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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: E who wrote (13828)6/1/2002 5:43:40 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (3) of 21057
 
One is to think that it is a known fact that putting heavy metals into one's body is a bad idea.

And that that this has been known for centuries. "Antimony" gets its name for what it does- -kills monks (who were engaged in alchemy with antimony compounds). "Mad as a hatter" comes from the fact that mercury was applied to those beaver-pelt top hats that rich financiers wore in the 1800's. The hatters applied the mercury with small brushes. To get a sharper point on the brush, they LICKED it. Whoops!

Heavy metals inhibit or "poison" the action of many enzymes in the body. And for, quite stable compounds with them too, making it hard to get the metal out of the body.
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