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Was it you? It may be impossible to ever find out, but the FDA is now investigating several cases in different hospitals where the patient was inadvertently exposed to far more radiation than they should have been with their CT scan. These scans already expose people to far more radiation than a regular x-ray. For example, a regular chest x-ray gives you .10 mSv of radiation; a chest CT scan, 7 mSv, that’s 70 times more!
No one knows exactly what the ramifications of this overexposure will be, but it will certainly increase the patients’ long-term risk of diseases such as cancer, but then again, so does the accumulation of radiation you have been exposed to in your lifetime. That’s why you want to make sure and have an x-ray and especially a CT scan only if you really need one.
And if you do, it’s a good idea to take some green tea extract before and after your radiation exposure, as green tea has been shown to be protective against radiation. Try Nano-Green Tea by Quantum / Premier Research Labs. You can find it here:
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