Supplementing vitamins to reduce the harmful effects of radiation

To mitigate the harmful effects of radiation, doctors recommend astronauts take vitamin supplements. This method can be applied to Japanese people in the current situation.

According to the diet proposed by the US National Academy of Sciences, in addition to iodine potassium, scientists recommend taking one vitamin a day to address the vitamin deficiency.

Vitamins have an extremely important role in protecting the body from radiation , as well as reducing the risk of many other chronic diseases, including cancer and cataracts.

' People who have to work on the space station, or anyone at the US Aerospace Agency, must work under radiation exposure conditions and I also advise people in Japan to take vitamin deficiencies because they are "Exposure to higher levels of radiation is normal ," said Ann Kennedy, head of the radioactive impact research team at the Institute of Asthma Biomedical Research (USA).

' These research achievements can be applied in underground conditions, like what is happening in Japan ,' said Marcelo Vazquez, an expert who supervised research at Nasa's Space Radiation Research Laboratory. , to speak.

With the goal of sending people to space in the long term, Nasa constantly studies the effects of radiation on the human body, as well as how to prevent, limit and reverse these effects. Drugs and treatments, including blueberry and strawberry extracts, are in the process of research.