Uranium Causes Cancer

 

Uranium Causes Cancer
International Medical Veritas Association

Uranium binds to human DNA. The average exposure
 for many British citizens after the last Iraq war
was calculated at 26 million particles of uranium oxide.[1]
                                                                                 Dr. Chris Busby

     Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have been well understood for decades, but there has been considerable debate and little agreement concerning the possible health risks associated with low-grade uranium ore (yellowcake) and depleted uranium. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission treat depleted uranium as a hazardous material, but the Department of Defense continues to use it.

    “Depleted (DU) uranium is one of the largest categories of radioactive waste produced for the nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor industry. It is highly toxic to humans, both chemically as a heavy metal and radiological as an alpha particle emitter which is very dangerous when taken internally,” writes Rosalie Bertell, Ph. D., GNSH, Canadian Epidemiologist, whose specialty is in higher mathematics, with applications in the radiobiology and the biomedical sciences.[2]

Research on the health effects of exposure to
 depleted uranium in military occupations is limited.[3]
                                                                               Maria Cantwell
                                                                                   United States Senator

     A new study, conducted by biochemist Dr. Diane Stearns at Northern Arizona University shows that, separate from any radiation risks, cells exposed to uranium will bond with the metal chemically. A radioisotope of an element will bind best to the same substrates which a non-radioactive isotope of the same element will bind. Dr. Stearns has established that when cells are exposed to uranium, the uranium binds to DNA and the cells acquire mutations, triggering a whole slew of protein replication errors, some of which can lead to various cancers. Stearns' research, published in the journals Mutagenesis and Molecular Carcinogenesis, confirms what many have suspected for some time - that uranium can damage DNA as a heavy metal, independent of its radioactive properties. The biochemical reaction of heavy metals can cause genetic mutations, which in turn can curtail cell growth and cause cancer. Heavy metals that are also radioactive amplify this effect and can cause distortions in shape and thus function even of red blood cells.[4]

     What has not been widely understood is the extent to which radioactive particles of different kinds become concentrated in various body organs like other heavy metals do. Dr. Stearns is affirming that once inside the body, radioactive particles behaved just like their non-radioactive natural counterparts. The isotope strontium, for instance, which is similar to calcium, settled in bones and teeth. Radioactive iodine behaved like regular iodine, seeking out and concentrating in the thyroid gland, an organ which is vital in regulating the growth and functioning of the human body.

     "Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation," Stearns explained. While other heavy metals are known to bind to DNA, Stearns and her team were the first to identify this characteristic with uranium. "The health effects of uranium really haven't been studied since the Manhattan Project (the development of the atomic bomb in the early 1940s). But now there is more interest in the health effects of depleted uranium. People are asking questions now," Stearns said.

In vitro studies have shown that the risk of cancer induction from
 internalized DU exposure may be comparable to other
 biologically reactive and carcinogenic heavy-metal compounds.[5]

     Uranium as uranyl ion UO2++ has a great affinity for DNA phosphate. The affinity constant is about 1010 (Nielsen 1992). In cells which have internalized a submicron uranium particle, the equilibrium ionic concentration of uranium will be high enough to have saturated the DNA in the cell by binding to phosphate. This focusing of the radiation on the DNA may be the cause of many anomalous mutagenic effects which show themselves in cell cultures (e.g. Miller et al 2002, 2004) in laboratory animals (e.g. Paquet 2005, IRSN 2005) and in the many reports of ill health associated with exposure to uranium (e.g. Craft et al 2005, Zaire et al 1997)

Uranium is a powerful genotoxic stressor.

     Recently Dr. Busby pointed out that the uranium may focus external natural background radiation on the DNA and enhances its radiological effect. Meaning uranium will amplify natural background gamma radiation owing to its high atomic number and its ability to convert the gamma radiation into local photoelectrons.

     Though the material (depleted uranium) generally used by the U.S. Department of Defense is 40 percent less radioactive than natural uranium it is not something you want to be exposed to. The main cancer risk from inhaled depleted uranium would be from tiny insoluble particles lodged deep in the lungs. According to the inhalation-retention model constructed by the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP), 15 percent of an insoluble inhaled uranium oxide aerosol could be retained in the lungs for more than a year.

Pulmonary concentration of DU can be quantitated as
 late as nine years after inhalational exposure.[6] 
                                                                       Col. Asaf Durakovic, MC USAR

   When the tank-busting bombs explode, the depleted uranium oxidizes into microscopic fragments. When uranium burns, the high temperatures created act to oxidize uranium metal to a series of complex oxides, predominately depleted triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), but also depleted uranium dioxide (UO2), and depleted uranium trioxide (UO3). These ultra small particles float through the air like carcinogenic dust, and will be carried on the desert winds practically forever. When the lethal dust is inhaled it sticks to the fibers of the lungs, and eventually begins to wreck havoc on the body: tumors, hemorrhages, ravaged immune systems and leukemia can result.

A small study of British, Canadian and US
veterans with Gulf War illness found that just
over half tested positive for depleted uranium.[7]
                                                                 Reuters News

     Dr. Sarah Mayhill says, “It can be inhaled by soldiers and civilians, sticks to the lining of the lungs, is taken up by cells of the immune systems and get into lymph glands, bone, brain, hormone producing glands, ovaries and testes. It stays in these organs for many decades and is only very slowly excreted in urine.” That these particles were found thousands of miles away from the battlefield in England within days of the bombing in Iraq speaks of a catastrophe that has hundreds of millions, even billions of people breathing in this lethal stuff. What kind of arrogance or insanity would expose so many people to serious danger? It’s the kind cooked up by the arrogant elite in both England and the United States who live so high above the rest of us that they see us as nothing more than swine.

     According to Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki “DU dust-like particles can enter human bodies, and once taken into the body, they will become tens of millions times more hazardous.” When this uranium oxide dust is in the lungs or elsewhere in the body, it is in contact with living tissue, bombarding that tissue with low level radiation. Yagasaki continues saying, “One alpha particle passes hundred thousand atoms before it stops, blowing out hundred thousand electrons constituting a molecule. The destruction (ionization) of molecules will damage DNA, or will induce mutation in the cellular structure itself. There will be a great possibility of only one depleted uranium particle causing cancers and organ disorder. With the half-life of DU being 4.5 billion years, there will be almost no change in the rate of alpha emission 10,000 or 100,000 years later. This means once DU is inside the body, one will remain exposed to radiation as long as he/she lives unless it is discharged, while the environment continues to be polluted forever.”

     Dr. John W. Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology in the University of California at Berkeley, has written extensively about the effort to belittle the menace of low-level radiation. People associated with the nuclear and medical industries assert falsely, "there is no evidence that exposure to low-dose radiation causes any cancer --- the risk is only theoretical," or the risk is "utterly negligible," or "the accidental exposures were below the safe level," and even "there is reasonably good evidence that exposure to low-dose radiation is beneficial and lowers the cancer rate." By any reasonable standard of scientific proof the weight of the human evidence shows decisively that cancer is inducible by ionizing radiation even at the lowest possible dose and dose-rate --- which means that the risk is never theoretical.

     Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling described this process as follows: "The rays of high-energy radiation are like little bullets that shoot through the body. They tear electrons away from molecules and through subsequent reactions of the molecular ions that are formed, the molecules may be broken in two, some atoms may be torn away from them, some new molecules may be formed. The dose of 500 roentgens that usually leads to death by acute radiation sickness causes about 500,000 changed molecules to be formed in each cell. If any of the special molecules [that control the process by which the cell divides] happen to be damaged by a single little bullet of radiation from a single radioactive atom, it may be changed in such a way as to cause the cell to divide much more rapidly than the other cells. This cell may then produce a colony of rapidly dividing cells, which in the course of time would outnumber the normal cells of that type. Then the human being may die from cancer - perhaps leukemia, bone cancer, some other kind of cancer - caused by the single radioactive atom that produced the single little bullet of radiation."

Radioactive materials, plutonium in particular, affect the deepest level of
the human being - bone marrow, DNA, genetic structure, inner organs and the
deepest of emotions. The message is clear. We have created a horrific heritage.

                                                                                                    Jeremy Sherr

                                                            The Homeopathic Proving of Plutonium Nitricum

     After everything you have read about nuclear radiation and depleted uranium armaments, and the military and medical industrial complexes denial of the danger, reflect on this information. Back in 1943, a memo to Manhattan Project’s General Leslie Groves from Drs. Conant, Compton and Urey extolled the lethal possibilities of radioactive materials “as a Gas Warfare Instrument. The material . . . ground into particles of microscopic size and . . . distributed in the form of a dust or smoke or dissolved in liquid, by ground-fired projectiles, land vehicles, airplanes, or aerial bombs . . . would be inhaled by personnel. The amounts necessary to cause death to a person inhaling the material is extremely small.”

Depleted uranium is a deadly toy
 in the hands of the ruling bloodlines.
                                                        Arun Shrivastava

     Again we find the American government involved in things that are horrifying to our sense of humanity. Instead of being champions of human rights and peace we find them to be nuclear terrorists. Obviously their obsession with keeping the bomb out of Iranian hands is a case of you are whatever disturbs you. The greatest user of weapons of mass destruction just cannot stand the thought of anyone else using and killing people with nuclear materials. It would be much more understandable if the Americans were leading the world away from atomic terror by themselves proposing an end to the nuclear age and a burying in the deep desert of all radioactive materials.

The question of the dispersion of uranium aerosols from the battlefield is
of significant legal interest, since if a radioactive weapon resulted in the
general contamination of the public in the country of deployment or
elsewhere, the weapon would be classifiable as one of indiscriminate effect.
                                                                                                   Dr. Chris Busby

     Almost forty years ago there was a movie called On the Beach and it showed the horror of massive radioactive clouds closing in on Australia, the last holdout of civilization. Today we have been conditioned away from our fears of nuclear fallout so the American and British governments get away with using depleted uranium without fear of public backlash. In the next few chapters we will be talking about natural treatments for radiation exposure but the best treatment is to avoid exposure in the first place. In the above movie was a lonely submarine crew fleeing from the radioactive holocaust with nowhere to go. If there is war in Iran instead of taking a submarine, inhabitants of the north should be thinking of taking flights to the southern hemisphere and staying there for a few months. And all of us, no matter where we live should be prepared with substances that will assist in removing both radioactive particles as well as heavy metals from our bodies.

Think again, think seven times again before you leap
and start construction of new nuclear power plants.
                                                                      Mikhail Gorbachev
                                                                                       June 2006

      Radiation is not a joke or a conspiracy theory. Take a look at these pictures of Chernobyl today. http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ In reality we should be worrying about medical equipment and treatments using ionizing radiation and oppose nuclear power plants, which leak radiation even during normal “safe” operations. We should live as far away as we can from them and from coal fire power plants that expose us to high levels of mercury. It would be most fine indeed if we could put the same distance between ourselves and the American government but with current spending of almost 3 trillion dollars a year to support their existence it is difficult to find a safe haven on earth that is not beyond their threatening reach.  

Special Note:

      After publishing about low levels of radiation I got this note from a reader, Dr. Joel M. Kauffman. “If there is one thing that is proven beyond all doubt, it is that low levels of radiation are beneficial.” I of course went to look into this possibility that I might be wrong, as all good scientists should do, and was glad for the effort for it brought me back to some deep roots that I had forgotten about.

     Twenty five years ago, when I first started on my spiritual path, I ran across a genius, Dr. Walter Russell[8],[9] who predicted the loss of the ozone layer 20 years before scientists started noticing this disaster. In Russell's estimation, the lighter pressures of the stratosphere would retain the majority of radioactive fallout, and would be the first region that would reveal the wholesale destruction of oxygen. And in fact we do have massive reductions in the ozone that are not all explainable via chemical sources. His book Atomic Suicide clearly denotes nuclear radiation as the death principle. But like my mentor Christopher Hills, his work as been cast aside, rejected by a race of beings hell bent on committing suicide or allowing those in power to do it for us all.

     I found a site where a man would go down into a mine full of radon to heal himself of arthritis. Seemed strange when he could have done the same thing with magnesium, which is much safer. There are even some "radioactive springs" in Europe that are used for healing.  Propaganda for one of the six radon mines here in the US says that people come into the mines in wheelchairs and walk out. And who knows perhaps there is some truth that the short term expansive power of radiation could have this short term effect, but what about the long term collateral damages? 

     Yes we live in a universe of radiation and it has been here since the beginning of time but in natural forms and concentrations. Everything about man made radiation from too many x-rays to nuclear power plants, atomic bombs and depleted uranium speak of something that threatens life. 

     Dr. Joel M. Kauffman[10] says low levels of radiation are beneficial and he actually is correct to a point. First sunshine radiation UVA, UVB and UVC are healthy, though there are many who would have us hide from the sun and use toxic sun blocks to accomplish this. Unfortunately in areas where the ozone hole has opened up higher levels of radiation this is actually necessary for one can get burned in minutes in certain areas. Kauffman says that x-rays are harmless at their present low levels with modern technology bringing the dose exposures way down, and that is a relief to know. But he treads on a slippery slope when suggests the x-rays are responsible for reducing breast cancer deaths and thus would be a viable mode of treatment.

     Using toxic substances and radiation itself for medical treatments is a dangerous game (especially when safer natural alternative exist) that many like to play. There are plenty of doctors and dentists, for instance, who say the “small” amounts of mercury and fluoride used by the medical and dental professions is beneficial. Certainly chicken farmers don’t think they are harming us with the arsenic they are using to raise their chickens. In general our entire culture is built on the principle that the dose makes the poison. Thus industry, government, medicine, agriculture and the military are all engaged in poisoning the human race and the planet itself but protect their mental sanity with this rationalization firmly planted in their neuro circuits so they can sleep at night. Each lives with the bizarre hallucination that just a little bit of poison will not harm us or our children. But when you put it all together we have a disaster of staggering proportions. And health officials at the CDC scratch their heads wondering what is going on as the chemical and radiation exposures hit people from all sides simultaneously.

     American toxicologist Dr. Edward Calabrese, who Dr. Kauffman uses to shore up his arguments, argues that hormesis may change how regulators determine safe exposure levels to radiation or to toxic chemicals. Hormesis is the theory that supports the deliberate use of low levels of radiation for healing and it is the theory which finds evidence showing that at very low levels, harmful chemicals and ionizing radiation can prolong life, reduce the risk of cancer or spur animals and plants to grow faster. "We really have to take a hard look at what is going on at low doses. We are assuming it is harmful, and we go to great lengths to prevent people from exposure to minuscule amounts when we may actually be increasing their risk," says Dr. Ron Mitchel, a biologist with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in Chalk River, Ont.

     Dr. Calabrese suspects that beneficial exposure to some chemicals may be at levels now considered unacceptably high. What this all amounts to is a defense for the massive poisoning of humanity and a literal mind f**k (excuse the literal but accurate language here) that says we are not exposing our children and adults to enough harmful chemicals. We are not poisoning humanity enough has to be the zenith of insanity and it is the real basis of pharmaceutical terrorism. When people are sick from toxins allopathic medicine steps in to make people more toxic with its pharmaceuticals. Why not, a little poison is good for you!

     There are all kinds of strange thoughts possible in today’s world and there are people happy with the results of the chemical and radiation poisoning of the human race. After all it’s all responsible for declining fertility rates and that has to be a good thing right? What better way to control our tendency to breed like rats. Eugenics’ is not a joke in certain circles where population control is high on the agenda. 

    In times gone past when our bodies were not toxic waste sites it might have made some sense to use a bit of poison to heal someone. Homeopathy is the art of using incredibly small doses this way, much smaller than is ever considered in allopathic medicine. But today there is no one alive who can predict what another dose of another toxic medical substance will do to an already overburdened biological system.

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