Unborn babies carry pollutants, study finds
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Originally Posted by canada
Good point epoch
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:hugglez: It's what I spent my college years studying, and I actually took a class designed to teach us how to parse down complex environmental issues into easy to understand (and accurate) bits for public and/or corporate consumption
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Originally Posted by Epoch
:hugglez: It's what I spent my college years studying, and I actually took a class designed to teach us how to parse down complex environmental issues into easy to understand (and accurate) bits for public and/or corporate consumption
Well in that case your numbers didnt take into account the factor that in time the body slowly gets rid of the amount of mercury in the system, so while Fish B is eating over that year he actually isnt accumulating as much as you said.
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Originally Posted by canada
Well in that case your numbers didnt take into account the factor that in time the body slowly gets rid of the amount of mercury in the system, so while Fish B is eating over that year he actually isnt accumulating as much as you said.
Originally Posted by me
Of course this is rough math, but I'm using it to illustrate a point.
h: Of course there's metabolic shedding of heavy metals fromour system, but it takes a VERY long time. If my memory serves me right, mercury has a half life in the human body of 70-something days. Fish might have higher metabolic rate than humans, so we'll assume a 35 day half-life, BUT let's stop there... I don't wanna go down the path of figuring the estimated mercury level of some ficticious fish.What's important to note that while the majority of the human body can discard half of the mercury present in about 70 days, the half-life of mercury in the brain is 8 months. That's bad
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Originally Posted by Epoch
I was just going over the top to show how the accumulation is exponential.
h: Of course there's metabolic shedding of heavy metals fromour system, but it takes a VERY long time. If my memory serves me right, mercury has a half life in the human body of 70-something days. Fish might have higher metabolic rate than humans, so we'll assume a 35 day half-life, BUT let's stop there... I don't wanna go down the path of figuring the estimated mercury level of some ficticious fish.
What's important to note that while the majority of the human body can discard half of the mercury present in about 70 days, the half-life of mercury in the brain is 8 months. That's badh:
h: Of course there's metabolic shedding of heavy metals fromour system, but it takes a VERY long time. If my memory serves me right, mercury has a half life in the human body of 70-something days. Fish might have higher metabolic rate than humans, so we'll assume a 35 day half-life, BUT let's stop there... I don't wanna go down the path of figuring the estimated mercury level of some ficticious fish.What's important to note that while the majority of the human body can discard half of the mercury present in about 70 days, the half-life of mercury in the brain is 8 months. That's bad
h:Well quite obviously we dont have to go into the theory of Medellin then do we?
Plus a little mercury never hurt anyone right~?
