Studies describe the process that is activated inside the body by radon therapy. Put very simply, a chain reaction is triggered, which stimulates the cell’s own repair system, sends out anti-inflammatory messenger substances and stabilizes the immune system.
Expressed scientifically, the following is happening: The immune response in inflamed tissue is down-regulated. Experimental results and physiological observations indicate a molecular and cellular reaction pathway. This occurs during apoptosis of individual skin cells or the cells of pulmonary tissue. Apoptosis is a preprogrammed, natural and regulated form of cellular death not causing any information, since regular cell death constantly occurs naturally inside the human body. In this way, apoptosis begins a process that multiplies anti-inflammatory cytokine signals (anti-inflammatory messenger substances), dendritic cells (the cells of the immune system) and T-helper cells (initiating and immune response). This leads to a reduction in inflammatory macrophage and neutrophil activity (other cells within the immune system) as well as leukocyte migration (white blood cells). This same underlying principle applies to therapies involving ultraviolet-B as well as x-ray radiation.
In this way, alpha radiation stimulates cytokine production and stabilizes cellular immune response, thereby reducing inflammation, balancing, as well as renewing and repairing cells.