Deadly IQ Tax: They sell you cancer-causing nuclear radiation

Author丨Miriam

Editor丨Spinach

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In an era of high technology, more and more products are Touts the benefits of “negative ions”.

From hair dryers to purifiers, from kettles to mattresses, everything can be treated with negative ions. Whatever worries urbanites have, negative ions can solve any problems.

But recently, some netizens purchased a pack of negative ion powder online that claimed to be able to remove formaldehyde, and found that the radiation was off the charts.

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National standards stipulate that the average annual effective radiation dose received by the public cannot exceed 1mSv, that is, it cannot exceed 0.1 microSv per hour, but this powder reaches 56 microSv per hour. It exceeded the standard by 560 times. The amount of radiation you spend every 2 hours next to this powder is equivalent to a chest X-ray.

If this powder is inhaled into the lungs, it may also cause internal radiation, which is equivalent to installing a miniature nuclear reactor in the body, and the risk of cancer will increase sharply.

What’s more serious is that there are many negative ion products in the name of “high technology” that contain this dangerous radiation powder.

If other health products are just money scams, then some negative ion IQ taxes are fatal.

There are many products that have entered the "high-tech ranks" just because they have added negative ion powder, and their prices have jumped several times.

But in fact, since 2015, there have been reports of customs testing of negative ion products with radiation exceeding the standard.

In 2017, Xinhua News Agency also published a special article to remind consumers that Fuzhou Airport had dealt with many incidents of radiation exceeding the standard, and most of the radiation sources came from health care items brought back from abroad.

The report said:

Although these "health care items" with excessive radioactive materials come in different shapes, such as pendants, bracelets or bath products, they have some unique characteristics:

First, it is purchased from Japan;

Second, the merchant claims that it contains precious or rare metals such as titanium and germanium, which can release negative ions or emit far-infrared rays, accelerate blood circulation, replenish human energy, etc. Efficacy;

Third, they all contain the radionuclide thorium-232.

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But it seems that it has not attracted widespread attention. I wonder how many products containing "negative ion powder" have been put on the market in the past few years...

In fact, negative ions should not be responsible for radiation.

Negative ions, as the name suggests, are negatively charged oxygen ions in the air.

In daily life, we come into contact with many natural negative ions.

For example, under a waterfall, water molecules fall from a high place and friction with the surrounding air causes charge separation, which will produce negative ions; another example is the photoelectric effect caused by discharge at the tips of leaves and branches of trees in the forest and plant photosynthesis. It also ionizes the air to produce negative ions.

When the same electricity principle is applied to life, there is a "negative ion generator" device.

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Negative ion generators generate strong electrostatic charges. After they collide with dust particles in the air, they will of course adsorb and settle, achieving a certain purification effect.

Putting this small device into an electrical appliance is a common negative ion air purifier on the market. Then the merchants added marketing packaging, negative ions = air vitamins = forest flavor = the secret of the land of longevity, and a technological machine was born.

It should be noted that although corona discharge is a relatively safe way to obtain negative ions, it will also release ozone.

If the concentration of ozone in the air is too high, it may damage the respiratory tract and lungs. Although the ozone generated by most qualified products on the market will not significantly exceed the national standard, it is still not recommended to use negative ion functional appliances in a closed room for a long time.

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In addition, tourmaline (also called tourmaline, tourmaline), because of its special piezoelectric effect, can release negative ions through changes in humidity and air pressure.

However, tourmaline is not very active. Experiments have shown that the negative ions released by it can only be detected at a distance of 20cm from the tourmaline. This method of removing formaldehyde has a very limited effect.

At this point we can basically draw a conclusion.

Negative ion appliances can indeed absorb harmful particles, but their range of action is limited, and harmful particles will not disappear out of thin air, but will fall freely in the room; negative ion hair dryers also rely on static electricity to make hair adsorb to each other. It looks more supple.

How do you describe this effect? To sum it up:

"Let's say it's useless, maybe it's somewhat useful; but let's say it's extremely useful. If you have the spare money, we won't stop you."

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So, why do those fatal negative ion products have radiation problems?

Natural radioactive substances can also dissociate molecules in the air, thereby producing negative ions. And the stronger the radiation, the higher the reading they will show on the negative ion concentration meter.

Therefore, for the sake of product effectiveness, the "negative ion powder" sold by merchants is often not pure tourmaline powder, but may also be mixed with radioactive powders such as monazite and radiumite.

The gamma rays produced by radioactive substances have strong penetrating power and high energy, which can easily cause DNA breakage in living cells, thereby causing cell mutations, loss of hematopoietic function, and inducing cancer and other diseases.

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There is a worse possibility that even the people selling fans themselves are stupid and can’t tell which one is which.

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Monazite contains thorium series and uranium series natural radioactive materials, which will produce and release radon gas during the decay process.

Radium stone contains the element radium, with a half-life of 1,600 years. It is now used by the medical community in cancer radiotherapy.

It is worth noting that negative ion powder is not only sold alone, but is often used as an auxiliary material and added to other health products.

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Customs in various places have seized a wide variety of "negative ion" radiation-exceeding products, including but not limited to health pads, health belts, mattresses, etc...

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Dalian Customs even intercepted a piece of radium stone brought back from Japan by a passenger. The radiation value was 850 μSv per hour, exceeding the standard by more than 6,000 times.

The traveler admitted that he originally planned to cut the stone into small pieces and polish it into a "radium stone health bracelet."

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We can reasonably suspect that various health products using "negative ion" powder may contain the risk of excessive radioactive substances.

Human beings have paid countless painful prices for their ignorance and ignorance, especially when it comes to radioactive materials.

Today’s Chinese businessmen cut leeks and package the radium stones into “negative ion” health care products. They never mentioned radioactivity during the promotion process, only talking about negative ions and the imagined health effects.

They may not know how bad this was in the United States 100 years ago.

After Madame Curie refined radium, she published a paper pointing out that radium kills cancer cells much faster than normal cells and has immeasurable prospects in the medical field.

The public, who had little knowledge of radium, was refreshed. Scientific progress brought hope and light to people.

Soon, businessmen were the first to take advantage of the situation and packaged radium into an anti-cancer artifact and a good health product, adding it to toothpaste, bread, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics...

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There was a craze for radium in the market, which was even worse than today's "negative ion XX".

The miraculous effects of radium also spread like snowballs, becoming more and more outrageous, and soon it became a miracle medicine that can maintain youth forever and cure all diseases.

In addition, because it can make fluorescent items glow, radium-containing paint was used on watch dials to facilitate the army's night march.

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丨 Although radioactive elements can cause harm to the body, radium has been used as a dial lighting material for more than 40 years. However, modern times have been replaced by harmless tritium elements or non-radiative strontium aluminate salts, which can be worn with confidence.

American radium companies made a fortune during World War I.

Group after group of "lucky" girls were specially hired to work in the factory to paint dials with radium.

In order to save costs, when the brush tips in their hands became forked, Boss Lei encouraged the female workers to just sip it with their mouths.

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Don’t all the advertisements talk about extending life? How many companies can provide such high benefits?

Girls also painted radium on their teeth and fingernails, went to bars at night, and sparkled in the crowd.

Before long, many of them suffered from similar diseases: anemia, teeth, jaws and joints all over the body began to hurt.

The most obvious symptoms are enlargement of the jaw and gangrene on the bones.

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When the dentist was extracting the teeth of one of the girls, part of her jaw was completely torn off.

Destroy everything.

At this time, her mandible was as rotten as a honeycomb, with small holes everywhere.

Later studies called this disease radium jaw. The human body mistook radium for calcium of the same family and absorbed it into the body.

But calcium makes bones stronger, while radium destroys bone tissue, causing it to swell and then decay.

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The first batch of female workers fought hard for two years. In the end, the two parties settled out of court and they received high medical compensation. However, most of them were Died within 10 years.

Under the cover-up of the American radium companies, the problem was not fully exposed until another more influential figure also died due to radium.

If the previous daily necessities containing radium may be just a gimmick, then an American company's Radithor, made from real materials using radium mixed with distilled water, is really life-threatening.

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Radithor’s advertising slogans are “Cure the Living Dead” and “Eternal Sunshine”, and the instructions are even louder: This product can cure indigestion and high blood pressure. , impotence and one hundred and fifty other diseases caused by the endocrine system.

Treat the disease and strengthen the body without disease.

Many celebrities are also willing to pay for it. Golf champion and steel magnate Eben Beyers is one of them.

He insisted on drinking 1,400 bottles of this "rejuvenation" potion in 3 years, until...

Like Radium Girl, his entire chin and mouth, except for two The upper front teeth were all removed.

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He was finally buried in a lead coffin. During the autopsy, his bones were enriched with radium and could even be outlined in the photo negative. By this time Radithor had sold a total of 400,000 bottles.

His tragic death really aroused the public's awareness of radioactive materials.

The sale of radium-containing items was finally banned by the FDA in the late 1930s, but luminous watches were not completely withdrawn from the market until the 1960s.

What I didn’t expect was that after such tragic tragedies in other countries, in the 21st century, this trend would actually make a comeback.

Ordinary people are always in awe of things they don’t understand at all.

When watching science fiction movies, a few big words were thrown out, and everyone was stunned:

Indecision, quantum mechanics;

Style jumping, virtual world;

Unexplainable, traveling through time and space;

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It’s okay to put it in a fictional work to justify it, but it can be used in In the advertisements for daily necessities and health care products, it is very heartbreaking.

After all, the people of our country still have a very simple understanding of science.

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Before the Han Dynasty, people wrote magnets as "loving stones", which means loving stones. Like a mother attracting her child, a magnet is the attraction of love.

Entering the second decade of the 21st century, we still have not made much progress.

Today’s merchants only need to abstract radiation into “energy” to capture the majority of health enthusiasts and blessing enthusiasts.

Regardless of what is radiated or not, the public only recognizes "energy". From fatigue, physical weakness, sub-health, to vertigo, hair loss, and impotence, in the final analysis, it is a lack of "energy".

From space, the bottom of the sea, volcanoes, minerals, exotic customs, and flying immortals, they have the potential to be packaged into health-preserving artifacts.

Whether you make wine or tea, play with it, or carry it with you, it is good for the body and can give you "energy".

In the United States in 1950, some people put radioactive ore in their pockets and sold them, euphemistically calling them "cosmic bags" and claiming to have miraculous effects on treating arthritis.

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But when it comes to leaps in thinking and creativity, the people of East Asia are definitely better.

We can intuitively conclude that this kind of thing kills two birds with one stone - it not only maintains health, but also improves transportation.

On the 9th of last month, at Dalian Zhoushuizi Airport, a passenger entering Dalian from Japan triggered a customs nuclear radiation alarm upon entry.

After some investigation, the customs discovered that it was the "Five Elements Proton Quantum Energy Oscillator" that the passenger carried with him, and the radiation was measured to exceed the limit.

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This is an artifact that combines the Eastern Five Elements Theory with Western quantum physics. The daily radiation dose is equivalent to 100 chest X-rays.

According to the traveler’s self-report, her mother spent 400 yuan to buy this “energy stone” specially for someone to purchase. The material is taken from the deep sea, which can promote blood circulation and is also a “feng shui stone” to ensure safety. .

It was not until she heard the explanation from the customs staff that she realized that no wonder she often had nosebleeds after wearing this energy stone for 3 months...

Middle-aged and elderly people in my country The paradox of human health is really elusive. It is obvious that the first thing my daughter-in-law does when she is pregnant is to buy radiation-proof clothing, buy glasses with blue light for her grandson, and not sit on planes if possible, all because of fear of radiation;

But when it comes to taking a dip in a radioactive radon hot spring for health care, you can jump in without blinking an eye.

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The World Health Organization has long said that it causes cancer.

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Teacher Zhao Benshan, a famous doctor in the art world, said it best:

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Advertising can make cigarettes the "doctor's choice" ", opium can be called "luck and longevity ointment", negative ion powder can keep you young forever, how can you believe in them?

Unscrupulous merchants who brag are just trying to make some money, while "conscientious" merchants often win back their lives if they come up with something real.

Of course, in addition to consumers being more vigilant, quality inspection departments, e-commerce and offline sales platforms should introduce more detailed regulatory measures for negative ion products as soon as possible.

Although our country is a big country of rare earths, ordinary people can buy radioactive ore powder just by going online, which really makes people’s heads full of questions.

There is obviously a regulatory blank space in the middle.

Currently, some e-commerce platforms have actively hidden search results for “negative ion powder”.

After the negative ion powder radiation detection video was exposed, some netizens asked worriedly:

What should we do? I wouldn’t buy it myself, but what if I meet a neighbor who can’t bear to think about it and uses “negative ion powder” to remove formaldehyde?

Then you'd better send this article to him immediately.