Publisher's Synopsis
The author is a doctor of pharmacy, biochemist and writer focusing on phytochemicals and cancer prevention. The book is written post-observation of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in 2011, realizing that there was a dearth of usable interventionary information available for the lay public and medical professionals to deal with the health concerns of radiation accidents. This practical scientific exploration covers experimental approaches for tactical and pharmacological countermeasures. These are broadly comprised of measures and experimental agents, drugs, natural products and the diet, for not only ionizing radiation by other forms of radiation which affect health. Radiation of various types that emanate from such sources as security, occupational, communications, diagnostics, and therapeutic applications are also described in terms of health impact, as well as accidental and war exposures. Three chapters identify and categorize evolutionary pathologies of radiation damages and opportunities for treatment based on mechanisms of action. The book proposes logical, time-critical 'chronorithms' of preventive, early and late treatment of radiation damages. From the lay perspective to the medically-curious, up-to-date research is presented in RRR which outlines why, how and when to treat radiation. Persons who are concerned about radiation exposure will find useful information that is not easily available from other sources. Many anti-radiation approaches overlap with cancer-preventive therapies. The author's main goal was to describe, within the limits of inchoate medical research, what current directions a medical prescriber could consider, given various circumstances whereby radiation economy and pre- and post-radiation treatments were needed. RRR contains multiple illustrations, tables, graphs and charts; it explains the use of and -grades- many potential counter-radiation agents, including foods. It is both an educational exploration which attempts to explain concepts on both a lay and medical level with the hope of encouraging understanding for an expanded set of contemporary therapies. The reader will profit from a greater understanding of the risks of radiation exposure and the available, safe interventions they, in conjunction with advice from their medical provider, can take to help spare their health. Even if one learns that there are simple measures to be considered before a routine diagnostic radiation test, the book will have proven highly worthwhile.
