Heavy Metals: The Toxic Time Bomb
Noel Peterson, ND
The Facts
Mercury is toxic to all life on our planet, and every year industries dig up, redistribute, and generally spread around over 400 tons of the stuff. It ends up in our water, our air, our crops, our food, our mouths, and our medicines. Every year US coal power plants send 40 or more tons of mercury into our air. The chlor-alkali industry (paper, etc.) uses 136 tons of mercury a year, and recovers only 35 tons a year. They “disappear” 101 tons of mercury yearly, while hundreds more tons of mercury from coal fired power plants in the rest of the world is made airborne by where it does not need a passport to get into the US. Humans and other animals bioaccumulate mercury from our environment 200,000 to 10,000,000 fold. If the EPA’s “safe” limit of 1 part per million (1ppm) in the blood was evenly distributed in the body, it would fill every cell with 20,000 molecules of mercury!
What harm do a little heavy metals do?
Mercury, lead, and other heavy metals are linked to abnormal behavior and mental development in children, including ADD, ADHD, autism, and mental retardation. Immune disfunction from mercury causes asthma, IBS, MS, Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, CFIDS, fibromyalgia, ALS, and cancer. Depression, muscle pain, chronic renal disease, hypertension, accelerated aging, and coronary artery disease all are associated with mercury exposure. And this is just the partial list. All “non-responders” are likely candidates for mercury chelation. The National Center for Biotechnology Information reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2002 Nov 25; 162(21);2443-9) that “Despite declines in lead levels during the past 20 years, lead exposure continues to be a public health concern” and have found that lead levels over 20 mcg/dl causes a 68% increase in cancer mortality, a 39% increase in heart disease mortality, and an all cause mortality increase of 46%. This means that for all diseases, lead alone causes a 46% increase in mortality!
How do mercury and lead cause all these problems?
Trace minerals like Zn, Mg, Mn, and Cu are all are essential for enzyme catalytic processes. . Mercury binds in place of these essential minerals, effectively shutting down the enzymes’ activity. Without the enzyme, your cells cannot respond to your DNA’s instructions to make the proteins necessary for cell functions. Until mercury is removed, your cells make abnormal proteins, causing the expression of a wide range of disease states. Some individuals bioaccumulate mercury at a faster rate, and still others eliminate mercury more efficiently. Nutritional status is largely responsible for these differences.
How can I find out what my mercury level is?
We perform mercury and heavy metal testing with a safe protocol using intravenous DMPS. For children, we can perform oral challenges and collect either urine or fecal samples for heavy metals detection. The lab we use is the industry leader in heavy metal testing.
What can you do to clear the mercury out of your cells?
After years of helping patients remove mercury out of their bodies, I have reviewed the latest literature and attended recent scientific symposiums on mercury and heavy metal detoxification and now have developed a 3 tier protocol for mercury chelation. Based on the degree of mercury load, patients are directed into either a low (Level 1), moderate (Level 2), or high (Level 3) mercury treatment protocol.
Our Level 1 detox protocol recognizes that we all have a toxic burden of mercury, and that there is no “safe” level of mercury. Therefor, I recommend avoidance of mercury in foods, medicines, and vaccines (thimersol preservative), along with the regular intake of nutrients that help our cells detoxify mercury. This requires the regular use of garlic in the diet and in supplement form to gradually bind to and remove low levels of mercury. Our Multigenics multiple vitamin, along with additional selenium and Super Garlic extract, will provide support for mercury detoxification.
Level 2 mercury detox protocol is for children with a moderate to high mercury level, children with behavioral or learning disabilities (ADD/ADHD, autism, etc.), This program incorporates all the steps of Level 1, and takes mercury detoxification further with the use of oral chelating agents found in powdered oral CaEDTA, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Super Garlic Extract, and our powdered green vegetable juice concentrate.
The Level 3 protocol is for those with high heavy metal burdens and symptoms of mercury toxicity, including conditions associated with mercury and heavy metal toxicity, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, memory deficits, foggy brain, autoimmune syndromes, etc. This protocol incorporates all of the steps in levels 1 and 2, and adds oral DMSA, and one or more series of intravenous CaEDTA treatments. These intravenous treatments use a new, short IV protocol (10-30) minutes developed by Gary Gordon N.D., a prominent chelation pioneer who wrote the original protocols for I.V. chelation more than 20 years ago. Our I.V. includes high doses of B vitamins, vitamin C, Magnesium, and CaEDTA, a safe and powerful chelating agent.
By following these protocols, we are confident that heavy metals can and will be safely and effectively removed from your cells. For scientific papers and more information on heavy metal toxicity, visit www.GordonResearch.com.
What are the politics of mercury?
I’m glad you asked! No matter how much we remove mercury from our cells, industry finds new and unique ways of putting it back in our bodies. There is no mercury free environment left on earth. Under the agenda of president Bush, the EPA has just scuttled the regulation of mercury emissions from power plants. They did this by “downgrading” mercury emissions by taking them out of the “hazardous pollutant” category, saving power plant operators millions, and endangering millions of children with increased emissions. Just by implementing the laws already on the books, annual mercury emissions would have been reduced to 5 tons annually by 2007. But under president Bush’s “Clean Air Initiative”, his EPA has implemented a rollback in those rules, and will cap mercury emissions at 34 tons by the year 2010, and 15 tons by 2018, effectively exposing growing children to hundreds of more tons of mercury over the next 15 years. Our children will pay with arrested mental development, while the power industry saves hundreds of millions -- worth every retarded child, don’t you think?