Posted on 07/27/2023 8:03:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Women with a history of endometriosis had higher concentrations of cadmium in their urine compared to those without that diagnosis, according to a study that suggests the toxic metal could be linked to the development of endometriosis.
Affecting one in 10 reproductive-age women, endometriosis is a gynecologic condition in which tissue that looks like the lining of the uterus, or womb, appears outside the uterus. Those with endometriosis can experience chronic, painful and debilitating symptoms.
Cadmium is a toxic metal and a "metalloestrogen," meaning it can act like the hormone estrogen. People are commonly exposed to cadmium by breathing in cigarette smoke and eating contaminated food like spinach and lettuce.
While this is not the first study exploring a potential link between cadmium and endometriosis, the researchers said it's the largest study to look at cadmium measured in urine, which reflects long-term exposure between 10 and 30 years.
For their study, researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES, a national study representative of the U.S. population between 1999 and 2006. Out of the survey's more than 41,000 participants, the researchers limited their study population to those 20 to 54 years of age.
The researchers then analyzed the data, dividing the cadmium levels into four classes, or quartiles, with the first quartile being the lowest exposure and the fourth being the largest exposure.
They found that participants in the second and third quartiles were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with endometriosis than those in the first quartile. The data also suggests a 60% increased prevalence of endometriosis based on urinary cadmium concentrations in the fourth quartile.
"The findings are interesting given that cadmium can act like the hormone estrogen, and this hormone is central to the development of endometriosis," Hall said.
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Consumerlab.com tests for cadmium and lead in such goods.
There are a few ways to chelate, or remove, cadmium from our bodies, but otherwise, it appears from my reading that the half-life for cadmium in our bodies is over 20 years.
It causes problems wherever it resides, it seems.
I guess those cadmium paints weren’t edible after all.
Women just don’t understand economics. Cadmium goes for almost 3 bucks a kilo, yet women cavalierly piss it away
Lol.
Metals that have been identified to exert an influence on estrogen receptors include aluminum, antimony, arsenite, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenite, tin, and vanadate.
https://www.womensinternational.com/blog/metalloestrogens/
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