Dealing
with Toxins
By
RONALD E. PARTAIN SR., RPh, CCN
Heavy
metal toxins are everywhere — in your water, your air,
even in your body. Today’s modern health challenge is
figuring out how to get rid of them.
On
a daily basis, your body comes in contact with harmful toxins
that can cause numerous health challenges and a decreased
quality of life. Heavy metals are in our environment and nothing
can be done to change that. We can limit the amount of new
heavy-metal toxins entering our planet (although we haven’t
done anything about it yet), but the levels that already exist
cannot be removed. And when heavy-metal toxins are in the
environment, they are in your bodies, with a potentially devastating
impact on your health.
They’re
in your food, in your water, your air, your place of work
and in your home – you cannot escape them! Lead, mercury,
aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, and nickel are in your food, water
and air, which means they also are in your body.
The
Culprits
There
are 35 metals that concern us because of occupational or residential
exposure; 23 of these are the heavy elements or “heavy
metals” and include antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium,
cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead,
manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum, silver, tellurium, thallium,
tin, uranium, vanadium and zinc. Interestingly, small amounts
of these elements are common in our environment and diet,
and actually are necessary for good health; but large amounts
of any of them may cause acute or chronic toxicity (poisoning).
HEAVY
METAL POISONING
Heavy-metal
toxicity can result in damaged or reduced mental and central
nervous function, lower energy levels, and damage to blood
composition, lungs, kidneys, liver and other vital organs.
Long-term exposure might result in slowly progressing physical,
muscular and neurological degenerative processes that mimic
Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, muscular
dystrophy and multiple sclerosis. Allergies are not uncommon,
and repeated long-term contact with some metals or their compounds
might even cause cancer.
For
some heavy metals, toxic levels can be just above the background
concentrations found in nature. Therefore, it’s important
for us to inform ourselves about the heavy metals and to take
protective measures against excessive exposure. In most parts
of the United States, heavy-metal toxicity is an uncommon
medical condition; however, it’s a clinically significant
condition when it does occur. If unrecognized or inappropriately
treated, toxicity can result in significant illness and reduced
quality of life. If you suspect you or someone in your household
might have heavy-metal toxicity, testing is absolutely essential.
Symptoms
indicative of acute toxicity are not difficult to recognize
because they usually are severe, rapid in onset and associated
with a known exposure or ingestion: cramping, nausea and vomiting;
pain; sweating; headaches; difficulty breathing; impaired
cognitive, motor and language skills; mania; and convulsions.
The symptoms of toxicity resulting from chronic exposure impaired
cognitive, motor and language skills; learning difficulties;
nervousness and emotional instability; and insomnia, nausea,
lethargy, and feeling ill) also are easily recognized; however,
they are much more difficult to associate with their cause.
Symptoms of chronic exposure are very similar to symptoms
of other health conditions and often develop slowly over months
or even years. Sometimes the symptoms of chronic exposure
actually abate from time to time, leading the person to postpone
seeking treatment, thinking the symptoms are related to something
else.
What
Is a Heavy Metal?
“Heavy
metals” are chemical elements with a specific gravity
that is at least five times the specific gravity of water.
Simply stated, specific gravity is a measure of density of
a given amount of a solid substance when it’s compared
to an equal amount of water. The specific gravity of water
is 1 at 4°C (39°F). Some well-known toxic metallic
elements with a specific gravity that is five or more times
that of water are arsenic (5.7), cadmium (8.65), iron (7.9),
lead (11.34) and mercury (13.546).
Where
Are They Coming From?
Heavy
metals come from everything from auto exhaust, industry emissions
and pesticides; to prescription medicines, dental fillings,
solvents and household cleaning products; to personal products
such as cosmetics, deodorant and toothpaste.
Beneficial
Heavy Metals
In
small quantities, certain heavy metals are nutritionally essential
for a healthy life. Some of these are referred to as the trace
elements (e.g., iron, copper, manganese and zinc). These elements,
or some form of them, are found naturally in foodstuffs, fruits
and vegetables, and a variety of commercially available multivitamin
products.
Heavy
Metals Are “Free Radical” Factories
Heavy-metal
accumulation in humans has been linked to many common health
challenges, including cancer, candida, yeast overgrowth, cardiovascular
ailments, arthritis, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Many
neurological diseases, including depression, multiple sclerosis,
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, also have
been strongly associated with heavy metals. Heavy-metal poisoning
can even accelerate the aging process, because the presence
of heavy metals in the body promotes free radical formation.
In
technical terms, a “free radical” is an unbalanced
molecule with an odd, unpaired electron. This unbalanced molecule
tries to balance itself by bombarding other molecules in your
body in an effort to capture that other molecule’s electron.
When it “steals” the electron from the other molecule,
that molecule then becomes a free radical itself and goes
into attack mode on other molecules, causing a chain reaction.
This chain reaction ultimately results in the degeneration
of cells, tissues, organs and systems within the body.
The
human body doesn’t have an efficient metabolic function
to eliminate heavy metals; because of this, the body warehouses
them in deep-tissue places – bones, ligaments and other
places such as the large intestine. Over time, metals migrate
to other cells and tissues, initiating the stages of degenerative
disease through free-radical formation. The first signs of
toxicity might include fatigue, pain in the muscles and extremities,
poor circulation and inability to think clearly. The longer
heavy metals are retained, the more devastating the health
consequences potentially become.
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What
Is the Solution?
Since
the heavy metals already in our environment are not going
away, the solution involves one of two things: limiting exposure
as much as possible and removing the heavy metals already
in your body. Chelation [pronounce as “kee-layshun”]
therapy has been in the medical community for years, but typically
has required an IV and a half-day stay in the hospital. The
concept of chelation is based on the premise that when EDTA
(ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid), a synthetic amino acid,
comes in contact with certain positively charged metals and
other substances, it removes them from the body. EDTA must
be introduced directly into the bloodstream for maximum effectiveness.
When taken orally, EDTA must pass through the gastrointestinal
system, where the acid and enzymes in the stomach and intestine
will cause the EDTA to break down and not be properly absorbed.
This is why EDTA therapy has been more successful when administered
by IV, compared to the oral route of administration.
Kelatox
chelation suppositories provide the same results as the IV
without the needle, since the EDTA is absorbed by the colon
wall and placed directly into the bloodstream, just like an
IV treatment. Kelatox is given at a lower dose than the IV,
which lowers the risk of complications with liver and kidney
function; and is safe enough to be given daily, thus increasing
the amount of EDTA in the bloodstream at any given moment.
This makes the suppository method more effective over time.
The
Bottom Line
There
is no place on Earth where you can escape heavy metals; they
are in your environment to stay and in your body now. If you
want to test for levels of heavy metals in your body, it’s
easy and affordable. But you can just assume you probably
have too high a concentration of heavy metals in your body.
Taking oral products to reduce heavy metals is probably ineffective,
since going through the digestive track breaks down the EDTA.
But using IV procedures or Kelatox suppositories can reduce
heavy metals to a significant degree, and with Kelatox, it’s
more affordable and there is no need for a half day spent
in a hospital or medical office. Talk to your doctor about
the dangers of toxins and what you can do to protect yourself.
RONALD
E. PARTAIN SR., RPh, CCN, graduated from the University of
Arizona Pharmacy School in 1968. Among his clinical interests
are detoxification of heavy metals and other environmental
toxins, and enhancing and improving body energy at the cellular
level.
Why
you need Kelatox!
Toxic
heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium and aluminum
are in your body and are causing damage even as you read this.
These
toxic metals have no known metabolic function and have been
linked to numerous health problems including cardiovascular,
degenerative diseases like Alzheimers, diabetes and autism.
Chelation
is absolutely necessary to help rid your body of these toxic
heavy metals. Chelation is only available three ways: oral,
intravenous (I.V.) and suppository.
Of
the three, Kelatox, in suppository form, is the most cost
effective and efficient method.…
Why
is Kelatox the best?
