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What I'm getting from this is that in the next century or so people are going to gradually get dumber and dumber as the CO2 increases cause the loss of brain fu

by c12 8y ago

What I'm getting from this is that in the next century or so people are going to gradually get dumber and dumber as the CO2 increases cause the loss of brain function.

ItsMe000001 8y ago
I would be (I am) more worried about heavy metals such as lead and mercury. This comes from my own experience, I was diagnosed with a "gray area" amount of chronic mercury poisoning, meaning the measured amount was just enough for the doctor to recommend chelation treatment (DMPS, DMSA). Note that chronic poisoning is not well understood and there are no reliable tests for it, the tests only measure what's in the blood, but after long-term chronic exposure the problem is what's stored in various tissues throughout the body and blood levels are quite low. So I was "lucky" in a way that I actually had it in the blood (and hair) in significant amounts. Anyway, the reason why I'm worried is that I found that levels that have a noticeable effect are far, far lower than thought. This is actually consistent with what you can see in the history of research on lead, by now the official medical opinion is that the only safe level is zero. Mercury is far worse - and there once was an LD (lethal dose) study on rats where they measured both but also combined the two, and lethality went through the roof (I think the combination was a thousand times more lethal than either metal alone). Combinations are almost never studied (not surprising given the unstudiable amount of them). By using chelators for years, on and off, while having a pretty constant unexciting and mostly stress-free life I noticed a lot of things, and my conclusion is what I said, noticeable effects occur at levels deemed completely uninteresting by the medical field these days (apart from the general recommendation that "zero is best"). I also had quite a few spectacular proven results, such as a decades-old thyroid nodule simply disappearing (the tissue in that area was very active for a few weeks after DMPS chelation), but I found the brain effects far more spectacular. Unfortunately they are also much harder to convey, or even prove. I make a claim that I cannot prove, that even very low levels far below threshold levels of heavy metals have an effect on the brain at least, from mood to intelligence to stress resistance.
- kgc 8y ago
  Where do you live?

by c12 8y ago

What I'm getting from this is that in the next century or so people are going to gradually get dumber and dumber as the CO2 increases cause the loss of brain function.

ItsMe000001 8y ago

I would be (I am) more worried about heavy metals such as lead and mercury. This comes from my own experience, I was diagnosed with a "gray area" amount of chronic mercury poisoning, meaning the measured amount was just enough for the doctor to recommend chelation treatment (DMPS, DMSA). Note that chronic poisoning is not well understood and there are no reliable tests for it, the tests only measure what's in the blood, but after long-term chronic exposure the problem is what's stored in various tissues throughout the body and blood levels are quite low. So I was "lucky" in a way that I actually had it in the blood (and hair) in significant amounts. Anyway, the reason why I'm worried is that I found that levels that have a noticeable effect are far, far lower than thought. This is actually consistent with what you can see in the history of research on lead, by now the official medical opinion is that the only safe level is zero. Mercury is far worse - and there once was an LD (lethal dose) study on rats where they measured both but also combined the two, and lethality went through the roof (I think the combination was a thousand times more lethal than either metal alone). Combinations are almost never studied (not surprising given the unstudiable amount of them). By using chelators for years, on and off, while having a pretty constant unexciting and mostly stress-free life I noticed a lot of things, and my conclusion is what I said, noticeable effects occur at levels deemed completely uninteresting by the medical field these days (apart from the general recommendation that "zero is best"). I also had quite a few spectacular proven results, such as a decades-old thyroid nodule simply disappearing (the tissue in that area was very active for a few weeks after DMPS chelation), but I found the brain effects far more spectacular. Unfortunately they are also much harder to convey, or even prove. I make a claim that I cannot prove, that even very low levels far below threshold levels of heavy metals have an effect on the brain at least, from mood to intelligence to stress resistance.

kgc 8y ago
Where do you live?