This blog provides information and resources for healthier living, wellness and a number of health topics including specific medical conditions. It is also a resource for conditions commonly considered to be environmental illnesses including CFS, FM, PTSD, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, MCS, heart disease, and a number of other conditions that are potentiated by contaminants in the air, soil and water including autism, sick building syndrome and sickness behavior just to name a few. This blog will try to focus on less scientific and more real-world news and application.



Saturday, September 5, 2009

The Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Cytotoxicity!

The Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Cytotoxicity!: "Different metals have different mechanisms for toxicity. In flies, DAF-16, the homolog of the FOXO family in humans, can be effected by exposure to different metals which activate cell signaling pathways to achieve it. Copper is an insulin mimetic and long-term exposure may result in insulin resistance and it inhibits the G-6-P promoter which is important in the healthy maintenance of"
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