How Radioactive Elements Wreck Your Energy with Dr. Jay Davidson

Ari: Thank you, brother. I really appreciate the kind words and the feeling is very mutual. So I’m super excited to get into this. This is a super cool topic. So, take us through this. What is this all about? What are radioactive elements? 

Dr. Davidson: Yeah, so this has been brand new in the last, probably year and a half to two years of researching. And you said, its novel, haven’t heard, you know, many people speak or anybody speak on it and I haven’t either. So this has just been kind of going down the rabbit hole and going on to PubMed, and going on the internet and researching and really trying to put the pieces together. 

But it all stemmed from my wife, which a lot of my journey has with her. She gave birth to my daughter when she was 30 years old and basically crashed. Lyme disease flared back up. We had heavy metal toxicity issues, which we knew about years before but couldn’t really figure out how to do it. And pretty much everything bubbled to the surface, her body shut down, stopped breastfeeding a couple months. You know, a two month old at home and my wife nearly dying; that shifted my path. And ever since then I feel like she’s been that guide that just keeps… you know, like, “What direction do we need to go?”

And I’m very into… you know, I like looking at labs. I like looking at the symptomatology, you know, the holistic examination type thing. But I also like to kind of get in to see if… you know, there’s a muscle tester, like what do they find? As kind of just a tool in the toolbox. Biofeedback, you know, the technology side. I’ve been very intrigued. There’s been a lot of things I would say is definitely just crap out there. But there was one machine that I thought was really interesting, the eductor machine.

Ari: What’s it called? 

Dr. Davidson: It’s called the eductor, E-D-U-C-T-O-R. Another version, an earlier version, it’s called the SCIO, S-C-I-O. And basically, my daughter was getting headaches and tummy aches when we lived in San Diego at the time, and doing all kinds of stuff. And I’m like, “You know what, let me just call my friend Trina. You know, she’s kind of out in the energetic world. Let’s see what she picks up.” And she ran a scan on her and picked up basically cranial sacral. Like, “She really needs some cranial sacral appointments.” And I was like, “Okay.”

My wife and I were trained chyros, we adjust but we never went through the cranial sacral type training. So, as far as shifting sutures around and all that, just not super familiar with it. And started thinking about it, it’s like, “You know, this symptom of headaches and stomach pains, tummy aches all started after we moved to San Diego.” We’d just got a couch, she started jumping on it, and she was only four years old at the time, and flipped over the edge, head, like face down, into the floor, you know, the wood floor, whatever. It was like, “Oh my gosh! Are you okay?” Like, literally, it’s like your heart stops as a parent. 

And then within the same week, she did it for a second time and it was like, “Oh my gosh! No more jumping on the couch. This is crazy.” And it all kind of stemmed back of like, “I think that’s actually what triggered it.” Went through some cranial sacral, headaches, stomach aches went away. I’m like, “Wow, I guess maybe there is something to this energetic, kind of weird machine stuff.” So I looked into it and the most advanced or the newest machine is the eductor and whatnot. 

But anyway, so, scanning my wife on that machine, you know, just kind of being more open to it after that experience, radiation and fungus would come up in the top three to top five, every scan. And it was like, “Radiation?” Like, we have no Bluetooth in the house, we have no Wi Fi, like, everything is hard wired. Obviously, there’s lights and things. I mean, you can’t be zero but I feel like really minimized, we don’t live next to a cell phone tower. 

Ari: I want to mention something real quick. I in general have been very, very skeptical of a lot of the bioenergetic sort of scanning machines. And one of the big reasons why is that they’re totally non-repeatable. They just seem to actually just be generating random data, from what I can tell, because I’ve tested it. And I’ve done a test where I’ve scanned myself on several machines, seeing what it generates, and then done it again 10 minutes later; it generates totally different data. 

Done it again, the next day, totally different data. Then I’ve even talked to the owners of some of the makers of this and they’re like, “Oh, well, you know, the scan itself disrupts your bioenergetic field and therefore, it will change.” I’m like, “That is total nonsense to make that claim.” Like, the most basic test of science is that the results have to be repeatable for it to have any validity. If it doesn’t have that, then it’s just random, useless junk data. 

Dr. Davidson: Yeah, I would concur. I mean, I’ve been so interested in technology over the years, you know, the Zyto, the Asyra, which is now the QEST4, and all these different types of machines. Because it’s like, “Oh, this is so cool,” but yet the reproducibility was always that thing. And they’d always say, “Well, it’s because you’re inputting energy.” So yeah, I’ve always been open to learning about it but same thing with you. 

And basically, what we found with this biofeedback machine… and the owner, if you will, he was part of like the junior NASA program and was like calculating one of the Apollos coming in for a landing in the ocean when they had all these giant wall computers. And he was like the young kid that figured out exactly where it was before anybody else did. Just one of those, apparently, off the wall brilliant, but maybe so brilliant that missing something, I don’t know. 

But anyways, coming back to the machine, radiation kept showing up and I was thinking just, “Okay, EMFs. That’s all I hear about. EMR, electromagnetic radiation.” And then we came out with a new supplement, a Mito product, basically, mitochondria. And all of a sudden, the muscle testing from some different practitioners started picking up radiation. I’m like, “Now it’s actually matching up with biofeedback. What happened there?” And started going down the route and asking questions, and looking at it. And Todd Watts, my good friend, he’s like, “It’s radium. Radium keeps showing up.” It’s like, “What’s this?” Like, “I don’t know.”

So we started doing research and basically found that there’s this thing called a radium belt that’s in Wisconsin that basically stretches from Green Bay down to Milwaukee, almost in Illinois. My wife grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She lived in Illinois for a little bit. Illinois has got really high radium, just like Wisconsin does. And it’s like, “Huh.” And I just basically went headfirst into this topic. And coming out, big picture, was this, was what I believe the next step is as far as getting people well.

And which is really awesome, it directly relates back to the mitochondria. It seems like everything comes back to the mitochondria, the whole cell danger response, which obviously you’ve researched and talked about a ton. Mitochondria and it’s basically the dictator of hormones in your body too. I mean, it’s like the rate limiting step for hormone production in your body, amongst all kinds of other things. And it’s a key role in the immune system. 

I thought, “Well, how odd is this that there’s such a prevalent area of Lyme disease in Wisconsin, the same area or very, you know, similar area where there’s really high radium that suppresses the immune system?” It’s like, this seems to me in my head to make sense of, suppress the immune system, you’re more likely to get neuro infection or infections. But really when you dive into the research of radioactive elements, essentially you can say radiation, but I kind of steer away because I think people start thinking about the EMF thing. You could say radioactive metals but they’re not all technically metals. 

So I kind of go with the radioactive element term, if you will. And this would be the CCM, uranium, thorium, radium, which I mentioned before. And I think that’s really the key one to highlight, which there isn’t any public testing really available for radium, which I find interesting. But the government tests, it’s like, “Hmm, what’s going on with that?” And then you’ve got radon, if I didn’t say that and there’s all kinds of these radioactive elements anyways.

Ari: That’s in the mountains, right? 

Dr. Davidson: It depends on the area. So, like radon in Minnesota, in certain pockets is really prevalent where then you basically do the radon detection test, which is air. And then if you have it, they put this fan in your basement that basically helps us pull the air out and you’re good to go. But the thing is, is radium breaks down into radon eventually and the half-life, depending on the isotope radium, there’s 224, 226, and 228. The main ones to be concerned about is 226 and 228. But the 226 has a half-life of 1,600 years. 

So it’s like if that gets in your body, that’s continually emitting energy that’s damaging your DNA and damaging your mitochondria. And whatever area it’s in is going to basically create inflammation and suppress the immune system. But eventually, radium breaks down into radon. So if you’re in an area where there’s high radon, then we want to consider, “Oh, there’s probably a lot of radium as well, too.” So I started going down this route.

And just kind of high level synopsis, radioactive elements, they suppress your immune system, they cause inflammation, suppress healing. And I’ve seen just clients over the years, and I don’t work with clients currently anymore, but over the years, I had so many people where it was like, “Doc, I just don’t feel like my body actually works. Like, it’s not even healing.” And I’m a trained chyro, I think your brother was too or is. And the whole premise when you go to school, it’s like your body has this innate ability to heal itself. It’s like, “Well, why can some people seem to like, do great and then others not so much?”

And I believe radioactive elements are a piece to the puzzle. It slows down drainage, it’s a big cause of Candida. I used to always think heavy metals and mercury and all this for Candida, but I’m really pushing more into the radioactive elements. And then it damages mitochondria and actually changes your genetic expression. So those are some big things as high level on the radioactive elements. But as I went through researching, I’m like, “Well, maybe it’s the nuclear incidents, the Three Mile Island, the Chernobyl, the Fukushima that we have in 2011 in Japan.” And started looking at measuring the air, if you will, supply of where I used to live in the Milwaukee area. Then used to live in San Diego, you know, more where you’re at right now. 

And then now I’m in Puerto Rico and they have a measurement for San Juan. I was like, “Okay, well, you can see the air amounts of radiation in the air are different. But it’s like is that really, really the factor?” And I kept coming back to, “I don’t know, it seems very pocketed and not so much…” like, obviously nuclear incidents in causing radiation across the globe is not good but it seemed like there was something else. 

And I think what I figured out was, it’s more of our water supply. It’s that these elements are naturally occurring in the earth. And when we start doing some drilling, fracking, or just regular wells, we basically bring out this stuff that’s radioactive deep within the crust, or we do a deep well with just well water, if you will. And that water is going to contain more of these radioactive elements. So the more that we kind of dig deep in the earth, the more of this stuff comes out because when they do fracking and they do regular wells, there’s this thing called brine that comes out, which is basically unusable. 

And essentially what they do is they put it into storage, they put it in trucks, they haul it around, it’s super radioactive, lots of radium in it, and then they go to either store it or they just shoot it back into the earth. And the other stuff they’re keeping, whatever gas and stuff, oil that they’re pulling out from it. It’s like, “Wow, I think that’s a factor too.” So I really believe as I look at it now, the water supply is probably the big factor for radioactive elements.

Ari: You know, as you’re talking, I realized the one other time that I’ve had any talk of this conversation is a conversation with a guy who’s the founder of Pure Effects water filtration technology, who I’ve interviewed on my podcast. And he brought up this topic of radioactive elements in the water supply. For example, in the Colorado River that feeds in the ground, the water for Southern California where I live.  

And I had never heard of that and I remember actually looking into it, this is probably two or three years ago when I did this interview. I remember looking into it and going, “Oh, sure enough, he’s right. There is actually research talking about radioactive elements in the water supply.” And he specifically created filters that filter out radioactive elements. So, connecting the dots here in my mind as you’re talking. 

Dr. Davidson: Yes, yeah. I mean, that’s all I’ve been doing in the last year and a half, two years and only seen things make more sense. So I don’t think it’s the end all but I actually believe radioactive elements are more toxic than heavy metals and heavy metals gets, obviously a ton of attention. I’m not a fan of glyphosate either. But what’s interesting, even research has shown that when plants get sprayed with glyphosate, it actually increases the amount of radioactive elements that are in the plants by up to 17 times. So it’s like, wow, we’re just throwing another interesting thing on it.

But backing up, you’ve got different forms of radiation, you’ve got the gamma radiation, which is medical testing, and all that stuff, if you will. And that penetrates several layers of tissue, the X-ray, the CT scans; that kind of stuff. But I really want to focus on, as you look, there’s basically three different types. There’s alpha, beta, and gamma. Gamma is the real intense. Beta will penetrate your skin layer, at least the top layer. So if you’re taking a shower and there’s some beta emitting radioactive elements in the water, you’re going to technically be able to absorb them through your skin. 

Now, what I believe is a big factor, though, is more the alpha. So the beta comes from more than man-made radioactive elements. So that’s going to be the Fukushimas, if you will, where they have 1.2 million tons of water right now with over 60 plus different radioactive elements. That they’re like, “We’re not really sure what to do with it. We’re running out of tanks.” And the best option right now that they’re getting approved for is to put it back into the ocean. I’m like, man, this is just so crazy what’s going on right now. 

But in there, you’ve got things like iodine 131. So you hear iodine, you’re like, “Oh, you need it for thyroid and breast tissue, and skin,” but there’s radioactive isotopes of that, that are manmade from these nuclear reactors. There’s CCM that comes from it as well, too. So these are the betas. But when you look at the alphas, the alphas, they don’t penetrate your skin. So if you were to take a shower and there’s some uranium, there’s some radium, if you will, radon… even though radon is a gas, it actually will get into the water supply, too. So there’s actually a small amount that gets in the water supply. 

So if you’re taking a shower, and you’re like, “Well, even with these radioactive elements that are in the water, these alpha emitting radioactive elements, they actually don’t penetrate the top layer of skin.” But the thing is, is they can also be, if you ingest it, so any water you drink, and that’s why it’s so important to have some type of filtration when you’re drinking water, but they can also be inhaled. And I’m thinking, how many people take hot showers and are these chemicals vaporizing and also breathing in? 

And we assume that they’re alpha admitting that they don’t penetrate the top layer of skin but you hear people quote all the time, “Well, if you’re getting chlorine in the water, you’re going to be absorbing that and it’s for every 10 minutes in the shower,” and you have no idea where they get these stats. But every 10 minutes, one glass of water with the chlorine because you’re absorbing it. It’s like, “Okay.” So what I like to think about, Ari, is keying in on it, I really believe its radium. Because you can run like heavy metal testing through Doctor’s Data, for instance, the urine toxic metals, been popularized over years in the functional medicine side. And it’s got heavy metals that it tests for what comes out in your urine.

But also in there is uranium and cesium, but there’s no radium. And the government’s done radium testing. The Environmental Working Group has done testing. The Environmental Working Group tested over 157 different public utilities, and they basically found that over half of America has radium that exceeds the level of basically putting you at risk of cancer. So they said 170 million Americans, they did the study, I believe from 2010 to 2015, surveying and testing all the water. So it’s about five years old, obviously, when they released it. 

But they said that 80% of Texas has radium that’s basically exceeding government levels in a toxic amount. 80% of the state of Texas, 170 million Americans total, which is basically like 50%. And I’m like, “Great. So where can we test this stuff?” It’s like, “I don’t know.” And then when I looked in the research, really diving in, radium, some of it comes out in your kidneys, but it’s easiest processed by your body to excrete it through your stools. I think it’s gentler on your system. 

And according to this textbook, where they actually had this, the only place I saw it, 98% of all radium that came out of the body left through the feces. So I’m like, “Okay, so maybe we have to go…” and I’m jumping ahead a little bit, but I really believe that we need to get better testing to really fully understand this because a lot of this, I’m just theorizing and pulling out of research, and it clearly makes sense. But again, this is very early on.

But going back to the alpha emitting radiation. If you’re standing by a campfire, great, you’re a few feet away, depending on how big it is, it’s going to feel good. But now imagine taking that ash and swallowing it. And as soon as you swallow that ash, now there’s a whole level of damage that happens. Versus just like, “Oh, I’m feeling the heat.” And I know it’s an extreme example, but it’s kind of to show that the alpha emitting radiation, which when we’re looking again at the alpha emitting radiation, we’re looking at radium, radon, uranium, thorium, as well, plutonium, polonium. So there’s a bunch of different isotopes.

But when you actually ingest it, drink it in the water or actually breathe it in, that’s when it’s getting into your system. And your body has a really hard time clearing it out and that’s when it’s going to be continually emitting this energy that’s breaking bonds. So that’s what it means by ionizing radiation, alpha, beta, gamma, is that it’s strong enough to basically damage your bonds. The radiation that a lot of people in the health space right now are talking about is non-ionizing radiation, the cell phone towers. 

And it seems like there’s a good amount of research but it still seems like enough too, to kind of question like, what’s its effect and all this? But I think the radioactive elements is more of a slam dunk. Like, this is bad. This is damaging mitochondria. This is suppressing the immune system, which of course, if it damages mitochondria, it’s going to have that effect on the cell danger response. 

Ari: Yah. So, where do we go from here, understanding that these things are likely there? Is it fair to say that we’re all being exposed to this to some degree or is it just specifically in certain geographical areas? 

Dr. Davidson: That’s a great question. So I mean, based on the fact that they found half of America, like 27 states where it exceeds limits, it was all over. And you can look at the map. Environmental Working Group has an interactive map and you can see and click on it. And I went there, I clicked on it, and I started researching the radium belt. And you can see where basically radium is really high in this whole, they call it like the belt from Green Bay to Milwaukee, like I mentioned. And I clicked on where we used to live. We used to live in Waukesha, it kind of looks like Waukesha, Wisconsin. It’s like a suburb of Milwaukee.

Ari: And that happened to be in the center of the radium belt.

Dr. Davidson: Yeah, it is. And it was 10., I think, 5, or 10.8 Picocuries per liter and essentially, the government set a limit of five as kind of, you know, “Yeah, anything under five is fine,” and that was more than double, 10 plus. I was like, “Wow.” I think back when my wife crashed from giving birth to my daughter and Lyme disease flared up, that’s exactly what where we lived at. I’m like, “That’s gotta be a piece to this whole puzzle.” 

So I still believe mold plays a role, other toxins like heavy metals and glyphosate, emotional stress, I mean, parasitic infections, and other types of chronic infections, bacteria and virus, but I don’t know, I just keep coming back to this seems like it is a big one. I don’t know of any testing, which we’re… right now in our lab, we’ve actually invested quite a bit in equipment, we want to try to figure out if we can test this, actually have people send it in, because I don’t know anybody else that has it available. If somebody knows, I’d just love to hear that.

Ari: I’m looking at the map right here. And I mean, almost the whole East

Coast, especially Florida, and the North East, as well as a lot of the Midwestern states and southern states, Texas. And then, unfortunately, Southern California and San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Seattle. Those particular areas look like they’ve gotten hit pretty hard, Salt Lake City, Phoenix. But yeah, it’s interesting to look at this map. And for people watching the video, we’re hopefully displaying the slide here and people can see this but it seems to be all over. I would say, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. 

Dr. Davidson: Basically, where people don’t live. 

Ari: Yeah, those areas look like they’ve got it the least. 

Dr. Davidson: But you also wonder, did they do a lot of testing too? Did they really focus more with more populated areas? So, the thing to key in on… and I don’t want people to be in fear. This is just again, becoming aware. And as we become aware, then there becomes more options, right? Like you look at what’s available for food today versus 15 years ago. I mean, there’s so many more natural options, more things are transparent because we’ve become aware of it. So that’s what really I want to come from this.

But radium is probably that one thing that I would key in on. Uranium, we think about it because it’s used to power nuclear reactors. But radium has 3 million times more energy than uranium, so radium is a big thing. And again, when you have something that’s got a half-life of 1,600 years and it gets inside your body, I’m sorry, like, you know. And half-life just means that if you have a milliliter or a milligram, if you will, of some toxin like radium, that it’s going to take 1,600 years for the isotope 226 to basically break down, emit energy, and your body to excrete half of that one milligram or one liter, depending on what type it is. 

So thinking about that, it’s like, okay, this stuff’s around for a while. And the thing about radium is you can’t smell it. You can’t taste it in the water. And it is a bone seeker, it loves to compete for calcium and go into the bone. And when it goes in the bone, it starts to mess up the immune system, bone marrow; all that stuff. And lead has been really viewed as well. That’s the osteoporosis thing. Lead competes for calcium but radium does too and radium actually is more damaging than lead. So I don’t want to discount lead but really, I want to give more attention to radium, just with all the testing that’s really occurred.