[NicknamedBob]

"It was given to us to help “combat the radiation” we were getting the fallout from all the A-Bomb tests at the Test Site. Only, that’s not what we were told."

Non-radioactive iodine, given as a dietary supplement, is one of the more effective anti-radiation treatments available.

The human body absorbs iodine when it can, and sends it straight to the thyroid gland for processing.

If that iodine happens to be radioactive, then there's a seed for potential cancers later.

Simply taking extra iodine first prevents the radioactive iodine from being absorbed. The body just says, "No thanks, I'm full."

Such preventive doses, I believe, were administered to local residents after the Three-Mile Island minor radiation release.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks, Bob!