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Detoxification and Hair Analysis
From detective novels we knew that hair, even years after death, can identify poisons, their quantity and duration of exposure, thereby often nailing the murderer. Many ancient Romans unknowingly died of lead poisoning from their sewage systems, and low-level lead poisoning may have caused the insanity of some of their emperors – which makes one wonder about some of our contemporary heads of state. Archaeological hair analysis helped establish the declining nutritional status of populations when agriculture began some ten thousand years ago with its reliance on mono-diets (the so-called “staples”), after millions of years on much more varied diets. American sailors became ill during World War II from lead poisoning. Lead was removed from ship’s paint (and later from all paints), and it was navy doctors who first developed chelation therapy. In the 1950’s hundreds of terribly deformed babies were born in Japan’s Minamata Bay due to fish and the water contaminated by industrial mercury which inhibits fetal development during when the brain and neurological system form. Close to ten thousand people died or became ill in
These events resulted in the development of treatment methods and the refinement of tests to detect toxicity levels of all heavy metals and other toxic substances, such as PCVs and solvents. Over the past sixty years, the enormous increase in the use of heavy metal-laced pesticides and industry’s reliance on mercury, lead, barium, arsenic, and platinum also increased the need for such diagnostic methods and treatments. On March 19th a conference on hair, tissue, and mineral analysis was held in
By contrast, hair analysis can show deficiencies that will have future consequences before signs and symptoms of illness have begun: hair analysis is history, diagnosis and guide to a highly specific therapy all in one. Hair shows months of toxic metal accumulation averaged out over time and its spread throughout the system and the depleted status of the beneficial metals and minerals. Hair analysis reveals what is happening on the battle field and who is losing. All toxic metals deplete the essential and beneficial metals/minerals; increasing the intake and bio-availability of beneficial metals helps to excrete the toxic. Toxicology is the branch of biology that is considered to be “exact”, like physics. If your hair analysis shows the presence of toxic metals, they must be removed. The available protocols include the following, usually in various combinations:
Often the methods are tailored to the specific patient, as Dr. Grace Zeim does at
These toxins kill rapidly or slowly, through one-time powerful doses, or through low-level exposures over long periods of time. The mode of action is systematic blockage of essential nutrients and interference with the function of the organs that naturally handle detoxification (liver, skin, kidneys, bowels). Different metals affect different organs as prime targets: mercury attacks first the kidneys and then the brain and spinal chord, some affect the liver, and lead attacks the brain. Detoxification and nutrient replenishment are the two inseparable activities of intervention as well as of preventive medicine. We know how to treat and prevent the effects of almost all the poisons humanity inadvertently or intentionally created with beneficial or diabolical intent (depleted uranium being the awful exception). The medical literature reports Alzheimer’s patients already in diapers and unable to feed themselves returning home to their families after being rapidly detoxed by intravenous chelation from heavy metals. Raving lunatics locked up in mental hospitals woke up to normal consciousness after detoxification. Autistic children poisoned, either by a tuna-fish eating mother during pregnancy or by mercury-preserved (thimerosal) vaccines, have had their brains restored by various detox protocols. Damage to a fetus is achievable by analyzing the mother’s toxicity and nutritional status through her hair and taking action prenatally. The science of medical toxicology is growing as fast as the production of toxins did in the past decades. When the Human Genome Project was recently completed, the first major benefit was not (as hoped for by greedy investors) the identification of specific diseases located on specific genes, but instead, on April 16, 2003, the National Institutes of Health in the US held a press conference announcing that some 200 genes are exquisitely vulnerable to environmental toxins known to be linked to cardiovascular disease and cancers. Many of these genes are regulatory, continuously affecting thousands of other genes simultaneously. Attempting to influence even one of them, in the hope of conferring resistance against our lucrative environmental poisons, is now science fiction. Thus the Human Genome Project affirmed the basic tenets of environmental medicine: avoidance of toxins in air, food, soil and water; preventive or therapeutic detoxification; sustaining nutrition uncontaminated by processing, genetic manipulation, and synthetic chemicals. None of this can be patented. Instead, the world must be cleaned up, if we wish to survive as a species. Mainstream medical research accomplished this scientific detective work and developed all the current detoxification techniques, yet very few doctors are trained to recognize the toxic origin of most diseases because medical school curricula and clinical practice guidelines are created by drug companies in their own image: namely dependency-creating symptom-controlling drugs. Fortunately, there are many naturopaths who have always known better, as well as a rapidly increasing number of doctors who are frustrated with “managing” diseases instead of curing their patients. The methods for establishing the presence of bacteria, viruses and parasites are well established and standard medicine knows how to handle those. The diseases that are threatening to bankrupt the wealthiest countries today are, however, those caused by environmental toxins. On May 13th
Finding ways to protect ourselves against disease-causing pollution is now as urgent as developing national standards of sanitation was for our ancestors who discovered bacteria. Any medical model requires the need to understand what kind of environment we must create, or preserve, in order to survive. According to the World Health Organization, the gold standard for establishing environmental toxicity is hair analysis. Like no other known diagnostic tool, it proves that each of us is in fact poisoned, impaired, exploited, and often sacrificed to make somebody rich through being forced, without our knowledge, to take into our bodies substances on which our industrial economy depends. Corporate anonymity ensures no responsibility will be taken for the resulting cancers, asthma, obesity, and destroyed children’s brains. Detoxification treatments fall into two groups: those that require a doctor and those that don’t. It takes a doctor or naturopath to interpret a hair analysis, and legally only doctors can provide intravenous therapies. However, for people who are not desperately ill and for purposes of prevention anybody can learn the basics and apply them. That is why the resource section below is so extensive. A couple of weeks of intensive reading, a hair analysis test in the range of $ 50, and daily mineral and vitamin supplementation can prevent cancer and save your life. The most comprehensive information on environmental toxins and available therapies is available from the International Medical Veritas Association. My own experience has been most dramatic with the foot patches. Due to a life-long kidney problem caused by decades of exposure to DDT and amalgams, intravenous chelation was not possible for me, my right kidney being too damaged to handle toxic metal excretion. Sauna, one of the best methods, was not an option either because my “temperature gage” (the hypothalamus) is also damaged from the mercury. Effective healing was achieved after amalgam removal through switching to an organic diet and taking three times daily, for many years, high doses of vitamins C, B, E, selenium, beneficial minerals and essential fatty acids (often given intravenously to get the nutrients into the tissues faster). A few months ago, I learned about the herbal foot patches developed by Japanese doctors; these access the 4,000 sweat glands and hundreds major acupuncture points in our feet while we sleep. The environmental medicine lab, SCR Analytical Lab in the
After five weeks I experienced a tremendous increase in energy: no more brain fag! I appear to tire out my grand children these days, need far less supplements, lost most of my aches and pains I had resigned myself to accepting as part of aging, sleep like a baby without melatonin, and most importantly managed lectures and conference attendances in those generally toxic public buildings without being knocked out for a few days afterwards. In six months’ time another hair analysis will provide objective proof of how much these pads have removed. A word of caution: it is essential to take B vitamins and a full-spectrum mineral cocktail twice during the day, as these pads also remove beneficial minerals during the night. Today we can do what Hippocrates told us two thousand five hundred years ago to do, namely to understand that health is our “most valuable possession and learn how to treat illness by [our] own judgment.”
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M.A. Breiner, DDS, Whole Body Dentistry, Quantum health Press, 1999 Hair/metabolic analyses and suppliers of chelating agents/minerals: |
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