{"id":10275,"date":"2017-07-10T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2017-07-10T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:11:25","slug":"if-your-diet-is-rich-in-toxic-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/10\/if-your-diet-is-rich-in-toxic-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"If Your Diet Is Rich In Toxic Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; then, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23531324-400-peruvian-monkey-avoids-stomach-trouble-by-adding-mud-to-its-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (1 July 2017), eat <em>termite-processed mud<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe important thing is that this isn\u2019t just any mud, it\u2019s termite-processed mud,\u201d says team member Mrinalini Watsa at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Analysis showed that the mud can absorb cations \u2013 positively charged particles \u2013 so could mop up potentially toxic metal ones from other substances in the monkeys\u2019 diet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10329-017-0609-8\"><i>Primates<\/i>, doi.org\/b82k<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was key,\u201d says Adams. \u201cA large part of a saki\u2019s [a small primate] diet is seeds from unripe fruit, and these are packed with toxic chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The region\u2019s [Amazonian Peru] other major seed eaters \u2013 macaws and parrots \u2013 fly to clay-rich soils on riverside cliffs for stomach-calming intestinal mudbaths. Sakis have found a solution closer to their homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next question: instinctual or cultural behavior?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; then, according to this article in NewScientist (1 July 2017), eat termite-processed mud. \u201cThe important thing is that this isn\u2019t just any mud, it\u2019s termite-processed mud,\u201d says team member Mrinalini Watsa at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Analysis showed that the mud can absorb cations \u2013 positively charged \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/10\/if-your-diet-is-rich-in-toxic-metals\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}