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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @LiveIdiotFree

      HBBF argue for a lower threshold, and base their assessments of a toxic dose on that figure

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      I should say - there was one product with relatively high levels of arsenic. The point was really that most were probably fine, not that there are no products at all that might need to look at their practices

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Tiffany M‏ @LiveIdiotFree 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      Probably is a very uneasy statement when dealing w babies. I know there is a lot of toxic exposure already in natural environment. Thats its impossible to avoid. However is it possible that the amount of toxicity we introduce to infants purposely in the 1st yr could be dangerous?

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 21 Oct 2019
      Replying to @LiveIdiotFree

      Well, we're talking about very small effects here at the lower levels of exposure. The impact on any one child would be impossible to discern - there ~may~ be a risk at a population level, but that's a more complex issue

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Tiffany M‏ @LiveIdiotFree 22 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      Population level? So meaning the long term toxicity becoming something that actually has effect on our genes and changes our dna structure generations down the line? Like viruses can do?

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 22 Oct 2019
      Replying to @LiveIdiotFree

      Nope. Meaning the effect on individuals is basically undetectable, you have to look at entire populations to discern an effect. Worst case, individual kids might be losing a fraction of an IQ point if that at low doses

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Tiffany M‏ @LiveIdiotFree 23 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      Thank you for being honest with me. I really appreciate that.

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @LiveIdiotFree

      Well, I try to never say things that aren't true. Everyone makes mistakes, of course

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      Baby food isn't a big worry for heavy metal contamination tbh. The much bigger issues are to do with old mining areas where dust can be pretty much inescapable and have levels of contamination thousands of times higher than these foods

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    10. Tiffany M‏ @LiveIdiotFree 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @GidMK

      When I was pregnant with my son and his first few years of life I lived very close to a train track and probably the most busy freeway in the country, in SoCal. I'm just thinking that if you combine all the exposure all the sudden its toxic.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 24 Oct 2019
      Replying to @LiveIdiotFree

      I don't think trains are much of a worry, and freeways are mostly air pollutants rather than heavy metals. More about NOx, but that's a totally different issue

      5:27 PM - 24 Oct 2019
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