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Heavy Metals and Health

This page is developing because of the health needs of the people
in these and other areas caused by toxins from mining waste.

• Silver Valley Community Resource Center, Kellogg, Idaho

• Christians for the Mountains, West Virginia

• The Tribes of NE Oklahoma 

• Western Shoshone Defense Project

Nevada Groups urge fish consumption advisory, By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Dec 15.

The nation's largest gold-producing state is being asked to investigate whether mercury emissions from
its mines are contaminating area fisheries.

Dietary Calcium Intake May Help Prevent Hypertension Associated with Elevated Lead Burden

Reference: "Dietary calcium as a potential modifier of the relationship of lead burden to blood pressure,"
Elmarsafawy SF, Hu H, et al, Epidemiology, 2006;17(5): 531-7. (Address: Occupational Health Program,
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. 

E-Mail:hhu@hsph.harvard.edu.

Summary: In a cross-sectional study involving 471 men from the Normative Aging Study, higher dietary calcium
intake was found to exert a preventive effect against elevated lead burden-induced hypertension. Based on
information obtained from self-administered semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaires, 259 subjects were 
categorized as having low calcium intake (at most 800 mg/day) and 212 subjects were categorized
as having higher calcium intake (> 800 mg/day).
Measured bone lead levels were slightly higher in the low calcium group, as compared with the high calcium
intake group. After adjusting for potential confounders, logistic regression models stratified by
dietary calcium intake showed weak associations between tibia bone lead and blood lead with
hypertension among subjects with low dietary calcium intake, but not among subjects with high dietary
calcium intake. Thus, based on the results, the authors state, "In conclusion, our study suggests that
dietary calcium intake is an important factor modifying the risk that cumulative lead burden imposes
on blood pressure. Low dietary calcium, as well as high lead levels in cortical bones and blood increases
the likelihood of hypertension. It is possible that individuals with a history of elevated lead exposure
may be able to reduce their risk of lead-associated hypertension by increasing dietary calcium intake."

Best Calcium is Calcium lactate (not an impact for dairy sensitive people) and in combination with vitamin D3.

Heavy Metal Poisonings: Especially lead and mercury—are controlled with Vitamin C injections and oral intake.
An intake of Vitamin C daily will protect animals—and by extrapolation, humans—from fatal doses of mercury.
If a guinea pig needed 200 mg one day to protect it from an otherwise fatal dose of mercury, the human would
need 14 grams daily. Smaller doses would be able to protect the body from smaller amounts of the toxin.
Lead poisoning: 350 mg of Vitamin C per one kg of body weight taken intramuscularly every two to four hours;
recovery in less than 72 hours.
Dr. Klenner found that the amount of C used “in any case is the all important factor. In 28 years of research
we have observed that 30 grams each day is critical in terms of response” regardless of age and weight.