How To Counter Radiation With Your Food!

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

In a previous article for Wake Up World I talked about sunflower seeds and their ability to help remove radiation.  It has been shown that sunflowers absorb heavy metals and so have been used extensively near Chernobyl and more recently Fukushima.  It is said that Sunflower can remove 95% of the radiation in soil in 20 days where it would normally take about 30 years until radiation levels were reduced to a “safe” level.

Fortunately we have other foods we can utilise as well. Our bodies are 50-80% water (depending on age and weight) and they mimic the ocean which has over 100 minerals composed of 80 chemical elements. Well, those are the ones we know of.  As scientists continue their research we are bound to find many yet unnamed beneficial elements.

Vegetables from the ocean also have an incredible amount of minerals. High amounts of vitamins C and E are present as well as B vitamins, iron, calcium and a high percentage of fibre. In fact, the carbohydrates in sea vegetables will easily pass through your digestive system effectively cleansing your intestines. There have been studies that  have shown seaweeds ability to remove up to 90 percent of radioactive strontium 90 from the intestinal tract. (S.C. Skoryna et al, “Intestinal Absorption of Radioactive Strontium,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 191, 1964) The sodium alginate found in sea plants will actually chelate the remaining amount out of the bone structure. This is good news for dealing with present and past toxic contamination.

In our modern world we are constantly bombarded by radiation. It is a concern brought up by many when medical diagnostics such as x-rays and CAT scans are used but of even greater concern is the radiation from our computer monitors and mobile phones since we use them continuously throughout the day every day.

The study of the unique qualities of seaweed continues. There is important work done by Dr. Jane Teasof Harvard, Dr. Ryan Drum, Ph.D. and many others in the anti-cancer research. I think it’s great to study and find out what the plant world can do for our health. It validates everything I and many others believe. I just have a problem with trying to isolate and encapsulate these properties into a pill when what we really need to do is eat our food the way nature intended. It is the synergistic properties of the whole plant that gives its healing properties. It is also the strength of our immune system that keeps us from being susceptible to illness and disease.

Iodine is a critical element found in seaweed and needed in our bodies as we do not make it ourselves. Our thyroid gland is dependent on iodine in order to do its work. Our blood passes through the thyroid and as it secretes iodine, germs will be weakened or destroyed. Thus, the thyroid is key to a strong immune system. It also builds your body’s energy, relieves nervous tension and helps with fat storage.

Having adequate amounts of iodine aids in the avoidance of radioactive absorption. Important what with the nuclear accidents that have occurred and affects everyone regardless of where we live. Iodine is added to most salt because it is difficult to get enough in today’s conventional diet. The problem with this though is that the iodine added to salt is inorganic and not absorbable. Many of us have written about the processing of salt, which like sugar, has been contaminated through the chemical processing needed to create the free pouring white granules most of us were raised on. We don’t need these chemicals in our food. In fact, chlorine (used in food processing and in the cleaning of our tap water) has a lower atomic weight than iodine and so when the chlorine passes through the thyroid it displaces our stores of iodine. As a side note, fluorine and bromine also displace iodine. Both of which are dangerous.

People with low levels of natural iodine (most of us these days) are more at risk because their thyroids will soak up all iodine they come across – including the radioactive kind. The obvious best prevention we can do is to keep our stores of iodine high by feeding our body good quality iodine.

Consuming foods naturally high in iodine before and during exposure to radiation will help prevent the radioactive form of iodine from lodging in your thyroid as well as the breasts, prostrate, ovaries, uterus and other areas it likes to hang out and cause trouble in.

Looking to the sea for some of our food sources seems like a common sense addition.

Continue reading for the food list and recipies