Re: Boron Dose and Fly/Drive out of California

the good news is that boron is approximately as toxic to the human body as table salt is. The bad news is that there seems to be very little actual reliable evidence as to how much one should take to protect against radiation. At least I personally can't find any

But you shouldn't be too shy about taking it. Looks to me to be relatively harmless. Here is some information from Wikipedia

Note that it says one experiment gave 4 g per day with no side effects. That's 4000 mg.

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Elemental boron and borates are non-toxic to humans and animals (approximately similar to table salt). The LD50 (dose at which there is 50% mortality) for animals is about 6 g per kg of body weight. Substances with LD50 above 2 g are considered non-toxic. The minimum lethal dose for humans has not been established, but an intake of 4 g/day was reported without incidents, and medical dosages of 20 g of boric acid for neutron capture therapy caused no problems. Fish have survived for 30 min in a saturated boric acid solution and can survive longer in strong borax solutions.[98] Borates are more toxic to insects than to mammals. The boranes and similar gaseous compounds are quite poisonous. As usual, it is not an element that is intrinsically poisonous, but toxicity depends on structure.[8][9] Tweet