It depends what you eat and breath. I got cleaner air than inside city, and my food is way more quality than the average US food.
I only drink high grade tea and fresh water... so you see i do care about health.
You didn't get my point
I wasn't talking about pollution or "bad food" but more about allergens, free radicals, etc...
Danger DOES exists wherever you go, whatever you touch. But you can't leave without taking risks, accepting the danger, as sure as you can't live without breathing or eating
It can take 10-20 years until you suffer from the stuff, because younger body may be able to handle a lot but as soon as it gets older it will start to suffer.
I've noticed your "can" and "may"
The answer is no: radiotoxicity doesn't care about your age, it is more related to your health condition at the moment you get irradiated.
For the chemical danger as for radiotoxicity, the problem is the same: you have to know at least two things to conclude whether the substance will be dangerous in the long term (we agree it is in the short term
).
1) Will it stay in my body? How? An example is Iode that goes in the throat and stay here. If I is radioactive (I129 for example), the danger in middle-long term is real.
At the opposite, Xenon 135 (radioactive)has no use for the body, so it won't be kept inside it. The danger will also occure during the 7 days of its mid-life.
HF stays in your body for life because it does attack the Calcium of your bones. Since the human body has no way to "clean" the bones themselves, the HF remains.
I don't see what kind of substance could be put in TIM that would stay in your body and becomes a danger in long term.
Substances who have long term consequences most of the time need several and frequent contacts to become "efficient" (lead, asbestos, etc...)
2) Is the substance dangerous for the part of the body where it stays?
Iode for the throat, lead for lungs, etc...
You didn't eat the TIM (right?
)?
Because I am in contact with such hazardous substances, my lab has to make me pass regular biological/ chemical analyses (legal obligation in France) and I am still wealthy although 5 years may have passed since the first time I was in contact with such substances
I am not saying that there are no danger: there is! Like I've said in first point. But no need to panic: go to your doctor, explain, pass the biological exam (if you have an idea of the kind of substances you're looking for) and it will be clear
What you are saying may be true for long term and frequent exposure: never for ponctual contacts (except for HF and a few substances, but be sure that it doesn't wait 20 years to be a pain: it is almost immediate...
)