Easy Natural Alternatives for Radiation Poisoning Defense & Recovery

Thanks to Jaylon ”Timid” Carter for helping me compile the data for this article.

 

  Everyone is so concerned about radiation levels increasing because of the disaster in Japan. Ironically, we absorb radiation everyday. Knowing the exact levels of radiation we are exposed to each year (E.P.A. radiation calculator) can help us stay healthier and be aware of how much, if any, radiation we are exposed to from the Fukushima incident. If you are exposed health organizations around the world recommend potassium iodide tablets however, those tablets may not work for the type of radiation we would experience from a fallout. The CDC has a great article with all the facts on potassium iodide, what exactly it does inside the body and what it can and cannot protect you from. There are also some rumors flying around the web that there are some serious side affects from taking this drug, ironically one of them is cancer – the exact thing it’s supposed to prevent..

  What?!?!?

  If you're like me, the thought that you could possibly die from something that is supposed to help you is kind of a deal breaker. So, I decided to to see what other option there were (You know, just in case...). In my searching I found that there are some natural alternatives to assisting the body in ridding itself of radiation exposure rather than ingesting potassium-iodide. Foods such as kelp, rosemary, spirulina, miso soup and niacin all assist the body in fighting radiation damage. Making these foods a regular part of your diet, could help lower your chances of radiation damage to the body.

Kelp

  Several sources suggest that Kelp may be used to treat the affects of radiation on the body. Many “green foods” such as kelp, seaweed, wheat grass or any other source of chlorophyll will have similar properties. Kelp has a normalizing effect on the thyroid gland. you must also be sure to get enough vitamin A in your diet. without sufficient vitamin A, your thyroid gland cannot produce thyroxin, a hormone that helps the thyroid absorb iodine.

Rosemary

 In fact, this headline states Rosemary Found to Offer Best Protection Against Radiation Poisoning. That speaks loudly enough, don’t you think? In addition to eating the herb fresh or dried (and cooked into dishes), you can also find rosemary extract or tincture in just about any natural health food store.

Spurilina

“In Chernobyl, for instance, spirulina was used to help save many children from radiation poisoning. By taking 5 grams of spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk even proved that children on this protocol experienced enhanced immune systems, T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity. Israeli scientists have since treated Chernobyl children with doses of natural beta carotene from Dunaliella algae and proved that it helped normalize their blood chemistry. Chlorella algae, a known immune system builder and heavy metal detoxifier, has also shown radioprotective effects. Because they bind heavy metals, algae should therefore be consumed after exposure to any type of radioactive contamination.” Read more about spirulina

Miso Soup

Shinichiro Akizuki, M.D. helped the patients at St. Francis Hospital avoid radiation poisoning after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 by feeding his patients and workers brown rice, miso soup, vegetables and seaweed every day. His hospital was only about a mile from the blast site. Further away, University Hospital's 3000 patients suffered greatly from leukemia and disfiguring radiation burns. This hospital served its patients sugar, white rice, and refined white flour products. A follow-up study was done on the health of the Japanese people. Over a 25-year period, the Japanese Cancer Institute tested and tracked 260,000 subjects, dividing them into three groups. Group one ate miso soup daily, group two consumed miso two or three times a week, while group three ate no miso at all. The results were stark: those who had not eaten any miso showed a 50% higher incidence of cancer than those who had eaten miso.” The fact that many did not have as serious health repercussions as expected was attributed to the regular inclusion of miso soup and seaweed in their diet. Read more about miso

Niacin

Researchers claim that niacin had been a definite point of study as an antidote to radiation exposure and has also proven to be an extraordinary effective catalyst for the discharging of radiation.

Sunflower Seeds

According to a Natural News article, both apples and sunflower seeds contain a pectin that’s adept at cleansing the body from residual radiation. (They also mention that the glucosides in buckwheat add protective measures against radiation if eaten before exposure.)

Activated Charcoal

Activated charcoal, taken internally, removes toxins and poisons from the body. In fact, it’s kept in nearly all emergency rooms at this point to help mitigate the effects of poisoning. According to WebMD, there is also some scientific evidence that it lowers cholesterol. Here’s more on how to take activated charcoal internally.

Please note, activated charcoal and charcoal briquettes are two vastly different things. Please do not eat your barbecue charcoal!

Other foods that may help in combating radiation sickness are foods that naturally detoxify the body. Foods such as reishi mushrooms, green and black teas, garlic, nettles, dandelions, ginseng, lentils, collards and mustard greens.

You can read "How to Help Support Your Body's Healing After Intense Radioactive or Radiation Exposure" a 121 page E-book available for free that details some of the things mentioned above.

Read about the affects of radiation on the body here.

Tip:
With the concern over increased radiation here in Japan you should increase your intact of Miso, seaweed/sea vegetables and the things mentioned in this article. Don't overdo it with the salt though. Cut down on sugar, white rice and white flour food items as it lowers your immune system. Get Activated Charcoal Capsules and take a couple every day. They are safe and non-toxic and pull out toxins and impurities. These are safe,easy and natural ways of helping to get past this situation and minimize our risk. Tell your friends and family to do the same.

How are you feeling about everything that’s going on right now in Japan? Are you concerned about nuclear fallout reaching where you live?

Do you have any detox and protective measures to add to this list? Any ideas are welcome!

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L. "Taz" Hicks
http://about.me/onmugen

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Summer Time

A little something to BBQ, Drink, Tan, and Enjoy your "Summer Time" too. New Joint From Azian Black "Summer Time" get it at SoundCloud or BandCamp Check it out! Oh Yeah, The Download Is free! Our gift to say thanks for listening! Have a great summer!

Peace,

Taz (OnMugen/Azian Black)

Also check us out on facebook: Azian Black Fan Page

“The Rain” Timid ft Jalima Shani

A new joint from Timid featuring Jalima Shani

Produced by REC and mixed and mastered by ME!

“THE RAIN”

Timid is an emcee’s emcee, with intelligent, thought-provoking lyrics dropped over tight production
carrying influences from jazz, to soul and funk, to classical orchestra.  He has received an immensely positive reception on several of the major Hip Hop websites, featured on numerous mixtapes worldwide and has received radio play in Florida, Africa, Canada, and Japan. As well as stage stops from New York to Tokyo and television and radio appearances from Washington DC to Australia. Timid has shared the stage with artists such as Travis Barker & DJ AM, Warren G, Paul Wall, Jeru The Damaja, CunninLynguists, A-Alikes, Agallah of Dipset and Pack FM and has worked along with Hip Hop veterans like Mikey D (Mikey D & The LA. Posse/Main Source), Granddaddy IU, Edo G, Lin Que (X-Clan, MC Lyte) and Domingo. Along with features and production on releases distributed by legendary Hip Hop label Rawkus Records and Japan’s Handcuts Records, Timid is not one to sleep on

Jalima is one of the most dynamic artists on today’s music scene. Her style can be described as a unique blend of poetic lyrics, passionate delivery, and intelligent wordplay contained within a currant of constant positive energy. Growing up amid the culturally diverse artistic scenes of Philadelphia Pennsylvania her sound developed into a fluid combination of a deep respect for history and innovative style. With topics that usually in some way deal with appreciating who you are as a person and recognizing your own self worth she creates bridges through music that breaks down barriers of pretense.

Cop the free download here –> “The Rain”  Timid ft. Jalima Shani

Check out them out online:

Timid:

http://www.myspace.com/timid 

https://twitter.com/TimidMC

http://www.timidmc.com

Jalima:

http://www.myspace.com/jalima

http://jalimashani.com/

Can I get a HOORAH!?

The pictures say it all!

Get some Bitches!!!!!!!!

 

Once a Marine always a Marine!  HOORAH!!!!

Oh Yeah, and too my SEAL homeyz!

Just Kidding……

The Freshest Halloween Costume Ever!!!

As seen on the streets of Tokyo, Japan

Inspired by Album covers from A Tribe Called Quest.

‘Nuff Said!!!

 

P.S.

Big up to Timid for pointing this out to me and Big Up to the homegirl DJ Sarasa aka SilverBoomBox for rocking the “Electric Relaxation!

!NEW! Koddy- “Forever”

New demo song from the Japanese Reggae artist known as KODDY.

Song title is “Forever” which she sung over the Automatic Riddim track.

ENJOY!!!

Koddy-"Forever

Do You Drink Bottled Water?

I have long voiced my opinion about the idea of buying water and finally someone has put those same basic ideas in a documentary film called “Tapped”.

“Tapped” is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.

Check out the trailer:

Eminem - The Warning (Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Diss)

Mariah Carey channeled Eminem for her new music video, "Obsessed." Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?  And stand up he did!  Eminem fires back with his song “The Warning”

Download this MP3 - (Right Click) 

For those who couldn’t catch what he was talkin about here are the lyrics:

Only reason I dissed you in the first place is because you denied seeing me
Now I’m pissed off
Sit back homey relax, in fact grab a six pack kick back while I kick facts
Yeah Dre’s sick track, perfect way to get back
Wanna hear something wick wack?
I got the same exact tat that’s on Nick’s back
I’m obsessed now
Oh gee, is that supposed to be me in the video with the goatee
Wow Mariah, I didn’t expect her to go balls out
Bitch, shut the **** up before I put all them phone calls out you made to my house when you was wild n out before Nick
When you was on my **** and give you somethin to smile about
How many times you fly to my house? Still trying to count
Better shut your lying mouth if you don’t want Nick finding out
You probably think cuz it’s been so long if i had something on you I woulda did it by now
On the contrary, Mary Poppins, I’m mixing a studio session down and sending it to mastering to make it loud
Enough dirt on you to murder you
This is what the **** I do
Mariah, it ever occur to you that I still have pictures?
However you prefer to do and goes for Nick too, faggot
You think I’m scared of you?
You gonna ruin my career you better get one
Like I’ma sit and fight with you over some slut bitch **** that made me put up with her psycho ass over 6 months and only spread her legs to let me hit once
Yeah, what you gonna say? I’m lucky? Tell the public that I was so ugly that you ****ing had to be drunk to **** me?
Second base? What the **** you tell Nick, punk?
In the second week we was dry humping. It’s gotta count for something.
Listen, girly. Surely you don’t want me to talk about how I nutted early cos I ejaculated prematurely and bus all over your belly, and you almost started hurling and said I was gross, go get a towel you’re stomachs curling. Or maybe you do.
But if I’m embarrassing me, I’m embarrassing you and don’t you dare say it isn’t true.
As long as the song’s getting airplay I’m dissing you.
I’m a hair away from getting carried away and getting sued.
I was gonna stop at 16. that was 32. This is 34 bars. We ain’t even a third of the way through.
Damn, Slim. Mariah played you. Mariah who?
Oh did I say ”whore”, Nick? I meant a liar too.
Like I’ve been goin off on you all this time for no reason.
Girl you out ya alcholic mind. Check ya wine cellar. Look at the amounts of all the wine.
Like I ****ing sit around and think about you all the time.
I just think this **** is funny when I pounce you on a rhyme.
But **** it now i’m about to draw the line.
And for you to cross it that’s a mountain that I doubt you wanna climb.

I can describe areas of your house that you wouldn’t find on an episode of Cribs
A blubba load ribs if I hear another word so don’t go opening your jibs cos every time you do it’s just another load of fibs
I ain’t saying this shit again, ho. You know what it is.
It’s a warning shot for before I blow up ya whole spot
Call my bluff and I’ll release every ****ing thing I got
Including the voicemails right before you flipped your top
When me and Luis were tryin’ to stick two CD’s in the same spot
(Slim Shady I love you)
I love you too
Let me whisper sweet nothings into your ear, boo. Now what you say?
(It’s nothing)
Yeah so what I’ll do?
Is refresh your memory when you said ”I want you”
Now should I keep going or should we call truce?
(You think you’re cute, right? Hahaha)
You bet your sweet ass I do
(I’m Mary Poppins, b)
And I’m Superman, mmm
(Mary P. Slim Shady)
Comin’ at you
So if you’ll still be my (babygirl)
Then I’ll still be your (Superhero, Wilma M.)
Yeah, I’m right here
(You like this)
Nope. Not anymore, Dear.
It cuts like a (knife) when I tell ya get a (life)
But I’m movin on with mine
Nick, is that your (wife)
Well tell her to shut her mouth then I’ll leave her alone
If she don’t (sing this script?) then I’ma just keep goin, DAMN!
(I see Mary Ann. Mary Ann’s saying ”cut the tape, cut the tape”. Knife!)

3 Years

I dedicate this blog to the memory of J. Dilla aka James Dewitt Yancey

THREE YEARS AFTER HIS UNTIMELY DEATH, J DILLA'S BEATS AND REPUTATION LOOM EVER LARGER OVER HIP HOP. BUT FOR HIS MOTHER - WHO NURSED THE VISIONARY PRODUCER THROUGH A CHRONIC ILLNESS AND HAS WATCHED HIS ESTATE LANGUISH IN LIMBO - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.
DILLA REALIZED SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH HIS HEALTH IN JANUARY OF 2002. He'd just returned from Europe and thought he had a bad flu. Sick to his stomach and complaining of chills, Ma Dukes took him to the emergency room at Bon Secours hospital in suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His blood platelet count should have been above 150, but it was below 10. Doctors told his mother they were surprised he was still walking around.
He tested positive for lupus, an autoimmune disease that can be fatal. To make matters worse, Detroit doctors diagnosed him with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, aka TTP, a rare disorder that causes blood clots to form in the body's blood vessels.
At summer's end, 2005, Dilla found himself in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, the same hospital where The Notorious B.I.G. and Eazy-E died. He'd lost the ability to walk and could barely talk. His own body was killing him, and there was little to be done about it.
Sensing that death was coming, he told his mother he needed his equipment in the hospital with him. Ma Dukes asked his friends from the L.A.-based label Stones Throw Records to lug his turntables, mixer, crates of records, MPC, and computer into his room. When his hands were too swollen, Ma Dukes would massage his stiffened fingers so Dilla could work on the tracks, letting his doctors listen to the beats through his headphones.
Sometimes he'd wake Ma Dukes up in the middle of the night, asking her to help move him from his bed to a reclining chair so he could work a bit more comfortably. His only focus was finishing the album. Donuts was released on Stones Throw on February 7, 2006, his 32nd birthday. Dilla died three days later.
Such a tragic story for a man who left so much good in the world. Big Up To the whole Dilla Family.
R.I.P J. Dilla you will be remembered forever!
P.S.
His younger brother is doing things with some of the beats that J Dilla made.

 

Akira's Hip Hop Shop

I am watching this cool short film called Akira's Hip Hop Shop! A film about cultures clashing, mashing and meshing in Los Angeles. Great casting and characters (e.g., Jason Yorrick as a brother with a taste for Asian culture, cuisine and women), and the leads, James Kyson Lee (Akira) and Emayatzy Corinealdi (Daphne), have a chemistry and heat that is rare and believable. Complete with subtitles when the film goes into Japanese, "Akira's Hip Hop Shop" serves up a funky bowl of soulful rice that bridges cultures and puts the mix in the mixing pot that is L.A. I would tell you more about the film but, seeing as how it is only 22 minutes long, Go check it out when you get a chance!
http://en.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?mode=high&id=20081206
私はこのクールなショートフィルムAkiraのショップと呼ばれるヒップホップを見てよ！文化の衝突についての映画、 mashing 、ロサンゼルスにメッシュ。素晴らしいキャストと文字（例えば、Jason Yorrickアジアの文化、料理、女性の趣味を持つ兄として）、そして、James Kyson Lee（Akira）とEmayatzy Corinealdi （ダフネ）は、化学、熱は、まれですがリード信じられない。完了時には映画の字幕を日本語、 "明のヒップホップショップ"は、橋の文化との混合のミックス鍋には、ルイジアナ私はフィルムを置くことについてもっと話すのだが、魂のこもった目にしているコメのファンキーボウルを提供しに行くどのようにわずか22分長く、チャンスがあればそれをチェックアウト移動です！
ラップをこよなく愛するアキラは、日本を抜け出しアメリカでレコード店を営む。店で新たに働くことになった、同じくラップ好きの黒人の女の子と恋に落ちる。人種の違い、二つの異なる文化、家族や友達の偏見が渦巻く。二人の恋の行方は？
http://jp.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?id=20081206&mode=high&start=10

Let Freedom Ring

Check out my homeboy's video. Let Freedom Ring by Timid from the album "No Time For The Jibba Jabba".

Directed by Kanin Murphy. Animation by Anita Rani. Remix by Domingo. Album is available on iTunes, E-Music, Amazon, Rhapsody, CD Baby and more. http://timidmc.com

Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. Ambrose Bierce