Posts by joybird

Update with test results.   Both kids have high levels of arsenic.  The reference range says arsenic should be below .06 and they are at .082 and .19.  Both bar graphs are well into the yellow and my youngest, who...

Quote: Originally Posted by scsigrl  I'm sorry, but reading your link did nothing but confirm that consuming it IS an issue and if you had read the thread at all, you would see that a recent study shows MAJOR arsenic...

Unfortunately, it's probably fair to assume that if they are or have been ingesting arsenic, there are effects happening in the body because if it.  What those are, no one knows for sure at these doses, but it has been noted by...

No, it is excreted within days.  So if you were exposed today or yesterday a urine test could tell you something, but that's it.

I took my dds to the doctor and he ordered hair tests for them.  Arsenic leaves the blood very quickly, within days, but any amount that the body couldn't excrete is stored in the tissues and organs so hair tests are the only way...

Is anyone else freaking out about this?  My kids have been gluten-free for over 4 years and they eat a lot of rice products. Rice cereal, rice cakes, rice pasta, rice bread, rice tortillas, rice crackers, rice milk (occasionally)....

Un-vaxed kids, lots of IgG allergies.     I would venture to guess that the larger contributing factor to the rise in allergies is the rampant use of antibiotics in the past few generations.  They wreak havoc on GI...

The information is conflicting, but I am convinced it is bad.  The real danger seems to be storing anything in it as it leaches out over time, but apparently a small amount of lead leaches out in the time it takes to drink a glass...

Oh god I am absolutely terrified.  I just found out that I have been drinking my daily glass of wine (sometimes two) from lead crystal glasses!  My mother gave me a set of them last Christmas and I have been doing this for a...

I dont know where to post this but I will try here.     My friend told me in October that she thought she was pregnant.  She was not TTC.  She had taken a HPT three weeks after her theoretical conception date...