Detox Solutions: Heavy Metal Madness

photo:www.takepart.com/thecove

Detox Solutions:
Mercury Madness

Last night I watched "The Cove", 2010 Oscar-winner for best documentary. An expose'. Those involved in the film actively live a profound love affair with the sea and with cetaceans. The film exposes brutality to dolphins, and their mercury contamination.

It's nearly seismically disturbing the way the film makes us privy to: 

•  A "Flipper" retrospective of our stunning human cluelessness at turning captured dolphins into performing clowns.
• Covert dolphin-slaughter in a blood-filled Japanese cove. 
• And then, and then...the lady in the photo above who wears mermaid-tailed flippers to undulate among cetaceans in the wild blue sea.
• An Aussie surfer who swoops the wave crests with pods of dolphins, reports that he was saved from shark attack by dolphin guardians.
• In ancient Greece it was against all human law to harm a dolphin, for they were known to rescue the drowning.

I had spent charmed spells of childhood watching the changing sea and frolicking around cetaceans, besotted with dolphins. 

Their mercury disaster was the final butt-kick for me regarding heavy metals.

 
I had been ruminating a detox article for some time since learning a friend and his wife had been eating 25 (yes, twenty-five) lobsters weekly, apiece, for months of lobster season. So? Symptoms of mercury poisoning muddled friendship and aborted any future.

What symptoms?

Short term memory loss, one showing early symptoms of Alzheimer's and one having demented rage episdodes. Behavior included agitation, motor-mouth, pounding repetition, not remembering having already said it umpteen times, interrupting every two minutes. Insomnia, depression, crushing headache, reclusiveness, pain.

 "The Cove" website has a calculator, read and weep, for the amount of mercury ingested from that level of bacchanalian seafood consumption: http://www.takepart.com/gotmercury 

Say you're cracking open a 1.5-pound or 2-pound lobster and sloshing morsels into lemon-butter. That's ~24oz x 25/week or, drumroll please... 8286% of the EPA limit, weekly. (The site also calculates your tuna fish casserole or lox and bagel.)

EPA limits are mentioned?

Psst, there are no safe levels for heavy metals.

Do industrial effluent producers and BigPharma, that purveyor of mercury and aluminum-tainted vaccines, grease palms to ensure lax standards? One wonders. Heavy metals can be
devastatingly neurotoxic, damaging to fetuses, and immune dysregulating.

Then we've got mercury amalgam fillings which the AmericanDentalAssociation dare not admit to being a wee problem jammed up there against the brain, lest it open a Pandora's box of litigation. Holistic physicians routinely mandate that the mercury be removed from the mouth, however, to clear the way to better health.

What about the toxic-metal subtext of "beneficial fluoride?" Say it often enough and the words become linked in the mind, like a meme. (See the 2 part fluoride expose' in right sidebar of this blog.)

What about aluminum found in antacids, anti-perspirants, baking powder, city water treatment systems, and your annual flu shot?...Found in the brain? Backed up in lymph nodes of breast tissue? Oh? Builds up? Bummer.

So, Houston, we may have a problem.

WHAT THEN ARE SOME DETOX SOLUTIONS?

Clay Baths:

Healing clay draws out toxins of all sorts through the skin. The clay is powerful, as little as a heaping tablespoon. The clay in the tub may actually change color, to brown, darker gray, greenish-black.

Autistic children, those thought to have been less able to detoxify mercury in vaccines, seem to respond well to clay baths. Mothers report exciting improvements in cognitive ability and social skills.

Pascalite clay is especially potent for detox baths. One of the lobster eaters began doing a whole series of them with beneficial result: http://www.pascalite.com/

Small amounts of pascalite are also taken internally, and the paste is used as an awesomely effective poultice. Some physicians recommend that it be taken internally to help bind up the heavy metals released and prevent re-uptake by the body. Read testimonials on the pascalite site. I used it on my farm for livestock health and human!

Chlorella:

A spring-water-grown superfood which helps flush out mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminum, etc. The two brands readily available in the US and are SunChlorella and Yaeyama Chlorella.

Cilantro or Fresh Coriander Leaf:

Also amazingly effective in removing mercury, etc. Add to salads, soups. Make cilantro pesto!

Sea Veggies, i.e., Kelp, Dulse, Wakame, Kombu, Sea Lettuce:

The iodine in sea veggies helps protect the thyroid gland from goiter, that bullfrog swelling of the throat, and also protects the thyroid from uptake of radioactive-iodine, released by nuclear power plants and in nuclear disasters. It also helps to displace fluoride, a useful side-bene.

Kombucha:

The super-nutrient lactic ferment from Eastern Europe and Asia, made from tea. See the article descibing its how-to and use: Power Up Immunity with Kitchen Probiotics: http://feastandfamine.blogspot.com/2009/05/flying-pig-flu-power-up-immunity-with.html

CAN MY DOCTOR DO TESTS FOR ME?

There are blood work lab tests available for heavy metal toxicity, also hair analysis. Holistic physicians often request them when patient health and vitality are poor. The holistic shtick is all about clearing out toxins, as first step in wellness, so the bod can then absorb nutrients needed to feel vital and fit again.

Just as a thought exercize, how many cases of unrecognized heavy-metal-malaise are being treated with blood pressure meds, tranquilizers, anti-depressants? How many road-rage cases have breathed too much auto exhaust on freeway commutes, and are actually miserable with heavy metal body burden?

In "The Cove" one of the Japanese officials who attempted to make the local dolphin industry appear benign--including the selling of mercury-laden dolphin meat--had hair analysis done on himself. At the time, dolphin meat was compulsory eating for school children near the area of the dolphin-capture-and-butchery site. 

The fishery bureaucrat's mercury levels turned out to be high.