It has to be remembered that lead is an accumulative toxicant in the body, it gradually builds up and much of it is stored in the bones. That is a long term problem however, because when the body is under stresses such as illness or pregnancy, the body mobilizes calcium out of bone, and lead is remobilized out where it becomes toxic again by being incorporated into important physiologic components. When the body has created new enzymes or other materials to satisfy a physiologic need, yet the lead has substituted for the calcium or zinc, it makes the material dysfunctional... the body thought it was doing what was needed, but illness still progresses. This can really mess up neurologic pathways resulting in behavioral effects that reduce abilities of people, especially children, to learn the consequences of of their actions...... that can lead to school dropout and trends toward drug addiction and prison. It takes very little lead to cause child to start down this path of neurologic damage.
Published by Ray Kinney
It has to be remembered that lead is an accumulative toxicant in the body, it gradually builds up and much of it is stored in the bones. That is a long term problem however, because when the body is under stresses such as illness or pregnancy, the body mobilizes calcium out of bone, and lead is remobilized out where it becomes toxic again by being incorporated into important physiologic components. When the body has created new enzymes or other materials to satisfy a physiologic need, yet the lead has substituted for the calcium or zinc, it makes the material dysfunctional... the body thought it was doing what was needed, but illness still progresses. This can really mess up neurologic pathways resulting in behavioral effects that reduce abilities of people, especially children, to learn the consequences of of their actions...... that can lead to school dropout and trends toward drug addiction and prison. It takes very little lead to cause child to start down this path of neurologic damage.