I did some googling and found there is no consensus for a definition of 'heavy
metal.' However, the most commonly used definition is those metals which have
a density equal to or greater than five times that of water.
Aluminum has a density of only 2.7 so it is not a heavy metal based on the most
commonly used criteria.
Aluminum has no nutrient or essential mineral value so it is fine to eliminate
it from your body if you can find a way to do that.
It is also one of the most common metals on the planet and you come into
contact with it every day. It's in the soil naturally. It's residue can be
found in most animals and plants.
However, this casual exposure to aluminum is unlikely to be harmful. Aluminum
toxicity seems only to occur when someone has ingested high levels of aluminum,
or has exposure to aluminum dust in an industrial setting.
Here's one of the more relevant sites that discusses this without obvious bias.
https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=164929
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, 02:46:25 PM EST, Jean Baugh
<oldgloryte...@srcaccess.net> wrote:
H Phil,
I take Nature’s Way Selenium, 200 mg. On the back it says it is
L-selenomethionine I duck-ducked if Selenium is a heavy metal. The answer is
yes.
Then asked if what I have is natural but they can’t just say yes or no, but it
implied it was natural.
So, if Selenium is a heavy metal and you have too much of it, my thought is
some EDTA to chelate. Swanson has this. I take potassium with this because a
toxicologist told me to. My question to the doctor was would EDTA take out
Mercury?
Amazing what heavy metals are. I would never have guessed aluminum is a heavy
metal.
Jean
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