And there is a body of thought that low doses are actually beneficial -- stimulating the body's repair mechanisms.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Didier Juges > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 20:13 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Rb danger > > Marie Curie died at 66 of radiation related anemia. Not a bad > age for the times, particularly considering the amount of > radiations her body must have absorbed during her life. > > Didier > > [email protected] wrote: > >I just finished Bernard Jaffe's history of chemistry book. > The Curies > >spent years in a small building with tons of ore boiling, mixing, > >filtering, etc to get a small bit of radium. He died (with some > >radiation changes) by getting his head run over by a car. > She died as > >an old lady of whatever. At the age I suspect most of us are, I > >suspect that something else will get us. > > > >N0UU > >_______________________________________________ > >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > >To unsubscribe, go to > >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >and follow the instructions there. > > -- > Sent from my Motorola Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker > while I do other things. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
