RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
December 18, 2023 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2023 at 9:36 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The underlying molecular mechanism that allow ionizing radiation exposure to inflict damage, and cause acute radiation sickness, is essentially the same as the molecular mechanism that causes damage to cells during oxygen respiration.
for an average person, breathing over a lifetime does approximately 15,000 times as much damage as a chest, x-ray, or 50 times as much damage as all the ionizing radiation at typical person is exposed to over lifetime
in fact, if we are exposed to oxygen concentration, several times higher than normal atmosphere we suffer from acute oxygen poisoning. And the fundamental cause at the mechanism of acute oxygen poisoning, is very similar to radiation sickness.
for an average person, breathing over a lifetime does approximately 15,000 times as much damage as a chest, x-ray, or 50 times as much damage as all the ionizing radiation at typical person is exposed to over lifetime
in fact, if we are exposed to oxygen concentration, several times higher than normal atmosphere we suffer from acute oxygen poisoning. And the fundamental cause at the mechanism of acute oxygen poisoning, is very similar to radiation sickness.
