Toxins
The Six Groups
Every topic sits under a group, on disk and in the URL, so a path reads Toxins → group → topic. The axis is where the exposure comes from, because that is the part a reader can act on. A topic appearing here is not a verdict: several of these pages exist to say that a widely feared exposure is not well supported, and each one gives the dose the evidence actually rests on.
Dangerous Supplements keeps its own place outside the groups — it is a product-safety topic with nine sub-articles, organised by risk pattern rather than by where an exposure comes from. The heavy metals live at Toxic Minerals.
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Connections
- Fake Food — Adulteration, dilution, mislabelling and grade fraud in the food supply
- Toxic Minerals & Heavy Metals — lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium, and essential minerals in excess.
- Conditions — the diseases these exposures cause, worsen or are suspected in.
- Lab Tests — blood, urine and hair testing for exposure, and what each test can and cannot show.
- Food — where dietary exposure comes from, and the whole foods that displace it.
- Minerals — the essential minerals that toxic metals compete with and displace.
- Antioxidants — the polyphenol and glutathione systems that handle oxidative damage.
- Herbs — the liver-support and binding botanicals used in detoxification protocols.
- Remedies — chelation, sauna and the other practices claimed to reduce body burden.
- Fluoride — water fluoridation, the IQ literature, and the informed-consent argument.
- Glyphosate — the world’s most-used herbicide, its residue routes and its cancer litigation.
- Microplastics — particle exposure, where it is measured in the body, and what is still unknown.
- PFAS — the “forever chemicals”, their half-lives, and how to reduce intake.
- Mold & Mycotoxins — damp-building exposure, testing, and the evidence that is genuinely contested.
- Ultra-Processed Foods — the NOVA classification and the controlled-feeding trial behind it.
- Seed Oils — linoleic acid, oxidation products, and what the trial evidence actually shows.
- Pesticides — organophosphates and the residue data behind produce-washing advice.
- BPA & Plastics — bisphenols, phthalates, and the substitutions that replaced them.
- Arsenic Exposure
- Cadmium Toxicity
- Heavy Metals in Food
- Lead Poisoning
- Mercury Toxicity
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