Category Archives: Methyl Mercury

Mercury as a Toxin

Mercury is a heavy metal that has significant detrimental effects on humans and animal health. Behind lead and arsenic, mercury is the third most frequently encountered and most toxic heavy metal. Elemental mercury is the metal form of the element … Continue reading

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Selenium Bioavailability: Can Selenium Inhibit Mercury Absorption?

Selenium is an important trace mineral in human nutrition. An outright deficiency of selenium leads to the formation of Kashin-Beck syndrome and Keshan disease, but such deficiency diseases are rare worldwide. However, chronic low intakes of selenium, above the threshold … Continue reading

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Methyl Mercury: Blood Levels Rise With Fish Consumption

The typical Western diet contains too much omega-6 fat, and this causes an imbalance in the dietary and cellular omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio. The correct ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in the human diet is estimated … Continue reading

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Methylmercury in Fish

Research shows that fatty fish containing the long chain marine polyunsaturated fatty acids eicosapentanoic acid (EPA, C20:5 (n-3)) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA, C22:6 (n-3)) are beneficial to the health, and may reduce the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and dementia. … Continue reading

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Mercury Exposure and Birth Weight

The current recommendation is to eat fatty fish ≥ 2 times a week because of the beneficial polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acids that it contains. These fatty acids (eicosapentanoic acid and docosahexanoic acid) are beneficial to health because they inhibit the … Continue reading

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Methyl Mercury in Fish

Historically, fish is one of the most important sources of food known to man. Large proportions of the World’s population rely on fish as their daily source of animal protein, and fish is also used as animal feed in large … Continue reading

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