Lead toxicity might be reduced by Vitamin D

Vitamin D might both prevent and treat lead toxicity

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Happened to read in Bill Bryson's excellent 2010 book: At Home

On pg 315:"Although lead has been removed from most consumer products, it continues to build up in the atmosphere because of industrial applications The average person today have about 625 times more lead in his system than someone of fifty years ago"

In early 2010 I had noticed that many diseases have seemed to increase during the past 40 years, and that the link appeared to be staying away from the sun and thus having lower vitamin D.

1. Large increase in past 50 years - of lead, (Is the increase in lead real?)
2. Large increase in past 40 years - of many diseases
3. Are they associated?

Hunted around the internet found lots of information on:

• lead poisoning
• lead toxicity
• lead with children (growing bones easily take up lead, especially when Calcium is not very available
• WHO in 2002 said that no amount of lead is tolerable ( had been 40, then 20, then 10, now 0)
• decrease in lead in the (US) environment due to taking lead out of gasoline
• lack of vitamin D allows more lead to get into bones (lack of Calcium)

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Lead in blood around the world - 2019

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See also VitaminDWiki

• People working with lead have 8 ng less Vitamin D – May 2020
• Lead in breastmilk reduced vitamin D levels in blood by a third (in rats) – Feb 2018
• Vitamin D increases mineral availability which protect against toxic elements - July 2015

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5.5 million annual deaths from Lead, 1 in 3 children have too much Lead - Mercola - Oct 2023

Mercola  PDF

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70% of all US lead emissions now come from propeller aircraft (small airport hot-spots?) - 2023

reference
Elsewhere:

• U.S. regulators banned the use of leaded gasoline in passenger cars in 1996, but aircraft were exempt because there was no "operationally safe, suitable replacement," per the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
• America’s fleet of 170,000 piston-engine aircraft burns about 186 million gallons of leaded fuel. That releases about 468 tons of lead into the atmosphere, the US Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

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However, Global Burden of Disease estimates 0.9 million annual deaths due to lead

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A few lead and health items from the web

• The role of vitamin D in toxic metal absorption: a review- 2013  PDF
• Vitamin D, Essential Minerals, and Toxic Elements: Exploring Interactions between Nutrients and Toxicants in Clinical Medicine - 2015
  • Free PDF
• Long referenced list of health problems of lead at Lead Action News
• ??Lead nephropathy: revisiting an overlooked cause of kidney disease - 2010
• Low-Level Human Equivalent Gestational Lead Exposure Produces Sex-Specific Motor and Coordination Abnormalities and Late-Onset Obesity in Year-Old Mice - 2008
• Low-Level Lead Exposure, Metabolic Syndrome, and Heart Rate Variability: The VA Normative Aging Study - 2007
• Lead: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels - WHO
• Previous WHO - 2003 document has the following

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