of this chemical reaction on our health. to the faculty of medicine of maastricht university. this is where the toxicologist professor works. he's been interested in nitrites for years and by extension natural means. known to damage in the intestine so in. d.n.a. breaks. cells into sort of print cancer cells. or something. to prevent professor dick. notably want to find out what happens inside the body when we don't eat processed meat and when we eat a lot of it to do so he conducted an experiment with human guinea pigs. for two weeks this student three hundred grams of processed meat a day the equivalent of eight. to fifteen we saw. the exposure to. considerably increased. threefold increase. levels that we measure. the researcher measured the impact on the organism of this chemical mutation of nitrites. in his lab he tested the water of big processed meat eaters. so what you see here is. four different individuals. to see what happens inside the body the researchers mix this water with human cells . the white deposit in the test tube. then they observe what happened to the c