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Just a Clinician's avatar

To quote you, Maria, Holy Toledo!!!

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c Anderson's avatar

Multiple myeloma was the result of chromium exposure from years of electroplating.

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GeoffPainPhD's avatar

I had the pleasure of working many moons ago with Erin Brockovich and her lawyers when we tried to get justice for victims of the Alumina industry in Western Australia. I asked her to investigate Fluoride poisoning as well.

Subscribe to her report

https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/

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Washed Up Pharmacist's avatar

Thanks Geoff! I hope you can comment on the levels of Cr(IV) that could be found in these LNPs. And what effects they may have.

I was gobsmacked when I found the reference.

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GeoffPainPhD's avatar

Chromium cancer is one of my favourite subjects. Cr(III) can be oxidized in the Human body to Cr(VI), will have to dig out the reference. I think you need to worry more about the metal shards left in the arm after Jabs with Stainless Steel.

https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/nickel-not-nocebo-explains-a-lot

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

TOXIC FORM OF CHROMIUM MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH SADNESS

High amounts of toxic chromium in the brain, perhaps a hexavalent chromium, may be associated with feelings of sadness. The toxicity of hexavalent chromium is well known. However, I was not aware that it is associated with any particular emotional state. As this toxic form of chromium is eliminated, feelings of sadness may go away.

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

SEVERE CHROMIUM DEFICIENCY TODAY

Chromium deficiency is almost universal today, and usually becomes worse with age. We are witnessing an epidemic of ailments related to chromium deficiency. The symptoms include:

Atherosclerosis

Elevated serum cholesterol

Fatigue, hypoglycemia

Depressed growth

Dysinsulinism or pre-diabetes

Possibly food cravings or sweet cravings

Diabetes

Causes for chromium deficiency:

1. Congenital. Most babies today in the Western and Westernized nations such as China are born deficient in chromium because their mothers’ bodies are deficient in chromium. This is called a congenital chromium deficiency.

2. Depleted soils. Chromium is low in the soil of most nations. This reduces the amount in all food.

3. Hybridization and the Green Revolution. Hybrid crops produce more tonnage of crop, but they are much lower in trace minerals such as chromium because of the nature of the plants, and because chromium is not added back to the soil in sufficient quantity.

4. Food refining. Refining of wheat flour and rice strips off significant amounts of chromium found in these staple foods.

5. Digestion and utilization of carbohydrates, especially sugars, requires chromium. Eating too many carbohydrates or ANY sweets such as sugar, honey, maple syrup, agave syrup, rice syrup or other sweets thus tends to further deplete the body’s store of chromium.

6. Iron enrichment. Excessive iron intake contributes to low chromium levels. For example, most refined wheat flour is enriched with iron. This interferes with the absorption of chromium from the diet, worsening chromium problems.

Iron enrichment of flour also damages the digestive tract, further impairing chromium absorption.

7. Digestive disturbances. Any factors that impair digestion, such as the use of medical drugs, ingesting food chemicals, bad lifestyles, and intestinal infections further impairs chromium absorption.

8. Stress. Stress may also use up chromium faster, and this can be another cause for chromium deficiency.

https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/CHROMIUM.htm

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

II. ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF CHROMIUM

1. Glucose tolerance factor – this is a chromium compound required for blood sugar levels and energy levels.

2. Cholesterol regulation

3. Other possible roles such as the synthesis of DNA

https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/CHROMIUM.htm

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

especially chromium-6 (or hexavalent chromium) and oxide forms of chromium, are extremely toxic. Hexavalent chromium is an industrial pollutants, and fortunately is not usually found in foods. Symptoms of chromium toxicity, usually from occupational exposure, include:

Asthma

Kidney damage

Allergies, Sinusitis

Calcium deficiency, Possibly iron deficiency

Nausea, Vomiting, Ulcers, Fatigue

SYNERGETIC NUTRIENTS

glucose, magnesium, vitamin B6, zinc, manganese

ANTAGONISTIC NUTRIENTS

Absorption - iron, manganese, zinc, vanadium, phytates

Metabolic - glucagon

HAIR ANALYSIS NOTES

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https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/CHROMIUM.htm

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

Relation to other elements. An element that is opposite of chromium is zinc. Zinc is a stabilizer and buffer. Chromium is an activator, associated with proper handling of sugar, which is a major fuel for our bodies.

Chromium and nickel share some properties that are interesting. Both:

- can form very hard surfaces and are used widely for plating for this reason.

- are required to make iron into steel.

- can take on a shiny surface, although chromium is much brighter than nickel. Nickel is used as a substitute for silver in some costume jewelry.

- are very toxic in some forms.

- can exist in an oxide form, which we call the “amigos”.

However, chromium is a very critical mineral for health, whereas nickel is not, and does not appear to have any important nutritional value.

Third tetra. In development, chromium is the beginning of the third tetra of elements. This tetra also includes selenium, boron and vanadium.

Insulin and chromium. Chromium, along with zinc, manganese, copper and a few other trace minerals, is needed for blood sugar regulation. Without it, people crave sweets and may become diabetic, according to some researchers.

Alkalinity and chromium. Chromium is also one of the most important alkaline-forming elements. Its presence in adequate quantity helps assure that the pH of the blood and the tissues will be optimal.

https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/CHROMIUM.htm

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Travis Christian Lau's avatar

4. Biounavailable. Toxic forms of chromium are biounavailable, meaning that they do not function well in the body.

5. Amigo chromium. This occurs fairly often. Please read the section below on this form of chromium.

https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/CHROMIUM.htm

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GeoffPainPhD's avatar

oxidation of Cr(III) does occur in blood plasma at pH 7.4.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11243-017-0168-2

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GeoffPainPhD's avatar

Hunting and found forced oxidation of Cr(III) to Cr(VI)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1827027/

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GeoffPainPhD's avatar

See also the contamination of the Lipids from Avanti and other suppliers

https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/lnps-contaminated-with-endotoxin

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DrBines verbales Vitriol's avatar

No LD(50 for the lipids which are classified as OEB 3 by BioNTech/Pfizer.

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Washed Up Pharmacist's avatar

Hand-waving by the regulatory authorities. See that comment from Pfizer? Don't ask us to do pesky things like LD50, there's a PANDEMIC.

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DrBines verbales Vitriol's avatar

Quite some more producers, in Germany at least:

1. Croda = Avanti

Steer, G. (2021, March 2). Chemicals group Croda expects boost from BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine contract. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/a29be5dd-c72d-44de-93f6-08cdc1148f02

2. Merck = Exelead

Merck and BioNTech to boost lipid supply for Covid-19 vaccine production. Pharmaceutical Technology. https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/merck-biontech-lipid-supply/

Göbelbecker, J. (2022, January 7). Merck übernimmt mRNA-Spezialisten Exelead. Pharma-Food. https://www.pharma-food.de/markt/merck-uebernimmt-mrna-spezialisten-exelead-796.html

3. Evonik

Evonik liefert erste Lipide aus deutscher Produktion an BioNTech - Evonik Industries. (2021, April 22). https://corporate.evonik.com/de/produktions-start-in-rekordzeit-evonik-liefert-erste-lipide-aus-deutscher-produktion-an-biontech-157143.html

4. Lipoid

Rapporteur's Rolling Review Report Quality - COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BioNTec p. 120

5. Wilshire

Rapporteur's Rolling Review Report Quality - COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BioNTec p. 186

https://drbine.substack.com/p/liste-der-biontech-zulieferer-work

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Washed Up Pharmacist's avatar

THanks! They had Wiltshire for the cholesterol and Evonik for the cholesterol and the helper lipid I think, but most of those you listed came on line after Dec 2020.

Would love to know if any of them use this new hexavalent chromium free method. There is this paper that analyzed 8 lipid vendors anonymously and only 2 had the metals even measured but not reported.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570023224000138?via%3Dihub

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DrBines verbales Vitriol's avatar

I'm not a chemist but a chemist wrote to me that I should tell you:

"Dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) is not methyl chloride (CH3Cl), but methylene chloride (CH2Cl2).

It is probably also mutagenic, but which class?"

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Washed Up Pharmacist's avatar

Ah yes, Thank you and thank the chemists. I did read methylene chloride and should know better, but my last inorganic chemistry class was a while ago, lol. Class 2 according to this guideline (dichloroethane=methylene chloride). Gives permissible daily limits in ppm. Check out the toluene as well. https://database.ich.org/sites/default/files/Q3C-R6_Guideline_ErrorCorrection_2019_0410_0.pdf

Any idea on how much Cr(VI) in ppm in blood would be considered toxic?

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cassiopea64's avatar

dottoressa ha letto il documento Pfizer 125742_S1_M4_4223_185350.pdf a pagina 29? cosa mi dice del toluene?

doctor have you read Pfizer document 125742_S1_M4_4223_185350.pdf on page 29? what about toluene?

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Washed Up Pharmacist's avatar

Of course. I saw the toluene but I think it is classified as CLASS 2? I wasn't totally sure. I had a whole paragraph on the volatile solvents and then deleted it because I was concentrating on the chromium and because chromium wasn't reported in the table. It is a flammable liquid, commonly used, and there are established routes of eliminating it. Though the ppm listed is higher than one would like. Thank you

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