DNA and Mitochondrial Time Bombs: Uranium and Mercury

Comment: The article below is about medical reviews on ways uranium affect our DNA!

Monday, March 03, 2008 by: Mark Sircus Ac., OMD, citizen journalist

There are three things that determine the toxicity of radioactive materials:

Chemical effects – Uranium is chemically very toxic.

Radioactive effects (includes half-life and energy released) - One gram of DU (1/20th of a cubic centimeter) releases 13,000 alpha particles a second.

One alpha particle can cause cancer under the right conditions and certainly it has the capacity to wreck havoc in beta cells and everywhere else.Particle size - in the nanoparticle range (diameter of 0.1 microns or smaller) the particulate effect (non-specific catalyst or enzyme) is far more biologically toxic than the first two effects.

This is why DU is so devastating (See extensive notes on this in the reference section).

Type Two Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent disease in the world, especially the United States, where the number of new patients grew 49% between 1991 and 2000.

The Chernobyl incident was a major humanitarian disaster, which has resulted in a plethora of health problems that are still far from being fully recognized.

Most studies analyzing the medical consequences of this catastrophe have so far focused on diseases such as thyroid cancer, leukemia, immune and autoimmune pathology, even though an increase in the incidence of Type 1 diabetes mellitus, a disorder involving the immune system, was observed within the residential population of Hiroshima among survivors of the atom bomb detonation. Studies have also shown that thymectomy and a sub-lethal dose of gamma radiation induces Type 1 diabetes in rats.

This is important to our medical review that concludes that toxic exposure to uranium is dangerous and readily provokes diabetes.

In this case, we see that vitamin D deficiency predisposes individuals to type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to impair insulin synthesis and secretion in humans! Furthermore, epidemiological studies suggest a link between vitamin D deficiency in early life and the later onset of type 1 diabetes. In studies on diabetic mice, pharmacological doses of vitamin D have been shown to delay the onset of diabetes, mainly through immune modulation. Vitamin D deficiency is very much involved in cancer and the outcome of treatments so again we are seeing how closely tied together are cancer and diabetes.

Dr. Dayna Kowata wrote, "I have noticed an upward trend in uranium toxicity in my pediatric patients and not just those with autism.

The effected patients come from the Temecula/Murrieta area of southern CA.

One of my autistic patients has had an extremely difficult time chelating this metal. We've had success with all other heavy metals but the uranium remains consistently high.

We've used oral DMSA 'and EDTA.

"Nobody with any sense is supporting uranium mining and the kind of activities that turns the earth into a toxic waste dump.

Increasing levels of uranium in people's bodies changes the entire picture of chelation (removal of heavy metals from the body) thanks to the widespread use of depleted uranium weapons that are used abroad but tested at home.

These are the perfect weapons of mass destruction. We are threatened from many sources of ionizing radiation including x-rays and local contamination from leaking nuclear facilities but the threat from the use of depleted uranium armaments is truly frightening.

Uranium pollution is starting to compete with mercury as a major environmental contaminant.

We ignore uranium now at great risk.

The vast majority of doctors do not conceive of removing heavy metals as a form of treatment of disease, so the public is in trouble and is being let down by the medical profession.

Most doctors do not even do a test for heavy metals and those that do are not yet aware of the looming problem with uranium contamination.

Just ask your doctor about diabetes or autism and what is causing these terrible epidemics?

The chances are about zero he or she will tell you that both mercury and uranium and some other poisons are at the heart of it.

Medical scientists have struggled to explain rising rates of cancers, childhood brain disorders, diabetes and neurological conditions in both young and old alike but have fallen short of any kind of understanding that will yield helpful answers.

Something about modern living has driven a steady rise of certain maladies, but they have not been able to figure out what.

Uranium levels 54.6 times the U.S. standard were found in water supplies in a village near Icheon, about 25 miles northeast of Osan Air Base, according to a South Korean government environmental report.

South Korea's Ministry of Environment said it was not ready last week to release its full uranium survey of 93 sites in South Korea, but it issued a news release on its findings.

Uranium levels measured 1,640 micrograms per liter in Janpyeong-ri village near Icheon."A recent analysis of my hair ordered by my physician indicated a uranium level that is about five times the maximum reference range.

How alarmed should I be with respect to this result? I am not exposed to uranium by occupational hazard, as I'm an office manager in a very clean environment.

Past ingestion may have been the result of private well water, but I've not ingested any of this well water for six years now," reports one patient.

Uranium does chelate with DMSA and EDTA chelators but NOT dramatically (Dr. Garry Gordon).The best approaches to both mercury and uranium detoxification and chelation are natural ones.

What is needed today is a radical shift in the community of doctors who do chelation mostly for neurologically damaged children and heart patients.

Before even thinking of using anything that would officially bear the title of chelator of heavy metals, we and our doctors need to understand the nature of minerals (magnesium, selenium and zinc) and what they do for us to protect us from harm and what they do for us in helping us get better.

The removal of heavy metals is impossible without minerals and without a full house of minerals our cells just cannot deal with the poison.

The very first thing one should do if interested in protecting themselves from the harmful effects of uranium and mercury is to start immediately with full mineralization.

Iodine and magnesium are the best places to start but one should also be thinking of zinc and selenium and of course ALA.

When considering children, it is helpful to know that both iodine and magnesium can be easily applied transdermally. Selenium also is vital and is the perfect antidote for mercury toxicity.

Iodine is vital for the protection of our thyroid gland against radiation but in reality, when we supplement properly with this, we are strengthened in ways unimaginable to modern medicine.

The most important question of our times is: what is the safest most effective way to remove uranium,mercury and an army of other toxins in our and our children's bodies?

For more information on the author Mark Sircus Ac., OMD, Director International Medical Veritas Association, go to:(http://www.imva.info)(http://www.magnesiumforlife.com)
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