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I no longer believe in aging, it just doesn't make any sense. It's heavy metals. NOT their presence but the fact that they were depleted. Fossils consistently show concentrations that would be considered extreme by current health standards. Many tried to correctly fix aging with heavy metals, but cadmium was unknown to them.

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Um, I would be careful about ingesting cadmium, my friend. Anyway, you can easily test your hypothesis on mice if you actually want to pursue this idea.

Its toxicity seems to be nonsense.

The replacement of soluble collagen with insoluble collagen with age doesn't seem to occur.

Bones are indeed less mineralized, but in a way that makes more mechanical sense i.e. less concrete, but more rebar.

Some wound healing pathways are inhibited, but it's scar tissue formation that is inhibited. Repair and remodelling as seen in dolphins takes place instead.

Kidneys indeed excrete things they don't normally do, but it seems to be an active process, where larger molecules are moved through, not leaking.

Also stable levels of cadmium are sought, its levels are regulated, excess levels are excreted.

Where are you getting this info? Also, nonsense looks like a very strong word, there seems to be a huge amount of evidence that Cd is in fact very toxic.

There in fact isn't really any. There is the japanese poisoning accident, which however seems to be Paget's disease. Then there are poisonings with ridiculous amounts, like 120g(IIRC, won't look it up again) of cadmium chloride, or combination with other chemicals or metal fumes. Then crickets.

We used to cure many ills with mercury, though. But now, we left the natural solutions behind and use only chemicals.

What PhD's do you have to make this radical conclusion?

This is not the best way to confront the OP’s idea.

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