Many of us living in the Western world think that heavy metal toxicity is something that only affects developing countries. This is not true!
Not one person walking this planet does not have some toxic metals in their body. As they accumulate, they can lead to chronic diseases with mathematical accuracy!
Heavy metal toxicity can cause many health problems over time.
The overall accumulation of heavy metals over time will cause long-term problems.
Some of the symptoms of heavy metal toxicity can include:
- Stomach pain and gastrointestinal symptoms
- Brain fog, memory loss, and confusion
- Mood and behaviour changes, including depression and anxiety
- Prone to allergies
- Skin rashes
- Low body temperature or chills
- Sensitive teeth or a metallic taste in the mouth
- Muscle weakness, twitches, and sensitivity
- Joint pain
- High or low blood pressure
- Fatigue
- Autoimmunity
The symptoms may vary from person to person, depending on their lifestyle habits. It is unlikely that you would have all these symptoms, but many people have some of these symptoms and continually go to their medical doctors.
If the underlying toxic metal loads are not identified, then the symptoms from these heavy metals will continue.
Many people who undergo a natural heavy metal detox protocol will see many of these symptoms disappear and feel a lot better overall.
If you suspect that you have heavy metals in your body, the easiest way of finding out is to do a simple Tissue Hair Mineral Analysis – you can do this yourself and receive the results in a full report. The report will identify 8 toxic or heavy metals (antimony, arsenic, aluminium, beryllium, cadmium, lead, mercury, uranium).
Detoxing Heavy Metals Naturally and Safely
Before beginning a heavy metal detox, optimizing your detoxification organs to help the elimination of the heavy metals is critical.
There are two processes – one is the mobilization of heavy metals from inside the cells, and elimination of the toxic metals through the detoxification channels.
If the elimination channels remain blocked, then heavy metals will not be able to be eliminated from the body.
Constipation will block heavy metals that are eliminated through the gut, so make certain you deal with your constipation.
Also, the liver is the body’s largest detox organ, so it is important to optimize this.
Here are some simple things that you can do to help:
- Clean the Intestine – add raw fruit, vegetable juice, and more fiber to the diet. If the colon is blocked and you are constipated, think about using herbs to help, but also doing an enema.
- Clean the Liver – one of the main herbs is milk thistle, but dandelion and turmeric are also helpful for supporting the liver.
There are other protocols that you can use to help your detox. The skin is probably the body’s largest detoxification organ, stretching over 2 square meters.
Here are some other things you can do to sweat out all the heavy metals through the skin:
- Epsom Salts Baths – add a couple of cups of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) into a lukewarm bath and repeat 3-4 days per week.
- Essential Oils – you can also add a few drops of various essential oils that can help to eliminate toxins through the skin, such as peppermint, tea tree, grapefruit, lemon and rosemary.
- Skin Brushing – use a skin brushand brush your skin – always brush towards the heart from different parts of the body. It is best to do this before the Epsom salt baths. This helps mobilize the blood and lymph fluid to eliminate toxins through the liver and kidneys.
- Saunas – using a sauna is a good way to sweat and get toxic metals out of the body. Infrared saunas are even more effective at removing fat-soluble toxic metals – you need to stay in the infrared for 15-20 minutes a couple of times per week.
Optimize the Intestine
Heavy metals do use the intestine as an elimination pathway, so keeping the gut optimized is important.
Here are a few things you can do to help the gut:
- Dietary Changes – begin slowly removing processed foods that contain preservatives, artificial sweeteners, food dyes, and other toxins and heavy metals. Best to eat organic foods when possible.
- Add a Probiotic – always buy a high-potency probiotic that contains at least 30-50 billion live bacteria that are refrigerated.
Detox Supplements
Now you have helped the detoxification channels of the body to “drain” the heavy metals out of the body, then it is time to find a natural, heavy metal detox in order to begin mobilizing and eliminating heavy metals.
The 10 million dollar question is, what detox supplements can do this? Hundreds of supplements are available for sale, so how do you choose one that will be effective?
Before choosing a natural heavy metal detox supplement, one has to ask if it has been tested scientifically and proven to work effectively.
One such supplement is called HMD and has been scientifically tested on 350 people at the cost of over $1 million. It was a comprehensive research study that took 3 years to complete.
The results showed that a compound of 3 natural products contained in HMD worked effectively to detox aluminium, antimony, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel, and uranium.
HMD contains Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF), a homoccord of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Cilantro or Coriander sativum.
Interestingly, when these 3 components were tested individually, they did not work at removing heavy metals inside the cells of body organs.
However, when they are all mixed, a synergistic effect makes HMD a universal, natural heavy metal chelator.
