Mayo Clinic Doctors "Find Manganese accumulating deep within the brain of welders"

This story is important to anyone interested in welding as a career or hobby...

The Mayo Clinic did a study that pinpoints the damage that fumes from welding can do. And it's not the lungs doctors are most worried about. Chemicals from those fumes collect inside a part of the brain that controls movement.

It takes a lot to melt metal on metal. With temperatures up to 11-thousand degrees, gloves, a bib, and shoes shield from the obvious.

And now a Mayo Clinic study shows that it may be even more important to protect breathing.

Dr. Patrick Bosque, a neurologist, says, "It's clear there are all sorts of toxic fumes given off by welding, and manganese is one of them."

Go read the entire story at the above link. Protect yourself - bottom line.