.

Plutonium

After our conversation about the stockpile of plutonium held in Japan and its cooperating countries, I decided to do a little online research about plutonium, and this is what I found:

The main carcinogenic property of plutonium-239 comes from the energetic alpha radiation it emits. Once in the body, plutonium-239 is preferentially deposited in soft tissues, notably the liver, on bone surfaces, in bone marrow and other non-calcified areas of the bone, as well as those areas of the bone that do not contain cartilage. It can have especially harmful effects in the bone marrow, where blood is produced.The greatest health danger from plutonium-239 is from inhalation, especially when it is in the common form of insoluble plutonium-239 oxide. The risk from absorption into the body via ingestion is generally much lower than that from inhalation, because plutonium is not easily absorbed by the intestinal walls, and so most of it will be excreted.