''An additional concern is that gadolinium seems to be finding its way into the environment. Because the MRI contrast agent is expelled through urine, it released into sewer systems, but wastewater treatment plants aren't equipped to remove it, he said.Gadolinium levels have grown twenty-fold in the San Francisco Bay, and in Germany gadolinium can be detected in soft drinks made from tap water. The same phenomenon is evident in New Mexico, he said. "We all went out to various sources of surface water, grabbed samples and had them measured at UNM," Wagner said. "The Rio Grande at Alameda had massive levels. "Gadolinium appears to trigger the release of white blood cells called fibrocytes. "When they get into the skin they start participating in wound healing," he said. But in cases of systemic fibrosis, "it's like aberrant wound healing." But Wagner thinks there might be a way to harness this process to help diabetes patients on dialysis. "They tend to have very poor wound healing," he says. "I like to see potential positives in addition to finding out what the mechanism of disease is." Lol, he's not inferring 'just feed them gadolinium leeched refuse/ soft drink water' is he ?/.