METALEAD

«metaLead revolutionizes the way we treat toxic metals, starting with the most dangerous one - lead... Lead (Pb) is a nonessential, toxic metal widely spread in the environment and affects vast populations worldwide. No blood Pb level (BLL) is deemed safe, and Pb at even very low concentrations shows destructive effects on various body organs. Nevertheless, health authorities determine threshold values from which environmental and medicinal interventions should occur. Most countries, including Switzerland and the EU, adopt the WHO recommendation of 5 µg/dL as this value. In the USA, the CDC recently reduced this value to 3.5 µg/dL, acknowledging the devastating influence of Pb at even such levels... Based on these values, 16% of the US children, every third child globally, and every second adult in the USA are poisoned with Pb. While at highly acute poisoning, Pb kills (almost 1 M annually worldwide), lower poisoning levels cause various symptoms and diseases, mainly kidney..

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