Spirulina - Help someone who suffers with radiation poisoning

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When disaster struck with the 1986 reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, approximately 134 plant workers and firefighters battling the fire at the Chernobyl plant were exposed to high radiation doses -- 80,000 to 1,600,000mrem (800 to 16,000 mSv) -- and suffered from acute radiation sickness. Of these, 28 died within the first 3 months from their radiation injuries. Two more patients died during the first days as a result of combined injuries from the fire and radiation.

Not just the Ukraine, but the neighboring state of Belarus was also affected. It received 70% of the radioactive fallout and 23% of its territory became contaminated with radioactivity.

In total, over 160,000 children and 146,000 cleanup workers became victims of radiation poisoning that produced higher incidents of birth defects, leukemia,anemia, cancers, thyroid disease, degeneration of spinal fluids, liver and bone marrow, and severely compromised immune systems.A British company, Earth rise UK, is reported to have sent shipments of spirulina tablets and spirulina powder (spirulina is a super green sea algae) to clinics in Belarus for the treatment of children suffering from radiation sickness after Chernobyl. Earth rise sent shipments to the Children of Chernobyl Committee in Minsk and Soviet physicians used the supplements in clinics in Minsk and Grodno, Belarus as well as in Kiev, Ukraine.

By taking 5 grams of spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk found that the children showed enhanced immune systems and T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity.

The Institute also reported regeneration of bone marrow, spinal fluids, blood and the liver. Dangerously low white blood cell counts of about 1000, typical of leukemia, rose to an average of 3000 in 20 days, and the spirulina produced rapid improvements in the health of treated children compared to others who did not receive the algae.

In particular,spirulina reduced urine radioactivity levels by 50% in only 20 days time and so the Institute developed a special program to treat 100 children every 20 days with spirulina. Amazingly, health restoration was reported even when radiation sickness was so advanced that the children’s eyeballs were bulging out of their sockets. Furthermore, the healing occurred during the continuous presence of radiation as well as the presence of radiation contaminated food and water sources.

Based on the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk results, the Belarus Ministry of Health concluded that spirulina accelerates the evacuation of radio nuclides from the human body.

In particular, spirulina given to children with accumulated high doses of radio nuclides reduced radioactive cesium. No side effects were registered. The Ministry of Health considered spirulina advisable for the treatment of people subject to radiation effects and requested more spirulina from overseas.

The reports on these spirulina studies by the Belarus Hospital of Radiation Medicine can be found in BSSR Mission to the UN."The Chernobyl Tragedy and the Children of Byelo russia" National Paper, World Summit for Children, Sep.1990. and Correspondence from the Children of Chernobyl Committee, Minsk.5/15/90.

A 1993 report confirms the 1990-91 research with spirulina on children with radiation sickness and concluded:

Use of spirulina decreases radioaction dose load received from food contaminated with radio nuclides, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. Spirulina is favorable for normalizing the adaptative potential of children's bodies in conditions of long-lived low dose radiation.

As a result of this and other successes in treating radiation poisoning, in 1994 a Russian patent was awarded for spirulina as a medicine to reduce allergicre actions from radiation sickness.

There is also a report that children, aged 3 to 7 years old in Beryozovka (near Grodno on the Polish border), also suffered from the radio activity released from the Chernobyl accident. The children were also victims of lead poisoning due tothe presence of a strong local leaded glass industry. When spirulina was given to 49 of these children for 45 days, the physicians also found T-cell suppressors and beneficial hormones rose. In 83% of the children, the radioactivity of the urine once again decreased.

To date, we don’t really know why or how protection from radiation is exactly achieved by consuming spirulina. We just know it works. It has a high content of beta carotene that reduces free radical damage to cells and has even been used for treating cancer.

Spirulina is also extremely rich in highly bio available iron, which helps people recover from anemia. A significant portion of radiation sickness concerns the development of anemia, so eating anything that can help build the blood after radiation exposure would be helpful to the body.

Because it is extremely digestible, the super green algae spirulina also allows victims of malnutrition and malabsorption to absorb food more effectively and stems off those conditions. That’s an important concern in radiation sickness as well, and a reason this should become part of the standard diet. It’s chock full of nutrients and easy to digest and absorb when the body’s abilities in these are as are their weakest.

Spirulina has also been shown to reduce kidney poisoning in rats from heavy metal poisoning and pharmaceutical drugs (“The effect of spirulina on nephrotoxicity in rats,”Yamane Y, et al. Chiba Univ. Presented at Annual Symposium of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, April 15, 1988), and perhaps this heavy metal protective effect has a tie-in with binding and eliminating radio nuclides.

The kidneys are usually some of the first organs to suffer damage in radiationtoxicity, and research suggests when spirulina is taken with anti-cancer, anti bioticand painkilling drugs, toxic side effects to the kidneys can be significantly reduced and shorter recovery times may be possible.

That’s another radio protective tie-in.

Spirulina and other algae also contain high amounts of metallo-thio nine compounds, which scientists think may strip the body of radioactive metals and protect against radiation damage. That may be the major beneficial rocesswe’ve been looking for in order to put a name on it.

Research presented in Japan showed proteins combined with metals (metallo-thionine) had a strong protective effect from radiation, and since spirulina is a source of these compounds, that may help to explain its protective effects(Matsubara et al. "Radioprotective effect of metallo-thionine," presented at RadialRays Conference, Tokyo Japan 1985).

Research from China in 1989 also showed that an extract of spirulina had a positive protective effect from gamma radiation, too (“Radioprotective effect of extract from spirulina in mouse bone marrow cells studied by using the micro nucleus test,” Qishen P, Kolman et al.Toxicology Letters 1989; 48: 165-169).

So we now have definite cases here where -- beyond the shadow of a doubt --seaweeds and spirulina algae were found to help detoxification in cases of radiation poisoning.The reasons, of course, are complicated but involve the presence of rich sources of iodine, an over abundance of minerals and vitamins that promote healing and a healthy immune system, and the ability of compounds within these sea plants to bind heavy radioactive substances and eliminate them from the body.