Small wild fish like sardines and anchovies can contain heavy metals, leading to toxicity. — Whalespan
Small wild fish like sardines and anchovies can contain heavy metals, leading to toxicity.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But realize that even things like sardines or anchovies are going to have a lot of the same problems. They're mostly wild, but they're still going to have heavy metals. I mean, there's lots of stories of people getting heavy metal toxicity from eating even too many anchovies or too many sardines.”