Identifying Heavy Metals

Identify heavy metals and how they contribute to increasing health-related issues

Many people are not aware of the problems of heavy metal toxicity. Heavy metals include mercury, aluminum, lead, cadmium, nickel and arsenic. They are particularly toxic to the system because they damage the inner workings of the cells and at the same time impair all pathways of detoxification, affecting skin, cell, blood, lymph, bowel, lungs, kidney and liver. Heavy metals will collect inside cells especially those of the brain, nerves, kidneys, and the immune system. We are exposed to heavy metals through environmental contamination from industrial processes and fossil fuels that spew lead particles in the environment.  We can absorb mercury from cracked or old amalgam dental fillings and contaminated fish.

Heavy metal toxicity can have a wide range of symptoms from headache, fatigue, tremors, dizziness, and impaired ability to think. Heavy Metal can be detected through hair and urine analysis.

We can detoxify heavy metals through intravenous chelation therapy with EDTA in a doctor’s office. Benefits occur rapidly, but side effects can be headache, mild pain, fatigue. Oral chelation is just as effective, but works more slowly.