KELP & RADIATION POISONING

Flowers of the Sea

By Dr. Hildegarde Staninger

May 9, 2004

"Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea." E.L. Aveline 

Kelp a/k/a brown seaweed, no doubt, outdates man by a considerable period of time. Man has been using seaweed for food and in the growth of plants since his very beginning. Early man, perhaps, cared less why seaweed influenced plant growth. He found them, used them and was happy. Man of necessity is concerned about the environment in which he lives. This environment is living and active and is the home of many living things in the air, the soil and the water. The bacteria, fungi, nematodes represent lower forms of life, whereas many kinds of plants on land in the oceans represent the higher forms of living things. It is estimated that more than half the food we eat contains applied chemicals, many of them are residues from the 2.3 billion pounds of pesticides farmers apply to their crops each year. Some pesticides are suspected carcinogens; others are highly toxic and the affects of biological pesticides (genetically engineered pesticides from bacteria, viruses, fungi and other life forms DNA) are being seen as the genocide cocktails for the genocide of non-native species of plants in the United States.

Two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water, and marine algae constitute most of the whole vegetation, which exists in this area. And there are many varieties of seaweed - blue-green, grass green, olive-green, brown, and red.

Kelp specifically refers to various flat brown seaweeds, includes species of Laminaria and Macrocystis that grow on rocks mainly in cold oceanic water of the Northern Hemisphere. Kelps have been used as human and animal food, medicines, and fertilizers for thousands of years by coastal peoples of Greece, China, Korea, Japan, Europe and North America. The seaweeds have been most commonly used to counter goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland, which is located on the neck) and under active thyroid (hypothyroidism). The scientific rationale for these uses began in 1812 with the discovery in kelp of iodine, a mineral necessary for the body to produce thyroid hormones.

A number of countries, since the 1920's have added iodine to salt. This can effectively reduce goiter and other diseases associated with iodine deficiencies, but in some parts of the world these conditions remain serious public health problems that could be alleviated by consumption of kelp or other seaweeds.

Kelp is a natural antidote to radiation poisoning as seen with plutonium, uranium, radon, I-131 and I-125. It was used as the primary antidote for the effects of radiation poisoning after the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Lots and lots of misu soup were consumed by the Japanese to counter radiation poisoning.

As Chernobyl proved, and health experts now agree, the greatest health concerns affecting the largest number of people form a nuclear accident or explosion are likely to be form radioactive iodine readily carried by the winds many miles downwind from the site of a nuclear event.

Radio active Iodine (I-131 & I-125) is a major radioisotope constituent of both nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear bombs, contaminated milk in Panama and used as a ground water monitoring agent for oil wells right at Beverly Hills High School grounds (http://www.beverlyhillswater.com). Thyroid cancer attributable to Chernobyl has been documented up to 500 km from the accident site. Even very small amounts of inhaled or ingested radioiodine can do grave damage as it will always concentrate, and be retained, in the small space of the thyroid gland. And pregnant women breath 7 times more oxygen than a non-pregnant woman from the time of conception, thus allowing them to be at 7 times more risk than other people.

Animal studies performed by Hong Kong researchers have shown that kelps and other seaweeds rich in iodine and other nutrients were able to suppress the thyroid's ability to absorb radioactive iodine, thus preventing the organ from being injured by the harmful effects of radiation. All individuals should be wise and stock their kitchens with misu soup, roasted seaweed or make their favorite dishes using kelp as an ingredient, because the use of radio active I-131, I-125 and NORMs are being used in every oil well in the USA as a testing agent for cracks in the pipes, but who is collecting the radiation that leaks from the none lead pipes. And we all have read that the lead plumbing in Rome is what drove Nero mad as he burned his own city. And know one knows what cascading effect radiation combined with petroleum compounds will have on our bodies.