Heavy Metal Toxicity: Risk, Exposure, Chronic Disease, and Detoxification

What is Heavy Metal Toxicity? What is our level of exposure, and what diseases may it cause? Finally, what are the symptoms and possible treatments?

We are thrilled that many people have noted that heavy metal toxicity is a syndrome.

Even if you are not aware of it, we are being exposed to heavy metals on a daily basis. Well small levels of heavy metals such as zinc and iron are normal and healthy in the human body for essential functions, over exposure and accumulation can become a chronic problem that is a challenge for the clinician to diagnose and treat.

Here is our previous summary article:

Electromagnetic Fields (EMF): Sources, Types, Syndromes, and Link to Heavy Metal Toxicity

At birth, babies are born with an average of 200 toxins in their blood, from placental absorption. We explore EMF effects in a subsequent article.

Heavy metals may enter the body through the skin, lungs, stomach, and bloodstream. Then they travel throughout the body and settle into tissues, joints and vital organs, including the brain. They can interfere with and inhibit normal detoxification, as they reside in places where body elimination happens.   

Over the course of years, heavy metals build up and can block the function of the brain, heart, nervous system, thyroid, liver, kidneys, gut and digestive system. 

Many research papers have proved the links between heavy metals and chronic diseases including:

• Alzheimer’s

• Dementia

• Parkinson’s

• Multiple Sclerosis

Heavy metal toxicity contributes to cognitive decline, inflammation, pain, and premature aging.

People often don’t make the connection between chronic fatigue, mood and sleep disorders, and heavy metal toxicity.

The Most Toxic Heavy Metals

 At high levels, manganese, iron, zinc, gadolinium, and calcium can also be harmful.

Toxins like to home to fat cells - this may create unexplained weight gain, especially round the abdomen. This may explain why diets simply don't work, rather than simple aging, menopause, hormone imbalance, thyroid problems, or over eating.

The shocking reality is that metal toxicity may be the real problem. | Photo by Fuu J on Unsplash

Research has also showed that children with autism spectrum disorders possess higher blood levels of mercury and arsenic. A hair sample study also found significantly higher levels of lead, mercury and aluminum versus those in the control population. 

Other studies have found significantly higher levels of aluminum in breast cancer patients. Many researchers now believe that aluminum-based deodorants are partly responsible, which is why many manufacturers removed aluminum from deodorant and antiperspirant sprays.

The Daily Bombardment of Heavy Metals

Exposure to heavy metals may be anticipated in specific situations like tattooing or canned tuna. Other sources may be less obvious:

· Drinking water

· Food chain: especially processed and tinned fish

· Shampoos, body creams, deodorants, make-up & hair dye

· Dental work, especially amalgam fillings and implants

· Household cleaning products

· Tattoos

· Contraceptives such as Copper IUD's

· Flame retardants on furniture and carpets

· MRIs with gadolinium contrast

· Pharmaceutical medicines

· Workplace:  Dentistry, plumbing, hairdressing, decorating, welding, miners, litho-printers, paint sprayers, mechanics

· Environmental exposure: from fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, factory waste, lead batteries and treated wood.

Symptoms of Heavy Metal Toxicity

One of the reasons why heavy metal toxicity is so under diagnosed is because the complaints are very general. For example, fatigue, brain fog, and digestive problems can be found with a multiplicity of syndromes. Some physicians have never seen nor treated a patient for heavy metal toxicity. Therefore, their clinical experience and acumen may be simply lacking.

· Cognitive decline and dementia

· Brain fog, poor concentration and difficulty learning

· Insomnia

· Stubborn weight gain

· Chronic fatigue

· Autoimmune diseases, including Hashimoto’s, Lupus, MS, and more

· Digestive problems

· Hormone disruption and imbalance 

· Joint aches and pains

· Chronic disease including diabetes and heart disease

· Mood disorders, anxiety and depression

· Anemia

· Tremors and diminished motor control, hearing, speech, vision and gait

· Dizziness, may be diagnosed as vertigo

· Headaches and migraines

Talk to your doctor if you think your symptoms may be related to heavy metal toxicity. Many patients go from doctor to doctor searching for answers. To remove metals from the body, chelation therapy is an avenue that may involve intravenous infusions over a repetitive course of time. This may be either too costly or too time-consuming for many people, who would rather be treated at home.

The Treatment of Heavy Metal Toxicity

How can we detox from heavy metals?

We may have very toxic, heavy metal concentrations in our body organs.

But thankfully, complex and expensive metal detox protocols are not the only option. Here are some simple steps you can initiate to clean up your body.

For thousands of patients all over the world, effective products have safely removed some dangerous heavy metals from the body, with minimal side effects. 

One possible recommendation which many are still learning about includes a high-quality, zeolite-derived product such as Clean Slate by Root. When do used daily, can lead to a greatly reduced toxic load.  

What is Zeolite?

Zeolite is a nano-sized crystal that holds a powerful negative charge that attracts heavy metals and other positive ions.

My link for the Zeolite solution, Clean Slate, by The Root Brands: https://therootbrands.com/dra

Metals lock on to the zeolite honeycomb structure, and heavy metals are drawn away.  These crystals act like scavengers that capture cellular toxins and eliminate them into the urine. | Hg = mercury; Pb = lead; Cu = copper; Cs = caesium; Ca = calcium; K = potassium; NH4 = ammonia; Cd = cadmium. Photo courtesy: Nathhan Conner

Clean Slate has the ability to chelate thousands of toxins including mercury, lead, aluminium, barium, and pesticides such as glyphosate, mold spores, viral particles and fungus. 

Reinforcing Detox

Eating a diet rich in foods that support your liver, kidneys and gut function to help strengthen your gut will reinforce your detox.  And drinking lots of clean, purified water will help flush the toxins out.    

Once you start to open up detox pathways, you may be better able to absorb nutrients and assimilate vitamins and minerals. By removing toxins, the body can start to heal and replenish itself.  May also reinforce detox by eliminating exposure to 5G and other electromagnetic forces that cause frequencies to be absorbed by heavy metals in the bodies organs.

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So many people have asked me for a solid and reputable “home” chelation therapy. The Root Brand’s “Clean Slate” is one.

There are many patient testimonies about the use of clean slate for various symptoms. If patients have multiple metal Dash filled cavities or have had high exposure to heavy metals, they have reported taking one dropper full in 20 ounces distilled water as a starter dilution. One may start with a few tablespoons of this dilution and then work up to 1 cup and then work up to one full dropper. Be sure to get medical advice for your condition(s).

It is beneficial to discuss this detox product with your doctor prior to use. This is especially true if your kidney function is compromised.

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