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In the meantime I was recommended a spa day at a place with Radon gas because it's so good for me health wise supposedly. Irony through the roof.
by perching_aix 2y ago
In the meantime I was recommended a spa day at a place with Radon gas because it's so good for me health wise supposedly. Irony through the roof.
- yababa_y 2y agoWell, if the exposure isn’t chronic, there might be a hormetic effect? Radiation dosage is the “classical” example of hormesis
- alnwlsn 2y agoLet's just hope they are lying. Where do you even get radon gas? The most stable isotope has a half life of just 3.8 days. Unless they mean they built on a place with unfortunate geology or have a large stockpile of radium around.
- jerlam 2y agoThere are caves and mines that have radon from natural sources. Why are people hanging out in Montana's radon-filled mines? https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-01-18/why-are-people-hanging-out-in-montanas-radon-filled-mines https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-01-18/why-are-people-...
- defrost 2y agoGranite sided valleys fill every day with radon until wind clears it out. Certainly not as dense as basements and caves but worth pointing out that radon is a constant ongoing decay product of natural uranium in rock.