Impact of heavy metals on the environment and human health: Novel therapeutic insights to counter the toxicity

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Heavy metals are well-known environmental pollutants owing to their toxicity, longevity in the atmosphere, and ability to accumulate in the human body via bioaccumulation. Therefore this review aimed to explore the environmental consequences of the heavy metals, toxicity to the human health, as well as novel therapeutics development from the natural resources.

🔑 Key Findings

• The pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with toxic heavy metals is a major environmental concern that has consequences for public health.
• Most heavy metals occur naturally, but a few are derived from anthropogenic sources.
• Heavy metals are characterized by their high atomic mass and toxicity to living organisms.

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