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Silent Invaders: Understanding Tin Toxicity 🌿 In our continuing exploration of heavy metals that affect our health, today we turn our attention to tin - a metal that has been humanity's companion for thousands of years, from ancient bronze tools to modern food packaging. While often overlooked in discussions of heavy metal toxicity, tin deserves our careful attention as it quietly makes its way into our bodies through everyday exposures. ⚡

With a biological half-life of 10-30 years, cadmium accumulates in the kidneys and liver, making prevention crucial as the body has limited capacity to eliminate this toxin once exposure occurs. The human body struggles to eliminate cadmium naturally, with a half-life spanning decades - meaning once exposed, this toxin remains in your system for an extraordinarily long time.

Why the Mask? During the county council meetings regarding Puna and geothermal, several community members were offered these masks through the counties suggestion that this is what we use when there is ever a blowout of H2S Gas from the drilling less than a mile from the home.