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Heavy Metals
What are they? For those that have had chemistry you will understand the periodic table and what a heavy metal is. For others, heavy metals are elements that are heavier than water. Some examples are lead, aluminum, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, iron, lead, and antimony.
Heavy metals can accumulate in the soft tissues and bones of our bodies. In fact heavy metals can be out right poisons. An example of this is arsenic.
Heavy metal toxicity can show up as reduced mental and central nervous functions (depressions and slow to comprehend), lower energy levels (fatigue), damage to blood, kidneys, liver and other vital organs. Long term exposure may lead to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis, and other diseases.
The following is a quote from an EPS site on lead.
Workers in "lead industries"
In adults, depending on the nature and frequency of lead exposures, lead may be excreted or may be stored in the bones. The half-life of lead in bones can be over 20 years - it may cause toxic effects in adults as it is slowly mobilized (eg this occurs through osteoporosis, pregnancy or chronic illness). Studies of workers in lead industries have found chronic over exposure to lead may result in damage to the kidneys, gastrointestinal tract, peripheral and central nervous systems, reproductive system and blood-forming organs.
Ten studies of workers in lead industries such as smelters, battery producers, printers, pewter factory workers and a firearm instructor found increases in abnormal sperm, decreases in sperm count and motility and alterations in certain hormones.
For example, increased blood lead levels are associated with decreased fertility in men. Some research also indicates increased blood lead levels are associated with increased blood pressure, with no apparent blood lead threshold.
We live in a toxic world and mercury is the second most toxic element on the planet. It is so poisonous that no amount of mercury absorption is safe - any amount is harmful to the cells and tissues of the human body. It is a poison that appears in our environment more often than we realize and more often than we would like to acknowledge. Consider the following:
CDC & WHO Crimes Against Humanity
Published research 1st March 2006 shows neurodevelopmental disorders in children has decreased following removal of thimerosal, a preservative containing the neurotoxin mercury, from American childhood vaccines. The World Health Organization has urged CDC against the banning of Thimerosal in U.S. vaccines since that prohibition might discredit WHO's third world inoculation programs. WHO, with U.S. funding, is now injecting children in developing countries with the same amounts of Thimerosal we were giving American kids at their highest exposures, but in a shorter time period.
This supports the fact that mercury is a neurotoxin in all required vaccines; from schools to medical staff and flu shots and that the 50% mercury in every dental amalgam filling given over the last century and still propagated into all welfare recipients is crippling patients and the health system. (More info from this site
http://www.mercuryexposure.org/)
Aluminum is everywhere. Check out the following
Aluminum Toxicity
The following information was compiled and submitted by Frank Hartman.
"From the earliest days of food regulation, the use of alum (aluminum sulphate) in foods has been condemned. It is universally acknowledged as a poison in all countries. If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law ... no food product in the country would have any trace of ... any aluminum or saccharin. No soft drink would contain caffeine or hebromin; no bleached flour would be in interstate commerce. Our food and drugs would be wholly without adulteration ... and the health of our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly extended."
Aluminum has been exempted from testing for safety by the FDA under a convoluted logic wherein it is classified as GRAS. (Generally Regarded As Safe.) It has never been tested by the FDA on its safety and there are NO restrictions whatever on the amount or use of aluminum.
There are over 2000 references in the National Library of Medicine on adverse effects of aluminum.
Sources of Aluminum
Over the Counter; Deodorants, antacids, vaginal douches, baby wipes, skin creams, suntan lotions, toothpaste, buffered aspirin, some hemorrhoid and diarrhea products.
Medical; Vaccinations, allergy testing, intervenes solutions, allergens, wound and antacid irrigation, ulcer treatment, blood oxygenization, bone or joint replacement and burn treatment.
Foods; Aluminum cans, foils, containers, baking powder, cake mixes, frozen dough, pancake mixes, self-rising flour, grains, processed cheese.
Another toxic heavy metal.
Cadmium Toxicity
Cadmium is a widespread heavy metal in the environment and in our bodies. It is very poisonous, and we only excrete cadmium in very small amounts.
Cadmium can cause damage to all types of body cells. By damaging the cell membrane, cadmium increases the permeability of the cells, one of the consequences being that the transfer of other heavy metals into the cells is facilitated. In the acute stage, cadmium intoxication causes enteritis. A slow accumulation of cadmium takes place, mainly in the kidneys; the liver and bones are other important sites for cadmium storage.
Food products account for more than 90 percent of human exposure to cadmium, except in the vicinity of cadmium-emitting industries, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says. Cadmium has fast uptake through the roots to edible leaves, fruits and seeds.
Cadmium builds up in animal milk and fatty tissues. A 1990 study showed that acute cadmium toxicity from food is rare, but chronic exposure at lower levels increases cadmium in certain body organs.
One source of cadmium in our environment, and main reason for cadmium accumulating in the body, is tobacco smoke. One cigarette contains 16-24 mcg. of cadmium of which the body absorbs approximately half. In addition to this, 5 - 10% of the cadmium from our food and other sources is absorbed; therefore, a substantial amount of cadmium is stored in our body system over a number of years.
Prolonged accumulation of cadmium in the body stains the teeth. It can cause damage to the nervous system, decrease the detoxicative power of the organism, cause high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, damage the immune system; most importantly the antibody production, decrease fertility, cause anemia, emphysema, and cancer.
Increased concentrations of cadmium had been found in the placenta of women who have given birth to children with low birth weight, neural damage, and Down's syndrome. Children who are exposed to large concentrations of cadmium in their environment often have learning disabilities.
Symptoms: Alopecia, anemia, arthritis, cancer, lung disease, cerebral hemorrhage, cirrhosis of the liver, enlarged heart, diabetes, emphysema, hypoglycemia, hypertension, impotence, infertility, kidney disease, learning disorders, migraines, inflammation, renal disease, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, strokes, vascular disease, high cholesterol, growth is impaired, cardiovascular disease.
Sources: Air pollution, batteries, ceramic glazes/enamels, cigarette smoke (first and second hand), tap and well water, food (if grown in cadmium contaminated soil), fungicides, mines, paints, power and smelting plants, seafood.
All this being reported - What are we to do?
Many heavy metals are cleaned from smoke stacks to clean the air and you would hope that they would be disposed of in an environmental clean and EPA approved manner. Not So! Most of the time these heavy metals are sold to fertilizer manufactures that mix them into commercial fertilizers which are spread on agriculture fields, and then we consume them in the foods we eat.
I recommend the following ways to minimize the effects of heavy metals.
1. <!--[endif]-->Eat no fish that comes from farm raise sources. Find wild fish from Alaska and other less toxic areas of the world.
2. <!--[endif]-->Buy local food from people that you can look in the eye to be sure they are not using toxic chemicals and are farming in a wholistic manner.
3. <!--[endif]-->Grow your own food when possible.
4. <!--[endif]-->Don't use products that you know are contaminated like antacids, deodorants, etc.
5. <!--[endif]-->Filter your own water with reverse osmosis, carbon, UV, and electrolysis. www.hightechhealth.com
6. <!--[endif]-->Avoid vaccines. There are a few vaccines that are worth the risk but be sure what is in them. Never use vaccines that have mercury or aluminum in them. Never take more than one shot at a time - they are not safe with 3 or more vaccines in a shot. Your doctor should be able to give you this information and if they can't or they get hostile over your questions then you need to run out of that office. You can use your fingers in the yellow pages to find a new that cares about your interests. NEVER TAKE A FLU SHOT IT IS A SCAM TO MAKE MONEY BY DRUG COMPANIES. If you improve your immune system you will not get flu or it will be mild with few effects.
7. <!--[endif]-->Detoxify on a regular basis. Chelation is very good but very expensive. There are various things advertised but most are expensive. I recommend adding trace minerals as a supplement in a form that will be absorbed by your body. Also a good source of humates will create chelation and also replace some trace minerals. Both of these can be done for under $1.50 per day in the beginning and then be reduced to under $0.75 cents after mineralization has occurred.
Heavy metals are important and toxic but not that difficult to minimize.
To you good health,
Dr Bob the Health Builder
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