Jerry Cuttler, radiation researcher, becomes his own test subject

Jerry Cuttler has spent most of his professional life around radiation. As one of Canada’s leading nuclear engineers, he helped build and run multiple nuclear power plants. And in retirement, he has conducted credible research on the effects of low-level radiation in treating chronic disease — most recently focusing on patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Now, after an absence of 20 years, and facing his own age-related infirmity, Cuttler is coming back to Boulder’s Free Enterprise Health Mine, to get radiation treatment himself.

“I’ve been worried about my head and my brain,” he said. “I’ve got a problem with glaucoma. One eye has really deteriorated the last couple of years, and my hearing is going.”