Heavily Metalled

01/30/2026

01/24/2026

Tattoo ink is full of metal. Thought this was super interesting. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT0_OcBkgyn/?igsh=cWFjMWpmc2MyMWtj

01/16/2026

Good stuff from friend of the podcast Dr. Laura Duzett!

Thanks to everyone who came for the first live last Sunday!
This coming Sunday's live at 9am MT I will be answering questions that have come in through the week as well as doing a whole presentation on the mechanisms of how systemic nickel allergy develops and how your symptoms like dyshidrotic eczema and IBS develop (the fast ones and the delayed ones!) Knowledge is power - it will help you understand why I recommend the strategies I do for avoiding outbreaks as well as reducing the severity of them. PLUS the immune system is so amazing - it’s a total wonder of life!

I will also have a $12.99 discount on the hardback version of the cookbook during the livestream. If you have had questions or ideas surrounding systemic nickel allergy and the low nickel diet, this is your chance to get involved!

Please make sure to either email me your questions ahead of time or subscribe to the channel so you can be a part of the livestream chat!

- Dr. Laura Duzett, DO NTP (Author of "The Low Nickel Diet Cookbook & Guide: A Holistic Approach to Systemic Nickel Allergy")

01/16/2026

12/30/2025

Speechless.

Marie Rossiter painted watch dials with radium for five years at U.S. Radium Corporation. Supervisors told workers radium was harmless, instructed them to lick paintbrushes to fine points for detail work. "Lip, dip, paint" they called it. Marie licked her brush thousands of times daily, swallowing radium with each lick. By 1925, her jaw was rotting from inside, bones glowing green in dark, teeth falling out. Doctors said it was syphilis—blamed Marie for her own poisoning. Company said radium was safe. Marie was dying from workplace that had poisoned her while telling her it was harmless.
This tintype shows Marie in 1925 court testifying against U.S. Radium. Her jaw is visibly deteriorating, face skeletal. In dim courtroom light, she's faintly glowing—radium in her bones making her literally luminescent. She holds the paintbrush she'd used for five years, licking it thousands of times on company orders. Company lawyers argued Marie's condition was from "immoral lifestyle" not radium exposure. Judge initially agreed—young woman with deteriorating health must be morally corrupt.
Five radium girls testified together. All glowing. All dying. All accused of lying. Company doctors testified radium was harmless. Independent doctors testified radium was poison. Case lasted two years. Marie's jaw detached completely during testimony—fell apart while she was speaking. She held it in place with her hand and kept testifying. Judge finally ruled for the girls in 1928. By then Marie was dead. Died age twenty-seven, jaw gone, bones crumbling, body so radioactive she had to be buried in lead-lined coffin.
U.S. Radium paid settlements to surviving girls. Marie's family got $5,000 and burial costs. Her radioactive co**se is still glowing in New Jersey cemetery nearly 100 years later—will remain radioactive for 1,600 years. Her sacrifice changed labor law forever—workers' safety regulations, employer liability, right to know about workplace hazards. Marie died so future workers wouldn't. Her glowing skeleton in lead-lined coffin is permanent reminder that companies will poison workers for profit while calling it safe.

12/19/2025

I've been a little slow this year... why? 3+surgeries internationally 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ - now 48 total, LOTS of therapy and MORE! Hear all about it!

In this episode, I sit down and bring you up to speed on Shari’s world. I have now had my 48th surgery and in TWO short years have two new chronic diagnoses....

12/19/2025

12/02/2025

How your podcaster rocks out in her spare time! 🎶🎄🎅. 2 sold out concerts tonight.

11/25/2025

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