Sentences with phrase «toxic trace metals»

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In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.

In the field of chemical oceanography it has been found impact the speciation of trace metals that are both critical for life at low levels and toxic at higher levels.

Analysis of clays from Africa, Sardinia and California reveals that clay can provide a variety of macro - and trace minerals including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and zinc.2 Clay also contains aluminum, but silicon, present in large amounts in all clays, prevents absorption of this toxic metal and actually helps the body eliminate aluminum that is bound in the tissues.3

Additionally, essential metals like calcium can be toxic at supraphysiologic levels and chromium as the Cr +3 ion is an essential trace element important for maintaining correct blood sugar levels, but as the Cr +6 ion is a known human lung carcinogen.

Chelating agents can clear away essential heavy metals that are present in safe, trace amounts along with toxic metals.

Colloidal mineral toddies have left people with heavy metal toxicity as well as toxic levels of needed macro or trace minerals.

For those suffering from lead or other heavy metal poisoning, a protective diet that avoids processed foods and emphasizes the central components of a nutrient - dense and antioxidant - rich WAPF - style diet is essential (see sidebar).21 Nutritional status shapes susceptibility to lead toxicity in important ways, affecting lead's intestinal absorption; its mobilization, distribution and retention in the body; and excretion.22 Because oxidative stress is a likely mechanism explaining some of lead's toxic actions, some investigators have begun to explore whether natural antioxidants and trace minerals may help mitigate lead - induced cell damage.17 Specifically, researchers in Spain found that administration of vitamins A, B6, C and E along with zinc modulated some of the negative effects of lead exposure in rat pups, confirming the influence of nutritional factors on health outcomes following lead exposure.17 Vitamin D also should be a major component of a protective diet.

As more research reveals these products contain trace amounts of toxic metals, some experts are voicing concern about their safety.

This reference range of trace elements in the mane hair of racing horses should be used to assess disease and the nutritional status in equine practice.Asano R, Suzuki K, Otsuka T, Otsuka M, Sakurai H., Concentrations of toxic metals and essential minerals in the mane hair of healthy racing horses and their relation to age., J Vet Med Sci.

«The chemicals released into streams from valley fills contain a variety of ions and trace metals which are toxic or debilitating for many organisms, which explains why biodiversity is reduced below valley fills,» says co-author Dr. Emily Bernhardt, of Duke University.

Heavy metals: Metallic elements, including those required for plant and animal nutrition, in trace concentration but which become toxic at higher concentrations.

The wastewater flushed from the coal - fired plants into rivers and lakes typically contains traces of such highly toxic heavy metals as lead, arsenic, mercury and selenium.