Utilized since 1978 in Churches of Scientology, the Purification Program has been successfully completed by more than 133,000 people. It employs exercise, sweating in a sauna, vitamins and minerals to flush poisons from the body. Over the last 15 years, an increasing number of scientific studies of the program have been conducted in the secular environment. This detoxification program has not only been found to safely and effectively reduce drug residuals, but also to relieve the burden of foreign chemicals that accumulate in bodies in our drug- and chemical-oriented society. Relieving the Harmful Effects of Radiation
Environmental poisoning also comes in the forms of radiation and radioactivity. Those exposed to high doses are susceptible to cancer, leukemia and other diseases. In the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, tens of millions of people were affected. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that Chernobyl unleashed 200 times the combined radiation from both bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. Among children in the area most exposed to Chernobyl’s radiation, thyroid cancer has increased many times its normal rate, according to WHO. In the region around Chernobyl before the accident, roughly one child in a million had thyroid cancer. By 1994, it had increased to 36 cases per million. In Gomel, north of the reactor—the direction in which the wind was blowing during and after the accident—WHO estimated in November 1995 that thyroid cancers in children had reached more than 100 cases per million.
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