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What Are the Symptoms of Silicone Toxemia?
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Silicone toxemia
Silicone toxemia sounds like something serious, but it is a made up term by attorneys during the original scar with silicone implants years ago. As you know there was no merit to their claims.
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Symptoms of Silicone Toxemia are Machinations of Junk Science
Silicone Toxicity is not a true disease entitiy but one concieved by tort attorneys and backed by weak scientific data. For example, silicone antibodies are known to exist but they have not been linked to any disease causation.
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"Silicone Toxemia" is a BOGUS Diagnosis
The Element Si, Silicon, is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass and the second most abundant element in the earth's crust (nearly 26%) after oxygen. Silicon is an essential element and plants and animals need tiny traces of it to survive. Because of its inertness and conductivity in high heat, Silicones are widely used as the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips (IE Silicon Valley). various...
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Silicone Toxemia NOT here
As stated by Dr. Pelletiere, there is really no such thing and it took us many years and lots of studies to show this. Silicone is an inert substance and present in many many things around us, i.e. the under arm spray or roll on you use.......
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NO Silicone Toxemia
As far as the medical community knows, not just in the US, but around the world, there is no such thing as silicone toxemia. Silica, the elemental particle in silicone, is the second most common mineral in your body, behind sodium. It is present in everything from foods to hairspray, etc. It is a completely inert material and should not lead to any sort of systemic toxic effects.
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