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Mercury Poisoning Now Found To Cause More Problems
By Admin | January 23, 2008
In recent years, with the increased levels of mercury found in foods and in our environment, health care officials have been associating the effects of mercury poisoning to not only neurological disorders, but to other diseases as well.
Most recently, officials have identified cardiovascular diseases more often in patients with abnormal mercury levels. Specifically, researchers have reviewed past studies and recognized that patients with heart problems had 15% higher mercury levels than normal.
This is no surprise since mercury is a lethal toxic poison that has been getting into our bodies more in the recent past. It mainly affects the central nervous systems and now, as new research shows, the cardiovascular system as well. Mercury poisoning in children can lead to significant health problems.
Mercury is most often found in tuna and other seafood, although it can also be found in the emissions from burning coal, dental cavities, paints, cosmetics and pharmaceutical drugs. And lately, mercury has been found in unsafe levels in more fish, more often.
It’s also found in batteries, fluorescent light bulbs and explosives. Allowing these items to be disposed into our environment in land fills leaves us open to exposure.
Currently, no government agency or body regularly tests food for mercury poisoning.
The best way to reduce mercury poisoning is to limit consumption of tuna and other fish with mercury levels of any kind (which today is often most), replace the use of fluorescent light bulbs with LED light bulbs and dispose of light bulbs responsibly through organizations like LightBulbRecycling.com.
Eating a diet free of animal foods almost completely eliminates most metal poisonings, bacterial infections (like e. coli) and other health problems caused by animal foods including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and more. In fact, one of the best things you can do for yourself and the environment is to eliminate animal foods from your diet.
The standard method of removing mercury from your system is chelation therapy a method of ingesting a chelating agent into your body that attracts the mercury and pulls in out of your system. The chelating agent is most often administered intravenously or orally, depending on the agent.
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Topics: toxins, green living, recycling |
