Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Toxicity’

Avoiding Mercury Toxicity

No comments December 5th, 2009

The medical world is perplexed by many diseases that seem to have no specified causes, and for which treatments are still being researched. Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe muscle pain, fatigue and improper sleep. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder which has similar symptoms, but is mainly characterized by interruption in the breathing process a number of times during sleep. Medical research has arrived upon certain treatments that reduce the severity of symptoms in fibromyalgia. Read more

Phosphorus Toxicity in Proteaceae Garden Plants

No comments December 5th, 2009

This is the story about a mistake I made in my new garden that for me at the time, was about as devastating as it could get. The remarkable thing about it though was as time went on I was nearly glad that I’d made that mistake. When we shifted into our new house in Melbourne at the end of 2005 I was pretty excited as what I had to start with was a clean slate which meant careful planning and the opportunity to fill my new garden with all the types of plants that I really loved. For me Read more

Mercury and Heavy Metal Toxicity

No comments December 5th, 2009

Mercury is a heavy metal that has had a variety of uses throughout history, evidence of its use being found in several ancient civilisations. However, perhaps the most controversial use is that in the dental amalgam. In the mid-nineteenth century, the mercury-silver-tin-copper-cadmium mix began to prove irresistible to dentists as a dental amalgam. The reasons for this were simple; it was extremely easy to use, formed a strong repair and was cheap to obtain. There was only one problem Read more