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Mineral Toxicity and Chelation

There are many toxic minerals such as mercury, lead, aluminum, cadmium, copper, andarsenic that can cause very severe damage to the body or brain. To prevent this, thereis a sort of "brain blood barrier" that doesn't allow these toxic minerals to pass to the

brain unless the liver is overloaded and the toxins overcome this "barrier". Usually, theliver removes these toxic minerals and stores them temporarily in itself, and thengradually allows releasing them out into the bloodstream in small amounts to be storedin other areas, or chelated and excreted.

If a chelating agent is present in the blood, then it combines with all the minerals in theblood and is thus able to be excreted, usually thru the kidney/urine passageway. Also,small amounts of all minerals carried in the blood are excreted thru the skin(Perspiration), and stored in the hair cells, and fingernails, etc.

Here's the problem! If the blood is very low on chelation material such as vitamin C or

glutathione, then the liver cannot release much toxic material due to the possibility of brain damage. This means that all mineral measurements, blood, urine, or hair, mayshow very low "relative" readings as compared to nutritional minerals present normally.Since the toxicity is determined by the ratios of toxic minerals to "normal" nutritionalones in that individual.

It is literally impossible to measure the amount of minerals directly. We would have tobiopsy the liver and all the other storage places in the body to do this - expensive,painful, and inaccurate at best.

So, we measure indirectly by three basic methods, blood, urine, and hair. Blood only

measures what is there at the time of measurement, and this changes fairly fast. Urine(best done with a 24 hour collection) is better and more accurate. Hair analysis isusually most accurate as it measures the average over weeks or even months andcompares to the overall minerals in the body that are excreted or stored naturally.

However, to complicate further a complicated procedure, some problems such asautism result in a lowering of natural chelation materials, like vitamin C and glutathione.This deficiency distorts the toxic measurement simply because the liver won't releasethe toxins to the bloodstream if it can't be combined with a chelate for excretion. Thus,ANY measurements are distorted or meaningless. If vitamin C is given for a week or soprior to any mineral test, the results will be much more reliable.

The above information can be very confusing to a layperson (and even some MD's). It'simportant to understand how mineral toxicity and excretion works in order to understandhow chelation works.

The word "chelate" means to "grab onto", or "claw onto". There are some chemicalsthat are attracted to minerals in the blood. These chemicals attach themselves to allminerals in the bloodstream, and take the combination out of the body, usually by thekidney/urine excretion route.



time", and also confers some health extra benefits as well!

For a child, scale down appropriately. Even most 3 year olds can tolerate 2000 mg in500 mg doses every six hours. If not, the only effect is diarrhea.

Now, there's just one problem to using any chelators. It takes every mineral out of thebloodstream in effect (or at least as much as it can "hold"). This means that not only the"bad" mineral that we're trying to get out is affected, but all the "good" (and necessary)minerals as well. So, whenever using any chelator, or using large amounts of vitamin C,BE SURE TO TAKE MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS TO REPLACE THESE "GOOD" ANDNECESSARY MINERALS!

What other minerals might affect YOU? Calcium comes to mind. With all the MadisonAvenue ads about calcium, you might believe that you can just take calcium and be OK.WRONG!

In order for the calcium you take to end up in bones, etc. it requires many vitamins andother minerals to do the chemical steps. If any one of these many steps is not done,then the calcium is "excess".

What happens to "excess" calcium? It winds up as kidney stones, plaque in the arteries,bone spurs, arthritic joints, etc. The advertising is just WRONG. Not so good to justtake calcium!

HEART/ARTERY PROBLEMS

As was shown above, excess calcium in the blood stream combines with fatty acids and

cholesterol) also in the bloodstream, forming plaque in your arteries.

Everybody knows that this is what is responsible for all those bypass operations, (andthe doctor's new Cadillac or house on the ocean). Chelation has long been proven tobe more effective in removing plaque from arteries than either open heart surgery or angioplasty (putting a small balloon into your artery, and blowing it up which breaks upthe plaque and allows it to be carried away for waste disposal).

Chelation, actually combines with the calcium which forms the building block of arteryplaque, and takes it out of the body. This leaves the fatty acids without support, andthey are effectively "washed away" in the bloodstream.

What it involves is sitting for an hour or so once or twice a week in an office (usually),reading a magazine (probably way out of date), and relaxing while hooked up to aneedle in a vein. Pretty easy. Cost is usually in the few thousand dollar range -compared to 100 times that for open heart surgery.

In all cases, it is necessary for the patient to change their eating and supplement habitsto avoid having to do it again. Few MD's seem to know this. There are many repeatbypass operations in five years or so because of this factor.

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