Body Toxins

Parasites
Are A Major Enemy To Good Health

MSG
And The Hidden Names You Should Know

Candidiasis
What Is It?

Partially Hydrogenated Oils
Cause Disease And Serious Health Problems

Toxins in our bodies cause health problems linked to fatigue, lack of a general sense of well being and depression or mental confusion. Your liver plays a key role in detoxifying harmful substances that you may eat, drink, inhale or rub on your skin. However, the liver is no match for certain toxins, including some common medications. Toxic hepatitis is liver inflammation that occurs when your liver is damaged by toxic chemicals, drugs or certain poisonous mushrooms.

In some cases, toxic hepatitis develops within hours or days of exposure to a toxin. In other cases, it may take months of regular use before symptoms of toxic hepatitis appear. Often, the symptoms clear when your exposure to the toxin stops. But toxic hepatitis can permanently injure your liver, leading to irreversible scarring of liver tissue (cirrhosis) and in some cases to liver failure. Occasionally toxic elements are responsible for kidney or nervous system damage.

Toxins hinder enzymatic reactions:

Healthy enzyme function is important to our health and well-being because enzymes play a vital role in most of the body’s biochemical processes. Presence of toxic elements interferes with healthy enzymatic activity making cellular processes less efficient.

Toxins disturb cell membrane function:

Healthy cell membranes play a vital role in optimal cell function. Toxic elements interfere with healthy cell membrane processes including normal cell membrane transport.

Toxins disrupt nerve conductance:

Healthy nerve conductance is vital to a healthy nervous system function. Toxic elements disrupt normal nerve conductance causing neurological dysfunction including lack of psycho-emotional well-being. The effects of toxic elements on the nervous system are gradual and progressive.

Who is affected most by toxic element exposure?

Children and pregnant women are most susceptible.

The level of toxicity and adverse health effects of toxic elements vary among individuals. Fetuses and children are most susceptible, partly due to their high growth rates and low body mass. Chronic, low-grade exposure in children may lead to subtle or more severe physical and/or mental symptoms.

Although fetuses and children are most susceptible to toxic element exposure, adults can also be seriously affected. Cumulative effects of long-term, low-dose toxic element exposure can lead to many serious health problems in adults.

What symptoms are linked to toxic elements exposure?

ALUMINUM: Produces mental status changes, learning disabilities, speech disturbances, coarse tremors, and produces an abnormal EEG; Inhibits cell division during the "S Phase"; fosters bone disorders, including fractures; causes a microcytic hypoproliferative anemia; is a toxic agent in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease; kills liver cells. Causes blood to clot at 3–4 ppm, causing strokes and heart attacks.
ARSENIC: Fatigue, headaches, skin rash, increased salivation, muscular weakness, loss of hair and nails, anemia, sensory disturbances, visual disturbances, loss of energy, shock, coma, convulsions, muscular paralyses, blindness, atrophy, kidney damage.
BARIUM: Convulsions, hallucinations, vomiting, cramps, purging, prostration, paralysis. "The Chloride" - Fatal dose 0.8 to 0.9 grams.
BORON: Boric Acid - Serious poisoning can result from the ingestion of 5 grams. Chronic use may result in eczema, localized edema, stomatitis, (Stomatitis is an inflammation of the mucous lining of any of the structures in the mouth, which may involve the cheeks, gums, tongue, lips, throat, and roof or floor of the mouth.), gray line on the gums.
CADMIUM: Loss of sense of smell, anemia, dried scaly skin, hair loss, hypertension, kidney problems, extreme restlessness and irritability, headache, chest pain, increased salivation, choking, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, tenesmus, (Tenesmus is a feeling of incomplete defecation. It is experienced as an inability or difficulty to empty the bowel at defecation.), throat dryness, cough, pneumonitis.
COPPER: Doctors at Loyola University Medical School in Chicago and the Carl Pheiffer Treatment Center have reported that violent males between the ages of 3 and 18 commonly have elevated copper and reduced zinc blood levels when compared to nonviolent males. Depression and schizophrenia also have links to high copper levels.
FLOURINE: The metabolism of the child's brain, is impaired by sodium fluoride (NaF). Damage to skin growth, hair growth, a tendency towards bronchitis, etc., are part of it. Cancer and leukemia incidence rates increase by 15%. Lack of energy, pale appearance with no pigment and dry, stringy hair... Thin, silky and occasionally sparse hair; little browning of the skin, in the Sun; and premature loss of the baby teeth. Bronchial infections, middle-ear infections, hyperkinesis in children (constant, spontaneous bodily unrest), deficient capacity for concentration and continuous mental activity, and lack of mental receptivity. In addition, eczemas, neurodermititis and obesity (very important!) have been observed in connection with fluoride administration.
LEAD: Children: delayed mental development, hyperactivity, delayed learning, behavioral problems. Children and adults: fatigue, anemia, metallic taste, loss of appetite, weight loss and headaches, insomnia, nervousness.
MANGANESE: Emotional disturbances, sleepiness, weakness, spastic gait, paralysis, languor (feeling faint).
MERCURY: Reduced sensory abilities (taste, touch, vision and hearing), metallic taste with increased salivation, fatigue, anorexia, irritability and excitability, psychoses, mania, anemia, numbness, tremors, incoordination, cardiovascular disease, hypertension with renal dysfunction.
SELENIUM: Nervousness, depression, convulsions, vomiting, cough, dyspnea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, somnolence, fall in blood pressure, respiratory failure & death, marked pallor, garlic odor of breath, sweat and urine; red staining of fingers, teeth and hair; marked debility, epistaxis, G.I. disturbances, dermatitis, irritation of nose & throat. Hydrogen selenide can cause pneumonitis and damage to liver, kidney and spleen. (arthritis; eruptions and yellowish tinting of the skin.)
SILVER: Convulsions, coma, blood dyscrasias, dermatitis, argyria may occur following prolonged use. Heart (especially aortitis or aneurysm), liver or renal disease, gastroenteritis, paralysis, nephritis.

What organs are affected by toxic elements?

BRAIN: lead, mercury, aluminum
HEART: nickel
LUNGS: arsenic, cadmium, nickel,
LIVER: nickel, arsenic
KIDNEYS: mercury, cadmium, arsenic
BONE: cadmium, lead
NERVES: cadmium, lead, mercury
SKIN: arsenic

How are toxic elements detected?

Hair Analysis:

Toxic elements accumulate in hair over time providing long-term record of environmental exposures. Hair analysis for toxic elements involves collection of a small sample of hair (one teaspoon) from the back of the neck. The sample is processed and analyzed using ionized mass spectroscopy technique. Hair element analysis is a valuable and inexpensive screen for toxic element accumulation. It is not considered a stand-alone diagnostic test and is used in conjunction with patient symptoms and other tests. Provocative urine testing is usually used as a follow-up check to confirm hair analysis findings.

Urine Challenge Analysis:

Urine element analysis involves urine collection following oral or intravenous administration of a chelating agent that mobilizes elements from tissue deposits. The test results are most reliable when a pre and post challenge urine samples are analyzed. When performed in this way, the test provides an excellent method to diagnose or confirm toxic element burden and to monitor detoxification therapy.

Blood Analysis:

Blood elemental analysis provides information only about ongoing or relatively recent environmental exposures. Unlike hair analysis or urine challenge test, the results of blood elemental analysis do not reflect tissue deposits of toxic elements.

Vega Autonomic Reflex Test Assessment:

This electro-diagnostic type of assessment evaluates toxic elements on a qualitative basis by revealing the degree of somatic (bodily) stress associated with presence of toxic element load. Provocative urine testing is used as a follow-up check to confirm Vega test findings and to quantify toxic element burden.

What treatment options exist?

Treatment for heavy toxic element toxicity involves administration of chelating agents. Chelating agents are man-made substances (e.g. DMPS, EDTA and DMSA) that bind toxic elements and allow for their effective elimination through urine. Healthy kidney function is a prerequisite for the use of chelation therapy. Here are the best ingredients for a gradual and thorough way to detoxify. Using natural plant-based substances (e.g. garlic, chorella, cilantro, alpha lipoic acid) can also be used to treat toxic element toxicity. It appears that such natural substances are able to uniquely eliminate toxic elements from within the cell space and promote elimination of other toxins such as chlorine, pesticides and various other chemicals or pharmaceutical drugs. Natural treatments are often used in combination with chelating agents, as the last stage of treatment.