Why are the children of Japanese samurai often weak and sick?

The world famous Japanese samurai are brave warriors, brave and rarely surrender to the enemy. However, the children of the samurai are not as healthy as their father. There are even samurai who have children with disabilities. Why is that?

Before this incident, experts found out why samurai's children were often weaker, even more disabled than other children.

The children of the samurai are not in good health like their fathers.

Tamiji Nakashima from the Japanese University of Environmental and Occupational Health caused a stir by revealing that the children of the samurai had an unhealthy body due to lead poisoning .

This comes from the makeup of the samurai wife . In fact, the boxers' wives always use this kind of white powder for makeup. This white powder is made from mercury chloride and white lead. Due to long-term use, samurai's wife was poisoned by lead.

So, right from the time of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, the wife of the samurai accidentally caused her children to lead poisoning without knowing it. As a result, samurai's children often suffered from reduced intelligence, illness, disease, and even disability. There are cases where the children of samurai have been convulsed, coma and lead to death.

Experts found a number of samurai children's remains and discovered lead levels were dozens of times higher than safe levels. There are even cases where lead samurai's children are more severe than their mothers. This is said to be one of the reasons why the samurai class in Japan gradually disappears from history.

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