A top doctor has claimed too much of one food can ‘kill you’ as he points out the drastic impact it can have on your health.

Often thought of as a key part of a balanced diet, speaking on Netflix’s ‘What the Health’, experts have shed light on the detrimental impacts that fish can have on our health.

With a high volume of protein, fish is frequently considered of as a vital part of our diet but, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, the founder of the TrueNorth Health Center claimed that that shouldn’t be the case , as he said: “If you look objectively at fish, what you find is they’ve become, essentially, mercury sponges. And that’s why in many parts of the country they warn you, don’t have so many of these fish a week because getting too much mercury can kill you.”

And, while he conceded that some fish will be less harmful than others, he said people should still be wary: “They’ll say ‘well, but don’t sardines have less concentration of toxic waste products than other ones?’ Something being less toxic doesn’t make it healthy, it just makes it less toxic.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Klaper said: “Fish are eaten by bigger fish who are eaten by bigger fish, and these pesticides or, herbicides bioaccumulate in the fish flesh and these big fish, including the salmon, which people think is the healthiest fish, truth is, the amount of pesticides and herbicides in the flesh of these fish are shocking, and they have estrogenic and cancer-promoting properties in them.”

As some fish are kept in ‘farms’ before their eventual consumption by humans, Dr Klaper warned that even this does not make them entirely safe to eat and still pose a health risk: “Farmed fish is by no means healthier. All the antibiotics these animals have to be fed. Similar to chickens and turkeys kept in confinement, these fish get infections. They get fungal infections, they get bacterial infections, you’ve got to feed them anti-fungals, antibiotics, and these substances accumulate in the fish flesh as well.”