Nasha Montgomery wanted to lose weight and started to follow a healthy diet, with what she thought was a powerhouse.
A mainstay in her plan was canned tuna promoter as a healthy staple for its high-quality proteins, omega-3 fatty acids and essential vitamins and minerals.
The office worker from Alabama would prepare meal with tuna and the food in sandwiches, with crackers for breakfast and lunch and as a snack at work every day.
On average, Montgomery, 29, would consume about six cans of tuna per week – each ranging between 5 and 12 oz. This meant that she ate between 2 and 4.5 pounds a week.
What Montgomery did not realize was that tuna is a lot of mercury – a neurotoxin. Kwik is present in all fish, but can be on tuna levels, especially dependent on the type, because they are predator fish that collect a lot of mercury because of their diet.
Montgomery said that she mainly consumed albacore tuna, which has some of the highest levels of mercury among the fish varieties.
Most people can safely eat only 5 oz albacore per week – Montgomery at up to 14 times what is considered a safe amount.
After about four months on the diet she started to experience muscle cramps, hair loss and a metallic taste in her mouth – a characteristic symptom of mercury poisoning.
Nasha Montgomery (photo), a 29-year-old office employee from Alabama, started to experience painful symptoms in her new diet for about four months
A mainstay in the Montgomery diet plan was canned tuna promoter as a healthy staple for its high-quality proteins, omega-3 fatty acids and essential vitamins and minerals
In the beginning she blamed her symptoms of stress because she had just started a new job. But after a heavy metal blood test, she claims that a high levels of mercury were found in her body and she was diagnosed with suspected mercury poisoning.
Mercury poisoning can cause serious neurological damage and the FDA and EPA urge people to limit their fish intake – pregnant women are advised to completely avoid fish.
Symptoms include memory loss, irritability, tingling and changes in eyesight, taste or odor. The toxin can also travel to your heart and soul, causing the organs to cause damage.
To treat toxicity, doctors will administer chelation therapy, which removes heavy metals from the body by liquid in an IV.
Earlier this month, Montgomery said her test in a tap in a tap and said that she would be a pre -tuna meal with mayo, onions and enjoy and ‘eat it all day for breakfast, snacks, lunch’ and even before dinner if she had leftovers – about six cans a week.
‘It became a theme [at work]That because I was eating so often, my colleagues would call it “tuna time” instead of lunch time, “she said.
‘Around 4.5 months is when I noticed great symptoms. I always started to feel sick, tired, my muscles were weakened and cramp.
‘My hands and feet were tingling and numb and my hair fell out. Sometimes I also started to have a metallic taste in my mouth. ‘
She went to the doctor for a normal physical, and the blood tests did not reveal anything special. But when the symptoms continued, doctors inquired about her diet and they mentioned that she ate a lot of tuna.
Montgomery estimated that she consumed 2 to 4.5 pounds a week
Montgomery said she would have meal preparation tuna meal with mayo, onions and enjoyment and ‘it all day long’ eat ‘
That is the moment when doctors ran the heavy metal panel.
“I was in shock because I thought I was doing something good by eating the tuna because it was healthy and the things I ate the tuna were also healthy,” Montgomery said.
“I felt that I was doing well, but too much of the good can always be counterproductive.”
To make her levels normal again, Montgomery had to take a detox of eight months of seafood and now only eat tuna once a month.
“I notice as if I was addicted to it,” said Montgomery.
‘I am now very careful with my fishing choices. It took me about six to eight months to get my body back to normal.
‘Sometimes I feel tingling or numbness in my fingers and feet, but apart from that I have not experienced long -term effects [from my mercury poisoning]. ‘
After her experience, Montgomery wants to increase consciousness about the dangers of eating too much tuna.
“One thing I would say to people who eat tuna all the time is that I would argue that they are more aware,” she said.
‘Especially when it comes to something that is apparently healthy, such as tuna, you want to make sure you balance those things.
“It is easy to overlook subtle symptoms, but if something feels off, it is important to slow down, pay attention and take care of yourself.”
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