We live in a metal age. Cars, airplanes, guns, tools, and nearly everything have some metal in it. This includes food. The problem with metal is; if you eat it, the metal accumulates in your body cells, you age, get weak and die. The secret to a long life is avoiding the intake of metal. The establishment preserves foods with iron, lead, and antimony to prevent bacterial epidemics but alas, the metal accumulates in your body, and a human senesces and then dies. Some metals are worse than others. Some are almost innocuous except they accumulate in the cells and slowly block cellular enzymic processes. The most innocuous are aluminum and copper. The worst are arsenic, chromium and mercury. The rest lies in-between. It would be best for mankind if foods were preserved with zinc for sweet foods and magnesium for salty foods. The following is a brief list of metals, the diseases they cause, and annotations from the author’s mind. The fact derives from Wikipedia and Cotrans- Clinical Pathology, the rest is conjecture.
Most extremely toxic metals have a plus two valences in the ionic stage and mimic in the body the two most important chemicals that govern cellular metabolism or body makeup: magnesium and Calcium. However, these metal ions known as divalent cations readily oxidize to a higher valence state and act as bleach like agents in the body. These worst are Arsenic, Chromium, and mercury.
Arsenic is a deadly poison in both its metal form and ionic entity. It poisons the Krebs TCA cycle and causes death. Chronic amounts from long-term ingestion cause cancer of the skin, bladder and lungs. Arsenic is a plentiful element and easy to obtain
Chromium exists in several valent states and acts as a strong oxidizing agent in the tissues. The inclusion of chromium picolinate in vitamins is madness. Chronic exposure to chromium causes kidney, liver and blood cell failure and in smaller doses generates autoimmune disease.
Mercury although rare unless obtained by new millennium man and administered poisons the brain, kidney, and lung severely causing death. Chronic sublethal administration is associated with type 2 diabetes.
The next metals are the not so worse metals that find their way in quantity into the mouth of modern man. These are iron, nickel and other transition metals on the periodic table of elements. Some are horrible and beyond the scope of this discourse, the current medical establishment regard iron and nickel as health food and include them in vitamin preparations. All the iron or nickel a person need is found in meat products and nuts and seeds. Iron in high concentration causes diabetes of the pancreas and in low concentration accumulates in the liver causing hemochromatosis. Iron in hemoglobin exists in the plus three valence state or ferric. The administration sells iron in pills in the plus two or ferrous state so go figure. Cobalt used by beer makers to give a good head of foam on a glass causes Beer drinker cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure and heart transplant. There exist other transition metals that are far more sinister.
Next are the heavy metals, lead, antimony, and selenium. They are called heavy metals because they inhabit the left and bottom side of the periodic table. When ingested, they are absorbed because they evidence a plus two valence, but because they are heavy atoms they accumulate and by the mass effect of Avogadro kill cells. The heavy metals accumulate mainly in the brain and the kidney, organs that show very little cell growth in their terminal differentiation. With Prolonged and repeated exposure to heavy metal causes pre-senile dementia and renal failure. According to the acts of God, it is a race to what gets destroyed first, the brain or kidney. Hypertension is the kidney, organs body signaling the mind that the kidneys are poisoned with lead. Antimony said to be non-toxic and used as a preservative because it is a heavy metal that accumulates just like lead. Selenium now heralded to be a growth factor and included in today’s multiple vitamins is a heavy metal and accumulates. A diet that includes vegetables provides enough selenium a body needs.
Last and not least are the trans-uranic elements. Provided a geography all their own on the periodic table and called the lanthanide series; Uranium and its sisters are extremely heavy and accumulate everywhere including bone. Uranium daughters or half life products like radon cause lung cancer due to absorption of gamma emission and free radical formation. The trans-uranic sister elements fission spontaneously generating extreme amounts of energy literally cooking the DNA is cells resulting in cancer. Thorium is indicated in producing chronic endogenous depression relegating the afflicted to lifelong psychiatric care. Plutonium fissions spontaneously or disintegrates into lead. With the military making armor plating and shell casings out of depleted uranium, the case load of bone cancer, renal failure and post- traumatic stress disorder will maximize and the Veterans facilities will reach maximum capacity.
What is the cure asks the gentleman in the boobie hatch? The cure is chelation. Chelation therapy with BAL, EDTA, and other agents can rid the body of metal. The drawback is, is that this cure is expensive and lengthy. Chelation courses lasting ten years or more are necessary for a lifetime of ingesting metal. Is the government going to pay for this? The affluent millionaire doctors will benefit from a plethora of chronic patients that need lifelong therapy. The money-grubbing professionals will go to the bank and cash their paychecks that the administration creates from the policy of preserving food with metal and creating a workplace filled with metal fumes and dust. May God deliver us from evil and let the people in a position of power and in the know create a society of long-lived patriots.