I understand something like Carbon Monoxide which physically takes up space that should have oxygen there but what about lead in my blood kills me? Is it a chemical reaction that steals nutrients? Does it puncture blood cells?
In: Chemistry
Heavy metals kinda sorta look like other atoms that are useful to your body enough to take their place in organic compounds your body tries to make, but the end result doesn’t work. For example, lead can pass for calcium to get brought to your brain and put into calcium’s place, but once there it can’t do what calcium can and whatever nerve cells it ends up being built into start failing.
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