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"Probiotics can trap and neutralize other toxins, including heavy metals like mercury and cadmium. Exposure to heavy metals may have bad effects on human health, even at low concentrations. heavy metals can be found in our foods, drinking water and vaccines. Specific probiotics can bind toxins from food and water. Some species of probiotics can reduce organic mercury into its less toxic form. As well, some probiotics can trap organic mercury, holding it captive so it cannot cause you harm." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"In a treatment called chelation therapy, the practitioner employs a chemical that's normally used to bind heavy metals (like mercury and lead) to treat people poisoned by these metals. Some doctors have the idea that unexplained fatigue and chemical sensitivity are due to heavy metal toxicity. While exposure to heavy metals can cause many symptoms, there is no good evidence that heavy metals have any role at all in CFS, fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"For instance, heavy metals, such as lead and mercury, exert their poisoning effect by binding to groups of proteins, including vital enzymes. Once they bind to a functional enzyme, they denature it, inhibit it, or both. This interaction of heavy metals with proteins can lead to degenerating diseases, nerve damage, or even death. Some clinical observations have shown that when proteases are taken in large amounts, heavy metal concentrations decrease significantly in the blood. ALLERGIES When the immune system malfunctions, it can unleash a torrent of disorders and diseases." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Still other theories place the blame on viruses, bacteria, toxins, or heavy metals. What all of these theories have in common is the idea that the immune system is looking for something it cannot find, something that does not exist or exists for no apparent reason (something that poses no real threat). Another common link is that protease can act on many of the elements that are suspected causes of the immune system attacking the body. For instance, heavy metals, such as lead and mercury, exert their poisoning effect by binding to groups of proteins, including vital enzymes." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Exposure to heavy metals may have bad effects on human health, even at low concentrations. heavy metals can be found in our foods, drinking water and vaccines. Specific probiotics can bind toxins from food and water. Some species of probiotics can reduce organic mercury into its less toxic form. As well, some probiotics can trap organic mercury, holding it captive so it cannot cause you harm. By trapping, neutralizing and binding toxins in the intestines, probiotics reduce the ability of these toxins to be absorbed into the blood and cause disease. Why Is Mercury a Concern?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"It is a medically proven fact that special heavy metals can cause horrible symptoms of fear, anxiety and depression. heavy metals? Yes, mercury in your teeth, for example. The fillings can slowly absorb over the years into your body, and cause fear. The environment today has been poisoned to an unbelievable extent. Mercury, alone, can cause irritability, nervousness, shyness, lack of attention, lack of self-control, depression, and anxiety." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"If we can reduce high blood pressure by taking away heavy metals, this is better than prescribing a drug. The effect will last longer. Once you start on a drug for blood pressure, doctors will always increase the dosage. And then you will get another prescription. Heavy metals appear to play a role in high cholesterol as well. They poison the enzymes of reverse cholesterol transport. From Dr. Roberts's Oral Chelation Files Kathy was one of my first DetoxMaxPlus patients. She was seventy-six when I first saw her, with multiple risk factors including high blood pressure." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"While exposure to heavy metals can cause many symptoms, there is no good evidence that heavy metals have any role at all in CFS, fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Despite this, some practitioners frighten patients by telling them the mercury in their dental fillings may be the factor making them sick. This issue has been examined, and there is no evidence to support the assertion. Nonetheless, I have several patients who were convinced of this and went through the long, expensive, and painful process of having all their amalgams removed." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Exposure to heavy metals may have bad effects on human health, even at low concentrations. heavy metals can be found in our foods, drinking water and vaccines. Specific probiotics can bind toxins from food and water. Some species of probiotics can reduce organic mercury into its less toxic form. As well, some probiotics can trap organic mercury, holding it captive so it cannot cause you harm. By trapping, neutralizing and binding toxins in the intestines, probiotics reduce the ability of these toxins to be absorbed into the blood and cause disease. Why Is Mercury a Concern?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"When integrative physicians use EDTA for lead and other heavy metals in children, they virtually always use the calcium form of it, instead of disodium EDTA. Kids are somewhat more vulnerable to dangerous fluctuations in their calcium levels, and these fluctuations can occur with disodium EDTA, if the procedure is performed with a fast intravenous push, instead of a slower intravenous drip. Although these reactions are quite rare, they have occurred, and, as mentioned earlier, this inappropriate administration apparently caused the deaths of two children in recent years." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In the environmental arena, exposure to heavy metals and chemicals such as pesticides also can have devastating consequences for mental health in people of all ages. Food: Nutrition, Allergies, and Sensitivities Not only are the foods we eat overprocessed and robbed of all nutritional value, but the usual American diet still consists of few fresh fruits and vegetables and inordinate amounts of sugar and caffeine. When I was growing up, we got eggs or hot cereal like oatmeal, whole grain toast, and juice for breakfast." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "It involves using an intravenous application or induction of a protein substance that helps to bind heavy metals, to drag them out and throw them out of the body through the urine. The treatment takes about three hours to perform. It also has been shown to produce significant changes in plaque deposition in the lining of blood vessels, so it can help to open up and improve blood circulation in the body. You can detect how well the metals are being removed by means of a repeat 24-hour urine test." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "In addition to those mentioned above, physical health problems that may contribute to depression include Candida or yeast infection, amino acid deficiencies, electrolyte imbalances, toxic exposure to heavy metals or chemicals, cardiopulmonary obstructive disease, brain tumors, Alzheimer's, stroke, seizure, hypertension, viral infections, diabetes, insulin resistance, and difficulty metabolizing carbohydrates. There are different degrees of depression, and its treatment has varied considerably according to trends in psychiatry, psychology, and psychopharmacol-ogy in recent decades." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"That's why cancerous tumors are always white When compared with healthy tissues, cancer tissues contain a much higher concentration of toxic chemicals, pesticides, and heavy metals. In 1973, a study conducted by the Department of Occupational Health at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem found a significantly higher concentration of such toxic compounds as DDT and PCB's in cancerous breast tissue of women compared with the normal breast and adjacent adipose tissue in the same women. (although on scanning images they show up as dark masses or shadows)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The body struggles to defend itself, engaging in continuous biochemical warfare between the invading toxins (rancid fats, heavy metals, cigarette smoke, and the like) and the immune system. During these battles the toxic waste of combat begins to accumulate in the body, causing enormous metabolic stress that, over time, can lead to disease. During free-radical stress, the oxidants act like invaders, taking away electrons from precious molecules at every turn." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Toxicity of heavy metals and Drinking Water The development of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is thought to be dependent on the interaction of environmental agents with the pancreatic beta cells.60 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Just as consuming organic foods is a way to avoid ingesting toxins, becoming aware of the quality of water one drinks and uses is increasingly essential in today's polluted world, since water can be a major source of toxins. According to Diet for a Poisoned Planet, less than 1 percent of the Earth's surface water is safe to drink." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Toxicity of heavy metals and drinking water ?Vaccinations ?Coffee and caffeinated beverages ?Smoking Inactivity According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 37.7 percent of diabetics report being physically inactive. Inactivity promotes Type-2 diabetes, and even increases insulin needs in Type-1 by not accessing the benefit of special proteins that transport glucose into the cells. Essentially, exercise works like taking an insulin shot, because it reduces blood glucose levels." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Diabetogenic contributing factors on a planetary level include living in a degraded environment in which the air, earth, and water are, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, filled with 70,000 different toxic chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, and other toxic substances?5,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including seventy-two million pounds of known carcinogens." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Water distillers, although generally more expensive, remove most everything from the water, including bacteria, fluoride, nitrates, radionuclides, and/organic and inorganic toxins, as well as heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and cadmium, and soluble minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Some toxic organic compounds, such as THMs and dioxin, have the same as or a lower boiling point than water and therefore are not filtered out by the distillation process." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Though their evidence is not yet conclusive, Davis and her team of researchers have drawn a link between the reduced sex ratio and industrial chemicals, especially certain plastics and metals that have been proven to damage male-producing sperm. heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury have been shown to affect the ratio of male to female births, and endocrine disruptors, like dioxin and PCBs, can play a role in determining a child's sex." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Nail polish, mascaras, perfumes, hair dyes, moisturizers, foundations—all of these popular personal-care products might contain any number of dangerous toxins, including diethanolamine (DEA), a suspected carcinogen; formaldehyde, a known carcinogen; neurotoxic heavy metals like lead and mercury; and various types of parabens, a preservative that can act like estrogen. Like many girls her age, seventeen-year-old Jessica Assaf estimates that she was using around thirty products every single day by the time she was twelve." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Of special importance is to resolve problems with constipation, since that can slow down the elimination of heavy metals, and allow reabsorption. Chelation is a terrific modality. It does things that no other treatment can. However, it is clearly more medically invasive than completely natural healing elements, such as the use of vitamin C. It carries some of the same risks as other procedures that employ pharmaceutical medications. Nonetheless, it is quite safe when administered and monitored properly. Chelation has been the linchpin in the recoveries of a large number of children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"In 2003, the International Journal of Toxicology released a study that showed the hair of autistic babies contained significantly less mercury and other heavy metals. Autistic babies are not able to excrete the toxic metals via the hair and the body's other natural waste removal outlets (hair is a waste product containing excessive proteins and minerals, among other things). Hence, these toxic metals remain trapped in their brains." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Much of America's tap water now contains impurities, including trace amounts of heavy metals. It may be necessary to buy a water purifier or to drink bottled water. • Environmental Pollutants. Kids should also be protected as much as is reasonably possible from other common sources of toxins that are present in their daily, immediate environments. This includes toxins in air pollution, and particularly toxic air emitted from coal-burning plants, which contains high levels of mercury." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"An estimated 80 percent of children show significant improvement after detoxification of poisonous heavy metals from their system. Mercury is known to depress zinc, which simultaneously elevates the body's copper levels, the result of a dysfunction in metallothionein. According to Dr. William Walsh, senior scientist at the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Illinois, 99 percent of children with autism show disorders in metallothionein: "Autism results from a genetic defect in metallothionein functioning followed by an environmental insult." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Stimulants, emotional trauma, repressed emotions, an irregular lifestyle, dehydration, nutritional deficiencies, overeating, stress reactions, a lack of deep sleep, the accumulation of heavy metals (especially from amalgam tooth fillings), exposure to chemicals, and a lack of sunshine are among the factors that hinder the body in its effort to remove metabolic waste, toxins, and 30 billion turned-over cells each day." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Amyloid, amyloid-inducers, cytokines and heavy metals in scrapie and other human and animal subacute spongiform encephalopathies: some hypotheses. Med. Hypotheses 40, 113-116. 170. Paris, D., Townsend, K. P., Obregon, D. F., et al. (2002). Proinflammatory effect of freshly solubilized beta-amyloid peptides in the brain. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 70, 1-12. 171. Meda, L, Baron, P., and Scarlato, G. (2001). Glial activation in Alzheimer's disease: the role of Abeta and its associated proteins. Neurobiol. Aging 22, 885-893. 172. McGeer, E., and McGeer, P. (1998)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"LCAT, the enzyme that converts cholesterol into an ester, is activated by PC but is poisoned by heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and especially mercury. The Who's Who of Cholesterol Good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol. What's "good" and what's "bad"? And why? The following explanation should help put the members of the cholesterol family in perspective. Good Cholesterol: HDL High-density lipoprotein acts like a garbage truck, picking up the ester-converted oxidized LDL and bringing it back to the liver." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "I have found that (1) it does remove heavy metals, and (2) it does improve symptoms and blood flow. Carotid ultrasounds are healthier. Each patient with angina has less chest pain. There are almost across-the-board improvements. Keep in mind, however, that I use this with the rest of my program and never alone. I continue to use IV chelation but am somewhat frustrated by the cost and the time factor. Now I am delighted to have an oral supplement that people can take at home." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

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