Posted 1/14/2025 8:21 AM (GMT -5)
In the U.S., titanium dioxide is found all over the grocery shelves. I was particularly frustrated when I found titanium dioxide in some nutritional supplements.
Titanium dioxide is the most widely used whitening pigment in the world and has been linked to adverse health effects, particularly genotoxicity and intestinal inflammation.
In a study published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology the researchers found that mice given titanium dioxide experienced enhanced tumor formation in the distal colon.
“Titanium dioxide treatment promoted colon microinflammation and initiated preneoplastic lesions.”
Researchers found that the titanium dioxide nanoparticles significantly increased the severity of colitis. They also “decreased the body weight, increased the disease activity index and colonic mucosa damage index scores, shortened the colonic length, increased the inflammatory infiltration in the colon.”