Whole Food Ginger, the Best Functional Food to Protect Yourself Against Radiation

By Kyle J. Norton

Scientists may have found a kitchen spice for the inhibition of the side effects induced by radiation, according to studies.

Radiation is a technique used to emit energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a medium. In medical, using radiation is a type of diagnosis and treatment to detect and treat certain medical conditions such as hyperthyroidism and bone cancer.

However, exposure to such radiation has been found to have a negative impact on human health, including acute health effects such as skin burns and radiation syndrome. 

Most cases of low levels of radiation exposure in the environment do not cause immediate health effects but it has been found to contribute to our overall cancer risk, including X-ray.

Long-term exposure is associated with cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD, in the article "Radiation Exposure Prevention" wrote, "Increasing the distance of an individual from the source of radiation can, therefore, reduce the dose of radiation they are exposed to... The time spent exposed to radiation should be limited as much as possible. The longer an individual is subjected to radiation, the larger the dose from the source will be".

And, "Potassium iodide (KI) can be given orally immediately after exposure to radiation. This helps protect the thyroid from the effects of ingesting radioactive iodine if an accident occurs at a nuclear power plant... Shielding refers to the use of absorbent material to cover a reactor or other source of radiation so that less radiation is emitted in the environment where humans may be exposed to it".

In short, you can protect yourselves from radiation, by increasing distance from the radiation site, limiting the time exposure, shielding yourself from the exposure and taking potassium iodide (KI).

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) or ginger root, the second superfood used for thousands of years by mankind, is the genus Zingiber, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to Tamil.

The root has been used in traditional and Chinese medicine for the treatment of dyspepsia, gastroparesis, constipation, edema, difficult urination, colic, etc.

Researchers in the concerns about the use of ionizing radiation compromised by the side effects that result from radiation-induced damage to normal tissue investigated ginger radiation protective property.

In vitro, ginger, the rhizomes of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Zingiberaceae) and its phytochemicals dehydrozingerone, zingerone have shown to possess radioprotective effects in laboratory animals and in cultured cells.

Furthermore, injection of the hydroalcoholic extract of ginger rhizome administered either through intraperitoneal or oral route was effective in protecting against gamma radiation-induced sickness and mortality.

In an animal study, the phytochemicals dehydrogingerone and zingerone present in ginger are also shown to protect mice against radiation-induced sickness and mortality.

In tumor-bearing mice, ginger has also shown that zingerone selectively protects the normal tissues against the tumoricidal effects of radiation.

Mechanistically, the efficacy of ginger against radiation was attributed to the free radical scavenging, antioxidant effects, anti-inflammatory, and estrogenic effects.

In order to know more information about ginger anti-radiation activity, researchers Kasturba Medical College examined the radioprotective effect of the hydroalcoholic extract of ginger rhizome.

The study included mice given 10 mg/kg ZOE intraperitoneally once daily for five consecutive days before exposure to 6-12 Gy of gamma radiation and monitored daily up to 30 days postirradiation for the development of symptoms of radiation sickness and mortality.

During the experiment, pretreatment of ZOE mice reduced the severity of radiation sickness and the mortality at all doses.

The ZOE treatment protected mice from GI syndrome as well as bone marrow syndrome with the optimum protective dose of 10 mg/kg ZOE was 1/50 of the LD50 (500 mg/kg).

Radiation-induced lipid peroxidation and depletion of GSH on day 31 are also reduced by the injection ZOE.

Take all together, ginger may be considered a functional alternative for prevention and treatment of acute radiation side effects, pending to the confirmation of large sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Radiation
(1) Radioprotective effects of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger): past, present and future by Baliga MS1, Haniadka R, Pereira MM, Thilakchand KR, Rao S, Arora R. (PubMed)
(2) Influence of ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale Rosc) on survival, glutathione and lipid peroxidation in mice after whole-body exposure to gamma radiation by Jagetia GC1, Baliga MS, Venkatesh P, Ulloor JN. (PubMed)
(3) Radiation Exposure Prevention by Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD (News, Medical Life sciences)