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Your understanding is distorted by dealing mostly with psychotic people. Iron poisoning (well within the supposed healthy levels) and lead deficiency cause schi

Your understanding is distorted by dealing mostly with psychotic people. Iron poisoning (well within the supposed healthy levels) and lead deficiency cause schizophrenia; normal people look childlike or "not intelligent" to the affected.

AlexeyBelov 3y ago
Do you have a source for this? It seems like most of your comments mention the same things but nothing is substantiated.
- Anotheroneagain 3y ago
  I don't think it's possible to summarize it with one source. Some are my own experiments. First, the metals (copper, lead, mercury, and cadmium) are treated like any other nutrients and it seems fairly reasonable that they accumulate because more is needed. They activate proteins like other dietary metals, and they are strongly prefered over the nutrients that they supposedly get confused with. Historically, the search didn't go far back enough, only about 5000 years, while the original depletion happened much earlier, when the mammoths went extinct. An extensive study claims that it was actually the cause. (DOI: 10.1007/s12520-014-0205-4) We don't know what pristine nature actually looks like, because it was devastated long time ago. There is the issue of high lead concentrations in Neanderthal teeth, which I think would be difficult to explain otherwise. Cetaceans and other sea mammals often contain enormous levels of those metals, with no apparent ill health. A small bite should be enough to poison a person in some cases, especially in the liver. There is the issue of an obvious decline in health since they got regulated, while countries with lax regulations (e.g. Japan) seem to be spared. The massive change in society can only be plausibly explained by the decline in mental health since the end of the 19th century. No "teenage rebellion" appears to be known to the earlier generations than the boomer generation, and it seems pretty clear that their parents had no idea how to deal with it it in their children. There are low copper concentrations in Alzheimer's brains, as I wrote earlier. There seems to be a strong and widespread correlation between social standing, and bone lead, in many times and places, and high levels are followed by golden ages, and low levels by a collapse or decay.

AlexeyBelov 3y ago

Do you have a source for this? It seems like most of your comments mention the same things but nothing is substantiated.

Anotheroneagain 3y ago
I don't think it's possible to summarize it with one source. Some are my own experiments. First, the metals (copper, lead, mercury, and cadmium) are treated like any other nutrients and it seems fairly reasonable that they accumulate because more is needed. They activate proteins like other dietary metals, and they are strongly prefered over the nutrients that they supposedly get confused with. Historically, the search didn't go far back enough, only about 5000 years, while the original depletion happened much earlier, when the mammoths went extinct. An extensive study claims that it was actually the cause. (DOI: 10.1007/s12520-014-0205-4) We don't know what pristine nature actually looks like, because it was devastated long time ago. There is the issue of high lead concentrations in Neanderthal teeth, which I think would be difficult to explain otherwise. Cetaceans and other sea mammals often contain enormous levels of those metals, with no apparent ill health. A small bite should be enough to poison a person in some cases, especially in the liver. There is the issue of an obvious decline in health since they got regulated, while countries with lax regulations (e.g. Japan) seem to be spared. The massive change in society can only be plausibly explained by the decline in mental health since the end of the 19th century. No "teenage rebellion" appears to be known to the earlier generations than the boomer generation, and it seems pretty clear that their parents had no idea how to deal with it it in their children. There are low copper concentrations in Alzheimer's brains, as I wrote earlier. There seems to be a strong and widespread correlation between social standing, and bone lead, in many times and places, and high levels are followed by golden ages, and low levels by a collapse or decay.