by DrBenGo Healthwarrior
Greetings iMedDo newsletter subscribers & Happy Halloween! For this month’s topic we dig into the trace element strontium. Strontium is neither a nutrient nor a toxin except for the radioactive form (Strontium 90) from nuclear fallout and from Fukushima nuclear power plant leak which does fit the definition of being a toxic heavy metal and requires detox with the iMedDo detox system. I neither recommend supplementing strontium (it’s not a nutrient), nor do we have to worry about detoxing normal strontium (it’s not toxic), but we do have to detox radioactive strontium (it’s extremely toxic) as can cause bone cancer, and many people around the world & especially states California & Hawaii near Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactor leak in particular, already use the iMedDo detox system based around NeuIodine to successfully protect against & detox radioactive strontium.
WHAT IS STRONTIUM?
Strontium (Sr) is element #38 on the periodic table.
Strontium (Sr), an alkaline earth metal, is in group (II) next to calcium and barium and has many similar chemical properties to both. Looking at it’s location on the periodic table, in the same family as calcium and slightly larger, I would predict that strontium could very likely interfere with calcium nutrient pathways in the body, and after reading some research articles I was able to confirm that is exactly what it does. Strontium can form divalent Sr2+ ion which can interfere with Calcium Ca2+ ion signaling in the human body & thus strontium needs to be detoxed. The good news is that strontium occurs naturally in sea water and thus life has had much time to learn to deal with it, so naturally occurring strontium isn’t really very toxic at all which I was surprised to learn. The body is very good at excreting strontium (excretes 3x faster than calcium) and any excess strontium the body just stores in the bones. Strontium is not a nutrient and does not make the bones stronger in fact it can make bones more brittle so it seems that strontium is just a low grade contaminant in our bones where our body keeps a ratio of about ~2000:1 several thousands calcium atoms to one strontium atom ratio. Because calcium is so much more abundant in our food than strontium, under normal circumstances our body has no problem flushing out and excess strontium and the small amount of strontium does not interfere with calcium to a perceptible level. Here’s a quick synopsis of what is strontium from Dr.Axe:
The main thing to understand is that even though strontium wasn’t discovered until recently, it occurs naturally in food and water since the dawn of time and thus although it’s not a nutrient for humans, it’s not really toxic either in naturally occurring forms. In contrast, radioactive strontium is extremely toxic which will be discussed more in later section.
INDUSTRIAL USES OF STRONTIUM
Strontium was first discovered and named after Strontian Scotland where it was found in an ore strontites which was found in a lead mine which was being used to make bullets for the Napoleonic war. The oldest use of strontium was in the recovery of sugar from sugar beets which had peak popularity in pre-WW1 Germany.
In more modern times, strontium was used extensively in CRT (cathode-ray tube) television screens though that usage has also become obsoleted with LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions and thus industrial demand for strontium has gone down considerably.
Strontium is used to make the red color in fireworks which is pretty cool.
Radioactive strontium (Strontium 90) is a major waste product of nuclear fission and has many applications both for poisoning people and for making radio-isotopic thermo-electric generators. I don’t condone using Strontium 90 to poison people, but it’s used for that nonetheless both in palliative mainstream cancer care. Non-radioactive strontium is used in some toothpaste formulations which I would also avoid. Fluoride toothpaste is poison and likely toothpaste that contains strontium (especially if it also contains fluoride) is also poison so avoid. Just as fluoride disrupts calcium by binding insolubly to it, strontium also disrupts your calcium by competing with it via its chemical similarity (Sr2+ ion imitates Ca2+ ion).
RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM-90: NUCLEAR FALLOUT & FUKUSHIMA
Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission which undergoes beta particle decay with a half-life of 28.8 years which means it takes hundreds of years to decay down to imperceptible levels making it a major radiation hazard. Exposure to Strontium-90 can cause leukemia and bone cancer. Because of the bone seeking nature of strontium, strontium-90 from nuclear fallout or chemtrails or contaminated water can cause major damage to human health and requires iodine to detox. For fission reactors that use uranium, strontium-90 is a major byproduct in nuclear waste with 5.7% yield from uranium-235 reactors, 6.6% yield for uranium 233 reactors but only 2.0% yield from plutonium reactors. Nuclear accidents can cause major leakage of Strontium-90. One such nuclear reactor which experienced a major leak is the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan which began in March 2011 after an earthquake & tsunami. People in California & Hawaii in particular frequently get the iMedDo detox system to help protect them from strontium-90 and other radioactive contaminants such as radio-iodine (Iodine-131) and radioactive cesium (Cesium-137) & radio-xenon-133 which wash up on the Pacific seaboard from the Fukushima leak from Japan. By getting high quality non-radioactive iodine such as NeuIodine, you can detox radioactive iodine and the good non-radioactive iodine is used to flush out all toxic heavy metals including radioactive ones including strontium-90. Failure to detox strontium-90 means it will deposit in the bones and emit electrons (as beta – particles) damaging surrounding tissues increasing risk of leukemia and bone cancer. People on the west coast are still concerned with sea fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster even today and just shipped some iodine to Hawaii last week. The iMedDo detox system is also a triple anti-cancer, and I highly recommend that if you have been exposed to higher than usual levels of radiation that you detox.
Aerial view of Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan
STRONTIUM BIOREMEDIATION
Because of the Fukushima and other nuclear accident crises of the past scientists have put a lot of thought on how to clean up radioactive strontium in the nuclear wastewater. A form of life called Acantherea a type of radiolaran protozoa has been discovered that uses strontium in its shell and which is symbiotic with algae which prefer to seek out strontium over calcium. Most strontium-90 bioremediation strategies rely on strontium seeking algae (Scenedesmus spinosus or Closterium moniliferum) and either getting the algae to either fall to the bottom of tanks to remove or to float on top and skim the radio-algae off.
STRONTIUM IN BIOLOGY
Because at least some life has been found which prefers strontium to calcium (Acanthrea and some strontium seeking algae) we have to wonder if strontium could be a nutrient to at least some plants, and it may be but there is no definitive proof that I could find. As far as we can tell strontium plays no role in human biology except to be present in small amounts as a bone contaminant that interferes with calcium though it is essentially non-toxic in naturally occuring amounts. Because of human nuclear activity radioactive strontium-90 has become a threat to humans both in chemtrails and in contaminated ocean water because it can readily absorb to our bones and sit there irradiating us causing leukemia and bone cancer.
SOME OTHER FORMS OF STRONTIUM
Strontium is never found in nature as a metal but rather is oxided as strontium oxide, or more commonly found as either strontites (strontium carbonate) or as celestine (strontium sulphate). As a metal purified via electrolysis, strontium metal if face centered cubic in structure.
STRONTIUM IS NOT A NUTRIENT (AT LEAST NOT FOR HUMANS)
My general rule of thumb is that element larger than 34 (Sr is #38) with notable exceptions of iodine, silver and gold are not used by the body for nutrition. And strontium seems to agree with this rule of thumb as element #38 it is not known to be a nutrient. However, strontium might be a nutrient for some life-forms and thus we cannot completely rule out that it could be a trace nutrient for humans as well though the general consensus at this time to which I agree is that it is not a nutrient. Overall strontium appears to be a trace contaminant in our bones that is non-toxic but which does interfere with calcium and can cause heart problems at larger amounts.
STRONTIUM HAS BEEN USED IN EUROPE FOR OSTEOPOROSIS BUT DON’T!
Strontium because it seeks the bones has been used for the treatment of osteoporosis in Europe & is available as a supplement in the US, but I do not recommend this usage and recommend you avoid supplementing strontium because it is neither a nutrient and because there are better ways to strengthen your bones (boron nutrient, magnesium, manganese, vitamin D etc) where the main thing to do is to take the iMedDo detox system which will de-suppress the calcium pathway by removal of fluoride. For more information as to why you should not use strontium for osteoporosis read this article: SOURCE: https://saveourbones.com/strontium-demistyfied/
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STRONTIUM LEVELS IN US GROUNDWATER
There are two main areas in the US where there is higher than usual strontium in the water, southern florida and the Texas pan-handle. If in one of those areas or certainly if on the west coast worried about fukushima strontium-90 be sure to use the iMedDo detox system.
CONCLUSION:
Strontium is a heavy metal that needs to be detoxed. Fortunately, natural strontium is not very toxic as the body is very good at detoxing it naturally as our kidneys eliminate strontium 3x faster than they do calcium under normal circumstances. Still taking strontium above levels naturally found in diet is not recommended as it can cause problems such as nausea, skin irritation, blood clots and fainting so I don’t recommend either supplementing strontium it’s not even a nutrient, and I don’t recommend using strontium for osteoporosis, nor do I recommend using strontium for palliative cancer care, nor do I recommend using strontium containing toothpaste. Avoid radioactive strontium-90 at all costs, and if exposed via air or food or water, detox using the iMedDo detox system which is highly effective at flushing out radioactive strontium as well as all radio-isotopes & toxic heavy metals including non-radioactive strontium as well.
The best way to enjoy strontium is to get you a nice piece of celestine, blue crystal (I have one in my rock collection and love it) & meditate on why some sea critters have evolved to use strontium as their skeleton and form symbiotic relationship with strontium loving algae whereas in our body we don’t need strontium only calcium. Too much strontium can cause heart problems as the heart uses a lot of calcium signaling and strontium interferes with calcium.