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NUTRIENTS AND TOXICS Please click on the headings to the left to look at specific nutrients. I have included all the minerals in one list for two reasons. First, it is very possible and likely that all minerals are both nutrients and toxics, even the ones that we usually associate with toxicity. Second, it will be easier for you to look up minerals without first knowing whether they are considered a nutrient or a toxic. Even the minerals we usually associate with toxicity, such as cadmium and mercury, may have some physiological functions and qualify as nutrients. Perhaps the needed amounts of these nutrients are so low that most amounts are toxic. Cadmium in particular concerns me in this regard. If green leafy vegetables accumulate cadmium in their leaves and we have a craving to eat them and find them good tasting, then how could cadmium be completely toxic? Perhaps cadmium is the ultimate controlling mineral because it has such suppressive effects over the critically important minerals, copper and zinc, and is effective at such miniscule amounts. Cadmium is to me the most intriguing of all the minerals because of its enigmatic role in health and thyroid physiology. Maybe one of the reasons people smoke is to get cadmium into their bodies. Perhaps the people who don't eat salads when young start smoking to satisfy their need for cadmium and then get overloaded with cadmium because of the nicotine addiction. It will be a very interesting investigation! Mercury is another enigma. I have run into more than one person who has become hyperthyroid AFTER having all their silver amalgam fillings removed. Mercury is just below cadmium in the Periodic Table and may have very controlling effects on cadmium. While excessive mercury may cause hypothyroidism, a mercury deficiency may cause hyperthyroidism by allowing cadmium to suppress copper and zinc. Another interesting investigation ahead! Adding in all the nutrient information in these files will take awhile. This section is really the core of the site and will contain all the really important details that will help us in this investigation. Let me know if you run across any interesting info. Thanks, John |