Radiation & Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

By Atom Bergstrom

Atom’s Blog

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) increase susceptibility to ionizing radiation.

Anyone indulging in fish oils or most plant oils should walk big circles around places like Fukushima in Japan and Hanford in south-central Washington state.

The same goes for bone scans and CAT scans.

Sterols (cholesterol, etc.) decrease susceptibility to ionizing radiation.

Emanuel Revici, M.D. (Research In Physiopathology As Basis of Guided Chemotherapy—With Special Application To Cancer, 1961) wrote …

“The knowledge of the important roles played by abnormal fatty acids and anti-fatty acids in the biological effects of radiation has suggested a biological guide for radiotherapy. Urinalysis, by reflecting various systemic changes, can serve as a valuable indication of manifestations and processes present in subjects undergoing radiation. The persistence of a pattern related to predominance of fatty acids indicates that the patient has passed into an imbalance that can only be increased by further irradiation and, if it becomes sufficiently intense, may even prove to be lethal, causing the patient to die with symptoms of severe shock. In contrast, a pattern corresponding to the predominance of sterols [including cholesterol] could be considered as being consistent with a preponderant reactive response, which would indicate that higher amounts of radiation could be used without danger.”

Sterols and PUFAs especially affect the cellular level (Period Four Elements) and above (Three, Two, One).

Dr. Revici wrote (same source as above) …

“At the systemic level, this effect is almost limited to the fatty acids.

“The introduction of polyunsaturated fatty acids to the medium greatly increases the toxic effects of radiation, as compared to controls exposed to radiation or fatty acids alone. The proportion of mutations was not changed, however.”

The influence of lipids decreases below the cellular level (Period Five, Six, and Seven Elements), where the direct influences of ionizing radiation predominate.

Dr. Revici wrote (same source as above) …

“The ultimate effect of radiation at different levels depends upon the relationship between three factors: changed fatty acids, other changed constituents, and the intervention of adrenals. The effect of the adrenals is progressively more manifest at the higher levels of the organization. At lower levels, the direct intervention of the abnormal lipids becomes more important than the adrenal response, the latter being less able to act at these levels. At the cellular level [Period Four], the influence of lipids is still predominant. At the tissular level [Period Three], the direct lipid effect is still striking, while the influence of the adrenal response is limited to the connective tissue. Although the effect upon the lymphatic constituents (as part of the adrenal response) is important at the organic level, the steroid response becomes more important at the systemic level [Period Two].”

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The Periodic Table of the Elements is the cosmic blueprint of our seven-story human body from macro (First Period) to micro (Seventh Period).

Second Period = organ system formations of the body as well as insomnia-somnolence, diarrhea-constipation, oliguria-polyuria, and tachycardia-bradycardia.

Third Period = connective tissue level of the body (pluricellular and pericellular level of interstitial metazoic formations)

Fourth Period = cellular level of the body (monocellular cytoplasmic formations)

Fifth Period = cell nucleus level of the body (nucleoplasmic formations)

Sixth Period = sub-nucleus level of the body (genetic and chromosomal submorphologic formations)

Seventh Period = primary and even submolecular level of the body
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