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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 38 Lead Poisoning: Heavy Metal Episode

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This episode, our first foray into toxic metals, is heavy in all kinds of ways - metallically, emotionally, informationally, politically. Lead poisoning has been around for about as long humans have been working with lead, but despite its extensive history, it still poses an incredibly huge public health problem today, especially for children. Tune in to hear us chat about the multitude of effects lead exposure can have on your body, the dark and often strange history of lead poisoning (ancient Rome, anyone?), and the alarming extent to which lead exposure affects people around the world today.

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John was a well-nourished, playful and cooperative child, with no history of developmental problems

1:00.7

according to the admitting nurse. John was admitted to the hospital because he had developed an ear infection,

1:05.9

but that was easily treated. In the ensuing months, John returned periodically to the clinic

1:10.7

for treatment of his chronic ear aches, but by the time he was two years old,

1:14.6

he had developed symptoms that were not at all routine. In May 1941, his parents rushed him to

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the hospital. A few hours earlier, he had bent over to the left and couldn't straighten up,

1:25.8

they told the admitting nurse. And since that time, he had been acting crazy like.

1:30.6

John had been eating plaster, they said, and the previous day he had eaten some paint.

1:35.5

At the hospital, he fell to the left side when he tried to walk, and he reeled around to the left.

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He didn't respond to his name or questions. The hospital raised the possibility that John

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