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Mercury / Methylmercury / Heavy Metal


Mercury shows up in fish in the form of methylmercury. Recent studies have shown that methylmercury adversely effects to the developing nervous system of fetuses. Those adverse effects can include lowered IQ, abnormal muscle tone and slowed motor function. Mercury advisories are often established to protect the most sensitive populations: pregnant and nursing women, fetuses, and women of childbearing age and children younger than 15 years of age. Children and infants are at special risk because the developing nervous systems of infants and children are especially sensitive to methylmercury.


When methylmercury is ingested, most of it is absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream where it is rapidly carried to other parts of the body. It takes about 70 days for half of the mercury that has entered the body to be removed. The remaining mercury is slowly removed from the body over several months, mainly in feces.
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