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What are the effects of radiation on the human body? How can something that we cannot touch, feel, smell or see cause so much harm to living beings? In this video I will explain more about how radioactivity causes damage, as well as explaining a little more about ionizing radiation. Black Friday Cambly with the biggest discount of the year, 50%OFF: code BESTCIENCIA https://bit.ly/2FNog7q Bonus: subscribe until 11/08 and get a free Accent Reduction course for Brazilians Cambly Kids with 50% OFF: code BESTCIENCIAKIDS https://bit.ly/3m9n8dN Be a member of our channel to help keep the videos up! http://youtube.com/cienciatododia/join My social networks: / pedroloos / pedroloos Our podcast: http://anchor.fm/sinapse E-mail: [email protected] Writer: Pedro Loos and Hítalo Mendes Um Many thanks to the Catarse supporters who made this video possible: Patricia Guedes, Pedro Oliveira, Bruno Pereira, Simone Neves, Pedro Amorim, Edilson Gomes, Luiz Coelho, Bruno Rink, Yann Motta, Lucas Bundyra and René da Silva Bastos. Sources and Further Reading: Okuno, Emico, and Elisabeth Mateus Yoshimura. Radiation physics. Oficina de Textos, 2016. Okuno, Emico. Radiation: effects, risks and benefits. Oficina de Textos, 2018. Bushberg, Jerrold T., and John M. Boone. The essential physics of medical imaging. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.