Heavy Metals, Agent Orange Exposure and Triple Bypass
Risk assessment
I'm somewhat maybe you could say contaminated! In the Marines at 17 years old, with training time at Camp LeJeune during water contamination, served at Ramasun Station with Agent Orange exposure, spent 40 years as a machinist/Tool Maker where I've been diagnosed with heavy metal exposure. 10 years ago had triple bypass! Weirdly I function fairly well on my little mini farm and keep up with a fairly physical and outside labors but wondered what I at 72 years old ought to be on the lookout for and preventative measures to carry on naturally?
Hi Old Grunt,
For the multiple heavy metals that you believe are in your body, based on the following research link, melatonin may be worthy of your consideration for its protective effects against some of the damages being caused by the heavy metals to your body and it has some chelating effect :
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9855431/
Here is a relevant quote from the link :
' There are several mechanisms by which heavy metals induce cellular toxicity, but the main mechanism is the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that cause cellular oxidative damage [4]. Melatonin is highly effective in reducing such oxidative stress, as proven in a large number of reports. Its protective actions are the result of several means: the direct detoxification of ROS and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), the stimulation of antioxidant enzymes, and the suppression of other free-radical-generating enzymes. Additionally, melatonin also chelates transition metals, which are involved in the Fenton/Haber–Weiss reactions; due to its metal-chelating ability, melatonin reduces the formation of the highly reactive hydroxyl radical (•OH), which probably accounts for more than 50% of the oxidative stress that cells sustain [5]. Evidence shows that melatonin reacts with a number of metal ions, resulting in the formation of stable metal complexes. For example, using absorption voltammetry as a means of evaluation, it has been shown that melatonin, in proportion to its concentration, binds several heavy metals, including aluminum, cadmium, copper, iron, lead, and zinc, similar to metallothionein [6]. Melatonin chelates both iron (III) and iron (II), participating in the Fenton reaction to generate •OH. Melatonin is able to restore the biological activity of hemoglobin by acting on highly covalent iron and transforming it into iron (III), and it also reduces •OH, which is highly toxic.'
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