Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Many herbal supplements have been found to contain levels of heavy metals exceeding federal standards for drinking water by as much as 10 to 20 times! These types of supplements are cheaply made and you will typically find them at drug stores, supermarkets, websites, or discount stores that don't specialize in alternative health. Invest your money on quality health supplements and you'll be investing in your own health at the same time.
Four additional metals that cause damage to the intestinal tract and contribute to colon toxicity are mercury, aluminum, lead, and cadmium. |
| FIR helps the body re move heavy metals, aids digestion, and relieves stress. I recommend the brand TheraSauna™.
• Have your mercury amalgams removed ASAP since dental fillings produce vapors which leak into your body. Find a biological dentist who has experience in removing mercury fillings.
• Use ion foot baths. These devices work by delivering an electric current into the body through the feet. Charged ions attach to heavy metal toxins and neutralize them. The metals are then pulled out of the body through your feet as you soak them.
• Eliminate your exposure to aluminum! |
| See "Cookware", "Heat Therapy", "Heavy Metals", and "Ion Foot Baths" in the Resources section.
Eliminating Intestinal Toxins from Radiation
Is radiation harmful to humans? Normally, you can't see it, smell it, taste it, hear it, or feel it, so what's so bad about it? Even though radiation is intangible, its a very real danger. Typically, radiation seems to be a threat only in the context of large-scale events (e.g. nuclear bomb blasts) that produce enough radiation to damage or destroy body tissues immediately. |
| Detoxifying the body is a big step in the right direction, but it must be coupled with an active effort to avoid exposure to heavy metals in the first place.
Before starting the Heavy Metal Cleanse, I recommended completing the Oxygen Colon Cleanse, 3 Liver /Gallbladder Cleanses, and the first two weeks of the Harmful Organism Cleanse. Heavy metal cleansing can take a lot of time so please be patient. It's best to stay on the program for 3 months and then re-test yourself to make sure the levels are being reduced. |
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Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Identifying the presence of various food allergies, heavy metals, and nutritional deficiencies, combined with targeted nutritional therapies, also allow many chronic schizophrenics to recover.
At a Food as Medicine conference in 2003, just before Dr Hoffer was about to speak, a physician from the audience came to the front of the room, turned to the audience, and began to cry. After she had calmed down, she apologized to the group and said that, whenever she told her story, she could not stop crying. These were tears of happiness, not sadness. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Increasingly, environmental pollution and exposure to heavy metals, pesticides, estrogen-like substances, and other chemicals are implicated in cases of infertility in men and women. Depending on the specific exposure, duration, and load, different aspects of fertility can be affected. |
| Mercury has received perhaps the most attention of any of the pesticides and heavy metals. Methylmercury crosses the placenta and can impair the development of the central nervous system in the fetus. As a result, the federal government has issued guidelines regarding fish intake for pregnant women and for all age groups. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Nakazawa examines all of the theories about autoimmunity in detail, from heavy metals to toxic chemicals to viruses to vaccines and finally to the hygiene hypothesis. The Autoimmune Epidemic is every bit as compelling as Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel The Jungle and every bit as necessary as An Inconvenient Truth, the startling movie featuring Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim, that shows us that global warming is upon us and may at some point in the near future be irreversible. |
Devra Davis
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 Fish and the muskrats and raccoons that eat them end up with some very interesting contaminants in their flesh, everything from heavy metals like mercury and cadmium to organochlo-rines made in any number of distant factories and refineries.
Further inland, Robinson and I drive through Iberville Parish visiting places that had once been vibrant small towns. Few have ever heard of Reveilletown, Louisiana. In 1987 thirty families, in what was then a poor black community next to Georgia Gulf's flagship chemical plant, sued the company because their land was packed with toxic contamination. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All the stuff that kills you: the acrylamides, pesticides, heavy metals and other contaminants that are either sprayed on the foods, absorbed through the soils or created during high-heat cooking processes.
Acrylamides are cancer-causing substances created when carbohydrates are cooked at high temperatures -- frying, baking, etc. Remember those fried snack chips? Browned pancakes? Pan-fried hash browns? Yep, they all have acrylamides, and the hotter the cooking, the more you get. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Never mind that, as seems obvious, farms are about the last place we should use as a dumping ground for heavy metals.
The way we treat our agricultural soils, whether as locally adapted ecosystems, chemical warehouses, or toxic dumps, will shape humanity's options in the next century. Europe broke free from the ancient struggle to provide enough food to keep up with a growing population by coming to control a disproportionate share of the world's resources. The United States escaped the same cycle by expanding westward. |
| Unless they are eroded away, heavy metals stick around in the soil for thousands of years. And if they build up enough in the soil, they are taken up by plants—like crops.
Why would a company like Cenex be mixing up a toxic brew and selling it as low-grade fertilizer? Try the oldest reason around—money. Company memos reveal that they saved $170,000 a year by calling their rinse pond waste a product and spraying it on farmer's fields. The legal case ended in 1995 when the company agreed to plead guilty to using pesticide for an unapproved purpose and pay a $10,000 hne. |
Marshall Editions
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 Brown or red alcohol seems to incur worse hangovers than white/clear alcohol, as many dark, fermented alcohols have toxic by-products including methanol, aldehydes, and heavy metals. Drink plenty of water when drinking alcohol, and afterwards, to decrease the intensity of the hangover by hydrating the body.
Diet: If you are experiencing a hangover, avoid eating grapefruits (and drinking their juices) as they have properties that decrease the liver's ability to clear the by-products of alcohol. Fatty meals should also be avoided. |
| TIP: GET ASSESSED FOR HEAVY METAL TOXICITY
A naturopathic physician can determine the levels of heavy metals, such as mercury, in your system. These have a strong affinity with the nervous system and may contribute to depression.
HOMEOPATHY
Feelings that will respond well to the remedies suggested below are more appropriately described as the "blues," rather than a full-scale episode of moderate to severe clinical depression. The latter can be greatly helped by an experienced homeopathic practitioner. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 A low WBC count can arise in bone marrow failure (as sometimes occurs with radiation therapy or chemotherapy), overwhelming infections, or the presence of a substance resulting in cell destruction (drugs, heavy metals, and poison). A low WBC count is also seen in diseases of the immune system or autoimmune disease, like systemic lupus erythematosus.
Telomere Length
The long strands of DNA that make up our chromosomes are tipped with repetitive snippets of DNA that act like the hard plastic covering the ends of shoestrings, preventing the strands from unraveling. |
| In a way, what we lack in minerals, we make up in heavy metals.
Now, that doesn't mean you should fear every chemical that you come into contact with. Chemicals aren't out to get us. Instead, they're really intended to make our lives better. Take shampoo, for example. There are specific ingredients in shampoo that are included to make sure that it lathers up foamier than a cumulus cloud—something that many of us like. But in some people, those very chemicals may also cause a skin irritation. |
Devra Davis
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| These contaminants don't go far because they are heavy metals. Tiny traces of these toxic metals can be tracked into homes and schools on the soles of shoes or on bare feet. Small children, then as now, play in dirt and dust. In 1970 thirty-five children in one small area of El Paso were hospitalized with brain damage and other signs of metal poisoning.
Investigations by Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician then in his second year as a public health officer for the Centers for Disease Control, discovered that many of the children of the region were not well. |
| Fine particles, dozens of times smaller than a human hair, can be laden with heavy metals and accumulate in the homes and bodies of those who work with such compounds. This ability of the dust men worked with to affect the health of their children was a matter on which Kehoe remained silent throughout his career.
Another matter on which we can only speculate regards the circumstances that led Wilhelm Hueper to contribute information on the swollen, bloody brain of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl on whom Kehoe was asked to perform an autopsy in 1936. |
| Lately the Chinese government has admitted that cancers in people living along some of its heavily polluted rivers and streams in Huangmengying in the Huai River basin follow the steady flow of heavy metals, leather tanning, paper and pulp mills, and other uncontrolled pollutants that render half of its waters undrinkable.1
Modern nations and modern professions face risks that may be more complex in origins but no less drastic in implications. Some of the doctors I know who have cancer asked me not to write about their struggles. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 There are products available for home use to get heavy metals out of your body. There are also clinics around the world that provide excellent treatments to remove heavy metals from your body. Heavy metal cleansing like all of these cleanses is, in fact, a "natural cure" they don't want you to know about.
6. Do a parasite cleanse.
There are many products available for home use including the "parasite zapper" that effectively eliminate parasites. Parasites like heavy metals are a major cause of disease. Doing a parasite cleanse is another "natural cure" they don't want you to know about.
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Devra Davis
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| Some people have asked whether the rise in these problems is tied to exposure to heavy metals, such as lead, to modern chemicals, or to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can affect the brain. The brain doubles in size in the first two years of life, and dulling metals can impair irrevocably the ability to see, hear, think and learn for the rest of people's lives. Rats exposed prenatally to just a single injection of some pesticides and other toxic chemicals are more excitable and less focused than others. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 And cholesterol's release into our bloodstream provides our bodies' natural defense against toxicity, particularly from heavy metals. LDL cholesterol also carries the coenzyme Q10, a naturally produced antioxidant that is vital for sustaining life.
We tend to hear a lot about the dangers of high cholesterol, but I daresay most Americans don't know that very low cholesterol is unsafe, too. When people's LDL cholesterol falls too low—less than 70mg/dL— they may develop transient global amnesia, meaning that they forget who they are. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Sea vegetables: These are rich in minerals and are great at detoxifying heavy metals and pesticides. They are also very alkalizing and can help offset the acid load from the Standard American Diet of grains, meats, and dairy. These might seem a little scary at first, but they are great to sprinkle on a salad, soup, or veggie dish, or you can always visit a Japanese restaurant a few times a week for some nori-wrapped delicacies.
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| Sardines: An excellent source of EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids, without the risks of heavy metals and toxins contained in many large fish. Omega-3s are great for your brain and heart and also help reduce inflammation. You either love 'em or you don't; if you do, you are in luck, and please make them part of your diet a few times a week!
7. Lentils: A great slow-release carbohydrate source that is rich in fiber and moderate in protein. The fiber helps lower cholesterol and stabilize blood sugar. A cup of lentil soup as an appetizer is a great natural appetite suppressant.
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| Sardines packed in sardine oil: Of all fish, lowest in heavy metals and other toxins, while still being rich in essential fats. Best packed in their own oil, but those packed in olive oil or water are okay, too. Avoid those in soybean or vegetable oil.
4. Coconut oil: Rich in lauric acid, important for immune health, stable at high temperatures, great for sauteing, frying, and baking.
5. Broccoli sprouts: No food is higher in sulforaphane than these. Great on salads or in wraps. If you are short on these tiny powerhouses, eat cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage).
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| It has a tough outer cell wall that is believed to bind with heavy metals, pesticides, and other carcinogens, carrying them safely out of the body. Its chlorophyll content is higher than any food, and it contains higher amounts of fatty acids, about 20 percent of which are omega-3s. Unlike spirulina, chlorella does not contain phycocyanin.
WILD BLUE-GREEN ALGA
This microalga grows wild in Klamath Lake in Oregon. Under certain conditions it can transform into a very toxic plant—it can cause death in animals within five minutes. |
| Garlic: Whole baked garlic cloves not only will help blood pressure and cholesterol but will help detoxify the body from heavy metals, especially mercury and cadmium. Garlic was used during World War II as Russian penicillin, as it also neutralizes dozens of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. It is a perfect nutraceutical.
CHAPTER 8
Meat, Poultry, and Eggs
Sorting through the options of "free range," "organic," and "grass fed"—the terminology of the local natural food store can be a minefield. Recently, the U.S. |
KC Craichy
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 What makes heavy metals particularly dangerous is their tendency to bioaccumulate, meaning we are unable to keep up with removing toxins, and chemicals increase in concentration in our body over time.
Heavy metals enter our body through the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the products we use. Pesticides, soil depletion, radiation, mercury from dental amalgam fillings, cadmium from cigarettes and secondhand smoke, chemicals from the air, and lead from old mines, gasoline, tap water, and lead-based paints are just a few of the toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Some Bladderwrack products may be contaminated with heavy metals that could cause severe problems such as renal failure. Acne has also been reported with the use of Bladderwrack. Allergic reactions have also been known to occur. • drug interactions
MODERATE RISK
Anticoagulants, Antiplatelet and Thrombolytic agents, and Low Molecular Weight Heparins: Concurrent use may result in increased risk of bleeding. Clinical Management: Avoid simultaneous use.
POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS
Hypoglycemic Medications: Bladderwrack has a hypoglycemic effect. |
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