Radioactive Poisoning

Here in Britain we have already felt the effects of the radioactive poison spewing out of the reactor in Fukushima, Japan. The Health Protection Agency confirmed that tests in Oxford and Glasgow picked up Radioactive particles of Iodine from the stricken reactor. Although they hasten to add that it is in miniscule levels that are unlikely to harm anyone over here.

Then again this is not the first time that we have had another countries radioactive poisoning reach this far. The accident at Chernobyl spewed out so much that the plume drifted across Europe and onto Britain. We are still feeling the legacy here in Wales where the radioactive particles fell onto some of the North Wales hillside farms. Farmers there still have to have their lambs tested by the Ministry before they can send them to market.

People though are worried about the poisoning affecting them, and rightly so. In the US sales of Iodine supplements have outstripped supply and many are not to be had anywhere.

Here in the UK when Chernobyl went off, Iodine supplies where readied but never really made available. We though continued on with our own supplementation.

We have always eaten seaweed supplements as part of our diet, buying Wakame and Kombu, some of the stronger more richer seaweed foods along with others including of course the traditional Laver bread available here in Wales produced by Penclawdd Shellfish Processors.

Kombu, a relative of Kelp is available in dried strips.

Seaweed is the ideal solution to the cloud of Radioactive Iodine particles. It naturally supplements the thyroid with Iodine and stops the intake of the radioactive particles into the Thyroid where they would lodge there and create much harm in later years by causing cancer. Not only that but the seaweed enhances all body systems with fantastic doses of every trace element that are needed for healthy living.

There is only one problem now, Kombu and Wakame are grown around Japan, so future stocks could well be contaminated by the radioactive fall out running into the sea. Others believe this as stocks of the seaweed are running out in the shops, where people are stock piling for the future. So we have to find another source of seaweed.

We have found one, a company in the Shetland Isles who sell edible seaweeds and garden supplements.

   Tub of edible seaweed.

I shall be placing an order in with them to try their product along with one for their granular seaweed plant food. What many people do not realise is that adding an Iodine rich supplement to the soil for vegetables to grow in means that the vegetables will uptake Iodine and supply it through that channel as well.

As many people are Iodine deficient even though they take Iodised cooking salt, it merely stops them from succumbing to Iodine deficiencies that would show up otherwise. To have sufficient Iodine in the diet purely through salt supplementation you would kill yourself with Sodium excess. With todays emphasis on salt free diets, and rightly so, this is not a supplement that should be relied upon.

Everyone therefore should aim to eat more sea vegetables for an all round improved diet.