By Gavin Bragg

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

By now most of us have heard about thehundreds of benefits of coconut oil, and you may have also heard of the incredible detoxing power of pure liquid Zeolite. You must have also heard about the destruction that the Fukushima nuclear disaster is causing world wide, with Hypothyroidism in infants increasing by 26% in California in the 9 months following Fukushima compared with the previous year[1].

Although officials continue to downplay the extent of the disaster, many are (re)turning to the proven medicinal properties of natural substances like coconut and zeolite to help them maintain good thyroid health (among other things) amid rising levels of environmental radiation in the wake of Fukushima.

Here are some simple and natural things you can do to keep your thyroid in optimum condition.

Radiation and Thyroid Health

So what exactly does the Thyroid do? Why is it important that you have a healthy one? And what does radiation do to thyroid function?

The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland located in the throat, and it controls how quickly the body uses energy, makes proteins and also controls the bodies sensitivity to other hormones. The thyroid produces the essential T3 and T4 hormones, which regulate the growth and rate of function of many of the bodies systems. These body-regulating hormones are made with iodine, and this is where radiation comes in. When radioactive iodine-131 like that released from the Fukushima disaster enters the body, it is absorbed into the blood and is mistaken by the body as healthy iodine. It is then absorbed by the thyroid gland, killing cells and causing mutations like cancer in the surrounding tissues.

A November 2013 study of 200,000 children from the Fukushima prefecture, conducted by the Fukushima Medical University, found that 59 children already have thyroid cancer! In a population that size, 1 or 2 children having thyroid cancer would be considered a normal. The researchers also tested for pre-cancerous cysts or nodules, and an astounding 56% of the children tested had a pre-cancerous lumps on their thyroid glands. That’s over 110,000 children in the immediate Fukushima area alone! [2]

The main cause for Thyroid disease is radiation exposure, and in particular radioactive Iodine-131.

Radioactive iodine only has a half-life of 8 days (meaning its radioactivity halves every 8 days). Some still argue that by the time it reaches the West Coast of the USA, it poses no danger to humans but the results suggest otherwise. Adults may not be as affected but it is clearly having an effect on infants, especially the extremely sensitive cells of developing fetuses in utero, even at relatively low radiation doses. Supplementing Iodine will be a major help to blocking Radioactive Iodine-131 absorption. If your body has lots of available healthy Iodine like Nascent Iodine (an extremely bio-available form of colloidal iodine) it will have less need to absorb and (attempt to) use radioactive iodine-131 if it enters the body.

It has become increasingly clear that government-funded science programs do not yet understand – or will not admit – the extent to which radiation exposure affects the human body. Thyroid disorders are becoming increasingly common, and not just from exposures to Fukushima and military radiation but to medical radiotherapy treatments as well. A report in the US National Library of Medicine titled “Radiotherapy-induced Thyroid Disorders” states:

“Primary hypothyroidism, the most common radiation-induced thyroid dysfunction, affects 20-30% of patients administered following curative radiotherapy to the neck region, with approximately half of the events occurring within the first 5 years after therapy. The relative risk of radiation-induced cancer (mainly well-differentiated tumours) is 15-53-fold higher than in non-irradiated population.”[3]

Another shocking study on radiotherapy treatment, published in the peer reviewed journal “Stem Cells”, and written by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre Department of Oncology found that:

“Despite killing half of all tumour cells per treatment, radiation treatments on breast cancer transforms other cancer cells into cancer stem cells which are vastly more treatment-resistant than normal cancer cells. The team of researchers found that the radiation-induced stem cells had a more than 30-fold increased ability to form tumours compared with non-irradiated breast cancer cells.”[4]

Clearly exposure to radiation, even at levels considered ‘safe’ by mainstream medicine, can have a disastrous effect on our physical health.

Thankfully there are things you can do to eliminate radioactive toxins from your body.

Zeolite: the Champion of Radioactive Particle Removal

CONTINUE READING

Previous articles by Gavin Bragg:

• Perfect pH: the Simple Way to Optimal Health
• Remove Toxic Heavy Metals from Your Body in Less Than 7 Hours
• Pure Liquid Zeolite: the Natural Detoxifier
• How to Naturally Remove Radioactive Particles from Your Body in 5-7 Hours

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