I read somewhere that the average human has 0.1 milligrams of uranium in their body. How did it get there, and does it do anything?

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I read somewhere that the average human has 0.1 milligrams of uranium in their body. How did it get there, and does it do anything?

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Uranium’s just another element. It was floating around in space with all of the other dust before Earth even formed, it was in the lava and the stone and the water as our distant ancestors first crawled from the sea, and it still is.

It’s in the minerals we eat, the water we drink, and even a teensy tiny bit as dust in the air we breathe. Just… Very very very small amounts.

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