How Toxic Minerals Impact Emotional Health

Repeated exposure to foods and environment containing toxic elements can result in the accumulation of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and aluminum inside the human body. Unfortunately, this "contamination," which arises from simply living on the planet, is becoming increasingly common.

It is now conservatively estimated that up to 25% of the U.S. population suffers from some degree of toxic exposure. Early signs can be very subtle, but often include mental symptoms, such as impaired ability to think or concentrate, mood changes, fatigue, and low-grade depression.

One possible source of toxic exposure is dental fillings made from amalgam, which contain mercury, a very powerful toxin. Other toxins, such as lead and aluminum, have also been shown to clearly trigger symptoms of depression in exposed individuals.

Depression was cited as the major symptom in a group of residents chronically exposed to toxins from a nearby aluminum die-casting plant. Indeed, one wonders if it is simply coincidence that, as the incidence of depression in the U.S. population has skyrocketed during this century, the amount of lead released into the environment has reached more than 600,000 tons per year!

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