Although today we know that lead can cause brain damage and miscarriages, the Egyptians believed that lead-based cosmetics protected against eye diseases.
Lead exposure can cause brain damage in children and miscarriages in adult women.
The effects of lead toxicity are very wide ranging and include impaired blood synthesis, hypertension, severe stomach-ache, brain, kidney damage and even can cause miscarriage in pregnant women [4].
They were linked to testicular damage, miscarriages and birth defects.
Lead exposure can cause brain damage in young children and miscarriages in women; researchers have documented both increased lead in Flint kids and a possible increase in fetal deaths.
Other effects of iodine deficiency include cretinism (stunted growth), irreversible brain damage, disfiguring and painful goitre, as well as increased risk of stillbirth and miscarriage in pregnant women.
To date, a number of studies link such damage to problems with sperm function affecting poor embryo development, decreased implantation rates, and miscarriage.
This finding was consistent with several studies reporting an association between loss of sperm nuclear integrity (DNA damage or fragmentation, abnormal chromatin remodeling, unbalanced histones-protamines ratio, abnormal matrix attachment region, MAR, or nuclear matrix scaffolding) and miscarriage [ 20, 40– 40].
Obesity increases infertility and miscarriage.
So, what about the research linking flu shots and miscarriage?
