Pure Wellness Centers

Tom Ballard, RN, ND

Mercury thermometers are no longer made, but a new University of California study on 6,000 women in the U.S. has found that mercury levels are rising and are associated with immune and hormonal disruption.

U.S. Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) researchers estimated that chronic mercury exposure caused between 300,000 and 600,000 American children to be born with elevated risks of nervous system disorders between 1999 and 2000.

“My study found compelling evidence that inorganic mercury deposition within the human body [my emphasis] is a cumulative process, increasing with age and overall in the population over time,” study author Dan R. Laks, a neuroscience researcher at the School of Medicine at UCLA, said in a statement to the media.”My findings also suggest a rise in risks for disease associated with mercury over time.” Laks found mercury in 30% of the blood samples examined. What’s more, the overall concentration of inorganic mercury increased significantly between 1999 and 2006.
“These results suggest that chronic mercury exposure has reached a critical level where inorganic mercury deposition within the human body is accumulating over time. It is logical to assume that the risks of associated neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases will rise as well ,” [my emphasis] Laks stated.