https://www.discovermagazine.com/health ... omplicated
Evidence for Hormesis
However, evidence that’s been trickling in since the nuclear age suggests that LDR could actually benefit human health. In other words, not only is there a threshold for radiation exposure – a limit below which radiation should not be harmful– but at certain low levels ionizing radiation may do more good for your cells than harm. The idea that a low dose of a bad thing can have good effects is called hormesis.
Other so-called hormetic effects in humans are well documented. At low levels, and in certain circumstances, physical stressors such as exercise, cold, toxins, and fastingall bring health benefits. These appear to work by slightly over-activating the body’s repair machinery, relative to a small stress, with net positive results.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 222047.htmWhy Radiation Might Be Good
Normally, we receive a small amount of background radiation from space and from Earth itself. Normal cell repair mechanisms have evolved to compensate for this. Cell enzyme systems repair damaged membranes and mutated DNA.
LDR entails a level of exposure slightly above the normal background. Researchers theorize that LDR might accomplish its benefits by amping up cells’ inbuilt mechanisms for self-repair. The result, it appears, is defenses that outstrip the threat, leaving organisms more protected against various diseases than if they’d had no radiation treatment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/epa-say ... althy.htmlA new study from the University of Toronto at Scarborough has found that low doses of radiation could have beneficial effects on health.
https://publicintegrity.org/national-se ... der-trump/EPA says a little radiation may be healthy
The Trump administration is quietly moving to weaken U.S. radiation regulations, turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-apne ... hy-2018-10RADIATION IS GOOD FOR YOU? THE FRINGE VIEWPOINT GAINS GROUND IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is actively considering claims that low-dose radiation protections should be lifted because exposures make you healthier, a potential boon to radiation-related industries.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10 ... -exposure/The EPA wants to weaken radiation regulations, saying a little exposure could be healthy
The Trump administration is proposing to weaken US radiation regulations, backed by scientific outliers who suggest a little radiation is actually good for you, comparing it to exercise or sunlight.
This contradicts the government's decades-old stance that any exposure to harmful radiation poses a cancer risk and that no threshold of radiation exposure is risk-free.
Toxicologist Edward Calabrese said the new EPA proposal will "have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars."
A vaguely worded proposal could change regulations for low-dose exposures.A little radiation may be good for you, EPA witness argues for rule change