For full functioning, a person needs not only fats, proteins, vitamins, but also acids, alkalis, and minerals. It is known that tissues and organs can contain microns of gold, iron and even poisons. But why do they appear there and what kind of poisons can be in the body?
Arsenic at the genetic level
The English ethnologist, one of the founders of anthropology, culturologist, researcher of religious rites and ceremonies Edward Burnett Tylor wrote in his scientific works back in the 19th century that mankind has been actively using poisons throughout its existence, which is about 300 thousand years. Even the most primitive peoples in their level of development, who did not know what a wheel was, were perfectly oriented in poisons, mined them and knew how to work with them.
Archaeologists, examining the found remains of people of any period of time and no matter in which country, in 80% of all cases, emit in their tissues the presence of any poison - cyanide, mercury or amatoxin - extracts from dangerous mushrooms. It is not surprising that the modern human body is sometimes simply saturated with toxic substances at the genetic level. So recently, the journalists of the Argentine newspaper "Nation" told about the inhabitants of the remote village of San Antonio de los Cobres.
For several centuries, these people have been forced to use high-mountain water, which contains arsenic, and in a dose 80 times higher than the safe level for humans. At the same time, this water does not have any harmful effects on local residents, and when American doctors began to study this phenomenon, they identified a genetic mutation in the organisms of these Argentines. The inhabitants of San Antonio de los Cobres have lived in their village for generations and rarely descend into the valley. Obviously, the mutation of the AS3MT gene identified in them occurred approximately 10 thousand years ago and, in fact, led to the unique adaptation of hundreds of living organisms to the deadly poison.
As scientists have found out, arsenic is found not only in the human tissues of these Argentine mountaineers, but also in the organisms of their farm animals, in vegetables and grains grown nearby, as well as simply in trees and plants. Representatives of the Laboratory for the Study of Health and Biomedicine Problems of the US Department of Defense in one of their resolutions indicated that there are about 6 thousand people in the world who carry a variation of the AS3MT gene, which allows their organisms to safely metabolize gigantic doses of arsenic.
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Bile from nature
All substances entering food, as well as the inhaled gas, undergo various transformations. As a result, many toxic compounds usually present in a living body, such as carbonic acid or urea, do not poison the body even if the corresponding organs fail. And yet, inside any mammal by nature there is a poison that, at the slightest malfunction, can stop life literally within a few hours.
Every day, the human liver secretes about 2 liters of poison, which contains cholic, chenodeoxycholic, deoxycholic, lithocholic, allocholic and ursodeoxycholic acids. Together, they are called bile and are involved in the emulsification of fats during digestion. Israeli scientists from the Laboratory for the Study of Gallstones and Hepatobiliary Lipid Metabolism at Tel Aviv University have repeatedly encountered pathologies associated with obstruction of the bile ducts. In this case, the bile produced by the liver accumulates in places where the biliary tract is blocked, and increases the pressure on the walls of the ducts until they burst. After that, the poisonous liquid begins to spread throughout the body, poisoning it.
Doctors say that even milligrams of bile salt that accidentally enter the bloodstream instantly causes death in a person. However, such cases are very rare. Nature has wisely protected the human body from the poison, which she herself has awarded. Despite the fact that all 2 liters of bile daily enter the intestines, in a healthy person this toxic liquid, which, in theory, should be absorbed along with food, instantly breaks down into molecules and even in feces, if found, then in insignificant quantities. Other biochemical processes destroy this poison in the body as soon as it has finished performing its function as an emulsifier.