WHERE ARE MY HEAVY-METAL LEVELS NOW?

I’ve been chelating to remove heavy metals for a while now.  I had myself retested back in January 2011, and my levels of heavy metals had declined significantly.

“H” means higher than the reference range, and “VH” means it’s a way-high number.  My initial mercury levels were literally off the charts! Mercury is toxic at one part per billion, which is about the same concentration as one grain of salt in one swimming pool. 

Metal              Reference Range      March 2010 Level     January 2011 Level

Aluminum                   <35                              0                                  9.5

Antimony                   <0.4                             0                                  0

Arsenic                        <117                            120H                           19

Barium                            <7                                6.2                               6

Beryllium                    <0.6                             0.4                               0

Bismuth                      <15                              4.6                               0.5

Cadmium                     <1                                0.6                               0.4

Cesium                        <10                              7.8                               11H

Gadolinium                 <0.4                             0                                  0

Lead                            <2                                4.9H                            4.3H

Mercury                      <4                                25VH                          4.3H

Nickel                          <12                              7.4                               5.1

Palladium                    <0.3                             0                                  0

Platinum                      <1                                0                                  0

Tellurium                    <0.3                             0                                  0

Thallium                      <0.5                             0.4                               0.9H

Thorium                      <0.03                           0.02                             0

Tin                              <10                              1.5                               0.4

Titanium                     <15                              0                                  0

Tungsten                     <0.4                             0.5H                            0

Uranium                      <0.04                           0                                  0

You’ll notice that my first test showed no aluminum toxicity, while my second one did.  In addition, my cesium and thallium toxicities were higher in the second test.  Why is this?

One of my doctors explained that metals are so tightly bound that they may not have been pulled out enough to be detected initially.

Ongoing detoxification and chelating pulled aluminum out enough to be detected during the second test and caused cesium and thallium to be higher.  My doctor explained that chelation and detoxification will be ongoing things, and that I will have to constantly monitor the levels even after it appears that there are no more heavy metals in me.

Some People Are Better Detoxifiers; I’m Not

Some people are better detoxifiers.  I’m guessing that I’m not.  Knowing what I know now, I know this is because my mother passed her toxicity (yes, it’s been proven that a mother passes her toxic burden on to her child in utero), bad bacteria and stress response (yes, it’s proven that a mother’s stress response during pregnancy gets passed on to her child) on to me.

She was an alcoholic chain-smoker who ate a very poor diet consisting of processed, convenience foods.  She had lupus, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

She died of an aneurism at age 62, which I believe is far too young.  She was an intelligent woman, but she was in so much emotional pain from her relationship with my father that she didn’t have the energy or desire to take better care of herself.

The sad thing is that all of the diseases she had are mostly preventable through proper diet and detoxification.  At least I learned from her what not to do!

The funny thing is that I learned a lot of what to do from my dad before he died.  He had a PhD in organic chemistry and became very involved in the health-food movement in the 70’s.

He wouldn’t allow us to eat sugary foods, drink soft drinks or eat junk food.  It was a rare treat when he would take us to get pizza and onion rings or ice cream. He would make his own yogurt and beer from scratch, and he made my brother, sister and me put in a half-acre garden that we hated to work in but loved to eat from. You can see where I get my tendencies!

I think he knew that something might be wrong with him and maybe that’s why he became such a health nut.  He developed pesticides for Dow Chemical and invented DDE (a close cousin of DDT) and nylon materials for them.

I’m guessing that being around all those toxic chemicals led to his development of a highly unusual cancer combination of stomach cancer and bone-marrow cancer.  Apparently, this combination only occurred in a particular set of Dow research chemists, of which my dad was one.

Cancer took him quickly, and he died at the age of 57 when I was 11.  I remember later when I was in high school, I took an aptitude test which showed I had the highest aptitude for being a chemical engineer.

I specifically chose not to pursue this career, though, because of my knowledge, even then, of what being around toxic chemicals can do to you.  After my dad died, my mom became a full-blown alcoholic, and it was all she could do to go to the store and buy processed food for us to eat.

You can see how the cards were stacked against me, especially during my formative years.  I remember always being tired and needing to take naps, even as a teenager.  A lot of this could be because I kept my own hours in high school, which I’m sure contributed to my fatigue as well as the emotional stress I was going through.

I’m sure that this didn’t help my ability to detoxify, either.  Another sign of toxicity that I had at an early age was cellulite.  I’ve had it ever since I hit puberty at 14, and I was by no means overweight.

Cellulite is where your body stores toxins.  One of my high school boyfriends thought I had it because I needed to lift weights, but it’s really because of my toxicity.  Now I know.  I’ve also had other signs of a toxic liver:  sensitivity to caffeine, irritability and disproportionate anger responses are all classic signs.