Chelation bears the government's seal of approval for detoxifying
the body, most often after an industrial accident or environmental
exposure to hazardous materials. Each year some 60,000 Americans
undergo chelation treatments, which are gaining ground as a
potential therapy for a range of conditions, from Alzheimer's
disease to cancer and heart disease. A preliminary study published
in the Archives of Neurology found heavy metals stack up in the
brains of Alzheimer's patients. Another survey claimed a 90-percent
plunge in cancer deaths during an 18-year follow-up of 59 patients
treated with the chelating agent calcium-EDTA.
Heavy metals are found throughout nature but we have opened
Pandora’s Box by spreading these toxic metals throughout our
environment and even injecting them directly into children’s bodies
and implanting them in their mouths. As levels of heavy metals rise
in our air, water, and topsoil, they also rise within our bodies,
contributing to chronic diseases, learning disorders, cancer,
dementia, and premature aging.
The Environmental Working Group has published a devastating report
titled Body Burden — The Pollution in Newborns. “U.S. industries
manufacture and import approximately 75,000 chemicals, 3,000 of them
at over a million pounds per year. Studies show that hundreds of
industrial chemicals circulate in the blood of a baby in the womb,
interacting in ways that are not fully understood. Many more
pollutants are likely present in the womb, but test methods have yet
to be developed that would allow health officials to comprehensively
assess prenatal exposure to chemicals, or to ensure that these
exposures are safe. From a regulatory perspective, fetal exposure to
industrial chemicals is quite literally out of control.
The poisoning starts from conception and before.
Humanity is traveling down a deadly path. Awaiting each and every
child born on the planet is a life doomed to being poisoned. There
is “overwhelming evidence that every child, no matter where in the
world he or she is born, will be exposed, not only from birth, but
from conception, to man-made chemicals that can undermine the
child's ability to reach its fullest potential - chemicals that
interfere with the natural chemicals that tell tissues how to
develop and construct healthy, whole individuals according to the
genes they inherited from their mothers and fathers,” says Dr. Theo
Colborn, Senior Program Scientist, at the World Wildlife Fund. This
chapter offers a hugely important answer, a guardian angel in
chemical form that we can and actually have to use in the highly
toxic age we are all living through. Every pregnant woman should be
using iodine and magnesium chloride applied transdermally to
initiate protective action from even before conception.
Heavy metals poison us by disrupting our cellular enzymes, which run
on nutritional minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and selenium. Toxic
metals kick out the nutrients and bind their receptor sites, causing
diffuse symptoms by affecting nerves, hormones, digestion, and
immune function. The heavy metals most often implicated in human
poisoning are lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium but uranium is
playing catch up since depleted uranium became the favorite armament
of the United States military. Once in the body,they compete with
and displace essential minerals such as iodine, zinc, copper,
magnesium, and calcium, and interfere with organ system function.
No where is this process more evident than in the case of the
halides, which are all antagonistic elements to iodine, meaning they
will impede the absorption of iodine. Heavy metals get stored in the
same receptors that are looking for iodine. Almost all of us are
exposed to bromine and fluorine and are storing these toxic halides
in our iodine deficient receptors. The mechanism of iodine in the
cells is very ancient and lacking of specificity, in fact, cells are
not able to distinguish iodide from other anions of similar atomic
or molecular size, which may act as “pseudo-iodides”: bromide,
flouride, chlorine, thiocyanate, cyanate, nitrate, pertechnate,
perchlorate.
In the 1960s iodine added to bread increased the average daily
intake 4-5 times RDA levels.
Then they took the iodine out of the bread and some medical idiot
substituted bromide, a bio-poison in its place. There are actually
four halogens: iodine, bromine, fluorine and chlorine. All these
halogens use the same receptors in the body. Therefore if a person’s
diet is deficient in iodine the iodine receptors in the thyroid and
stomach, for example, may fill up with bromine which is common in
grains, bleached flour, sodas, nuts and oils as well as several
plant foods. Iodine is depleted by bromine, which is used as a spray
on fruits and vegetables, in baked goods, as a fumigant, and in
Prozac, Paxil and many other pharmaceutical drugs. Chlorine,
fluorine, and fluoride are chemically related to iodine, and compete
with it, blocking iodine receptors in the thyroid gland.
Iodine intake immediately increases the excretion of bromide,
fluoride, and some heavy metals including mercury and lead. Bromide
and fluoride are not removed by any other chelator or detoxifying
technique.
Dr. Kenezy Gyula Korhaz states that iodine chelates heavy metals
such as mercury, lead, cadmium and aluminum and halogens such as
fluoride and bromide, thus decreasing their iodine inhibiting
effects especially of the halogens.Iodine has the highest atomic
weight of all the common halogens (126.9). Iodine is the only option
when it comes to removing these toxic haloids from the thyroid and
even the pineal gland where fluoride concentrates, especially when
there is a deficiency in iodine in the body. In an age of increasing
radioactivity and toxic poisoning specifically with fluoride,
chlorine and bromide, and even mercury, iodine is a necessary
mineral to protect us from harm for immediately these toxic
substances will increasingly flow out of the body in the urine.
Many of us are forced or conditioned to drink fluoridated water and
also brush our teeth with fluoride. Could an iodine deficiency be
related in some way to the current epidemic of hypothyroidism,
breast, and prostate cancers? Are government health officials
poisoning the public with fluoride and bromide, aspartame and
mercury, and even with rocket fuel, just to name a few things? Yes
this is exactly what they are doing and they are feeling quite
defensive about it.
There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health
and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the
breast if they consumed more iodine. A decrease in iodine intake
coupled with an increased consumption of competing halogens,
fluoride and bromide, has created an epidemic of iodine deficiency
in America.
Dr. Donald Miller Jr.
Dr. David Brownstein says that fluoride inhibits the ability of the
thyroid gland to concentrate iodine and research has shown that
fluoride is much more toxic to the body when there is iodine
deficiency present. When iodine is supplemented the excretion rate
of the toxic halides bromide, fluoride and perchlorate is greatly
enhanced. Brownstein says that after only one dose of iodine the
excretion of fluoride increased by 78% and this is very important
for those who are drinking fluoridated water or are taking medicines
with fluoride in them; bromide excretion rates increased by 50%. Our
environment is loaded with the toxic halides bromine and fluorine
and up to now we have had no way to detoxify the body of these
thyroid poisons.
No chelation or detoxification protocol can afford to ignore iodine.
Over the last 2 decades bromine has contaminated our bread. Bromine
blocks thyroid function and may interfere with the anticancer effect
of iodine on the breast. Now, the risk for breast cancer is 1 in 8
and increasing 1% per year. Chlorine also blocks iodine in the body,
so chlorinated water (both drinking and bathing) should best be
avoided when possible. (See chapter on sodium thiosulfate for
chlorine neutralization) Iodine increases mobilization of bromine
from storage sites with increased urinary excretion of bromide.
Elevated bromide levels were observed in urine and serum samples,
twenty times the levels reported in the literature in normal
subjects.
Patients who experience side effects while on
orthoiodosupplementation are often excreting large amounts of
bromide in the urine.
Chloride competes with bromide at the renal level and increases the
renal clearance of bromide thus magnesium chloride is ideal for
magnesium supplementation. Some patients require up to 2 years of
iodine therapy to bring post loading urine bromide levels below 10
mg/24 hr, if chloride load is not included in the bromine
detoxification program. Rapid mobilization of bromine from storage
sites with orthoiodosupplementation combined with increased renal
clearance of bromide with a chloride load often causes side effects.
Increasing fluid intake and adding a complete nutritional program
minimizes these side effects.
Dr. Abraham noted that in some patients the excretion of lead,
cadmium and mercury increased several fold after only one day of
iodine supplementation and that increased aluminum excretion was
noted about a month after beginning supplementation.
Orthoiodosupplementation induces a detoxification reaction in some
patients with high bromide levels. The symptoms include increased
body odor and cloudy urine. The body odor lasts one to two weeks,
but the cloudy urine may last several months before clearing up.
Side effects can be minimized by increasing fluid intake. Increased
fluid facilitates the excretion of excess iodine and the bromides,
fluorides and heavy metals that the iodine displaces. Dr. Abraham
also reported that the administration of magnesium in daily amounts
up to 1200 mg eliminated the body odor but not the cloudy urine.
Released bromide from storage sites can induce decreased thyroid
function, bromide being a potent goitrogen.
In the United States especially people will want to note that iodine
also is protective and effective at eliminating perchlorate from the
body. Perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in solid rocket fuel,
has leaked from military bases and defense and aerospace
contractors' plants in at least 22 states, is contaminating drinking
water, dairy milk, produce and many other foods and plants affecting
millions of Americans. In the past year, CDC scientists have found
that a significant number of women are at risk of thyroid hormone
depression from perchlorate exposure. Perchlorate impairs the
thyroid’s ability to take up iodide and produce hormones critical to
proper fetal and infant brain development. Further, studies show
that breast milk may have even more worrisome levels of perchlorate.
The EPA's proposed safe exposure level for the rocket fuel
contaminant perchlorate is not protective of public health. In the
past year, CDC scientists have found that a significant number of
women are at risk of thyroid hormone depression from perchlorate
exposure.
The CDC/BU (Boston University) study, which examined breast milk
from 49 Boston area women, found that the average breast fed infant
in this study is being exposed to more than double the dose of
perchlorate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers
safe; highly exposed babies are ingesting up to 10 times this
amount. In a related 2006 study, the CDC found perchlorate in the
urine of every one of 2,820 people tested, suggesting that food is a
key route of exposure in addition to drinking water.[xv] Applying
the results of the CDC study to the California population, EWG
estimates that at exposure to 5 ppb of perchlorate in drinking
water, 1 in 10 California women of childbearing age with low iodine
intake would be diagnosed as sub-clinically hypothyroid and require
medical treatment when pregnant to protect themselves and their
babies.
Dr Kellman of the Centre for Progressive Medicine in New York said,
"Once damage to the thyroid takes place it affects all the other
organs – starting with digestion and absorption. Toxins start
accumulating in the system. You can have an array of symptoms: heart
disease and its complications, high homocysteine levels, poor
circulation, weight gain/loss, no appetite or bingeing, bloating,
fluid retention, skin problems, aching joints, low blood pressure,
high cholesterol, low libido, hair loss, and sensitivity to cold."
Dr. Sebastiano Venturi informs us that “iodine is one of the most
abundant electron-rich essential elements we consume and is
transported to the cells via iodide transporters. Iodide, which acts
as a primitive electron-donor through peroxidase enzymes, seems to
have an ancestral antioxidant function in all iodide-concentrating
cells. Oxygen is a potent oxidant whose accumulation in terrestrial
atmosphere resulted from the development of photosynthesis over
three billion years ago, in blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria).”
Iodine was used by Nature as one of her main strategies of
antioxidant defense in plants and animals. The point is that
antioxidants, iodine included, are important as protective
substances against many chronic and degenerative diseases such as
cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
The antioxidant biochemical mechanism of iodides is probably the
most ancient mechanisms of defense from poisonous reactive oxygen
species. Dr. Sebastiano Venturi
“The evolution of oxygen-producing cells was probably the most
significant event in the history of life after the beginning of life
itself. Oxygen is a potent oxidant and life has to contend with the
toxicityof ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) which react with lipids,
proteins, carbohydrates and DNA and thus interfere with the
functions of cellular membranes, cell metabolism, cellular
signaling, cell growth and differentiation. Oxidative stress has
been implicated as a causative process in the development of a vast
number of degenerative diseases,” continues Dr. Venturi. The
antioxidant properties of dietary iodide depend on a series of redox
reactions underlying the iodination of tyrosine leading to the
formation of thyroid hormones. Iodine can react with double bonds on
lipids such as polyunsaturated fatty acids rendering them less
reactive to ROS.
Thyroid hormones are known to play a major part in the regulation of
mitochondrial oxidative metabolism.
A newly discovered oxidant defense system is found in the free
radical scavenging capacity of thyroid hormones Thyroxine,
reverse-T3 and iodothyronines seem to be important as antioxidants
and inhibitors of lipid peroxidation, and is more effective than
vitamin E, glutathione and ascorbic acid.[xxii] Doctors involved in
the chelation of children with neurological conditions need to take
notice and start treating them with iodine as a primary not
secondary form of treatment.
Mercury is the most toxic non radioactive poison on earth and has
the capability to destroy all biological life and activity either
through a slow torturous death or a quick one.
It qualifies as an intense systemic poison meaning it has its effect
which is remote from the site of entry into the body.
Dr. Brownstein indicates that iodine is also a chelator of mercury
and had tested quite carefully the amounts removed. Mercury not only
poisons the nervous system and digestive tract, it can also poison
the thyroid gland. There are 4 iodine binding sites or receptors on
the thyroid gland. These receptors bind with the iodine we get from
our diet. The iodine enters the thyroid and activates it. If the
thyroid is not absorbing enough iodine it will not be fully
activated and the body's temperature will be abnormally low. Mercury
from dental fillings can migrate to the thyroid gland and sit on one
or more of the thyroid's 4 iodine receptors blocking the iodine from
reaching the receptors and activating the thyroid. When this happens
iodine is not absorbed in normal amounts by the thyroid gland. The
result is low body temperature or hypothyroidism.
Thanks to the continued promotion of mercury fillings by the
American Dental Association and conventional dentists, consumers
continue to be poisoned by this heavy metal that's intentionally
placed into their mouths. There's so much mercury currently being
put into the mouths of humans that the total volume of mercury being
dumped into the environment from mercury fillings is nearly equal to
that emitted by coal plants. Combine the two sources of mercury with
a diet high in fish, which are contaminated with mercury and add a
year’s flu vaccine that also has mercury in it and we have a huge
problem that health officials are not addressing at all.
Several mechanisms are utilized to remove mercury from the body. In
order for these detoxification mechanisms to work properly, numerous
essential minerals like Iodine, Zinc, Sulfur, Selenium, and Silica
stimulate the excretion of mercury. Unfortunately, the average
person’s daily intake of Iodine is not high enough to protect them
from mercury. The National Health and Nutrition Survey undertaken by
the CDC showed iodine levels falling over 50% in the last 30 years.
In 1940 the average American got 800 micrograms of iodine in their
diet. In 1995 we averaged 135 micrograms; an 83% decline! Eating
seafood and seaweed can keep your dietary levels in the healthy
range. Supplementing with iodine can offer additional help in
maintaining these healthy levels of iodine.
This is a medical disaster already in advanced stages because as the
need for iodine has increased daily intake has decreased. The Rising
Tide of Mercury and the sharp increases in bromide and fluoride are
overcoming our body’s ability to eliminate. We are staring right in
the face of one of the most fundamental building blocks of the
modern day plight with chronic diseases including cancer. Iodine is
first on the list with magnesium chloride as the surest preventive
and treatment of the vast majorities of today’s chronic and acute
diseases. Allopathic medicine has got it terribly wrong paying no
attention to these two emergency room medicines of great importance.
Supplementing with iodine can replenish your iodine stores while
flushing out poisons. People usually do not experience the negative
effects of some type of detoxification when using iodine unless they
are removing unusually high levels of bromide and fluoride. Most
people actually notice increased energy, better sleep, and mental
clarity.
Mineral replacement therapy (nutritional support) is essential when
doing any form of chelation. In fact it is not clinically correct at
all to separate chelation from minerals like they are different
processes. Trace mineral therapy is important because minerals
compete with toxic metals for binding sites. In other words, when
ones body is properly mineralized, the absorption and toxicity of
heavy metals is greatly reduced. Our bodies should be as strong and
healthy as possible before the chelation process should be attempted
and minerals top the list not only because they make us stronger,
but because they start the chelation process before an “official”
chelator is even used.
The healthy cell wall favors intake of nutrients and elimination of
waste products.
The involvement of free radicals in tissue injury induced by
magnesium deficiency causes an accumulation of oxidative products in
the heart, liver, kidney, skeletal muscle tissues and in red blood
cells. Magnesium is a crucial factor in the natural self-cleansing
and detoxification responses of the body. It stimulates the sodium
potassium pump on the cell wall and this initiates the cleansing
process in part because the sodium-potassium-ATPase pump regulates
intracellular and extracellular potassium levels. “ATP production is
essential for every cell to have an ample supply to deal with the
challenges of metal overload, as it is required to even permit the
cell to keep on pumping out calcium. Lack of ATP then is the
underlying cause of abnormal calcification of tissues,” writes Dr.
Garry Gordon
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy
One concern with traditional allopathic chelation therapy in general
is that chelating agents are not as specific as we would like and
are likely to remove essential trace minerals as well as toxic
metals. Mercury drastically increases the excretion of magnesium and
calcium from the kidneys. Both mercury itself and the drugs used to
chelate mercury have a strong impact on mineral levels.
Limitations with the traditional allopathic chelation therapies
include the fact that the agents used, while sometimes too specific
to the metal targeted for removal, are also not protective enough
when it comes to minerals that should be spared. Consequently
essential trace minerals are likely to be depleted, making trace
mineral replacement therapy absolutely essential. For example, EDTA
is not effective for mercury, the number one toxic threat in most
people. And DMPS and DMSA are dangerous to use because of their
toxicity. Only highly trained physicians can safely administer them
and even then we have problems like we do with all allopathic
treatments.
Magnesium protects cells from aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium,
beryllium and nickel. Magnesium protects the cell against oxyradical
damage and assists in the absorption and metabolism of B vitamins,
vitamin C and E, which are anti-oxidants important in cell
protection. Data demonstrates a direct action of glutathione both in
vivo and in vitro to enhance intracellular magnesium and a clinical
linkage between cellular magnesium, GSH/GSSG ratios, and tissue
glucose metabolism. According to Dr. Russell Blaylock, low magnesium
is associated with dramatic increases in free radical generation as
well as glutathione depletion and this is vital since glutathione is
one of the few antioxidant molecules known to neutralize mercury.
“For every molecule of pesticide that your body' detoxifies, you
throw away or use up forever, a molecule of glutathione, magnesium
and more,” says Dr. Sherry Rogers who goes on to say that, “Your
body uses nutrients to make this glutathione and it uses up energy
as well. Every time we detoxify a chemical, we use up, lose, throw
away forever, a certain amount of nutrients.”
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy
Sea minerals in general are very helpful to doctors because the
relative composition of many mineral trace-elements of the animal
body is similar to the composition of the sea, where the first forms
of life began. The sea is rich in iodine, about 60 micrograms (μg)
per liter. Brown algae (seaweeds) accumulate iodine to morethan
30,000 times the concentration of this element in seawater., Marine
vegetation concentrates iodine for its antimicrobial and antioxidant
properties.
Doctors involved with Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe in 1989
used kelp for detoxification and thyroid gland rehabilitation,
Modifilan helped thousands of nuclear plant workers and people in
the area who were affected by the explosion because the iodine is
protective against Strontium 90 and other toxicities.
The most important nutrient provided by kelp is iodine. Seaweed is
noted for its ability to bind heavy metals and radioactive
pollutants. Dr. Yukio Tanaka of the Gastrointestinal Research Lab at
McGill University demonstrated that kelp may inhibit the absorption
of lead, cadmium, and radioactive strontium (one of the most
hazardous pollutants). 80 to 90 percent of radioisotopes of
Strontium 90 could be removed from the intestinal tract in the
presence of seaweed. Iodine and the sodium alginates found in
seaweed are the specific agents that do the chelation. So much
Strontium 90 has been released by nuclear explosions, power plants,
and nuclear weapons facilities that it is believed that every person
has detectable levels in their bone tissue. Many cancers are
attributable to this contamination.
Some doctors see cancer tumors having characteristics very similar
to yeasts. "Seaweeds (iodine) have exceptional value in the
treatment of candida overgrowth. They contain selenium and (all the)
other minerals necessary for rebuilding immunity; furthermore the
rich iodine content is used by enzymes in the body to produce
iodine-charged free radicals which deactivate yeasts. Before the
advent of anti-fungal drugs, iodine was the standard medical
treatment for yeasts. When candidiasis is complicated with tumours
or cancers, then seaweed is of additional benefit. Salt should
normally be restricted during candida overgrowth".
In today’s highly toxic world everyone is being heavily exposed to
hazardous materials but for some strange reason the medical
mainstream has been unwaveringly critical of the use of chelation in
autistic children. The Food and Drug Administration considers
treating autistic children with chelating drugs too risky and
ineffective to grant approval for such use, though they have no
answer themselves for safe and effective treatment of the disorder.
An American Academy of Pediatrics article noted no published
peer-reviewed research showing chelation therapy has any role to
play in autism. The FDA and the AAP could not be more mistaken, more
wrong as they deny and defend their insane ideas about the safety of
poisons like mercury in vaccines and dental products. There is
nothing safe or effective in trusting these organizations’
judgments.
Source
Medical authorities warn of possible ill consequences to children
undergoing the therapy. Along with metals, it is true that synthetic
chelation also can strip the body of essential minerals like zinc
and iron. In addition, the treatment can carry risks that include
liver and kidney damage, bone-marrow problems, skin rashes, allergic
reactions and nutritional deficiencies, doctors said. Medical
authorities are correct in this regard for when chelation is done
the allopathic way with synthetic drugs like DMPS, DMSA and EDTA,
with each holding their own toxicity, we have all the potential
problems and complications described above. Yes there are highly
skilled physicians who know how to avoid most of these problems but
they are rare, hard to find and expensive.
