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metal immune reactivity plays a role in disease, particularly inflammatory disease i.e. autoimmune.  This study find benefit from MELISA assays in metal sensitivity treatment.

Study looked at the action of glutathione in plants with high metal exposure.

Heavy Metal-induced Immunotoxicity and Its Mechanisms

Study discusses the long term consequences of chronic lead exposure.  Acute lead toxicity is not the only mechanism of lead toxicity.  Lead can be toxic in chronic exposure.  This study also touches on the aspect that serum levels on reveal recent exposure as challenge and chelation are the only way to draw out and eliminate the stored metals.  When individuals lack detoxification enzymes i.e. glutathione these metals promote more symptoms and/or disease.

Heavy metals and autoimmune disease

implications of heavy metal toxicity

study finds equal parts of metal contaminants and silica in electronic cigarettes as in regular cigarettes.  One example is aluminum.  Aluminum is incredibly neurotoxic.

good review in chelation of metals.

New study suggests that intra-uterine exposure effects prefrontal cortex development that leads to autism.  This study was conducted of postmortem samples of children with autism ranging from 2 to 15. Intra-pregnancy exposure of what?  That is the question.  Environmental toxins: whether it is all the xenoestrogens (autism at rate of 5:1 in boys), PCBs, heavy metals, and yes (lead author) preservatives, metals (Al and thermeresol) in vaccines--particularly the flu vaccine which ACOG is almost mandating during pregnancy.

Heavy metals cause some autoimmune diseases

nice review on heavy metal toxins and their effects

ferritin released enhanced pharmacologic ascorbate induced-cytotoxicity, indicating that ferritin with high iron-saturation could be a source of catalytic iron. Consistent with this, ascorbate has also been shown to be capable of releasing iron from cellular ferritin

Aluminum shown to decrease blood glutathione levels.

Study finds higher Pb levels in young girls is associated with delayed puberty onset.  This occurs through an inverse relationship with inhibin B and follicular development.  This relationship was also found with Cadmium.  Both of these heavy metals are toxic to the ovaries.

Heavy metals shown to be estrogenic with Cadmium being one of the biggest culprits.

heavy metals are synergistic in lower toxicity levels.

review of the mechanism of how extracellular AA, only obtainable from parenteral dosing, can produce H2O2 extracellularly to then be cytotoxic to cancer cells.

Good non biased look at heavy metals, particularly Hg, and autism.  The authors of this study found the same neurologic pathology biochemically in Hg poisoning as in autism.  

AquaTitanium, Phiten's most commonly utilized AQUA-METAL, is used as a dye-like material and permeated into the fibers of Phiten fabric products becoming a component of the finished product.

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