Salmon, tuna containing magnetic crystals.

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I'm throwing this out to everyone. I had burning after eating salmon a few times

last year. Didn't eat it in the past. Avoided tuna b/c of  higher mercury

levels. .  I thought it could be gout, but didn't have joint issues w it. I

May be a good idea to avoid salmon & tuna could dispose us for ES &   Alzheimer's

??

I'm getting tested soon to rule out

Resfum disease, which is  body's inability to digest phytanic acid in beef &

fish, which also causes burning.

Kathy

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Dr. Kirschvink supposed this might not be the case if by any chance

humans possessed substances capable of responding to magnetic fields. He

obtained fresh brain tissue from seven corpses and dissected clumps of

cells using Teflon-coated instruments.Some samples were frozen

and put in the magnetometer, which found unmistakable evidence of a

ferromagnetic mineral -- compounds that interact strongly with magnetic

fields. None of the body's iron, which is bound up in biological

molecules, is ferromagnetic, Dr. Kirschvink said.Other samples

were dissolved and put into special test tubes fitted with magnets.

After a week, magnetite crystals stuck to the glass.Magnetite, in

minuscule amounts, was found all over the brain, said Dr. Kirschvink

and his co-authors, his wife, Atsuko Kobayashi-Kirschvink, and Dr.

Barbara J. Woodford of the University of Southern California. Most

regions of the brain had five million magnetite crystals per gram of

tissue. The tough membrane that covers the brain had 100 million

crystals per gram. Each human brain on average contains seven billion

particles of magnetite, weighing a total of one-millionth of an ounce.Half

of the brain tissue samples came from patients with Alzheimer's disease

and half did not; Dr. Kirschvink believes these circumstances had no

effect on his findings.Magnetite interacts over a million times

more strongly with external magnetic fields than any other biological

material, Dr. Kirschvink said, including the iron in red blood cells. If

only one cell in a million contains magnetite, he said, magnetic fields

could exert an effect on the tissue.For instance, if the

magnetite were coupled to channels that let substances pass through cell

membranes and the crystals began to oscillate during exposure to an

external magnetic field, Dr. Kirschvink said, one could imagine all

sorts of biological effects, including the promotion of cancer. " It's

very interesting work, " said Dr. Rafferty, who is in charge of

studying health effects of magnetic fields at the Electric Power

Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. " It does provide a possible

link for biological effects. " The presence of magnetite in the human brain might

also account for the unexplained blips seen on MRI scans.It

is tempting to invoke magnetite crystals to explain many other

mysteries of the human brain, Dr. Kirschvink said. First of all, do

people with a good sense of direction possess a magnetic sensory system?

It could even be asked if people who claim to have extrasensory

perception or the ability to find water with a divining rod have a

better than average magnetic sense.But every carefully controlled

experiment designed to prove that such abilities exist has failed

dismally, Dr. Kirschvink said. There is not a shred of evidence so far

that these microscopic magnets mediate any sensory capability in humans,

he said. His work, if confirmed, is likely to stimulate a new round of

research into these old questions.Meanwhile, Dr. Kirschvink is

exploring an older question -- the origin of the eukaryotes. This is the

name given to all cells that have visible nuclei, and includes those of

all higher forms of life on earth from fungi to humans.Dr.

Kirschvink believes the first eukaryotic cell may have been a bacterium

that had evolved the trick of storing iron in the form of magnetite

crystals.