Heavy metal contamination

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If you had grown up in Boulder during the 1950's and 60's when some of the major

known releases occurred, and happen to live downwind, you would not be so

sanguine. Activities at the plant have been largely shut down now, but

radioactivity still lingers. Just a few years ago the facility had a fire that

spread a radioactive plume over the city of Denver, simply from a weed fire -

the weeds were significantly radioactive. Radioactive waste is now leaking into

water supplies east of the facility. Not something the local chamber of commerce

likes to talk about.

 

When I was a teenager I would go on Colorado Mountain Club hiking trips, a lot

of local scientists and university professors would attend these events. I once

was on a backpack trip where the head of the Rocky Flats plant and several local

scientists almost got into a fist fight over the scandal, and on the drive home,

I heard an earful about the toxic releases and how it was being covered up.

 

I have had clients who lived downwind 10-15 miles from the plant and have

suffered severely for it, including cases of cancer. I would have been doing a

terrible disservice to these people had I claimed that a few Chinese herbal

formulas would solve everything. With some it took years to get them to a

condition where they felt half-way normal. Fish and amphibians have been

documented with horrible deformities, two heads, etc.

 

Currently, Boulder is a high-tech town with a high population turnover. Many

people there now are there for only a few years, then move on. But of the people

I know who've lived there most of their lives, many show signs of being

affected. One reason I finally left.

 

---Roger Wicke, PhD, TCM Clinical Herbalist

contact: www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/

Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana USA

Clinical herbology training programs - www.rmhiherbal.org

 

 

> Whether or not the actual Boulder, CO resident actually suffers any

> ill effects from the nuclear facility outside of town is highly

> debatable.Ý Boulder is one of the healthiest cities in the nation

> overall, but it is terribly obsessed with things like allergies and

> trace pollutants.Ý Most of the people I knew who grew up in Boulder

> are pretty healthy folks overall.

>

> Eric

 

---Roger Wicke, PhD, TCM Clinical Herbalist

contact: www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/

Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana USA

Clinical herbology training programs - www.rmhiherbal.org