Salmon, tuna containing magnetic crystals.

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

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/12/science/magnetic-crystals-guides-for-animals-found-in-humans.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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. Charles 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.




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