title: Radiogenic metabolism: an alternative cellular energy source.
abstract: The concept of 'healing energy' is commonly used in complementary and alternative medicine; however, efforts to define this concept using contemporary scientific theory, and measure it using modern scientific methods, have been limited to date. Recent experimental testing by Benford et al. observed a uniform, substantial, and consistent decrease in gamma radiation during alternative healing sessions, thus supporting a new energy-balance paradigm hypothesizing ionizing radiation as an alternative cellular energy source. This hypothesis extends the known elements of radiogenic metabolism to potentially explain a number of presumably biopositive energy-related phenomena, including fasting and radiation hormesis, as well as to demystify unexplained anomalies such as idiopathic thermogenesis, halos and auras, and incorruptibility of human corpses.
authors.affiliation: PreComp Inc. and Public Health Information Services Inc., Dublin, Ohio, USA. MSBENFORD@aol.com
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Benford
mesh_terms: D001417:Background Radiation; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing