Thanks for watching the Lead and ADHD Symptoms video!
The human brain is a very fragile thing, comprised of a web of delicate circuitry equipped to handle our natural world. Unfortunately, lead isn't natural.
Or, I should say, it is not meant to be a part of our natural environment.
Lead is about as natural as oil, in the sense that it is naturally occurring but not in a way that would allow human beings to interact with it. Lead, in its original form, is not found in soluble compounds, and it was certainly never meant to end up in our food or soil. If it had been, we would have evolved to create a physiological system to deal with it. But we didnt, and now its here. And here we are.
Evolution is a fierce gauntlet—genetic drift, specialization, and natural selection happen over vast timescales which require that certain organisms not reproduce, while others do, for selection to occur. If we had had the need to dispense with calcium gated ion channels in the brain, things would be different now.
There is much more to say on the topic of lead and ADHD symptoms, and I look forward to unpacking this subject more in the future. I believe there are solutions to this issue and I am devoted to discovering new tools and methods to help rid our society of lead poisoning. The best time to start was a year ago, the second best time is today. Start Testing!
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