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The body has need for approximately 70 friendly trace element heavy
metals, but there are also other poisonous heavy metals, such as Lead,
Mercury, Aluminium, Arsenic, Cadmium, Nickel, etc., that act as poisonous
interference to the enzyme systems and metabolism of the body. No matter
how many good health supplements or procedures one takes, heavy metal
overload will be a detriment to the natural healing functions of the
body. Some metals are naturally found in the body and are essential to
human health. Iron, for example, prevents anemia, and zinc is a cofactor
in over 100 enzyme reactions. Magnesium and copper are other familiar
metals that, in minute amounts, are necessary for proper metabolism to
occur. They normally occur at low concentrations and are known as trace
metals; for example, high levels of zinc can result in a deficiency of
copper, another metal required by the body.
Heavy or toxic metals are trace metals that are at least five times
denser than water. As such, they are stable elements (meaning they
cannot be metabolized by the body) and bio-accumulative (passed up the
food chain to humans). These include: mercury, nickel, lead, arsenic,
cadmium, aluminium, platinum, and copper (metallic form versus ionic
form). Heavy metals have no function in the body and can be highly
toxic.
Heavy metals are taken into the body via inhalation, ingestion, and skin
absorption. If heavy metals enter and accumulate in body tissue faster
than the body’s detoxification pathways can dispose of them, a gradual
build-up of these toxins will occur. High-concentration exposure is not
necessary to produce a state of toxicity in the body tissues and, over
time, can reach toxic concentration levels.
Heavy metal overload in the walls of coronary arteries seems to decrease
levels of nitric oxide, a compound known as "Endothelial Relaxing
Factor,"--without this substance normal blood flow is impeded therefore
increasing the risk of vascular blockages. Heavy metal overload in the
adrenal glands reduce the production of hormones, which cause early
aging, stress, decreased sex drive and aggravation of menopausal
symptoms. Heavy metal overload can lead to unresponsiveness of diabetics
to their medications. Heavy metal overload can lead to neurological
diseases such as depression and loss of thinking power. It can also
aggravate conditions such as osteoporosis and hypothyroidism. For
obvious reasons, removing metals from the body safely has been a concern
of physicians for many years.
Environmental contamination and exposure to heavy metals such as
mercury, cadmium and lead is a serious growing problem throughout the
world. Human exposure to heavy metals has risen dramatically in the last
50 years as a result of an exponential increase in the use of heavy
metals in industrial processes and products. Many occupations involve
daily heavy metal exposure; over 50 professions entail exposure to
mercury alone. In today’s industrial society, there is no escaping
exposure to toxic chemicals and metals.
In the United States, tons of toxic industrial waste are mixed with
liquid agricultural fertilizers and dispersed across America’s
farmlands. This “controversial practice,” which is presently legal in
the U.S., has been reported in nine states. While the spreading of
arsenic, lead, cadmium, nickel, mercury and uranium on soil that is
utilized to produce food for human consumption is a “political and
economic issue,” the potential for adverse health effects is well
documented.
In general, heavy metals (HM) are systemic toxins with specific
neurotoxic, nephrotoxic, fetotoxic and teratogenic effects. Heavy metals
can directly influence behavior by impairing mental and neurological
function, influencing neurotransmitter production and utilization, and
altering numerous metabolic body processes. Systems in which toxic metal
elements can induce impairment and dysfunction include the blood and
cardiovascular, eliminative pathways (colon, liver, kidneys, skin),
endocrine (hormonal), energy production pathways, enzymatic,
gastrointestinal, immune, nervous (central and peripheral),
reproductive, and urinary.
Arsenic
Causes of arsenic toxicity include ingestion of arsenic (found in insect
poisons), skin contact (e.g. some linseed oils) and even drinking water.
Symptoms include nausea or vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, headache,
vertigo, fatigue, paresthesia, paralysis and mental impairment.
Signs include mottled brown skin, hyperkeratosis of palms and soles,
cutis edema, transverse striate Leukonychia, perforation of nasal
septum, eyelid edema, coryza, limb paralysis and reduced deep tendon
reflexes.
Useful lab tests include Urinalysis (Oliguria, Hematuria,
Hemoglobinuria); Complete Blood Count and Peripheral Smear (Macrocytic
Anemia); Tissue Exam (reveals arsenic deposits - urine, nails, hair) and
Serum Arsenic levels.
Cadmium
Cadmium may promote skeletal demineralization and increase bone
fragility and fracture risk.
Lead
lead is the most common environmental pollutant.
Symptoms include hypertension, fatigue, hemolytic anemia, abdominal
pain, nausea, constipation, weight loss, peripheral neuropathy,
cognitive dysfunction, arthralgias, headache, weakness, irritability,
impotence, loss of libido, depression, depression of thyroid and adrenal
function, chronic renal failure, gout, behavioural disorders.
A patient with lead poisoning may have a combination of symptoms - or no
symptoms at all until the condition has progressed.
Mercury (Quicksilver)
Can be from fossil fuel, oil, metal, cement production ad solid waste
incineration. Through air borne pollution in the form of dust, ash or
vapour.
Mercury destroys red blood cells and causes chromosomal damage and birth
defects.The average amount of mercury we get from breathing is 1
mcg/day. The typical American diet provides another 15-20 mcg/day. If
one eats tuna or other large ocean fish daily.... an intake of 60-80
mcg/day is possible. For persons with normal metal metabolism (metallothionein,
glutathione, etc), only 5% of ingested mercury gets into the bloodstream
and less than 1% into the brain. Also, there are natural neuroprotective
chemical factors in the brain which can sequester mercury & prevent
damage.
Nickel
Accumulation of nickel can have a detrimental effect on health
Uranium
Exposure can be through consumption of drinking water or foods grown in,
or watered by soil/water containing levels of Uranium.
Can cause chemical toxicity. Large amounts of Uranium can react with
body tissues and cause kidney damage and cause birth defects.
Strontium
Stontium is chemically similar to Calcium and Magnesium. Strontium salts
are generally found in fireworks due to the rich crimson colour they
emit when introduced it no a flame. Also used in TV tubes and electron
tubes.
Antimony
It is used in the manufacturing of batteries, solder, and various
metals. Also in paints, textiles, plastics and fireworks. Antimony is
released into the environment from natural sources and from industry.
Barium
Barium is mainly used in industrial manufacturing. Exposure to Barium
occurs mainly in the workplace or from dinking contaminated water.
Beryllium
Is used in the manufacture of chemical sand alloys. It gets in the
environment by burning of fossil fuels, oil, coal and waste.
Silver
is used to make jewellery, electronic equipment and in dental fillings.
Thallium
highly toxic element. Was used in rat poison. Used in manufacturing of
electronic devices, special glasses, cement and smelting operations.
Thallium can affect the nervous system, lungs, heart, liver and kidneys.
Tungsten
The fine metal dust presents a fire, health and explosion hazard. High
level of Tungsten has an antagonistic effect on molybdenum metabolism.
Aluminium
Aluminium can have an adverse effect on the skeletal frame by
interfering with other nutrient metabolism and uptake. It has been
linked to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, loss of co-ordination and
confusion
How do I know if I have heavy metals?
Breathing heavy metal particles, even at levels well below those
considered nontoxic, can have serious health effects. Virtually all
aspects of animal and human immune system function are compromised by
the inhalation of heavy metal particulates. In addition, toxic metals
can increase allergic reactions, cause genetic mutation, compete with
“good” trace metals for biochemical bond sites, and act as antibiotics,
killing beneficial bacteria.
Much of the damage produced by toxic metals stems from the proliferation
of oxidative free radicals they cause. Heavy metals can also increase
the acidity of the blood. The body draws calcium from the bones to help
restore the proper blood pH. Further, toxic metals set up conditions
that lead to inflammation in arteries and tissues, causing more calcium
to be drawn to the area as a buffer, contributing to hardening of the
artery walls with progressive blockage of the arteries and osteoporosis.
Even minute levels of toxic elements have negative health consequences,
affecting nutritional status, metabolic rate, the integrity of
detoxification pathways, and the mode and degree of heavy metal
exposure. The biological half-lives for HM are variably long; the
half-life for cadmium in the kidney is decades. Most HM are readily
transferred across the placenta, found in breast milk, and are well
known to have serious detrimental effects on behavior, intellect and the
developing nervous system in children. For adults, silent symptoms of
chronic, low level HM accumulation in tissues can progress from a steady
decline in energy, productivity and quality of life to accelerated
cardiovascular disease, premature dementia and total debilitation.
Unfortunately, the possibility of HM burden is often not considered and
patients continue to suffer needlessly.
Chronic symptoms frequently associated with excessive accumulation of
heavy metals include fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, neurological
disorders, depression, failing memory, and allergic hypersensitivity.
Heavy metals disrupt a vast array of metabolic processes. Heavy metals
alter pro-oxidant/antioxidant balance and bind to free sulfhydryl
groups, resulting in inhibition of glutathione metabolism, numerous
enzymes and hormone function. Nutritionally, HM are directly
antagonistic to essential trace elements and compete with nutrient
elements for binding sites on transport and storage proteins,
metalloenzymes and receptors. Disruption of the metabolism and balance
of nutrient elements results in marked aberrations in the metabolism of
carbohydrate, protein/amino acids, lipids, neurotransmitters and
hormones. Lead and mercury are well known for their direct, destructive
effects on neuronal function while cadmium and lead have direct adverse
effects on cells in the arterial wall. Chronic, low-level mercury (Hg)
exposure is a problem that goes well beyond the controversial issue of
dental amalgams. Fish derived from the sea and polluted fresh waters, is
another major source of exposure to mercury. Other sources of mercury
exposure include combustion of fossil fuels, and the manufacture of
paper, pulp and plastic products. Mercury and related HM can deliver a
one-two punch that can cause significant oxidative damage in the body.
Two primary mechanisms for the toxic effects of mercury are: 1) mercury
is a pro-oxidant which catalyzes the production of peroxides and
enhances the subsequent formation of hydroxy radicals and lipid
peroxides, and 2) mercury interferes with the body’s capacity to quench
highly reactive oxygen species. By virtue of its affinity for free
sulfhydryl groups, mercury binds to glutathione (GSH) and can inhibit
enzymes involved in GSH metabolism; e.g. Hg forms a tight bond with
selenium (Se) thereby “displacing” Se from its critical role as an
obligatory constituent of glutathione peroxidase. Hg++ can directly bind
to 1 or 2 GSH molecules resulting in irreversible removal of this key
constituent from our anti-oxidative armory.
Considering the potential effects of mercury on hormone metabolism, it
is not surprising that major chronic fatigue is a hallmark symptom of
mercury burden. mercury-induced peripheral neuropathy, tremor,
depression, irritability and sleep disturbance may be related to adverse
effects of mercury on amino acid status. It is well documented that
cadmium, lead, and mercury disrupt intracellular transport in neurons by
inhibiting microtubule polymerization and assembly. To add insult to
injury, mercury can also decrease the production of neurotransmitters.
For example, taurine is a neurotransmitter that is derived from
cysteine. Cysteine is the rate-limiting amino acid for GSH synthesis and
is frequently deficient in mercury burdened patients. Hence, mercury
induced depletion of the precursor of taurine (cysteine) might
contribute in part to the adverse neurological effects of mercury. Urine
amino acid analysis of mercury toxic patients may also reveal
deficiencies in phenylalanine and tyrosine (precursors to catacholamines
and thyroxine), tryptophan (precursor to serotonin) and glutamate
(precursor to GABA). Such deficiencies may be related to the general
malabsorption, which is commonly associated with candidiasis in Hg
burdened patients.
Consider essential trace element deficiencies when excess HM are on
board. Cadmium, lead and mercury displace zinc and copper from
metalothionein, which serves as an intracellular storage protein for
zinc and copper. The importance of zinc and copper are illustrated by
their roles as co-factors for SOD. Zinc is also very important in
protein, nucleic acid, and energy metabolism and copper is required in
the synthesis of catacholamines. Other important elements to consider in
HM burden include selenium, particularly with mercury, and magnesium.
Taurine helps retain magnesium, and as mentioned, taurine levels may be
low in the presence of excess mercury. Magnesium is an intracellular
electrolyte and enzyme activator with particular importance to cardiac
function. The adverse effects of excess accumulation of HM are well
documented. Many cases of HM burden are associated with industrial
exposure, but our food, drinking water and environment do not appear to
be getting any purer.
Symptoms will often begin to improve within weeks or even days of
commencing treatment. Although complete cure is possible, many people
suffer the effects of toxicity for extended periods. Some of the damage,
for instance to the liver or brain, may not be fully reversible. Others
find that their food intolerances will not be completely remedied. Only
time will answer that question. Therapy may last from 6 months to 2
years.
Tests for mercury toxicity and other heavy metal toxicity/poisoning:
Of the tests available, the hair test, referred to as hair mineral
analysis, is by far the easiest and most powerful diagnostic test for
heavy metal toxicity that you can have done. The
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
is used by many health professionals, including many in the alternative
medicine field, to check for mineral imbalances and deficiencies as well
as for mercury poisoning and heavy metal toxicity.
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It has received much attention in this regard, and there are some
limitations of the analysis largely with variations in results between
labs, but overall it offers an accurate and convenient method to check
for the presence of heavy metal toxicity.
The remarkable thing about the hair analysis is the convenience and
ability to give information not only on mercury, but on all the other
heavy metals as well. So, if you have any other heavy metal toxicity,
such as lead toxicity, cadmium toxicity, arsenic toxicity, aluminium
toxicity, barium toxicity or nickel toxicity, you will discover this in
the test.
Hair is used to determine toxicity because hair accumulates heavy metals
(as well as essential minerals) in concentrations 1000-times more than
other biological tissue. Numerous scientific studies attest to the
usefulness of hair analysis as a test for heavy metal toxicity. One
doctor, who testified before the committee on Government reform on the
association between mercury toxicity and autism, routinely uses hair
analysis in her family practice which treats hundreds of autistic cases
every year.
The other types of tests used for checking for heavy metal toxicity
differ in the source of the biological sample used for testing: blood,
urine or saliva. Each has its limitations.
The saliva test is performed when there is a suspect mercury poisoning
or toxicity from mercury leaching from dental fillings. To perform the
test, the person is asked to chew a special gum and collect their saliva
before chewing and after chewing the gum. Both samples are then analyzed
and if there is a marked difference between the before and after samples
then this indicates that mercury leaching has occurred.
Bear in mind that this test does not tell you if you have mercury
toxicity. This is because saliva is not considered a marker of body
status for mercury. The main use is to tell if you are being exposed to
mercury leaching from dental fillings that may be causing toxicity.
Further tests to confirm mercury toxicity can then performed.
Blood and urine, unlike with hair analysis, give information on
transient levels of mercury. Urine testing is usually done as
confirmatory tests to get detailed information on excretion and
transport of mercury and the other heavy metals. Blood levels are
influenced by the body homeostatic mechanism which attempts to keep
levels within a narrow range. Blood level reflect recent exposure and is
independent of tissue deposition.
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Is there anything I can do about it?
This independent article might give you some idea:
Zeolite and its activity properties in elimination of heavy metals
By: Robert B. Norett, D.C.
" Forget chelation. For now, at least...as we currently have been using
a new and extremely promising mineral that verifiably reduces heavy
metal intoxication without any toxic side effect or contra-indication.*
A random web search reveals mountains of evidence about pandemic toxic
exposures to heavy metals newborns included. Any metabolic minded health
practitioner will eventually come to the fundamental conclusion
regarding the relationship of heavy metal toxicity and health issues.
The ongoing investigation is always around finding more efficient and
less harmful ways of eliminating tissue bound metals and excreting them
without further burden to already weakened tissues and organs.
Without addressing the underlying metals issue, treatments using many
natural medicine approaches become merely palliative and symptomatic
relief, and, allopathic in Naturopathic clothing. Removal of the
stressors to a system is always the a priori option to improve the
function of the system.
We cannot ignore the metals issue any longer particularly when a product
as efficient and easy to use as zeolites is available to us.
Zeolites are a family of minerals and related minerals. They are
hydrated aluminosilicates of the alkaline and alkaline-earth metals.
About 40 natural zeolites have been identified during the past 200
years.
Technically, zeolites are framework silicates with exchangeable cations
that form in complex quaternary structures. They have 4,5, and 6-sided
cavities that hold cations and anions.[i]
<#_edn1> These zeolitic channels (or pores) are microscopically small
and have molecular size dimensions such that they are often termed
"molecular sieves".
The size and shape of the channels have extraordinary effects on the
properties of cationic materials for adsorption processes, and this
property leads to their use in separation processes, as in many
commercial uses of zeolites today. Zeolite crystals have been grown on
board the space shuttle and are undergoing extensive research into their
formation and unique properties.
Promising research using zeolites to clean up environmental
radioactivity is also underway.[ii]
<#_edn2>
Back to these pores and zeolitic channels: In the more useful zeolites,
the spaces are interconnected and form long wide channels of varying
sizes depending on the mineral. These channels allow the easy movement
of the resident ions and molecules into and out of the structure.
(Zeolites are characterized by their ability to lose and absorb water
without damage to
their crystal structures).
activated liquid zeolite is based on the above charcteristics. It is
simply a purified type of zeolite suspended in solution, and is
amphoteric viable in an acid or base solution. Being an inert substance,
it does not degrade or change its chemistry by reacting with the cations
it adsorbs. It has been shown that metal oxides and salts can disperse
spontaneously to the surface and pores of zeolites.[iii]
<#_edn3> The liquid zeolite is specifically formulated to be charge and
reaction specific in a ‘specific reactivity series’, meaning there are a
low affinity for calcium, magnesium, potassium, etc., and a high
affinity for lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium.
This is the good news in comparison to many oral and IV chelation
protocols that can be compromising for osteoporotic individuals. I am
personally convinced of the safety of the liquid zeolite for geriatric
and advanced osteoporosis patients. More good news is that the zeolites
are excreted with the adsorbed metallic cations maintaining isotonicity,
or same ‘tone’ as compared to other fluids in the body. This means there
is no dumping, re-intoxicating, or trapping of the metal ions on their
way out and the liver, kidney (particularly) and bowel are
uncompromised.
These brief comments here are gleaned from some easily available
research, a little understanding of chemistry and electrostatic
properties of minerals and metals, and nearly 30 years of clinical
experience in Natural Medicine.
The questions that remain for this practitioner surrounding the metals
elimination properties of liquid zeolite, is around its activity and
ability to address the profoundly embedded tissue-bound metals.
We know that metals compartmentalize in specific sites in different
individuals (e.g.hypothalamus, marrow, etc.) for multiple reasons:
trauma, infection, inflammation, allergy sites, etc. We know that metal
intoxications underlie mood disorders, chronic pain, cystic processes,
connective
tissue conditions, etc. dependent on the tissues affected. Does the
liquid zeolite eventually get to these deeper encapsulated areas with
the heavier protocol (10 drops 3x/day/10 days), or do we await the
appropriate confluence of therapeutic interventions, conditions, and
psycho-emotional release
and resolutions inducing the next healing moment and dose-up then? I
anticipate answers to this will be forthcoming soon.
This information pertains to the heavy metals elimination properties of
the liquid zeolite. The buffering activity toward a low systemic
alkaline pH seems to me to be of incredible importance and power in the
overall health experience of one taking liquid zeolite. The anti-tumor,
bactericidal and anti-viral properties are subjects for future
discussion.
I hope this can serve to clarify a little bit of the mystery and
mechanism of this important and timely discovery for our collective
Health and Wellbeing. Thanks to the selfless jewel of a human being, Bob
Schmidt for requesting this.
<#_ednref1> *Metallic containing medications (i.e. Lithium, Platinum,
etc.) would contraindicate or warrant monitored usage. [i] Since silicon
typically exits in a 4+ oxidation state, the silicon-oxygen tetrahedra
are electrically neutral. However, in zeolites, aluminum typically
exists in the 3+
oxidation state so that aluminum-oxygen tetrahedra form centers that are
electrically deficient one electron. Thus, zeolite frameworks are
typically anionic, and charge compensating cations populate the pores to
maintain electrical neutrality. These cations can participate in
ion-exchange
processes, and this yields some important properties for zeolites.
<#_ednref2> [ii] Different zeolites have different sized holes that
allow molecules to enter the cage. Recently, scientists at Sandia
National Laboratory developed a zeolite with just the right dimensions
to trap radioactive strontium. Of course, now you've just got a whole
bunch of
molecular canisters of individual radioactive chemicals, and it's easy
for those chemicals to flow back out of the zeolites just the way they
came in. That's why the Sandia researchers are trying to develop zeolite
materials that seal up when they're heated, as heating the material
makes the
holes clamp shut, sealing the toxin inside. The process is called
sepulchration - the radioactive chemicals are locked up forever in a
kind of molecular seplchre, or tomb.
<#_ednref3> [iii] The dispersion of a salt or an oxide to a zeolite
includes that both cations and anions disperse on the external surface
and, on the internal surface (wall of larger cages and channels) of the
zeolite, inclusion in small cages of the zeolite, in addition, solid ion
exchange might occur at the same time. Spontaneous Dispersion of Oxides
and Salts to Zeolites and Its Applications XIE Youchang, TANG Youqi
(College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University,
Beijing, 100871)"
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