Help Your Health Practitioner Protect You

Protect yourself; ask your health practitioner for a urinalysis. If you’ve got too much of something bad (and most likely you do), your immune and detoxification systems are busy doing something besides protecting you from disease – protection you need more than you think.

My general practitioner had me do a urinalysis and chelation and as result of my tests, some highlights follow. Keep in mind that this is my example – there are lots of poisons that we’re exposed to throughout our lifetimes. We all have different history.

Lead. Most lead contamination comes from oral ingestion of food or water or eating lead-containing substances. It accumulates in bones and inhibits formation of heme and hemoglobin in cells. Bone lead is released to soft tissues and is related to loss of I.Q., hearing loss, impaired vitamin D metabolism, tremors, and more.

Mercury. My levels of mercury far exceeded levels found in comparative subjects. Fillings, fungicides and pesticides are suspect since I spent a lot of time in agricultural land. Frequent ingestion of fish can also lead to mercury toxicity – the larger the fish, the more mercury it’s likely to contain. Researchers have even found polar bears in remote regions to have toxic levels of mercury. Anorexia, numbness, headaches, hypertension and immune suppression are but a few of the symptoms.

Uranium. You’d think I lived near Chernobyl at some time in my life, but not so. Uranium is more common than mercury and can accumulate in the kidneys, spleen, liver and in bone. One of the early signs is fatigue and is commonly found in drinking water.

To purge as many toxins as possible, I’ve adopted an organic, balanced diet, had a cracked tooth pulled that had mercury amalgam fillings, and I get weekly colonic hydrotherapy supplemented by coffee enemas. I drink green juices daily to aid the body’s detoxification and nutritional uptake. The tooth I had pulled? It had already contributed to the formation of a cancerous brain tumor – it was removed surgically on April 10th. Whew! I woke up and am recovering quickly and my balance and ability to function is coming back.

My previous blog outlines some other changes I’ve taken to minimize my toxic load. Some simple but significant steps you can take include: avoid BPA, which includes a lot of plastic bottles and epoxy resins inside many food cans. BPA has been related to development of breast tumors and protecting tumors from chemotherapeutic agents. We’re having our bathroom remodeled to ensure removal of all molds and a filtration system installed to remove chlorine and bromine from the shower water (and other trihalomethanes or THMs –  Trichloromethane is one of the THMs, commonly known as chloroform).

Make some changes to protect yourself. You’re worth it!

For more information, ask your health practitioner and/or look it up on the web. Just last week, my G.P. provided a full report, reviewed it with me in great detail including corrective actions, and gave me a copy of The CDC Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: What it Tells Us About Our Toxic Burden and How it Assists Environmental Medicine Physicians. I found this report to be quite enlightening.