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the end of the day we've always heard
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about you know the fear of mercury
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contamination in fish and consumption
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consumption um would be harmful to
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humans but what does it actually do to
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us how how does it manifest itself into
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this big ugly whatever it is if we
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mercury yeah so Mercury is a neurotoxin
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though it affects our brains um it is
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particularly problematic for
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developing brains like children um and
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unborn fetuses so uh there are again a
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large number of very smart people who uh
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do the work to say how much mercury can
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we consume and kind of avoid any
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negative problems um and those
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consumption advisories are stricter for
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kids and for women who might be of
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childbearing age than for right you know