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Mercury poisoning
Identifier
001436
Type of Spiritual Experience
Near death
Out of body
Hallucination
Background
from the Pubmed paper Toxic effects of mercury on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems - Fernandes Azevedo B et al ; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 29042-755 Vitória, ES, Brazil.
Most of the symptoms described are caused by brain damage, but the other symptoms are caused because of the effects on the person’s nervous system.
A description of the experience
Environmental contamination has exposed humans to various metal agents, including mercury. This exposure is more common than expected, and the health consequences of such exposure remain unclear.
For many years, mercury was used in a wide variety of human activities, and now, exposure to this metal from both natural and artificial sources is significantly increasing.
Many studies show that high exposure to mercury induces changes in the central nervous system, potentially resulting in irritability, fatigue, behavioral changes, tremors, headaches, hearing and cognitive loss, dysarthria, incoordination, hallucinations, and death.
In the cardiovascular system, mercury induces hypertension in humans and animals that has wide-ranging consequences, including alterations in endothelial function. The results described in this paper indicate that mercury exposure, even at low doses, affects endothelial and cardiovascular function. As a result, the reference values defining the limits for the absence of danger should be reduced.
PMID: 22811600
The source of the experience
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