Friday, September 8, 2023

Gold in toenails myth

I received an invitation to follow this guy's LinkedIn account. The first thing I noticed is that he wanted to ask me a million-dollar question. The question was about which part of the body has the most gold. I was given 30 seconds to answer, but I ignored that. I instead looked up this question and was immediately sent to one of those sites that says, "Myth, myth, myth. Not true!"

How much gold is in my body and can I recycle it?”

According to the best estimates we have been able to find, about 0.00000005% of the average human body is comprised of gold. That means that if you weigh 200 pounds, your body contains less than one ten-thousandth of one pound of gold.  So if you are thinking of recycling yourself, you aren’t going to make much money. And contrary to some myths, gold does not become concentrated in your toenails, hair, or freckles. There just isn’t that much of it inside you. The exception is that if your dental work includes gold fillings, gold bars, or gold wire, they are literally worth their weight in gold.

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