uranium, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury act as estrogen mimics!

[Lani]

risks seem to be higher in Colorado, Canada, Australia drinking water..but can be elsewhere. See third article

http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-12/ss.html#uran

[R.B.]

Thank Lani for that.

I had seen that cadmium was a mimic but did not know of the concerns as to other metals.

Amalgam fillings leach mercury in the long term. A whole other complex subject.

Mercury is an issue in some fish populations.


http://her2support.org/vbulletin/sho...hlight=cadmium


Re 3rd article isoprostaglandins are downstream products of the fats pathways, so linking oxidative stress and fats. I have just bought a book on oxidative stress and disease - it is fascinating.

RB