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Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 2

As Promised – Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 2…..

Part 1 here

Lead (Pb)

(Organic and Inorganic forms – inorganic form proliferates)

Sources

  • Widespread use in foods,*
  • Gasoline *(II)
  • Toys*(III)
  • Cosmetics*(IV)
  • Pesticides
  • Paint
  • Clothing
  • Medicine

Symptoms

  • Effects infant development = neurotoxin
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Stored in our own bones for up to 30 years
  • Autism*(V)

HOW

  • Competes with calcium, iron, and zinc by blocking absorption of these nutrients
  • Impaired metabolism of antioxidants = therefore more oxidative stress damage.

Treatment

  • Vitamins!
    • B1, B6,
    • C
    • E
    • Garlic oil
    • Turmeric / curcumin
    • Quercetin :
      • Apples, onions, grapefruit, red wine
    • Alpha Lipoic acid
    • Chelating compounds
      • (dimercaptosuccinic acid) DMSA chelation therapy
        • Also had reduced behavioral effects in autistic children!?!*(V)

 

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(Extra) Lead has no function inside the human body – a Pollutant plain and simple – yet no safety threshold has ever been established…

Only certain things like candy and food additives have a maximum allowable threshold of lead.

*An EPA-certified lab in Berkeley, California tested around 400 samples of common foodstuffs and determined that many of them had disturbing amounts of lead – Environmental Law Foundation. Notice of violation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Section 25249.6 of the California Health and Safety Code, for exposing consumers of apple juice, grape juice, packaged peaches, pears and fruit cocktail to lead. 2010. LINK.

*(II) leaded gasoline phased out in 1973 – but not entirely banned until 1996! Via U.A Clean Air Act.

*(III) lead in toys banned in 2008 – CPSIA: Consumer Protection Safety Improvement Act.

*(IV)out of 400 lipsticks tested – ALL OF THEM contained lead….2010 U.S. Food and Drug Administration, LINK.

*(V) Blaucok-Busch E, Amin OR, Dessoki HH, et al, ‘Efficacy of DMSA therapy in a sample of Arab children with autistic spectrum disorder. Maedica 2012. PubMed: LINK.

 


 

Cadmium (Cd)

 

Sources

  • Cigarettes (tobacco*)
  • Total environmental exposure:
    • Food (rice*)
    • Soil (in fertilizer)
    • Water
    • Polluted air
  • Ni-Cd batteries*(II)
  • Coffee!(results to be published)
  • PVC products
  • Burning municipal waste
  • Ore mining

Symptoms

  • Reproductive toxin (affects reproductive system)
  • Stored in body up to 30 years in – liver, kidney, vascular system.
  • Inhibit DNA repair

 

HOW

  • Disrupts and possibly alters mitochondrial function
  • Competes with essential nutrients, inhibits D3 absorption, increasing risk of cancer.

 

Treatment

  • Spirulina
  • Other blue-green fresh water algae

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*examples of ‘Superabsorptive crops’ – includes leafy vegetables.

*(II) Must dispose of properly.

 


 

Aluminum (Al)

 

Sources

  • Deodorant*
  • Vaccines*(II)
  • Building materials & consumer containers
  • Industry emissions = Toxifies entire environment
  • Higher than average foods:
    • Flours / breads
    • Spinach, raddish, lettuce
    • Sausages
    • Shellfish
    • Cocoa
    • Tea
    • Herbs and spices
    • Baking powder
  • Highly acidic foods when in contact with aluminum containers
  • Soy based infant formula

Symptoms

  • DNA damage
  • Rise in autistic spectrum-like symptoms

HOW

  • Absorbed through all parts of the body, makes its way across blood brain barrier = inflammation and neurological disorders (specially in children – who are at a higher risk because they are still developing)
  • Increase in likelihood of dialysis encephalopathy syndrome (dementia) and Alzheimer’s

Treatment

  • The most difficult to chelate!
  • Malic acid
  • chorella

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*Sappino AP, Buser R, Lsne L, et al. ‘Aluminum chloride promotes anchorage-independent growth in human mammary epithelial cells’. Journal of Applied Toxicology. 2012. Pubmed.

*(II) Hepatitis B vaccine (given at birth) contain 0.25 milligrams of aluminum…if given every vaccine recommended, the new born could receive up to 4.225 milligrams of aluminum within its’ first year. Even though an U.S. Food and Drug Administration study reports that aluminum in vaccines poses a low risk to infants in the journal Vaccine; ‘Vaccines, Blood & Biology’. 2012. **however the editor was a founder of the Mayo Clinic Research Group, who regularly consults with Vaccine producing companies

 


 

Copper (Cu)

 

Sources

  • Multivitamins*
  • red meats
  • Eggs
  • Bread
  • Shellfish <sea vegetable supplements for pets>
  • Nuts and seeds
  • Dried legumes
  • Dark green leafy veggies

 

Symptoms

  • Mental deficiencies
  • Psychological disorders
  • Inhibits estrogen metabolism.
  • Depression
  • Autistic spectrum-like symptoms

HOW

  • Blocks enzyme activity: impairing thyroid activity, liver and kidney function.
  • Competes with Zinc for absorption sites
  • Brain damage and death!
  • Especially dangerous when combine with other food additives like Aspartame

Treatment

  • Sulfur containing foods:
  • Eggs
  • Garlic

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*Flintstone Multivitamins deliver 2,000 micrograms – limit = 440 micrograms! Stop taking MultiV’s with more than 500 micrograms of copper

 

 

NEXT WEEK….

Tin (Sn)

 

Sources

Symptoms

HOW

Treatment

 

AND MORE!

 

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UNTIL THEN – Stay Strong 🙂

 

Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 1

 

Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 3

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Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 1

Accuracy

The ‘Tech’s’ of heavy metal detection (Technology & Techniques)

ICP-MS

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instrument

  • Unique ability to detect metals in food (with 10-20% variability)

LC-MS

Liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry

  • Detects pesticides, herbicides and other organic molecules

 

Open-block digestion cycle

4hour slow digestion method

  • For more accurate reading (10% variability)

 

The ‘Conspiracy’

 

“Pharmaceutical companies conspire to set artificially high drug prices”

  • New York Attorney – Eric Schneiderman

 

Neither the FDA nor the USDA has any official, universal limit on heavy metals in foods, beverages, and dietary supplements sold to U.S. consumers.

  • Including certified Organic foods

WHY?

  • The USDA and FDA have a “revolving-door history” with industries such as Monsanto and Dupont

= No real incentive to disclose what is actually in food

EX.

Flint Michigan

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 [Mike Adams] – Health Ranger – (and others) is doing a better job policing the U.S. Food supply than the entire federal government!

www.Lowheavymetalsverified.org

THESE ARE HIS FINDING:


ARSENIC (As)

[Organic and Inorganic forms (defined by their bonds with Hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur or chloride etc]

Sources

  • Seafood*
  • Drinking water*(II)
  • Apple juice*(III)
  • Rice*(IV)
  • Chicken *(V)
  • Pressure treated wood
  • Pesticides
  • Burning Coal

Symptoms

  • Carcinogenic
  • Lymphatic problems
  • Diabetes
  • Heart disease
  • Neurological development

HOW

  • Arsenic (and other heavy metals) compete with essential nutrient (phosphorus etc)
  • Heavy metals are very similar in their molecular structure (share the same number of electrons) to organic molecules.
  • Compete or binding sites within the body
  • Slows down natural detoxification processes – reduced immune function
  • Alters ability to use pyruvate properly – higher levels of lactic acid / blood pH

Treatment

  • No 100% cure-all
  • Chelating agents: BAL, DMSA, DMPS
  • Selenium
  • Garlic
  • Powdered fruit seeds
  • Sodium alginate
  • Dehydrated powders of certain seaweeds

* Most arsenic binds to eliminating agents during digestions – once in the blood stream and gets into cell tissue it is much harder to remove (chelating agents required)

Metals Defense – Arsenic reduction by 92.9%: www.heavymetalsdefense.com

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*”biological half-life of (organic) ingested fish arsenic in humans is estimated to be less that 20 hours, with total urinary clearance in approximately 48 huors” U.S. Centrer for Disease Control and Prevention.

*(II) Affecting more than 137 million ppl worldwide – 57 million of which are at peak contamination rates (50ppb)

*(III) Lead Arsenate (pesticide) was used on many crops, including apples in the past – the metal now remains in the soil to be absorbed by new generations of apples / other crops.

*(IV) Especially BROWN rice! +most ‘vegan health’ products marketed as good for you.

*(V) levels 3-4 times higher than other meats. U.S. Food and Drug Administration found inorganic Arsenic concentrations to be four times higher in ‘conventional’ chicken when compared to organic chicken.

+ Chickens have been found to convert organic Arsenic into its inorganic form. <Markis KC, Salazar> Controlling the fate of roxarsone and inorganic arsenic in poultry. Journal of environmental quality. 2008.

 


 

Mercury (Hg)

[Organic, Inorganic and elemental forms]

Sources

  • Lightbulbs*
  • Vaccines*(II)
  • Burning coal*(III)
  • Dental Fillings*(IV)
  • Seafood*(V)
  • Volcanic activity
  • Industrial production
  • Ancient antiseptics and cosmetics
  • Workplace hazards
  • Thermometers
  • Batteries
  • Pesticides
  • Wildfires / burnt waste disposal
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup

Symptoms

  • Neurological damage (even in small quantities)
  • Mood swings
  • Nervousness
  • Headaches
  • Muscle atrophy
  • Insomnia
  • death

HOW

Treatment

  • Easiest of all metals to eliminate (eat your way to detoxification)
  • Seaweed has high efficiency @ capturing free mercury
  • Dulse (seaweed)
  • Strawberries
  • Alfalfa sprouts
  • Chlorella
  • Activated charcoal
  • Sulfur
  • Selenium (chia, brazil nut, sunflower)
  • Garlic
  • Chelating compounds

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*even energy-saving CFL fluorescent light bulbs – despite its “green” marketing – they are quite hazardous. Their curly shape actually putting them as higher risk of leaking UV-radiation.

*(II) Flu shots contain 50,000ppb of Mercury – 25000 x higher than the max limit allowed by the EPA in drinking water

– Thimerosal has about 50mg/L of mercury which exceeds the 0.2mg/L recognized as toxic

*(III)33 million tons of mercury pollutants emitted for power plants in the U.S.

*(IV) 1/3rd of mercury found in sewage sludge substrate is from mercury Amalgams and filling related implements.

– Fluoride has proven to increase mercury filling corrosion rates. (journal of dental research)

– Cell phone radiation proven to increase corrosion rates

– Cremation releases most of the mercury in our bodies

*(V) Mg in common fish sources:

really HIGH = mackerel, marlin, tile fish = AVOID

HIGH = Bluefish, grouper, sea bass, tuna (albacore, yellowfin) =  <eat only 2-3/month>

MODERATE = Bass, carp, cod, croaker, halibut, lobster, mahi mahi, snapper, tuna (chunked light, skipjack) = <under 6 a month>

LOW = Anchovies, butterfish, clam, crab, croaker, flounder, hake, herring, mullet, oyster, Pollock, salmon, sardine, scallop, shrimp, sole, tilapia, trout =

 

(NEXT WEEK)

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Lead (Pb)

Sources

Symptoms

HOW

Treatment

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Cadmium (Cd)

Sources

Symptoms

HOW

Treatment

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AND MORE…

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Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 2

 

Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Additives in our Food Part 3

 

 

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Truth Behind ‘Organic’: Heavy Metal Toxins + 7 Tips For a Healthy Detox!

Most ‘USDA-certified organic foods’ are NOT tested for heavy metal toxins like:

  • Lead!
  • Cadmium!
  • Mercury!

ORGANIC

= Simply implies the PROCESS by which food is grown.

Certified Organic foods can contain heavy metal toxins because these toxins are found:

  • In the AIR
  • In the SOIL
  • In the WATER
    • once these toxins enter the environment, it is near impossible to remove them.

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How Do Heavy Metals Harm Us Anyway?

  • Disrupt chemical reactions / Blocks nutrient absorption
  • Interfere with immune defense and healing processes
  • Carcinogenic (cause cancer!)
  • Cause GENETIC changes that get passed on to your CHILDREN.
  • Imitate symptoms of other serious issues like: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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“What’s a ‘Detox’?”

-> Detoxification is a daily process.

-> Every cell has its own detox process.

-> Entire Organs dedicated to detoxification.

  • liver
  • Kidneys
  • Bladder

ALSO:

  • Lungs
  • Skin/Hair/Nails

 

CHELATION – removal

  • Administration of chelating agents to bind to metals so they can be more easily excreted.
  • The above process involves the Metals being pulled out of bones, organs etc. allowing them to get into the blood stream.
  • Thus, aggressive detoxification can cause acute toxicity.
  • See a Detox Professional if considering using chelating agents
  • Consider supporting your body’s natural detoxification processes with food (see below)

 

FOODS (that naturally chelate heavy metals)

  • Cilantro
  • Chlorella
  • Lemons
  • Garlic
  • Seafood (veggies)
  • Strawberries
  • Orange peel
  • Beets
  • Other Metals
  • Activated Charcoal

+ EXECISE / Sweating!!

“The idea that you have to get worse before you can get better is similar to the iron-pumping slogan no pain no gain” – (Mike Adams, ‘Food Forensics: the hidden toxins luring in your food and how you can avoid them for lifelong health.’2016.)

 

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7 TIPS FOR A HEALTHY DETOX

 

TIP #1

‘AVOID’

  1. IDENTIFY: Toxins in Food, Water, Medicine, Personal care, Cleaning and Garden products, etc…
  2. AVOID Toxins+ get them out of your house & reform behavior/purchasing habits.
  3. REPLACE – with better options (this takes a little looking)
  4. SUPPORT – your natural detoxification processes via diet (see tip#4) and exercise.

 

TIP #2

WATER FILTER

  • ‘Zerowater’ brand
  • ‘The Big Berkey’
  • ‘Zen Water’

+ Reverse Osmosis (removes ALL nutrients from water)

 

TIP #3

USE PLANTS TO FILTER AIR INSIDE

or – HEPA air filtration system

 

TIP #4

DEFENSIVE EATING

  • Eat naturally detoxifying foods
  • Eating some foods together allow immediate elimination
    • Seaweed (Dulse is best) and Sushi Tuna ( properties in the seaweed eliminated 60-90% of the mercury as they get digested together!)

 

TIP #5

EDUCATE

  • Educate yourself as to which typical ‘Health Foods’ are high in heavy metals

*more info on this subject coming soon*

  • General rule – anything made in: China, India or Thailand – will be higher in heavy metal toxins.

 

TIP #6

SAUNA / SWEAT LODGE!

  1. MUST be hot enough to make you sweat!
  2. MUST wash sweat off (or else toxins will be reabsorbed)

= All the benefits of exercise without all the muscle soreness!!!

 

TIP #7

ALLOW YOURSELF TO HEAL!

  • Give yourself time to heal from within – your body knows what to do J
  • Reduce stress by using Mindfulness techniques **more info on this subject coming soon**

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Namaste

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